skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Subsidies and promotions generally fall under marketing.

generally in business management practices, not necessarily in financial reporting.
The research would be fairly questionable if they didn't compare it to some sort of baseline.
This articles speaks of Xi Jinping as if he is taking all the decisions. There are a lot more people behind him that are assessing the situations based on merits rather than personal whims. It's only the Western ignorance that makes us see every economical, fiscal and foreign decision to belong to one man be it Putin or Xi Jinping. It also reinforces us the ideas that were sold to us by our own government: China is ruled by a dictatorship and everything they do must be wrong. Everything China does must be wrong because it's not a democracy and people are not free.

The internation banking rules force the banks to adhere to a set of conduct, regulations and rules that make the banking environment predictable for all actors. Looking at money flow: speed, volume and diversity, it is in China's interests to have a predictable and understandable banking landscape rather than continuing on this path of reinventing the wheel. The more Western banks trust the banking system within China, the more predictable and easy it will be to keep the economy growing. ANT's move is only establishing a state within a state and certainly hurts national security by creating a gap in one core service within any modern country: the financial system.
> Which is why all such regulations are ridiculous.

Most of those regulations were written in blood, toil, and tears - they deserve more respect than that. You are correct - regulations often limit an individual's ability to maximize their own gains in order to lift the overall floor. If you want to maximize your income, start a private car service and build your own clientele like an actual independent operator.

Alternatively, we could offer public healthcare, social housing, and food guarantees, decoupling work from survival. Then the regulations would be ridiculous.
You're arguing that this situation should be an exception to the usual rules of personal liberty that we all take for granted -- I should be able to require you to wear a mask and not meet with family members, because $disease is deadly and transmissable.

OP pointed out that this is contradictory to the usual rhetoric on abortion.

Your response was that we make just such an exception for guns and drunk driving. The implication, therefore, is that this is of such an equivalent moral imperative, that the same reactions are justified here.

You may not want to be drawing the analogy, but if you aren't, there's no point in raising the subject at all.
A lot of the harm of this book is in the title. Imagine being a trans person, just out doing your weekly shopping at Target, and seeing that on the shelf.
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I understand that the author wants to make a provocative statement/get a reaction, but I have to say I find the general tone of this post, and especially the claim "LaTeX is horseshit", extremely off-putting (not to mention clueless as to both the historic and continued significance of LaTeX). It makes me not even want to bother trying to discern whatever point the author might be attempting to make.
> I've commonly seen it used for both

That's a good reason to rename one of them because they're completely different semantics and behaviour, and confusing one for the other is a direct route to segfault city.
It also means such a program would be illegal, since it would also necessarily involve the creation of numbers that can be interpreted as truly illegal content.
text streams are a wonderful idea in 2020 too. Exchanging opaque blobs (objects) requires a fit too fine. It is like Kalashnikov (not very precise but works everywhere) vs. some finicky contraption that is more efficient by some metric but it can only be used in a sterile environment without frustration(e.g. all software version must be just so for it to work satisfactory).
Maybe have a look at OData, strongly typed data model, standardized query language, selection of data required to optimize performance (similar to graphql), changelist support to enable caching, grouping to enable aggregating large amount of timeseries data, capabilities model so services can indicate what they do and do not support, and support for operations/actions, all conforming to REST.
> "When you're accustomed to privilege equality feels like oppression." I want voices to be equal. The people who have the loudest voices will probably feel like I want them silenced.

It is equality of opportunity. What you seem to want is equality of outcome.

Nothing stops you or your politically minded allies from pooling your own resources.

> You can still promote your issue or candidate. I just want the medium of exchange to be your time and not your money. That would help even out the balance of power. Why should the people with more money be able to spread their message further than people without it?

Why should the unemployed or those on the dole, with all the time in the world, have an advantage over the employed?
That only works of you know you are dealing with people rariobal and with good intentions. We human tend not to be thos things when acting in large groups.
P1 Gen 3 is 0.72" x 14.24" x 9.67", compared to the 2019 15" MBP which is 0.61" x 13.75" x 9.48". Slightly larger? Sure, but I wouldn't call it "huge" if the 15" MBP is what you're used to. It's only 0.11" thicker than the MBP and half an inch longer. (And it weighs less.)
> People go to jail in today's China for nothing more than mispronouncing Xi's name

Imagine being so deep in an echo chamber that you actually believe this.
Drinking your own pee for survival: does the science bear it out?
The "Python" support really does feel like too much of a hack to do anything real with
Ask HN: Should I shutdown my solo startup with $120k sales the past 24 months?
I'll try to be brief, but I need some advice.

My formal background is mechanical engineering. After undergrad, I spent a year back home teaching myself to code then developed and iterated the MVP.
The product is a highly customized e-commerce product targeted to industrial customers that is manufactured on demand.

Year 1: $500 gross.
I did some SEO/website improvements.
It took about 4 months to compound.
Year 2: $70k gross
Year 3 (covid): $50k gross

I put profits back in the business via buying manufacturing equipment
The site is scratch built with a decent amount of tech (AI)

-COGS markup is between 300%-600%. Granted this on like a $30 product price.

-Spend per customer is $340. But its bimodal. Most spend $30 or $500+

-CAC: $0, everything is organic, no advertising or outreach. No time to invest right now.

-Customers love the service (Based on unsolicited feedback)

-Customers are mostly B2B, many are huge household names.

Here's what's killing me.

- I have no employees and I feel like a slave to the machine I built.

- I'm missing some critical features that cause customers to email me with orders. Turning everything into slightly high touch sales.

- I'm not netting enough to pay myself, but all the CAPEX is paid off.

- I need to gross about $180k a year in sales just to pay myself equivalent market rate. (6000 units per year)

- It's a specific niche. I don't know how well that scales long term and in volume.

- There is still a lot of software dev left to do

I want to quit my dayjob to free up time and brain space, to build out critical features.
I can sustain for 12 months of no sales before bankrupting myself and the company.

But if I do go bankrupt, I'll be approaching my late 20's with nothing to show for myself.

Am I insane for thinking about closing this thing? And try to get a well paying job as a programmer for several years, which provides guaranteed money and benefits with much lower stress?
Will that reduce the quality of the audio/video?
There are several industrial complexes in the us. Healthcare, agriculture, military. They work because the public accepts and desires them.
The ergonomics of this also depends on the laptop itself. The large Macs are sort of uncommonly good at being used on the lap as a result of lacking the numpad and centering the keyboard/trackpad.

My experience with trying to use my 15 inch Dell w/numpad on my lap is a bit more miserable, because I either have to position it off-center and hanging off my right leg, or type with my hands off-center, which becomes really uncomfortable quickly.

I am tiny, though, so perhaps this would be less annoying to someone with bigger legs where it wouldn't be teetering off constantly.
You are just appealing to the common framework of morality that asserts that humans have rights and animals do not. This is not the only framework. Furthermore I think the rights framework does not provide any arguments in its favor, it simply denies rights to animals.

Do not focus on rights; I am not arguing for "rights" for animals. Ask yourself about whether pain matters to sentient beings. Whether animals are sentient. And reflect on whether you are able to decrease your financial contribution to a system that abuses animals.

The analogy was meant to show that the format of the response is problematic when stated about something we now agree is morally problematic (slavery). I am nudging readers of my comment to reflect whether in 50 years we will consider abusing animals as morally problematic as well (note: I am not arguing about degree of wrongness here).
So one hardware feature (screen format) is like it is, because another hardware feature (horizontal scrolling) is not implemented? Especially touch pads can work perfectly well for horizontal scrolling.

And if you actually use a mouse, in most cases nowadays, you have a desktop monitor and usually not one but multiple, so totally different rules apply there.

But my biggest argument would be that we did not have problems with paper formats ever, but out of a sudden 16:10 or 16:9 is supposed to be better. Sure, software today is fitting a to a modern screen but that is only because it has been designed to fit such a screen.
"It's public health risk mitigation. We do it all the time."

Not responsive to the argument. You might hurt me in any other year, too. We don't tell people to avoid their families at thanksgiving, stop going into the office, etc. "all the time". It's unique. This year.

The flu is about as dangerous to me as SARS-CoV2, for example. How many years of your life, so far, have you avoided seeing your family at holidays in order to protect me?

Cars are also more dangerous to me than SARS-CoV2. How many years of your life have you avoided automobiles, because you might kill me in an accident?

The logic is the same. You may feel as though there is a justification for telling people not to see their families at Thanksgiving, but that's your opinion. Other people have different opinions, and they're equally valid.
Kylie Minogue becomes first woman to top album chart across five decades
I've gotten a lot of mileage out of Sigil (https://github.com/danmx/sigil#readme ) which supports starting sessions via Name tag, instance-id, or private-dns-name in order to save one the need to use awscli in a lot of cases; it also supports the handy `sigil ls` to show the connected instances, since trying to start an SSM connection with an instance whose agent is offline produces a dumb error message with start-session

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as an aside: `function name()` is redundant; the `function name {` syntax is a bashism, `name() {` is the posix syntax

and you may find `aws ec2 wait instance-running` handy instead of the sleep: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/wait/in...
You can't have death by a thousand papercuts when there are exactly three delay-papercuts adjacent to a step that takes a significant amount of time.

There are contexts where little delays matter, and you didn't pick one of those.
This is the generally accepted thread for this topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25055465

Others already include at least:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074129

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25072530

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25068130

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25076230
dual 4k or dual monitor?
I have various boxes which we send out to venues, on the whole outgoing connections are fine, but sometimes you get some really restrictive policies. I've had stuff that MITMs TCP/443, completely blocks UDP, etc.

My devices tend to try to connect back via

* UDP port 443, sometimes works

* an sstp vpn

* SSH to tcp/$highnumber, sometimes they blck/MITM port 80, 443, but leave the standard

* DNS

I can't think of a time that one of them didn't through.
The 1050ti is not supported on modern macos running metal. See the difference when the card is on windows or Linux running real nvidia drivers as the card was built to.
Willful blindness is a common tactic too; perhaps a psychological extension of the progressive safe-space doctrine but I couldn't be certain.

Another one that interests me greatly is the frequent use of the narcissists prayer in debate, have you ever heard it?

It goes as follows.

That didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, that's not a big deal. And if it is, that's not my fault. And if it was, I didn't mean it. And if I did... You deserved it.

I suppose I'll start the ball rolling.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/14/rosetta-come...
Can’t the RPi 4 support dual 4K?
People treating it as a full time job are suffering because it wasn’t meant to be a full time job. And they are clogging the system because there are often not enough rides for all the drivers. The biggest complaint I hear from drivers is about downtime. They want to be making money while in the car not waiting at the gas station for a rider.

It may seem heartless but I’m not sure whom to blame for the problems that come from treating rideshare as a full time job except the drivers who chose to do that themselves. Despite the gross advertising budget it seems like the gig economy companies were in the right.

Really, the issue is further up. It’s a universal loss of low skill labor. These people should have more real employment opportunities in society. If it was easier to get a basic job with benefits it would be way easier to accept whatever arrangement Uber was offering without legislating them. And Uber would inherently have to treat them more fairly as well.
Yawn. So tired of the "macOS is going to shit" meme.

It is by far the most advanced operating system which serves newbies and professionals alike. I know people who use it to browse Facebook and use Messages/Music/Safari etc and those who use it to manage servers, build apps, and more.

The progression of software of this scale is often slow and at times annoying, but to write it off and say it's getting worse is absolutely insane.

What a lot of people don't understand about the approach Apple has to software, especially their own, is that they inch towards the ultimate and ideal version, and yes, during some of those transitions things may feel more broken than usual, until they don't.
LaTeX does report this as a problem, of course - the refrain of "overfull hbox" is near universal (and ignoring the warning is just as universal).

Where it fails is in reporting the problem in a meaningful way. This is, of course, very difficult to accomplish, since there is no nice mapping from line-of-TeX to visual error. What's more, any tool which could provide such an error would be so constrained as to be useless for typesetting.
Let's talk consistency models and more! Is there a good email I could reach you at - or alternatively, could you send me an email with your requirements (haneef@)?
If others are looking for any reason to get rid of you, it might put them in a better position to pull the trigger. Obviously that doesn't describe the vast majority of situations though.
I think this is characteristic of the time we are in. People, being connected by the internet, have a new level of awareness about the world around us.

We don’t yet (collectively) know what to do with this knowledge. It is a reorienting time. Memes are one way people are trying to orient, they are probes being sent out to encounter reality.

But I agree with what you’re hinting at, we will step out of this place with concrete meaningful steps. And science is a very good way to find meaning.
I've personally found JSDoc gets me what I want out of TypeScript without any compiling or features that don't actually exists in the language (I'm glaring at you enums). Ensuring the documentation is correct ensures the types are correct. You loose some nice-to-haves but to me not having to compile my code or deal with that variety of tooling is a huge plus. I can facilitate folks who like TypeScript by exporting types from the same JSDocs.
I am still suprised by the number of people that want trackpad's

If lenovo would come out with a laptop with no trackpad I would be the first to order it, I normally disable the track pad completely..

Traditional mouse or even a trackball are far far better
Agreed. Giant titlebars taking up vertical screen space is a clear concession for fingerability.
For context, the US page[0] lists the primary types of requests they get:

> Device: High number of devices specified in requests predominantly due to return and repair fraud investigations.

> Financial Identifier: High number of financial identifier requests predominantly due to iTunes Gift Card and credit card fraud investigations.

> Account Requests: High number of accounts specified in requests predominantly due to fraud and cyber intrusion investigations and a third party app related investigation.

I wonder what "a third party app related investigation" is about.

0: https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html#twocolgreyt...
Writing Software for an Among Us League
I find my theory has a better predictive power on what Xi might do next than the simple explanation that he is villainous.

The fact that the communist party made extensive studies of the fall of the Soviet Union has been well documented.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303755504579207...
You can make that exact same argument against labor laws, consumer protection laws, building codes, etc. "How would you like for the state to tell you that you can't buy a house with lead paint?"
> By having a notion of some god, and a cannon, you can have a list of ideas that everyone considers good, and it makes such demagoguery a little more difficult.

Where do events such as the Spanish Inquisition or the Crusades fit into that idea?
This comment doesn't seem serious
I agree with you, but he didn't say the word "sorry".

Check out "Thank You for Arguing" by Jay Heinrichs. It covers the same basic steps, but recommends to exclude the actual apology part. It's also a great book for other reasons.
What “Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World” can teach us about risk
I admit I didn't make that clear, the point was 5k UI is not healthy to take long term. But you build a supplement regime around it, and then just keep taking it for years. That's how easy it is.

And in another thread a guy was saying his daily D3 was 20,000 IU a day as if it was perfectly normal.

I was found to be extremely deficient in a blood test and personally been prescribed 10k UI, or maybe even 50k I can't remember, but it was a weekly tablet for only 6 weeks.
As a fan of static typing, the ideas in the blog post do resonate with me.

However, one concern I have with this approach over simple JSON, is client size. A JSON API can be consumed by the web client natively, basically. Whereas using, e.g., protobuf will require some tooling to digest a .proto file to generate some client side code for you to use. In practice, if you're embedding that in your web app, how large will that be?
I use LaTeX because I can define both layout and content in text files. I can store those files in git, and generate a quick PDF from them.

I used to use pandoc (with pandoc-flavored Markdown) for this, but it just couldn't handle layout properly, even with mixed LaTeX and Markdown in the same files.

I'm not overly fond of LaTeX, but it is the only tool that does what I want.
Thanks, you explained it much better than I could.
In a normal world I would agree with you completely.

However, if you've offended some of the woke crowd then this may be worse than saying nothing at all. In your example, they would say you are rubbing salt in the wound with "I regret that my actions had this effect on you." If you aren't prepared to unambiguously denounce yourself, you may (unintentionally) make things worse.
I'm having some trouble understanding the pricing of Workers Unbound. How much would it cost to keep one websocket connection open for a month?
Borrow checking isn't reference counting and Nim still needs to prove itself.
Re #2, the Nvidia web drivers work great if you're on High Sierra
I just made the C64 <-> Pi 400 comparison to someone last week. It is completely analogous.

Pair that up with an arduino, and maybe wiring, and you can a have hardware interaction with a Linux desktop on the 400.

I just helped a young arduino user with reading an analog pot yesterday. There are still young people out there playing with hardware, and it is way easier today than it was for me in 1984.

Then go over and look at the people configuring and compiling custom versions of Marlin for their 3D printers.

Or the nerds designing flight computers for solid fuel model rockets.
There are space companies other than SpaceX which participated in the same contracts and were nowhere nearly as successful.

* Boeing did not yet deliver commercial crew.
* Antares rocket did not expand beyond ISS delivery.
* Blue Origin is not yet flying, despite immense funding.
* Virgin Galactic did not yet fly any customers.

The other great space launch success in the last decade was RocketLab but they're far too small to be relevant to SLS.
I think the contention is they’re not able to produce margins capable of returning what a VC or public company would need to for investors to make it worth their while.
You know, for over a decade I've basically lived in vim & the shell. But I continually hear good things about org-mode and magit. Should I just embrace my destiny turn to the dark side?
Go Vegan or shut the fuck up.
Great notes. Now my question is whether there's some sort of standard for what's in Calc 1, 2, 3...

I've seen a number of people on the internet refer to them, but it doesn't seem clear to me what the numbers mean. Wouldn't this be different depending on where you were? And yet people talk casually about the numbers instead of the topics (first order diff eqs).

I'm European, did my degree in the UK, and never came across any standardized numbering.
Yes, but not the way you are constructing it. The driver doesn't get to set the price, and there are downsides to declining the fare. Additionally there is no relationship established between the driver and the rider. The carriage contract is between Uber/Lyft and the rider. The platform is then hiring the driver to fulfill their end of the contract. The driver and rider have no ability to form future contracts, unless they break the terms of service and exchange information during the ride. The business models could be tweaked to accommodate proper contractor relationships, but then Uber wouldn't be able to achieve their goal, which is monopoly control over public transit.
In the last year of my Aerospace Engineering degree. This site got me through calculus and I still use it any time a differential equation shows up in my studies since they still scare me.
I absolutely love that there is no cost to relocating your constructions other than the time you spend doing it. This means you can iterate, try different designs, and refactor.

No pain akin to many other games' setup where you "sell" a structure for less than for what you "bought" it for.
Ubisoft Montreal staffers barricade on roof amid possible hostage situation
Pretty sure Lyft pink is through Chase sapphire as well, which in turn gives Grubhub+ (at least for me)