skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People have been predicting since 2010 or so that things would end badly. Those that heeded such advice would have missed out on the biggest bull markets in stocks and real estate in a longtime, possibly ever. The media is obsessed with wealth inequality, but as you say, most people do not care. I think you are right.
Same in Europe. Here in The Netherlands we pay 10 dollars for one gallon gasoline. Historical height.
Bill Clinton was a free trader and ran a surplus. I don’t think this has to do with the Republicans turning to the left. They are going back to an older, nativist, version of the right.
German gymnastics team, tired of sexualisation, wears unitards at Tokyo Olympics
Exactly. The whole baseband in your phone is considered "trusted" by the network because you can't easily control it. Don't give the carriers ideas - if they thought they could move to a "ma Bell" style of you leasing the phone from them without ever gaining ownership rights of it, someone would try to! Look at carrier locking, and the world of CDMA, where your phone has to have its ESN (serial number) manually whitelisted to join the network... It's a whole different world from general purpose computing!

The mobile standards are built around the assumption that the baseband does as it's told by the network - your phone's transmit slots get scheduled by the base station, and your phone sits quietly until those slots to speak. This extends to the wider architecture and design of the ecosystem - the user is not "meant" to be in charge of their device in the mobile ecosystem. With the split between AP and CP (application processor and cellular processor), if you put the CP on a suitable bus like USB which doesn't give DMA access, you can build a phone you have sufficient control of (see Pinephone etc).

In the world of SIM, this is back to carrier thinking - they control the SIM as it's "theirs". The keys on the SIM are known only to them, not even to you. You're not trusted to know your own SIM authentication parameters. This can be helpful in some ways, as it makes the threat model different to other systems and you can't unwittingly disclose your keys to someone through social engineering... But it's less helpful as customers generally don't think like security architects who designed this, and end up just having their physical SIM stolen, or their carrier ports their number after social engineering...
Likewise, the literature that argues that these self-reports are worthless is also quite extensive:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10902-015-9710-0

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/cant-buy-happiness/2...

Just spend 15 minutes researching the literature that argues against the value of self-reported happiness.

This has been discussed on Hacker News many times.
Other than showing up on time for the race, step one of your plan for winning is knowing the position of your competitors. This is road racing 101.
Good we are all in agreement then... Windows and linux are both at the very least in the "just works" territory. But we also all agree linux is inferior because you caveat-ed your point with: "provided these peripherals are not using or dependent on extremely new protocols or standards." Windows does not generally have this issue.

Linux is, by your own logic, Inferior from a usability or "just works" standpoint. We all agree on this, therefore: End of discussion on this baseline.

Where we disagree is the extent of this incompatibility. Linux IMO is even worse then the baseline above. On linux, my graphics card (arguably a peripheral) has melted down and crashed the OS on me many times. I have a lot of trouble getting my xbox controller to connect with bluetooth to the OS. So anecdotally I would say that even your base line of linux just being inferior is too high.

That's not the end of the story because these small issues extend way past peripherals. You can keep the argument focused on peripherals if you want but this is really a general issue affecting linux and FOSS.
> people are famously bad at self-reported happiness

...especially in cultures where describing yourself as unhappy is seen as a personal failure.

Or expressing worries about climate change / soil depletion / ocean depletion / plastic pollution / deforestation is shunned as "being negative".

The amount of downvotes only proves the point.
IAM has been in use, without any confusion that I've encountered amongst various clients, for well over 10 years. How is it confusing? It sounds like people are wanting dumbed-down "Romper Room" names. Meaningful acronyms serve as mnemonics as to what the thing is. Noobs should learn and embrace.
I don't think so:

$ apt-cache policy signal-desktop-beta
signal-desktop-beta:
Installé : (aucun)
Candidat : 5.11.0-beta.1
Table de version :
5.11.0-beta.1 500
500 https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial/main amd64 Packages
Yasuke
Please, do tell, how many intersectionality points do we need to win this game?
I am curious how different that alternative universe needs to be for my argument to be invalid.
Stocks, real estate are the best imho. Crypto has too much volatility, low correlation. BTC fell in half. not a reliable hedge.
Responding to both at once. Yes, lighthearted comment. You're right about adaptation. The point I'm trying to make is simple: building physical exertion into your daily life is the best way to retain strength, flexibility, health and mood as you age. The habits are easier to keep. Combine that with physical recreation and reasonable habits regarding food, drink, chemicals and rest.
Anecodtally, street cleaning hasn't changed that much over the pandemic, with the streets being just about as dirty as normal.

That said, over a longer period the main roads near me have been getting quite badly deteriorated due to a lack of responsive maintenance (filling potholes, repair after utility works) and a lacking capital budget for resurfacing. TfL (who has responsibility for maintenance of main roads as well as the city's public transport) has had its overall budget reduced and as road maintenance is not an important issue politically or from a revenue-generation perspective that budget has been reduced to a low level.

During the heavy rains today, I took a walk down the Camberwell New Road (a major road of 2-4 lanes) and the road was completely covered with water in several places, in others the water covered the bus lane, although in some stretches the water was clear.

The sewers were not overwhelmed by the rain, evidenced by the drains that were flowing well and draining, however around 70% of the drains were blocked, 20% by leaves and dirt which I could clear off but 50% blocked internally by silt. A normal maintance schedule involves cleaning the silt out with a lorry-mounted vacuum cleaner several times a year, but this seems not to be done! One drain was blocked by silt after a burst water main about 3 years ago and has not been unblocked since, despite backing up every time it rained and being reported to TfL through their road defect site many times.

However, not all flooding can be blamed on blocked drains, as some sections of the road are incorrectly pitched or have no drains at all and will always pond during rain. This would properly be remedied during heavy resurfacing, but that is also long overdue.
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Well, if it's been in place since 2011, we should be able to see a sizeable drop in crime in then?

#murders in Pasco County, FL in 2011: 13
#murders in Pasco County, FL in 2019: 14
annual links available here: http://www.fdle.state.fl.us/FSAC/County-Profiles/Pasco.aspx

Now murder's only one crime, and I haven't done any sophisticated comparison (e.g. how does this compare to population growth, national or state trends, etc.). But it's not obvious that this is a program that is paying off.

If you're doing something this obnoxious, you'd better have a really big, positive payoff to point to.
So I install a rootkit… to save me from rootkits?
> I have sat in on meetings where HR was telling Engineering that tech skills and experience did not matter; only the sex and race of the hired candidate.

Fascinating! I have not yet had a chance to hear it admitted openly. Usually the implication is that the appropriate skills and experience can be found in any demographic (e.g.: https://twitter.com/seldo/status/1400665677501853696)
How were rental car companies able to sell 770k+ cars last year? Where did that demand come from and who bought those cars?
> You do know that the discussion is about people who are abusing unemployment, not unemployed people, right?

The effect of combating so-called "abuse" can only make it harder for everyone who legitimately needs unemployment. These people are already time-poor in many other ways (e.g. riding a bus vs owning a car), and every additional hoop you make them jump through means a certain percentage will just give up and suffer. You understand this, right?
I mean, I like it in theory, however I find it can be really cumbersome. I don't see why they can't just have me open my "pick a photo" browser on iOS without needing access to the photos. Seems odd that choosing photos from the OS can't just be the default option.
On the contrary, psychiatry and psychology measured very well how much people lie to themselves (in good faith) when answering questions.

That's why good psychological assessments have long lists of questions, poking at the same aspects from many different angles.
And you think those are actual views of black police officers? Or do you think maybe something more systemic is going on?
And what is live is almost always well-rehearsed.
The Y is clearly designed to compete with the X3 on dimensions and price, even if it looks like a car. The X is significantly more expensive than the X5; it’s in a different price category. Plus now it comes with a weird steering wheel that my wife would never put up with, and she’s the only one in the family who would even want a large SUV.
Maybe we have red entirely different articles. Because the one linked contains whole section indicating the method has limitations and they don't try to establish any causal effect.

For me the study is interesting because I observe the very same change in music lyrics and movies. They become vividly grimmer compared to earlier years.

I have seen a young person explaining it by stating young generation expresses emotions in a more toned down way.

On the other side, if we perceive books and other forms of expression as a way to share stories receiver can not live by himself, it would mean the opposite, that people lives became better. And because of this art fills the void of negativity. An explanation that is close to my understanding.

Either way there is a collective shift in expression and it is interesting to research it.
One of the great things about the Central Valley is the deep topsoil. Eons of erosion have filled the valley with deep, rich soil. You also have relatively favorable weather, with very few damaging storms(i.e. hail, extreme rain/wind, deep freezes). There is also a lot of existing infrastructure and farming culture. I think with more water available, you could see more competition from NV, AZ, etc, but I don't think the Central Valley will be moving away from Ag in any real sense in the foreseeable future.
I don't think its a point system. I just think if an entire department of any company beyond "small" is homogenously one demographic then there's likely a sign that something is going wonky with how that department is hiring/retaining staff. I'd be suspicious of an entire engineering department (of a company of any significant size) that all came from one school, if I was applying to that company and I wasn't from that school.

It's simple group psychology that an extremely uniform group is likely heavily biasing itself for more of that extremely uniform demographic. If that extremely uniform group is of one specific race, gender, or sexuality, that might be a yellow (or red) flag.
Brilliant comment. I'm playing the sims while reading this too and one can't help but wonder the extent of their sentience
The language never was the problem, not since PHP 5.1 at least (which introduced PDO) and that is 16 years ago.

The problem always was the ecosystem that took decades to update and the fact that Google's search is algorithm-ranked and not supposed to be curated by humans, which would have kicked out at least the most horribly insecure stuff.
> How did HR get so much power?

HR only appears to have power because they are going along with the prevailing political trends [1,2,3]. If they tried to oppose them, or go in the opposite direction, you would quickly see how empty their power is.

[1] White men must be stopped: The very future of mankind depends on it - https://www.salon.com/2015/12/22/white_men_must_be_stopped_t...

[2] the diversity trainers led a “free association” exercise, asking the Lockheed employees to list connotations for the term “white men.” The trainers wrote down “old,” “racist,” “privileged,” “anti-women,” “angry,” “Aryan Nation,” “KKK,” “Founding fathers,” “guns,” “guilty,” and “can’t jump.” - https://www.city-journal.org/lockheed-martins-woke-industria...

[3] Another slide suggests “try to be less white” with tips including “be less oppressive,” “listen,” “believe” and “break with white solidarity.” - https://nypost.com/2021/02/23/coca-cola-diversity-training-u...
Vaping is fairly popular, safe, and satisfies the urge for most people. What's the market for this device?
In a few years we might regard it the same way as MS Office's Clippy:

"It looks like you're trying to create a web app front end! Do you need assistance with A) Implementing a dark pattern or B) Avoiding the use of dark patterns?"
The most egregious part is:

> • Half of the applicable point values are awarded for suspicions of an offense listed in 1-4.

So you don't actually have to do anything to get a high score, you just need to be "suspected" of having done something.
> Most of the ways that police enforce their views on the population in the USA are technically illegal.

I'm not even referring to the police though, the school's administration is violating the student's rights AIUI.
I disagree. The enemy isn't not training hard enough. The enemy is burnout and quitting. Train to the point where getting back into the gym requires as little discipline as possible.

There is, especially in weight rooms, a danger of doing stuff that's not really exercise. But if you're swimming, running, climbing, squats, pushups, pullups, tennis and such... it's not really a danger. They're all going to put a beginner on a meaningful progression path. Don't worry about being insufficiently intensive unless your progression has halted.
Pay averages are dominated by outliers. These outliers tend to either be due to negotiation power, seniority, or performance incentive.

Odds are good that the outliers will cluster in your most over represented group, this group will then have a pay discrepancy with other groups.

A company can correct this by banning the practices that lead to outliers, ensuring outliers are evenly represented across groups, and by eliminating those with outlier compensation. In firms that lock in compensation for long periods such as through partnerships or equity comp ensuring equal distribution of outlier compensation can be complex and difficult.
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Glad to see I'm not the only one who finds those taglines galling.

Lost my last shred of respect/hope for the Guardian when they did their level best to smear Corbyn in favour of BJ.

Around 2015 they got suddenly and noticably (even) worse, axing Pilger and others like him.

Even before that, their ME coverage was savagely lacking.
> We hit bottom when the Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts both turned out to have thousands of pedophiles in positions of authority.

Of course prior to 1980, the church had never done anything to harm those it claimed to care for. Not sure why Catholics are singled out here.
you are right, the business could still make money, but it will be harder to grow to go public (in China). So it would be a grey area for a long time.
Remarkable how fast the climate can change: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17373803
I recently interviewed for a job because my friend asked me to and put in the recommendation. They refused to interview me and just said they weren't interested. My friend got back to me and said "I'm pretty sure it's because you're a white male." It's speculation, but it probably happens more often than you think.

I also used to be on several hiring committees and it was very obvious that HR essentially forced non-white-males to be hired in some instances.

This is not some "white men have it hard" diatribe. Obviously as a white male I experience incredible privilege overall. But at least in tech they seem to have swung so far the other way that there is some discrimination against white males. I'm not mad, we all have to play the hands we're dealt and honestly being born a white male is about as good as it gets with regards to demographics. Just sharing my anecdotes.
Just did and got a good price. The only problem is I'll probably need to buy another once Covid calms down and we go back to work. I'm going to try to use public transit and cycling for a bit, but the reality is I'll need to get another car within a year. Hopefully someone has a small, cheap electric by then.
Yes it's not 100% accurate but still gives a good approximation. See there for more info https://github.com/laurent22/so-sql-injections/issues
Oops. Seems I have flipped Delgado and Indurain in my head. Which I should have realized when the wikipedia page seemed to be understating his win history.

Who was Indurain's right hand?
Ooh the Crunch Enhancer? Yeah, it's a non-nutritive cereal varnish. It's semi-permeable, it's not osmotic, what it does is it coats and seals the flake and prevents the milk from penetrating it.
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Yeah, the rest of FAANG (plus Microsoft) have maybe one type of evil. Facebook has a broad range.

Apple: monopolist, flimsy products, not supportive of self maintenance, the iPhone battery thing

Amazon: exploits workers, doesn't pay taxes

Netflix: makes people lazy, doesn't hire interns

Google: privacy, can't escape it (browser, mobile OS, leading search engine, leading email), bad documentation, kills products that people love

Facebook: privacy, attacks every other tech company, no vision except growth, created zynga then dropped it after they got the user base, largest open plan office in the world, crappy ads, allows only the voice of politicians they like on the platform, charity is another platform for growth into developing countries.

Not everyone might find say, Netflix or Amazon evil, but FB's is such a broad range that someone will find it a little evil.
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I clicked on this because I wanted to answer the question, so I wasn't expecting to read your answer. Maybe I read too much AskReddit.

Here's my answer: A new system will dismantle and devour the nation states. Its purpose is to serve as caretaker for local ecosystems and human populations. Each administrative region can have a maximum population of ~10 million people, and as populations shift, the boundaries move (during the annual gerrymandering festival! :P ). As ecosystems have fuzzy boundaries, the administrative regions overlap and share management of those areas. Every human is a citizen and can participate in the system as long as they live and work within it. The system will consume nation states as regions vote to secede from their nation state. If the nation state objects, the people in the region can nevertheless join the new system and abandon their national ties. Even individuals can opt to shift their contribution towards this new system. What can the nation state do if people stop using its currency and stop depending on its infrastructure?

The government is a best-of-breed system of representative democracy, details to be imagined. As a high-quality public education is introduced, it could probably become more direct.

There is a single digital currency, a single type of business entity, and a single stock exchange. In short, the finance industry serves to enable business, not to trade imaginary things at nanosecond resolution. Businesses have no privacy: Salaries, accounting, and B2B transactions are all a matter of public record. Copyright and patents have mandatory licensing with time limits which encourage innovation and creativity, but not hoarding and litigation.

There is no income tax. Every transaction is taxed at the same rate which varies regularly depending on government expenditure. Natural monopolies such as energy, security, transportation, and telecommunications are tax-funded and community implemented.

The initial goal of the system is to create a carbon-absorbing civilization as quickly as possible. Fossil fuels are taxed at double the usual rate, unless used to manufacture solar panels or windmills or what have you. The regions take care of each other: part of the tax system funnels wealth to impoverished regions and resources to wherever environmental improvement requires it. There is no military, because we cannot afford it.

People are not particularly good at identifying with those far away from themselves. Every year, a certain percentage of households in each region must move to another region, with limited choice to maximize mixing.
While looking for a job in my country I saw a company EXPLICITLY advertise they wanted to hire a woman for a coder job, and men shouldn't apply.

This is outright illegal here, so I sent anonymously a screenshot of that to our government. The person that replied was a female judge, that said what the company is doing is fixing historical distortions so it is fine.

Thing is... it is still illegal (in fact companies here that really need a specific gender, for example when hiring female airport security so they can deal with female passengers and whatnot, companies go through crazy legal hoops, because our gender discrimination law has no exception, no loophole, nothing).
At this rate, we'll have to stop calling it "unprecedented".
Wait, Teflon is safe? Why did my mom make me throw out my chipped Teflon pans?
I don't blame google for this. I blame crappy tutorials that either gloss over important details or are written by people who don't know them in the first place. If Google could develop a search algorithm that selected results for quality code, they'd have an entirely separate product they could sell, perhaps as part of an "AI Cloud" assisted programming environment.
>Does Microsoft make you think computer OS?

No, because it is Company not an OS. And today I bet more people associate Microsoft with Xbox, or Office then with Windows. Windows has been Microsoft's least profitable division for awhile now. The OS is their loss leader

> Does Apple make you think of computers and personal devices?

No, Apple makes me think of Cringe Hippies over spending on an poorly engineered fashion statement... ;) Or prime example of a company claiming to be environmentally friendly while actively designing their products to have to be thrown away instead of repaired...

>AMZN through AWS has just come up with names so that they can be discussed more easily.

I dont think that is true at all, even in tech circles trying to remember what the different service names are is pain.

Amazon AWS took a look at Microsoft, the worse company in the world at naming things, and said "Hold my beer"

>>However, is anyone reading this really not aware of what S3 does? EC2?

S3, probably not but it is also the oldest product and has become Standard Standard Cloud based Object Storage, S3 while an AWS service is also a protocol adopted by countless other services, and open source projects.

EC2, Yes I better there are those that do not know what EC2 is, or that to use EC2 you need EBS. And the deeper you go the more complex the web of services become.