skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's ahistorical considering almost all deaths attributed to communism were a result of industrialization, a process which was just as deadly under capitalism.

The only difference as a result of ideology was the timeframe. The USSR was forced to rapidly industrialize due to global pressure from foreign militaries and famines in China were exceedingly common long before communism.

History is not as simple as you're making it out to be.
That's cool and makes total sense as a measure of how "ventilated" a room is, though I'm sure it has its limits.
Sounds like a great tool for finding acronyms for new projects! I only wish it linked results to dictionary definitions or Wikipedia.

"Rather than a fixed dictionary, Nutrimatic uses a list of every word and phrase that occurs in Wikipedia at least 5 times. This means that not only are English words included, but so are many celebrity names, place names, catchphrases, famous quotes, common idioms, and so on. (Unfortunately, it can also include common misspellings, like "epsiode" and "teh".)"
Thanks for the insight! Seems like quite a talented dude but with the mandatory eccentricity that seemingly often comes with . Great to know that the tools are legit.
Is there any reason that Venezuelans couldn't be paid in USD for their exports? After all, they can trade internationally, so why not buy USD instead?

[edit] And in fact it appears that Venezuela is moving in that direction. Domestic banks are already allowed to offer USD denominated accounts, and the government is making it easier to use [1].

It's not a surprise as of course, the dollar is a much better currency.

In fact as the article points out it is estimated 66% of transactions in Venezuela are now conducted using the US dollar. Once that gets to 100%, will you concede that "Venezuela" wasn't ever a great talking point? After all it's clear, the people have spoken: economic activity in USD is preferred over BTC in Venezuela by an absolute landslide. Is this not a scathing indictment of BTC and crypto in general? In a failed state with hyperinflation - a flagship use case - the population was given many options, including both BTC and USD. They picked USD.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-13/venezuela...
Blue Origin, the space cosplay company with zero orbital flights track record complaining about rival winning a bid?
Agree with most of it, however the jab here:

> What this meant was first, you couldn't run stuff like a web browser on Plan 9 (and you still can't; please no-one write to inform me that some dweebish half-assed attempt at a web browser is a solution)

is needlessly provocative, given that these days it is impossible to write a web browser from scratch (https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope....).

Granted, at the time it was possible, however that didn't fit into it's philosophy.

Notably, there was a way to interface to the internet -- Plan9 has a filesystem for exactly that purpose, all that needed to be written was the frontend.
I would love to see a strong competitor to YouTube enter the market. PornHub should become "Hub" and diversify into regular content.
This also works on Dell rack servers to reset cmos/drain the caps and reset the drac etc. well you only hold power with no ac plugged in for 30 but same thing.

Have done this a few times.
Well, I'm already forced to use my Raspberry Pi for H265 (which it cannot play fullscreen for some reason), because my TV doesn't support it.
Not just Anglos: Sweden, the Netherlands, France, Hong Kong, all have at least pockets of insane property prices.
"further increased evaporation > even more water vapor > increased precipitation > fewer clouds." No. You can't get fewer clouds from more water vapor, that's not how equilibria work.
They only banned it on inter-office communications, not on personal social media.
There is in fact a Roku channel, where they've picked up some licensing of content, but they aren't making their own unique stuff atm.
Taking away wellness benefits seems unbelievably petty and foolish. These are relatively cheap compared to payroll, but are fantastic for morale. Taking them away on top everything else feels like he’s just willfully poking his own employees in the eye with a stick for no good reason.

Also, posting this publicly feels like a very, very bad idea.
New Horizons Is Now 50 Astronomical Units Away from the Sun
The watch vibrates on unlock with a prompt to lock the phone.
It's also an opt in setting not an opt out.

It also only enables unlock and not other features that require face id
You didn't actually have a loss that year (to offset gains)
Not having to sign for deliveries.
Why shouldn't employees have a say in how their own workplaces are run?

EDIT: I see this is being downvoted. It's a genuine good faith question, and if you've downvoted, I'd love to know what you see as unconstructive about this comment. I'm sure the HN community would not be so petty as to downvote it out of pure ideology.
Will they extend their cancellations to paying enterprise customers? What about elected war criminals who serve in the highest offices? I am curious how this will play out over the next 5 years and will they cancel say Trump?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Crimes_Act_of_1996
Same reason you have heating units in your house/building rather than at a municipal heating plant … people want to buy self-sufficiency for their house/building, and it's easier than scoping/building large-scale projects and running wires and dealing with municipalities.
>By avoiding effect aware functions a language hobbles engineers and makes programs sloppier than they could be.

This is a nice garden path sentence.
Perhaps they should have looked at the benefits package before taking the job?
You can, but if you buy back the next day on the new year (and the price didn't move) you didn't actually take a realized loss.
Sure it's your legal right to form a union, go for it if you want. More power to you if you win.

Fortunately workers in tech are almost unanimously smart enough to understand this isn't in their interest and reject unions.

Also understand you are playing power politics so if you are going to play make sure you can win. These people at instacart didn't: https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/21/22242676/instacart-firing...
Well fun fact. this repo had 0 changes to the original version (I know it, because I'm the owner. if you want proof, paste some random code as reply and see it going live in my gists account...)

but technically just by looking at my comment history here (not much to see) you can see the likelyness of this b being true
I think I agree with what you said about American conservatism; it's an interesting idea at least.

But what's an example of a political issue that would affect someone's work at Basecamp?

So you do a lot more than just cut out “distracting” conversations this way. You uninvited certain people entirely, and in doing so have taken a hell of a stance on that persons inherent worth.

I can't think of many political topics that necessarily amount to uninviting someone from daily work conversation at a company like Basecamp.
> It was awful. Anyone who registered a domain would immediately start receiving a bunch of junk mail (like, physical letters) about it, along with a bunch of email spam --

So much physical SPAM and SEO emails.

I’m grateful for privacy whois services. Only primary domain for the company has public info.
What about people whose personal interests and activities directly involve politics? Like people interested in political analysis or reporting, or people interested in competitive policy debate, or even people who actively do advocacy work in their free time? Is small talk about the advocacy work you did over the weekend worse than my small talk about building drones over the weekend?
I don't see an issue with it legally/constitutionally. Case law has been pretty clear that it's not an unrestricted right, this punishment seems logical and thus likely acceptable under common law, and I haven't seen any real support for a theory in which this is not acceptable (besides 1A MFer).
I assume just installing CO2 scrubbers would have no benefit though, since the CO2 level is just a proxy for how much the air is recirculating.
a little late for 2021 predictions?
I don't think the other reply answered the question. Google trends show 10x as many queries from the UK than US for "schtum". So I would guess your intuition is correct.
Supreme Court to Decide First-Ever Gun-Carry Case
Hell, I would happy if self driving cars only kills 1.5 (slightly more) million people each car.
Yup! The original Prolog implementation is described in "Use of Prolog for developing a new programming language" [0], and took place in 1986. After performance eventually became an issue, they cross-compiled Erlang to a few other concurrent languages (Strand included), before opting to directly implement Erlang in C.

[0] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.34.3...
As a former Audi owner, I would never ever buy anything from VW (certainly not after the dieselgate scandal). But good luck with your $45k purchase!
but the advertising industry has almost alone managed to produce google. That's a trillion dollar company that has literally changed the world.

Some perspective is needed. What looks like an evil industry of insane waste is at the end of the day subsidising our most important tools for business, communicating, and relaxing. All thanks to the vast allocations of resources and money into advertising.
> I'm curious if there's a way you can mess up language in a contract that isn't deceptive/misleading?

According to the linked document, this was not a typo. This line contradicts reality: "this extension of credit is a qualified educational loan and is subject to the limitations on dischargeability in bankruptcy contained in Section 523(a)(8) of the United States Bankruptcy Code."

In addition, the document points out, "Certain Lambda School marketing has included representations implying its program is “free.”" It is not free.

> This is standard procedure, but you're clearly painting it as if they've been knocked down another peg.

The parent post made it sound like they were out of the woods, when they clearly aren't. If I were the subject of this press release, I would not be "excited."

> And this is blatantly false and makes me further question everything else you've stated.

I did not say they were still operating illegally. I said that they used the word endorsement, when the state had simply approved them. The two words mean different things.

> Try the search function.

I searched for the word "endorse" on that page, and found zero matches.
At the risk of sounding like someone who is posited against the vaccine (I'm not, and I'm looking to receiving my second dose soon), where is your citation on this?
Same issue here. I have found a way to sort of look past the phone that reliably unlocks at night.
Do you mean using a network socket after you reimplement the Signal protocol? Or do you think signal-cli is official?
> This is the start of a major battle between two tech juggernauts.

So are you saying it's time to make popcorn and watch the ensuing mayhem?
I think it is an entirely fair description of the overwhelming majority of the times I see it used. I suppose the person using the term does not always think the thing they are describing is unethical and so do not intend it as a euphemism.
Rusty Object Notation
Providing gym memberships is kind of problematic, if not outright insensitive. Body positivity is a thing and self-love can be expressed in more ways than just this one.
> That does depend on how much area it can cover per day.

This assumes weeding is a time sensitive task, which I find very doubtful. Realistically covering your land area in a week is probably enough, but maybe that's much higher.
Why should they? It is not their business. If they want a say in how it is run they can leave or figure out how to buy into the business as an investor/owner.

Employees are literally in place to do one thing: trade time/energy for money in service of the companies goals.
If they mean that the InfoSec is a joke, okay fair enough, but a credit freeze itself is not a joke: it shifts more of the liability to the credit bureaus for allowing your record to be pulled, of in fact that does happen by a scammer. And they notify your device if you set up MFA.
Holocaust is not due to capitalism. It's actually due to socialism. "The National Socialists German Workers Party"
> Fortunately workers in tech are almost unanimously smart enough to understand this isn't in their interest and reject unions

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/08/954710407/at-google-hundreds-... ("Google Workers Speak Out About Why They Formed A Union: 'To Protect Ourselves'")

https://www.wired.com/story/how-kickstarter-employees-formed... ("How Kickstarter Employees Formed a Union")

https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/02/following-unionization-gli... ("Following unionization, Glitch signs collective bargaining agreement
")

I admit there's still much work to be done with regards to tech organizing.
Yes you are correct.

Perhaps the accumulation was the basis for the year suspension. In other sports you would be benched for poor behavior. Sports like cheer and dance are hard to bench people due to choreography dependencies.
“ • The worst evils in history have always been committed by those who truly believed they were combating evil. Beware of combating evil.”

The early Marxists were trying to create the übermensch and ended up sparking untold misery that killed a couple hundred million. I wonder what evil is being referenced here.
Deadstock Fabric Is Not as Sustainable as You Think
This is a pandemic-specific phenomenon. I would expect it to return toward the previous price relationship over the next few years.
Why rent at all, you buy properties to safely park your cash.
You forgot that the rent is increasing with inflation, but the mortgage is not.
Are you saying that, as a result of being so incredibly talented, by definition, executives are already rich and therefore have to be paid more to keep them around for their valuable services and wisdom?
Aren't the new Tacomas made in Mexico? Do you think that will affect their reliability?
As a layman, my main observation with the link is they seem to be computing a statistical measures over the studies to get a meta-result. But that isn't necessarily a statistically valid methodology, for the following reason: it is like if someone gave you a bunch of grapes and and apple, and asked you to estimate the average size of apples. If you simply averaged all of the fruit given, you might end up claiming they are about the size of a quarter. But if you look closer, some of those samples might have larger significance and be more useful than the others.

That doesn't necessarily mean the site is invalid or its conclusions, and I don't personally care much which "side" is right. But does that analogy help explain why this can be a tricky problem, and why many here, including myself, defer to "experts" like the NIH (who ran one of the largest studies of hcq)?
The title is most definitely a click bait. Nothing of this sort is addressed in this.
> The thing is, employers are typically not acceptable judges of morality and legitimacy of actions.

Nice goalpost moving. “Morality” is not the same as “you get to keep your job”. If I stand on the counter and flick every single customer off and tell them that they should <explicatives deleted>, I should be fired. This isn’t making a moral judgement at all, it’s making a judgement about whether or not I’m still fit for the job.

> Stallman is not being hired as an employee, but elected to be a board member, which is something very different.

The bar for being elected to the board is arguably higher than being hired as an employee.
Exactly. A proxy.
I've never heard of it either. Grew up in the midwest, lived on the west coast.

I guess you could say we've been keeping schtum about it.
Problematic how?
> Can we please stop pretending that Christianity is worse than other religions?

I think proselytising religions like Christianity and Islam, or at least their historical practitioners, need to answer for their activities in Africa and the Americas, to start with. Entire civilizations have been completely wiped out in a span of 1200 years in an extremely violent manner.

> They brought an end to burning young widows in their "husbands" funerals.

The practice of _sati_ was generally isolated to two parts of the country. In the west, it evolved (in the form of _jauhar_) as a means to escape rape and sexual violence at the hands of Islamic invaders. In the east, it was often used by male members of the family to break the line of inheritance from the dead husband to the wife. If the son wants to inherit, he has to get his mother out of the way.

I have often wondered if witch hunts in Europe and early America when hundreds of thousands of men and women were murdered had similar, materialistic motives or was it really about the devil and devil-worship: it is not that you truly believed your neighbor is a witch, but that you coveted their property. Strangely, the practice continues in parts of India and Africa.

> I know it is extremely trendy to blame white Christian guys for everything

I absolutely loathe the modern cult of Wokism where the white guy is held responsible for every wrong in the universe and mobs go around destroying statues and burning books and buildings. But we cannot ignore history either.

India was invaded and conquered first by Islamic invaders and then by European powers because infighting among Indian states and deep divisions within Hindu society allowed them to. But it is naive to believe that the English came here for the good of India and Indians. They came here to plunder the country and extract as much as they could. Any good that came out of their rule is a secondary effect at best.

At the fag end of the British Raj, when the British were fighting Nazi Germany, they _manufactured_ a famine in Bengal (1943) that killed three million people. The whole world condemns Hitler for the six million Jews he killed and observes Holocaust Remembrance Day. Does anyone do something similar for the British treatment of the Bengalis? No. Clearly, some lives were more valuable than others.
Unless you use high quality HEPA filtration (and/or UV sterilization?) as well.
100k secure WebSockets with Raspberry Pi 4
so my buddy just built this: https://www.veradan.com
Our corporate iPhones require passwords every 2 minutes, because apparently having to type the passcode in dozens of times a day in the public is a better security model.
Starsky's was. Did you see the picture of their console?
Actually there are legitimate arguments that master/slave in this context (IT) are precisely tied to slavery.
Why would you not be able to keep a 30 year fixed rate mortgage at 3% for the next 30 years? Hopefully you're making one extra payment a year to cut it down a few years...

7% long term stock average in the past doesn't mean the future

3 condos I bought in the 2007 downturn are appraised at double today, much higher rate of appreciation than inflation...
Would anyone here be able to share their experience with freezing their children's credit? We wanted to do this when our kids were born but when reviewing each credit bureau's website, they are all asking to mail paper copies of SSN and birth certificates for each child in addition to the parents' SSN and birth certificates too. There doesn't appear to be any way to freeze a minor's credit online.
This is more of an advertisement to signup for a newsletter and barely a blog… I wonder what xcubic got out of it.

There’s barely any research in this post.
I love Tailwind, it's a valuable tool, I use it every day in my job, but, it requires quite a bit of preliminary understanding of CSS rules to use effectively. The author mentions this, but I feel it's worth repeating. Bootstrap is a lot more robust to prettify a "programmer UI", especially in the area of forms and inputs.
They are making changes to the document: https://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/1386810666221150210
i was not taking about sign up. a phone number is required to register, so i share the number with wechat. but wechat does not force me to share my number with other contacts.

the national id is not required as far as i know, because then foreigners would not be able to sign up
My infant daughter just wrapped up a run of about three or so weeks of “a cold.”

After the second week, a handful of Covid tests, and one fever, we took her to the doctor and asked why this cold was lasting so long.

Our pediatrician was like “not cold, colds. She probably had 3-4 viruses back-to-back.”

I had no idea this was a thing - he called them “daycare viruses.”
The point here is, for a fair process.
(Even with some risk involved.)
FWIW, when or if repo comes back online I will update it to include a message for RIAA or others and if they chose to contact me, I will make adjustments accordingly or entirely remove the repo - but at my own discretion.
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Yeah. That's the whole list...

Want to compile the 1000 page document that would be all the places who haven't unionized?
Effectively a form of timeblocking based on message type / origin.
Unclear. There's some level of computer driving competence where humans will simply zone out.
Motherboard with _32_ SATA Ports
Yes, that's what I mean when I say it's effectively exponential in the ranges we care about. It's effectively indistinguishable from exponential growth (locally).
You have learned a very valuable lesson about not giving a number first. Let the other side give a number first, and if you absolutely have to give a number, give a wide range (e.g. $30-$100).

That said, you cannot change the past. What you can do now is say that as you have explored other available opportunities and after getting deeper into the responsibilities of the role (e.g. there is a management component not previously discussed) you believe that $50-$80 is a more appropriate range.

Of course it is possible that the ad you saw was targeted at US based candidates and there is a different salary range for candidates in your region.
Fairly common in UK English, particularly in London which has long-term Jewish community.

It's slangy and self-consciously borrowed, like 'schlep' or 'schmuck' in New York English.
Astonishing that such a beast could even be built.
I take no position on talent or wisdom, but yes the kinds of people capable of being F500 CEOs are mostly already in this category of richness.
This is super deceptive.

If you had actually needed to pay $1.1M in principal even at 0% interest over 30 years you'd be paying $2777 a month.

Your comment comes across as basically suggesting it is other people's fault for not buying a house when it cost half as much as it does now versus renting a house now.

I bet you bought that house fifteen years ago at least right?
The average age of a car on the road today is 11 years. Toyota's reliability really makes a difference for secondhand owners, and therefore used Toyotas command a premium, and you get more for your car when you sell it or trade it in.

Otherwise, it's true that new cars from many different brands are reliable enough nowadays, even brands that used to be bad like Hyundai (unless you want to buy a car and keep it forever). But used car sales far outstrip new car sales.
I wish I knew.

I tend to have pretty dry affect at certain hours of the day, which has caused considerable frustration for myself and others when I know I'm sincere but they don't. Nor does it make much sense to me for that sort of mind-reading to take place democratically. What do we then gain from it?

At best, you get an apology for a misunderstanding over the previous apology, plus a second draft that the masses might like better. Then you still get that lingering contingent that says "you just did that to placate people! Now we really know you don't mean it!"

The cultural apparatus for "Saving Face" is completely broken on a build failure for missing dependencies.