skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your observation is bang on. Biden just had a town hall on CNN where he said minority communities are more concerned with black-on-black or hispanic-on-hispanic crime than they are police violence. Had his predecessor said such a thing? We'd never hear the end of it. But few even know this town hall even happened. [0]

[0]: https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/1361877410371657738

Edit: Case and point despite posting a video of Biden saying this, my post is being downvoted into the same memory hole as this town hall.
Heating Arctic may be to blame for snowstorms in Texas, scientists argue
What you probably mean is that this user is often active in similar topics. What your comment might be interpreted to say is that cbmuser is paid to participate, as in troll farming. Whatever you meant, let's try and steer away from what might be seen as inflamatory remarks.
I do know how it feels, because I do hold some Bitcoin for "fun". Most of the time, it's down 80% from the previous high. Then it randomly appreciates 10x before cratering again. With any meaningful amount of money, that doesn't feel good at all.

The purchasing power I might lose from a mere $20 is of course irrelevant. If I put it into Bitcoin it might turn into $100 or $200 at an off-chance, but that has nothing to do with inflation. Bitcoin just isn't that correlated with cash. If I wanted to make a $20 bet that the dollar inflates dramatically, I would buy an option to buy gold at $5000.
>but I suspect there's a big difference between people who can pick up smoking weed on a weekly or monthly basis recreationally and people who find a need to be high every waking minute of their day.

Maybe, but why would it be due to childhood trauma alone?

I can imagine someone with a happy childhood and a big 20-something or 30-something trauma (loss, divorce, various other issues) falling for drugs/alcohol addiction for the first time just the same.
Yet another example of Apple escalating the war with their own users who just want to use the computer they paid for.
I think the point he was making is it’s a half measure compared to having no safety net. The “adjust as you see fit” would be not operating under the Google umbrella at all.

The simple act of having to do the rounds to repeatedly secure financing and letting that, or the actual performance of the business, gate growth or survival and being a cofounder or employee in this environment has a different emotional and operational strain on the business.

I worked in a company like this btw for about five years, we were started as a subsidiary of a successful medical device company by that ceo as a “what if”, to take the already developed dispensing hardware by our parent and adopt it to the general supply chain management industry. We were doing decent business ($30M ARR for a 40 person company) and were minimally profitable but eventually shuttered by our parent company after it became apparent the hockey-stick like growth was not coming.

I’ve also worked at startup that failed after about 6 years. The difference between how those two companies screeched to a halt was stark. In one case it came out of the blue and suddenly 1/3 of the employees were sucked up into the parent company and the rest got pink slips. In the other case it was a really wild final year with the writing clearly on the wall, multiple furloughs and downsizing for survival.
I'm not suggesting it wouldn't be hard. But the point is that if you've found somewhere to buy valuable goods for with Tether from a suspect source, then the KYC isn't your problem any more, it's theirs. And it's theirs only if your purchases make up a conspicuous enough portion of their order flow to cause their bank to take a closer look, and assuming that the way you did those purchases causes looking at the source of those order to raise further red flags. People will look just as hard as they have to in order to shift the risk to someone else.
The New York Times...some of the best journalism around, also some of the worst. Something happened in 2015/6, maybe Trump, maybe something more fundamental (ie larger shift in the zeitgeist that also caused Trump) but they are so off the rails these days. It's mostly the incessant playing of identity politics that's turned me off.

Firefox/Chrome users:
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

For educational uses only, it helps make the news fit to print.
Too much? I've been posting things I think other people might find interesting while researching implementing a Forth compiler after having just done a Scheme.
I'm not sure how true this is. About 40% [1] of Americans have high-deductible health plans, which means they're spending at least $1400 (usually much more) before insurance kicks in a dime. Then about another 15% are uninsured. 17% have Medicare, but prescription drug coverage on Medicare is...complicated, and people are exposed to drug pricing.

[1] https://www.covermymeds.com/main/insights/articles/2018-real...
How do you address public transit that smells like a toilet and that's not secure from transients, drug addicts, and ridiculously violent psychopaths?
We need a more nuanced discussion of “drugs”. The word drug is about as useful as “chemical”. The biggest evidence that we’ve been lied to and manipulated by the media and the government is that “drug use” is even a term.

Addiction, as the article says is more complicated than any drug and is factor of a person’s life situation in general. Look at the work of Gabor Mate for a better understanding of addiction.
Traditional VC vs. Rolling Fund
I can't speak for globally, but a quick search online says that around 43 million people in the USA don't have broadband. "Broadband" meaning 25/3 service. I'm willing to bet the true numbers are significantly higher than that, and I don't really count severely data-capped wireless service as being broadband like the FCC does.

Anyway, even that number alone is a sizable market, and even Comcast would be happy with a fraction of it. I know some parts of the world are better off than the USA, but I also know many parts are worse off.
Does history have any footnotes about self sufficiency?
I had a question about payment but your FAQ answered it, great work on being flexible for freelancers, Payoneer makes it a lot easier about getting paid in Argentina for example.

A couple of questions:
1- Do you think you will ever integrate with remote job boards like remoteok.io?
2- Did you consider adding Venezuela to the list of countries, or are things too difficult to do legally?
> You might not enjoy programming for money as much as programming for fun, so you should also develop other hobbies.

I thought the solution was to program for fun as a hobby :-)
I am not making any idols here. The quote just comes to my mind now and then, when reality, so to say, happens.
Was this an encryption library by any chance? Generating pgp keys to yubikey with an offline master involved having a system with rust toolchain in order to build a Python lib I required for a Yubikey utility.

I could have got around it, but it took me by surprise that a Python dep required it. Not being negative or criticising the fact, just first time I had observed it.
It should work while on the move. It has a beam steering capable antenna array. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1316255322835759105
'Tokyo Joe' Charged with Stock Trading Fraud (2000)
As a Belarussian - go to hell. Belarus simply dint sell out like Lithuania did and all the dictatorship rhetoric - are cheap propaganda shots.
It depends a lot on who you was. The people who enjoyed that democracy were only minority of the population - the rest was not free nor had a say.
Exactly and in the private markets, it's normal that expected returns occasionally go negative. In nature, squirrels invest in a cache of nuts for the winter even if they don't expect to get all of it back, otherwise they wouldn't survive.

Here is Bernanke again, talking about -4% rates being around equilibrium during the financial crisis: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/ben-bernanke/2015/04/28/the-t...

The fact that government has this floor at 0% that they won't go bellow means they are stuck at relatively high 0% rates when market rates for marginal return on capital go bellow zero. Having government paper returns above private markets' creates a huge gridlock in the private markets (and forces the government to stay at 0 longer). If they would just go negative to be more inline with the markets, they might achieve liftoff.
>Veterans who had many Adverse Childhood Experiences (A high ACE score), such as coming from a broken home, or faced neglect and isolation growing up, were much more likely to become addicted to the opioids they were given to treat pain.

Veterans at that stage are also usually young, so if they came from a broken home, or had isolation growing up, they'd still return to something like that.

What about veterans that have build a succesful family and working life in between (aside from having had childhood trauma)?
Using fzf and ctrl+r for fuzzy finding commands is a godsend.

Basically all snippets of code that I ever run are straight from this.

Forget how to exactly reset a committed local file that you want to place into another commit? Not something I do everyday, so may require some Googling if I can't remember exactly.

What I do know, is that I use something with `git reset`.

I ctrl+r and type `git reset` and here is what comes up:

> 9488 git reset HEAD^

> 10535* git reset --hard

> 10555* git reset HEAD file

> 10999* git reset --soft HEAD

Oh right, I need to reset the commits and then remove that file from the commit and I can recommit.

It is a complete gamechanger.
Satellite monitoring system controls ice-cream quality
Jesus is mankind’s sole hope. Confess Him as Lord to be saved.
Only if they aren't making progress towards the goals, but they do seem to be making progress.
It s because banks were horribly slow to work with exchanges. In my country, China, many exchanges closed down due to account freezes by their banks (granted they might never have followed proper regulations in the first place).

So, when your bank freezes you out a few times, you build an exchange entirely on Tether and tell people it s like money. And then all exchanges do it and when you look back at it, Tether is the only way to redeem BTC, which you wanted an exposure on because your grandma is a paper millionaire.

So each time there s a bubble you rush to an exchange, give your RMB for BTC, the bubble burst you rush out and what s the only way? Calling Bank of China to beg them to reinstate yout exchange? Or take the USDT and go elsewhere?

It s better these days but a few years ago everyone I knew was locked in BTC or Tether. And the more they re locked in, the more delusional these people are abt their crypto things, pushing the bull up... I tell you in 10 years everyone will see it like the scam it is, but boy is it hard to yell at the wind meanwhile :D DONT BUY VIRTUAL MONEY IT S VIRTUAL BUT NOT MONEY
How to Control Temperature with GPS tracking system
I feel you. Assigned seats feels like you’re back in kindergarten.

So much of workplace happiness boils down to respect and dignity.

In fact I believe a lot of our current problems stem from not treating adults like adults, but that’s another topic.
"There are a lot of myths out there about balding men. One of them is that men with MPB are more virile and have higher levels of testosterone. This isn’t necessarily the case. Men with MPB may actually have lower circulating levels of testosterone but higher levels of the enzyme that converts testosterone to DHT. Alternately, you may simply have genes that give you hair follicles that are highly sensitive to testosterone or DHT." [1]

[1]: https://www.healthline.com/health/hair-loss-and-testosterone
What exactly is a startup here?

(serious question)
Games can try, but different keyboards have different aliasing behaviors, so nobody can honestly claim to work with every keyboard - if nothing else because they didn't test with future keyboards that have not yet entered the design phase.
Japan's 10Y bonds haven't seen 2% since 1999:

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IRLTLT01JPM156N

Their bonds are negative going out to 7Y:

* https://ca.investing.com/rates-bonds/japan-government-bonds

At those rates why wouldn't one borrow?
>Do insulin users have a drug problem?

Insulin users don't just need to have insulin for the sake of it. They have a medical issue that forces them to take it.

>I think at the core of the issue is that our society generally regards psychological ailments as a personal flaw, rather than a health issue

I think that our society tends to do the inverse: tends to see all kinds of personal flaws as issues beyond the control of the person.
Both can be true. The original Starlink satellites were horrible for astronomy. Astronomers complained and Starlink implemented some fairly effective mitigation measures like a shade and less reflective routes while orbit raising.
While I agree in principle, it's not like Google or Cruise can change that.

The reason we have crap transit in the US is because of politics and culture, and tech/car companies can't unilaterally overthrow everything we already have, even if they wanted to.

Also, even in transit-friendly Japan or South Korea, there's still plenty of cars about, so self driving work still has value.
I think this is the issue tracking memory safety in Zig: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2301
Connecting the dots is not entirely random. You can choose to do stuff that connects them. And maybe only connect some. In PGs case for example there's quite a lot of connection with lisp, startups and writing, though the painting never really seems to have been terribly useful.
Defer seems more like a solution to making cleanup easier and less error prone, preventing memory/fd/mutex leaks. It wouldn't significantly improve memory safety IMO. Adding a "slice" type with checked bounds (something basically every C codebase in existence ends up reimplementing somehow) would be a much greater improvement IMO.

But overall even though I still use C almost daily, I'm a bit skeptical of the committee's direction with these changes. They added half assed generics through macros, now a defer mechanism and a bunch of other stuff that's, IMO, out of scope for C. People have already tried to make a "better C" with all these bells and whistles, it's called C++, and it's still mostly backward compatible with C.

IMO C should be considered to be in "maintenance mode" these days. And again, my IRL job involves writing a lot of it, so it's not like I don't care about it.
> VVER power stations have been mostly installed in Russia and the former Soviet Union, but also in China, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, India, and Iran.

Not sure about the other ones, but the ones in (East) Germany were decomissioned presto after reunification: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greifswald_Nuclear_Power_Plant
Which he regretted, so he removed his original blog and started blogging under a pen name.
You can't invalidate walled gardens because every company uses it. From Tesla to NASA.
Just as any other card issuer, they should be getting something like 1%-2% (depending on location and merchant type and card type) from all purchases as interchange fee from the merchant. Assuming their processing infrastructure is efficient enough, that should cover all the expenses and allow for some profit even for customers with small turnover.
Thanks for reminding me of this. A very pertinent and insightful observation and, as you suggest, one that is missing from the linked article.
Is your family being fair to you?

(I already gave a career-focused response in this thread.)

Can you send one of your siblings to live with your brother? Can you move with the other sibling?

What if you took a job near your brother, and all four of you lived together?

If you move with one of your siblings, will the situation be better for the sibling? (Better schools, better special needs programs?)

Can you and your brother send money back to your parents or another caregiver?

Whenever I hear an "I live in a poor area" story, I always suspect that the situation is more unreasonable than recognized.

Is this whole situation to keep your family farm afloat? Remember, a farm is a business. It's not fair to you to have this kind of impact to your life if your parents (or whoever is running the farm) are working dawn 'til dusk on a failing business.
Self appointed inspector of rain storms.
> Current maintenance margin requirement is about $100,000 per contract, which covers 5 BTC, notionally $258,000.

If the price changes this goes up. With something as volatile as Bitcoin, that’s a material risk.
https://imgur.com/BQmNtl4

Maybe they do A/B testing if you see a non compact one when opening the page.
This seems like an attempt by botanists to medicalize a lack of interest in their hobby.
Apparently I have to resurrect an old t-mobile to gain access to my credit karma account. I'm not sure this is even possible. Customer service seems to have a language problem Do I just lose my account in this case? What do people do about this sort of thing?
There is an exam for some positions [1], and others have many months of training (think 3 letter agencies) and extremely competitive application processes.

Other positions receive a ton of applicants because they are a "gravy train" (e.g. they have great benefits, great work-life balance, and a stable pension). So they are competitive. That said, it is very hard to get fired, but is is part of the draw that attracts a lot of applicants.

The competition has driven an increase in education in the public sector, with many people getting Master's and PhDs for positions that might not need them as a differentiator among the pool of applicants. So no, while there isn't some broad standard exam if you want to work for the US Gov't, it's not a free for all of knuckle draggers.

[1] https://careers.state.gov/work/foreign-service/officer/test-...
Facebook doesn't care about small businesses
But the company isn't shouldering all the cost/risk.

> I realized that to get it to actually ship I had to sacrifice nights and weekends.

If you have to work nights and weekends, but get none of the benefits for it, you might as well work nights and weekends on your _own_ side project.
Such an inspection is incremental. What will be found later won't undo what was found previously.
That sounds hard to believe and kinda sad if true.
I have to agree, it's a very strange reasoning. They are comparing the system to today which is a ridiculous comparison, it was 2500 years ago! The system was still better than its rival Sparta and far better than the 30 tyrants Sparta installed in Athens after the war.

The author seems to confuse the aspirational ideal with Athens as its stand in embodiment with actual desire to implement the details of the Athenian state. No one wants to remake Athens as it was, its a figurehead for nebulaus concepts.
Yeah, lots of small villages in Africa or other poor countries will have shared Starlink connections.
I forgot where I read it but I think statistics show that innovation at BigCo has only succeeded when the team is located at a separate location.
Hello Santiago, Julian, and Jaime. Congratulations on the product. How is this different from: https://www.letsdeel.com?
Privacy should be built into the OS, not rely on fallible human review. Not to mention a 3rd party app store could be even MORE privacy focused than Apple's App Store, if the market was there for it.

There's no reason Apple can't enforce the same privacy options OS wide, even for sideloaded apps.

Of course they don't want to, they would lose their 30% cut. But if they are forced to allow 3rd party app stores they would have to, if they wanted to continue their privacy focused marketing.
Starlink will be a huge improvement in rural areas.
Belarusian here.

Lithuanians hardly have a perception of Belarusians as "scary foreigners" due to enormous amount of shared history, culture and even cuisine. It's foreign in the sense an Irish is foreign to an English, or a Norwegian to a Swede.

Lithuanians did live under the not dissimilar regime for half a century though and they understand how safety is done in such circumstances. The power station had numerous incidents during construction and commissioning, including human fatalities. Can't blame them for taking precautions.
> It only works if you didn't give them your name and address

how can that leave you with bad credit score if you never gave them your social security ( or equivalent) ?
I almost only subscribe to services via Google Play.

Takes 5 seconds to cancel , even got a Duolingo refund after 3 months ( duolingos language education is so poor it's borderline malicious) by emailing Duolingo directly.
"SF" isn't the one responding to bad transportation with self-driving car efforts.

And SF is making progress with bus lanes and bike lanes and a new subway. Just...very, very slowly.
techpod did an episode recently with the engineering camera payload uplink lead from nasa jpl doug ellison. it was very cool.

from the episode summary:

> "Friend of the podcast Doug Ellison from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab stops by to give us the lowdown on the newest Mars rover Perseverance, which will be landing on the red planet in just a few weeks, plus all kinds of fun info about Lagrange transceivers, making oxygen out of thin air, flying helicopters on other planets, and recording home movies at mach 25."

https://techpod.content.town/episodes/71-curiosity-and-perse...
Substance use, childhood traumatic experience, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
My favourite is setting "git" as a suffix alias to clone repo urls I copy paste:

alias -s git="git clone"
I meant those reddit forums....not the NYT or BBC.
It seems like the could be plenty of reasons to want to maintain a nuclear power plant, and be concerned with safety about others, or even all of them.
Your arguments are 100% nonsense and 0% facts, so most people will see it as a waste of time to try and have a discussion with you.
The people scared of a violent revolts and the populist riding on it?

Why do they bail homeowners who cant pay their loan? (or "banks" like every anarchist yell since 2008... No bailout, no more loans for everyone, no more support for politicians.
Glad that worked! I hope that didn't put you off learning French.

Personally, I stopped trying to write such letters after a couple instances where the recipient company claimed they never received any letter from me.

Then I learned you should always send a letter with a signature to have a proof of reception, which is a bit more expensive. And then one kept charging me anyway, and still claimed the letter didn't reach the right department (after more time spent on the phone with them).

Bottom line is if a company wants to make it difficult for you to leave the relationship with them, there are tons of tricks in the books for that. Therefore I blacklist them after any sign of dishonesty.
Indeed! That would be a really fun project to create as well, though much more involved.
Yes, that is the same guy. I misread his name with my early morning scanning. Time for some caffeine maybe?
Would you say that only the right is engaging in "identity politcs"?
I've seen, with my own eyes, plenty of his tweets and videos of him saying it was a hoax, so debunk it for me.
No. Starlink relies on base stations which would need to be located within a couple of hundred of kilometres of the customer. It also relies on RF licenses which it needs to receive from every country in which it operates.
> Do insulin users have a drug problem?

How many insulin users lose their jobs, lose their homes, turn to acquisitive crime or prostitution to fund their insulin habit?

We can talk about how many people who use heroin this happens to, and how much it's caused by current drug prohibition laws, but it's more than zero.

Decriminalisation makes a lot of sense but we need to be realistic about the harm caused to about 10% of people who become addicts.
Or to describe yet another trait of domestication syndrome in humans.