skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a curious, almost etymological story of the world. But unfortunately the sociological and political consequences of this erasure are not really explored.

Personally, saying "n-word" instead of "nigger", makes resonate the slur louder in my brain, am I they only one? Isn't creating a taboo getting the opposite effect of what it meant to?

To me, this is follows some trend in North American political thinking that mixes language with reality. Like new Harry Potters*, some people think that language build and modify reality, but it is not like this. Modifying the language, doesn't even start to scratch the underlying problems. It just makes people to "feel" better, as if they are doing something, but they are just playing with language, in quite a hypocritical way. This feeling of relief may in fact hinder dealing with the structural problems underlying racism, that they mostly consist of redistribution of money and opportunities for a better and more inclusive welfare, education, healthcare and jobs.

* https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/01/harry-potter-magic-libera... "Liberals love Harry Potter because it presents a world they desperately wish was a reality — one where the magic of facts and reason and elite education were enough to vanquish the ills of society."
> If a storage server gets p0wned, the raw data could be deleted. That's true for every cloud provider.

It's not hard to create a cloud backup service where delete requires separate credentials which are not used in day-to-day operations (and so can be kept secure). And without these credentials a backup is kept N days and cannot be deleted or overwritten. Don't know if anyone do this, though.
You know, I think it may not have to do with the long hours specifically. I mean, when you work 13h a day, and you enjoy it, this could be totally fine?

But when you say "extremelly stressing work," I guess you're not enjoying it. :)

And well, I felt physically OK for 3...4 years. Psychologically not OK, but physically OK.

Until one day, I wasn't anymore.
This is why its hard to start a restaurant. You need to be rich enough to own the land.
Well the ios team is 2 engineers I think, Basecamp is very lean on mobile...its mostly html.
6 month salary? They would be foolish no to do it. I am not sure what the management was thinking when they offered this much of a buyout. 1 month 2 tops
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The Skolelinux (and later DebianEdu) did do the support group thing IIRC.
Totally agree, why do people keep using the 'tweet' format for long stories that obviously do not fit? The reading experience is not good at all. Not trying to be negative am genuinely interested in the reasons.
I hate to bring up this point but I think it's not totally irrelevant.

India in general has a problem with hygiene and public health being compromised out of offending people's political / religious sensibilities, inability to follow rules and impose requirements on people, inability to lay down the law consistently. There's just a little too much democracy in this country.

Hygiene of people preparing food and in daily life (for many) -- not good. Regulatory oversight -- not good. Animals wandering the street, garbage thrown anywhere, pollution of water supplies for religious rituals -- not good. Agricultural fires allowed to burn for fear of clamping down on farmers -- not good.

And you see people in government saying meaningless assurances that the wave of infection will pass -- not good.
I'm curious to see how many of these people who make SF level salaries while living in the Midwest stand up for their beliefs and refuse the 6 months severance

Not that most of them wouldn't be able to afford to

"Read all about how I refused Basecamp's buyout and spend a year snorkeling in Belize to make myself feel better"
There's a big difference between having a friendly argument about the ACA over beers and telling a coworker they're enabling genocide by keeping a funny names list on the company slack.
The fact that not many people know this unfortunately leads to a side-effect that it is less widely supported by third-party tooling around git.

In terms of simplicity (for example, 'git revert x' is natural-language-like and expresses the intent and meaning), and also in terms of tooling compatibility, that generally leads me to prefer squash commits.

One other thing that squash commits can enable is a sense of developer freedom within their branch(es). There's no need to keep the history super hygienic within each branch; there can be plenty of reverts, experimental commits, etc; the eventual merged product ends up looking clean regardless.
I don’t see how the langage in which is developed a software is a reason to use it or not.

It’s not like you can’t install your good-old-C++Rust-javascript Firefox browser.
You don't own the work itself, but a certificate issued by a third party for that work.

This means,

* Everybody still can copy and distribute it without your permission.

* No protection by Law/ Policy in Digital World. I don't know if NFT will do that for you on behalf.

* Like many others say, they trade NFTs, but not the work itself. Say, NFT of 50 Million valuation between two entities. Very fancy numbers ...similar to a board game.
And many other people do see it as such. What are we gaining from pointing out there are many people seeing it in both ways? =)
From your link

If you rent a server (real or virtual), whose software load you have control over, that's not SaaSS. In SaaSS, someone else decides what software runs on the server and therefore controls the computing it does for you. In the case where you install the software on the server, you control what computing it does for you. Thus, the rented server is virtually your computer. For this issue, it counts as yours
Did you see the Research page?

The menu icon didn’t show up until I turned my iPad to portrait. The Research page takes a long time to load.
* Commit that added line was fixing something unrelated; deduced line was duplicated in merge resolution.
* Line was comparing two different enums for equality and failing; commit history showed one enum had been an int and the commit message that changed it explained why the author thought the comparison was safe anyway, so we could ask why that wasn't true

Plus even when the _cause_ is in the code, I constantly check "what's the history of this function?" while trying to figure out whether the code was always intended to do this crazy thing or whether it's been morphed by recent changes. I have "Show selection history" mapped to Ctrl+Shift+G+H in PyCharm.
I don't know why you're being downvoted, but what you said applies to everywhere not only India, of course chronic stress means higher cortisol, which lowers immunity.
I’m down with a consumer coffee maker not working as well as an industrial coffee maker, but 100Mbps is a well defined thing, and I don’t understand how it isn’t criminal that my internet speeds never even approach the advertised rates. This isn’t an issue of my “use case” not requiring honesty, this is an issue of me paying for something and simply not getting it.
Aggressively? DHH published his response here:

https://world.hey.com/dhh/let-it-all-out-78485e8e

In particular he wrote:

> We have to be careful to celebrate that progress proportionally, though. I was dismayed to see the argument advanced in text and graphics on [Employee 1’s] post that this list should be considered part of a regime that eventually could lead to genocide. That's just not an appropriate or proportionate comparison to draw.
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> And further more, I think it makes us less able to admit mistakes and accept embarrassment, without being tempted to hide transgressions in the past. If the stakes for any kind of bad judgement in this area is a potential link to a ladder that ends in genocide, we're off on a wrong turn.

And in another post:

> I can appreciate how those examples raise the sensitivity of anything related to names, minorities, and power dynamics.
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> Still, I don't think we serve the cause of opposing colonial regimes or racist ideology by connecting their abusive acts around names to this incident. And I don't think we serve an evaluation of you and others making fun of names in a Campfire session by drawing that connection either.
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> We can recognize that forceful renaming by a colonial regime is racist and wrong while also recognizing that having a laugh at customer names behind their back is inappropriate and wrong without equating or linking the two.

I certainly wouldn't call that "aggressive"; it reads as polite, reasoned and measured to me, and even if DHH is wrong (I don't think he is) I fail to see how this is outside the bounds of what it should be acceptable for a leader to say to an employee.
Did they accuse others of enabling murder because they were pro choice or did they keep their politics to themselves?
The libertarian in me says yes, but practically I know there are very few heroin users who are otherwise normal. The problem with the victimless claim is that it's literally true, but practically absurd. I am conflicted.
I also observed this - the slow rise from end-Feb to end-Mar and then the sudden very very steep rise in covid positive cases from end-Mar.

In India, people started opening up during Sep/Oct 2020. I too relaxed the strict restrictions/rules that I was, till then, sticking to. Went to restaurants with friends and teammates (with masks wherever possible) and many people were doing inter-state travels, political events started happening, many festivals/gatherings started happening etc. Life was returning to normal. My important observation is that from then (Sep/Oct 2020) onwards, lots and lots of people were not following covid protocols properly. Social distancing was not followed. Many people did not even put on masks. Am not sure why, but even with all these behaviours which should result in increasing covid positive numbers, the covid positive numbers were continuously going down. I think it hit bottom during second half of Feb 2021.

And then the numbers started to rise - slowly from end-Feb to end-Mar and then suddenly very very steeply rise from end-Mar 2021. And by mid-Apr 2021, things got very alarming. Most of my circle of friends knew that generally the second wave will hit harder than the first. But we also that because vaccination has been going on for 2 or 2.5 months by then, it can help. The strictest (to follow the restrictions) among my friends also started to loosen up a bit. The previous reports that the second wave will hit us during Jan/Feb did not come true. So, we were hoping that there won't be a second wave. Even the US thought that they can start banning the export of raw materials needed for the production of vaccines in India.

So, I do not know if anyone predicted (with numbers to backup their estimates) that the case load will be this bad during Apr 2021. The second wave caught lots of us by surprise. But I believe, like the US and UK survived their second waves and are doing pretty well now, India too will hopefully emerge better and stronger.
Of course it didn't go away. So you are saying that Western countries, that took all the Covid precautions, had an early second wave. However, a densely populated country that took very few precautions didn't have a second wave, but a deadly version months later? Do you have any references for the idea that India is suffering from a new variant of Covid?

For that matter, do we have any accurate information about the situation in India, except some choice photos in the media?
> do you think that people aren't pouring freakin' cow piss down COVID patients' throats, hence that the videos are faked

In the US, people are pouring freaking bleach down people's throats and even the PRESIDENT of the United States went on his press to advocate that.

So spare me your indignation. I was objecting to the statement that the 'the administration truly believes that cow urine is the cure.'
This makes me appreciate even more the advantages electrical motors have over ICEs.

If you build a naive version of an ICE, it will have lousy performance, at best. It might not even operate without a lit of mechanical tricks and tweaks. An electrical engine, however, can be built simply and still get decent, if not great, performance.

The complexity of ICEs really is a huge disadvantage and there is no turning back.
You are out of your mind...
where can i get this list
How did it do that, while not just creating a regular second wave like most of the Western world?
> That would allow trade to no longer be based such an extreme difference in the price of labour

That doesn't make sense. The entire reason the WTO was interested in China (and any other poor country) was because they had cheap labor. It's not like the WTO is depressing wages.

>By no longer losing value to profits at every step of production and distribution, consumer prices wouldn’t have to increase

Wait, we pay everyone more but we don't have to pay for production and distribution?

>Merely dismantling the US army would vastly reduce global carbon emissions. Building high density housing, public transportation, universal healthcare, public utilities, etc. would further reduce the US’s majority contributions.

I agree but it's completely non-sequitar.

> Countries that were kept poor for centuries could be gifted low-carbon energy sources as part of reparations, so as to not need to emit carbon to develop.

Again, non-sequitar but what are these countries going to do with some solar panels? They're dirt poor. You might as well buy them some air pods.

> A lot can be done once the oppressor countries stop constantly extracting value for a few individuals.

It's not a zero sum game. Richer countries do extract value from poorer countries but the poorer countries also extract value from the richer countries. Just because the majority of the advantage comes from the richer country doesn't mean the poorer country is losing, they just win much less.

In general, you're making a lot of points about globalism that I generally agree are problems but you're offering no solutions past stop doing the bad thing and everything will be good. I don't care about labels of imperialism, oppressors or communist, I care what actually can be done in the real world to make the world work better. Keep in mind that while China is sort if at odds with the WTO, it's not because they don't think it's ethical, they don't like it because it's not them.
Doesn’t this just become a mini-UBI for food budgets?

That could be pretty interesting.
Funny-names list survivors, let's not offend them with the improper nomenclature.
Strange because I intentionally matched the tone of the comment I replied to. Comparing cryptocurrency to religion is incredibly ignorant at best, and trolling or FUDing at worst.
That’s a very US centric point of view and appeal to authority. Just because it’s been the law for almost 100 years doesn’t mean it’s the ideal approach.

And several developed countries have no floor other that agreed by through collective bargaining.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/080515/5-dev...
Plaintext files do not either.
I think something is missing from this equation, which is the balancing act. The value of labor is dynamic, it depends what people are willing to pay, and what is the price of other costs.

How I see it, labor cost have been cut, while rent has gone up and prices have gone down.

If you increased minimum wage, it would put pressure on prices to go up and rent to go down, both would increase the value of the labor itself.

I think this whole dynamic is way way harder to model and predict how it'll play out then everyone makes it out to be. None of people's simple projection account for it all. Even economists with fancy models backed by simulations, math, and all that can't figure out the real outcome and often disagree with one another on what would happen.

It's not as easy as saying, half the restaurants are going to shut down, and leave empty all those commercial space. What happens next? Maybe some customers start to be willing to pay even more to get back some of the great restaurants they lost, or their proximity to them. Maybe landlords have to lower their rent for something else to fill in the vacancy, etc. Maybe everyone is happy with only half of the restaurants remaining, and each of those restaurant is making twice as much now allowing them to hire more staff and pay even higher. There's a lot of balancing act that could happen.
Dude. What exactly is 'unscientific' about these, still waiting.

You are talking about elections, election commission, over which the government has no authority.

What laws were exactly passed against sharing of criticism? Can you link to them?
> Who is providing the USD for ChiaCoin, and why

unfortunate souls who are speculating on it since they don't know better.

Also a huge % is probably held by a small amount of early adopters who whale that coin up so it seems more valuable and has more perceived trading traffic
As an employer you’d be crazy to do that. Nothing would stop that employee from turning around and demanding back wages.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/world/asia/india-coronavi...

The lack of cremation facilities are reported throughout the country. It is not just about one region or the other. The under-reporting is reported in most places. The lack of tests in places like Kolkata shows that people even after showing symptoms can't get tested. All these point to the official government numbers being a fraction of the actual numbers.

In an environment where the government is under-reporting and the news reports are the only ones showing the ground reality we can only speculate the actual number for the whole country. We may never do. Until that we can only opine and point to the evidence we have.
Pg?
> older devices are less capable than newer ones

Understatement of the year concerning unsupported, insecure and (unreasonably) locked Apple devices.
> You can pick the one that pays the most.

Oh sweet summer child. When you are in debt and struggle to survive on a day to day basis, time is your enemy You cannot afford not to take a job. And if you are lucky enough to be able afford it today, you might not tomorrow.

Another thing: many people need more than one job as it is now. Guess what: if you pay people a decent living wage more people can actually get jobs, because less people have to do two or more. If your business is so inefficient it can't support minimum wage labor, it was doomed to fail before. Again: even McDonalds manages to pay minimum wages in Europe and their prices are roughly comparable. You are being gaslighted by the people profiting from that modern form of slavery.

you are right in recognizing that living costs are an issue as well, and they are an issue in many big cities. The known solution for this issue is publically owned housing which you shouldn't put into their own districts (thus creating ghettos) but mix them in throughout the city (Vienna's "Gemeindebau" is a good example for this, Vienna repeatedly got the title "City most worth living in" over the past decades). Don't only put poor people into these houses, make them decent and make them something people want to live in. Make them cheaper to rent than other flats (this way the rents in the surrounding areas cannot go up so fast). But most importantly: this must be done from the public side — nobody else in control has the incentive to act in ways that lower rents.

Aside from all this, what the US really needs to do is to look at all the other countries that are comparable to the area you are living in and wonder why they are doing so well without all the doomsday scenarios your politicians make tou believe (both socially and economically). Whenever I talk to US citizens about this they are either completely delusioned ("I live in an oligarchy") or they pretend their problems are so unique the rest of the industrialized world never had to deal with comparable things. "Who knows, maybe it cannot be solved at all", they say, while it was solved literally one country over since half a century ago.

That's like wondering whether man will ever be able to move faster than a horse, while your neighbouring country has airplaines they use on a daily basis.
That is helpful, but primary visible message still should not be actively misleading.
China lifted itself out of poverty when it became a capitalist, dictatorial oligarchy.
With over 67,000 years of culture and heritage - the worlds longest-running mine operation (Wilgie Mia), its oldest known still-extant school (Gabarnmung), the longest successful oral traditions of any culture, ever - the original land owners don't need to adapt to us: We need to learn more about them. And it can't happen a moment too soon.
Why Textareas Can't Grow?
Delhi has screwed up badly. In the South Indian states, in Karnataka and especially Kerala, Oxygen is well provisioned. Karnataka is also ramping up further everyday. Looks like someone in the Delhi state govt forgot capacity planning.
For those interested, the author has a lot of similarly excellent explanations over the years:

https://ciechanow.ski/archives/

I am curious about the 5 years gap between 2014 and 2019.
I've never heard or experienced anyone not getting their advertised speed (apart from DSL that varied depending on quality of the cables etc. or wireless services). There are indeed laws that guarantee that, depending on where you live.

But you can't really expect to max out 100/100 24/7 all year long on a consumer pipe. It is overprovisioned and assumes that most won't be utilizing theoretical maximum all the time. Just as the coffee maker.
Won't the immune system acts better when it gets infected by 30 (say) virus particles than swamped by 300k viruses (say).So my guess (as layman) is when infected with 30 viruses the growth might not be as uncontrollable (doubling per second). I think the virus load indeed matters too.
The best part of the new "defense against Spectre" is that the LFENCE instruction has been around for ~20 years. It's not even not a defense against all variants.
Even when the device is no longer supported?
I see your point but they are collateralized. Let's put it this way, my friend just bought his house and spent 2 weeks with mortgage agents and brokers. Meanwhile I deposit some ETH-USDC LP into maker and in 2 minutes get a no questions asked loan at 3.5%. Sure it's lower leverage when compared to most mortgages but I think my point still stands.
I used to be a runner in my younger days. Amateur long distance. It’s the one thing I miss most in my life.

The joy of running is real. After about 7k of running I would normally notice a distinct difference in my mind. My brain stopped trying to tell me it was hard work and that I should stop. It’s like my mind gave up on trying to stop me, and just settled in. After that, a certain peace comes. Where I was 100% present in the moment at the same time as I was 100% somewhere else. It’s like disconnecting the brain for an hour or two. IMO the single best way to relax.

I really miss running.
And when you say "for years", it's really decades that this has been the norm for. In my experience it is the same in the more developed Asian countries, or really any high HDI country that is not the US.
> I'd love to use Elementary OS, but their use of Vala is just such a turn off. That language is dead except for a tiny gnome niche.

I'll go out on a limb and say that while this might have been closer to the truth 3 years ago, there has been an uptick in activity on the language recently, especially with improvements in tooling. If you look here (https://github.com/topics/vala), while you'll see it used in smaller projects, you'll also see there's a fair amount of high-quality software written in Vala. Clearly the language is capable for serious use.

As far as the language itself is concerned, I think it has a number of good points that aren't very common (outside of Swift or Rust): that is high-level abstractions with little to no runtime cost, easy to learn, C compatible and binds easily to practically every language under the sun thanks to gobject-introspection.