skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The highest single point is China, followed by a very low point the following year. If you average the growth rate over 3-5 year period their maximum rates are similar.
Okay. I never heard of this guy before, but for someone who has written "The answer for those who support Western civilization, regardless of sex, color, or religion, is to embrace white tribalism, white separatism, and especially white Christian masculine rule", these are exactly the adjectives that shuld be in the opening paragraph of an encyclopaedia article about him. He is politically active and very extreme, which is noteworthy information.
I would recommend using some existing opensource tool for that and not roll your own implementation
> your language affects your world view

As a linguist, my personal opinion is that it tinges your world view, but does not have a large influence on it. I only adhere to a very light interpretation of Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. tldr: culture is a much stronger influence on world view, it also strongly influences language.

A simple, but clear example is rhyme. By having words that rhyme in your language, you are more likely to pair them together in a song or a poem, like love and dove, but these words don't rhyme in Chinese so you a Chinese speaker is less likely to pair them when rhyme is needed. It also affects word play. A counter argument would be imperfect rhyme, the culture or desired effect forces a rhyme on words. The speaker finds a why to manipulate the language for their needs.

A stronger argument argument against Sapir-Whorf is that there are native speakers of a language that have very different cultures like native speaker of American English and native speakers of Indian English. They both speak English, but have very different world views, and change the language to suit their communication needs. The opposite can be true as well, speakers of different languages, but related cultures can shape their languages in similar ways. For example, many Singaporeans are native or high level English speakers and the language has evolved patterns and communication styles found in Chinese languages.
At a time when pc weren't household items, that came about quite later
If only issues fit so neatly into a well defined, black or white moral framework that everyone agrees with, life would be so much easier.
It does seem like much of society is predicated on burning things. I feel like we have an opportunity to change that paradigm should since the nuclear age began, but burning things is just so easy it makes us complacent
> There's also going to be a lot of people complaining that flat taxes are regressive because the marginal value of money is different depending on how much you have. Taking that to its logical conclusion means taxing or subsidizing everyone to exactly the same buying power.

Er, no, it means assessing the marginal utility curve and taxing everyone an amount that represents the same share of the pre-tax utility of their income, if you believe that taxes should be flat when viewed through a utility rather than dollar lens.

That's very different than taxing or subsidizing to the same end value.

In fact, its just a progressive tax.
I haven't met a vegan who argues dogs should never eat meat. I have heard about it on nightly news from time to time, but I would think that's a very fringe, very uninformed niche of people who got the memo but didn't read it.

The vegan perspective is less "meat is bad" and closer to "compassion for a creature and its rights to exist freely within its own context". A killer whale should be able to nom as many seals as it wants, a dog can have some raw meat to chew on.
It is very difficult to imagine a vegan diet for cats that has enough plant-sourced protein while remaining palatable. Most commercial cat food is far too high in carbohydrates and is usually high in fat. This increases the palatability and lowers costs but is not healthy for the cats.

Cats are picky eaters, and they can refuse foods even when starving.
For one, she's lying:

> We’re doing everything we can to support the affected employees
It is very strange to work in a company where an individual of a given race with the power to fire or at least harm career progression tells another race how to treat members of the powerful individuals race. All the diversity training and questions delivered from this leader then imply that the white employees getting the training are the problems and are inherently racist. Just does not sit well with me.
OK, but suppose someone were to scrape newsletters from their e-mail and turn them into RSS feeds, just like you do. But then, suppose they just behave like a typical RSS user and read these with a feed reader. A stereotypical RSS feed reader which implements an inbox-like paradigm, where you see feeds as folders, which show a count like (3) of new unread items.

What would be the point?

(What you're doing makes sense to you because of the additional steps that are enabled, like conversion into e-newspaper and whatnot. In principle, at least, a mail client could do the same thing, without requiring round trip out to RSS.)
in offices
It's a bad analogy though because that contractor does not exclusively work for you using trucks and clothing branded with your name.

The Amazon delivery "contractors", though, do do all of the above.
Wall Street? Couldn't raise capital? Maybe IBM could have used some of the $110 billion dollars they spent on buying back shares to, I don't know, build a real business? IBM could potentially have built what is now AWS but what did they do instead? Share buybacks. What do they have to show for that?

IBM has been essentially a financial engineering machine for many years, with their ridiculous 5-year EPS targets and all the rest of it. While I was there they even removed plants, copiers, coffee machines, televisions, pads, pencils, pens and everything else in sight to "save" money.

The "leadership" of IBM drove the company in to the ground, period.
>Because from my experience, typing code is the fastest part of my job. I don't really have a problem typing. I spend most of my time thinking about the problem, how to solve it, and considering ramifications of my decisions before ever putting code in the ID

So very true.

[1] Understanding the problem > [2] thinking about all possible solutions > [3] working out which solution fits best > [4] working out which implementations are possible > [5] working out the most suitable implementation

... and finally, [6] implementing via code.
It is hilarious that Timoty Geithner, of all people, would write this editorial -- given his own problems with failing to report income to the IRS.

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=6704526&page=1
In my mind, I compare Jeff Bezos with Bill Gates.

I have often disliked the practices of Microsoft, and don't think creating benevolent billionaires is the best way to solve the world's problems, but I have to credit the fact that Bill Gates has actually tried to change the world for the better through the Gates foundation.

In comparison, Jeff Bezos's aspiration to travel into space seems to me mawkish (to use the same word as Russell Brand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhMY23kgcKQ).

Jeff Bezos says that space "changes your relationship with this planet, this humanity, it's one earth". It seems to me completely out-of-touch with the reputation of Amazon.
> This would be trivially solved by simple and flat taxes, but the main problem with fair and flat taxes is they lack the flexibility to be used as a political social engineering tool.

Flat taxes are too penalizing to the poor.

They force you to set a rate that the poor can afford (or make tax exemptions for necessities like food) but they further force the government to cut back social programs due to a lack of funding, further harming primarily the poor.

It's not about "making every country china". Modest progressive tax codes aren't "take everything" codes. Heck, even the most aggressive wealth taxes I've heard about amount to taking 3% of current networth for people with networths > $50 million. That's not "taking everything" or making everyone "poor". Yet those sorts of taxes would be able to fully fund programs like universal healthcare.
Ah, I see the Hypocrisy Police are as responsive as ever. When the shelters are empty of animals, we will no longer have pets. Mull that over and you'll have your answer.
Sure, we'll do all that. In the mean time, could you please get started on getting the _rest_ of the community to adopt that as a well established idiom and then also have them initiate efforts to adapt popular libraries/frameworks so that they implement the adopted idioms?

Would Thursday be a good time to checkpoint on this?

Thank you so much.
Lobby to change the laws Amazon uses to exploit labor in this manner. Laws are mutable!
The author would be surprised how variable and not at all standardized tasks such as welding a seam or putting in an IV are. Sometimes requirements and or regulations (organizational or governmental) create dramatically different practices.
Is there a tool where I can type garbage and it walks linearly through a git history of creating a new project, compiling, cloning, committing, etc. until my new copy is a replica of the original?

E.g., I set it to vue.js codebase. Then for each key I press it will:

1. create a new file if we're at the beginning
2. for each key pressed, output a character for that file
3. once the file has been "typed", close that one and open the next file and repeat.
4. once the whole enchilada has been "typed", then each key press will spell out "git commit..." on the command line then enter
5. once committed, each key pressed will spell out "git push..." then enter
6. etc. until I've typed the whole history of vue.js!

Maybe a "turbo mode" so I can set N characters for each character I type...
This is my thought as well. I get the "make productive engineers even more productive" angle, but productive engineers' bottleneck isn't coding. Sure, coding up a boilerplate Go web server is tedious, but I have done it so many times that it takes me two seconds now.

On the flip side, coding can be the bottleneck for the worst kind of coder. When I first started coding, coding was hard simply because I had very little reps and was just learning to understand how to code common solutions, data structures, libraries, etc. Fast forward a few years and, if I were still struggling to understand these concepts, Copilot is a lifeline.
Personally I think the silence speaks for itself. If this wasn’t a story they had previously covered (very aggressively) it would be different, but it’s basically impossible that the media just doesn’t know about this.

Plus, they’ve all been pumping out anti-Assange propaganda at pretty much every opportunity. I don’t think standards of absolute factual correctness really apply when you’re criticizing organizations which regularly frame facts in a way which is deliberately misleading.

And even if it were true that they are exaggerating to try to get donations…that’s a lot less sinister than doing the bidding of the intelligence agencies in persecuting an innocent man for years. Regardless nobody is stopping you from making that claim, it’s up to others to decide whether or not it’s plausible.
I see what you're doing there. A 10-year-old most likely wouldn't know what the word "homophone" means.
But this is complicated by the fact that we don't need to have _any_ animals for food at all, so there are still ethical problems with even raising animals lovingly in wide open pastures for years before killing them. For example, we still see it as wrong to kill a dog if we get bored with it after loving it for years and giving it an incredible life.

The developed world has entered a phase of civilization where we can get everything we need to live without farming animals for meat, so we have a moral obligation (in my opinion) to do so, as it means we don't have to kill _any_ pigs that don't want to die
Sometimes I miss restaurant work. I sit in front of a computer all day in a quiet room, it's so completely different to be on a line at a busy restaurant. It's loud and dangerous and hot and chaotic. In many ways it's the opposite of being a sysadmin. I'm not sure my body could take that kind of work now, but I do think about trying it again from time to time.

I do like the concept of having Mise for us "knowledge workers" too.
Bypass the Windows 11 TPM 2.0 requirement
The Evolution of Social Media Logos
Or how they can't see how much oil companies would be willing to spend if they could prove them wrong.

Or how the basic problem is so simple physics, you'd have to bribe either a significant percentage of the population or actual laws physics to succeed in this conspiracy.
We could fail, and destabilize the climate.
True, but if Tax systems are anything like government healthcare systems, then the reason why it's more expensive to audit records isn't because what data is available, but rather because of how that data is available and how its processed.

In Germany, while you do submit everything digitally it's all scanned and filed on paper, and to some extent the digitally some digitally submitted information is printed at tax office before processing. Obviously when you have nonlinear data, i.e. paper receipts and invoices and a lot of other paper data, more data means more physical labour.
Linq2Db is a great example of T4 code generation that works. It creates partial classes from database schema. Together with C# I have strongly typed database access.

https://github.com/linq2db/linq2db
> not caring about someone's stuff because you want your job.

Because you need your job, even. It's not just a want.
Yeah longer term I don't think Keto is sustainable without eating a LOT of fat. I don't get people that are twigs going on it. But if you need to burn fat away theres almost no better way.
This is extremely common among my recruiter friends. I know several and keep in touch in order to have my finger on the pulse of the hiring industry.

The vast majority of their clients seem to word it like "we'd love to have great talent" followed by "do you have any non-white, preferably women engineers?"

Since this is all off the books conversation it would be difficult to bring up a sexism or racism case. But there is currently a distinct, non-meritocratic, sub-industry cropping up in recruiting and it's getting more aggressive. Companies are being subverted in the name of "Diversity and Inclusion".

I have personal experience with this. When I was working out of a bay area consulting shop the "diverse" candidates were most often hired onto client projects despite experience levels not being the same. Again, the internal sales people had no choice. The companies would ask for "diverse" engineers off the books. I've also been passed up for promotion vs less tenured (but similarly experienced) engineers because the next rank up wasn't diverse enough. This one was not confirmed through any source but was deduced by the racial make up of promotion and personally knowing the promoted engineers. You'd expect it to be more random.

Racism is acceptable to big tech. It's both obvious and appalling.
No, corruption is far more narrowly defined than the words you are using. It generally requires kickbacks quid pro quo preferential treatment.

Also, Pinterest is not 'supposed' to be some 100% agnostic, eyes-shut-to-ad content ad network. There isn't some social, legal, or ethical requirement for them to be one. They have always discriminated with what advertisements they allow - for example, you cannot advertise pornography, you cannot advertise fraud and scams on it...
Cloud is the new mainframe. And IBM Cloud is terrible in comparison.

All you ever hear about is how challenging Kubernetes is to manage. IBM invested in self managed Kubernetes essentially while everyone else built SaaS Kubernetes Engine’s.

IBM feels like a collection of revenue lines that hasn’t really tapped into any new streams lately.
Counterpoint: I've been Keto, also advised by a doctor, and have eaten basically nothing but free-farmed meat and cheese, along with lots of veggies, and my overall health has gone from "OK" to roughly "great." (labwork, etc.)

I've since transitioned to low-carb rather than proper keto, but the increase in keto foods (things made with healthy fats, allulose rather than table sugar, etc.) has made it much easier to do proper keto.

As parent said: YMMV, and we all have different bodies, needs, etc.
Another 0-day looms for many Western Digital users
It is so obscenely hard, if even possible, to get sufficient nutrition on a vegan diet. 95% of vegans don’t do a good job and are visibly malnourished.

Otoh, it’s trivial to get a complete nutritional intake on an animal diet. You’re made out of mammal parts, so it’s pretty much guaranteed you can get what you need by eating animal parts. Compare a serving of pâté to literally any plant.
IBM generates $15b of free cash flow per year. They did not need to raise anything from Wall Street. And the notion that Wall Street would somehow interfere with an internal succession process because they thought a brilliant tech executive was not very polished is laughable.
In IBM's heydey, everyone knew who IBM was. Even before the PC, IBM was synonymous with "computer". People knew computers were important, even if they had never seen one outside of a movie.
How is it empowering? How long do you think a white employee could post with black colored emojis before someone said something?
The "humane" argument is flawed because in the end - factory or pasture - the animal is killed. Live a happy life and be slaughtered or a miserable life and be slaughtered.
By what metric did it succeed? China's GDP per capita is still around a quarter of comparable countries like Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Singapore.
I agree it's not an ideal situation, but I honestly think it's better than the alternative.

In your example of me personally, this is kind of the tradeoff most small humans (including myself) made for the first ten years of life. Supervision, lack of freedom, etc. in exchange for food, shelter, and hopefully companionship.

As it's not ideal, I could agree with you on reducing breeding so we don't have to make this choice in the future. But currently, for domesticated animals who can't be released into the wild without high chance of extreme pain to themselves (dogs) or major ecological damage (cats), it seems like our kindest option is to put as many of them in loving & protective situations as possible.
What I do is try to stay vegan/plant based as much as possible, which basically means everything I make in my house is plant based, but if I go to a restaurant that makes a really great X that's not vegan I might get it. Or if I choose to make something in my house that's not vegan, I'm going all out, getting the top ingredients I can get my hands on and making it a truly great version of that meal. I'm done having mediocre burgers at BBQs, smothered with cheap bacon and cheese. This food isn't good, but since we just cover it in tons of fat we convince ourselves otherwise, and along the way we ignore the massive amounts of animal suffering, deterrents to our health, and carbon costs we're inflicting because of these decisions.

You don't have to go 100% vegan/plant based, just stop making meat/dairy/animal by products the only thing you eat. Once you start you begin to get repulsed at the lack of vegetable options available to you at most places. Why is it such a crazy view point to eat something actually nutritionally good for you.
> It is bizarre that in a supposedly animal-loving country, where half of all households have a pet, so many feed them on other animals that have lived miserable lives in factory farms.

> Henry Mance, describes as ‘the meat paradox’: a state of affairs where ‘people who care about animals manage not to care about farm animals’.
Just curious has anyone ever turned signups around and asked for the person to send an email instead? Something like send an email to signup@someservice.com

Then send a follow up confirmation email, no captcha required.
A lot of freelancers are just people doing one year contracts. In that context, that isn't too bad as engineers are constantly moving anyway.
agreed. full waveform "music" (unlike say MIDI) is just many more variables than a "picture" or even "video". Also you have to "stitch together" a lot of these samples to get anything that resembles a "new" song. More akin to mining... but still its kind of crazy what can be done with it.
I'm excited for this release! Built in nvim-lsp, treesitter support, better support for accessing vim internals from lua are all awesome additions. I've been using the nightly releases for a while and it has been great! I'm looking forward to seeing the larger community now have access to the stable release!

For people that are interested in knowing more, neovim is having a release stream on teej's twitch channel: twitch.tv/teej_dv.
Water in open ocean is not still - there are currents. I suppose if you had a large enough operation you could create a gradient of sufficient size to be self-sustaining without further mechanical agitation (such as your example of towing behind a ship). It would be an interesting exercise to see a large collection of these in operation. Heck even if you had to pump ocean water on land and back out to dilute the brine this process would still use significantly less energy overall than current desalinization plants.

Speaking of current plants, a recently constructed one in Carlsbad CA leverages the cooling outflow of a power plant to handle the dilution. The power plant was already there and so was the outflow - these things can be planned to leverage overlapping uses to further increase efficiency.
> We truly are what we eat.

Well, I’m not trying to be a vegetable.
The Register is kind of low-brow tabloid-style tech journalism.

They still do their own stories and commentaries instead of just reposting random online blogspam (like Forbes), but they also are not the highest of journalistic integrity.
> the main problem with fair and flat taxes is they lack the flexibility to be used as a political social engineering tool

Strange that flat taxes keep getting proposed by exactly the same people proposing other political social engineering tools designed to entrench the power of established economic elites, which, compared to status quo progressive taxes, is what flat tax proposals they make invariably also do.

Every change in public policy is a “political social engineering” tool, and the only time people tell you theirs isn't is when they think you won't like what it is part of trying to engineer.

(And its particularly amusing when the supposed reason its is different is that it “lacks flexibility”, when the flexibility in what it replaces doesn't come from the features it replaces, but higher-level features of the political system that are untouched by the proposal, leaving all of the flexibility in place.)
This is really the "all lives matter" of slavery debates. I'm done with this nonsense.
As far as I know, Uber hasn't done this which tells me that the logistics of it are horrible.
I usually assume landing pages are made for corporate sales, and skip them, going straight to the docs or other pages. I agree with your comment; there needs to be more meat here (though it seems like the public facing website is probably still in a beta phase).

Advice for the OP: I used to make professional briefings for the military. The single most important part of any slideshow or document was the WIFM page - the Why It F**ing Matters page (I kid you not, that acronym was what everyone used). It gave a no-fluff, terse summary of why the product was relevant to the audience, often including a 3 sentence overview of the briefing, and one paragraph explaining what they should take away from it. Think of it like a very terse abstract, using the plainest language possible, very much like what you wrote above. For the people who need to know what a thing is, it's a godsend that keeps them from instantly moving on.