skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Princess Cruise Lines, for example, offers last-minute deals from less than $100 a day per person.[5] Booking back-to-back cruises at low rates could help keep your retirement spending under $40,000 a year, which can help your retirement dollars go further.

So to fit that budget you'd be constantly hustling for last-minute cruise deals, and for a cheap place to stay when you can't find a cheap cruise ready to go at your current port. That's not exactly what I'd call "set for life."

Also note their estimate is "per person." Cruise lines price rooms for at least double occupancy so they're actually saying you'll need $200/day, unless you're splitting with someone who has their own money.

On top of cruise fees, you'll need some budget to just buy stuff now and then. You might even want health insurance.
Right wing millitias and groups have history of violence last years in USA. They also talked about their plans openly. It is not like the bombs they brought to capitol were shock this January. It was not first bomb plan.

Also, in videos you see organized trained equipped men in uniforms. That is absolutely something agencies are expected to follow.
look at the setup steps and compare that with installing Signal app
That makes a lot of sense. Thanks!
It's probably impossible for the right-wing to create their own society, because they're geographically and economically mixed in with the rest of the country. The most salient political dividing line is ~800 people per square mile.

Social media platforms already long ago decided not to allow groups such as ISIS to propagandize and organize online. Why would they allow any other terrorist groups? Those calling for the usurpation of democracy through insurrection and violence are equivalent.

>So if the right wants their own society just let them have it before internet fights become real ones.

We've already seen many instances of right-wing terroristic violence in the form of bombings (attempted and successful), mass shootings, etc.; many of these have been organized online in extreme right-wing spaces. It's an easy case to be made that allowing such spaces to proliferate will lead to more violence.

But to equate all right-wing speech with terrorism seems to be succumbing to a self-fulfilling prophecy while at the same time justifying the very actions you're opposing.

If we truly want inclusive political discourse, we need to acknowledge the validity of traditional conservative viewpoints while drawing a clear distinction between those viewpoints and reactionary terroristic violence. With this understanding in mind, newspapers such as the NYTimes have long featured conservative columnists with critical viewpoints. Perhaps such mainstream publications should try harder to do this.

There is plenty of room for intelligent discourse, but hateful attacks (verbal and otherwise), simply have no place in a healthy society.
This. I wholeheartedly agree.

Which is why I disagree with Vue (and others) putting gigantic BLM banners on their sites.

Even if the cause is just, by mixing in politics, you create less of a common ground for those working on and using the code, thus creating rifts where there need not be any. Everything becomes "us" and "them".
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The article doesn't use the word "majority". In fact the title is: "Boris Johnson should resign as PM, 43% of people tell survey"

Plurality is different than majority.
What does one TRILLION dollars look like?
I wish the submitter added their comment or gave some context, if there is any. For me this is an arbitrary number for a random popular repository. Especially since the linked github project https://github.com/vuejs/vue is not the latest version of vue (see: https://github.com/vuejs/vue-next ).
Hey, you should check out Mycroft AI.
I built my first blog on Dokuwiki somewhere around 15 years ago. Since then Markdown has become the standard for text. Dokuwiki also updates a lot and is difficult to move from one server to another.

I'm always on the hunt because I haven't found the perfect solution to replace it yet. I'm convinced it's either plain text (including Markdown) or plain html, but I am not sure I've found the perfect solution.

Today I'm using Markdown hosted on GitHub, but who knows how long I'll use GitHub or if GitLab or BitBucket will work as replacements in the same way.

It's easy to say, "stick with it", but technology changes a lot as the decades begin to pass by.
Alright, why don't you start by explaining what you think they mean by "what we're seeing now", or by "violence done by the students", and how those things are causally linked?
One of the weird things in photos from the 60s or 70s is how slim everyone looks.
Saying Apple open sourced WebKit is a pretty funny way of seeing things.
> Home-cooked food is almost always healthier than restaurant food, so don’t try to learn to cook and cook the healthiest possible version of each dish. Most veggies taste better roasted in a generous amount of olive oil...

It took me way to long to learn not to be afraid of oil when cooking and grilling food. I burned a lot of food for awhile under the assumption that I shouldn't be adding too much fat to homecooked food.
> My wife has a 2012 MBP, which is usable because I upgraded the RAM to 16GB and added an SSD.

More or less same story with my previous Mid 2009 13'' MBP. The only reason why it has survived this long is because I've been able to add RAM, replace an SSD, replace the battery twice and replace a faulty touchpad too. Sadly this is no longer possible and modern Apple laptops are increasingly harder to repair.
It is for individuals but it's reasonable to use as a population measure. Waist-to-height and waist-to-hip ratios are also good measures for population-level health and those work a little better for individuals.
I enjoy typing, so I like to simply type out the entire textbook. It's a bit ridiculous to some, but it slows down the pace that I actually learn and engage with the content. A textbook usually takes me a couple months to type, and I'm never in a rush though finishing chapters is satisfying and an easy goal for an evening. I find it similar to as if I were to attend a lecture on the topic.
Please stop conflating taxes to something that is forcibly taken away from you. It is purely just money that is used for things around you. I am not sure where this obsession to be come "rich" truly comes from - what are you really searching for in life?
Apparently it's called MSDF fonts and you can read about how to use it practice here

https://css-tricks.com/techniques-for-rendering-text-with-we...
You cannot take prove a global phenomenon with local data, unless you compare global occurrences of local events.

Taking only Texas as an "example" means you're cherry picking data. I'm sure we could find other parts of the world that had multiple rare events in every decade of the last century as well.
This is most likely connected to increasingly radical sexual politics - e.g. incel culture.

Lmao 2 downvotes in 30 seconds. Folks don't want to admit that the average attractiveness of americans has simply gone far down overtime as a result of this.
I hope you have considered racial bias.

e.g.: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03228-6

or:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/17/1005396/predicti...

or: https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/can-racist-algorithm...
> There is no value to our customers in us stringing together a pile of someone else's products

Maybe not your business, but there are many businesses in which this is exactly what happens. Any managed-service is just combining other people's work into a "product" that gets sold to customers. And that's great! AWS has a staggering amount of products, and lots of business don't even want to have to care about AWS.

> Who out there is using 20+ AWS/Azure/GCP products to back a single business app and is having a fantastic time of it?

Several times. I think cloud products are just tools to get you further along in your business. Most of the tools I use are distributed systems tools, because I don't want to have to own them, and container runtimes/datastores. Every single thing I've ever deployed across AWS/Azure is used as a generic interface that could be replaced relatively easily if necessary, and I've used Terraform to manage my infrastructure creation/deployment process, so that I can swap resources in and out without having to change tech.

If, for some reason, Azure Event Hub stopped providing what we needed it for, we could certainly deploy a customized Kafka implementation and have the rest of our code not really know or care, but from when we set out to build our products, that has always been a "If we need to" problem, and we've never needed to.
lol that's funny..it will make people like me more inclined to install Signal than every before.
Is this even legal to crawl news sites, get their contents and then sell them to others without paying anything to the publishers .
Even if you buy a subscription to New York Times or the Wall Steet Journal, that only gives you the permission to personally use that content and not sell it out to others.
I believe that the founders business is very small right now and currently flying under the radar but if they grow to o big and get noticed the news companies, their model might be at risk.
I think the opposite: it's a sign that your API is too wide and users expect more special cases and edge features to solve their needs.
Is pay scale on this chart logarithmic?
Blob storage (images and other binary media) is stored in your file-system utilizing it's content addressable hash as a filename. You can delete these at any time. The append only log is for json messages, which will make reference to the hashes of the blobs through markdown.

So, the message referencing the illegal content can't be removed without removing the user's whole ledger, but the content can be removed at any time.
All of those reasons you quote apply just as well to VS Code itself, and by that logic, MS shouldn't have open sourced VS Code either.

You don't see anyone complaining that Visual Studio itself (the older one, not VS Code) is not open source. It's only when MS began the whole "MS hearts Open Source" campaign that their actions (voluntarily) entered this kind of scrutiny.

There's no doubt that VS Code would not have acquired the level of popularity and success had it not put on the façade of being Open Source. It is the façade that is under criticism here.
Microsoft did promote it, at least in its early days, as an open and standard system, and the LSP as a way to go from MxN language specific IDE implementations to M+N. But tben, they make it 2xM+N by forbidding the use of their LSPs in other editors - which, if done by everyone would put as back at MxN.

This is hypocritical behavior, and it does remind people of EE&E which was Microsoft’s explicit policy in the past. It’s not an exact repeat, but it does seem to rhyme.
> Also, real programmers don't say DWORD.

That's just silly. DWORD is a macro for an unsigned 32-bit integer. It has been around since the first version of Windows.h, along with BYTE and WORD for unsigned 8-bit and 16-bit integers.

Any old-time Win16 or Win32 programmer like Joel or me would know the term and be likely to use it in the context of Windows programming.

Keep in mind that Windows.h predated the modern definitions like uint32_t by many years. The original Windows developers had to come up with some names for these data types. It doesn't mean they weren't "real" programmers.

Although I suppose, given that floating point processors were far from being standard equipment at the time, you could argue that they were integer programmers...
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Who told you that? Nobody said they would open source everything. There were never plans to open source Visual Studio or Office or Windows. And why should they? Did they sign a contract in blood?
If you're relying on Marketing to tell you what's worth your time then you must be one sad sad person.

Read the documentation, if you're here you're pretending to be a technical person. Be a technical person.
set username & pw?

people get that done - look at Instagram which grew despite having to do the exact same
Not really. It's inaccurate for some very athletic people, but it is accurate for a vast majority of the population.
How did you determine that Holland was the protest leader? Was he even the capitol invasion leader?

If I could be satisfied that he was the leader then I can acknowledge that as an important difference.
When Gab was removed from MC/Visa, plenty of people were indeed saying "MC/Visa are private companies and have no obligation to serve Gab. If Gab wants to accept payments, they can build their own network or use cash/crypto".
Why can't you use sqlite in js projects?
Vue 3 included a re-write in Typescript. The Vue team was very vocal in the benefits TS would bring, including making it easier for outsiders to contribute.
Well, you are not contradicting me. The point I tried to make was that the USA had already a very robust industry to build on.

Yes, America got lucky for about 25 years and isn't so lucky anymore. But even here the old adage says that luck favors the prepared.
Yeah, not bad for insurance as long ad the person realizes that's what it is (you do, but a noob might not). I've been selling calls on a lot of stuff lately (HPE, oil stocks, REITS, etc - all at prices I'm fine at them being called away at) . This volatility is awesome for it.
Slightly different version is still there: https://twitter.com/ChineseEmbinUS/status/134722475548574924...
Please don't recommend Startpage in a privacy thread. They are owned by adtech company System1.
Actually, I think one of the most important skills that people should be learning/improving these days (not on this list) is the ability to parse dubious sources for elements of truth. (/irony if that is a thing.)

Consider the recent events in Washington; almost everything you read about it is heavily slanted in some direction, whether deliberately or accidentally. Good luck finding anyone just reporting/analysing the plain old (actually complex and unsimplifiable) truth, with no narrative filtering.
> The driving mechanic behind climate change theories is that we are changing the chemistry of the atmosphere, which is making the climate unstable.

This is a strange characterization of the increase in CO2 and resultant heat retention. It's not itself "unstable".

> If you just look at the statistics through the lens of data science, it's easy to write off effects as "not enough data", but this is a simplistic view,

Selecting only a specific set of events in specific areas is, by definition, cherry picking data.
Underlining this point. As imprecise as it may be for an individual, it is remarkably good directionally.

More, for many individuals, it is more accurate than folks give credit.
I link at the source of this anecdote at the end of my essay on I-Ching: https://www.pa-mar.net/Lifestyle/I-Ching.html

Here is the direct link if you don't care about my stuff (it has been featured on HN already)

http://statweb.stanford.edu/~cgates/PERSI/papers/thinking.pd...
+1, but with a container tool (Fargate/ECS, Azure Container Instances) instead of EC2.
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You could at least post a link or say why this is a good book to read. While we are suggesting books I think "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" is a great work highlighting the political motives behind the making of the 20th centuries most important "tool".
Initially this was true, certainly SV would use higher salaries to draw developers and engineers to the valley. But cost of living has exploded since then. A modern developer living in SV does not command a higher standard of living as food and housing costs are significantly higher than most of the rest of the country. A similar trend plays out on the east coast so it’s not just SV.

It’s balanced by the CoL adjustment. In short, SV engineers are not better off, and haven’t been for the past decade. This is apparent by the observed exodus in the light of Covid forcing a shift to primarily remote work. Engineers are trying to reclaim their wage advantage by moving to cheaper locations, and companies are fighting back by reducing compensation accordingly.
Can you recommend any good books or other resources?
So was Pornhub. That's what the sex workers in the article are upset about. They were able to sell their videos. They can still make ad revenue but the ban by Visa/MC just ends up hurting them.

I doubt it will be long before the religious lobbies go after Onlyfans.
I just wanted to say that I totally agree with what you said.

Building things will you way more many things than taking certification.

Certifications are great but don’t teach you much unless you build something on aws
16 year olds circumventing age verification to sell explicit content of themselves is a problem, but at least they are doing it voluntarily.
It's especially reasonable when we're talking about changes in BMI instead of levels regarding a population. That can only be driven by the population getting fatter.
Google to me is the most obvious case of technology being a brain extension.

Post google, people tend not to remember things anymore that can easily be searched
Seriously, just stop eating, America.
Correct, there is a legal line.

Now, I grant you that many people around the world for whatever reason, take their positions too far and outright sew deception, violent hate, fraud, etc. So it’s very complicated. But given the importance and breadth, I don’t think we should allow these companies to set agendas: “Thou shalt not have a conversation over this and that.”

Conspiracies may have negative impact, but people should be allowed to discuss them because as history has uncovered some conspiracies were in retrospect reality.
GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
GP misses the quality of engineering that goes into sqlite when dealing with JS projects.
No but Google is if you use !g on DDG. HN users seem to love that feature.
Not without a lot of effort. Having to go hunt down lists of conservatives and the exact things they got removed for is hours of work. Then it's another hour looking through AOC tweets. Then there's the write-up at the end.
when the "speech" consists of active planning of mass violence it's obviously no longer protected.

The whole point of Parler is to be a safe haven for speech that has already been banned elsewhere, for the same reason. It was doomed from the start.
I thin kyou're looking at pretty much the wrong variables here if you want to see SpaceX and OpenAI.

Sweden is a country of 10M while USA has 330M and constant influx of brain power. Its more likely related to that than anything else.

Not to mention the couner argument that in a nordic society you are more able to live through life worry free, which according to some people is the key for innovation.
>It's like a child signing a contract.

I don't know if I'd go that far. There's a whole class of laws around protecting children (two quick examples here in the US: age of consent; being tried as a minor vs tried as an adult) because the reality is that, in general, children are easier than adults to exploit. I mean, I convinced my nephew over the holiday that eating all his broccoli was like doing extra credit for Santa Claus, so it would cancel out the naughty action of eating one of the cookies he put out for Santa.

Saying that an adult agreeing to an unread ToS is unenforceable because we don't hold children accountable for signed contracts is plain nonsense.
Reading this at the moment! Fantastic book and easy to read
I think the first two are complicated by the eventual (even if slow) inclusion of layers of process, sign offs, and approvals required for a given piece of functionality to go live.

You start off with engineers having autonomy then something bad happens one day, so you introduce an approval process to make sure that doesn’t happen again. Then one day someone notices visual/UX inconsistencies between products so a process is introduced to ensure consistency. Then someone notices the tone of the copy is not what they think it should be so it is decreed that all copy should go through the writing team. Etc. Eventually shipping becomes as much about fighting through these thickets of bureaucracy as about improving things for users or, you know, writing code.

You end up with a situation where someone who has never heard of you or your stupid project asking you fundamental questions about its existence which have already been answered at the outset of the project... but why should they care? You answer to them. Their job is not to help you make users’ lives better. Their job is to stop peons like you from screwing up.
The author has probably never heard the phrase "work is the last, desperate way how to get money". With the advent of the modern technology it was believed that people would spend three or so days per week doing "work" in the usual sense of the word, with leisure taking up the rest. Still, most people are denied any such benefits. Work is now more of a means of a social regulation: people are supposed to spend most of their waking hours transfixed to a computer screen in exchange for the minimum amount of money that will keep them alive to repeat the cycle the next day, so as not to endanger those who distribute said money.
It's accurate when measuring populations, where the missing variables average out. It isn't meant to be applied to individuals but is good enough for expedient's sake.
It's not like most of those Americans with high BMIs are bodybuilders… or is it? Only 15% of Americans belong to a gym.
Apparently there is some controversy over whether the self-cleaning cycle is bad for ovens. [1] [2]

1: https://www.thekitchn.com/why-you-should-almost-never-use-th...

2: https://lifehacker.com/dont-use-your-ovens-self-cleaning-fun...
>“if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so”

Say your spouse suspects you of being in contact with your ex, so she hires a private investigator. She is not sure whether you spoke to your ex in person, by phone, or through one of several dozen close confidants with whom you regularly interact. After the investigation, she asks the PI whether he is confident that you did not make contact with your ex.

How could he possibly be? The sheer number of contact interactions makes it impossible to rule out. This is why our criminal justice system operates on the presumption of innocence. For many crimes, it is practically impossible to arrive at "confidence that the [accused] clearly did not commit a crime".

>Mueller felt as if his hands were tied in his ability to present evidence to prosecute a sitting President.

Given that the report stated outright that there was no evidence of collusion, I assume this is in reference to the question of obstruction, which is out of scope.
I think it's based on Atom, isn't it?
That's fine, but then they should please stop acting like they are the second coming of christ for Linux and Open Source.

They are misleading their users.
That is a great feature!
Sure, but the increase in the murder rate in 2020 wasn't a spike in a single city, it was a spike nationwide.
Most Americans used to be farm workers. It's only in the past thirty years that most Americans stopped living/working in rural/agrarian settings and began living in cities.

We have more sedentary work, so that's a factor.

I also wonder a lot about other things that have changed and how that impacts our bodies, including weight. There are a lot of things that have changed which don't get questioned in terms of "How does that impact health?" and which I hesitate to specify because I'm pretty sure it will get dismissed as crazy talk to wonder about the connection between such things.