skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Terminals with man pages, REPLs experimenting with different libraries, PDF readers with documentation, browser windows — lots of things.
John Cleese on Creativity in Management [video]
As We Thought
That's how it works in the US but it's mandatory in El Salvador. I believe the dictator there has been threatening folks who don't accept Bitcoin with punishment. Needless to say this is good for Bitcoin. [1]

[1] https://u.today/el-salvador-government-to-punish-businesses-...
The challenge with looking at the statistics for an ROI is that lifetime earnings will vary by field of study, highest degree attained, and location. I am not familiar with US statistics agencies, but Stats Canada has looked at lifetime earnings by field of study. It is a little out of date as this is from 2010 [1], but it shows there are some large differences in earnings by field. In some cases a bachelor's degree results in lower earnings than a high school graduate. [2] shows that depending on major about 30% of graduates go on for further study. That further study may be a lower credential (e.g., certificate or diploma) or a higher credential (e.g., masters or professional degree). [3] shows an analysis of differences in earnings by field, gender, and highest degree level; with the largest increases in earnings coming for those from business, social sciences, and arts. Unfortunately [2] and [3] do not seem to be looking at lifetime earnings.

For men, [1] shows the median lifetime earnings for high school graduates is $882,300. The median lifetime earnings for men with a bachelor's degree is 1,517,200. The lowest field is Fine and Applied Arts at $843,900, which is lower than the median lifetime earnings for those with a high school education, up to the highest median field of engineering with earnings of $1,845,000.

For women, [1] shows median high school lifetime earnings of $458,900, median bachelor's earnings for all fields of $972,500, and lowest median bachelor's earnings of $652,100 (Fine and Applied Arts), and a highest of $1,169,100 (Business Administration). The interesting thing to note is for women there is only 1 of 18 field degree combinations (earnings are provided for bachelor's and associate's) where the woman's lifetime earnings decreases relative to a high school education alone (Fine and Applied Arts associates median earnings are $437,300). For men, 4 of 18 field degree combinations will result in lower lifetime earnings relative to high school education alone.

There is further analysis in [1] of the earnings percentiles by each field showing that men with a business degree earn the most at the 90 percentile. This holds for women with a business degree.

I don't see if this has been restricted to those whose highest education is a bachelor's degree or not, but there is also work that has shown increases in earnings by field for graduate or professional degrees [3]. It's possible that those earnings premiums have been captured in the reporting of [1], but [3] seems to come to the conclusion that most business, arts, and social sciences fields gain a large increase in salary for graduate or professional degrees.

Hopefully those familiar with similar analysis from the US could help to provide that information.

[1] https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-626-x/11-626-x2014040...

[2] https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/150911/dq150...

[3] https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/75-006-x/2018001/article...
Microsoft Joins Open Infrastructure Foundation
I would challenge your assumption as I have many friends in the HN world who are either skeptical, ambivalent or unaware of what mental health services are available or the benefits they can provide.

I'm not here to diagnose or mentor people with potential health issues but I thought it might be meaningful to post a small comment about how I thought the exact same way once and how it turned out I wasn't actually helping myself but sabotaging myself.

If the OP is curious enough about addressing their mental health issues, that's on them but I'd rather at least post something that might spur some thought instead of play into the "weed is inherently good and causes no issues" hivemind that is incredibly prevent on the internet (and on HN) today.
Alternative Form Builder for Wordpress
I'm currently creating a product DetachForm8. It's not actually a form builder, but it's a ”no-plugin” approach in creating forms in Wordpress. Due to heavy requests from spam bots I decided it to make a separate service/server so it won't slow down your website. You can define rules for validation in HTML way. (Ex. input type="text" name="age numeric"). Comments and suggestions are all welcome. Thank you!
The always had streaming in mind though but the infrastructure for it did not exist for mass adoption. They used DVD and USPS to gain footprint get off the ground. This enabled Netflix to wait it until the market was ready for their big tech-play. c.f. SV failures like WebTV and General Magic who were ahead of their time but the market/infrastructure didn't exist.
is there a brew install command ?
I'm using that repo to distribute the app since it works well with our CI. We could make the browser open source if we can find some paid services to run on a server and more importantly there is a potential community that is interested in its development.
> company is made of mostly software engineers

This hits the nail on the head. If you dig down into it, this almost always aligns with the companies people describe as 'tech companies'.
Indeed, but it’s still a natural experiment to observe.
Sri Lanka’s Organic Disaster
I suspect the number of people who would actually do this sort of thing is quite minuscule. They could probably be handled with something like "Well tourist, the cops here think it is a civil matter so you can spend the rest of your vacation dealing with the local legal system if you really want to buy everything in this random shop for some reason."

I suspect more likely some rich people will find it more convenient to pay their tax bill.
I'd be even more skeptical about using a government wallet hosted on an Apple / Google app store.
El Salvador’s adoption goes beyond making it legal tender, they require acceptance:

> every economic agent must accept bitcoin as payment when offered to him by whoever acquires a good or service

https://theconversation.com/bitcoin-will-soon-be-legal-tende...
WannaCry Ransomware Attack
Apple Event Sep 14, 2021
they do need to be tuned at least somewhat.
How to lower blood glucose quickly?
Is Tesla Disruptive?
I’d love for a web browser to have first-class integration with a universal personal search system like Monocle [0]. I find if I want to learn something new I am searching externally, but if I am attempting to recall something, being able to search through all my indexed notes in the same interface I’m building, researching, and planning in has potential.

[0] https://github.com/thesephist/monocle
HN is hostile to long videos that reiterate common knowledge in our field ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hardening
Social Security is a government program like any other. The delineation of tax types is just branding to make people like it more, it isn't economically meaningful. When the payroll tax is higher than the SS spend, the government just spends the money. (These bonds are IOUs for all the times they do that.)

It's like saying that it's meaningless for you to loan yourself money, because it is (except when there is some other, external reason that it carries meaning, not by rules you made yourself.) We constantly ignore these internal self-debts for people and for companies.

https://www.cbpp.org/research/recommendation-that-presidents... notes

> Most economists agree that the debt held by the public is what really affects the economy. As the Congressional Budget Office stated in its June 2009 report on the long-term budget outlook, “Long-term projections of federal debt held by the public, measured relative to the size of the economy, provide useful yardsticks for assessing the sustainability of fiscal policies.” In contrast, “gross debt . . . is not useful for assessing how the Treasury’s operations affect the economy.”
Honestly what is a "tech company"? Google is an advertising company, so is Facebook. Amazon is a store. Etc etc.
True, but how many people will use anything other than the officially recommended app? How many businesses even will go to the trouble of looking for an app to use, other than the default?
You should check out dolt, does exactly what you're describing, and is a drop-in MySQL replacement:

https://github.com/dolthub/dolt
... by looking the other way while the cartels operate with impunity. My understanding was there was a handshake deal with the narcos that if they stopped murdering they'd stop checking in on them. [1]

So yes, if you allow the state to become an arm of the cartels then I suppose you can call it a job well done that they're not murdering as many people.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-54192736
Either you are confusing Switzerland and Sweden (which were two quite different countries last time I checked) or I'd be very much interested in data on why you see my words about Comviq giving away SIM cards as lie.
As you probably know, there are no roaming charges in EU, so if you have a swedish SIM card - you can use it (to receive SMS at least, sometimes answer calls) in any EU country. If you put some cash on it - you can even make calls. Still without providing a single bit of your PI (assuming you bought/stole a burner phone).
EDIT: clarification regarding SIM usage.
Haha, probably. I guess I’m selectively lazy then. :)
The filesystem(s) and the disk driver(s) were written in Lisp, too.
So you and the author have exactly opposite perceptions of what is “table stakes” (tech or content) and where the strategic advantage in the streaming business lies…

Perhaps one missing piece is that there is a first-mover advantage to being the tech disruptor, but in many cases the tech quickly becomes “table stakes” and the strategy goes back to where it was.
How weird that they DO NOT include images.
https://www.cbpp.org/research/recommendation-that-presidents... notes

> Most economists agree that the debt held by the public is what really affects the economy. As the Congressional Budget Office stated in its June 2009 report on the long-term budget outlook, “Long-term projections of federal debt held by the public, measured relative to the size of the economy, provide useful yardsticks for assessing the sustainability of fiscal policies.” In contrast, “gross debt . . . is not useful for assessing how the Treasury’s operations affect the economy.”
> always read the fine print, no matter how long it may be.

I think it’s time we stop doling out this advice and acknowledge that it’s entirely unrealistic. I’m a lawyer. I read the fine print a lot. Sometimes just for fun. But even I don’t “always” read it. Usually I don’t even read it so much as I give it a skim. If I read the fine print each and every time I came across it during the day I would literally do nothing else. Not even sleep.

And that’s to say nothing of the average person’s hope of actually understanding what the fine print even means!

But even for someone very well-suited (a retired lawyer, for example, with all the time in the world) the suggestion to always read the fine print is absurd.

These are contracts of adhesion. As consumers we usually don’t have any leverage to change the terms or even much of a choice to take our business elsewhere. It makes far more sense to regulate consumer contracts and force businesses not to screw people over than it does to ask millions of people to waste hours of their lives reading pages and pages of legalese they don’t understand and couldn’t change even if they did.
Thanks for the info. What OS do you run?
> your rant.

Uff! I certainly didn't write it as a rant. But fine, I'll take that. But my intentions are good. I just want to make it clear to all of you that we face calamity and destruction and that there's no magical technofix that will save us. We will have to completely overhaul our socialeconomical value and incentive structures. Fat chance of that happening. (Prove me wrong! Do it!! Save mankind!)

> Not a word about solar (or wind)

Not a word about my pretty conclusive rebuttal of nuclear power as the technojebus to save mankind! I guess today no one gets what they want.

Hey, sure, we can do a feasibility examination of solar too.

> You'll say "but storage".

Haha, no. Storage is fine. There are pretty nice battery concepts in development. Liquid metal batteries are one crazy idea that I think has promise.

No, the problem lies elsewhere. Let's see: nowadays about 1.5% of energy comes from solar power, both PV and CSP. That's about 100GW (about one nuclear plant) and takes up about 1000 square miles.[0]

Let's say we somehow have the political will to cover a third of our energy needs with solar, somewhere in the ballpark of 2TW. That would cover an area of about 22,000 square miles.

So, to get to only about 33% of solar power by 2050, we'd have to cover 785 square miles with PV or CSP. Every year. For the next 28 years. Every year.

As a metric; in 2020 we've added about 190 square miles (or about 19GW) of solar power. Even if the current growth of solar power installations continues for a few years; we're still ridiculously off target. The bottleneck is installation capability.

The story is different but similar with wind.

[0] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/
It's a server, here are clients for it https://matrix.org/clients/ (with pictures). Features https://matrix.org/discover/
After several tries, I just gave mine away, for the same reasons. There are so many boards that are a pleasure to work with, but this one was not worth the hassle.

I can recommend the replacement, a PC engines board with four Gigabit Lan ports running OpenWRT.
Yes that'll show those checks notes professionals.

The IMF is of course the entity who had to bail out the entire country of Albania when they all got into a massive ponzi scheme, jailed their finance minister and had a civil war over it.
Injecting? When I took ivermectin (for parasites, not covid, of course) I took it orally. Why on Earth would you inject it?
Others in this thread have mentioned some good ones: Smalltalk, Lisp Machines, and the JVM. Some others I would add:

- Pilot was an OS that was essentially bare metal Mesa. It was written in Mesa, only runs Mesa programs, and used Mesa language features for OS capabilities like safety: https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse550/20au/papers...

- Cedar was both a PL and an OS: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~andre/ics228s2006/swinehartzellwege...

- The Oberon OS and Oberon PL are highly coupled https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon1992.pdf

- Here's a Scheme OS called MrEd: https://www2.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/icfp99-ffkf.pdf
Joe (co-founder) here! Happy to answer any questions y'all may have :)
> And yes, I would say an order from Swiss courts that was unappealable is an extreme criminal case. Anything that could threaten Protonmail qualifies.

So before this case, if I told you is someone in France trespassing enough for ProtonMail to log and provide IP, you would say sure?

My point is that this is not what most people would expect by reading extreme criminal case. If it's not what they expect, it is thus misleading.

I also wouldn't even agree that this is an extreme criminal case. What an non extreme one then? This is not an exception, this is simply a criminal case. It clearly doesn't need to be extreme to allow them to get the IP.
Inferring Concept Drift Without Labeled Data
The defense/intelligence industry develops plenty of technology. It is the actual technology industry, while the “tech” companies are advertising companies.
I just went over the actual study itself and it does not support your claim:

http://www-2.rotman.utoronto.ca/facbios/file/Whitening%20MS%...

It's a sort of interesting read but nothing too dramatic and whether it's evidence of racism is subject to interpretation. What isn't subject to interpretation is the claim that the study shows that "whitened" names increase callbacks. On the contrary whitening names has no effect on callbacks as indicated on page 31:

"Whitening the name only (versus not whitening at all) did
not make a statistically significant difference for black applicants"

The actual study shows that removing racial indicators from experience is what results in a gap in callbacks. So someone who represents themselves as the leader of their campus' "Black Student Business Association" is less likely to get a call back than someone who represented themselves as the leader of their campus' "Student Business Association". They refer to the removal of racial indicators as whitening but I think that's prematurely jumping to conclusions. The name aspect is certainly a form of whitening, since black names are being changed to white names. But it's premature to refer to the removal of racial indicators and making the experience racially neutral as a form of whitening.

Other forms of experience that explicitly mention race result in less callbacks than when that same experience doesn't mention race. Whether this is racism or not can not be concluded strictly based off of the study's parameters. For example, if I were presented with one candidate who was in charge of the university's "Law Society" I would probably pick that person over someone who was in charge of that university's "Black Law Society", and I don't think I would be racist for doing so. I would consider being in charge of an organization that is open to all races or is independent of race as a more prestigious accomplishment than being in charge of an organization that is race specific.

To test whether I was racist in my decision making, I would need to pick someone who was not in charge of anything over someone who was in charge of the "Black Law Society", with all else being equal. The study did not do this comparison and unfortunately the study does not present the raw data so there's no way for me to do this analysis myself.

I could bicker about some of the methodological issues as well which are not exactly rigorous, as well as the fact that this study is not exactly pertinent to this conversation as they only looked at internships for jobs that are not technical in nature, with the bulk of them being sales and marketing, and customer service jobs, instead of engineering, computer science, law, or professional jobs.

Ultimately no study is going to be perfect but one should not read too much into many of these studies. They are not nearly as rigorous or definitive as one would expect and furthermore they don't tend to generalize.
Hard to know what's meant by this. If I'd said it, I'd have followed up with an explanation that Chomsky's rarefied and technical argument, while impressive and personally convincing, is going to be a chore to explain to the archetypal bloodthirsty social justice keyboard-warrior who would deploy it, let alone the highfalutin evo-bio smuggies or the lowbrow racists against whom it would be deployed.
Coming soon to a drone near you!
It's not a proof at all!!!!
Right...so it's about types, not Rust.
THC is still illegal at the federal level, if that's what you mean. The federal government is just being dragged kicking and screaming into sanity by individual states that are legalizing it.
What could possibly go wrong with moving a non-trivial fraction of a countries economy to an account that can be controlled by a single bureaucrat with absolute power to transfer the funds as they see fit with no possibility of appeal?
The CM3s and CM4s are so hard to find. The regular pis are still available, albeit at a higher price. Given that the CMs were intended for industrial/commercial integration, it seems like they would have a priority. They are mostly the same components.
> Dan Rather was fired because he aired fraudulent documents on 60 Minutes.[0]

And not just any fraudulent documents, but ones that had typography that was so anachronistic that amateur bloggers were able to discover and prove their fraudulence.
What are the US tax implications of Bitcoin being an official foreign currency?
Various Linuces, currently Debian.
So centralized frontend -> middle-something, decentralized backend :) - lol
apple may not be a pure tech company, they re a gadget company, but they have developed a lot of technologies that they can patent, a lot of UX things, and it seems they have evolved many of the preexisting ones. I don't really know what netflix does, do they develop things like video codecs, load balancing tech or recommendation algorithms?
The most logical reason is that they want to connect the human identity to the wallet/address, thereby easily removing anonymity and ensuring the government can monitor their population effectively
> These numbers don’t include undiagnosed cases, which are often so mild that people do not notice them and do not pass the virus to anyone else.

But some of those people still end up with long-covid, right?

For a long time now that's been my biggest worry; at this point it's pretty much my only (personal) worry
Not saying one shouldn't check in to make sure its a healthy habit but things you may want to consider before judging the habit is:

1) Cost: $120 of cannabis every month is cheaper than a therapist and more effective than 1 session

2) Some issues are perspective: where your perspective needs to be changed and it's making your life worse but not a DSM-5 diagnosis leaving a majority of therapists/psychologists without tools to treat

2.1) The amount of therapy needed to sus out that point of view thats hurting you is way more expensive.

3) Forced release valve: it forces you to not care and be apathetic at the end of the day. In my case, doing 10-12 hour days and feel yourself wanting to push for longer is also a very unhealthy feeling. I'm not in a position to slow down or the start-up fails/loses investors. I don't need it to relax at the end of the day, where I'm not smoking now as a test. Regardless, I do notice being burnt out faster now without it.
How could one order a hundred guinea hens for $200 shipped? Is this a birds-as-a-service model where you rent birds for farming? A genuine question.
I believe mumble/teamspeak have a similar model to Matrix though, in that every room is both a voice channel and a text channel?

Maybe there should be another feature request to auto join voice comms when entering a channel?
Really, really like it. My one thought so far:

- it would be nice to not have to use Google for search.
On a very poor population where even a 1% swing in valuation can make a huge difference in someone’s life. There’s also no recourse for fraud here — the industry has all kinds of scrupulous players and isn’t as locked down as traditional banking.

To me, it seems like El Salvador should have created a MoneyGram competitor and left it at that. They could remove/reduce commission without all the rest of the risks.
I was a bit too direct - it's true that officially bitcoin transactions must be accepted, and any valid bitcoin app would work - including anything based on Lightning.

But in practice, it's absurd to imagine that the population of a whole country will learn about lightning or bitcoin directly and create their own Lightning channels or bitcoin wallets (though doubtless some will). Instead, most will use an app that hides all the complexity from them, and since the government is advertising one particular app, that will likely see overwhelming use.

And then, the official app or any other app will likely avoid wasting money on lightning or bitcoin to settle app-app transfers, and instead settle most transactions in their own centralized backend.
Why do you need a blockchain to implement Skynet?
Women have the disadvantage that if they reveal their gender online, they're barraged with sexual harassment and even death threats for nothing but being a woman. Do you suppose this treatment encourages curiosity in computing?