skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's only true for the very poorest Americans and I don't think they enjoy the same quality of healthcare that the professional class enjoys. In general, Medicare seems to be really complicated and it varies tremendously by state, so it's hard to generalize about the kind of healthcare poorer people receive.
I see that your take away is that Warren is lying, right? Have you considered that his wealth is growing faster than he can give it away?
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They have these birds called Plovers in California and that's the pronunciation (puh-lover) I immediately went to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_golden_plover
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Would also love to hear more from a hardware engineering perspective

I know nothing about that - was speaking purely from an end user UX perspective
Better laptops have a modifier in the BIOS to toggle the top row = media keys / Fn + top row = F1-F12 settings. Obnoxiusly nowadays the default is the media keys...

On my Asus laptop this is toggleable by pressing Fn+Esc, so now the Fn-key constantly has a light on to let me know that my top row is F1-F12.
Also they could force such behaviour just by the usage of the relevant APIs even outside of App Store Apps or am i mistaken? Dont have a lot of iOs Dev experience.
Common mistakes on the road to $10M ARR
Not pissing off the United States? My understanding is that most Central and some South American countries have had their governments intentionally destabilised by the US because they were perceived as too left wing.
Why should women's championships even exist? Isn't that just a pity prize? Either design a game where women tend to perform better (like certain forms of gymnastics) or where they tend to be more interested due to the cultural aspects (like cheer/dance), or let women compete in other areas of endeavor.

Why have leagues for women in basketball but not "men under 6ft tall"?

Is it to encourage girls and women to be physically active for a health life? If so, so we need competition for that? (I'd say no -- boys and men who aren't eite talent are also pushed out by the focus on competition)

Now if people like women sports due to the style of play in WNBA or Women's soccer or whatever, that's great; just make the rules and marketing and such to promote that style, and women will tend to be the participants.
This is the same reason there can be huge, famous, influential companies with the same name in different industries.
New Elixir 1.12 – The developer’s point of view
See also, /r/weirdnumbers and, if you're into that sort of thing (that is, exploring the phone network), /r/phreaking

Old-skool phreaking[0] (eg, using blue boxes and red boxes) is mostly dead (at least in the US and most "first world" countries. Maybe there is some vestige of in-band signaling left somewhere else) but there is still some fun to be had exploring phones and phone networks.

Modern day phreaking is more about GSM sniffing[1], messing with the SS7 network[2][3][4], using SCTP[5]/SIGTRAN stuff[6], etc. etc. But, at least for the land-line / PSTN network, even some of the old "colored boxes"[7] still do useful things. You can always beige-box a landline phone, violet-boxes should still work, I think a gold-box would still work, etc.

If you want to dig deeper into how the PSTN works, a good, fun book is Understanding Telephone Electronics[8] by Carr, Winder, and Bigelow. Another interesting one is Digital Telephony[9] by Bellamy. Another "oldie but goodie" is Voice and Data Communications Handbook[10] by Bates and Gregory.

Also, don't ask me how or why I know any of this stuff... :-)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreaking

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzyuioto4y8

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JCusqL-Gdk

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wu_pO5Z7Pk

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_System_No._7

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Pr...

[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGTRAN

[7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreaking_box

[8]: https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Telephone-Electronics-J...

[9]: https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Telephony-Telecommunications-...

[10]: https://www.amazon.com/Voice-Communications-Handbook-McGraw-...
There is a bird called a plover with the same pronunciation. I’m guessing this product is named after it.
In this analogy, the lightbulb manufacturer can't build a 1000lm bulb for a comparable price once they account for the overheating issue. The technology won't exist for, say, five years. No other manufacturer can do that either. They can give my money back, but then I still don't have a lightbulb. What am I going to do, buy the same one again?

One thing you might say is that this change happened even to lightbulbs I've had for 5+ years. I can buy a functional 1000lm bulb for the same price now, due to the march of technology! The problem is that I've been using the lightbulb for five years already. If you use a lightbulb for five years, and then it fails entirely, the manufacturer is never going to give you a full refund: why would they give you a full refund for a lesser failure mode?

The choice is not between silently letting manufacturers cripple stuff, and having non-crippled stuff. The choice is between silently letting manufacturers cripple stuff, and loudly letting manufacturers cripple stuff. You're welcome to do the latter, but your stuff is still going to be crippled.
This may be a stupid question, but why not move to Netherlands or Germany and work there?
Sex workers are not made criminally liable in Sweden. All the Reddit post is saying is that outside people will not want to be associated with their business - which makes sense if every sex worker might possibly be a trafficked sex slave and no one can feasibly tell the difference beyond reasonable doubt.
I thought we were talking reasonable people. No reasonable person would do what you said - leave a 30 second task to put in one screw for another day.

And even if they did, if it only takes 30 seconds and no extra effort... why can't the person asking do it or get someone else?

Also, if you need to leave on the hour to make other commitments why should boss be able to force you to stay without compensation? (bus schedule, pick up children and spend time with them, pick up spouse, go to concerts, meet friends etc)

Taking it to the extreme is what you already see in shops and warehouses, etc, where they need to stay, unpaid, for a couple of hours to secure things and clean up...
I respect the candid comments from the Brave Dev. I wish all "PR departments" acted like this to be honest.
It probably helps that pop growth compared to like countries was lower, so they have a more balanced age distribution.
How do you come to the conclusion there is no financial benefit in putting your wealth into charity foundations?
I am quoting some parts of an interview last year with BC Law Professor Ray Madoff:

>The government provides generous tax benefits for charitable giving but the rules provide very little assurance that this giving will actually make its way to charities. A well-planned gift can save a donor as much as 74 percent of the value of that gift in taxes. That means a $10 million gift can cost the federal government $7.4 million in forgone taxes and therefore only cost the donor $2.6 million after in after tax dollars.

>Right now, there's over $1 trillion dollars set aside in private foundations and over $120 billion set aside in donor-advised funds. Donors get all the same tax benefits from putting their money in these intermediary vehicles as when they give funds outright to a working charity, like a food bank. Yet the public has no assurance of getting any benefit from this money, because there's no requirement under current law that these funds ever be distributed for public benefit. Donor advised funds have no payout requirements under current law and private foundations can fully meet their payout requirements by giving to donor-advised funds or by paying salaries to family members.

https://www.arnoldventures.org/stories/a-new-initiative-aims...
I like the playfulness of it, and the ability to customize my "voice."

It has the potential to become a new community.

However... I'm confused how to discover groups.
Fast Company articles feel like their goal is to promote a business rather than disseminate valuable information.
Agreed! In fact, that's basically what I said.
I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure I saw someone post photos to wikimedia under a CC license. But then later claim that person was an imposter and wasn't authorized to do so. Now they get to make claims against anyone who, in good faith, used the wikimedia image believing it to be CC.
by lying about its grid, being non-industrial, and having power demand on par with a city despite having the name of a country

vatican city is pretty green too
https://archive.ph/7EnX4
I once took the train while backpacking from Hamburg to Copenhagen. I was incredibly surprised when part way through the journey I awoke on a ferry. It still blows my mind that they have a train that can roll on and off a ferry. Unfortunately, it looks like it no longer takes the ferry and one day will take that tunnel instead https://www.seat61.com/trains-and-routes/hamburg-to-copenhag...
> I was very surprised to hear this bizarre message about the end of the world and a zombie apocalypse when listening to the recordings.

So that's the reason someone called, we thought zombie apocalypse had already started...is what I would like to say, but reality is a bit more boring. It's one of our test numbers that we used for integration testing one of our call center integrations for our WebRTC monitoring platform (https://www.callstats.io) and someone decided to have a bit of fun with call flow :)

If you had pressed 1, you would have got a message about choosing to be rescued and that the agents take long tea breaks.

(disclaimer: I work at 8x8 on the callstats product)
A large contingent of Democrats thought 2016 was stolen because of Russian Interference, so now I guess the shoe is on the other foot.
The fact that we're not talking about commodities but vulnerable humans that can be intimidated to silence and suffering by organized crime. The very presence of this space as a racket open to economic exploitation fuels crime and trafficking. The only realistic solution seems (unfortunately) to be reducing the space itself.

There have been plenty of comprehensive reports showing exactly how legalizing prostitution helps organized crime.

This is just one of them:

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/etudes/join/20...
To add to this, it's important to understand that there's the law, then there's the mythology surrounding the law. People rarely read the actual statues but rather rely on a sort of word of mouth heuristic transfer. Think adoption of GDPR, there's the actual text, then there's the cargo culting around cookie banners. Similarly patent trolls. The law is cut and dry but the internet of alight with stories about how someone in the wrong won buy having more money.

People routinely build models on what prosecutors will pursue and what kinds of violations will be successfully punished and these will frequently be orthogonal to the laws text. See any US discussion online about the ATF for instance.

If people believe of can be made to believe they will be prosecuted for doing something that isn't illegal then it's just as illegal as if it actually was.
Yeah, I've moved a couple of times and still have the phone number I got in the second state I lived in. The nice thing is that, for the most part, the only people calling me from that state's area code are robocallers who are spoofing what they hope is my local area code. I very rarely answer unknown numbers anyway, but seeing these kinds of area codes on my caller ID almost guarantee it's a spam call.
Looks really nice, but sadly it's EU citizens only :(
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It's not clear to me what Pipewire does with respect to video. The audio part makes sense, most talk of pipewire that I've seen focuses on using pipewire as a replacement to pulseaudio. But what exactly does it do for video? I assume pipewire doesn't replace video playing applications like mpv. Would mpv use pipewire in place of some other component? Would/could mpv use pipewire in place of ffmpeg? Or is pipewire for video something like a wayland compositor?
I Visited a Chinese Lab at the Center of a Biosafety Debate
Therapy and medicine won't help. Usually the answers are: clean up the negative people around you (fire that person as your boss, network and take tons of other interviews sufficient to move or have a fallback option so you worry less), and branch out on your actual life (travel more, do something new, etc.)

You could also accept that Faangs are full of slackers and coasters--stop tying your self-esteem to your work or your boss (who is actually your adversary, squeezing as much work from you for the lowest price). Do enough to be of interest to other teams there, have a few references and savings and just assume you will be let go, and focus on improving your life and your next opportunity.
About 0% [1]. Looks like it's roughly 71.5% hydro, 12.6% geothermal, and 7.5% wind

[1] https://www.electricitymap.org/zone/CR
I largely agree, but I will add that we generally do allow people to self-identify their race. Lots of college and job applications that ask for your race will use this type of self-identifying terminology. The problem is when people are perceived to be lying about their identity as a means of getting some sort of advantage. Rachel Dolezal for example was caught lying about her parentage. Trans people generally don't lie to cover their transness (except maybe socially to avoid the attention their transness would garner).

This lying to get an advantage can potentially apply to trans people in sports too. People are always claiming that near elite male athletes who can't win in men's competitions will just say they are women to face easier opponents, but we haven't really seen any evidence of that occurring. This is primarily because the obstacles to check a box on a college application are so drastically different than the obstacles in front of someone who wants to publicly and officially change their gender. Considering that, I think the best approach is to not waste too much energy on "fixing" this problem until it is actually shown to be a problem.
Don't forget good relations with the local community to deter scabbing.
Violent Crime Is Spiking. Do Liberals Have an Answer?
I really like this actually, it's the least unfair to any of the competitors (male, female or transgender) and the implication that transgender people are the best of both worlds is about as inclusive as it gets.
How many hours off can you be with area codes or zip codes? I would have thought that might be about an hour not really more than that.
Warren Buffett gives away another $4.1B, resigns at Gates Foundation
true, I forgot about the games. battlefield 2 and republic commando took up alot of nights with me and my friends.
I'm reading hacker news at work to distract me. Why would I want to see c#, java or php?
Cuba's weekly, human-curated sneakernet (2018)
Given the out of order nature of processors, and the relatively limited scope for complex expressions given as function arguments, I would not expect this to matter in real-world programs. It seems this was also the opinion of the people drafting the new evaluation order changes [0] in C++17:

> We do not believe that such a nondeterminism brings any substantial added optimization benefit, but it does perpetuate the confusion and hazards around order of evaluations in function calls.It perpetuates unnecessary confusion around brace-initialization vs. direct initialization using parenthesis.

> We found that some entries in the benchmark suite ran slower, others ran faster compared to the scenario where the evaluation of the argument list is left unspecified. The variation is between -4% and +4%. It is worth noting that these results are for the worst case scenario where the optimizers have not yet been updated to be aware of, and take advantage of the new evaluation rules and they are blindly forced to evaluate function calls from left to right. It is clear that the left-to-right evaluation strategy is triggering new optimization paths (different inlining decisions and different register allocation) affecting the variations in the benchmark performance. It appears those opportunities have not traditionally been exploited, even though permitted under the unspecified order regime.

Unfortunately, they seem to have been overruled by the Core Working Group [1], for reasons I have not been able to dig up.

[0] http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2016/p0145r3....

[1] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2016/p040...
Hey there! First off, thanks for the submission. It's a refreshing take on the homepages we knew and loved. I'm curious what you plan to have in the paid tier. Can you detail some of your ideas with regard to that? Also, is there an engineering blog that goes into some of the design decisions and mechanics behind the scenes? Very much looking forward to what you two come up with.

Take care, wishing you the best!
Trying signing up on the home page. If it says your email already has an account, try here: https://multiverse.plus/signin

You can also email us at hello@multiverse.plus and we'll look into it. Might be a specific browser issue.
Exactly... It might even be selfish but the feeling is there lurking all day long in the back of your head.
Panama has done pretty well itself after the narcotrafficking president was ousted back in the late 80s.
Because there are no such rules. It's a competition. Only a few people can win, and any rules are biased.

If you rolled back the clock and tried again, Michael Phelps would never be a champion weightlifter, and the best weightlifter would never be a champion swimmer.
Past performance is no indication of future returns, especially when it's someone else's performance.
I'm a big Django fan and a former (unsuccessful) startup founder. I only took a quick look at this but wanted to leave a comment for anyone else sifting through new. My initial impression:

1. There's a bunch of things a I disagree with in here.

2. This is very well written.

3. It's well organized.

4. It's both concrete and high-level.

5. There's a ton of info here.

I'm so burnt out on shallow content, it's really refreshing to see something well argued, whether I agree with every conclusion or not.
That’s hilarious, thanks for sharing
good question, I have many answers but they are not good enough to justify a law.
Since I am not a libertarian and I think that the state should have some control over their citizens I can understand why the state objects prostitution under the assumption that most (or many) sex works don't (or wouldn't) choose this lifestyle voluntarily. I also in favor of gun control, limiting SMS loans, limitations on drug usage (not sure to which level) etc.

Huge disclaimer- I don't have any numbers or data to support my feelings, the fact that there is a community with 170k members worldwide (probably not all of them sex workers) which have positive online attitude towards selling sex doesn't mean that this is their real life attitude. Mental problems or financial hardships can push people to justify things they might regret later.
There is plausible evidence that's the case: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/lids/2014/06/12/does-legalized-...

However, I don't think it's right to use that evidence to shut down discussion. We should use it as a data point on how to strike the best balance between protecting sex workers and preventing trafficking.
Floor plans are not copyrightable. The blueprint might be - but that includes things like "Joe's architecture services" which wouldn't be on your copy, and the dimension markings would be in different places (unless the placement is standardized in which case the placement is not creative and thus not copyrightable).

The floor plan is probably subject to patents. I don't think anyone has done this, but I don't see why it isn't possible.
I believe this used to be the case (and completely agree on the illegal collusion acceptance). But as software continues to eat the world, the average software engineer reflects more the average employee.
What do your developers use as their "daily driver" browser? I bet it's Chrome. Reminds me of a decade ago, when IE6 was the bane of everyone's existence, yet no developer actually used IE6 regularly enough to catch bugs themselves. You've got to dogfood at least in proportion to your users.

This also sounds a little like when application or game developers complain that some very high percentage of their bug reports come from Linux instead of Windows, but when you ask how many of their developers primarily develop and test on Linux, the answer is zero. Well, of course you're going to get most bugs on a platform not regularly used by the devs!
It reminded me of alarm central station protocols. The earliest (e.g. 3/1 and 4/2) use pulse, and the later ones (Contact ID, SIA) use DTMF [0]. These systems are still installed and relied upon by alarms today. It does seem the industry is finally coming around to LTE, since a copper pair is basically a fiction we present to alarms at this point.

[0] https://www.emergency24.com/cp/formats.aspx has a cursory overview of many protocols
If it was so simple... :)
Many? What percentage I wonder?

Through my last job for over a decade I had access to thousands of sex workers, many in Germany. I will attest, on everything I own, not a single one was doing it against her will.

I do not doubt there are some being forced, but this idea that it’s a large percentage… I can not get behind. I’ve been on the inside and never saw anything remotely like it. And since I wasn’t a client I spoke openly with the girls and discussed things like this with them. Most were from Eastern Europe and we’re just stacking cash.

The Philippines I came across some questionable stuff, but that was due to extreme poverty. South and Central America were not quite as above board as Europe. Frankly, America is the worst, and that’s why Americans have these strange overly negative views of sex work. Our laws make it dangerous and thus dangerous people are attracted to it.
Seems like an opportunity for a massive battery system similar to the Hornsdale Power Reserve in Australia that Tesla pulled out all the stops for.
One thing I don't understand is this:

Is this stance by Apple really the best for them? I'm an Android user only because of Apple's draconian closed garden. Surely there are lots of Android users that would happily buy from the AppStore by default and enjoy likely privacy benefits if they felt they had more freedom of choice while using their device.

Has Apple made the conscious decision to forego a massive market of users because the AppStore really rakes in that much cash?

Basically, how do they know this position is better - even from a shareholder perspective? They must have proof - and that's sad because there are many users who would love their core product that will not own one.
Deleted SARS-CoV-2 sequencing data from early Wuhan outbreak recovered
Man still waiting for nim to get more traction such a wonderful language
> I can't leave the chickens alone outside during the day.

...

> If you love your animals, go live on a farm or in the woods. The city is no place for pets like cats.

So you say cats shouldn't be in cities, but chickens should be?

Cats have been living in cities for many centuries. Some cities have more outdoor cats than others. If you live in a city with too many outdoor cats, you could always try moving to a different city, or you could follow your own advice and go live in a more rural area.