skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The above sentence alone could have had at least a few linked sources to support these statements: from Radio Free Asia, a CIA spinoff

All "Radio Free XXX" were USA soft-power / CIA spinoffs of the Cold War era, and that has been common knowledge for decades. Not even controversial. The story of "Radio Free XXX" is like table stakes Cold War knowledge...

Now, I'll give you that the Moonies etc are more obscure unless you're into cult/BS guru histories, but still widely known and reported (especially in the 60s, 70s, and 80s), and one can easily find books about them.

Heck, even Wikipedia would do for the basic ties:

"Moon viewed the Cold War between democracy and communism as the final conflict between God and Satan, with divided Korea as its primary front line. Soon after its founding the Unification movement began supporting anti-communist organizations, including the World League for Freedom and Democracy founded in 1966 in Taipei, Republic of China (Taiwan), by Chiang Kai-shek,[251] and the Korean Culture and Freedom Foundation, an international public diplomacy organization which also sponsored Radio Free Asia"

And Radio Free Asia:

A short-lived organization also named "Radio Free Asia" existed in the 1950s during the Cold War, as an anti-Communist propaganda operation in Asia funded by the Central Intelligence Agency to try and prevent the spread of the supposed domino theory.[4][11] Radio Free Asia was founded and funded in the 1950s by an organization called "Committee for Free Asia" as an anti-communist propaganda operation (...) In 1971 CIA involvement ended and all responsibilities for then-defunct radio operations were formally transferred to a presidentially appointed Board for International Broadcasting (BIB) (...)

(Well, for "ended" read: "ended, trust us").
Location data is sent by default to the default search engine and there's no way to disable that unless you deny location permissions from the OS to Chrome. If you want to use a map and give permission only to that (Bing maps for example) you have to allow Chrome to gather location data which will also be sent to the default search engine (usually Google). There's only the illusion of choice there (you can change the default search engine and send location data somewhere else though).
Thinking one step ahead is a luxury afforded to people whose current step has them safe, healthy, and able to put food on the table.
For Apple that would be akin to committing suicide
While plausible, there are a lot of 'if's that underpin this scenario. In particular, you need people to not notice that the conviction rate is 50% for both odd and even numbered households.
> With this whole "decentralized" argument, we might as well say the Republican/Democratic parties are decentralized and that what the RNC and DNC

It's worse than that; it's a classic motte-and-bailey.

Try to address some issue with the Black Lives Matter organization, and you're apt to see a retreat to the banner of lowercase "black lives matter" as a principle. This is like trying to address some issue with the "Democratic Party", and then those being criticized scurry over to an excuse like, "What, you don't believe in democracy?" Of course, no one makes that kind of mistake, because such a defense wouldn't be possible. It's well understood that the capital-D Democrats comprise a concrete organization with an actual platform, etc that is identifiable by the proper noun, which is distinct from democracy as a principle, even though they share a root. In the case of Black Lives Matter, it's more than just a shared root, and this is less clear overall, so people who can benefit from the halo effect strengthening their foothold knowingly exploit it for gain.
I've noticed business people have a different idea of what 'big data' means to tech guys. The business guys think it means a lot of data like the records of a million people which is a lot of data but not the tech guy definition which tends to be data too large to process on a single machine.

Those come out at something like 1GB and 10TB which are obviously rather different.
Dark patterns I get to some degree; orthogonal should not be used so frequently in sentences
They detect the kind of app and then basically do everything required to build and run that app from pushing a repository. So it'll detect that it's a NodeJS application because there's a package.json file in the root and essentially: install node modules, run the build script and then do npm run start to run it.

All you need to know how to do is: supply a build + start script and push your repository and now it's built and running in the Cloud to scale from 0 to unlimited.

It's basically Heroku but buildpacks are a standardised way to do it on any Cloud.
US Cutter MH series cutter would probably fit the bill. they range from small to quite large
Please note that Glowforge ALSO requires the obnoxious cloud to actually cut. And being forced to rely on "cloud" is how Cricut is able to bait-n-switch users and effectively demand more money for purchased hardware.

There is absolutely 0 reason why a CNC laser cutter needs commodity internet at all. And I'd argue that an internet controlled fire-causing laser is a Bad Idea.

Because Glowforge requires their server farms online, Glowforge could pull a Cricut at any moment's notice.
Just put the keyboard in the centre, there's no rule that you need to make use of the whole surface.
>Right, if you haven't seen it it must not exist. Are you from Missouri? If that level of radical skepticism works for you, good on ya.

There's no need for a confrontational tone. In the past I've interacted with many Marxists, activists, organizers, and academics. I'm more trying to apply my experience to the topic, not to suppose that nobody describes themselves as a 'trained Marxist'.

>A trained Marxist is an activist, it's really that simple.

Why do we see people describe themselves as 'Marxist activists' etc. more than 'trained Marxists', then? If somebody learned Marxist philosophy in private, does this make them a 'trained Marxist'? Who trained them, in that case?

>A Leninist is a Marxist who believes the proletariat is too economically comfortable

I know it's a technicality, but this is not the reason behind the vanguard party. The idea of a proletariat which is too comfortable with capitalism is more of a Frankfurt School flourish on Marxism, and bypasses Lenin entirely. The vanguard party, at least in Leninist theory, is not a specially trained force of revolutionaries, but a party (in the normal sense of the word) open to anyone to join. It's not a group of trained revolutionaries (and perhaps you recognize this by the fact you put 'trained' in quotes). In theory, the vanguard party could be completely transparent (in the sense of not even being a formal party, but encompassing all who share in the ideals), or even non-activists (such as academics) and untrained people (such as those who have come accross Marx without any outside influence or instruction) could be a part of it.

Obscuring 'trained Marxists' into 'Marxist activists' requires a non-obvious interpretation of 'trained' and 'activism' which misses out on the nuance of both. An activist for animal rights along Peter Singer's philosophy is not a "trained utilitarian", nor even a "trained animal rights activist". An an activist for Stallman's free software philosophy is not necessarily a "trained free software activist". If all 'trained Marxists' are 'Marxist activists', then the obverse would have to be true as well, but I can think of many 'Marxist activists' who have a very poor grasp on Marx and Engels, to the point where it would be farcical to call them 'trained Marxists', much in the same way a 'trained programmer' who can barely write more than a fizzbuzz would be a farcical designation.

People can be trained guerillas, trained activists, etc. - because those are things you do, and the origin of the knowledge is inherently practical and handed down by someone external. Marxism, however, does not provide practical guidance (at least not in any sense, as Marx admits, to be relevant after he initially wrote the Manifesto). It's theory, and you're reading 'activists' into it in a way that has nothing to do with the ordinary meaning of 'training' or 'activist'.
Are there any concerns about the active NGF compounds being 5a-reductase inhibitors?
I think Spotify is the first service to tempt me from piracy. Piracy doesn't handle discovery, or access across multiple devices, is a pain, and is actually (who knew?) illegal. Spotify handles all of those and won't get you arrested.

Youtube for music is simply worse than pirating and being caught.
Great ad. Excited to hear back from you.
Isn’t it easier to say A is independent from B?
Talk about putting one's money where their mouth is.
Respect to Librem, and I hope the EU will act soon and force Apple to start playing fair.

I feel like the tide is turning and change is coming.
It sucks, they don't require it of Netflix, Spotify, Amazon, Disney, etc

What Librem are doing is the right thing though - go to the press, raise a big stink and Apple will back off. It's been proven to work time and time again.
Like most people do I seem to start a million and finish none. I have been having trouble tracking my options trading cost basis lately and am thinking about writing something for that. I want to integration Plaid, but the version that supports Brokerage accounts starts at $500/mo :|.
The only way HDR looks good is on an OLED screen with perfect black levels, in my opinion.

When the entire screen can be pitch black, and a single pixel can be fully lit up, that's when HDR really shines.

All of the LED/LCD HDR solutions look like shit, in my opinion. Even the screens touting a hundred different lighting zones. Nothing compares to OLED.
To use your analogy, there is only one road and it is a toll road. Maybe they are ok with a side road, but there is none.

The only thing tired is extractive monopolies. Funnily enough, Apple could make a few small tweaks and not be in this category. They've chosen instead to double down on exerting their market power.
If separate projects have independent builds maybe a monorepo was not a great idea to begin with?

I have a big monorepo at work but whenever anything changes I want to rebuild everything to generate a new firmware image. I have ccache setup to speedup the process given that obviously only a tiny fraction of the code actually needs to be rebuilt.

It's a bit wasteful, sure, but if I were to optimize it I'd be worried about ending up with buggy, non-reproducible builds. Easier to just recompile everything every time and make sure everything still works the way you expect.

So basically my approach is KISS, even if it means longer build times.
> looking into Cricut and realizing it was made to force you into buying designs from their store rather than giving you the ability to provide an SVG(or even gcode?) of your own

In ye old days that was the case, then the explore line came out (with them advertising that you could bring your own SVGs), and it worked okay for a while... But now we're back to locked down.
Elastic has a market cap of over $10billion. It is literally one of the most successful tech companies ever.
Daily tax parcel data (shapefiles) from 21 of 39 county's in Washington State.

https://waparcels.tax/

Shapefiles are sort of a rare format. Hoping to ingest all the data into a SQLite/SpatiaLite database to make it a more general purpose data source.
I get that you seem bored by the hype around blockchain, but that does not make anything blockchain related bad.

In this particular issue, I think blockchain is a great solution, as it allows to publish content, gather fees from listeners to artists, without the need of an intermediary.
is there any linux equivalent of pfsense+freebsd ?
> I can not understand how any semi-decent societal system can accept a situation of opaqueness and no accountability.

Part of it comes down to an effect that's been known for a long time with human-computer interaction.

Whenever you have a machine in the decision loop of a job, many workers WILL DEFER to the machine whenever there's a question of whether something is wrong or right.

By deferring to the machine, the workers absolve themselves of accountability and shift all responsibility to "the system". I think this is often deliberately "baked in" by management to customer service of all kinds. You can see this in a small way if you've ever had to call an internet service provider in the USA to deal with a billing mistake.
How much persistent snow does Washington state get though? The discussion is most relevant for places where snow falls and will stay where it is for months if something is not done.
Glowforge is cloud-based too though, and doesn't accept gcode (ddingus's criterion from another comment on this post [1]). What evidence is there that Glowforge isn't just at an earlier phase of the same pattern?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26479791
This is interesting!

It’s great you’re dogfooding your own product for personal use, but I’m curious how your offering (which seems specialised for businesses) compares to something like Mint which is designed for personal use?
Microservices vs. APIs: One Doesn’t Always Imply the Other
On the other hand, I spend 0% of my time managing iOS devices for my parents and am constantly bombarded with issues from my in-laws with Android phones. I agree that some of Apple's behavior is monopolistic and has some unfortunate, possibly unforeseen consequences, but the end result is pretty nice for the consumers who are willing to accept the compromise.
Pry staff may leave and work for a competing company of the end user

Is it possible for Pry staff to do any actions in the accounts such as withdraws?

Does third part access void TOS with banks that have protections in place?

If Pry is sold to another company, how is data transferred to the new company? Does the end user have the option of preventing the transfer?
Hip HOP and GAMING: A Conversation – gaming+culture – fieldofview
do you think that these hot startups like Stripe etc are hiring consultants from the likes of Cognizant, Wipro, and TCS?
>Could it be better? Sure!

Is there anything that _cant_ be better? I'm sure as engineers we can all come up with proposed improvements on pretty much anything. :)

>But I think DDG is exaggerating here. We're not _that_ bad.

The point (that DDG is making, paraphrased here) is spying on the user is not necessary to build a great browser/search engine. Do you disagree with that? I don't.
In my case, I don't readily find hostility toward a group that has busted tail to provide me tremendous value while I have contributed very little in return. My interactions over the years have been - perhaps not exclusively positive but overwhelmingly so.

History says one day pfSense will no longer fill my needs. Okay. I'll raise an imaginary glass move on with gratitude.
What can I expect to change for LastPass Free on March 16, 2021?
The Rise of Strategic Customer Support Teams
> Only for those who sign with them.

I think generally the point of cartelization is to make it very challenging NOT to sign with them. Clearly many independent labels can thrive, and I can't imagine that it's impossible for an artist to start their own label. Nevertheless, when eg. sound and recording engineers can be aggressively poached by a major studio it's got to be challenging to go it alone.
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No, the alternative is another job.
Immortality would be a possible goal if heat death or big crunch wasn't the inevitable fate of everything.
I have been a vocal supporter of Librem, and Pine64 because I see the adoption of free devices running free software as a necessary solution and the way to ultimately change the dynamics in the industry.

They are literally doing the thing I think is the solution.

On the other hand, I oppose the generic bashing of Apple and Epic’s antitrust campaign, because these have nothing to do with creating an alternative. Indeed if Epic wins, iOS will become even more entrenched.

So, I can no longer recommend librem, and will only recommend Pine.
There's just so much misinformation about nuclear out there it's kind of crazy.

Another claim I see regularly: Angela Merkel decided on the German nuclear exit as a response to Fukushima and she permanently shut down all reactors.

When in reality Merkel tried to draw out and prolong a nuclear exit that was already decided and ratified in the early 2000s and Germany still has fission reactors running to this day.
Can you run a quick query in your database and answer my questions?

There are plenty of blockchain jobs out there on other platforms. Why should I invest time in your platform? I'm looking for short contracts that are paying over $200 per hour. Is this something your platform can offer?
I might have just hit the HP Support Jackpot. But it was hands down the best experience I have had between machine manufacturers - HP/Sun/S76/Dell/Apple etc...

I was completely dumbfounded when HP just said "we are going to send you a new machine, at no cost, please pick from this list...

And I picked this dope Omen machine and when I opened it up to look at the guts and put in a second SSD, I was taken aback by the elegant symmetry of the design. The only downside is that even though the sound is "bang & olufsen" - its a bit too quiet.

However, the support guy on my case was dope, and I love this machine
Orthogonal is a word that's commonly used in technical speech, and given this population, it's often used in non-technical discussion, as described in the post by jjgreen.

Similar for dark patterns.

Another focus of HN is startups. Table stakes as a gambling term is shorthand for similar non-gambling, non-startup discussions.

Jargon among a population is normal.

EDIT: When I was in the Navy in the 70s, and most Navy ships were still steam powered, "steaming" among us was jargon for staying out all night on liberty and partying hard.
Comments such as yours are why I will not let my music be on Spotify as an artist. It's no different than piracy, the user is just paying Spotify for convenience of not having to search stuff on Soulseek themselves...

The fact that slapping some ads on my music on youtube made me earn more than being on Spotify says everything about how bad that deal is for any artist...
Sidenote, but their font has a really horrible "3". I was reading and wondering why Epic needs to pay 80 % toll instead of 30 %. Even after realizing it’s a 3 I’d always see an 8 at first.
There is plenty of wind-blown sand, which I imagine is fine for this snow-on-road use. Rough river sand is getting more scarce and smooth, wind-blown desert sand should not be used for making concrete.
IIRC this stopped working quite a few years ago. Now it appears every device has a factory-installed key, and cut files are encrypted with that key by their cloud software.

Extremely scummy stuff.
The iPhone apps collecting the most personal data?
That looks awesome! Living with a family in a sunny urban area, and not driving a whole lot (typically 0-4mi per day), I think we could get pretty far with that kind of charge capacity and range. I also love that it seems to be a van but looks a little more rugged and utilitarian compared to the typical soft and cushy look of minivans here in the US.

Too bad it seems to be EU only.
> Why would the company care if they do join a union?

The fundamental goal of a union is to force executives at a company to do things that benefit workers that they wouldn't otherwise do.

> Can't they simply refuse to negotiate with the union?

If the union has a small enough fraction of their employee base as members such that they company can afford the productivity loss of a strike, yes. Once a large enough fraction of workers are in the union, the threat of a strike puts enough pressure on executives that it is in their best interest to negotiate.
IIRC you can specify filters "paths" and "paths-ignore" when you define a github action that should only be triggered when a subdirectory changes.

See this documentation page: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/workflow-syntax...

Their example is:

on:
push:
paths:
- '\*.js'

but I believe you can also specify the subdirectory you care about.
Automate your Python project with Makefile
Put a little more carefully: somebody at a job used the term nazi in a situation where there were people doing things very close to what the nazis did, meant it in good faith about people being safe. A coworker reported them to HR, it went to the head of HR who fired the nazi-invoking individual. After an investigation, the HR head was fired and the individual wisely declined the employer's offer to return.

This not a typical outcome.
In my situation, I would leave the Snows on from Nov-March and then spend the 20 minutes putting on my all seasons for spring summer and part of fall(both sets had their own rims). It was all a wash since the all seasons lasted about twice as long since I wasn't using them all year round. Insurance companies also give you a small discount if you have winter tires during winter.
> This is a 2021 laptop that uses USB-A primarily

Seems like the reasonable choice, given that host-side USB-C is still dead in the water.
Should software companies give access to source code so that users can fix bugs?
Justice would be paying out revenue on a per-streamer basis.

I pay $10/mo to spotify, lets say $7 makes it to artists. If I do 100% of my streams for Obscure Band X, shouldn't 100% of my $7 go to Obscure Band X?

Right now, I end up a large fraction of that $7 to Taylor Swift, the weeknd, drake, etc, and not the actual performers I listen to.
According to the linked article:

only a fraction (around 15%) of that incoming energy gets converted to electricity

So a solar panel design that reflected more of that 85% back would still produce energy.
In this case it seems like it has already been reset, or performed some kind of major OS update, which seems unlikely.

In lieu of itunes or mac, you could also take it to an apple store I believe.
90% of the people I know are not what most hackers would qualify as makers. Think of like teachers, who use it at home after work to make something cute for their classroom or a friend.

By going this route, they almost certainly make more money.

Hacker news users are not normal users.
Docker (or anyone for that matter) should not use TrustARC.

TrustARC is the most evil, dark pattern I have ever encountered. Opting out takes >10 clicks and then it displays a fake progress scanner for over 30 seconds to punish you for opting out (pro tip! just accepting all is instant!).

GDPR is good, having a choice not to be tracked is good. But the pathetic way that websites try to fool you into handing over your data should be punished hard by the EU.
Try https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&u=https:/... although it doesn't have graphics.
That seems to be true only if you only look at wages and ignore benefits:

>...The allocation of national
Shares of National Income income between workers and the
owners of capital is considered one of the more remarkably
stable relationships in the U.S. economy. As a general rule of
thumb, economists often cite labor’s share of income to be
about two-thirds of national income—although the exact figure is sensitive to the specific data used to calculate the ratio. Over time, this ratio has shown no clear tendency to rise or fall. ... This measure clearly shows a declining trend in recent decades. Having reached a peak of 58 percent in 1970, wages and salaries have declined to only 52 per- cent of national income in 2003. However, if we consider total compensation—including employer social insurance contributions and benefits—labor’s share has shown very little variation.1 By this measure, labor’s share of national income has averaged 70.5 percent over the past 50 years and has remained within a narrow range of that average.

https://files.stlouisfed.org/files/htdocs/publications/net/2...