skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People who make that much and more use more infrastructure

I doubt this is true for silicon valley engineers who earn more 500k.

I pay +100k in tax a year. I pay for my own healthcare on top of that. Yet public safety is rather low. Public school is bad. And etc. If anything, it doesn't feel I get much out of it.

Apart from that, any proposed tax plan almost always hurts the most the high-end salaried employees who already pay their fair share of tax (RSU is taxed immediately). Might as well just call it yet-another-silicon-valley-engineer tax.

Meanwhile the billionaires or hundred-millionaires will still be able to find a way to reduce their tax because they have enough capital to hire an army of tax accountants.

Dems shout about billionaires and hundred-millionaires for years. Yet they never make law that targets this particular group. What is up with that?
At the same time though, they aren't playing the role of good community citizen either. It's really confusing to see what the motivations are here.

Why openly antagonize a community that you claim to be a part of and represent? I hope there is more to it, but otherwise, this just seems like a stunt.

Surely @ahachete must realize that the Postgres Core team must defend their trademarks (otherwise they can be lost or lose protection). And either way, I just don't see the endgame here.
New Pegasus hack found targeting Apple devices through iMessage
Australia is shaping up to be the villain of COP26 climate talks
Javalin 4.0.0 Released
i've wondered about this myself for a while

maybe an html meta tag that blocks all XMLHTTPRequests until the user consents. i don't think it would even matter if it was browser-specific
Tesla opens a center on Native American land, selling cars straight to consumers
low effort post: I've been thinking about a (real time) 3D point-cloud (news articles) NLP-summation visualization of the news, seeing it skew towards certain directions like war or something as the "absolute worst case".

My data source would be for example Reddit's API for worldnews/news top rated.
Or just having them poop on a grate that goes down to a sewer system.

Training beef cows seems like something of a waste of time since they get slaughtered so young. Milk cows however could be worthwhile.
Amazon is named in the first tweet when you click on the link. Nobody is being coy.
religious jews pray 3 times a day as well. It's common in cities with reasonable size jewish populations to have afternoon services in different office buildings scattered throughout the city where people meet up every work day. so that experience is common to them as well.
They aren’t even close to Digital Ocean in terms of quality of service, support, performances or documentation. They are more like OVH, another french provider.

A lot of software limitations of their products aren’t documented, an example: don’t expect to put more than 40k files in one single object storage bucket. It’s written nowhere and when you’ll start encountering strange errors with your apps you’ll have to deal with the support team. First you need to pass the triage level where people have no clue about whatever is technical, then after a few days you will go higher in the chain and finally be redirected at someone in charge of the production who will announce you that kind of limitation.

Disclaimer: I’ve been a customer since the very start of Scaleway (attracted by the low prices), then got dissatisfied a lot and asked my account being deleted last week.
While a decent post, this is more or less inadaquate in 2021. Do a post on bypassing cloudflare/other anti botting tech using residental proxy swarms
I don't think it was the standard, we merely convinced ourselves that it was the case because it was easier to remain isolated in our respective bubbles, sheltered from the opposition.

When we were exposed to opposing ideas, there's a better chance than not that it was in a defanged and castrated form published with the ascent of corporate gatekeepers.

It's easy for a liberal to have a debate with a conservative when they values have a 98% overlap, and their disputes are largely inconsequential questions of cultural aesthetic which demand only minute changes.
Hearkens oligopoly when only the already powerful can talk. Baby steps.
How the FDA crippled America's response to Covid-19
Py Framework for creating reproducible, maintainable, modular datascience code
It always surprises me just how little domestic terrorism we actually have. At the current rate the whole century after 9/11 will only equal around half of the deaths of 9/11.
There's nothing more satisfying than target with a good bowel moo-vement.
In the case of the Happy Birthday song, falsely claiming rights over public domain content was expensive for the putative rights-holders.[1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-warner-music-lawsuit-sett...
I'm not suggesting they do that.

GH pages is includes jekyll. It's a feature of their product. I would expect them to maintain that as long as jekyll is part of their feature suite.

I'm only bringing them up because it impacts their product directly.

https://docs.github.com/en/pages/setting-up-a-github-pages-s...
I love the C&C series. Really enjoyed playing through the remaster recently. Way more difficult than I remembered.

But what I really want is a remaster of Red Alert 2!
Yeah, invented by people who've never worked a day on a farm!
I just make a PKGBUILD file for my project. Lets me specify dependencies, build and install instructions, anything it needs. Then I can build the package and install it on any Arch Linux system.
This is basically the line of reasoning that changed my opinion on this issue. Previously I thought, well it's up to people when they want to work and how much for.

The problem with that is these services are only viable because there is a core of drivers that work long hours and have this as their primary source of income. Part time casual drivers are also an important part of what makes services like this effective, but without the core drivers there's no service. What's happening at the moment is that the low expectations of the casual drivers is under cutting the livelihoods and bargaining power of core drivers. That's not an equitable state of affairs.
Yeah, I almost choked on my lunch when I read that. In addition to your well-said reasons, it just seems icky. In my not-so-humble opinion, Twitter (among others) has become a harmful echo chamber of dangerous ideas and hypocrisy. Requiring the use of Twitter is not a good signal to send.
Apple fixes iOS zero-day used to deploy NSO iPhone spyware
"Consumer-grade" reliability really should be the highest-grade reliability. Cables get cantilevered by standing desks, rolled over by office chairs, bitten by dogs, chewed by babies, shoved in pockets and skiied with, and sat on.

The people who designed USB-C were probably lazy people sitting in office chairs all day and never got out enough to see what real consumers do.

I break about a USB-C cable a week. Never happened with headphone jacks, barrel connectors, IEC power connectors, and the like -- those are real consumer grade stuff, especially IEC.
I think you're generally going to run out if you try to think of household names. Instead, think local. I don't know about you but there are a lot of local family-run restaurants, bakeries, chocolatiers, furniture/carpentry stores, flower shops, consulting businesses, accounting/tax prep firms, game/hobby stores, boardgame cafes, independent movie theatres, etc. On and on the list goes, though unless you live here (Waterloo) you've probably never heard of any of them. And of course where I live is not special; you can find a similar variety in any city and even many towns or villages.
While I don't subscribe to the idea that "disparity implies racism", this is most certainly a case where, if you accept that view, vaccine mandates must be interpreted as racist precisely because Black and Hispanics are disproportionately unvaccinated. And the points made in (5) stand regardless of whether you accept the disparity view.

But this is hardly the main point. (6) is more relevant (and the second part of (5) is worth also adding separately).

> 6. Are vaccine certificates ethical? One of the most sacred principles in medical ethics is autonomy, meaning that an individual has the right to decide what happens to their body. [...] Even the most well-informed individual cannot provide informed consent if their “choice” is coerced. Vaccine certificates render the individual in an impossible place of having to choose vaccination or loss of employment and exclusion from society. This impossible “choice” forces the hand of those in this predicament and ultimately results in consent under duress. [...] Loss of trust in the medical establishment can lead to poor health outcomes, as patients may avoid care and be less receptive to medical management. Given that we have exceeded numerous vaccine targets and offered protection to those at greatest risk, we should make every effort at this time to maintain patient autonomy and guide with openness rather than exclusion.

> Public health interventions need to take into account not only the immediate threat before us, but also the downstream negative effects that may occur as a result of our actions. The introduction of vaccine certificates threatens individual autonomy and societal norms, and runs the risk of further isolating marginalized groups without clear metrics to assess efficacy. The sacrifices that have been made throughout this pandemic are astonishing

Medical ethics is being thrown out the door and those pushing for vaccine coercion seem completely unable or unwilling to accept that that's what they're in favor of. And practically speaking, coercion, given the sickening and duplicitous politicization of the vaccine, is only going to result in skepticism toward the vaccine, which it has.
To be honest, Mozilla isn't the first one here. SetUserFTA (https://kolbi.cz/blog/2017/10/25/setuserfta-userchoice-hash-...) has been around since 2017, and this pastebin (https://pastebin.com/yVhWeQ3X) even predates it.
"People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage."

With inequality worsening, and the existential threat to humanity generally revolving around cooperation and the surrender of resources...

Bad times are coming.
Alpaca Raises $50M Series B and Announces Crypto Offering
If you are going out somewhere that would need a covid passport, you're going to need your wallet one way or other. So I think forgetting the paper that should already be in your wallet to be one of the weakest arguments yet.

And if they can afford to go to a place that would need the passport (restaurants, movies, et al) then they probably can also afford one of the 10 cents per page print shops you find all over the place.

So that particular argument doesn't fly. At least "taking time off work" has some merit, but even then you can schedule around it. Over the course of almost a year so far, you must have at least some time in there to do it.

So far in my work place, not one person has had to take time off due to illness from the shot. Sure there are people who do get ill from it, but it's a lot more rare than people make it out to be. Even in my friendship circle, only one person almost had to take time off, but inevitably didn't need to. A sore arm is nothing unless you're a professional bowler or whatever.
No, thought it’s more or less expected in formal 1 on 1 meetings with my immediate supervisor…and I would do it if I had a individual meeting with just about any superior. We use both Zoom and Skype for Business, and Zoom is definitely better at video than Skype. We also have people whose WFH circumstances preclude using video at all.
Stop firing immune nurses.
I don't know, there seems to be a lot of people who enjoy cars -- whether for looks, sport, status, collecting, fixing, restoring, etc. I don't think it's particularly surprising if I were chatting with folks at a party and someone would mentions cars as a hobby of theirs.

I think your charge could be leveled against most hobbies, especially collectibles. It seems a bit mean-spirited.
I'm partial to the guide I wrote https://matrix.org/docs/guides/free-small-matrix-server/
>just pointing out that a single organization controls a lot, more than most people probably realize.

>Again, specifically: what control are you worried about? I suspect that you think the foundation has powers it does not have. [0]

These statements seem somewhat contradictory to me. Did something changed in the last few months?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26126077
I did the same thing around 2019. We do chicken once or twice a week, and I'll some kind of chicken or turkey cold cuts around for lunch sandwiches. It honestly wasn't very difficult.
"Lab grown" is a marketing term that actually means...

No, "lab grown" does not mean an Impossible Burger. You've confused the definition with something else.
That might not work. In the eternal September of Facebook there may always be enough new accounts to continuously file false reports against high profile accounts.
There are very few people I will call out of the blue these days but there are certainly things that are much more easily resolved with a 15 minute phone call than going back and forth on chat or email over the course of an hour.
That's a good first step, but I feel you're skipping over some of the issues here... At the end of the day, you're still raping and killing animals.

I love meat, but I'm pretty sure my grandchildren (or maybe their grandchildren) will look back at us in the same way we look back at public executions
I was this way until I got married and my neighbors wife nearly got killed in her ~2010 model lexus suv by an inattentive driver running a red light @45 mph t-boning the drivers side with 1 ton truck. She's lucky she wasn't seriously maimed and fully recovered. A 2020 Lexus might have avoided the hospital trip entirely based on the difference in crash tests for drive side impact. I'd rather my wife be in a at most 3-4 year old BMW, Lexus, Volvo, etc than a late model cheap car for the sake of my piece of mind alone.
I honestly don't remember any details but this had happened to me once, about 1.5 or 2 years ago, where a major W10Pro update had somehow reset the default browser to Edge. It was just a normal bi-annual update, however it could be that I've installed manually using Windows Update Assistant without waiting for the normal rollout.
Programming is about expressing how to solve a problem. Of course different ways to express that will fit different people. Every time I see people trying to push "that language is the best!", I see people trying to have a language as the only spoken and written language in the world, and I find that incredibly sad. People shape languages, languages shape people. Seeing someone that's very comfortable with a certain programming style that's not the one that you're used too usually means that you can learn a lot by talking to them.

When you look at programming as a form of communication, it's easier to understand a lot of things. You can't build your tower of Babel with thousands of people if you all talk different languages in different ways, you need something that can be understood easily by everyone. But that's also not the language you would use when writing something deeply personal.
Your farm is an outlier though, not representative. The current consumption levels of meat can only be sustained with factory farming, it's impossible for your type of farm to contribute a meaningful amount of production. Meat is, in the context of mass consumption, factory farmed. Your farming method could not serve even a tiny fraction of demand, so while it is better than factory farming, it's not an alternative.
When you are hiring contractor you offer a price the contractor can come back and say I can do it for this higher price. Clearly not employee. On other hand the gig workers can't lets say offer to bring your food for 1000€ this one time. They should be able if they are independent.
I don't really see that as much of a concern. If Microsoft announced plans for world domination tomorrow, all I'd need to change in my workflow is which fork of VS Code I'm using.
You want to be forced to take clients you don't want. You want someone else to decide a price you might not want. You want to be unable to get employment benefits you might want.

I mean, that's some niche requirements there, I would categorise it as serfdom.

I am onboard in principle - I want try all the psychedelics, fly a plane without a licence and experiment with explosives for education purposes, but as R v Copeland shows, the law can't cater to everyone - tradeoffs have to be made.
I'm kind of sorry for quoting the 3000 from Wikipedia [0] without a primary source.

Apart from that, it is seemingly indeed left to each state if and how to enforce compulsory schooling - they just all do it. They only differ in the ages/durations required [1].

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausunterricht#Deutschland
[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulpflicht_(Deutschland)#Dau...
I would argue, fairly, that a person who drives a Tesla is not too wound up about ridiculous costs.
History is inconvenient.
Why this is the right time to upgrade Magento?
That argument falls apart quite quickly with just a little thought.

The taste and nutritive quality of meat has many, many factors going into it, and the genes are only one tiny part. For example, the amount of omega-3s in pasture-raised chicken, and their ratio to omega-6s is far better in pasture-raised chickens than in chickens subjected to confined animal feeding operations (https://apppa.org/The-Nutrition-of-Pasture-Raised-Chicken-an...).

My chickens are of the same genetics as gross grocery store chickens, but grow more slowly, get more exercise, require zero antibiotics, have vastly different flavour and nutritive quality, than those exact same genetics raised in factory farms.

The experience an animal has walking the earth--what kind of activities they engage in, what they eat, what they breath, what pharmaceuticals they're injected with--all have impact on the value of the meat.

What does "lab grown" even mean in this context? Sure, it's genetically identical, but what "lab environment" produces something like grain-finished meat? Which produces 100% grassfed beef?

It seems insanely simplistic to say that "we can grow this phenotype in the lab, so it'll be exactly the same as one raised in a barn or on a pasture."
Patches can be dangerous. Most shops nowadays recommend replacing the tire, it's not in bad faith.
Racket has a surprisingly good cross-platform GUI library. I've been building a tool for streamlining some testing at work, and building in Racket makes it almost trivial for it to work across Mac/Win/Linux, even the GUI bits, and you get that Schemey goodness.
The common denominator in platforms going to shit is scale.

Most social media platforms get their initial users by targeting a specific niche or demographic. Forums of olde typically revolved around some specific subject matter (e.g a particular game, or band, or subculture). Facebook targeted college students. Reddit targeted techies. But once the platform reaches some critical threshold of popularity, the platform strays from its vision to realize some commercial potential. The admins and moderators, in the interest of growth, try to appeal to a lowest common denominator, which ends up alienating the now-veterans, and the original purpose of the platform is diluted into obscurity.
Is This a Copyright Violation?
A few months ago I posted an online dice rolling application for a tabletop miniature game that I play.

https://actasf.netlify.app

It is just a quick app that I put together with JQuery and Bootstrap. It isn't finished and I posted it to netlify to get some feedback from users. It is a test version. The game is fun but I find the hit and damage process to be a bit tedious so I wrote this app to make it simpler.

While it was being developed I posted some screenshots of it and had the company that produces the game, Amarillo Design Bureau, tell me that it violated their copyrights.

I asked for specific references to the material and what copyrights it violated but never got a response. AFAICT there is no copyright protection for names and numbers. I searched the trademark database t make sure that I wasn't inadvertently referencing a trademark.

The company is a small 'mom and pop' operation (well just pop now as mom retired) and so I made sure that I wasn't adding anything to the app that would make it possible to play the game without having a copy of the rules.

Today they sent a DMCA takedown threat to me. I reiterated by belief that none of the material on the site is covered by any copyright or other intellectual property rights and again asked for specifics of the supposed violations.

Am I correct that the material I am using is not covered by copyright? It is just numbers and names from a game.
What about killing plants (ending a life prematurely)?
I am not a huge functional programmer, but the big weapon in FP's wheelhouse is that pure side-effect FP is far more suited to multicore/threading/processing, which is where all the future gains in processing will probably come from.
Hard agree. I agree that the way we're spending money on kids right now is idiotic. Factory-education is dumb. Just try to remember (sorry I don't mean this in a patronizing way, tone on the internet is hard) that we should have a backstop for children at the margins. But yes, a customizable education system should be able to recognize this. Not force everyone into the same silly pipeline, no matter their interests, circumstances, or aptitude.

One thing that I would love to see in public schools is to allow a "free elective" that public schools administer (assuming the child picks it), which is just a MOOC with an examination schedule. A teacher can be tasked on following-up and ensuring that the child is actually making progress on their assessments, but that's it, maybe even offering a pass/fail option. This offers a low-cost way for children to explore their interests through high-level instruction without having to specifically source a teacher/expert on this material. A counselor would need to work with a child on an individual basis to evaluate whether the free elective was appropriate. Sadly in larger public schools counselors barely have enough time to keep track of their failing students, let alone their successful ones.
So you meant 'employers' rather than 'companies'?
I don't know what to think about it. Half-baked idea: use free functions only in one file in project is meh..

Modern Kotlin, Scala, F# can and use free functions and reduce boilerplates to minimum. C# developers wants attract newbies, juniors, fans of J's, python etc and simultaneously don't disturb old users, fans of c#/java and enterprise development.

"It's only for quick scripts, prototyping, for teaching". Choose a side, don't pretend that you are modern and cool.

Modern c# is fine, but some features are only sugar, and yet i still waiting for proper sum types with exhausting pattern matching. Slow progressing java have this in 17 version..
> Anybody claiming that highly-processed things like this will have anything close to the same health impact and taste as, say, pasture-raised chickens (like I raise on my farm, https://mulligan.farm)

This reads like a person that is afraid technical advancement will make them obsolete. Your bias is probably too strong to make clear and meaningful arguments.
Grainy Gradients
I used to be in the camp of buy a cheap, old reliable car, until I realized just how much safer cars made in the past 5 years are vs the older ones. Cars are getting much safer, and I'll happily pay 5-10k more just for the insurance of reducing the chances of me being maimed or killed in an accident.
Walgreens’ sloppy Covid-19 test registration system exposed patient data
I only learn through hands on experience
Rubén J. Bravo, Manuel Argiz, César Calvo Pinilla, Alberto Picón and myself.