skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has been coming for a while.

Once upon a time, when I was in college one of the times (twenty odd years ago), the university debating society invited David Irving, well known Holocaust denier.

The Anti-Facist/Socialist Workers party people got involved, and threatened protests and violence, and pressured the University to not allow the talk.

This started happening then, and not enough of us (including me) spoke up, so it got normalised. Obviously the internet et al has had huge impacts on this (as well as the messed up world we live in), but I do kinda remember those experiences as a turning point, looking back.
got it, I appreciate the clarification.
Surely enough, the people at Disaster Radio [0] are passionately working on this very problem.

[0] https://disaster.radio/
With the tiny market share I doubt many apps will bother with Gtk custom APIs.
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Wait. You're telling me that you're supposed to be able to do so? I thought it was some mind hack that gives you the power to become an artist, not everyday stuff.
I've got some thoughts on this. I've found that there are two approaches to centralised management of computers: Installing a pre-made all-in-one product with pre-programmed configuration options (Windows with mostly AD, GPOs) and having numerous automatable components that can be stitched together with scripts (UNIX, sometimes Windows with Powershell). I prefer the scripting approach, as it gives me much more flexibility beyond one vendor's products. The scripts can also be shared, just now I'm setting up a second "home" server and I can mostly copy-paste Ansible roles from the first. So a school admin who's somewhat familiar with Linux could start with a complete template. The problem is that familiarity with Linux, some people will run at first sight of scripting.

The other problem is that I don't think there's money in developing a shiny boxed solution with marketing. Schools mostly go to Linux for cost savings, you couldn't convince them to pay enough to cover all the expenses of a SW company. A "support group" of school admins that administer Linux desktops might, though, which is where the script-sharing could come in. Less shiny, less "just buy it and we're done", but more likely in my opinion.
Sounds like you're trying to take care of yourself but one suggestion is to be rational about things - not sure why everyone hates on frozen food as if it's pumped with chemicals or something. It's literally the best way you can get the food on the table other than cooking it yourself. A frozen veg medley is healthier than a McDonald's burger right.
Maybe not outright hostile, but they don't care about developer experience. It's more like: "You want you App on our OS? Go figure it out."

Currently I'm annoyed by a long known bug that requires to manually confirm 50+ popups with username and password whenever signing an iOS App...
>One of the arguably nicest companies to work in, which treats employees well, has a sane work/life balance and advocates so, pays well, embraces remote work[...]

yep, the best gilded cage around. You aren't allowed to have any opinions when you show up to work, but man the dental plan is amazing!

Peter Sloterdijk once said that the person we're going to be building statues in a 100 years will be Lee Kuan Yew, for his construction of a prosperous country that is also devoid of any freedom or political expression. That's the tech CEO ideal in the valley as well if they had it their way.
Deep down in the human psyche, I think we all believe that disease is a punishment for our bad behavior. So we always see comments saying it’s because of X or Y. But from what I’ve seen, this disease is very chaotic in its spread. So I think the discussion has to be less “it’s because of X” and more “things like X have increased the risk factor”
Our two major bank-to-bank payment rails are the Automated Clearing House (ACH) and Wire Transfer. Both are "closed" on weekends for some reason. One could probably use something with debit cards like Venmo or purchase and hand off a cashier's check.
I don't agree. Man pages are specific to distro and version of the command. It's always better to read manpages which are present on your particular distro.
It seems that Indian medical fraternity is placing too much faith in Remdesivir and Convalescent Plasma. In some way it is similar to the Ivermectin fad in South Africa for Covid treatment. These treatments are not recommended by WHO, but medical practitioners prescribing the same is leading to scarcity and blackmarketing of the same.

As I see it there is total chaos in medical protocols for covid treatment, and this could be a significant driver in mortality in this wave in India.
I only used it for small projects and can confirm that it's spectacular for that use-case as well.

Using it just as an API is also very nice.
I suspect that this opinion is held mostly by those who support the departing employees. Does that describe yourself?

I think it _is_ an existential risk but having observed some of dhh's personality traits, I expect he just lost patience and said "that's it - either they go or the company does" and is quite willing to gamble the future of the company on the basis that managing a stressful, internally riven, company is worse than managing no company at all.
Of from a 200g adapter (or 4). Connect-X 6 EN. Network (LAN at least) almost always has at least 1 order of magnitude over storage... Oh yes I could put in a 10-disk nvme raid array and a liquid cooling system for all this. But then why not compress on the fly if I can anyway...
How is it different from snuff? Why do these types of tobacco now have the most unfortunate names in the modern age?
In general it is quite hard to get accurate representative samples if there is an unknown or high degree of variance between locations (are you scaling up the right samples to arrive at an accurate estimate). As for knowing which strains, that would certainly be useful but it requires significant sequencing infrastructure, which is not easy to scale up. The Washington Post noted (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/04/29/india-surge-...) that India is #102 among nations in sequencing per capita. It notes:

> Sequencing takes a high level of infrastructure and funding. India, which spent very little per capita on health care before the pandemic, has not been able to quickly make the investments to scale up, said Gupta.
Cancel culture, Twitter trendings and radical transparency
Recently released Gnome 40 also improves gesture support. I have not had a chance to test it yet though.

[1] https://forty.gnome.org/
> evolve to be hyper-infectious in the local conditions

I’ve never heard that idea before, very interesting. I wonder if we will figure out if certain mutations work “better” on certain populations, environmental conditions, etc.
Unprofitable business paying below mininum wage distorts the market. They are in direct competition with businesses who do pay minimum wage and have advantage.

Otherwise said, these not ending is bad thing.

And none of that is for benefit of worker.
This is somewhat misleading : if you use human height as a proxy for wellbeing, you will see that Victorian Britain was a particularly low point.

So is studying early American colonists : they found themselves in particularly hostile territory, which they had no know-how about, with only unreliable support by ship.
I’m fairly sure that all around the GUI is way more intense than that.
There seem to be two main use cases for this stuff.

One is everyday disinfection of drinking water. For that purpose a large container might be more economical, provided that it can be kept reasonably watertight through three years of daily use. (1 gram per day per family means a 1kg container will last 2-3 years.)

The other is emergency use in disaster zones for a limited amount of time. For this purpose a bunch of sealed sachets is much easier to transport and distribute despite the high unit cost.
how does that work if the old version of the amended commit has been gc'd ?
> This is laughable. Chinese citizens are required to approve of their government, lest they run afoul of the national social credit system.

It’s your word against someone else’s. I only know about China from personal anecdotes. And you know what, whenever I ask my Chinese colleague if these things are true she tells me it’s bs. So what do I believe?

And when you resort dehumanizing your opponent is when you start loosing the argument. When you say that guy is on CCP payroll, you basically claim it’s impossible for a person to have an opinion that differs from yours. Which is ironic since you’re bashing China for being an evil dictatorship.
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So would you be ok with a colleague spouting far right Nazi propaganda?
I am objecting to people making up numbers, when no such data is available. Like the parent post for instance, connecting reports of crematoriums being full to order-of-magnitude scale (10X or more) undocumented Covid deaths.

There are however, other reports you can quote:

- The Print (not govt-leaning) "If you claim India’s Covid death toll is 2x govt figure, it’s understandable. But not 10x" [1]

- NYTimes: Bhramar Mukherjee, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan who has been following India closely. “From all the modeling we’ve done, we believe the true number of deaths is two to five times what is being reported.” [2]

In short, I strongly feel throwing numbers around without basis simply widens the chasm.

[1]: https://theprint.in/opinion/if-you-claim-indias-covid-death-...

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/world/asia/india-coronavi...
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>If the virus population doubles every second then the person who swallowed 30 virus particles will be at 300,000 in just 14 seconds

That was also my intuitive response at the beginning of the pandemic. I assume one virus was plenty due to exponential growth. Having read every article I could in the past year, it's extremely rare to run across any details but:

1. I've read that scientists believe a coronavirus takes hundreds of viruses to successfully infect us. Not, for example, several dozen like some other viruses.

2. Next obvious question to me is, is this because one has to land on a lucky spot on the body and the rest somehow die before they can reproduce (so it's statistical odds that one virus gets the conditions it needs just like one sperm makes it to the egg)? Or can the body fight off a dozen or two dozen covid19 viruses so quickly that they never take hold? I only see two possibilities here.

3. If it is the latter, an answer I can't find anywhere, why did we need to waste so much time developing a vaccine? Wouldn't it be equally efficacious to introduce one virus to the body on day one, four on day two, and so on until immunity is achieved? Evidence of this possibility would be mixed in with the population they believe are asymptomatic, so unless researchers look for this they won't find it. (Basically a natural immunity hypothesis - based on repeated low viral count exposure.)
What's the absolute number attached to that? 10% could be a lot or very little.
A glimmer of hope. Thank you for writing this. Feels like most of the companies gone insane, where vocal minority controls everything.
I noticed this too, but I couldn't imagine what dhh could post about this that wouldn't add fuel to the fire and enrage some more people.

What would you post if you were dhh?
I think they are trying to explain the connection between the past and the future.
Classical models only describes the effect of the past into the future.
Don’t forget organ harvesting and rape squadrons.
Windows has a very similar hypervisor accelerator that QEMU supports called whp.
Frozen vegetables are some the cheapest ways of getting decent nutrition.
This is the logical culmination of a process the community has been benefitting from for a while with your work behind the scenes.

Great to see it evolve to a place on HN software!
India facing second wave of Covid 19 with outdated treatment protocols
Person you're replying to was mentioning customers quitting, not employees (and I have seen a number of people mentioning they've cancelled their Basecamp or Hey subscriptions today).
I worked as an extraction metallurgist in semi desert mines and we used an aluminium based flocculant (alum) to clarify water in dams with rotating stirrers.
Quite an old concept and not expensive.
> The US has interests in Taiwan, and none in Kurdistan.

So they stayed in Syria just for fun? Middle East invasion is about pressuring Iran, as much as Taiwan is about Mainland China.
> Some other employees I work with would go up to me and ask me questions like "we want to know where you stand on xyz political issue".....and I'm like.....it is really none of your business. They then take that response as you "being part of the problem" and then start going after you personally.

These people are totalitarians.
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At the risk of veering into financial advice...

Fine, but if my investments tank I'll be getting a subpoena for your IP from HN, and then from your ISP for you, so I can sue you for issuing financial advice without a license, thus causing me significant material harm. /s

Actually you're right, that's a very good idea.
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Politics and religion comes up most of the times, never heard people discussing sex.
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Sometimes i wonder if i'm in the path for that. Because even though i do 13h days every day of extremelly stressing work (putting out fires all the time), i do always get 8h sleep and 1h exercise. And so so food.
No, I am against leaving to others to solve the problems we create.
That seems fine no?
Better both, to avoid having a single supplier.
Tried elementary but the hidpi scaling is useless! Also it was unable to handle different dpi for each display.
Had any of this changed in this version?
It also balances PR and reduces the chance of legal disputes. They knew what they were doing.
Why do you need to "buy" Bitcoin? Do some work for someone, sell them some produce you grew or something you made, have them pay you in BTC. Go to a vendor who also is happy to take Bitcoin, buy stuff you need in turn.

Yes, I know it's not happening much. Bitcoin has failed (so far) as a payment/exchange system, and that's cause for sadness to me, but also a good way to look at the history and ask the questions about why it has failed and how to go about creating a better "King-proof Money".
Frankly, unless you've been doing a somewhat systematic survey of "businesses that have been boarded up" and "businesses that continue to operate as normal" and are doing so across the city (and not the very small part of the city where the protests have been taking place), this seems like an ideal situation to point out that the plural of anecdote is not data.
Oliphant's wikipedia page says about that quote:

The authors of Oliphant's biography noted that "that was the prevailing attitude of almost the entire white population of Australia until well after World War II"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Oliphant

(Sydney here.) I've known two aborigines well, one was a dear friend for many years[0]. I'd have to say, and they would no doubt agree, that their whole culture–or whatever fragments of traditional culture they've inherited–"makes it difficult for [them] to adapt fully to the ways of the white man". Impossible to adapt very far or very well at all, let alone fully. Just as western culture, I imagine, would make it difficult for white people to "adapt fully to the ways" of aboriginal people if they tried, or to prosper in an aboriginal world, if it still existed. The whole "go to school, get a job, live in a house" thing was very foreign to my two friends, they had nothing of that in their lives. Aborigines didn't do that before white people came here, now that's what you have to do to be considered fully human, or to live decently in a city or town. Aboriginal culture was horribly assaulted for 150+ years, often with genocidal intent.. It's a huge tragic situation, with no easy answers. Australians no longer call it "adapt fully to the ways of the white man", it's just life in modern Australia, but it comes to the same thing.

p.s. Thanks to OP for posting this, I hadn't heard of Nicholls, sounds like an amazing guy and an amazing life.

[0] That was in the last 20 years, in Sydney. I grew up in the 80s in a country NSW town, lots of aborigines in the area, but I don't think I ever even talked with one. There were some at my high school but we never came in contact, at all. They lived in an aboriginal village separate from the main town; white people never went there.
> they refused to take any action on it.

Did they? My understanding it that DHH acknowledged the list was a mistake, apologised, and made it clear that such behaviour was no longer acceptable.
What's the difference between this and codecov? Do you access deployment secrets to run the checks?
Maybe better would be to weight the first 50 votes or so, so if the site has rarely been submitted to HN, every 2 votes count as 3 or whatever variable weight works. The problem is that you can't give blanket +1 votes to submissions from less mainstream sites either, so initial traction might be harder to achieve anyway. I don't know if mods manually upvote some of the new content with this in mind, but yeah, in the end this second chance pool is pretty equivalent.
You should give "The Alliance" by Reid Hoffman a read. Excellent book - the first half, anyway - and I think it might give you a different perspective (or at least some food for thought).
Depends on the train of course.

If it's a commuter train where people spend 30 minutes max and the trains go every 15 minutes on the same route, then no - it shouldn't have a restaurant in it.

But when it's a 2-10 hour trip, of course there should be a place to sit down and buy something to eat or drink.
I'm old fashioned enough to know that when you impose changes overnight that lead 1/3 of your staff to leave on the spot then maybe a little bit of consultation might have been a good idea.
I agree with what you wrote, but additionally, one can get glucose deprivation by just starving, for example. I can't imagine a way to deprive just the brain of glucose. In effect, sustained physical activity should also lead to "depriving the brain of glucose".
It's not unprofessional to call a racist coworker 'racist'.
> the hypocrisy is that you trust your grandma with the camera permissions but not with a permission for a music player to run when the screen is turned off or with a map/fitness tracking page to get access to your location.

Ah, the tired old "your grandma" "argument".

> Dude, Safari is worse then Firefox, stop showing the USB example.

Yes, I know. "Apple bad, Safari bad" and no amount of evidence that both Safari and Firefox resist multiple standards forced by Google will convince you otherwise.

You're so blind to your own bias that you didn't even see that I never mentioned USB even once (even though it is one of "considered harmful by both Firefox and Safari").
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costs for hiring the wrong people

I've read a bit more about the background to this now, and they hired someone in December who immediately went on an internal advocacy campaign for their personal politics. So, all of this, is the cost of hiring a "wrong" person.
ALL money is only money if we believe in it. Money only has value to the extent that I believe that you believe in its value.
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Even if we're referring to this case. What right do you think you have to use company name to push your agenda? Even if you're morally right about the matter, you're morally wrong to use company entity to push your opinion. If you're uncomfortable with the company then go to management. If it doesn't work with management then leave and try to get your retribution or whatever bullcrap using your name.
That reminds me of reading about the way Guaica Indians use Yopo (which has many names).

http://entheology.com/research/native-hallucinogen-piptadeni...
You do know that the staff cut Basecamp out of their lives not the other way round?

Not sure that comparing 15 or so talented and apparently hard working staff to gangrene is really the most appropriate comparison.
"By 1kg bucket" sounds good but it is probably very unstable outside of the sachet (hygroscopic, could dissociate, could clump up, etc)

(probably more than 1g per sachet, 4g as it says in the picture)
And if they're frozen soon after picking they can be more nutritious than fresh vegetables that have been out of the ground longer.
Viral reproduction rate is not that fast. It's about 8 to 72 hours depending on the type of virus. This is why low viral load is generally associated with milder disease outcomes, the body has a significantly longer time to generate an immune response before the viral load becomes significant.
Used to have friends who regularly used words like "nigger" and "faggot", the latter was heavily part of 90s 2000s culture. South Park didn't help. Most people didn't care. It's very clear when it's used against someone to be nasty as opposed to being a joke or simply being mentioned in an article. We can't make jokes anymore because of the sheer amounts of trolls on the Internet.
That's exactly how it works in many european countries, especially the ones without a legal minimum wage (Austria for example), so people working "slave" gig jobs (cleaners, delivery, construction and hospitality workers, etc.) where if they earn below a certain "livable' threshold, get various tax credits, subsidies and benefits from the government to reach that "livable" threshold, which, while it sounds good, it creates a perverse incentive where employees arrange with the employer to be paid as little on paper as possible to still qualify for the government subsidies and then get paid the rest under the table (tipping is expected here for this reason) which just moves the burden from the employers of paying a livable wage to the customers and to the taxpayers which are basically subsidizing their business.
Oh no you have to fill in a form! You must lead a pretty nice life if that's a major concern of yours.

Sorry if I come across as an a-hole, but seeing what's been happening in the world in the last year you'd think people would become a little more resilient.
Many of the comments in this thread appear to be missing the context of what has happening at Basecamp.

From the Verge;
> While Basecamp does not publish diversity statistics, it is still, like most tech companies, majority white and male, employees said. But the idea of worker-led efforts on diversity issues got a frosty reception from the founders last year, employees told me. They were allowed to work on the project, but did not feel as if the founders were particularly invested in the outcome.

> Nonetheless, the DE&I ( Diversity and inclusion) council attracted significant support. More than a third of the company — 20 out of roughly 58 employees — volunteered to help. They began examining Basecamp’s hiring processes, which vendors the company works with, how Basecamp employees socialize, and what speakers they might invite to one of the all-remote company’s twice-yearly in-person gatherings.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/27/22406673/basecamp-politic...
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Truly these are first world problems
I agree about the two paths and I share a preference for the non-vendor one. Yet at the very least I need an OS that out of the box accepts say an email user@org.tld as username and automatically contacts org‘s directory to check for authorisation and pull email credentials at the very least. This seems so basic to me that it should exist outside of commercial solutions.
> Can't recall the name of the person GitHub miss-hired

Coraline Ada Ehmke?

https://where.coraline.codes/blog/my-year-at-github/