skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pelosi doesn't get paid enough. She's one of the leaders of a country with a $23T economy and a $4.8T federal budget. She maintains houses in two different (very) high COL areas, and has a punishing work and travel schedule.

We'd be shocked at an exec in a round C company, helping lead 100+ people, who didn't make more than that.
>That's not at all what it takes.

In fact, it is all it takes in some jurisdictions[1]

>Imagine how many abusers already take advantage of the power they already have over women in women's prisons.

This is a disingenuous reply. The issue of abuse is colored by the difficulty in mitigation, i.e. available funds to significantly alter prisons, increase guards, etc. The fact that existing abuse has no easy, cost-effective solutions is not an argument against preventing the likely increase in abuse due to policy changes which are comparatively low-cost.

[1]: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-04-05/californ...
This data supports my point. It does not say "trans women are treated as men for purposes of dating," it says "trans women are not broadly considered attractive." They specifically call out that few people of any sexual orientation want to date trans women. But those who are interested in dating trans women tend to be people who date women.
See also: Theresienstadt (1944)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresienstadt_(1944_film)
So what do you suggest? We move to a feeling-based tax rate? Because I feel Apple should pay $26.55bn in taxes and they have a LOT of money.
I honestly fail to see what your point is, and as an argument, it does not impress me much. You went off your way to argue a minor inconsequential detail (yes, given what was discussed, it was inconsequential), and at the same time suggest they were less knowledgeable about the topic (which I might remind you, was not geographical terminology of land regions).

You'll do yourself a favor to not insult people over technical details. The arrogant attitude does not give a good impression. If you wanted to make it known you knew something they didn't, you could have achieved much more with "Belize and Central-America for that matter is considered to be part of North America, and very explicitly not part of South America". There was no need to make a point of someone knowing less, or disparaging their argument that had little to do with this.

In any case, do not mistake my interaction here as some sort of personal investment. I do not care much. Take the advice from a stranger as you will.
> Everyone here hears about Weinstein literally every day.

I have never heard of him before.
Maybe that’s why he is attacked by the mass media and big tech:

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/meet-the-censored-bret-weinste...
This makes me sad, I remember quite a few unlisted videos going around for one reason or the other over the years. Videos meant to be watched, mind.

There's lots of old stuff on YouTube from long dead small channels. This stuff rots and disappears over time with nobody around to maintain it. I guess it's a good reminder that everything needs maintenance.

Something similar, but much more dramatic, happened once they got rid of annotations - lots of old stuff that no longer works the way it was intended.

It seems like nobody particularly cares about preserving this kind of stuff. It's a big downside to having content that only lives on the web - video files on my local storage don't just change retroactively. Things might still need maintenance, like getting old flash files to work again, but information doesn't get lost as easily.
> I don’t want Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc to be able to do an end run around App Store controls

As evidenced by the fact that on sideload-enabled Android, Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc. have done an end run around Play Store controls.

/s
You don't have to pretend. Nobody thinks my name is actually "Mike" but if I ask you to call me that instead of "Michael" then what is it to you?

And if you really feel that your gender is being intruded upon by trans people then i encourage you to find something more meaningful and unique to attach your identity to, because your manhood feeling threatened is not a respectable reason to deny trans people their identity.
Dear Vercel: Please describe 'what the it is' on the first page of your website.

1st line: "Vercel combines the best developer experience with an obsessive focus on end-user performance.
Our platform enables frontend teams to do their best work."

2cnd: "Developers love Next.js, the open source React framework Vercel built together with Google and Facebook. Next.js powers the biggest websites like Twilio, for use cases in e-commerce, travel, news, and marketing."

3rd: "Vercel is the best place to deploy any frontend app. Start by deploying with zero configuration to our global edge network. Scale dynamically to millions of pages without breaking a sweat."

4th: "Accelerate with your team

Frontend development is not meant to be a solo activity. The Vercel platform makes it a collaborative experience with deploy previews for every code change, by seamlessly integrating with GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket."

Etc.

Etc.

Etc.

I get that it's something about making apps, something related to react, and that you're 'obsessive' etc. but nowhere do you seem to describe what this is, or even the thrust of it.

Is it a framework, a hosted service for files, servers, lambas?

Even your docs. introductory page doesn't say 'what the it is':

https://vercel.com/docs

I think many of us won't be bothered to 'try' something that can't be described in anything but 'higher order abstractions' (i.e. 'made for you', 'performs well', 'respected by others').

It's like your missing 1 or 2 very key sentences that would really help.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beggars_in_Spain
Sorry, no “fully collateralised” product delivers 10% return per day, doubling every week, turning 1$ into a million billions within a year, enough to buy the entire GDP of the USA over that same year 50 times over.

(Or, if there is such a product and you have access to it, let me send you a dollar, and you give me the US GDP in a year and keep the other 49 US GDPs for yourself for services rendered).
There are some alternatives, such as requiring connecting a keyboard to access the command-line interface to enter commands for sideloading (you can then disconnect the keyboard afterward, and the software will continue to work unless it is software that requires a keyboard). An account should not be required to do this. (I think that it could also include the note that some kinds of settings by the hidden command-line interface will void the warranty.)

User-defined sandbox filtering is also a good idea, and this is independent of sideloading. (The user can also disable this feature if they do not want it. However, it should have a stealth mode that the user can configure; this is needed in order to avoid abuse.)

The other consideration might be to avoid someone to change something and then give it to someone else who is unaware of such changes; it is unclear how to deal with this, but it is possible even without sideloading by building a counterfeit device, or in many other ways too that do not require sideloading (including by security holes, by lying, and by many other things).
By the time you get to that point, you've won and can afford to hire a team to handle the friction to build out. People scale Rails and Django apps to large customer bases before having to start thinking about how to design for "web scale".
Soft delete villain hit again
Mr. and Mrs. are both honorifics that are technically nouns - but they definitely modify the noun that comes after them which is one of the uses of an adjective. I can talk about the white house and the red house - just like I can talk about Mr. Smith and Mrs. Smith.

There are plenty of other words (including adjectives) that you can use as honorifics - you've got Little John (and Lil Jon), Short Bob and Tall Bob.

I think it's fair to move away from Mr. and Mrs. being as prominent as they are.
I received an email from YT about unlisted "playlists", and they even gave me a link which showed me which playlists would be affected. Everything was very clearly laid out in the email.
This is the rare case when watching the movie is an acceptable substitute. Johnny Depp studied HST for months to get it right.
I call shenanigans. Looks like the user made their account private. But this isn't how copyrights work. If your face looks like Loki's good for you. There would have to be a lot more going on in the photo to be an infringement.
We have an alphabet that can be used to give something close to certainty regarding punctuation. ɪt wʊd biː ˈkʌmbəsəm - to begin with, but I’m sure we could get used to it.

I think I’d prefer it. I enjoy reading text which has been written ‘in an accent’, where the usual way is to bend the standard alphabet so ets cluen yer en aboot tha propa wuy ta sey et.
What does China has to do with the actual conversation ?
Let's concede your argument that Black men are more dangerous than white men (I don't think so, at least not due to genetic differences). At best the data shows a factor of 2 more violent.

Men are more violent than women by 2 orders of magnitude. And, unlike your example, there is no doubt its physiological in nature

We have testicles and therefore are frothing with testosterone. And it's not unique to humans; farmers castrate bulls to make them docile in an ox team.
This thread is full of people commenting on both sides of the question so obviously there's no "you can't have an unapproved opinion". What you can't do is toss obvious flamebait, for the same reason you don't get to toss lit matches at a gas station. You can describe that as "you can't have an unapproved smoking device" if you want, but it's misleading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Shareholders are the rich.
Kildall couldn't "bet the farm" like Gates could because he didn't have the fallback of rich parents. The business was the fallback and he wasn't going to bet it.

Kildall couldn't break the IBM logjam with CP/M because he couldn't call the IBM CEO directly.
A flawed genius.
What do you mean by high-level?
What are these "powerful forces"?
> particularly if the world's culture is strongly set against having armies.

If the world's culture is strongly set against having armies, and one country effectively threatens them by breaking that taboo, then I would at least expect the world to instantly cease all trade and transport links with the arming country.

That may not be enough on its own to force the taboo-breaking country to disarm, but I don't see any contradiction in a world culture which is against having armies while also ruthlessly dedicated to temporarily re-arming and exterminating the first country that breaks the taboo.

There are hard coordination and rule of law / presumption of innocence questions to solve there, but I don't think we can necessarily assume that this world culture will stand idly by while their enemy works to undo the very thing that defines the culture.
I don't think it's as bad as that statement implies. It's not all smartphones or laptops or TVs or cars. A large number of those devices would be things like smartcards, LED light bulbs, USB cables, ID tags for shipping containers: tiny, low-to-no-power devices, if what you are concerned about is large amounts of electronic waste.
Huh. Never heard that latter usage. Where are you from? (For regional dialect purposes.)
There are basically three forms of working a job:

1. Shuffling around credit between people and projects

2. "Getting by" enough to not be fired

3. Studying something of interest through the work

At competitive companies it's a lot of the first - everyone's looking for a way to take credit, which means there's a lot of performance anxiety and destructive power plays. Companies that are "coasting" see more of the second type, and this is roughly where you are in terms of mindset. It may be a dead end, but you will get paid for a while; of course this clashes if you are in a competitive team. But if the job involves an implict need to absorb stress or physical exertion, it can feel like plenty enough to get by.

But it's the third that is the only one that has some innate sense of contentment, and is always tied to those "dream jobs" and "dream projects" people seem to have, and the kind of drive that motivates high achieviment and immense technical ability. In a lot of cases it has to come from within; teams lacking leadership in this respect fall into coasting or bickering behavior, and society as a whole defaults to total indifference. So it can easily happen that you feel a purpose for a few years, then fall down for a while, then rediscover yourself. But you have to continuously have that purpose in mind to not get overly swept up in events.

It's almost certainly the case that you have something you want to study more deeply, and if you set yourself up to go down that path you would start to excel within months without feeling difficulty. But knowing it means knowing yourself and doing some deconstruction of the path you've followed so far. School-to-FAANG is a kind of life script, and all life scripts have a lack of "happily ever after" closure to them.

How do you do that deconstruction? There's no definite way, but it's a question that guides a lot of philosophy around virtue ethics and self development. So one way to go about this would be to get philosophical for a while, take a class, read some classics. Another is simply to push yourself a little to get out of your comfort zones and try out things you think you will struggle with. One of my favorite methods is simply to draw on the energy of high achievers in various fields and their biographies, interviews, etc. Live streams, by being so encompassing for long periods, can reveal a lot of underlying drive, attitude, etc. So I will often turn to gaming streams to see some of that.
I'd have named the iPhone as a bigger technical edge than the iPad.

Like a Surface Pro thoroughly beats an iPad on hard technical grounds.
Still not a good reason to forbid trans people from public accomodations, keep it legal to discriminate against hiring trans people, deny them service, deny them loans, etc.

My point in asking about those edge cases is to say that it's not an excuse for the wide-ranging ways we torment trans people as a society.
Yes, we need to fix that problem. Absolutely.

But when is that going to happen? Not today, and probably not this year. In the meantime, that black single mother is out there, needing to protect herself and her children.

It's not either/or.
It's tricky. They are certainly used in slur-like ways these days. I would say the difference is that white supremacist and racist are pre-existing terms that are widely considered to be neutral descriptive terms. You can use neutral terms in non-neutral ways and over time they may start to take on the slur connotation. But I don't think we are there yet with the established terms.
someone posted a nice story in a different thread - before he started going really crazy with the lab and stuff, it looks like he first wanted to get away from a couple of pending lawsuits in the States:

"He was already facing a suit from a man who had tripped on his property in New Mexico. Another suit alleged that he was responsible for the death of someone who crashed during a lesson at a flight school McAfee had founded. He figured that if he were out of the country, he'd be less of a target. And he knew that, should he lose a case, it would be harder for the plaintiffs to collect money if he lived overseas."
https://www.wired.com/2012/12/ff-john-mcafees-last-stand/
It can cache music locally – it does some guessing as to what you want by default, but you can also sync specific playlists. Current models have 32gB of storage.
Same with Android (at least recent versions).
That is the danger of interpreting technical jargon without having the technical background. It will get you in trouble when you are talking about software just the same as when talking about science.

It might be loaded with denotation outside of the scientific community, but the word “radical” has some various scientific meanings, as other commenters have noted.
And to Steve's credit, they do and Android is the market leader.

Seems fine to me.
You should try https://js4.red/r/SexWorkers/comments/n11oqk/the_ongoing_wit... as well. IMO it's better than teddit, as it allows commenting.
From my experience, a lot of girls don't want to become women because it's a shit hand to be dealt, not because they want to piss in urinals and wear condoms. As a young man, I heard a lot of young women say how they wish they could cut their breasts off, be men, rape the would be rapists, etc. Body dismorphia and weird men cause a lot of problems for them and if anyone were to have serious conversation about, it would be labeled as some hate.

Trans women in my experience want have their sexual fantasies realized. They mostly want to eat (female) pussy, not "front holes".
>Ultimately the voters of her district have to care.

Pelosi's district interest is against action against those companies.

In this case, she's doing exactly as she's elected to do.
We should dramatically step up funding of the IRS so that they can obtain revenue from harder targets as well.
There is no better way to provide video content with a text document than to link to youtube. Sure they should have a private backup but until youtube stops working well like it has for a decade, it's still more reliable than any self hosted setup a company would build.
Difference between the two is very subtle, and in my opinion comes down to bad faith. If the person in question is any good at deception, it would be extremely difficult to do anything about it without some kind of authority. I don't think it's possible to stop the conflation without discovering a way to detect bad faith or making all people respect each other.
That's a legal standard, not a social or historical one.
> what are the odds that Facebook wouldn't just force people to sideload their apps

Zero, judging by Android.
We've been working on a tool called Pyro to move our videos to a different platform

https://www.pyro.app

Also our goal was to create our own video community. Might be an option for others who are thinking about something similar.
Switzerland seems pretty sane, at least from a distance.
Not sure about Germany, but here in Norway we have prison sentence with a max of 21 years which is a punishment.

However we also have "forvaring", or detention, which is locking someone up to protect the public.

If you're sentenced to "forvaring", you're not let go at the end. Instead a commission will review your case and behavior, and determine if the "forvaring" needs to be extended or not. So while you can't get more than 11 years (IIRC) at a time, the sentence can be extended indefinitely.

The important point is that "forvaring" isn't mean to be a punishment, although I assume it might certainly feel like it. It's meant to protect the public from a dangerous individual.
You know, the FBI, the IRS... or the family of the guy he most likely had murdered in Belize for poisoning his aggressive dogs? (Not fatally, the guy gave them something that made them sick, McAfee decided to shoot them, and mysteriously, the next day, the guy was found with a bullet in the back of his head, and evidence of electro-torture to the face and genitals.
Sadly he & his wife have repeatedly fostered confusion, the best example I have at hand are their comments[1] on Pres Biden's Executive Order 13991 - Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing[2]. When she said "the actual EO [...] doesn't actually specify that you're not required to wear a mask if you're away from people outside." which directly contradicts what was specified in the EO; "Such measures include wearing masks when around others". I find it difficult to take anything they say too seriously when they repeatedly make _mistakes_ like this.

> I have titled follow the science except when we want you to follow us and we're just going to pretend it's because we're talking science. One of the many executive orders that Biden has introduce President Biden on January 21st requires masks in national parks. [...] News reports on this tend to say masks required inside and outside when in crowded areas like overlooks, which you know, that that would sound reasonable. That sounds like, yes a hundred percent when you're indoors with strangers you should be wearing masks at this point Correct and you know in a really crowded place on overlooks ah okay sure but the actual EO [says...] [{reading of section 1 second paragraph only}] Thank you Zach. So that doesn't actually specify that you're not required to wear a mask if you're away from people outside. And that worries me because everyone who spends any time outside now and you all should be. Especially if you should be in whatever form...

[1] - https://youtu.be/wndotTtBTZQ?t=2799
[2] - https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...
> did it to deflect blame and target China as a scapegoat.

I don't see how that works. The US funded some of the research in Wuhan and it was done in collaboration with US scientists. If the lab leak hypothesis is true both the USA and China could share the blame.
His voice was great! Too bad KUOW fired him.
>if the family is poor, you're not going to be able to float rent on the storefront you need, or purchase initial inventory of whatever you're making, much less soak up a few false starts, much less take out a bank loan to do any of these things.

Max Stirner made this point in 1844:

"Free competition is not “free,” because I lack the things for competition. Against my person no objection can be made, but because I have not the things my person too must step to the rear. And who has the necessary things? Perhaps that manufacturer? Why, from him I could take them away! No, the State has them as property, the manufacturer only as fief, as possession."
This is the power of the price system and markets. If there is increased demand, with limited supply, prices rise. This, in turn, incentivizes the creation of supply (and supply of substitutes to the extant that is feasible).

For your example, at high enough prices, some doctors will change specialties, forms of automation will be encouraged. Teams of practitioners will be formed that allow the doctors to do back-to-back procedures while others like nurses handle preparations, medical tourism will occur while some seek out potentially less-trained doctors in countries will better supply or lower-regulation. More will be encouraged to go into medicine, alternatives like medicine will be investigated, fake-cures will be promulgated from the unscrupulous.
Was he? He was accused of not reporting potential cryto gains from talking about some cryptos. But if it didn’t realized any gains, he really didn’t have anything to report.
I don't think it has as much to do with wealth as it has to do with how interesting/accomplished the person is, the more slack we give them culturally. The more boring/ordinary a person is, the less slack we give them in western culture. A poor person whose life has interesting or compelling elements to it also seem to get a ton of slack culturally for crimes.
I find these devices cool but ever since getting hooked on Anki, I've basically stopped taking notes completely and instead capture information in flashcard form directly. I find that this approach enables me to get way more long-term value than written or digital notes.
This is not science, it is engineering.