skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't state that it was completely a cynical PR effort nor do I think it was, but it's a reaction to a guilty conscience nonetheless. I think it's partly his way of resolving his cognitive dissonance over him not being a good person in pursuit of wealth and power.

For what it's worth, though, saying "my mother inspired me to do this" is precisely what a PR flack would advise him over "I was guilt tripped into this by my critics".

He does routinely use PR firms for image management.

Positivity sells and human interest sells and giving his critics more airtime would not be advantageous to him.

Mark Zuckerberg did the same thing here - note the title:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10658787

>Note also that a few years ago when Zuck pledged to donate 99% of his money, the internet erupted in incoherent anger.

The comments above read more like coherent suspicion rather than incoherent anger.

>For the supposed PR benefits of philanthropy there is a shocking lack of good PR.

Bill Gates has successfully repaired his image since the early 2ks. The fact that Mark Zuckerberg didn't repairs his overnight after acting the way he did previously is hardly proof that it doesn't work.
Page didn’t load right on mobile and then I couldn’t escape back to HN.

Maybe you can blame Apple and Safari, and maybe I’m unfair, but if that’s the first impression I get from something related to programming, well...
Seriously I can't believe this is that simple. There is no way public health bureaucrats don't understand this common sense logic. Otherwise they would all become vaccine deniers.
My cable management is based on velcro strips nailed to the desk's edges and undersides in order to keep cables off the ground. It keeps the cables off the ground (and also mostly off the desk surface) and looks reasonably clean from eye level: https://imgur.com/a/tRamJ65
I only first started noticing them around Lyon/Grenoble in 2014, on the menus of various kebab places in Paris maybe a year or two later.
I would imagine that caloric figures would tend to gravitate towards staples, such as wheat, rice and corn, which are high in both calories and in volume consumed.
Odmah sam prepoznao. ;)
Can we ever really know if we are using a resource appropriately?

I’m thinking of the story “The Chinese Farmer” as told by Alan Watts.
He he, recency bias, I guess?

It's from The Art of Unix Programming (2003) by Eric S. Raymond. It's actually in the first chapter. And the supposedly original quote is:

> Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

> -- Henry Spencer Usenet signature, November 1987

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/philosophychapt...

Henry Spencer being: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Spencer . I imagine that's why the quote is also in that regexp book.

It's a super arrogant quote used, I'd say, 95% of the time by people who don't deeply know other OSes (besides shallow memes and jokes about them).
Dunning-Kruger Effect: Ignorance and Overconfidence Affect Intuitive Thinking
Ok, if such question is considered in bad faith, I removed it.
> No, that page shows no prices whatsoever. Your minimum commitments should be shown before you agree to the contract.

There were screenshots in the Twitter thread that showed that this is actually the case.

Adobe would be outright crazy not to present the total costs upfront as it would be super easy for any customer to sue them over deception for that.
Exolaunch entering orbital debris market with eco-friendly space tugs
Yes, I realized I'd edited to add the quote. Retracted my comment.
I haven't been counting, it happened a few times though - mostly after bigger upgrades or when they started pushing Edge with fullscreen ad.
Yes, and the official and community name for that is a resource pack or addon.
Wow this is so much more progress than I imagined, great to hear!
Uh, if that's true then yes, that seems really awful, but the market probably also makes it so the real estate prices are adjusted to that taxation regime, because buyers and sellers can take that into account before settling the transaction.

With a wealth tax, you can't escape it. You would have to liquidate (parts of) your own company or other illiquid property (which might not even be possible depending on how illiquid it really is) in order to pay a tax. That doesn't seem right to me at all.

Again, why would you do that, if there are much better alternatives possible (like I said, higher capital gains taxes as an example).

(For context: I'm not from the USA and property taxes are not calculated on a percentage of the value of your property where I live. I'm just using USD in my example because I know there are mostly Americans here.)
This seems to be more about text-based user interfaces rather than command-line interfaces. I wonder if the author has considered Emacs? A lot of people think of Emacs as a "text editor", but that's far from the truth of what it is. It's really a Lisp interpreter and toolkit especially designed for making text-based user interfaces.
SELinux can and does do exactly this, depending on the configuration. What you'll most often see is that applications covered will have rules that allow it to access a subset of the user's home content (xdg cache, data, etc.) that allow that application to function, and SELinux will use UBAC rules to ensure that user A's instance of that application cannot access the data of user B's.

Profiles are indeed tricky though, and generally something I would consider more easily implemented as just logging in as a different user.

I can't speak much about AppArmor since I'm not too familiar with it.
Famous historical sentence of Marie Antoinette
"Let them eat cake"
The phrase was supposedly said by Marie Antoinette in 1789, during one of the famines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake
This is the thing. A similar issue was seen with heparin a decade or so back. Basically the heparin molecule (an impurity I believe) was causing an immune reaction that cross reacted with a protein that activates platelets. Not a minor side effect and until the full extent of the issue is known (who is at high risk? How do we treat if it happens) I don’t blame them for being cautious.
You are vastly overestimating the competency of bureaucrats and their minions. The people sitting at the top of current power structures are ghosts of the past, mimics pretending to have influence and having to resort to implicit coercion instead of explicit coercion to get what they want. Crypto is inevitable and will undermine the legacy financial system eventually, whatever name or symbol crypto has is irrelevant to the underlying mechanics at play.
I just made this website to show you how really, really small the risks are, and how they compare to risks we happily take every single day.

whatoneinamillionmeans.com

If you're not willing to take 1 in a million chances, it's gonna be pretty hard for you to get out of bed today.

This vaccine seems to have about the same rate, which makes sense as I think it uses the same technology.
>> Maybe pushing hard to make the case for the start-up to exist in that environment was far riskier

Agreed 100%.

All of my friends who were bragging they were going to retire at 25 millionaires and then three months later were flat broke. They were so disenchanted with the startup scene, they all went to work for big corporations.

As I remember, nobody I knew wanted to work at a startup, let alone start a company in that environment. There was no money - VC or otherwise. You were left to bootstrap it yourself. If it had anything to do with the internet, you were toxic so even getting clients to support you was insanely hard.

The fact they came out of that crazy time and were able to prosper against all of those odds is really impressive.
The 2nd link is a duplicate. Here's the correct one

The 5 Stupidest Habits You Develop Growing Up Poor:

* (https://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-stupidest-habits-you-deve...)
There are a lot of people in the comments here pointing to environmental or exogenous factors, things that "aren't your fault": where you're born, family obligations, stress levels and their effects on cognition, the behavioral economics of risk and scarcity, shocks for the poor vs. the wealthy, and a host of other things.

These things are real. However, I want to point out that there are other very real things going on too. Particularly, there are real, and strong, effects from natural selection. The people who tend to succeed really are smarter, harder working, healthier, stronger, etc. The natural selection at work is obvious to any scientist thinking about it, but it's difficult or impossible to talk publicly about it these days. Hating on such an obviously true thing in order to show off to your friends is unfortunately very trendy :-( This is a problem because it means we look for invisible boogeymen rather than having a correct understanding of the situation and going from there.
Firefox 78.9.0esr on Debian Buster has the same problem
> A pause to assess the data and allow any lag to resolve seems prudent.

I don't think the drug safety system is set up to effectively evaluate the cost/benefit of the pause itself in a pandemic scenario.
One issue with windows command line I’ve run into recently is text rendering performance. Running cxxmatrix at a high resolution brings even a modestly powerful machine to its knees. cxxmatrix crashes alacritty, but I have found that running VcXsrv and urxvt from wsl yields much better cxxmatrix performance than when running from wsl.

Here is a related issue. There are many cousin issues.

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/2047
"C, a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language "
I am not sure. I know how is it in my city. It got bought out by few foreign companies. The property tax is not very significant compared to having much higher rent in a year for foresable future.

Don't forget if nobody is renting then nobody is "destroying" the property. That's other tactic. You reconstruct everything so its "too good" to be rented cheap. This way you lower the pool of "normal" flats so their prices go up to a point where the "too good" is the only option.

It's apparent from the increasingly huge differences between rent prices. Often times the longtime landlords who own maybe one building are renting so it makes them enough money to take care of the property + good profit on side and they are happy. They don't check market prices often and are 30%+ cheaper. The rent prices are completely fabricated with no relation to running costs or price of the property.
A very interesting podcast, and the topic is very relevant. By the way, I sometimes transcribe useful podcasts into text using https://audext.com.
On the front page twice in less than a week! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26728774 Wonder if that's a record. /me resists urge to write a script to find out
> That's literally what charging for the copies does, though. People just want something for nothing.

No, it does not do that at all. If you sell 200 copies, you get paid twice as much as when you sell 100 copies. Artists should make a decent hourly wage depending only on the amount of work they have done.

Imagine if other professions worked the same way as the copyright industry does. You have a plumber install a new toilet in your home, but instead of charging you for his time and effort, he charges you 5 cents every time you pee, and 10 cents every time you poo. Or you have someone pave your driveway, and instead of paying for his work you pay $1 every tine you park your car there.

Would you accept that ? Why should artists be different ?
> It has "controllable anonymity," meaning buyer and seller can be anonymous, but government authorities can readily track suspicious transactions.

So no anonymity at all.
We’ve completely transformed human civilization in a desperate attempt to slow down the spread of this virus that kills 1 in 200 people, and now we don’t want to use one of the miracle cures because of a literal one in a million chance of issues.

People are absolute garbage at thinking about scale.
Warning people that they won't be able to get back to this site is not an overreaction.
If that's how it works in your country then it seems likely your country is also broken/corrupt and is effectively 'in on it' (helping the likes of Adobe to steal from you).

Not sure what one can really do about it.

I think also the whole "you'll need an army of lawyers" idea is probably born from confirmation bias (settled cases get NDAs). I wonder if we shouldn't require registering a settled case, if there was any court action (arranging a date, say) then settlement details would be published? I guess it might encourage frivolous suits.
>For people in the low-risk tier

I don't disagree. But I will observe that many people in the low(er) risk tier are going to be traveling, eating out, having parties, etc. sooner rather than later--vaccine or not. In my very Blue state people are very obviously relaxing a whole lot more. So the question isn't whether things open up or not. It's whether people are vaccinated when they do. (Which doesn't mean all vaccines are equally safe.)
I guess you think you know what the risk is. I don't think you do. Usually we determine that with multi-year trials, but we didn't do that this time. Usually the trials are done on the kinds of people who might actually need to be vaccinated, but this time governments are eager to do mass vaccination of people who aren't vulnerable, even children. If there is significant harm, it may be years before we know what it is.
> > worse problems

Much worse problems. When I see people in the US advocating semi-socialist policies, I wince.

PS I grew up in Bulgaria. I live in the US since 2007.
France finally publishes register of Beneficial Owners
I'm viewing with a 13" macbook air if that helps. Standard zoom level. Can't recall why this happens.
Actually I think it has to do with an element higher in the dom tree having some height or border or something, but I don't remember exactly.
The pieces of dried curled cinnamon bark we buy for cooking are usually called cinnamon sticks, of that's what you mean by the "roots".
Why are women adversely affected?
The Role of Tech Leads and Engineering Managers
All this is true but you've left out an even big key differentiator: most people cannot get a 250,000$ "business loan" from their mom and dad like eg. Bezos did.
I mean, isn’t that exactly what Singapore did to attract talent and capital? And it worked? And didn’t one of the Facebook founders give up his US citizenship and move there? Sure it’s one case, but it’s evidence at least some are motivated by taxes.

Sure, not every founder will make that choice and not right away, but you could see a slow shift over decades to more tax friendly locations.
Healthcare is extremely weak on science. The profession existed before the scientific method so there is a tendency to value authority over science.

Even today Physicians still think the body is Art, or a combination of Art and Science.

And the only reason we don't have a science based alternative to the Physician cartel is that they spent literally $400,000,000 on lobbying/bribery in the last 30 years.

Edit- for further reading look up "evidence based medicine debate"
H.R.6395 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
The Bakers sued Goldman Sachs for negligence, intentional misrepresentation and breach of fiduciary duty, which in January 2013 led to a 23-day trial in Boston. The jury cleared Goldman Sachs of all charges.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/24/business/goldman-sachs-cl...
There's an old Nordic word for Africans that can be translated as blueman.
NAME:WRECK vulnerabilities impact millions of smart and industrial devices
> * Novel vaccination - barely month of research. Weeks of evidence and practice. We don't have best practices yet.

That is completely untrue. This vaccine has been through several clinical trials for months. We know that there are no side effects that are common enough to be of real concern. The reason we are only seeing this one now is that it is so rare.
Being obese also causes deep vein thrombosis at a rate of 1/1000, but we're perfectly okay with people eating their way to blood clots.
President Biden on CEO Summit on Semiconductor and Supply Chain Resilience
No, I talked about the risk of becoming homeless due to striving for wealth and total failure on the way.
I see this risk as extremely minimal, not because people can get out of homelessness or only experience "shot term homelessness", but because I dont think you ever end up in this situation in the first place. Going 100% at becoming wealthy doesn't mean you turn stupid and irresponsible and also loose any friend and everything that could keep you afloat if you totally fail. That's just not realistic.

The example I bough up may be anecdotal but It wasn't mean to show that people can get out of homelessness if they mess up and end there but rather to underline my argument that homelessness in general is only an "option" for a very niche type of person. There are also way way less female homeless people and it certainly isn't because females are somehow
more capable to avoid total failure.

The person I worked with was homeless due to his family abandoning him (they where part of a religious sect) before he ever had the chance to stand on his own feet. But he was not the type of person that would accept homelessness and that's the sole reason he isn't anymore.

In the end people are scared to fall really low by trying to go high but while you indeed fall longer and further down when you fall from high you dont really end up lower. It just hurts more especially if you worked very hard to get up. With the exception of age/metal decline and health problems you very very likely get back up higher than where you started no matter what causes you to fail.
> they won't be able to get back to this site

I hate it when sites break the back button, but that's really not the same thing
Banks don't fabricate a need for houses. You really have a much too simplistic view of things. Banks also can not create arbitrary amounts of money, it is regulated (and somebody has to trust their loans, too). Housing costs in California went up because it become a more attractive place to live (nice weather, good job opportunities, network effects of more people creating more culture). (Edit: in 1950, the population of California was 10 Million People, Now it is 40 Million people https://www.macrotrends.net/states/california/population )

Even without money, a house would cost something - you would have to get the building materials, the ground to build on, and the time and work to build it. This has nothing to do with banks. The banks just help you to pay the cost upfront.

There are other ways to do it, like the Amish coming together and building a house in a day. They still use a lot of work hours, distributed over many people. And it only works out if you are also Amish and "pay it forward": for now, you give other Amish "credit" by helping build their houses. When your turn comes to move into a house, you'll get that credit back because they help you build your house. That sounds great, but it doesn't provide the freedom banks do. If for some reason you don't want a house in an Amish community, you won't get your credit back. Islamic solutions have similar issues (credit is illegal, so they either borrow from non-muslims, or they also have a "pay it forward system" where every member of the community chips in when somebody wants to marry and build a home).
> That said I trust that the government agencies know what they are doing here.

I’m the opposite. Covid caused my trust in them to plummet. Perhaps made with the best of intentions, but all the noble lies have eroded my trust.
I found insightful, and completely agree with, the original "Protestant zealotry" assessment - it's not a religious argument, it's a philosophical one.

It has everything to do with a moral perspective - that righteousness and wealth go hand in hand, and it does indeed come from the culture of the European Reform. It's not a matter of Christianity, it's mostly absent from Catholicism, and I suppose other strains.

Think of the meaning, the moral implications, of the phrase "the deserving poor". Try translating it into other languages, and see what happens.
Factor V Leiden gang represent. Afaik AZ clotting is caused through a different mechanism though. Have there been any official recommendations for us thick-blooded folk?
How Government Wrecked the Gas Can
Newman’s Own Built a Billion-Dollar Company by Doing Good
There's lots of other things to compare it to as well. It's a roughly 1 in a million chance of dying - which is called a Micromort https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort

We 'spend' about one micromort of risk per day of being alive. Or you can spend one walking for 6 hours, or driving 250 miles (or 6 miles on a motorbike)

I just made a website to show all the other stuff we do all the time without worrying with the same (extremely low) level of risk

https://whatoneinamillionmeans.com
Hardware: Devices integrated with Wialon in March 2021
"That’s the same risk as driving London to Liverpool"

This was the first one your website presented and I have no idea what it means.
That's a good website. I had a chuckle at some of those.
> Imagine just pulling in GenericUI and sprinkling in your CSS of choice

That's exactly what the tailwind people built in Headless UI: "a library of JS components that abstract away all of the keyboard navigation and accessibility logic without including any design opinions"
For someone planning on learning C in the next couple of months (through K&R), do you have any advice on where to learn best modern practices afterwards?
Maybe OP‘s implementation of overriding the default browser behavior on Android just sucks ;)
The True Meaning of Technical Debt (2020)
Wow, I never knew drops were even an option!
There are plenty of countries that had no or low growth without any violence.

Also if the economy can grow by providing more and better games, bread, and Netflix, why didn't it happen during the various lockdowns in various countries?
That's over grazing. That's lazy, over zealous and/or careless herders who fucked up. You rotate your herds on different land so they don't strip the vegetation. Allowing it to regrow quickly. You're managing the land just as much as your flock. This has been known for thousands of years by people who actually farm and not armchair farm.
Money is like electricity. If you don't know how to use it, what happens next will shock you! :)
> “Nobody steals bad books”

The popularity of something has nothing to do with its quality.

More than that, if you’re indeed going by the MC Donalds way of measuring things, you’re bound to be much more interested in:

> “Today Finland’s literary exports have tripled in size...”

Than how many people steal your books. Popularity that you can not turn into profit is completely useless in any professional sort of way.
They're already generating hacky alpine to power their interactive examples, so I'd guess soonish.
Unfortunately I don't! Unlike GP I like vim, so I haven't had a reason to try switching to Kakoune, but I thought it might meet their needs.
Name one thing that isn't a ponzi, everybody's profits in every respect come from somewhere else, the only things that get called a ponzi are things which make the game and exploitation too transparent to the degree in which they offend the human delusion that we are fundamentally good or that there are positive-sum games that exist at all.
It seems like people in the low-risk tier might be more likely to get J&J. Firstly, it's just the one shot and secondly, people who are worried about COVID are vaccine shopping because they want the perceived "higher efficacy" of the mRNA vaccines vs J&J (whereas lower-risk people might be more interested in vaccine passports than preventing symptoms).