skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beard's book is simply a proto-communist critique of the US government (in the form of the Realty vs the Personalty). Most of this book simply attempt to assert malice where other explanations are plentiful.

For example, he asserts that the 3 branches were intended to make the country less of a democracy.

Yes, the goal was a republic instead of a democracy because (as spelled out in the Federalist papers) pure democracies always wind up persecuting minorities (2 wolves and a sheep voting on what to eat for dinner) and all historical democracies up to that point fell apart rather quickly. Limiting the power of any one person or cabal was of prime importance.

Beard rejects all these reasons as essentially true, but made up excuses (though history is not on his side). Instead, he claims it was to protect them from being overthrown by the masses.

He asserts that the constitution was an economic document. Of course this is true. It was trying to convince 13 countries to become one, unified country. It tried to guarantee it wouldn't interfere with things in the Bill of Rights. Once the constitution has established that it can't butt into people's moral business, all that is left is economics. They set down rules to keep one state from oppressing another, rules for foreign commerce, and left internal issues to the states. Beard doesn't say how the rules could be better, he just asserts that because most of the writers had money, they must have had nefarious reasons for establishing those rules.

Here's another example. The constitution says the US should pay it's debts. Beard asserts this is because Washington loaned money and wanted it back. Sure, this could be true, but it is also true that small, new countries guaranteeing to pay back money to lenders is paramount to securing loans in the first place.

Realty were his creation that was anyone without large amounts of liquid assets (this included land owners). Personalty were people with liquid assets and manufacturing power. He claims the realty were entirely suppressed by the personalty during the constitution's creation. He doesn't provide much hard evidence aside from very generic things like he thinks it was hard to collect farmer's votes or opinion pieces in various newspapers that were anti-federalist.

The federalists asserted that if the states didn't unite, they would slowly devolve into a bunch of little, squabbling countries that would be played against each other or outright conquered by the European powers. He has no answer.

He claimed repression of the realty, but many of the county's most famous people rose from nothing. In fact, the upward mobility of the US has exceeded every other country since it's inception. This contradicts his claim, yet he has no answer.

I would go so far as to say that he fails to justify any of his smears and that history both before and after 1913 has not been on his side.
Hey thanks for mentioning this. My current dread is having to switch to a linux laptop because I hate the yak shaving inherent with linux systems and driver issues. However, I won't be getting big sur or any other future osx systems until they fix their api and allow firewalls to actually work with their software.

So starting to scope out what options I have and this helps.
Is this how we look for the next Stuxnet?
Do you have insight into your father's perspective between the two? I've heard that cab driving, particularly in major metropolitan areas, was a racket in it's own sense (in terms of medallions being a form of indentured servitude) but I'd be curious if Uber has alleviated some of this or just caused people to leap from the frying pan into the fire.
Well it depends on how you define "help". Dementia or Alzheimers is a neural disease that seems correlated with brain plaque - the underlying issue of plaque/neural self cleaning mechanism failures wouldn't be countered even if it makes them feel better and possibly slightly improve function it is still a downward slope of progressive brain damage.
Ganhe Dinheiro Online
Obama is the consummate politician. I read this statement in the same way I read his comments in '08 and '12 about how he 'struggled' with the question of whether gay marriage should be legal. Now, as then, he is playing to the middle (In the case of gay marriage, to the middle of the American electorate. In the current case, to the middle of the Democratic party). He doesn't know which way the political winds are blowing for Democrats--further leftward or back to the center--and he is too shrewd to be left behind in either case.
But in a very utopian way isnt this what is desired? Its 2020. Shouldnt the year 2020 have a population composed of 30% scientist doing nothing but long term research? It wont be exponential forever. Eventually you would get professors that do pure research or teach classes with only 3 students.
We switched from fluent-bit to Fluentd in 2 hours
When you are driving a car, the dangers you encounter are immediately perceptible, and your driver’s license means you specifically trained for and are certified as able to deal with them.

With our laptops full of PII, corporate secrets, cryptocurrency wallet keys and so on, without proper security measures one can be taken advantage of without detection over long periods of time, and only a tiny percentage of the user base can adequately assess potential attack vectors (even the scope of possible damage is not intuitively obvious).

There may be issues with specific implementations, and the degree of trust one has to put in their device’s manufacturer could probably be lower, but without those measures a typical user would be like a 5-year old driving a Ferrari on a winding mountain road. Yes, I’d be okay if my car automatically stopped before a cliff that I couldn’t see even if I drove right into it.
I played it on my 2008 MacBook with a Core Duo when I first got it
Except where first-class modules are used, the application of a functor to a module happens at at (or before) compile-time. You can have a fully resolved type before runtime, but which can still be abstract at design time. They can be seen as a zero-cost abstraction.

Modules are structurally typed, so the more typical sub-typing behavior expected from mainstream OOP languages is not applicable to them.
The entire world losing their effing minds at once!

I'm halfway joking, but the USA has gone from "Land of the Free, Home of the Brave", "Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness," "From Sea to Shining Sea," to a boot stamping on a human face forever in less than one year. It's gotten to the point where I don't feel safe raising children here.
Apple almost the #1 PC maker. Wow.
I prefer to order food from the restaurant directly and pick it up, so that they get the maximum $. Door dash is convenient to see what's out there, but not very good to the actual business of the restaurant. Plus you are paying for that convenience. I also don't see how DD will ever be cash positive as the fees would have to go up, which seems bad business.
Why Drawing, Even Badly, Is Worthwhile
In my experience:

Calculus 1 = differential calculus

Calculus 2 = integral calculus and infinite series

Calculus 3 = multivariate calculus
I really like where thing are heading with .NET.

On the other hand, I'm still missing an easier interop with other ecosystems. C# is an easy to use language and I would love to write some common code / business logic / whatever you name it in C# and expose it as webassembly and C/C++, this would cover mobile, web and desktop workloads. You can do something like that with Rust (or at least they claim it, I never tried), but with C# I don't see any _easy way_ doing it. I would be happy if someone could correct me If I'm wrong.
So why people who don't want protections should be limited to 15 hours?
I'm going to let you in on a secret: most of the people who advocate a particular operating system are pretending that systematic problems don't exist.

Strictly speaking, Windows is a usability nightmare. Most people don't notice simply because most people learn and use a tiny subset what is there. Beyond that, there is an entire industry to support Windows (which is part of the reason why people like it). Apple isn't much better. They tend to paper things over by simply dropping support. An example was brought up by another commenter when they mentioned that some ix programs use raster fonts. Strictly speaking that can happen under Linux yet not macOS since Apple dropped support for legacy software while some ix software is decades old. Linux will have its own issues, but I'm not the best judge of that since it is my operating system of choice.

At the end of the day, any operating system will be a compromise of some form or another. Which you choose will depend upon what your wants and needs are.
I'm still bitter that they removed the Google Drive to Google Photos sync. That allowed me to organize my photos on disk, and control what lived in Google Photos.

Without that setup Google Photos is like a vast sea of images that you can only scroll by date. There is no filtering, etc. so if you want to edit your Google Photos, you're limited to in-browser selection and album creation which is of little use with tens of thousands of images.
Good source
I have come to the conclusion that presidents all follow the same playbook, more or less. Once they get into office it's house of cards, the advisors giving the same advice, same office machinations. I imagine there is a lot of resistance for wavering from the norm.

Obama had election promises to get out of conflicts, close Guantanamo Bay, and so on. Campaign promises reneged and the continuance of Bush era executive power overriding the course of legislation.

Compared to Trump Obama looks good, but in reality he wasn't really anything special apart from his eloquence and kind demeanor which I am sure Republicans dismissed as Democrats dismiss the qualities of Rep. Presidents. It's all just the same shit from different sides, it's kind of laughable really.
The paper Multiple lifestyle factors and depressed mood: a cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis of the UK Biobank (N = 84,860) [1]. The study compares questionnaire results of healthy controls (HC) to people with a history of major depressive disorder (MDD):

> Cross-sectional analysis of 84,860 participants showed that in both MDD and HCs, physical activity, healthy diet, and optimal sleep duration were associated with less frequency of depressed mood (all p < 0.001; ORs 0.62 to 0.94), whereas screen time and also tobacco smoking were associated with higher frequency of depressed mood (both p < 0.0001; ORs 1.09 to 1.36).

This is correlation; it does not measure whether lifestyle interventions improve depressed mood.

[1] https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1291...
The article seems to agree with you - it presents optimal sleep as important, 7 - 9 hours.
I could see that if it were being compiled against another libc as well. It's true my experience is with a codebase that has forever been cross compiled. Just altering the output architecture I guess I just haven't seen be an issue. Aarch64 hasn't ever given me an "immediately break" scenario. If it compiles, it works. Ymmv though. Computers are complex.
Never reinstalled Windows unintentionally at least for the part 10 years.

> software options are relatively limited

When was the last time you used macOS? I see the options limited on Windows rather and even moreso on Linux.
A neighbor drives a "smart car" for errands around Washington, DC. I'm sure that isn't what she takes to New York City or Virginia Beach. I don't know how fast it is, but I would be uncomfortable in a car that size on the interstate.
Yeah, because your family members definitely represent literally every possible use case in the the world anyone could possibly have for a computer.

Ugh.
Weren't Uber drivers bombarded with Pro-Prop 22 messaging every time they opened the app or picked up a passenger? It would make sense that they would support it if >95% of the messaging they got about Prop 22 was from their employer who stood to gain hundreds of millions from its passage.
You really wouldn’t want to live in a place without laws.
ShapeWright: Build spaceships based on text input
https://media.chase.com/news/chase-partners-with-door-dash-t...

Seems like free DashPass is valid only for a year.

> Complimentary DashPass Subscription for Chase Sapphire Reserve and Preferred cardmembers: Your Chase Sapphire account will receive one complimentary DashPass subscription from DoorDash for at least 12 months when the subscription is activated by 12/31/21. After the DashPass discounted period ends, you can choose to continue to be enrolled and charged the then current monthly DashPass rate

They also have an offer for the Freedom and Slate cards (which have no annual fee) albeit free DashPass only for the first 3 months and a 50% discount for the next 9. So, still a good deal overall when compared to paying $9.99 every month. Thanks!
Wildlabs.net
Is it really the case though? I am also from Poland (though I do not live there anymore) and based on my experience it was rather a popular dev machine a couple of years back, easily seen at conferences. It is of course less popular due to pricing but definitely not absent.

Can you maybe also comment further on the compatibility issues? Mac is perfectly fine for any general-purpose frontend/backend development. Unless you work in a Windows-centric environment or in a setting that clearly rules out a Mac (e.g. Linux system programming), I cannot really imagine what compatibility issue would prevent you from using a Mac e.g. for Typescript, Java, Python or Go development. Not sure why Poland would be less friendly for developer Macs than the rest of the world.
This says more about the label than the opposition.

The "living wage" bakes in a variety of assumptions. First of all is the assumption that people shouldn't work if they're not out to earn a full-time living from that work. This view is typical of posh Americans who went to nice universities, had snazzy internships, and are now happily working full time.

It gleefully ignores those who need to start lower, and get entry level experience. Indeed, it is actively hostile to entire classes of people working.

A retiree who wants a little extra money. A high school kid from some gang-afflicted neighborhood, one who isn't going to college, but could benefit some low-key job in a restaurant, one that would keep him out of trouble, and get him a start for when he graduates. An ex-convict who's just spent five years in prison under one of Biden's drug laws, who could use a steady job to show his next employer he's hard working and didn't steal from work. An immigrant with marginal English language skills. That one girl I knew in school whose entire family was afflicted by a serious case of lead poisoning.

Now there's sure to be some sort of whining to the effect that some of these people need to be supported directly, but suppose they are -- why would that deny them the right to work?

Of course the cynical part of the political apparatus has absolutely no use for these people, since they don't vote, they don't campaign, they compete with the labor unions, and they're not always interested in sitting around and doing nothing on the government dime. They're useless in the revolution.

Oh, and of course the other thing! is that it helps draw attention away from the other big problem: a broken housing policy that has produced sky-high rents in so many major cities. Why fix that problem when you can make a new set of problems instead? One is hard work, and the other earns you praise as compassionate.
The title of this article really captures the feeling I had when I decided to ditch my iPhone. My mobile device was the last piece of tech that I owned that did not truly feel like I owned it. I've recently switched to an original Pixel running LineageOS. There are only a handful of pain points for me that make the switch difficult, most notably navigation. The feeling of actually having control of my device seems to be worth it so far.
I really hope you regret that decision. Obama might have been ineffective against Russia and China, but Trump has been worse in every possible way. With China, his "hardline" stance is all rhetorical; it hasn't hurt China at all, and has hurt America substantially. And with Russia, Trump has been a massive enabler. Not only did his campaign seek out foreign election interference from Russia, but when caught, went through substantial efforts to pin the blame on Ukraine. And he is constantly groveling on behalf of Putin, begging to invite him into the G7, even doing so after knowing that Russia was putting bounties on American soldiers' heads. And don't stop there, Trump is hands down the most corrupt executive officer in the history of the US...dozens of personally appointed staff ended up with criminal convictions, so much that he had to appoint a new Attorney General just to get the convictions to stop.

There is no world in which any criticism of Obama, or any other politician, Democrat or Republican, should lead someone to support Trump. I too did not like Obama and refused to vote for him for his second term, but I would vote for a flaming turd in a paper bag on my doorstep over Trump or anyone that supports him.
In a welfare society I would still have to convince someone I couldn’t work. Get approval, etc.

Healthcare industry is currently a mess. I have excellent coverage. Even still I couldn’t get anyone to take me seriously.

Only when organ failure started up in earnest did doctors realize I wasn’t making it up.
> “I’m begging on my knees”

I feel your pain
Trump being billionaire before joining Politics is not a bad thing in my book. I am worried about the centi-millionaires whose only profession is Politics like the Clintons, Pelosi, Mitch etc. Of course, Obamas are on that road too.
I may or may not be able to verify that sometimes both justifications exist in parallel.
The Startup #6 – Lifestyle Design
> We have laws against violence, and we have a justice system and law enforcement to enforce the laws.

We do. That doesn't conflict with platforms having standards that prohibit advocacy of violence.

> If they believe there is a credible threat, they should investigate, that is their purpose.

It wasn't a threat, it was advocacy /incitement, which is a different thing.

> We can hold them accountable via voting and their actions should ideally be transparent to the public.

Their actions, by law, are not transparent to the public, and instead are subject to among the broadest exceptions of any public agencies (beyond defense/intelligence) to transparency laws. Not that your fantasies about law enforcement transparency, even if true, have any relevance to Bannon's incitement.

> If Bannon is part of a real, literal plot to place Fauci's head on a pike at the White House, that is the avenue through which it should be prosecuted.

A plot/conspiracy is a third thing, different from both a threat and incitement.

And no one is talking about prosecution.

Facebook isn't a public utility that is somehow obligated to relay and promote all speech equally without filtering with the only controls being after-the-fact actions by law enforcement. You are free to create a service with those terms of use and try to compete with Facebook, if you wish, but that's not what Facebook users have signed up for. And, while I've certainly seen examples of Facebook being overzealous in enforcing their “Community Standards”, this particular case doesn't come close to that.
Thank you so much for this feedback! I missed the guidance you mentioned!
I'm curious why the author chose to use gcc 5.4.0 for the code size benchmark. Do older gcc versions generate smaller code?
> Every company I've worked at for the last 10 years has developed exclusively on macOS.

Counter-anecdote: I have had a Linux computer on my desktop for over the last twenty years, have used Linux primarily for maybe the last eleven, and exclusively for the last eight.

I do not get the near-religious love for Apple products. Pre-OS X, they really were wonderful, best in class without a doubt. I kinda get the attraction back in the early 2000s, when Linux could still be a chore and Macs were a decent choice to get a computer which had a shell and ran real software. But now? They are just not for me. I want to own my own computer, write my own software and control my own destiny.
HN claims to be non-ideological but, whenever there's a post on race, gender, etc., the anti-racist and anti-sexist viewpoints are downvoted or flagged just for explaining reality. Meanwhile the milquetoast, uncritical, ignorant, and "alt-right" are widely supported.

Some people here might know "how to code", but it's clear they never learned analysis, criticism, empiricism, etc.
X64 Function Hooking by Example
It will be a battle to the death until there is some consolidation to empower a price increase.
I'm with you. I'm a big fan of Google Photos, in fact I'd go so far as to say I'd take very few pictures if not for it. Not because of the storage, but because of the ease with which it allows me to reminisce and organize my photos. I'd happily pay the couple bucks a month for it if it's what keeps it viable, I'd much rather that than the kill the service.

And they're giving 8 months notice and everything up to that point will continue to be supported for free. It's kind of crazy to me that people have a problem with it.
I've done lots of things that deprive full time subsistences. For example, I used to repair people's phones and gadgets as a beer money gig; which deprive full-time repair shop employees.

Should it be illegal for me to offer that service?
> P.S. Most Uber drivers, when independently polled, are for Prop 22. It's the unions that were pushing this, so they can collect union dues and grow their revenues.

I wonder if this would remain true if you weighted by the number of drives given, there certainly seems to be a distinction between part time and full time drivers. The former could be more numerous while Uber depends on the latter to provide the bulk of their supply.
OK who here wants to start the next consumer computer company to address this with a Linux distro and a focus on consumer privacy?

I'm not your huckleberry, but I'll certainly buy from you. Any margin in the hardware these days?
Just as an aside, one of the best perks of work from home had been not wearing pants.
Tyler Cowen‘s blog
Ah, OK, you mean stuff like this, right? https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/85103

I haven't often run into wrapper issues, but when you do it's a pain. So thanks for the pointer, I should probably look at how guix does it.
I hope that changes with the acquisition of Red Hat. I think they did it to help Red Hat, but they also wanted to buy the community of developers in my opinion.
Download OB3WhatsApp
I don't understand how part time employment requires him to be classified as a contractor, not an employee.
So will blood letting, but I don't recommend it either.
I totally agree with you.

The ethos went "mainstream" in the sense that it was fashionable to play the part and be in your words a "fake hacker". And for future historians and those unfamiliar with the jargon, hacker ethos isn't about criminally breaking into computer systems.
Posting this, not to be confrontational but to share info.

https://twitter.com/FareedZakaria/status/1326255584069513220

This is a piece on GPS ( a CNN show ) where Fareed Zakaria lays out a potential election endgame, predicated on legal strategy with "allegations" as a key component, that seems to line up with exactly what is happening now. that could be very effective at altering election results.

Note that the video was recorded before the election and shows a potential strategy that uses legal challenges to voting results at various levels as a navigation tool aimed at ending with a situation where congress/states elect the president on a one-vote per state basis.