skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe among peasants, but the upper classes were very fashion conscious and things changed, maybe not quite as rapidly as today, but still. For example, in America we picture our founding fathers as wearing powdered wigs, as that was the style around the time of the Revolution. But that was a comparatively brief fad, and a decade later had fallen out of fashion.
> This might seem like a hard rant, but all of these binary blobs can be broken with varying degree of difficulty -- as this person's work shows -- because DRM is fundamentally pointless.

I think that this ease of circumventing DRM is actually an indirect, but major, reason why movie theaters will never really go away. Online streaming new movie releases is great for direct-to-consumer business, but it comes with the risk of losing control of your distribution due to ease of piracy. Why would a frugal person pay $30 for "premier access" to a new movie on Disney+ when they can just go to Pirate Bay and torrent a perfect-quality rip for free? It's much easier to keep AMC Theatres in line than a global network of average Joes.
Hahaha "busy work"! Yeah that's why in Middle School I basically failed every grade because I would argue with my parents for hours about the concept of homework being busy work. This obviously got worse after I overheard a teacher talking about some sort of a quota for homework that they were supposed to be meeting as teachers...
Any way to check iPhones if you don’t have a Mac?
I've been wearing the exact same jeans cut for 30 years now. When they get holes, I just push a button on Amazon for more. My dress shirts are 20-30 years old. They're not out of style.

Of course, I've never been cool, so there's that.
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Some subreddits also do user "flairs" for people that choose to show some proof to the moderators, unrelated to the actual identity being known.
What's L1? web-dls I have seen are always relatively low resolution, so at least it protects fullhd or 4k.
Thank you, i will put "how market making works" on my list. Obviously that is a very detailed subject, but I think the basics can be covered pretty easily.
My company is staying fully remote with 'hub-offices' for those who want to get together. I plan to stay working from home even though the office is an 8 minute commute. I like my co-workers but I just want to work on my craft and build things. Commuting and hanging out at the coffee machine wastes time that I could be doing things.

My company is also experimenting with a 36 hour work week based on the Icelandic Study. As per the study, in order to maintain productivity, organizations need to clean up their processes. Specifically targeted meetings, more documentation and less interruptions. I am sure my coworkers will also be more productive just to keep the shorter work week - I know I will.

8 hours in an office != productivity. Quiet time and the ability to do deep work = productivity. I wish more managers and execs understood this.

For my own productivity, the company that I am looking at for inspiration is Hashicorp. https://works.hashicorp.com/ looks to be one of the best documents on how to do remote work. If anything, it is all well thought out.
I can understand what's intended with "Wii shäl miit tu dei in Nyy Jork" without even knowing what system is being used. In IPA this is "ʃæl miːt təˈdeɪ ɪn njuː jɔːk", and I have no idea what that says at all.

I find IPA fairly inaccessible for the casual user. There's a reason other systems exist.
Well, baby steps and all that :^)

At least it’s not a hand-rolled, “enterprise-grade” (read: extremely verbose with unnecessary abstractions) pile of spaghetti. I’m slightly scarred from my brief stint at a large finance firm.
In highly competitive physical sports there would no woman at all in the olympics for example.
The 100m dash woman world record has disputed legality and sits at 10.49s. That is 6339 fastest recorded time for men.

Not having gender separated competition would probably decimate female sport participation in quite a lot of domains.

The short armed argument that you actually raise is more interesting. There are weight classes in boxing, and there could probably be arm length classes in swimming as well, but other physical differentiator that would take the place of arm length. I'm not really able to conclude on anything, but have feeling that the physical and cultural gender difference is large and important enough that it is prioritized, while arm length for instance is not.
That's more what I was going for. It's also part of the background, as opposed to something I deliberately interact with, so I don't use it like a tool in my day-to-day.
> to forget the life that you lost

What life would that be?
About a dozen people sold their souls on Twitter a while back, so there's another venue.

E.g. https://twitter.com/liminal_warmth/status/142135011902313677...

Terms: https://liminalwarmth.com/contract-for-sale-of-soul/

Discussion: https://liminalwarmth.com/the-questionable-ethics-of-buying-...

As a total atheist I'd still say don't do it. It's not farfetched to interpret the word 'soul' as a future high-res brain scan runnable in emulation on future hardware. There may be other pitfalls.
Yay, government is leveraging capitalism for less suffering of pigs. Now the price of pork will skyrocket and new enclosures will be built to make some of that Cali money.
> 1) I don't think it ever makes much sense to have a concept such as "HN is really strange on ...".

I enjoy HN, but I've also been here long enough to accept that HN is an echo chamber. Yes, we have downvotes and a variety of opinions, but the reality is that if you come into certain threads expressing certain unpopular opinions you're going to get hit with a wave of downvotes. Eventually you learn to just stop posting those opinions, which results in an echo chamber effect.

No social media site is free of echo chamber effects. HN is not an exception.

> I haven't used a CNC system, but...

Friendly suggestion: If you're not familiar with how something works, maybe it's not the best subject for an analogy?
No problem, when I first came across it I also didn't quite understand why it existed.
I wonder if this will have an unintended effect of making pork cheaper in the rest of the country for some time.
It would be nice to make a list of such niches. Things that wouldn’t take more than a couple of hundred hours to make (at max) and are tremendously useful, especially to vulnerable populations like old people, people with limited internet connection, physically challenged people etc.

These need not be super polished, optimized etc. They just need to work correctly and solve a problem quickly and easily
This short article makes it sound like James Rebanks is merely a small farmer, but he's really much much more. He's an Oxford educated evangelist for small farms, which he advocates not just for sustainability, but also to preserve the culture of pastoral farming, and a connection to historical knowledge and methods of feeding people.

For almost a decade he's served at UNESCO as Expert Advisor to the World Heritage Sustainable Tourism Programme.

He runs a consultancy described in his linkedin bio:

> We help individuals, organisations and communities to make good things happen. We work at the meeting point between economics and culture (particularly natural and cultural heritage).

And he's a writer. This is a busy guy.
> Violence is never safe and the only people "turning to violence" after acquiring one are criminals or those soon to be one.

I wouldn't say it was always "turning to violence", but there are a lot of people out there that probably 'should' not have a firearm given things like poor impulse control, lack of knowledge/acknowledgement of dangerous they inherently are, or just carelessness:

* https://twitter.com/well_regulated_

Once someone owns a gun, or a household has a gun with-in it, there are all sorts of disasters that can now occur that were not possible without one being present.
Hey, don't think you're alone. I'm currently studying chemical engineering and I share the same feelings with you about low salaries. The thing that keeps me going is maybe I can break into management one day. Also my engineering degree is very fungible.
You’re mistaken about something - the only thing hacker news denizens have in common is that they could potentially feature in posts on /r/iamverysmart.

You probably thought it was tech or something about startups…think again.
Public services, even online, which are not accessible to those with major disabilities, is a violation of the ADA. https://youtu.be/IQjUCqVo4II

This may apply in other ways to Cloudflare, and if so fines must be issued. It's 2021, there's no excuses for it other than not wanting to put in the work.
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I'm thrilled at the spike.

That reaction is completely alien to me. There's probably more to it than "More people who aren't me have lethal weapons... fantastic!" but on a surface level, it's hard to relate to.
Lots of middle managers entire existence depend on carefully built fictions of usefulness and politics that are hard to manufacture outside of a office.
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Really makes you feel important.
There are estimated 10,7 million companies in the US. US has roughly 1/ world's GDP, so we can estimate that there are at least 40 million companies in the world (a figure around 100M+ looks more realistic estimate to me, but let's stick to 40M).

Simple DDG search [1] says that somewhere around 45-80% of companies are pro-remote. Which definitely puts the number of such companies into TENS of millions.

[1]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=percentage+of+companies+allowing+r...
Respect is a two-way street. How many of those problems came from the ways people coped with absent landlords not fixing things? How many calls to fix the dishwasher preceded the self-install? How many of those people are on their nth slumlord and long past giving the new one the benefit of the doubt? You only have one side of the story from one apartment building.

Maybe your parents are good ones. Nothing I've heard from the other side gives me reason to trust this account.
It's just a thought experiment. It's one thing to say offices are good. It's another to say their benefit outweighs the cost.

I think the added cost may be worth it, but I'd be surprised to find majority agreement.

> A company basically pays you for your cost of living

I'd argue that companies generally pay market rates for employees, which in a well-functioning market will be well above the cost of living.
Please whatever you do, dont mess with this stuff. Ive really had interactions of this kind and I can tell you it is not fun, you will not be happy or at peace. Satan is a liar,murderer and deceiver.

Jesus came to save you and even if you have "sold" your soul to satan then just know that Jesus defeated satan on the cross and paid for your soul with his blood.
Truly the End of Female Sports
Widevine L1 - the hardware DRM in ARM trustzone with individual keys for each chip.
Seems odd to describe this as just a "feel good" policy. The new regulations significantly improve the welfare of farm animals.
> you're not forced to do anything

You are forced to choose between working to pay rent and health insurance or go hungry, homeless and ill or in prison.

In various developed societies there is free healthcare, social safety nets, or some forms of UBI or other help.

> but you're seduced out of your mind, I guess it's fair

Fair? Consumerism is threatening all ife on the planet. Humanity can do so much better.
Why is the above being downvoted? It's very likely a contributing factor to rise in un sales.
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not a lottery. in case of a lottery, when you have the winning numbers you go to a central authority that manages the whole thing and you claim the winnings. Also, in case of a lottery the winnings are a share of what has been put into buying the tickets. also, lotteries can go a long time without having a winner for the jackpot. Also for lotteries, usually there is a tiered winning structure and what you win on is fixed (ie the numbers)

for bitcoin there is no central authority. the reward for winning is “fixed” and claiming the said reward is dependent on a network that validates that you indeed have the work that incorporates pending transactions into the blockchain. also, “winning” happens at regular intervals of time (average 10 minutes based on difficulty), and what you’re winning is somewhat fixed (the block reward is fixed + some TX fees var).

so it’s not a lottery.
I really like society as it is. I, as rare as it is, identify as a neoliberal and I generally am invested in how things are. I like to see people working hard, I work hard myself, and aside from wanting a larger safety net, largely value the idea of a competitive market for labor.

Those ideas, I suspect much more prevalent on HN than other sites, lead to defensiveness when antiwork or work-critical ideas are shared. Arguments about grandparents and weakness are generally missing the point or intellectually dishonest, and I know because I’ve made those arguments/comments many times.

Looking past that defensiveness, I have a hard time arguing that everything above isn’t right; modern work is taxing and when you’re trying to work 8+ (I naturally tend towards 10+) hours a day, stay healthy, and also pursue hobbies and personal development, it is no surprise that people are breaking down.

I want to see more serious engagement with efforts to make work more sustainable for people, ideally without limiting burnout. Maybe the right answer is to just do less, but I want to have my cake and eat it too.
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I use GUI because it's infinitely times easier for me to check what changes I've done and to rethink them e.g trying to spot a stupid bug

>With that mentality, what do you ever learn?

>Where is the joy in that? Where is the growth?

>Are you always in a rush to deliver software without a moment to think?

There's nothing sexy about learning git commands for me

I'd rather spend that time on actual computer science fundamentals or even reading stuff like HTTP RFC than learning git quirks
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There is a *much* worse trend than trying to force office time: forcing non-stop pair programming. It is not only counter-productive, but also extremely tiring for many people. I'm pretty sure that the rationale behind it is that installing human spyware is less controversial than installing software spyware on the employees' computers to monitor remote workers.
I can relate. My side project (not tiny) has had a much larger impact on the world than anything I ever got paid to do.
Except for 99% of all git day to day tasks are done with like 7 commands.

Git commit

Git checkout

Git merge

Git pull

Git push

Git rebase

Git stash

I can’t remember I needed a command that wasn’t one of those and I exclusively use the cli.
This article would be much better if it had some data and evidence. A quick check on google ngrams reveals that the phrase 'well kempt' surged in popularity after 2000, relative to the two previous centuries. 'Unkempt' is still far more popular, but 'kempt' has by no means disappeared.
If you have showdead turned on, there's a fella spamming almost every thread saying it's a covid site
> Our European visitors are important to us.
This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws.

Sigh. Why does a local Fox station even bother. I would just ignore EU, aka foreign, regulations.
Here is the place in google maps, nice though

https://www.google.com/travel/hotels/entity/CgsIwo_9wIKYluuV...
While SWE may be a very difficult and brain intensive profession at the highest level, so are so many other technical/STEM fields. Yet curiously it's SWE that gets the big bucks, not the other fields.
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So far it seems to be ok. My stack is 1 customer per namespace and I am running it across around 100+ namespaces, 3 keydb pods each. Some customers are very bursty - I don't have an RPS - but they are holding up for us.

I would still only do redis as a single non-persistent cache if it was up to me.
I wonder at what point it makes sense for the federal government to step in when state laws end up substantially hindering interstate trade. This isn't the standard American communication method where I'm actually insinuating that it's time right now by implying that; I just recognize that there is some point between "completely unrestricted trade" and "you're not allowed to trade with anyone in another state" that the federal government should probably get involved and override state laws restricting trade.

Obviously for firearms the federal government takes a pretty heavy involvement. I wonder where the line should be for food? Animal welfare is a pretty contentious issue.
This comes as very worrisome news as a heavy peanut consumer.
Because EU laws apply to (and can be enforced against!) US entities when they process EU citizen data.

This is the way that Americans can ignore EU law: not interfacing with EU citizens and their data.
Odd that you put switch on this list but not restore. Undoing changes is pretty important.
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> This is my main gripe about git, it’s literally a tool created to suit the guy managing the linux kernel development via mailing lists… What proportion of junior developers are even tangentially working on anything resembling that?

always did give me a chuckle how it took off the way it did for projects that don't come even remotely close to the scalability (like tree sizes) it provides.

the facts that it's free, fast, reliable, good for offline operation and can be used for huge and tiny projects alike are nice though. just never expected to see the day when web designers would become religious about using it.
Why would you memorize the eye tests? You were afraid that your low vision was "discovered"? Wouldn't that be a good thing?

I'm actually really confused by your story to be honest, I think there's some part that I'm missing somehow.
>Some times the Occam's Razor explanation of events is the one which is true, and in this case it's the extremely vindictive regime just ruining lives, and fortunes of people whom they think are good targets to attack today, and there is nothing "smart, and sophisticated" about it.*

I don't understand how an explanation built up on tropes is the simplest one. One what basis is the CCP "extremely vidictive"? How is the simplest explanation that the government decided to blow up the economy "just because". Your explanation seems very counter intuitive - in some way you take the opposite view as your criticism; reducing the chinese to some barbaric government system, and not the world 2nd largest super power.
Our insurer was State Farm. Much to my surprise--we've all heard horror stories--they were great from beginning to end.

For small items under some threshold, we just had to identify them for reimbursement and provide a recent or current price; for more expensive items, they wanted a receipt, photo, or some kind of proof. Since we buy so many things from Amazon, its CSV allowed us to handle, say, 80 percent of our recent miscellaneous purchases in one fell swoop. For the other stuff, providing documentation took all of a few hours. And the insurer covered everything, without any hassle or dispute. When we got around to submitting claims--which took a few months, due to the press of work--reimbursement followed in a couple weeks.

We had some very unusual and expensive things--high-end audio equipment, artwork, and custom-made suiting--that were either damaged or destroyed, and the insurer never blinked an eye.

If you're preparing for this kind of thing, probably the easiest and most useful thing to do is to walk around your home and just photograph things. It was surprising (to me) how many possessions I simply forgot about in the aftermath until some event or need triggered a recollection.
> "I suppose", I said, "I could stick around on a Contract..."

Will definitely try this, since I already work from home 4 days a week.
Wow... this is maybe the best counterpoint I've ever seen on HN.
Exactly. Also the carrot is far more effective and palatable to citizens than the stick. The US government could deploy the attack described in the article under the guise of a stimulus program, with their hands completely clean. No legislation required, the Fed would just need to print a little fiat from the money printer and everyone is happy.

The government is happy because their fiat monetary system is secure from any threat crypto poses, bitcoiners are happy because the Fed buys their bitcoin for fiat at a good rate, the miners are happy because they got to sell their assets to the Fed for a sweet pile of fiat.

The only people crying is the middle class who bears the burden of all this currency debasement. I think we have more empirical data than we'd ever need to predict that nobody who matters politically cares about the tears of the middle class.
Forget about jq. JSONata is much more powerful - http://docs.jsonata.org/overview.html
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what is the legal situation here? wouldn't laws that require the employer to make accommodations for the disabled simply force the company to not use this tool for blind employees?

the company would have to prove that using this tool is strictly necessary, which i believe is hard to prove, because if it was strictly necessary then everyone at home should be using it too.

there should only be few places where such a tool is strictly necessary, and those places already use it. anyone who only starts using it now when it gets more convenient can't make the claim that they could not do their work without it because they could until now.
I don't see how it's irrational to find women's gymnastics more interesting and artistic. You can do that without making a judgment on the difficulty or superiority of one over the other.
I'm not sure that we understand each other.

I'm not talking about NASA headcount, I am talking about NASA contracts which support private sector companies and aerospace engineers.

The USA wants to maintain the domestic capability to for launches, and this means funding technology and expertise. If you don't award contracts domestically, in 10-20 years the capability is gone. No domestic contracts => no jobs => no grads => no rocket engineers.

NASA's model has always been to award contracts to the private sector companies. This is why you have SpaceX, Boeing, Northrup, Lockheed launch capabilities.

>I think the idea of paying for aerospace jobs in this way doesn't work.

I'm not sure what you mean by paying for aerospace jobs. NASA funded private sector manufacturers before and continues to fund it now.

I agree the the US manufacturers were ripe for disruption, and SpaceX did a great job of doing just that. However, the entire market and jobs exist to chase these government contracts. Do you think that SpaceX would exist if it wasn't for NASA and DOD launch contracts? I don't.
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I would be glad if we disabled posts from Medium content on HN. Mostly shallow anyway.