skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The part about "give up stock options for nothing" sounds awfully close to a threat to retaliate against workers for unionizing. In that context, it comes across rather close to the stereotypical mob indirect threat: "Nice house you have there; shame if something were to happen to it."

My personal feelings are that if a company needs to resort to threats and retaliation to prevent unionization, then the workers do deserve to unionize, because the company clearly is willing to trample on any worker who dares threaten its authority, and only collective action on the workers' part is likely to counter that.
Yet more evidence that NFTs and blockchains are utterly useless
Employees have rights, too. When they conflict with each other, the courts get involved. They've repeatedly done so on this issue.

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/495/associated-...

> In addressing the First Amendment issue, Roberts observed that although the AP claimed to have discharged the employee for biased reporting, the record revealed the actual reason to be his union activity, which had no bearing on First Amendment issues: “The business of the Associated Press is not immune from regulation because it is an agency of the press. The publisher of a newspaper has no special immunity from the application of general laws. He has no special privilege to invade the rights and liberties of others.”
> Why do you need in a home environment?

I definitely don't "need" it. But it's veeeeeeeery convenient. Especially when it comes to security, being able to see which devices have updates and perform them all from one screen, is extremely convenient. I'm highly interested in paying for convenience at home.

Thankfully I don't use their cloud based management interface -- as far as I know this breach does not affect my local UniFi Controller. Hopefully this is a rude awakening and Ubiquiti goes back to their old consumer focused approach.
You're right that central planning offers more opportunities for corruption and bias but I fail to see how that would be the major cause for failure of the Soviet system. China still follows the central planning model, and has had much success.

Most scholars seem to agree that the Soviet system failed simply because when the people realized just how stark the difference were in the standard of living between themselves and the Western nations, they simply did not want to live in the same system anymore [0].

[0]: https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/06/20/everything-you-think-yo...
Only because they made it cloud based.

If they never forced people to create a cloud account - and instead allowed people to choose - this would be wildly different.
Bond markets and insurance instruments arose to manage risk in the slave trade.

The relevance of the printing press is only that printed forms were required for conducting commerce between parties that were introduced at arms length i.e. from outside networks of direct personal trust (one or two degrees of separation i.e. someone trusted could vouch for an associate to introduce that associate to a capital merchant, who could document the arrangement with a "hand-written note", with the full knowledge that he had the means to extract revenge in the breach because the parties were known to each other).

With printed forms, the numerous detailed requirements stipulating the terms of guarantee could be mass produced in advance, thus enabling strangers to circumvent the need for personal assurances so they could operate in free and open markets, thus greatly expanding the pool of financiers, entrepreneurs, traders and customers.

See

How the shadow of slavery still hangs over global finance

https://theconversation.com/how-the-shadow-of-slavery-still-...

America's First Bond Market Was Backed By Enslaved Human Beings

https://www.forbes.com/sites/pedrodacosta/2019/09/01/america...

The hidden links between slavery and Wall Street

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49476247

THE ORIGINS OF FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT:
HOW THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE CONTINUES TO INFLUENCE MODERN FINANCE

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w23800/w238...

This long article on the slave trade provides broad and detailed historical context for the evolution of the financial industry, without directly treating finance in depth.

http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/Atlantic_slave_trade
> My resume is filled with the latest trendy words like Docker, Scala, Kafka, Spark, Hive, react, K8s

Guess what? I'm in the older generation, I have a CS degree from the late 1980s. I'm comfortable with hardware, compilers, run-times, drivers, operating systems, etc. but all that stuff you listed is like a mystery. I don't know what it is, why or when I would use it, etc other than at a very high level.

I mostly write CRUD apps.
More than the $6M direct from Microsoft, was them using their influence to acquire more than an order of magnitude more cash from VC funds.

> I realize the last negotiations are not as much fun, but Microsoft will have brough in $86 million for us including Baystar.

> ...

> Microsoft also indicated there was a lot more money out there and they would clearly rather use Baystar "like" entities to help us get signifigantly more money if we want to grow further or do acquisitions

http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/halloween10.html

Microsoft was obviously playing a very significant role in their funding, more than would be expected of someone just paying licensing fees.
Thanks very much for engaging the content of my post.

I was disheartened to have shared my inner conflict on the issue, only to be downvoted into oblivion.
> Normal Kindergarten is correlated with better academic achievement later.

I don't plan to "teach" my infant anything till he is 5 or 6. Is this a bad plan?
Google did it with an allied op recently. Not NSA, but as close as we're likely to hear about.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/26/1021318/google-s...
Yeah it's strange. For example, Facebook has billions of dollars, thousands of developers, and they themselves created the front end framework that they are using - yet Facebook's front end is slow and glitchy.
My take away from this is don't go "all in" on every bet. There is a floor of $0, and the probability of N bets going the wrong way is always nonzero, even if it is small depending on the game. And with repeated "all in" betting the probability of N bad bets in a row goes to 100%.
If you backend team doesn't hear "I might have to make 1000 requests" and immediately think "oh that probably times out" and "oh do we have to re-batch that data" and immediately make a file upload endpoint, they're committing malpractice. Good grief.
Welcome to programming.
An exception breaks the "instruction flow". While a Result type can be chained with functions like `map` and `map_or`.

This allows you to write your full algorithm/computation, and handle the final result afterwards.
To get an account on Facebook, one can use an email address to sign up (no phone number), and if the email address later becomes invalid, the Facebook account still remains viable. As such, a "disposable" email address should work for the purpose of obtaining a Facebook account. One need never log in to the "throwaway" email account ever again after the Facebook account is established.

If one really wanted to use a phone number for sign up, a disposable number such as a "burner" phone should work.
You can flip peoples' tribal affiliations on this topic by changing the disease to COVID. Do red-state antimaskers deserve treatment? Should responsible Americans pay for their reckless lifestyle?
In a way, though, the cold war forced the Soviet Union and its satellites to be more economically self-dependent and develop.

By the end of the 1980s, they were producing home computers, stereo equipment, and televisions. Much of it may have been low-quality and/or knock off of Western gear (see: the myriad ZX Spectrum clones) but they actually did develop the manufacturing base.

A lot of Western countries of similarly low or developing economic position would just import American, European or Japanese goods. Interestingly, you did see something similar in places like Brazil where the import restrictions led to a fair amount of license-built and local manufacturing.
From 1919 to 1959 the Soviet Union fought a civil war, a world war in which they bore the brunt of the fighting in the European theater, faced famine, and purges and also managed to be the first to put a man in orbit. Tragedy and triumph all in the span of 40 years. They had impressive accomplishments along with some truly dark human rights abuses.
I am one of millions (I assume) who learned to program with K&R and gcc (using a Linux distro I got from a CD-ROM in the back of a Linux book). I have very fond memories of sitting with it, reading things over and over, knowing the answers were there if I just took the time to understand.
The New York Times used to be a mess on mobile where swiping back was a 5 second wait until the SPA synced. It is much better today, so either they ditched the SPA or have now fully simulated a browser’s back and forward behavior.
Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?
I'd like to hear about different approaches others are using to write web sites or apps today. What languages, frameworks, or libraries are you using? If so, why and what do you like about it?
Someone has to flip flop when nations come together to build stuff.
> data dumps from local governments that could have been machine-readable

It's annoying, but if they were produced from a database (as opposed to scans), they're still usually machine-readable by converting the PDF to text, and then running a few regexes as needed to convert to something like CSV, if it's tabular in the first place.

In theory the text could be gibberish because of font subsetting that intentionally scrambles the glyphs, but that's rare and generally only implemented when a publisher is intentionally trying to thwart text extraction and/or font extraction, which I wouldn't expect a local government to either intend or to enable accidentally.
(Ctrl+Alt is a lot better than nothing, but it more or less forces you to move your hand off the home row, which is pretty undesirable.)
This is interesting because Max Roser makes his case that he's implicitly not supporting colonialism because most economic expansion happened after colonialism.

Except that the established colonies of Canada, Australia, NZ did exceedingly well, as did the long standing colony Hong Kong.

Japan and South Korea (to some extent Taiwan), rebuilt after the war(s) under Anglo-American protection and reformation, also did very well, far better than most.

Singapore? Continued it's colonial style operations.

Vietnam? No so good.

The more colonialism there 'was' the better they've done in recent years, unconditionally. Colonialism for the most part, was an early form of economic globalization, however unfair it was is a different issue.

It's only be controversial to ideologues.
Read this earlier, from the founder of Our World in Data: https://www.twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1378730932308471809
Everything that has been done or been tried has had to pass or be written under the specter of the filibuster though. It fundamentally limits the type of options that get through. The only major change in the last decade was Obamacare which is remarkably similar to the system passed under a the Republican Governorship of Mitt Romney.

Democrats have some options they'd like to do that might help but cannot because of the filibuster. Reconciliation which is the only way around the filibuster guaranteed is pretty limited in scope due to the rules around it. Whether those could pass a vote if there was no filibuster is unknown because they all get completely blocked by Republican filibuster.
It is unnecessary, but it would also be silly to pass on the opportunity if the child shows interest - one more way to keep them entertained, and they learn useful stuff to boot.

Expose them to numbers, letters and reading. If they are interested they’ll soak it up and learn almost by themselves. If not, it’s fine to not push it - as you say it will get hammered into them in due course.

Learn to listen to your child :)
What Ruckus gear are you running? Last I looked it was pretty expensive.
> There is a world out there about compilers, run-times, drivers, emulators, VMs and OSes that I can't seem to grasp, it is just too complicated for me.

Do you want to become a specialist or a generalist? You can dive into one or two of these topics and specialize the rest of your life into it. By the way: a specialist in any of these topics would probably not know any of the fancy buzzwords you've listed in your resume. As a matter of fact, I think you'd have more career opportunities instead.

Keep in mind that the older generation had a "few layers" to explore and could easily understand each slice until the bare metal. These days, it is much more broad and in-depth.

So you want to specialize in something, or become a generalist?
No. In the way that having written UIs that go into that direction, adding refinements to them and adding performance improvements does not change the base characteristics of what has to be written.

Remember, my comment was a response to the claim that something like Figma could not be done before the current frontend development complexity mania. But there is nothing in that collection of bad tools that is necessary to write a canvas based UI like that. It could have been done before and it most likely has been done before.
"because nobody will pay for a charger installation in a rented flat"

Where did you get this idea? People pay for an AC, a conciege, a cycle room, a roof terrace, a fucking gardener but they wont pay for a charging point? Also why does it have to be rented?
> I wonder what the difference is.

A properly rendered minus is identical to the horizontal stroke of a plus (whereas hyphen is frequently shorter and/or incorrectly vertically aligned).
So did she approach the NFT organization or did they approach her? It mentions Bad Luck Brian and Nyan Cat but were they specifically involved in getting Morris to sell?

It’s wonderful press for NFTs, but was it organic?
>used by those in power as a ploy to dismantle privacy from ordinary people.

Is there anything in the article indicating that child porn policies are being used to reduce ordinary people's privacy? From the article it sounds like they just want the child porn taken down, not any details about anyone.
One of the most unfortunate aspects of containment-type policies (or the type of mitigation-but-with-all-the-downsides-of-containment like in my state of California), is that they put people into a physiological (and psychological) state where they are more vulnerable to disease:

- Vitamin D is a critical pro-hormone for immunoregulatory function in general and respiratory pathology specifically. In many ways severe COVID-19 is a disorder of immunoregulation. Vitamin D deficiency is already very widespread, and telling people to stay inside / not go out, and when going out to cover some exposed skin with a mask, is very obviously going to negatively impact Vitamin D as well as nitric oxide production/release respectively. Both are really important for respiratory pathology although Vitamin D is by far more important

- Decreased sleep, increased stress/fear, decreased exercise: all of these put the body into a pro-inflammatory state as well as a state in which immunoregulatory processes start to break down. Some stress/fear/sleep is unavoidable during a pandemic or epidemic but the vast majority of it is disproportionate to the reality of the situation and is a direct result of fear-based messaging from public health "experts", politicians, and the media.

(Remember when beaches were closed down? In many places gyms are still closed, etc)

- Improper wearing of masks (read: how literally every community member wears a mask) very plausibly increases the risk of bacterial pneumonia due to having a warm, moist cloth bacterial reservoir attached to both of one's breathing holes for long periods of time. This was a concern which was identified after the "Spanish" Flu of 1918 where the scientific consensus after the fact was that such usage of masking was both completely unfounded and likely contributed to bacterial pneumonia and other worsened outcomes. So many of the interventions (universal masking) we're advised or mandated to undertake increase a lot of these risks, which is doubly ironic when the wealth of research literature around masking for community transmission of respiratory viruses is at best inconclusive.
Doesn't it depend on what is done with all the wood that was chopped down? If used say for construction, that carbon is staying out of the atmosphere.

Or do mature trees not make up the majority of the carbon that is stored in forests?
> early 2000’s sort of thing

Right. It probably IS an old site and they've had years to iron-out bugs.
> has experts worried about who will be ready for first grade in fall 2021

I.. I just don't understand. Kindergarten is babysitting, you don't need be prepared for 1st grade.
Dexamethasone is no longer considered the best. The latest research indicates better results with methylprednisolone, which has a similar mechanism of action.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33632000/
You do know that anal or oral sex with/by/for males isn't tied to sexuality. Straight heterosexual couples can have anal sex.
If you look up the history of the HPV vaccine and how a subset of the United States decided that it wasn't acceptable to protect women from cervical cancer because 'reasons', you can start to get a sense of the kind of uphill battle an HIV vaccine will face. It's hard enough to explain to parents that it doesn't matter if their kid is sexually active for HPV, imagine how much worse it's going to be when they add "10% of girls will be raped before they turn 18" to the mix.

So rape ends up being epidemiologically-relevant to STD vaccines, but there's a lot of folks who would rather not confront that — even here on HN.
Before the recent bubble with insane NFT valuations, this is mostly what they were used as. E.g. putting a QR code with a NFT link inside a limited-run t-shirt. Practically just an inventory tag.
This is not a failing of capitalism. It is a failing of regulation. It is the regulation that discourages management from shutting down the harmful action. To escape punishment, they find another job somewhere else and leave the next victim holding the bag.

Because of the regulation, not even environmental activists are willing to take over because the axe falls on them.

So the idea is appealing, and is as good as any opening of the conversation. But then we see the complications and have to be a little sharper in the iteration of the regulation conversation. And the next iteration has some problems, too.

Pretty soon, people complain that we've made it so expensive to close a mine that nobody can afford to open one. And perhaps that's just the truth. Or perhaps we can be clever enough to force the costs lower than the benefits without compromising the future.

If we manage that, it will still probably make mining much much less appealing to the robber barons of today. It might make mining or industry or what have you so much less lucrative that the big money players might as well open a hot dog stand for the same margins.

That's capitalism.
Yup. Making a show of the most defensible thing to distract from anything less defensible
Google is failing me but someone posted an journal article a while back of a person in a clinical trial who basically “crashed” (heart rate and blood pressure dropped very low) and they started resuscitation efforts until they realize he got a placebo and the symptoms went away.
mhtml support is there in both Firefox and Chrome. I didn't check other browsers.
If not that, maybe try PdaNet. It is $10-15 for a license and it can mask that you're tethering through a tunnel from desktop->phone, so everything gets counted as mobile data instead of hotspot data.
You won't get any, instead you'll get a stream of anecdotes. Children's development schedule varies wildly, not on a fixed and consistent timetable that lines up with public school curricula.
I know! The first thing I do with an .epub or .mobi is convert it to PDF. That way, I can read it and feel my "place", highlight passages that get saved in the file (not my reader application), and annotate in margins, circle big sections, etc. I feel like the annotation abilities of PDF's get ignored, but they're HUGE.
There are three questions: how do you want to make money? how do you want to be entertained? how do you want to sell yourself?

It's very easy to get stuck in the world of CRUD because it pays the bills, but as you noted there are a lot of technologies.

Shifting out of that world requires risk tolerance because there will be failure after failure. That wall you speak of is the nature of hard things and the time you can dedicate bashing your head against that wall.

My advice for climbing/breaking the wall:

Pick a small project that you find interesting: build an OS, game, programming language, VM, etc... and just do it. The key is to cross the hump of understanding and get something simple working, and the good news is that conceptual understanding isn't that far away. The tool to help you get unblock is writing. Write the comments of what you are trying to do, and break it down until it becomes code-like. Read books on the subject and bounce back to writing what you read.

However, going from conceptual understanding to professional environment is different because the concepts start to inter-relate and the complexity manifests.

Prior writings on this:

http://jeffrey.io/writings/thoughts-for-young-hackers-and-so...

http://jeffrey.io/writings/build-first-buy-second.html
I implemented a DB visualisation tool like this for sqlite3, also using graphviz. It's called, unimaginatively, sqlite3todot [1]

The couple tricks it has that I really like are a) it shows the table itself [which isn't uncommon], but also b) has the ability to group up tables, which for me turns out to be a devastatingly killer feature that no other tool has.

When I'm working on a schema [especially one I've not seen before], one of the things that drives me insane is not being able to say "these six go together. Group them". Then you can simply look at arrows that enter or leave that grouping for your next exploration step. By the time I'm done, anything not-categorised stands out [it's simply in the space between groups]; any boxes that have an excess of arrows between them can mean my mental model is wrong [or the schema has some nonoptimalities].

There's an example here; it only has two groupings ["input" and "output"], but it immediately gets the point across:
https://icculus.org/~chunky/stuff/sqlite3_example/sqlitesche...

[1] https://github.com/chunky/sqlite3todot
Copyright and other rights are not transferred with the NFT. So legally, that Dubai company doesn't even have the right to any copies of the photo that they may have.

Edit: this case might have been covered by a separate contract, but it's still not part of the NFT transaction. https://foundation.app/terms
I can’t think of a single benefit of doing this. What made you come to this conclusion?