skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reputation is also often the cause for corporations venturing into "anti-racism," and censorship territory.

When the telecoms were buying up media companies and film/tv studios, suddenly all of their most expensive assets (actors & personalities) started falling out due to cancel culture. Bill Cosby, Matt Lauer, Rosanne Barr, etc., must have driven the execs at AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon completely nuts. The highest paid CEO used to be CBS's, until they also got him on cancel culture. If CBS's most profitable asset, Judge Judy, were a man, she'd already have been cancelled a decade ago. (She's fought with CBS execs over her exorbitant contract for over a decade now.)
Who said anything about static? This webserver supports cgi, which means it supports php, perl, etc.

However even if it didn't, js based client-side apps are probably still attackable in the right set of circumstances.
The post is a little light on details: is this just a UI refresh? If so, it would be nice to hear what specifically was wrong with the old UI or in what ways the UI tangibly improves the process of writing, reading or managing emails.
The picture of Russia and NATO pushing against each other on the Eastern Europe is too simple. It denies the sense agency for the countries in the region. The smaller countries have a long history and aspirations for independence.

Why do so many countries choose to partner with NATO? I will answer with a question: how many people has Russia killed or enslaved in the Eastern Europe over the past centuries?
> Why has Twitter the company and its employees not taken action to deal with this?

They did. They tried many things, still do. But it's hard to fix without wasting the whole platform and becoming another reddit. What makes Twitter great is also what makes it aweful.
I used to approach social media this way but lately it's become miserable. Politics has seeped into every corner, including real life, and everyone seems radicalized to one extreme or another. For example, I like art, most artists are leftists, same thing with writing and writers, and a few other areas. My views do not align to any particular side. Now years ago, this wouldn't have been a problem, most people did not have a problem being friends with people of different views. But now, if I want to participate in any community I have to bite my tongue. I see people getting bullied and ostracized for the most minor stuff. There's a mob waiting around every corner. I have to keep any politics completely out of any accounts (instead I know have one for just politics, which probably makes it sound obsessed, but what else is there to do). In some, like writing, I've stopped participating. Meanwhile the communities just get more and more toxic and political and it sucks all the fun away to even consume them.
Nice implementation, I like how it continuously plays. Similar concept to my company https://getyarn.io, where you can search into movies and tv shows :)
Pay cash and buy a car as a means of transport rather than an extension of your ego.

[Advice I should have given myself many years ago.]
Crop Yields
A very suspect position coming from an investor who wants to turn your passion project into a profitable corporation that he has a large stake in.
Datadog does something similar with the network performance monitoring option in their agent, it also uses eBPF. As a network engineer I've wanted tools like this for many years (say goodbye to tcpdump, in most cases), the data it produces is incredibly useful in a cloud environment where you typically do not get insights like this from the native toolset.

https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/network-performance-monitorin...
This drug is primarily targeted at elderly populations, who are eligible for Medicare.

The private insurance companies won’t be paying for this one. Taxpayers will.
Do you prefer the more darker grays in v7.x?
> Recipes would ultimately be a list of ingredients, concise instructions and maybe a picture or two.

So, if Google altered their algorithm such that "recipe" content had to be shorter-form in order to perform better in SERPs, how would this change anything? The sites that profit from search traffic would be the ones with their fingers on the pulse of the algorithm, and the resources to instantly alter their content in order to ensure that they continued to rank for the terms that were driving traffic.
On the way, some former M1 team founders are at Qualcomm (via Nuvia acquisition) building a new Arm SoC for PC OEMs.

If Apple squanders their 2021 window for usable-walled-garden-with-sandboxes, they will lose (again) to less-usable-but-more-open EBBR platforms with dynamic boot, security and performance policy.
https://getyarn.io/yarn-find?text=Listen%20up%20you%20primit...
I solely use Safari because it greatly increases my battery life.
I wish I could have more of that "ship" mentality. I have dozens of quite interesting personal projects that are stuck in the 80% complete state, because ultimately the final stages of releasing a project just aren't fun to me (bug fixing, tests, docs, build systems, code polish)
I run a language learning app (leerly.io) which focuses on teaching language through comprehensible input, which seems to be at least somewhat how LLwN is approaching the problem of language acquisition. For those interested in how to get the most out of language learning tools like LLwN, some tips which are backed up by the field of applied linguistics:

- Don't translate! If you do, do so very sparingly. It sounds counter-intuitive, but stopping to translate often will just slow you down. That's because...

- The most important thing is just experiencing the language. You need hundreds and hundreds of hours listening to the language to really start to acquire it. Comprehension is inevitable, just optimize for time spent listening/reading.

- Avoid speaking. This has shown to actually hinder the process of acquiring a language. Speaking is the natural result of having learned a language. You'll notice when you're ready to start speaking a little because you'll occasionally have thoughts in your target language. Until then, speaking practice is virtually useless.

Maybe these will help you, as they've definitely helped me learn Spanish. Buena suerte :)

Note: These tips are also only for people who want to learn a language to fluency. If you just want to learn enough to order at a restaurant, that's a different ballgame.
Does that difference matter when kidnapping? Its not like the 100mm person has more money readily available, as they'll likely both have the bulk invested/tied up in some way.

You can only get their fluid money which is probably quite similar in a time sensitive situation like that.
This is the third time I've had to opt-out of NHS medical-record data sharing.

The first time, I learned that care.data had shared a million records with The Society of Actuaries. Actuaries are people who work for insurers - not the first people I would want to share my medical records with. The SoA apparently paid just £3,000 for this dataset.

A couple of years later, they changed the data-sharing plan, and claimed that my original opt-out didn't apply to the new plan; so I opted out again. This time, I had to opt-out of both my GP records and my hospital records being shared, with two different agencies, using two different forms.

This time it's again two different agencies. My GP confirmed that my old opt-out was no longer valid, and I needed to opt-out again. Really - GP surgeries are kinda busy just now, and could do without yet another snowstorm of paperwork.

So Simon Stevens, the plonker behind all this nonsense, has resigned from NHS England (but he hasn't actually gone).

NHS Digital owns the most-valuable medical records database in the world - it covers substantially the entire population (80M). Iceland also has a whole-population dataset - but their population is only about 350,000.

This data should NOT be "shared" - it should be exploited by the NHS itself, to create new treatments and diagnostic methods. These treatments and techniques could then be sold, to help reduce the cost of the NHS to taxpayers. The NHS shouldn't be sharing this data with commercial companies - the NHS has a long record of failure in managing contracts with third-parties.

For clarity, I'm strongly in favour of exploiting this data. What I'm opposed to is senior NHS managers with a background in US private healthcare, sneaking through plans that haven't been properly scrutinised. Without proper scrutiny, the plans are almost certainly going to be defective.

Stop, already.
We don't know, but the usual scenarios would be "issue impacts failover mechanism too", "failover mechanism overloads other system components leading to cascading failure" or "something causes failover mechanism to to think all is fine".
https://getyarn.io/yarn-find?text=Guns.%20Lots%20Of%20Guns
Not for monetization.

It is a free app, done by a 501(c)(3), and targets a specific demographic (recovering drug addicts). That said, it has an architecture that could, quite easily, be adapted for monetization, but that's not why we're doing it.

When I said "I'm working for free," I meant it. The people I'm working with are getting something way beyond what they expected. It would be silly to attach a dollar figure to the work. The government doesn't let you write off sweat equity.
Glad somebody mentioned Pulumi. It solved all of the major problems I had with Terraform.
> they also have a CDK

Terraform-CDK, as of now, needs to go through standard HCL parser. Sadly, there is no backdoor into Terraform's internal structures. If HCL (as a language) is the limitation for you, the CDK does not let you fly around it.
>but that’s fraud and is pursued as such.

Our former president would beg to differ
I believe it's called the Overflow Menu in English.
These are two really good points. I feel much more innocent attacking a large corporation than I do individuals.

> You cannot fix the problem without acknowledging that we are all part of it.

I think this one is even more important because it's more far-reaching and applicable. It's easy to point fingers but hard to look inside and cleanse the inner vessel.
API Federation: growing scalable API landscapes
The point is, there are a lot of conflicting ways to be 'ethical'. It's not like we have a universal loss function we should minimize.

Any moral dilemma slightly more complicated than 'is killing wrong' is a tradeoff, and sometimes you can't blame people if they prefer a point on the curve different from the point on the curve you like.

Maybe in this case they are just wrong -- I have no sympathy for Twitter either. But I'd rather companies, in general, not try and play God. Even more so, I really would rather the government not try and play God.
Devious SQL: Run the Same Query Against Tables with Differing Columns
Same for a lot of colleges! If you don’t have a straight 4.0 you’ve “failed”
Apple’s Eddy Cue Believes the Future of Music Isn't Lossless, It’s Spatial Audio
What I don't understand is: If I (a wage slave) find a football sized diamond in my back yard, I'm suddenly very "wealthy". Should I be forced to pay taxes on that find because my wealth has increased?

What if I want to keep that diamond but cannot afford to because of the taxes?

Isn't that how business owners gain wealth: By the valuation defined by others to the thing they "found". Should we force Bezos et al to sell some of their stock in their companies to pay tax? Surely a $100m+ tax burden would do that?
> The rent is income, but they often make improvements to the homes and take a cash-out refinance to pay for the cash down payment on a new property.

This is pretty much the situation that the tax is designed to combat - people using their assets to increase their wealth without paying taxes. So yes, if you did that, you would need to pay taxes on the new money in the refinance. I don't see an issue if that makes this business model unprofitable or untenable.

> If we do this to homes, and the wealthy move their money to a new place, such as venture capital, do we try and re-price those illiquid assets each year?

There's no need to price anything. You value the assets put up as collateral as the amount of the loan they are securing.

> If one IPO’s and they take a loan against the stock to buy a home, do you give them their previous year’s mark-to-market payment back to them if the stock goes down the following year and they get a margin call?

Nope. It's just like selling and immediately re-purchasing.

> Imagine trying to grow a startup and being worth X on paper with no actual gains or money in the bank.

Ok, but nothing happens unless you borrow against it. I'm not sure what scenario you are imagining here.
> why does an IDE need to be designed for a language anyway

People want their IDE to do all the ancillary tasks, and Go builds most of these into the core, so it's a good first target. You can be "feature complete" without complexity.

Consider the case of a C++ IDE. Which compiler do you support; gcc, clang, msvc? Which build system do you support; Bazel, make, cmake, gyp, autotools? Which C++ standard version does the syntax highlighter support; can you change it per-project? If you do change it per-project, how do you configure this?

If you pick some opinionated subset, your userbase is 0 people. If you support everything people want, you have 30 people working on it for 10 years and you still fail.
Thats is how you make IRC go to a whole new level
The west took Ukraine in a coup and the chances the west would give up Ukraine is zero. Likewise Russia at least had the decency to run a referendum in Crimea.

What the west needs to understand is that Crimea itself (the people) identify as russia and they have no intention of letting themselves be swallowed up by Western Europe.
I edited right before you posted because I realized I misremembered the line. Thanks though.
I'm not calling any law out as being immoral - I'm pointing out that there's nothing hypocritical in circumventing a law you find to be unjust while still campaigning for changes to the law that you expect others to follow.
Already happened; https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/pull/185 (Add sqlite3 support to Lua scripts in Redbean) has been merged.
While resources are fundamentally the same across clouds (i.e. they're all VMs, they all have firewalls etc), they are vastly different concepts and have different feature sets. It's almost impossible to do a like for like api call between two providers.

However, you can develop cloud agnostic modules that you can then consume, which allows for a decent cloud-agnostic experience.
As a (relatively new) father, I think about this a lot. The way I see it, when I was my kid's age, we used to have middle-class opportunities for A students, B students, C students and D students. Maybe A students went on to good universities and did really well, B students went to college or something but still lived a solid middle class life, C students maybe could do a little community college and still eek out a living, and D students got by with hard work and some assistance. There was a reasonable shot at a middle path for everyone. But now the middle class is disappearing, and society is very quickly bifurcating into two classes: "Well off" and "Crippling poverty/prison". The bar is higher and the stakes are higher now than when I was a kid. The world is now a brutal and competitive slug-fest for those shrinking number of top slots, and if my kid doesn't get one of them, she's doomed to a really tough life. Only the top-tier of the A students gets a crack at "well off" and the rest--will be left behind. There's no middle path anymore. There is a huge tidal wave of inequality coming, and I am willing to sacrifice to ensure my kid gets on one of the few boats left. She can figure out what she's passionate about once she's safely on the boat.
Thats a shame. I suspect the M1 would blow heavy machines out of the water and become the only machine you've ever need if it could use an external egpu.
Interesting idea, but a fundamental aspect of private property is that you don't have to sell it.

Maybe someone knocks on your door and says "I just bought your house. Get out." That would be pretty unpleasant.

Or, more on topic for this site: maybe they do that with your startup.
Same thought.

PG gets held to a higher standard than anything else on here. If some random smart person put up the same article, everyone would congratulate them for at least the effort.

I can't tell if PG's (cultivated) simple style makes people think the "idea" is simple.

In any case, even if people don't like something, they don't usually go out of their way to tell the author, especially when it is something as personal as PG's essays.

This is something else PG does in this essay: he pays attention to his own feelings and sensations, and draws lessons out.

Not saying you have to like that sort of thing, but at least look at it based on its own goals.

p.s. I keep adding to this response but Russell's answer doesn't really contradict PG, at least not the way I read them.
>No, I am aware of this, but PM's advertising lies by omission.

Show me that advertisement.

>I'll counter this by asking when ProtonMail open sourced theirs.

Yes the whole infrastructure:

https://github.com/ProtonMail
Ironically, one of the results of this is that paying customers may not have access to as many open source base images.

For example, I maintain a Docker image that builds statically-linked Rust binaries for Linux. It includes static versions of several C dependencies. It's useful mostly because setting up cross-compilation is really tricky and the details change occasionally.

I've been keeping it up to date for many years, and it has about 750k downloads (which is pretty decent for a compile-time-only Rust image). I don't mind maintaining it as a volunteer service for people who use it. But there's a good chance that I'll simply retire it, and that any paying Docker customers will need to figure out how to cross-compile weird C libraries on their own.

I'm not complaining. Docker owes me nothing, and I can just build images for my own use.
> Those aren't the super-wealthy, of course. But most wealthy people can't be identified by where they live.

This is particularly true for intergenerational wealth. I grew up in a area with fair number of affluent households. You couldn't realize it until you became familiar the community.
The FDA only judges the medical evidence. That is complex enough.

Adding pricing to it's concerns would make what is already a nightmare process even worse.
Feels like the real interesting figure is that average americans seem to have ALL OF THEIR INCOME GROWTH taxed away:

> It’s a completely different picture for middle-class Americans, for example, wage earners in their early 40s who have amassed a typical amount of wealth for people their age. From 2014 to 2018, such households saw their net worth expand by about $65,000 after taxes on average, mostly due to the rise in value of their homes. But because the vast bulk of their earnings were salaries, their tax bills were almost as much, nearly $62,000, over that five-year period.
I'd be willing to test out both to compare
There are multiple addons which provide this functionality in newer versions of FF as well.
Fastmail user here -- likewise somewhat dissatisfied. A few points of comparison:

>U2F

Supported by FM desktop browser app, works well.

>unlimited email aliases

Yes, but the FM GUI does not scale. There's a linear list, access to it reached by picking through layers of UI salad down from the top view. List presentation is bulky; ordering by order of creation, only.
cells will definitely drift a little bit over time and they absolutely do need to be balanced.

(or else overall pack capacity and discharge performance will be lost - the discharge curves are not linear, when a cell is "dead" it drops rapidly, and that means you've effectively lost that chunk of your pack in terms of capacity and ability to discharge).

it's not instant of course, so it's not like you need to do it every single time, but the trend over time is definitely for them to move away from ideal balance with multiple charge/discharge cycles rather than into balance
One of Nixon's top guys explicitly admitted that the motivation was racism: https://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-...

"You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities," Ehrlichman said. "We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."
I think it’s maybe a difference between servers and workstations, then. I did a full BIOS factory reset, and it was in the “Intel AMT”-disabled state after I did so.

To be clear, are you talking about Intel AMT specifically (which I’m not really aware of being a “thing” with Xeon), or just regular server-OEM BMCs (iLO, DRAC, etc.)?

BMCs are definitely usually pre-configured. That’s part of the point of BMCs: you can rack the servers and run cable from their management NICs to the management-VLAN switches; then populate their drive bays; and then batch-provision everything at once through the BMCs (including, hopefully, setting up actual security on the BMC.)

But Intel AMT isn’t quite the same thing. (For one, vPro-badged computers don’t usually have a separate management NIC — though some do! — but rather Intel AMT usually uses the IOMMU to virtualize another NIC onto the same physical motherboard RJ45 socket. So it’d be a much worse security design to have AMT default-enabled from the factory, since that’d put new machines’ control-plane interfaces out onto your regular-traffic VLAN by default...)
It largely depends on how you define nature.

Many species of animals and plants are severely threatened and most of them will die out or will only be able to survive in zoo's or wild parks.

Humans at the moment should be considered as a single population due to relatively small genetic diversity and frequent contacts with other humans from across the world. This implies that humans as a species are pretty susceptible to pandemics. COVID-19 is a pretty harmless pandemic, we have known pandemics for other species that (almost) completely wiped out that species.

If you are simply worried about all life on earth disappearing, that seems extremely unlikely. As Stephen Jay Gould said every age on earth is the age of bacteria[0]. Bacteria have always been the dominant form of life on earth. They were the first ones and they will be the last ones.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/1996/11/13/planet-of-...
I think it is assumed a wealth tax would not require taking out a loan. You can assume that your home would be exempt, but more likely it will just be a standard allowance deductable.

This isn't a new thing. Property taxes are the wealth tax that already exists, at large.

That is... You're point on a tax reassessment is exactly what is being discussed. And if the tax on your wealth is increased as a form of capital wealth, expect the rates to be higher that most property taxes.

Edit: I see I missed that this was a hypothetical on touching collateral. Not sure how I feel on that one. In large because I know so many folks are essentially tricked by marketing to refinance all the time.
When you use Bermuda like that, you pay various fees to do so (registration fees, banking fees), and money ultimately goes into the national budget from that. The state then invests in infrastructure and some job creation from that national budget.

Similarly, when Caribbean nations sell citizenship to foreigners seeking easier travel or tax optimization (another avenue they have explored into order to diversify their economies), the foreigner typically pays a fee in the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for the passport, and that goes into the national budget.