skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A little dishonesty is no problem. Lying and stealing are sometimes excusable. Breaking the speed limit is OK because I am special, or because everyone else does it. Fraud is only a problem if it is caught. Probably no one will know, or if I am cute enough it won't really matter. Taking advantage of those who don't know better is OK. The rules are for the weak. It is OK to disregard others."

But the reality is: True happiness comes from things that last well in the sunlight.
Nothing new needs to be proposed. Nothing is being replaced. The current state of things is that whatever your edge device is provides actual security with stateful firewalling and translation with NAT, already. It's simple to understand because most home router products and projects like pfsense make them look like inseparable things that perform the same function. Removal of NAT won't even require a UI change for consumers because all these port forwarding UIs add both a DNAT/PNAT rule and a firewall rule already. You can keep the exact same user interfaces and "port forward" terminology when removing NAT.
But this argument presupposes that employee v. contractor is a choice that the worker or the company is allowed to make. It's emphatically, objectively not. It's a tax designation. There are lines and rules that define which of those you are.
Toronto went through an insane boom, yes, but there was a period in I think the 90’s that was very quiet for property values, so some of it may have been pent-up demand.

And now they’re building like crazy, with people leaving in droves. Hopefully that’ll depress prices long-term.
Whenever I can I listen to podcasts on their original websites. But there's usually one downside: their players are bad (seeking, skipping forwards/backwards)

(I am also aware that bandwidth/deployment is not so easy for small producers)
The High‐ Speed Rail Money Sink: The US Should Not Spend on Obsolete Technology
My personal opinion is that this is the result of "low quality" of design education.

When you separate intellectual and practical processes you cannot crate meaning. Example of top of my head: Bauhaus revolution was possible because of practical approach towards design.

Designers that prefer aesthetic over product function are actually not professionals. Designers that have no insight in technical implementation are not capable to design properly.
To design properly, one must rely on deep knowledge of classical principles and actual data.

P.S.
This counter-argument sounds more like "management and communication" problem.
I’m getting tired of these low-value workers complaining they should be paid as well as high-value workers.

They were hired with no skills, and were trained from the ground up. They are getting a livable wage but now they want more. If they want more, they need to elevate their worth and become high value employees or find a better job that values them better.

They are contractors. Because of their particular life experiences and life choices, they were unable to come as a more valuable employee. Google doesn’t owe them anything except the job they offered them. If they want better terms they can ask, but Google will refuse. So it’s on them to find a better job.

But please stop complaining about it and think you’re more valuable than you actually are. They can be replaced by someone who has no skills and can be trained from scratch, just like they were. The pay is fair, the conditions are good. That’s better than many jobs out there.
It's a small price to pay for the new Amazon Lord of the RingsTM television event where everyone's heaters will kick on at max whenever there's fire on screen.
From paying $1 a minute to tipping in bags of weed
But it wasn't an adverse inference in that case, at least not from Saddam's perspective. He wanted the world to believe he had WMDs, because he believed, not unreasonably (c.f. North Korea), that this would deter military action by the U.S. and his other enemies (Iran, Syria, Israel, Saudi Arabia).
It's hard to talk about the "purpose" of a price in this way.

In the case of a monopoly, or otherwise any market with large barriers to entry, the purpose of the price increases are to gouge the consumer for profit. And in the case where price raises are stemming from aggregate demand then price increases are about consuming opportunity costs.

Either way the price increase may incentivize market entrants in cases where entry is possible, but the "purpose" of the actors controlling price is always to maximize profit. The market itself cannot be spoken of volitionally.
I had the same reaction, so just did some searching. Definitely seems sketchy, but stranger things have happened.
Their pricing is only slightly cheaper than backblaze b2. For storage they charge $4/TB/month whereas b2 charges $5/TB/month, and for egress they charge $7/TB whereas b2 charges $10/TB. Personally I don't think the risks (eg. your cost going up because crypto price skyrocket, or you losing your data because of a crypto winter) are worth the savings. Not to mention there are much cheaper solutions than the two I mentioned, like deep glacier that only charges $1/TB for storage, or office365 that provides 6x1TB storage for $100/year.
Not sure how that is relevant to my specific point. There is someone in the driver set in that example.
Three cheers for a Windows bug that's not a gaping security hole!
I mean... I use notepad.

I frequently use it to clear the non-text formats from the clipboard so when I paste I actually get text. Some apps don't let you pick the paste format and try to be helpful with formatting. Most of the time I don't want that.

Win+R is useful for small snippets, but notepad is useful for multiline text.

But I don't pay attention to the asterisk, because I just use it as a scratchpad. When I need to restart for updates I inevitably have several Untitled notepads open that need to be manually closed out.
Anything will “sell” if it is at the right “price”. If it isn’t selling, it isn’t at the right price!

Simply put, the market is what determines the wage employees will stick around for. The free market doesn’t give two shits about what any employer thinks is an “appropriate wage”. If you are offering $14/hr and employees are jumping ship after their fourth day for $18/hr, no amount of complaining and bellyaching about that not being “sustainable” will change things.

Tighten that belt and make cuts elsewhere - like your own take-home, which if it’s an industry standard, is likely several multiples of that employee’s wage in order to finance a McMansion on the hilltop and a Mercedes in the garage.

Remember - if you cannot afford to pay a living wage, you cannot afford to be in business. Asking people to work below poverty wages so you can own a business is entitlement at it’s finest: you are asking human beings to use their lives to subsidize your desire to own a business. If a job is worth being done, it’s worth being paid enough to live.
I moved to a small island community that is near a cosmopolitan metro area of 3 million or so people - just a short ferry ride away. Before the pandemic, commuting to work from the island would eat 3-4 hours a day of your life, so it was not a feasible option for most people. When work-from-home started last March, a steady flow of city folk started migrating, paying top dollar for the very limited stock of homes available here. Prices surged 40%. Locals who rent have been leaving just as quickly, priced right out of the market.

When the pandemic is over and WFH policies are tightened, I'm sure some people will migrate back after they discover how horrid it is to commute for hours a day. But I sense that WFH is the new normal and so this transformation is likely long term.
NB. the headline (at 2021-04-20 16:34 BST) says "EU agency links J&J shot to rare clots, says odds favor use"
It's less of a "you're doing it wrong" or "you're not allowed to like the NAT" and a more complex "you've incorrectly attributed your protection to NAT"
Why not Common Lisp and Mcclim?
esbuild changes the game. Before we have a dynamic language with a compile step that compiles slow like a C++ project. All the disadvantages of a dynamic language combined with the disadvantages of a compiled language. In the browser you have no choice, but to use that setup on the server with node or on mobile with react native was questionable. Now with instant builds, you've got a dynamic language back - and one that mops the floor with Ruby and Python in terms of performance. You now have just one language to hire for, all your developers can work on our understand any part of the code, and you can share code between server and client. The time for universal JavaScript is here.
What a feature to introduce in 2020. This has been a core part of the UI of OS X for… ever? For every app.
An algorithm for driving newsletter traffic
This is basically us.

My wife, son and I lived in the Midwest where I worked in tech from the mid 1990s until 2009, when we moved to the SF Bay Area. While we could technically afford to buy a small place in California at the time, the difficulty we experienced selling our home and land in Missouri soured us on buying, so we rented in Mountain View until 2020.

In our early 50s, and rent for a descent 1000 ft^2 two bedroom apartment approaching $4800/month, and the pandemic raging, I transitioned to a full time remote position and we bought an enormous property about 10 miles outside of Olympia, Washington. Our total cost of living, including food, rent/mortgage, utilities went down by not quite 50%, but I was still getting paid "Silicon Valley" rates and benefits, and I still am....and I will likely continue to be.

My wife's various businesses have long been fully online, and her income has gone up tremendously during the pandemic, with no sign of that changing.

One thing that facilitated this move for us was our son attending High School from home via https://cava.k12.com/ in California, and we were able to transition to the Washington State version of k12.com for his senior year, which is finishing up shortly.

To the article at hand: while we don't have any solid data, anecdotally we understand that there's a skyrocketing housing crunch in the making in and around https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympia,_Washington and our property has appreciated about 17% in less than a year.

More to the point, from the perspective of our read on NextDoor (which so far has been a LOT more healthy than the NextDoor in and around Mountain View), https://old.reddit.com/r/olympia (and /r/seattle) and various personal conversations, there is a huge influx of 'money', and the long-time folks are pretty unhappy about it. My wife and I are pretty chill and we get along with people, so it hasn't been directed at us.

Yes, we definitely feel bad that we've done a small part to negatively impact the life of our new neighbors. Our plan is that this is our 'forever home'...I don't know if that 'offsets' things or not, but we're certainly not looking for a quick flip.

I don't know where/how this ends, but in my high level estimation, there's far more possibility of building new housing in Olympia + Colorado Springs + many other places than there is in just the SF Bay Area.
Uber, Lyft and the Urgency of Saving Money on Ambulances (2018)
Nice! Well done!!
Maybe that is the origin of consciousness - when the processing becomes high level enough that the interference of past into present becomes sophisticated/multilayered enough to be useful.
I wonder if you could do the feedback mechanism in a more subtle way, for example by pairing the musical composition component to an interactive activity like playing an action game, where movements and so on in the game trigger a response in the music.

There are lots of games that do this kind of thing at a rhythm level, like Necrodancer and more recently BPM [1], but I think there'd be the potential to do a lot more with it than just rewarding beat-alignment with a pre-cooked solo that blazes over top of the base track.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V684o6wBaSQ
How do you decide who gets to live in the great places?
I LOVE munin. It's the only system that you can:

- deploy with an apt-get install

- publish to the whole Internet as static pages without any security risk

- maintain with OS package updates and zero additional effort

In a world of resume-driven development, simplicity and security are the first victims. I wish we had more tools like Munin.
Or, your state could protect W-2 employees’ IP developed on personal time and equipment, as California does. You are barking up the wrong tree.
I don't know the exact numbers for this case, but contractors always appear to be overpaid. What most people who call them overpaid miss is that contractors have to pay their own employment taxes, as well as any health benefits (including vacation time) they want out of that income.

If you consider those, the cost of your average employee to the company employing them is roughly 1.6x to 2x their gross income. An overpaid contractor would have to make well over 2x that of a normal employee.
I remember coming across this website when I was 11 or 12. I went to school and showed the Ian Knot to my friends. I was like "guys, look how fast I can tie my shoelaces". They were all super impressed. I'm 23 now and this is still how I tie my shoelaces
The play store requires a google account, and the manufacturer may have not wanted to go through with that. It’s also possible as you said that many Android apps aren’t optimized enough to run on the device. People may complain if candy crush can’t run.

I would think that Android is overkill for a player like this and running a full OS would lower audio quality, but everything is so powerful these days it may not make a practical difference.
> I get the impression most people don't read their contract.

We read them, one of two situations occurs:

1. We don't care and sign it.

2. We raise a stink about it and either they change it or we don't take the job.

My current employer had the clause because it was standard boilerplate contract, but when I expressed my concerns over it and told them I wouldn't sign with it, they amended the contract to make sure nothing in it would impede my own projects and company.

Now on my 1-on-1 my CEO often asks me how my side business is doing and gives me advice as needed about building a business.
There may also be an element of risk in getting a job. I'm not sure what the situation is in the US, but in Canada it is very difficult to justify putting effort into finding work if you were barely earning enough to get by. Simply put, taking a full time job that earns 50% to 100% of your prior earnings will leave you worse off. That is because you cannot collect employment insurance if you work full time (regardless of your earnings) and the other emergency response program only kicks in if you lost 50% of your income.

Now put yourself into the position of someone who is only able to find work that doesn't pay well and is susceptible to emergency measures. Working full time may allow them to put a few dollars aside, but not much. When they find their hours cut back to 60%, there is nothing to protect them.

There are a couple of ways to respond to that. One is to put very little effort into applying for desperation jobs. Another is to continue looking for a more secure or better paying job while working. This was a problem in some sectors prior to the pandemic. It has only been made worse because of the pandemic. That being said, I suspect it is worse due to the heightened sense of insecurity rather than government benefits.

EDIT: clarification.
Great article up until the end, where they just have to include that gotcha "By the way, this is all the white man's fault!" I think it's just the opposite: FAANG companies are now scrambling over each other to hire minorities, and their design languages get more and more stripped down by the year. One of the worst offenders being that round, colorful, soulless people art that everyone and their mother's startup uses on their landing pages because it's "diverse" and "inclusive".

Stop injecting race into everything and start looking at the bigger picture. Big tech corporations that don't give a fuck about you are driving these design movements.
>They’d rather have people living on the street than have a business make money off of them.

Considering the way these cities are going they will end up with a lot of people on the street.
The parent comment was definitely a sarcasm. I am not sure if yours is.
as always, india beat china to the punch by starting their own "volunteer program"

https://www.voanews.com/press-freedom/plan-cyber-volunteers-...

the important bit from the article
"Volunteers would help law enforcement identify, report and remove illegal content online. Along with child-abuse violations, the flaggers would search for content deemed to go against the sovereignty or defense of India and state security, as well as “content aimed at disturbing public order.” Volunteers are advised on the ministry site to study Article 19 of the constitution, which guarantees the right to freedom of opinion and expression."

why should you need a third party mechanism to "report" child abuse violations when every public website/network has a report button and why should the government be first to know about it, even before the network actually hosting it? the government plans to what then? force the website to remove the child abuse content? wouldnt they do it anyways or face lawsuits anywhere in the world? so the reason would be something else and that is where "the flaggers would search for content deemed to go against the sovereignty or defense of India and state security, as well as “content aimed at disturbing public order." comes in. It is always about surveillance and now they are openly doing it, just like china so yeah
I like to read.

I also find that trying as hard as you can at something you find interesting in a new domain can be good for this. You hone your learning skills but I also find that other domains usually have general tricks and principals worked out that can be cross applied to other domains that haven't figured them out just yet.
Perhaps, but on the other hand, if someone like Joe Rogan had a paid for subscription plan where you were paying him directly, instead of being forced into a membership with Spotify, would that in a sense be more open, in that you are able to vote directly with your cash who you are listening to?

Of course, if its an apple product, in a sense you are tied in to their system, but if it's successful, other paid for podcast variants could appear and then Joe Rogan can syndicate it to numerous vendors which have a pay-wall.
I just checked out your YouTube channel. Very neat instruments!
I've thought about it. I have no local options and my wife won't move. My remote options are very limited based on the stacks/languages that I have experience in.
To me Clojure Spec is more like IDL or a JSON Schema (or CBOR or Protobuf or etc), but with more "dynamic" stuff as opposed to just sum/product types.

It doesn't occupy the same space as, say, TLA+.
I have yet to see someone post a viable solution to FireFox's increasingly shrinking market share

1. Stop alienating the people who care about things like this. Normal computer-illiterate users will not be convinced to switch to your browser. The last decade or so is evidence of that. Word of mouth is what unseated IE last time, but if you keep pissing off the people who actually care about their browser, you think that word is going to be positive?

2. Start respecting your users rather than regarding them with the same disdain as Chrome and GNOME with a thin veneer of "but we're not Google" to paper it over as a selling point. "We give a shit about you" (when backed by matching actions.. i.e. the opposite of the last 10 years of Firefox) is a selling point. "We're basically Chrome but made by someone else who uses a lot more flowery words about 'privacy' and 'empowerment'" is not.

That's it. Firefox isn't losing market share because of malfeasance, they are losing it because of an infuriating series of self-owns and poor decisions.
Here's a memorable jingle for that handy new emergency number...

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It is true that the flats were sold for symbolic sums. This was done by the counter-revolutionary government after '89 both to prevent revolts from people used to cheap housing and in the hope of engendering individualism through ownership.

Of course the destruction of socialism in '89 isn't a good example, most of us would still prefer it over capitalism. And it's not true that the socialist countries were somewhat subsidised by some external force, although it is a common myth spread by neoliberals (most famously Thatcher).

Workers create all value through labour and are paid only a fraction of that to survive on. The rest (surplus) is either appropriated by capitalists or pooled together by the workers or a worker's state to fund collective efforts. An economy that doesn't seek profit is inherently much more efficient, all else being equal.

The USSR did in fact support many socialist countries, out of the surplus of the labour of soviet workers. România actually paid reparations to the USSR for years for having invaded it during WW2. It's also worth keeping in mind that all socialist revolutions so far have been in poor under-industrialised countries that improved drastically under socialism, so comparisons to their industrialised colonisers aren't exactly honest.
There is an idea of a Clubhouse, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real Clubhouse, only an entity, something illusory.
Amazon contracts nine Atlas 5 missions for Kuiper broadband satellites
I lived in Park City for a decade, and it's the same. If you live your life being mad at the traffic during the Sundance Festival and Christmas vacation skiiers, you're just an old man yelling at clouds. That tourist money pays for so many of the amenities that make our town a nice place to live during the rest of the year. Lighten up!