skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Penal labor in the United States is explicitly allowed by the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

What are most prisoners forced to do?
They're hoping you click on the link in that paragraph, which is full-on Marxist propaganda.

Also, it's not 6 states banning CRT, it's 20 states now.

(CRT is calling white children oppressors, and black children victims. Neither is accurate or helpful. CRT is derived from Marxist Critical Theory. Since the US doesn't have a class struggle, racism has been inserted to make it a racism struggle.)
“PC Load Letter” is not on the list. Hope it is added.
What is interesting is Asuras and Devas in Persian and Indian religions.

In India the Devas are gods and the Asuras are demons.

In Persia, Asuras (called Ahuras) eventually came to become singular Ahura and identified with the supreme God and the Devas became demons.

Thus the gods and demons are reversed between India and Persia.
> Anyone who relies on Next should want Vercel to be a long-lasting company.

Well said, +1. A feature that gets people excited about a product you use, even when you're not the intended audience, is a good thing.
We have no control over the dirty tricks that other countries play. There are no world police to regulate this sort of behavior. Unless a UN treaty banning surveillance is adopted, nothing will be done. Most countries surveil their own citizens. Where is the outrage for that? It is a losing battle. What sorts of intelligence gathering would be acceptable? How about aerial surveillance (photo reconnaissance)? How about satellite surveillance? What about collecting unencrypted RF transmissions? Where you draw the line depends a lot on the stake you have in the game, and it is a game. If you do not play, you will lose.
In large numbers, employees are commodities for their employers and are treated as such. The larger the company, the worse HR is treating people as cattle. It sucks, but it is what it is.
An Ipad Pro cant compare with a device that has a much larger screen.
If you look at a lot of southern history textbooks, they’re absolutely fucking insane.

Like, they start talking about the civil war by portraying somebody who owned 100 slaves as poor (obviously false; slaves are expensive), and talking about how they’re victimized by losing those slaves… and how the slave master will lose their job.

The textbooks today are fucking obscene propaganda.

But this is a safe space for racist shits like you, because that's how Paul Graham wants it. Paul pays Dan Gackle specifically to ensure that racist assholes like you have a Safe Space where you won't be challenged.
This might actually be useful!
I'm a fan too, but as the seasons roll on it's hard to believe the guys are shocked or embarrassed about anything they do at this point. It's starting to feel like the scripted reaction vids from instagram
Tech debt is not a burden, it's a strategic lever for success
When you need credit, you take what you can get and if your rating is poor there isn't a choice of providers. Sometimes that's exclusively mobile.

I opened a business account with an (at the time) exclusively mobile bank last year, because other banks took too long to authorize setup (they generally take weeks or even months), and I had a new company starting. I went with the only bank I knew where I could get set up within a few days to start taking revenue, as I had a client ready to pay from the start. It turns out that being mobile also meant they had a streamlined electronic setup process, and no visit to a branch during a pandemic. It still took a few days, as various people checked out my identity, read my LinkedIn profile to confirm what kind of business I was in, etc.

Last time I opened an account for a new company it took over a month and two in-person interviews, so the mobile bank was a big improvement.

Since then they have added web access as well, which is great, but use the phone as an authentication token, which is a bit annoying. It's not ideal, but neither are any other options I know about. Having to carry a separate physical token/reader around (or in practice, leave it at home and not have it when needed), as all the other business banks I've used require, is more annoying.
I always wanted a tool like this, and wondered why it didn't already exist. Many others have tried this before (code + visual editor, albeit not necessarily React). I'm interested in what challenges the developers faced to make this and how they overcame them.

If this works well, it will be amazing and I'll almost definitely use it for my next webapp.
People dont just move to another country with their spouses and kids on a whim. Never happens
I think you really need to put your idea in perspective.

Christmas is barely the last hold out for holidays where the people who need time off to vote (retail, food service, other low wage high hour jobs) get at-least a bit of time off and that is being eaten into each year.

Do you really think a federal holiday for voting would do anything but start a whole new round of election day door busters that make it even harder for these people to vote?

A voter holiday is a waste of political capital that doesn't help the people who would need it. Pushing for the voting booths to be open all month long and to allow no justification mail in ballots are the kind of valuable reform we can push for rather than a symbolic holiday that would be ultimately worthless.
do you mean election day should be changed to MLK's birthday?
>> How are you handling the fact that it seems like none of the computational geometry algorithms parallelize?

>> Even something as fundamental as line segment intersection doesn't seem to have any good parallel algorithms.

We don't need parallel algorithms at the lowest level. A NURBS model consists of a large number of surfaces and trim curves. You'll be hard pressed to find "standard" algorithms for NURBS boolean operations, but jwesthues (creator of solvespace) chose a fairly good process for handling them. To combine 2 NURBS shells we compute intersections of each curve from A against each surface from B as one step in the process. Finding all those intersections can be done in parallel. Each step in the boolean process can similarly be done in parallel at either the curve or surface level.

We also do triangle mesh creation in parallel now, as each surface patch is triangulated separately it was easy to run them in parallel. This was a huge win for things like a torus where there are many surface patches with compound curvature and lots of triangles.

We had one nasty bug where dragging some geometry around would start to distort a couple surfaces. Turns out there is a function to intersect a ray with a NURBS surface that recursively subdivides the surface. The recursive subdivision was altering the weights of the original surface control points and then putting them back. Running that on multiple threads at once could lead to corruption. I don't recall how I tracked that down, but the fix was to simply make a copy of the surface and discard it when done rather than changing the original. This whole ray-surface intersection thing is another example of an algorithm that doesn't really benefit from parallelization for a single call, but there's no reason we can't go up a level and have multiple threads calling that function with different ray/surface combination.

I was really pleased that most of the complicated code in Solvespace is written in a functional style - meaning it doesn't mutate data. Another part of the NURBS boolean process is to create a BSP-tree for each surface, which is then discarded after the operation is complete. Once again, that can be done in parallel over all the surfaces even though it'd be hard to create a single BSP-tree using parallel code.
*white collar companies

Corner stores and restaurants don’t close.
My wife works in healthcare and caught some random respiratory illness in December 2019 that lingered on for 3 weeks. Her o2 levels the entire time was hanging around 94-96% so eventually we went to see her PCP. He found "adventitious" sounds in her lungs via stethoscope and prescribed her some steroids. It had an immediate effect and I thank god everyday she was diagnosed and treated before MSM made covid the black plague.
Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit 122° Fahrenheit
Big fan of “786 - Try it now”
79x needs something akin to "Global nuclear fallout; internet failed to live up to design requirements"
I was surprised the list has a couple affiliates of sites I used to run as a kid. It was one of the first ways I would navigate within a network of sites without having to use an often clunky search browsing experience at the time.

Definitely nostalgia inducing.
If you're sincerely interested, I found the documentary "13th" to be informative and thought-provoking.

https://www.netflix.com/title/80091741
Politics is preference. If you don’t read any D’Souza, you might not know what half the country thinks?
> thanks to 13th amendment

Same with housing segregation and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act's exceptions: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1691

Just like the 13th still allows slavery for prisoners, the ECOA still allows discrimination if the person can't afford the home, incentivizing the system to make housing as expensive as possible: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OEHRENWBSHNO
There is indeed some messing around required, but some of our team are developing this using M1 macs
> There is also a link between Zoroastrianism and the ancient Vedic religion.

There are probably elements in both coming from even more ancient Indo-European religions. I wonder if you could also find similarities with German and Greek deities as well and try to reconstruct a proto-Indo European religion.
Last Week Tonight on Prison Labor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjqaNQ018zU
By "magic" I really just mean having a super low barrier to having your code running and working in Emacs. You just open your config files, put in a line of code, and then you're done.

Most of the time it isn’t even necessary to restart emacs to do this.
Lots of people like gimmicky things better, just like lots of people like to turn up the bass and treble all the way. But lots of us (and I'm a musician and audio engineer) appreciate high quality balanced distortion free audio, and want to hear the music the way the original artist intended. Just because you can make sounds bounce around in space doesn't make the music better, especially if the original recording wasn't conceived that way in the first place. I would always prefer listening to the original intent of the artist.
iPads and Apple’s processors had purpose built processes for video editing. My M1 Air is faster than my 2017 15 inch hexa core and respectably close to my 2070 Super in Handbrake. You can probably get away with an M1 iPad Pro for a LOT of tasks. The T2 in the touch bar chip on my 2017 is faster than the intel processor in some encoding tasks I’ve done.
Then let me shift this. If you moved to a location that was completely isolated from the sun, would that cause damage?

That is, I've been assuming there is a spectrum from no exposure to too much. Just as it is with plants. Now, plants obviously need some exposure for photosynthesis. People don't have that, but are there benefits to some base level exposure?

And again, I get the point on burning. And again, that is why I bring up blistering. Something that is obvious in it being bad damage for your skin. Whereas moderate dosing the same behavior could instead give you a callous, which I have never heard called out as bad damage to your skin, though it seems it is a form of damage.
I agree that situations like this are scary, because they can lead to mob mentality. I wonder why you're downvoted for this.
bpftrace is considering adding a new backend that wouldn't involve any LLVM[0].

Additionally, ply is another effort (which doesn't use LLVM) to build a DTrace-like frontend to BPF.[1]

[0] https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace/issues/1845

[1] https://github.com/iovisor/ply
The wealthy are only wealthy in comparison to everyone else.

So if everyone else gets less poor say from free school lunches or free college, then it makes the wealthy relatively less rich even if their bank balance remains the same number.

It also means that the general population is harder to exploit.

So there are multiple motivations why some would like to perpetuate this myth and not fund social programs.
Prison is meant to be a deterrent to crime, don't do the crime if you're not prepared to do the time. Last I checked no one is rounding up innocent people and sending them off to the gallows.
Comments should never be "what". They should always be "why".
White people deciding what they feel Black people need.

Black people don't need Juneteenth holidays.

They need respect from the nation's institutions and they need to present and articulate their case for reparations in an emphatic and uncompromising manner.
Yea, I felt the magic of the movies was the honest comradery between the guys.

They looked like they really cared about eachother.

I didn't know the torn urethra was that bad. Ouch!

Until now, I wasen't sure if he was acting when Butterbean knocked him out in that retail store. It was real. I remember thinking, he's a great actor with the tremors, or it was real? Never forget his first words after the knockout, "Is Butterbean ok?". Priceless.

My favorite clip of him is when they did an intervention for Steveo. Knoxville went into the room, and told Stevo to stop taking drugs. Stevo wanted the intervention filmed. I guess he thought it would be a good footage. Knoxvile told the cameraman No. I gained a lot of respect for him that day.

I hope Bam gets sober, or at least cut way back on the alcohol.

(Off topic, but to guys interested in fashion. I have a sister who made her huge wad selling shoes. She told me, in LA the higher the price, the more desirable people think your product is. Crazy? (Shirt, his own. Hoodie, $268, by Odessa 1919. Pants, $375, by Connor McKnight. Sneakers, $50, by Vans Authentic. Glasses, his own by Ray-Ban.))
Wildboyz is an underrated nature show. Or maybe it's more that Chris Pontius is underrated.
reminds me of https://www.figma.com/blog/when-fonts-fall/
Emacs actually has built in support for the unix calendar format and the official distribution has import and export utilities for ical files so you can handle/generate invitations. I keep it in the same git repo that I have my org files in.

I'm actually a vim user (and have been since I was ~12.) I just use Emacs because it's where all the good PIM tools are for Linux.
The GIFs are displayed alphabetically by filename, and are paginated. The "N" files show up on the third page:

http://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/index3.html
AFAIK a lot of Armenian church vocabulary is actually Parthian-origin (pre-300s AD) Zoroastrian terms repurposed.
>Excuse my ignorance, but why is that a problem?

fingerprinting/tracking. even with wifi mac randomization enabled, if you see a given client broadcasting a certain set of SSIDs you can use that to track them.
Do you really refer to your parents as a 'babysitter'?
This is all fair and good. I was just pointing out the beginnings of a trend.

To me, build-time image optimization would’ve been a prerequisite for next/image even launching in the past. Something in the tune of “…and Vercel does all of this for you, automatically, by default when deployed to Vercel”. Instead, we get a build-time error on export.

I agree that the vast majority don’t need a custom server. If I could go without one, I would. Unfortunately I can’t, and this one’s not a criticism. It was clear to me once “Develop. Preview. Ship.” became the tagline that things like Docker support would go away. Fair.

Glad to hear Next.js Live will be open source, and I’m assuming it’ll be easy to deploy given the quality of Vercel’s work. I personally don’t understand the use-case but can see how it adds to Vercel’s value add.

Appreciate the reply! I just wish Vercel looked into immutable database provisioning, continued Docker support, alongside the stellar React work.
Very unlikely. Even large corporate employers don't give time off for most federal holidays. I have a cushy tech job and still have to work on MLK day, President's Day, Veteran's Day, Columbus Day.
>> I love Solvespace. It really changed the way that I perceive CAD when I got into designing 3d printed parts that needed to fit together.

The next version should be able to link STL files into your models - complete with boolean operations. The linking code exists on one of my branches, but I still need to work out which verticies get point entities created for building geometry on. I know how to do it, just not efficiently yet.
Interesting that Scott has asked for the focus to be on the organisations not her. https://mackenzie-scott.medium.com/seeding-by-ceding-ea6de64...
GearBSD: Automating Your OpenBSD
First case of postmortem study in a patient vaccinated against Covid
"These results might suggest that the first vaccination induces immunogenicity but not sterile immunity."

Thoughts?
I like it, even though I never use it.

I write complex distributed applications, but wish my life would be easier. I don't care about having my job forever nor fear innovation. Anyhow, I think it might take a while until low code or no code becomes a thing on what I do, but I deeply believe in a future that doctors, engineers and everybody will use those tools to build amazing things, or cure really hard diseases, or whatever people might invent.

I think we are living in an awesome time and I love to hear about it, how clever some low code or no code are, and how it empowers people.
I have no answer for your last question, and I don't think there's a well defined line. Maybe the line is that we shouldn't share comment drama. The reality is that these kinds of discussions can lead to bullying, and that's what's not so simple about just discussing issues like this.
Drug Policy Reform Act would decriminalize drug possession, expunge records
Most Senate business is unanimous consent. I don't think it's misleading.
They are "forced" to work at below minimum wage rates both for the government and individual firms in public-private partnerships.

I use "forced" in quotation marks, because although prisoners are no longer forced chain-gang style, these jobs can be a prisoner's only source of money, which is required to purchase communication with the outside world.
Interestingly, the original Unix philosophy includes the corollary "to do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new "features."[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy#Origin
There's been quite a lot of research into this area, I think its super fascinating. Wikipedia has a good page on it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_mythology) but there's also a many interesting books
>"If I were Yelzin, I would've ordered firing squads for every KGB officer above a major.

And if you were Biden would you for example order the same for any government employee who puts/keeps/prevents release of an innocent person in jail?
What are you talking about? Are you saying housing is expensive is a discrimination?
Agree wholeheartedly. Within government, the tendency is to avoid the extremely uncomfortable discussions pushing back on questionable activities other government entities are engaged in, especially if those activities can be ascribed to some perceived good intent. Even harder if you learn of something questionable that has been going on for a long time - it's grandfathered in by both a long time in the pursuit of "good intent", and by you being a new objector when lots of people who came before you did not object.
Not a good analysis, not even accurate
> I think we in the general public have a tendency to underestimate just how bad the flu is. Tens of thousands of people die from it every year in the US alone.

This is a misunderstanding a lot of people have about influenza statistics, btw. That "tens of thousands" number is an estimate; confirmed annual influenza deaths are much lower, from 3,448 to 15,620 (https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/comparing-...).
I’ve always liked foxes. I was an avid coyote hunter for years and used to call foxes in all the time. They’re hilarious because when they come smoking in for the kill and realize it’s a trap they try to act nonchalant and just veer off like “Oh, yeah, I wasn’t actually falling for that bro.” I had a big red Fox who lived in the woods next to my friend’s farm and he’d always come out at night when he heard me calling and just hang out near me, he knew I was there and just liked to come out and goof off. Sometimes he’d just hop up on a hay bale next to me, wrap his tail over his nose and go to sleep like it was nothing. Funny little guys, lots of personality. But fragile too, they have a very short lifespan in the wild.
Then last time you didn't check very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdvy14fdjj8

Besides that, slavery its not one a valid punishments in civilized nations.
Also needs a reference to the AI Singularity ~ i.e. Skynet and the Robot Apocalypse.
Makes sense. There's definitely room for disagreement without either side being malicious. On one hand there are the problems we see in front of us today of a lot of people having their lives unfairly destroyed by the state and billions of dollars being arguably wasted; on the other hand, we have to consider the problems that led to our current situation, and ensure that any solution we implement today doesn't excessively regress in those areas.

I'm still pro-full-legalization for the moment, but wouldn't just sign a bill if presented to me today without first ensuring that my administration had a firm understanding of all the historical issues, and felt comfortable that the bill reasonably addressed them (or, if not, that the cure at least wasn't worse than the disease). I know there's a pop culture narrative that drug prohibition was primarily motivated by malicious suppression of anyone Nixon considered undesirables, but from what I understand the real history is much more complicated.

Perhaps simple decriminalization would be a better first step, if not ultimately a better long-term solution as well. And, oh hey, it looks like that may soon be on the table: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27522843
We already have a standard file share protocol, Bluetooth. The problem is the UX sucks so much that almost no one uses it.

It’s hard to say exactly why Bluetooth can not fix these issues but perhaps the proprietary nature of AirDrop lets apple innovate without concern for standards or legacy.
Almost no private company gives every federal holiday off.
All holidays are fucked up.
Fascinating story. I think it's hard to anticipate consequences of actions, for some harder than others.
Have you ever heard the term "driving while black"?
> Who is upvoting these articles about my mostly forgotten culture and why?

I've read some into Zoroastrianism and find it super interesting, that's why I upvoted it.
Text version:

https://practical.engineering/blog/2021/6/9/what-really-happ...
Sesko Maronse
Like many others, I think this is super cool, and something that I think has been missing in the ecosystem for a long time.

I feel like the thing that would really make this over-the-top powerful is deep integration with a component library, either a company's in-house one or an open-source library. It would allow for super fast UI prototyping that would also serve as scaffolding for the full-featured product.
And we shall make it a hate crime if anyone used his dead-birthday instead of his now only legitimate new birthday.
I don't think any of your reasoning makes sense here. It's weirdly aggressive and is sort of a think of the children, but with poor people.

But your conclusion feels like the right call. A weird 180 imo.