skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well it is more of... Hungary takes tanks and goes to Romania because there is large hungarian population and aquires some of their land with 50% romanians and if they leave they take their property. They started giving hungarian passports left and right in the past... with some kind of hope of leverage on other countries. Not as mas or menos independent community that wants(at least some part) to leave as is happening in spain.
Not an enormous amount, but it's been a fun ride.
Purely defensive? What a joke. The Zionist Apartheid state of Israel was literally formed by stealing the land of Palestine and murdering its population. So much for "self defense".
On Pop OS I just stuck with gnome-terminal, it was plenty good if not quite as slick as iterm2.
All of these things are nice, but they're easier to throw in than improving the operating system, and that's the biggest differentiator.
While Trump's rhetoric about "fire and fury" and retaliation against other countries was insane for a US President, he never explicitly said anything about nuclear and it's a grasp for others to imply he meant that.
The statistic that PG didn't write about but seems to pertinent is that the number of millions has increased more than 10 fold from 1980 to 2020.

1992 story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1992/07/11/n...

Recent statistic: 18.6 million families, https://spendmenot.com/blog/what-percentage-of-americans-are...
^This x 100. Exhibit A: FATCA & FBAR. Costs worldwide are easily 100x the recovered money being hidden from the IRS and causing untold losses in associated issues for Americans living abroad being prevented from pushing the American agenda outside its borders.
I’m surprised the numbers between NSW & QLD are similar to Victoria. As Victoria (Melbourne specifically, but that represents the majority of the population) had a long, harsh lockdown, where as QLD & NSW did not.

Maybe looking at suicides within specific populations would be more telling. I imagine for many, working from home was an opportunity. For others, it meant unemployment.
it seems like libraries can't use import maps though, right? the final binary can provide that flag, but is there a way for library dependencies to specify their own import maps? the spec [1] has support for scoping, but I didn't see a way to integrate that with the Deno loader.

[1] https://github.com/WICG/import-maps#scoping-examples
Yeah... the desktop environment itself is pretty nice, but a lot of the apps built around it are either abandonware or just plain low quality. At least nowadays GTK applications don't look completely out of place so even using all kinds of disparate programs (Thunderbird, Goland, Slack, Chrome, etc.) results in a pleasantly consistent experience.
Especially compared to all the other systems that do a lot better which we haven’t adopted.
Staatliches is a free textual style on Google Fonts, I'm a major aficionado of it actually, however appears as though they neglected to incorporate a connect to the webfont. :(
What's more, the "cursive" fallback textual style is characterized by your program, and it's frequently beautiful... well... intriguing

https://www.estepera.com
> Though for me, as long as Canonical doesn't screw it up in a major way, stock Ubuntu it is.

It's not like they're not trying, with snaps and all... we shall see.
In my HR hat, I would be reluctant to hire anybody that had recent training that was explicitly given exclusively to one race or excluding other federally protected classes like religion, gender, or handicap.
These groups are relaxed learning environments in which outsiders can play, experiment, and express themselves.

I think we can all think of a hobby or topic we'd feel more comfortable joining if there was such an environment to introduce us to it.

For example, I'd love to play soccer, but I'd embarrass myself at the local field, especially with the language barrier. A "soccer for out of shape immigrants" group would certainly get me to play more. Likewise, I'd take a "welding for bead-curious urbanites who never get their hands dirty" class.

We can all appreciate the value of such environments. We just have to accept that the barrier of entry is different for everyone. For some, it might be gender or colour.
> Everytime I want to use my macbook, the cold metal isn't very inviting.

You could apply some skins.

I actually like the heat dissipation the metal provides.
I thought it was incredibly even-handed. At least, I know I wouldn't be able to write such a dispassionate post about someone like Thiel (a baddie in my opinion, for the record).
> I really hate these faux-grassroots programs.

I'm not sure your hate for this group is based on facts.

From a Google search I learned that their EventBrite lists 615 past events in 70 cities in 18 states (plus DC). Since the beginning of 2020 there were 120 events, 88 were last year and 32 this year so far, most of which being online. I don't know if they've had any others that didn't make the EventBrite list and no clue what city you live in, obviously they haven't reached every "fairly large inner city" in person.

With no knowledge of how they spend their money (other than the scholarships they mention) I assume it goes to staffing the part of the org that plans and puts on these events, and said scholarships for the paid events.

Looks like 279 of them were free (including all 2021 events), 30 in-person events had paid and free tickets available. It seems 53 events were summer camp options for between $70 and $699 (most common being $299) from 2016 to 2020. Of the rest, 6 were $20 or less and the remaining 270 events were $35.

I'm aware of $1M grants from Nike & AT&T, CrunchBase lists another $409k from an individual and GM, plus individuals have donated small amounts.

From my personal experience putting on individual live shows, tours, learning events and full blown conventions I doubt that even double this total would be enough to cover all of the live events they did pre-pandemic even with a skeleton crew staff of 3-4 and plenty of volunteers.
I don't actually use pass, but as an idle thought: if you're concerned about this sort of metadata when syncing your `pass` store to a cloud provider, why not take advantage of the GPG key you already have and encrypt everything as a single blob in one shot? You pay a little more with each synchronization, but probably not enough to worry about for reasonably sized stores.
Krispy Kreme gave vaccinated people free donuts and it led to an anti-vax outrage here in the States.
Agents and homeowners have been taking photos of homes for sale for decades, and all sorts of private info has leaked this way. I’m in the industry on the tech side and I’ve seen photos of people naked in mirrors, signed documents, children, hobbies/interests, framed photos saying things like “Joseph Edward Smith - born Aug 6, 2010”, bills and more.

This technology makes it more likely for the volume of leaked data to increase, and the photo resolutions give more data per image, but agents have been trained to stage houses for a long time and should be expected to handle this. Blame the agent.

Although the tech certainly has room for improvement. All it takes is for someone to sue Zillow for exposing their private images online for automatic blurring technology to magically appear.
That joke is getting pretty tired by now and restating it seems unlikely to be helpful for anyone who's affected by the rate-limited API calls in question.
This is a good article.

You can be the biggest free market capitalist in the world but it would be foolish not to acknowledge that the American government-industrial-military complex has propped up this capitalist paradise for the better part of a century.

You can be bullish on a crypto future but it would be foolish not to acknowledge that at the moment the "decentralized" part is mostly a myth, and a few early whales + Chinese miners wield a disproportionate amount of power.

None of these views are contradictory or hypocritical. The problem is really that the boxes of possible viewpoints and philosophies keep getting smaller and further apart, and everyone is expected to neatly fit into one of them.

Peter Thiel, like everyone else, makes decisions in order to maximize his own benefit, not for the sake of presenting consistency of thought to the world. Not being libertarian when it suits you is perhaps the most libertarian thing of all.
> Imagine them hiring dozens of resentful, rebellious teens to watch the dials of their budding nuclear programme. It’s like something from Futurama

So the idea might not work for Iran, but it probably would for North Korea.
I've run little businesses, been self-employed as a freelancer and agency, run startups, been in management at small businesses and other intrapreneurial roles maybe 22 years now - and I still don't feel like I have great "business sense".

Its a learned skill. And with any learning journey you just have to plug away at.. learning. Read business books and take notes on them. Treat it like you're doing a self-directed MBA. Pick stuff off of reading lists or use the Blinkist app to find good ones. Run a very simple easy business as a side hustle for a bit to practice. Work in a seed-stage startup. You'll pick up a lot.
I'm similar: simultaneously aware of the huge problems with PayPal and yet will always choose it for small transactions. Why? Probably mostly because of the address filling you mention. Having to type in my entire address, worry about whether it'll get screwed up or it will not support my country or whatever else is just too much trouble for microtransactions (<$10). And then, even while I'm aware of the problems with their fraud detection, it gives me comfort that they are erring on the side of shutting down vendors that look shady - even if that takes out a portion of real vendors or creates huge problems for them.
> shut the fuck up and get through with it.

Silence is suspicious:

Teachers praise insights when they articulate the existing framework or expand it to apply to novel domains. Meantime, it is common for teachers to exhort students who remain silent that “we really need to hear from you.”

[..]

A recent faculty email chain received enthusiastic support for recommending that we “‘officially’ flag students” who appear “resistant” to the “culture we are trying to establish.”

When I questioned what form this resistance takes, examples presented by a colleague included [..] “just silence.”
> it's pretty clear to me that this is only confusing if you intentionally do you very best to try to add confusing structure around it in an attempt to fool the reader into thinking something very different and weird is going on.

This has come up from a Core Developer before [1] so it's not just code golfers having a laugh.

Yes, the docs note the tokenization behavior [2], but Guido's response today in the above mail thread is also pretty unambiguous:

> I would totally make that a SyntaxError, and backwards compatibility be damned.

1: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/...

2: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#wh...
It's pretty simple. Libertarians want to minimize a state's power over them. Some ways to do that are to shrink the state or somehow secede from the state.

Thiel has found a third way to be a Libertarian, albeit one that only one person can pursue at a time.

He can just own the state.

So whereas the Seasteading people have to worry about the US stepping in and invading their boat, Thiel's boat is America and he has to defend it from China.
Proudly declaring "I have a great solution that no one has ever thought of before," without putting in the due diligence to understand feasibility and consequences, is close to the literal definition of the reactionary mindset.

More concisely, it is hubris plus gumption minus diligence.
It's been done before, a few times:

https://expresso.com/
https://www.virzoom.com/

Expresso is more commercially-oriented, but iirc they lost high eight figures starting back in the 2000s. Virzoom only burned something like seven figures so far, working against the added drag of VR adoption.

And then there's Zwift (https://www.zwift.com/), which doesn't carry the hardware costs and was recently valued at ~$1 bn+.

If I'm playing armchair CEO, it seems like you do better off by leveraging the existing hardware ecosystem and just building a content / network play. Better to gift Apple / Google 30% than try to build, launch, and support hardware.

Also, it's really hard to get enough users to support a fun enough game library; the overhead of custom content development is way, way too high unless you've got, I dunno, tens of millions of users? Everyone's thinking of Peloton, but they adopted the highly successful spin class model to the home. The change in behavior was staying home rather than going to the gym, not starting exercise instead of playing video games. And full disclosure, yes: I was skeptical of Peloton before they launched, too.
He didn't? I'm pretty sure I saw one, the explanation had something to do with a retry strategy stomping the servers IIRC.
> fwiw, new and better better technologies need to get used for the first time, eventually.

No-one disputed that, I'm just pointing out that it is a very valid point for someone to say "I have concerns that we're rushing out an experimental vaccine". You might take issue with the specific wording (I don't) but the general point I hope we can agree on.
Some will, but is that a loss? If you aim at accommodating destructive behavior, you'll have it and attract more of it. If you aim at accommodating constructive behavior, you'll have it and attract more of it. I'd happily let some other sites have the entire market of destructive behavior.

But we are just speculating; can someone with actual experience and expertise say how it would work?
I was looking for this comment, this is pretty much a copy of the MacBook 3 years back.

Although I am happy they are doing this since no one else is bringing a high quality metal laptop with the same "feel" that you would get from a Macbook aluminum Unibody laptop.

The best windows laptop before was a Macbook running bootcamp.
If only everyone had the money and time to actually make that choice. If you are living paycheck to paycheck, that means you can't afford to move without going into more debt. Moving costs money, even just moving across town. I'm usually out a good 1-2k when I move apartments just in my town after all application fees and deposits have been paid. My last landlord was a management corporation that figured out a way to whittle down my $1800 security deposit from my last apartment to $38 from things like "scratched floors" and "dents," so the deposit is rarely that. If I was broke, moving would be impossible.

If you are broke you are gonna have an impossible time lining up work wherever you are going. No low skilled place is going to hire an out of area candidate when there are local applicants. You will have to show up from say, expensive south central LA to 'cheaper' boise, having spent hundreds of dollars in gas along the way, and now need to put money down on a security deposit. Since your credit is probably bad since you are broke, you will probably have to pay a huge deposit. My very first apartment when I had no credit asked for three months of rent as a deposit. If you are broke you don't have money for gas or these deposits, and will have had to go into debt. So now you are in a new area where you no absolutely no one, with no job, thousands in debt. You might spend the rest of your working life trying to get out of the hole you just dug for yourself, and that's assuming you don't get sick along the way.

It's no wonder why so many people are homeless, and why most of the working poor in cities like LA live in overcrowded apartments rather than "going elsewhere" like wisecrack comments on the internet seem to suggest they do. I don't think people on this board have any concept of how expensive it is to be poor in this country, and this comment is case in point.
In Jan, there was a big outcry, i thought all would move to signal.
I have about 25% of the conversations in signal, but especially for groups, whatsapp is so sticky, that they seem to have broadly failed in signal, and are back to whatsapp.

I continue to have individual conversations on signal with most friends, but the idea of being able to leave whatsapp seems to be much tougher than I thought.
There is more than one mainstream economics thinking. Not all countries and schools use the same. Some borrow parts from other schools.
yeah, I was hoping this would be basically a home video receiver with built in monitor and streaming apps, and with a nice set of hookups for real devices.

Instead it's a sub to a really janky looking gaming service, a very small handful of streaming apps, and a very expensive spot in the garage next to the FitDesk I also never use (but which would, with small mods, probably be better for this purpose than this).
This is a good solution and also a pretty common one, since public school districts not under a court order aren't allowed to explicitly consider race.

I grew up attending a "Saturday academy" sort of STEM program where I was the only white kid in a cohort of perhaps 50. It was open to anyone, but because they reached out to Black families and were in a Black neighborhood, they were able to target without having strict, exclusive rules.

Just targeting places with lots of Black people is definitely a huge improvement over what we currently do.
I think a clever mod will realize that they are not the Supreme Court. They are certainly not the best judge out there. Just clicking accounts and comments out of existence wont solve misinformation - it will just make the mod a tyrant. I know for a fact if i were moderating, there would be few safe users.
We'd be happy paying per project, but if course The Mathworks knows that would bring less revenue.

We've actually had a large effort to move towards python which has been successful in preventing unnecessary MATLAB. Holding the cancer at bay.

Re Excel, they are making offline installs increasingly difficult and expensive, and yet their online version can't do many things (like, Solver doesn't exist, you have to licence it separately, which is essentially impossible in a corporate setup).

Gmail at least has Takeout that works. The problem is that going back to Postfix + anti-spam would require using muscles that have atrophied, and I'm sure I'd have to outsource the problem of getting mail delivered anyway.
Holy crap is this missing the forest for the trees.

Thiel is a libertarian and America is his playground. There is nothing contradictory in protecting the country that his projects rely on.
Thanks. As I've now learned, almost all of these clots originate in the legs and pelvis and then travel to other parts of the body (lungs, brain).

So I think that's why they're telling people to watch for leg pain. I didn't have any issues with my legs, but it's apparently a common symptom to have pain and swelling there.
There is no consensus economic theory. That's why it's called "the dismal science." It's extremely unfortunate, though, personally, I'm hoping to see more anthropology influences; a bit of an outsider's perspective might help here.
I'm not sure what the question is. As you say, I can imagine the need for, say, a `PhoneNumber` type that can remember leading 0's, and certainly there's use for an `Integer` type that can store negatives, but neither of those probably belongs in a `NatNum` type.
Broadly speaking, a general purpose computer is one that can do anything (like an Apple IIe) and the opposite is one that is constrained to do a few specific things (like an ATM). Whether an iphone (or a wintel computer with UEFI, or an Android phone locked by the hardware manufacturer, or etc etc) qualifies is a matter of semantics, and not interesting to argue about; I elided this distinction because (I imagined) the kind of people posting here would be familiar with it and know what I meant.

A more nitpick-proof way to phrase my point would be that an iphone is a general purpose computer controlled by Apple, and it tries very hard to look like a general purpose computer controlled by the person that bought it. The customers want to have their cake and eat it too; they want the power of a general purpose computer, and the security of a locked-down appliance. You can't have both, but Apple's size and popularity is a testament to how close they have managed to get.
Yeah, libraries can't use import maps because import maps are not extensible
What white supremacist movement? Trump denounced white supremacy on camera something like seventeen separate times.

The only white supremacy is in the addlepated imaginations of America's journalists, academics, and the increasingly delusional Democrat Party, led by radicals like the Justice Democrats.

For those of us in the real world, thanks to the aforementioned delusional leaders, you're much more likely to encounter racism day in and day out being bandied about at work and online by neo-racists who have the absolute gall to call themselves and their movement Antiracist.
interesting they use blue as the color that indicate an "issue". at a glance, looks like nothing to see here. i have a feeling that if the entire AWS infrastructure were to go offline somehow they would refer to that as 'increase error rates'
For those who are not anglophones: POC "means person of color" or "people of color".
It probably means non-white.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/POC
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=poc
Sounds reminiscent of Google - where staff gravitate to the teams they want to work on - but "done right", ie: with accountability. On the other hand, I wonder if it produces some of the same problems - who takes responsibility for long term maintenance when everybody's a hero creating bold new things?
The bifurcation isn’t caused by the colour of the bubbles. The colour doesn’t cause the stigma. The colours are simply used as a simple headline to represent all the differences and improvements that iMessage brings compared to traditional SMS/MMS.

The costs of someone not participating in the “blue bubble ecosystem” are borne by all of the people trying to participate in the conversation. Unless the cost of my friend side loading an app is felt by me, the same stigma approach is unlikely to occur.

Ironically, Game Center could have been that exact thing for gaming on iOS, if only they hadn’t mostly killed it off already.
The Japanese/American/Greek mother who had sex?

Or are you saying it was just luck my mom got pregnant then? She just fell asleep one night, the stork visited, and then she woke up pregnant?

I think you don't understand how sex or genetics work, I am 50% my mother's dna and 50% my father's. It's not like they were going to have sex and then I would be born with the genetic code of two entirely different people.
The descriptive parts of MMT are mainstream economics, though not aspects that mainstream economists tend to trumpet.

The part that is controversial is normative, starting with the call to honesty (“since spending of a nation in its own fiat is not, in fact, limited by the ‘fiscal’ constraint of revenue + borrowing but only by monetary constraints, we should stop treating fiscal ‘constraints’ as real and instead analyze what has traditionally been described with the misleading metaphor of the fisc through a monetary lens”), and proceeding to concrete policy recommendations which are derived from actually following the call to honesty.
That's a naive view of credit bureaus. There are value judgments in there throughout the stack. You can't get a job because you didn't pay off a medical debt. You can't get a mortgage because you don't have the right history of past debt (for example, if you're too young).