skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I emphasized in my original comment that I was not diminishing the accomplishments of previous civil rights and labor activists. It's hard to deny how even they are primarily admired for their complaining rather than organizational abilities, and this is what activists primarily try to emulate now.

I agree that Tesla deserves their poor reputation, but Amazon genuinely seems like they care about workers' well-being. People perceive labor to be "exploited" because automation and globalization mean that American workers no longer have a monopoly on labor. It's a simple function of supply and demand. No amount of cherry picked anti-Amazon narratives is going to change that. Increased government spending would, as it does for the Nordic countries. However, nobody cares to detangle the web of perverse incentives baked in, so Americans will always view taxes as a waste of money.
Do you offer annual billed monthly? Some business prefer that - offer annual billed monthly at a $11*X/year, see what happens.
I suppose we would still be in the exponential phase [1] and haven’t yet reached the stationary phase or death phase.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial_growth
AppleCare outside of the USA is a joke. Here in Mexico we had one of those butterfly keyboard macbooks for which a key failed.

The "licensed" apple provider said the would need to change a whole lot of parts to replace the keyboard.

I went to an "unlicensed " workshop and they only charged the price of the keyboard and 500 pesos for the work. A++
Oh man! An embarrassment of keys! I will definitely do this, after I finish my cybernetic fingers.
Your setup is great for enthusiasts like you and me, but everyday folks don't want to deal with mounting hardware or audio interfaces or learning what a condenser mic is or spending more than $50.
> For one, permissions around SQL are already crap

No, they aren’t. At least not Postgres, and AFAIK its true of every other major RDBMS, too.

Non-DB-specialists typical level of knowledge of DB permissions may be, but that’s a whole different problem.
> Make sure you copy all 3 files if you are grabbing a snapshot of a running system

Or use the ".backup" command in the CLI to take a clean single file snapshot if that's what you need. Or, you can call the checkpoint C API and if it can move all the transactions from WAL to DB, it will remove the WAL file when it's finished.
Congress already passed the STOCK act, that is why these disclosures are required, and partially why this kind of securities fraud is illegal. It is the job of the SEC, and the justice dept to enforce this
Amazon generated $1.6 billion in profit for the USPS.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/17/21443933/amazon-post-offi...
"Maybe an executive order could also prohibit this?"

I don't think this will help. I feel that executive orders are misused and abused today. They are really only only supposed to be executive guidance on how to enforce or implement a law. Instead they are being used as redefining law or even ignoring them.
Does having uBlock Origin help in being not tracked?
I bought my house with plans to rent half of it out. I plan to charge reasonable below market rates, based on my costs. Owning a house (to live in) without some rental income is not a smart investment as it’s usually considered. The price of housing goes up, which seems good for home owners, right? Well it’s better than for renters, but it’s still a terrible deal. Housing is a necessity or essential good. If you sell your house, even in a sellers market like today, you will immediately become a buyer in a seller’s market, facing the same inflated costs to get back into a house. You can’t go without housing, whatever it costs is what you will pay.

What situations is this not the case?

If you downsize or move to a place with lower housing costs or somehow fundamentally change your living arrangement to lower the cost.

If you die, houses can be a good inheritance, but people usually want their investments to provide something during their lifetimes.

If you find a house that is undervalued and can be improved and sold for much more. However, this exists in any investment decision and is not unique to housing. Most houses won’t fall into this category or they would have already been bought and sold.

If you can fully pay off the mortgage, you’ll immediately get more monthly income and this income can be applied towards actual investments that make you money. (But you could have done this instead of paying off the mortgage too, so it’s economy dependent)
Unity is not listed in the GitHub link posted above, which only has Unity plugins, so I don't see how it's unusable.

Any list that includes LÖVE is interesting in my book. Thanks for sharing OP!
I visualize code more often when I read it than when I write it.

Aphantasia is the inability to visualize mental images, that is, not being able to picture something in one's mind.

There was a thread here on hn a while ago about this phenomenon and it seems even if one is not able to visualize things they can still be perfectly able programmers and even illustrators.
On the contrary, I feel like it being profitable will help others go with the movement since the profit itself could be a motivator for those who don't care about the ecological impact
Move to the countryside probably. Others move back home. The one person I spoke to was moving his family to a house for more green space
Yes, well, I can't help but look around at people who have chosen to specialize and see how much quicker they climb into leadership roles, and getting to work on mission critical features.

If you're the jack of all trades guy, you'll always be asked to cleanup, or take care of small feature requests. When the company needs the big guns for a mission critical feature, you will never be called.

This is an important point for people to realize. There's risks at specializing for sure, but there's also a lot of risk to being a jack of all trade.
The things you're describing aren't even close to a world War. That's the ridiculous part. They did rip up the agreement in Hong Kong but Hong Kong was already sovereign Chinese territory, it was just breaking an international instrument, which is bog standard. And sure, it seeks to dominate the seas near to it.

To note, the nine dash line is just a negotiation trick. It used to be an eleven dash line and a ten dash line also, and Chinese diplomats admitted that they don't seek territorial waters beyond 12nm of land. It's the same strategy as was used in the claims with Mongolia or in claims to the arctic - make vague grandiose claims then walk them back once you secure your strategic advantage.

What China is really after is to control the waters that allow its supply lines to be secured. They see themselves as vulnerable to a blockade and their main enemy is the dominant sea power.

It has some risk, certainly. But that risk is bounded well below the risk of a confrontation between two superpowers, and importantly is not ideological or irrational but driven by simple calculus that the present situation leaves China to be too vulnerable. That's so insanely far from WW2 that isn't not even close. Any comparison to that effect is hyperbolic. It's much closer to the establishment of the Monroe doctrine both in maximum impact and in motivation. The same applies to Russia. None of them want to start invading a dozen other countries, rather they have a national interest they want to protect and act as far as is necessary to achieve that.
My wife was born and grew up in Hong Kong, an urban dream city. Between MTR, light rail, and an incredible bus system, their transportation is some of the best in the world, and it serves some very high-density housing, so it's well-suited.

A few years ago she moved to the US and we now live in a suburb of Dallas, Texas, where she loves it. She prefers it over Hong Kong in nearly every way, loves driving, loves everything about it.

It's simple not true that US suburbs become unpalatable when compared to Seoul (or Hong Kong). That may be true for you, but it is not at all true for everyone. There are tradeoffs and compromises on both extremes.
I'd love to know who would willingly pay $234.65 for a console with "value engineed" nickle and diming rather than paying $238.87 for a few decent components

You don't decide to buy an xbox rather than a playstation because it's 5 bucks cheaper.
BangGood isn't great for electronics components, I buy those off Ali, and any version you get there is good.
The modmic has their own little sticker that is stuck to the outside of the mic. That's what the modmic attaches to. If you have the wireless one, that's that. If you have the wired one, the 3.5mm jack goes into your PC, not into the QC35s. So it doesn't matter what kind of plug the QC35s have.

I actually have both a wired (very old, wire kind of broken because I treated it poorly) and a wireless modmic, and both work fine with my QC35s.
Maybe you're defaulting to the annual billing on your website, like most companies do
"normal and rational" is different from "ethical or moral".

"All wealth levels" are not the same.
The amount of tooling that has sprung out around managing large CloudFormation deployments is exactly the reason TF exists. CloudFormation is an untenable mess.
Why are people selling real estate assets to speculators for less than they are worth?
They say that the reason owning is terrible is because it's not as flexible as renting - you can't easily move to where work is. But I'm not sure that's as big of a problem in a covid/post covid world where WFH has become common. Also, I don't think that a society that is rootless is all that great of an outcome - people who own are more invested in their communities and will be more likely to get involved in improving them.

I'm glad I bought 11 years ago. My house is easily worth 2X what I paid then. If I'd been renting all this time I'd be paying at least 2X in rent compared to what my mortgage is. And I'd be subject to the whims of owners who decide to sell and make the renters move.
Can’t enjoy the cultural offerings of the city if everything is closed and banned.
TSMC lumps crypto into their HPC segment which is rising. How much of it is crypto is unclear. Bitmain manufactures their mining equipment on the latest TSMC process.
> For those who are not looking to spend a fortune, a simple Apple earpod (wired) is still better than most headsets out there.

I don't disagree, but the results are widely variable with different TRRS I/O across different soundcards. E.g. on a MacBook, the EarPods probably sound great, with a good level of gain and plenty of headroom. On a Lenovo Thinkpad, they sound hissy and terrible because you have to turn the gain all the way up.

> I think my yeti actually sounds worse at it cost 3 times as much.

Something is probably wrong if this is the case. Which is understandable; a USB microphone that's not attached to your person requires some positioning and mic technique that you don't have to think about with the inline mic on the EarPods.
Is there any organization currently working on this idea in the US?

I'm not fully understanding the concept and would like to know more about public ownership for renters in practice.
Dunno, in a lot of europe, though credit cards are readily available, most of my family (I have relatives in Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia) doesn't have or want them. They have forms of payment which are strange to me but basically are some form of bank debit card, accepted everywhere. Or fancy phone / app payment methods we can only dream of here.

I didn't read the OP as necessarily implying technical or cultural superiority; credit cards are big in US and may or may not be big somewhere else, as you point out as well, so I felt the quoted statement is quite plainly factual rather than layered with hidden or interpreted meanings...
I thought of this when I first read the article title, and I think it's a decent compromise that mostly addresses the concerns in the other comments. Supporting truly arbitrary SQL seems too high-risk to allow from the front-end. PostgREST supports a simple subset in a HTML-like language that's fairly unlikely to have any unpredictable/negative consequences. I think it has limits for query time and result size built-in already too. You do have to get used to setting up the correct security constraints in Postgres natively though.

Strangely enough, I hardly ever see anyone really use the Postgres security checks. Postgrest is pretty much the only use case I've ever heard of.
Not only experimental. I've been running HashQL in production for over a year now. I really wish I had time to write about it. I'm going to present it at https://speakeasyjs.com/ on the 7th of May, so I'll have to get something ready until then at least.
For context, before the rise of SQLite, BerkeleyDB was often used for local file databases.

I never programmed for berkelyDB but I don’t believe it was SQL, so I think that’s what made SQLite so successful. The combination of an SQL api backed by local files
I would like to support BCH but everyone I talk to who supports Bitcoin Cash comes across as so divisive on this matter. BTC obviously has an important place in the crypto ecosystem. To discount the price growth of BTC and its importance in the overall awareness of crypto to the public seems short sighted. Price does matter. All of these coins can exist.
Why I Use R (2019)
>It's statements like this that drive me deep into despair. That bland, banal platitude of "value". That non-statement of inaction phrased as "we need a better vision".

The sad thing is, it isn't even that hard to do; creating value for workers, I mean; at the risk of intensifying your despair.

Keep workloads reasonable. Establish humane feedback loops so that your labor force can actually attempt to actualize themselves. At the end of the day, every human being in a workplace creates value, and the more you can make life simpler and more straightforward for those who work for you without hemming them in or pidgeonholing them, the safer they'll feel taking reasonable risks that may just pay off, and most importantly coming to you first for input, advice, and a courtesy heads up.

One of the biggest challenges I've had to face since getting actual reports, is de-programming the tyranny-of-the-manager in the whole lot of them. I need people questioning things, correcting misunderstandings, making me aware of things. It is my job to do what needs to be done to enable my team to succeed. My team's inexplicable or unanticipated sudden failure is my failure. I am the one ultimately responsible for ensuring the reliability and stability of the processes that effect those I am tasked with managing for.

As a nuts and bolts person, it's totally new to me. However, I had someone volunteer to take a paycut to stay on with me. I'm... Not sure whether that's ultimately a positive, or what. I wonder sometimes if I'm falling down into the abyss of narcisstic management/business tendencies I've fought against my entire career because the descent is more insidious than I ever imagined... Then I look at all the stuff I have to balance, and re-evaluate what I could do different, and well... It is what it is.

Management was never something you should do to others, rather you do it for them to in the end make the entire working unit more productive. It's all work and overhead that has to occur for any task to get done; somebody has to do it. I just try to do for them what I always wished mine would do for me. I have a hunch they may have productivity gains in their personal lives. (At least I hope so.) I figure that's for someone else to judge though.

I just don't understand treating people like machines.
You think a lot of people mistake "I'm asking you to improve database response times by 25%" with an HTTP request?
Gambling is great, as long as I win.
What if we question ET as a pure contemporary myth ? Maybe we would avoid such articles, and start considering ourselve as casual as we are.
> just another way that medical care destroys people's future in this country, also had to liquidate a good part of my retirement).

Is it right to blame medical bills rather than blame bad luck for your misfortune and/or lack of a job or income to buy healthcare to cover those medical bills? (This is general w/o knowing your specifics).

> I started a crypto business that fizzled out

Example if your crypto business (or any business you started) didn't fizzle out you would not have to have sold your bitcoins possible. Also (and this is the larger point) if you had taken a traditional and less risky job at a large company (tech or otherwise) most cases the healthcare provided would have covered (once again generally w/o knowing your specifics) your healthcare bills.
Is this only in the web version? I don't see a new version of the desktop.
Just listen to your own audio? In windows there is a checkbox for this, and most call apps have a settings page where you can listen to your own mic.
Regardless of whether one may like the initial selection criteria or not, what you describe is precisely why the country (USA) was supposed to be led by land owning free white men. The assumption being that people that fit that criteria, plausibly possessed a requisite initial selection criteria set of skills and knowledge that would constitute the pool of best qualified people to run a government in the common interest. From that pool of people their peers would further select amongst each other using those very same abilities, knowledge, skills, and capacities to further choose the utmost best person to lead.

I realize that just saying that may cause some consternation among some, but it is objectively the best selection system one could possibly devise, for any people anywhere, regardless of whether people like it or not.

It's not even a selection system that is not used all over the place from choices within your family where there are certain prerequisites like being an adult or a parent or having to be a member of the union in order to vote on union matters, or having achieved certain certifications and qualifications before you can make decisions about building a highway bridge.

It is and has not been a net benefit to any of us that "democracy" was first imposed and then expanded when the founders of the USA were very explicit about the fact that democracy was a recipe for disaster and would invariably cause destruction … as it has. Personally, I would very much have been ok with benefitting from properly qualified people making decision for me that I have no competent capacity to make for myself, rather than having lived in a society where everyone thinks they are equally smart and competent and my vote counts the same as some fool who does not know that a week is seven days (something I heard someone in her early 20s say yesterday. She thought the week excludes the weekend)
Most phone shops have only had dummy phones for as long as I can remember.
Disney+ having Hulu content in Canada is only a month or 2 old. Being region locked out of content in Canada has been the norm for many, many years. What has been extremely common is one of the big telcos (Bell in particular) buying the Canadian rights and then either locking it to cable without a streaming option or using their own streaming options that have horrific apps and experiences. In the last year or so it has gotten a lot better, but people still have a lot of scars from getting hosed by telcos.
Where does /etc/nsswitch.conf factor in? I don't see it mentioned.
This is a hard problem, but usually gets handwaved away to "that's the cost to play". Distributed storage has the same problem - how do you know you're not storing CP? - and there are some novel approaches to attempting to solve that problem (content hash checks against known material, IP list flagging, etc...) but at the end of the day you basically have to admit you can't solve that problem. That's the price of "censorship resistance".
So can privacy coins scale or all the efforts put there were futile?
My RSS reader doesn't include the brackets
Problem is, modern browsers do things differently yet again. So the insanity continues, just on different levels.
Maybe when your second shitposting account gets banned for the comments you make, the correct course of action is to look in the mirror and consider what you're spending your time on, rather than... creating a third shitposting account.
Maybe not, but they might start refusing 14nm products.
"Highly illegal" always sets off my breathless sensationalism detector in the same way that "heavily encrypted" does.
Sounds very American.
> I won't bother to respond to the rest of your treatise other than to point out the obvious, which is that BTC is not remotely a solution to any of the things you're hinting at as being wrong.

People who try and find "real solutions" to stuff, they miss out on narrative driven price appreciation.

Just saying...we are traders and investors not world builders.

Our job is to predict whatever goes on in people's minds and how will they express their vision in the capital markets...predict, anticipate and position. It's really all there is to it.

> Real estate, ETFs, stocks etc.

That's not what price says, price says that btc outperformed all those things, denying that is foolish, I remind you that the market is like the ocean, you don't fight the ocean, you position to ride the strong waves it provides us.
life is fractal
Amazon pauses vesting when you’re on medical or parental leave
His intentions are probably to not get eaten.
As an Indian I agree with what you said. Hell one top government official recently said Indians are by nature mostly non law-abiding people.

There are innumerable street smart sayings used even by otherwise educated and well paid folks which just amount to "Benefit by hook or crook and fuck this world".
Their rubber venture is still alive and well and makes good studded winter tires for bicycles
> Is there no entity that even just tries to keep tabs on or possibly investigates these people, let alone charge them with crimes where appropriate?

well there's this thing called the IRS that seems to spend most of their time auditing random citizens when the numbers they submit on their tax forms doesn't match the numbers the IRS already calculated on their side. maybe we could streamline that absolutely ridiculous process & their efforts could be used elsewhere
> would you take a mortgage denominated in Bitcoin? Of course not! If its price continued to go up

Only so long as Bitcoin is pegged to the USD. Once Bitcoin becomes the basis of value, and the USD is pegged to Bitcoin instead, things become different. Bitcoin stabilizes. You take a loan in Bitcoin, you take a salary in Bitcoin. Bitcoin isn't going up anymore in this scenario because it's not related to fiat currency.

You're still thinking in terms of BTC going up in USD. 1 BTC = 1 BTC
Her husband, who is her legal business partner, should not be trading at all. It's just that simple. They should buy long-term bonds.
What about both?

Take the existing system and have the house and Senate argue every official act to the sortition for a vote. How would this be worse than the current crony capitalism we suffer under?
In China, a Telescope Offers Cosmic Data Amid Earthly Tensions
No, there's nothing in that list even vaguely related to anything I've said. It shares a name. It's not the same thing at all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_fraud#Types

Not one of those examples is "the act of purchasing an item with the intent to return it."

Also, be less aggressive. We're having a conversation here. It's not a battle.

The entry you're looking for is Wardrobing, and it's most certainly not illegal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardrobing

The Talk page even has someone asking the very same question I am: Why is it fraud? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wardrobing

It's not fraud. It's not "abuse," and it's not illegal. You're free to feel however you wish about it.