skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Democrats completely ignored rural and blue-collar America for a decade and then for 5 years after that, lambasted them as racists, white supremacists, and the cause of virtually every social ill and historical moral failure in our country. While many Republicans like to lambast certain liberal urban strongholds (e.g., for crime and corruption), they're not categorically attacking urbanites and certainly not to the degree or duration that Democrats savaged rural and blue collar Americans.

To put these in two separate categories is extremely disingenuous. There are plenty of Democrats still actively campaigning in rural areas and there are plenty of Republicans railing against "coastal elites." Seriously, have you never looked at the comments section on foxnews.com? A guy literally shot up a pizza parlor looking for a Democrat-run child sex ring. There is plenty of demonization being perpetrated by both sides, but the crucial fact of the matter is that, based on the results of recent national elections, one side represents a clear majority of Americans, but still struggles to maintain power. That is fundamentally anti-democratic (note the small d). I'll further note that when the Constitution was written, the population difference between the largest state and the smallest state was still within an order of magnitude; that is no longer the case.

> Justifying every bad behavior by pointing out someone else's worse behavior is, while common, deflection and race-to-the-bottom mentality, and it's really killing our country.

Sorry, but one side really has been much, much worse. I never claimed that Democrats were perfect, but you are the one who seems to be justifying an anti-democratic system just because some politicians, at some point, were mean to some country folks.
And the explanation is absolutely insane: https://thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/84a922cc9273b7b120d49ad...

Management tried to change the model to raise the rankings of China and Saudi Arabia, partly in order to sell more services. Even the CEO was involved in trying to raise China’s ranking.

As WilmerHale concludes:

> Finally, the specter of the Bank’s advisory services program hung over the irregularities in both reports. The vast majority of Bank employees that we spoke to raised the issue of the inherent conflict of interest that advisory services creates. In the aftermath of China’s
performance in Doing Business 2018, senior leadership at the Bank worked with Chinese officials to introduce a series of advisory projects focused on improving the country’s Doing Business results. And with respect to Saudi Arabia, the Bank had significant engagement with the country following its disappointment with the Doing Business 2019 results through a “central RAS unit” that had been in place for several years to support the country’s myriad RAS projects. More generally, Doing Business team members detailed accounts of being lobbied for reforms by Bank advisory service colleagues on behalf of the
countries for which they were advising.
The huge challenge for journalism is the reality that professionals are almost always paid to promote the agenda of their employer and advertisers.
Independent, investigative reporting is very rare in corporate media these days. Many (Chris Hedges, ex NYT foreign correspondent is a good example) set up as independents in the golden era of blogging prior to the social media/smartphone tsunamai.

I would argue people such as Matt Taibbi, Matt Stoller, Michael Tracey, Chris Hedges in the US are the true gatekeepers right now based on my understanding of the planet. These people appear to survive by publishing books and keeping up a strong social media presence critiquing the platforms that host them, and with companies like substack paying them to promote their platforms.
Thanks for engaging.

Well, Thiel has definitely been anti-left long before the far right were even a thing. I mean, check out his book ripping on the wokes (https://www.amazon.com/Diversity-Myth-Multiculturalism-Polit...) -- written in 1995!

The Left/Right classification is just very restrictive. You will find people like Balaji Srinivasan who fall in Thiel's category. It might just be logical.

I was in a similar mindset to you recently (cynical about people's motivations), but I think the reality is that ideology and incentives just tend to align for people, and if even if some unscrupulus person faked holding an ideology for practical reasons they actually end up becoming that thing.

I can see what you're saying about the very very far right... but are they really idiots? It seems like they are winning in some respect, so they can't be that dumb. And nobody is going to line up with your ideology 100%, Thiel's positions are usually contrarian so people who agree with him are always going to be seen as dumb or crazy or unpleasant.

I WISH Thiel were that machievellian (maybe the useful stuff would happen faster) but I just don't think he is.
I'd donate to continued expansion/development of something like this. Where is somewhere good to follow you for any thoughts/updates?
It's often not mentioned but marijuana use can result in psychosis and early-onset schizophrenia in a substantial subset of the population. It's still relatively innocuous IMO.
> Diversity enrich your life up to a point, after which cost/ratio plummet.

This is a really important point that lots of people seem to forget when talking about the strength of diversity.
Pikachu, his eyes enormous. Pikachu and Bulbasaur at the hidden village
It's also great for scaffolding CRUD sites. I used it a while ago on a MERN stack project in order to loop over a directory of game files -- Stepmania simfiles if anyone's wondering -- cleaning them up, parsing their metadata, and then POSTing it to my Express server. While I didn't avail myself of its CSV/YAML/etc parsing (JSON was a builtin and is now a third-party library), the stdlib's walk function made this generally painless.

And to top it off there's yet another bonus to this approach: having Fetch included out of the box enabled me to mock out what eventually became my frontend requests, by running them headlessly and worrying about the form logic later.

I haven't actually gotten to using TypeScript with it personally (it's among a few things built into Deno that I've been meaning to try now that I can run them with zero config), but when writing JS I've found myself reaching for it in some of the same scenarios I (anecdotally) see people point to for Python -- bulk file manipulation, scraping, programmatic requests, etc.
I like the concept, but I did not work on any of the search phrases I entered consisting of the full title of a computer science article or book.

It also does not work for subjects. For example, if you search "discrete math" it links to academic webpages, but most of them do not have any notes posted. It is just a plain text website with the syllabus of a class.
Why not just a text file? Is this the main reason?

> Unlike IaC, IaSQL makes the relations between pieces of your infrastructure first-class citizens, enforcing type safety on the data and changes to it.

It seems easier to solve that problem via a source-control hook to check a text file, than move over to SQL. But maybe this proposal gets you other things too?
Very large and _very expendable_ swathes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arete
Their core business is advertising and they have always been in a direct conflict-of-interest by competing with content sites for ad revenue buys.
There's a codemod [1] to automate most of the code changes needed, and a comprehensive migration guide [2].

[1] https://mui.com/guides/migration-v4/#preset-safe

[2] https://mui.com/guides/migration-v4/

Feedback so far has been positive...
I sold my Sinclair Scientific calculator, from the mid-seventies, just a month ago. Got a tenner for it even though it wasn't working.

I miss those times, there was something so much more immediate, more real about computing in the 70s and 80s. It was somehow lighter and less intimidating. It's only just coming back with Arduino style kit.

RIP
Let’s not pretend Facebook ever was or ever will be some bastion for democratic values.

We shouldn’t expect that not “suppressing information” is ever in their best interest. Or that it would be something new for them. It seems like fantasy to think in those terms.
Ya, these issues seem to be on a case-by-case basis. If the owner of a TLD is careless, it can get a bad rap and become useless.
Funny, I had the same experience at Mic as well. In their early days, I was invited to contribute based on some distant social connection to a founder. Many years later I felt inspired to write something again and was told that they would only accept content if I wrote on their schedule and, IIRC, on topics of their choosing. I guess many of these user-generated content platforms go through similar growing pains on the Road To Monetization…and a lot of them are more fun to interact with in their “grow at all costs” phases
Auto industry faces severe data breaches and ransomware threats
Thanks! It should come in the next few weeks :)
> I don’t really know why you trust organizations that can write a statement of values down not to change.

I don't! But I do trust that it will be moderately more difficult (and far more transparent) for them to do so than an organization which chooses not to. If you have your values declared, people can hold you (or the org) accountable to them. If you then change them, you have to announce it, or people will continue to hold you accountable to the old one.

> and organizations that do have good written principles that they live up to, do so because they have leaders of integrity, not the other way around.

I agree! But good leaders also make it easy for their reports to hold them accountable, and it's far more difficult to hold someone accountable to a set of values if those values are unstated. That's why the values need to be stated. Like, please explain to me how you live up to the organizations principles if no one knows what they are! (and if everyone agrees on what they are, why can't you write them down?)

And I should clarify if it wasn't already clear, I'm not talking about values like "integrity" or "respect the user", but things like "bias toward action" and "move fast and break things", that give you insight into how decisions should be made in the org.

> I accept that you can’t see any other way to judge leaders than by examining their written statements.

I judge leaders by examining how their stated values correspond with their actions. Their stated values give me a framework for judging them.
US legal system is really fascinating. How can bankruptcy of one legal entity (Purdue Pharma) immunize other legal entities, that are not direct part of that bankruptcy deal (Sackler family members), from being sued (no matter if they are guilty or not).
Very fascinating...
>despite the fact that a poor white guy with no connections has it way harder than a rich black woman from a family like Thomas Sowell.

I think it's interesting that this comparison is the metric on which you come to the conclusion that class is more of a determinant to outcome than race. I dare to say that it's a sort of "Obama Fallacy" in action.
Palm Oil Giant’s Industry-Beating ESG Score Hides Razed Forests
Weird, for me it lasts a year. Maybe because my account used to subscribe?
What kind of evidence are you expecting to be discovered? Teleconferences where they discuss intentionally killing people by causing overdoses?

I am almost certain that the Sacklers thought they were producing drugs which would relieve pain and help end-users live happier and more productive lives. This may have been self-deception, but I don't have the knowledge to do a cost-benefit analysis of this situation (though I'd be interested to see one on opiods).
The context matters. I'd happily read "Top 10" lists on a website if the site itself was dedicated to that one thing. "Top 10 Prog Rock albums", while a lazy, SEO-bait title, would at least be credible if it were on a music-oriented website.

But no, these stories all come from cookie-cutter "new media" blog sites, written by an anonymous content writer who's repackaged Wikipedia/Discogs info into Buzzfeed-style copy writing designed to get people to "share to Twitter/FB". No passion, no expertise. Just eyeballs at any cost.
Seriously, yes.

Moores law means a modern day 2007-style Google should be significantly less expensive to run now than back then.

Also the most relevant patents are now free to use.

2021 Google is a sad story compared to 2007 Google and I'd actually pay to get back 2007 Google - ads included - meaning a double revenue source :-)
Has anyone noticed any of this with .dev domains?
Facebook can't even handle extremely basic moderation and spam fighting.

For example, I reported a post today that was a blatant attempt to steal my log-in information. Facebook's response: "it doesn't go against one of our specific Community Standards."

This was for a post that was impersonating Facebook.

I've heard very similar stories from many other people.

Obviously, Facebook just can't handle even the most basic problems to do with moderation. There are so many problems on their platform that go beyond the most obvious attempts at fraud and scams. Yet, if they can't properly handle the most obvious scams, how can we trust them to properly moderate anything at all?
Hopefully prison, not jail, and they can spend it all they want on commissary. That little TV won't make you forget you're there, believe me.

Just my opinion, but the only justice here is to take their wealth away. A prison sentence is pretty meaningless unless they're in for life, which of course we all know a few years is the more likely reality (and I'm not advocating for life either).
Taming Infinities – Why is it possible to do Physics at all?
I was thinking someone along these lines as well, but then taking into consideration the massive number of wars and total number of deaths in the last century compared to much of human history, we are still slowly recovering from that.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2015/6...
follow up question: how many different incompatible ways to require(), import … are there?
Absolutely, the biggest pitfall with self research is not knowing what set of unknowns you have to fill in the blanks for. The value of education is the deep context in which any particular fact will fit, so it takes a lot of effort to fill in a rational approximation of what a doctor can diagnose. 1 hour of a doctor's time could be worth months of effort on your own.

Someone with MS might have their doctor recommend against being vaccinated. Someone else with MS might be fine, but their two stories could lead people to radically different conclusions, when it's the unique particulars that validate the judgment of the doctors in question.

We need a better culture of scientific discourse in public, allowing for nuanced and depth without the pitfalls of fallacious thinking.

Hyperpartisan and sensational media amplify the feedback loop in ragebait meme propagation. Maybe there's a mathematical tool or theory in graphs or networking that could help identify and shut down the spread of argument and combative discourse - not particular ideas, but particular forms. Seemingly opposite facts and opinions can be true in parallel and it's dangerous to attempt to either validate or censor one side or the other.

The latest crusade on misinformation and "anti vax" views is an example of how spectacularly flawed tools of censorship and rightthink can be.
Would we be having the same conversation if they had stock in GAFAM instead of Bitcoin?
Also, not to victim blame at all, but - any medicine, regardless of whether it's over the counter or not, needs to be discussed with a doctor.

That's why they literally have that label on everything you buy, and warning about using it on your own, either in the short- or long-term, depending on the specific medicine.

Just because people assume it's safe, doesn't mean it's safe, and is nobody's fault but their own for not reading the actual instructions and safety labels.

It's medicine, for Christ's sake, even if relatively benign looking. It has the intent on changing something about your body. Why do people think you can just go to the corner store and take whatever you want without actually thinking about it?
>Where are the home searches? The wiretaps?

what are you expecting to turn up? Documents/recordings that say "yep we totally knew that oxycotin was addictive and we're moving profits out with the goal of hiding them from creditors"?
Likely trademark collision with this: https://www.galileo.usg.edu/
No, No, Yes. "Censorship" comes from the word "censor" - an intermediary who controls speech. Programmers need to stop assuming that every situation is scale- and convenience-invariant.
The employer is absolutely a force multiplier, which is why I say value and not revenue generated.
Steampipe (https://steampipe.io) is an open source CLI to query cloud infrastructure using SQL (e.g. AWS, GitHub, Slack, k8s, etc). It also has a HCL language to define security benchmarks and controls (e.g. AWS CIS, etc).

We are a Postgres FDW under the hood with Go-based plugins, so write would be possible, but we've chosen to focus on read only so far. Definitely interested to see how you approach create, update and delete in the SQL model!

Notes: Not related to iasql. I'm a lead on the Steampipe project.
In Germany you can also go to court and certain phrasing needs to be dropped according to the courts.

The valuable piece of information in an Arbeitszeugnis that it will tell you is, if the person "verlässt die Firma auf eigenen Wunsch", i.e. if the person resigned from their position, or whether they were let go.
Autonomous Monitoring and Self-Healing Networks
One thing the Arduino doesn't quite have is that the ZX machines, while not cutting edge, were quite novel and "high tech".

Most people who have an Arduino also have a supercomputer-phone. But a ZX81 or ZX Spectrum were, at the time, all you could afford and relatively advanced to the point of being amazing for most other people (who didn't own any computer whatsoever).
The market. I want to be free from it a la Freedom from the Market: America’s Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand by Mike Konczal[1]. As much as small government-types don't want to experience government in their everyday lives, I wish not not experience the market and its influence in my everyday life. As much as small government-types feel like they cannot escape government control, I feel like I cannot escape from market control.

[1] https://thenewpress.com/books/freedom-from-market
Guilded is a Discord alternative with extra channel types as forums.
Choose one:

1. Same.
2. Better.

You can't have both. Since getting better involves change, which is the opposite of staying the same.
Here's a few references

https://doi.org/10.1145/2492101.1555372

https://doi.org/10.1145/2786763.2694348

https://doi.org/10.1109/DSN.2015.57
I'm not sure but this site is NOT convining, especially since it's bascially dismisses all the points as stupid. besides that it didn't give a single solution how reactive waste can be stored over thousands of years. in fact the site talks about it, but it never gives a solution.

btw. most people never think that nuclear the technology is a bad idea. the problem ALWAYS are humans. you can't guarante storage of something toxic for thousands of years. humans are stupid and greedy. you can't build a safe nuclear facility because some greedy people will always try to save a few dollars here and there for absolute no reason.
germany even tried to build a few reactors since the 90's but political parties and greedy managers wanted to force it and skipped important stuff, which exactly shows why nuclear is not an option. people will always screw the safety to save a few bucks. always.
I've been using Glass for a couple of months now and it's really a breath of fresh air compared to Instagram. The focus is on the photography instead of sharing your lifestyle or whatever Instagram is meant to be these days.

I hope they can gather enough paying members to make it a sustainable business
Migrating to Rust
An Overview and Setup of TypeScript as a Complete Beginner
Most office workers do not expect to return to full-time work, this is different to what this headline implies
Yeah, I just mentioned it because it was an example of a drug that experienced a moral panic (“reefer madness”). But one drug being less bad doesn’t mean other drugs aren’t worse and more immediately harmful.
At some point it's going to click that the issue isn't the technical confidentiality of data, it's the people who leverage it against you (and those who enable them) who are the real problem.
If they would get a German work contract in their German office, this would have been borderline illegal.
I'm not sure why you were downvoted, but your experience (or anyone's really) is going to be pretty idiocyncratic.

America is a big place (China is too!) and there are a lot of distinct sub-cultures. There absolutely is karaoke, escape rooms, cards, and all sorts of recreational activities in the US, and these wouldn't exist if nobody did them. In my experience these sort of things are mostly done by people 25 and under.

To be fair, watching television is a big part of American culture. Eating food is a big part of every culture I'm familiar with.

Also, I'd be suprised 46% of the population feeling lonely at least sometimes wasn't very normal in most highly urban and mobile societies.

Edit: accidentally slaughtered a few words
That feels like it'd be a small minority of cases, because the person who determines how much value an employee provides usually is incentivized to minimize how much to pay that employee.
Wasn't sure if Hacker News would like this one, but I found it absolutely mind-blowing.

You know the "Darmok" episode of Star Trek: TNG, where our plucky heroes get in trouble because they can't communicate with an alien race? They find their universal translator machine is working perfectly, but is producing gibberish, and eventually they realise that the aliens talk only in historical metaphors and allusions which they lack the cultural context to understand.

I always thought this sounded so silly and implausible. But Miëtek said "Pikachu, his eyes enormous", and my mind expanded: we do this all the time! How often have you replied to someone with a gif?

> The dog, at the kitchen table, enwreathed in flame.

Try universal-translatoring that without knowing what picture it's referring to!
Here's hoping the change is genuine and not just a surveillance front.
I have a first initial last name email from the early days of gmail. The amount of PII and private conversations I've received is incredible. Someone on the other side of the country tried to email himself his business loan application... twice.
Forums are still alive on some sites and communities.
> ...it's pretty hostile to me and makes me not want to talk to you.

Evidently not to a sufficient extent.

That the FSF and GNU are more closely connected to Linux than they are to Windows and macOS is self-evident. Roughly 100% of Linux users are extensive GNU software users. And Linux uses a license whose authorship and legal defense both fall under the purview of the FSF.

Would you argue that Richard Stallman, the founder of both the FSF and GNU and the author of both gcc and emacs, might not still do something to benefit the FSF and GNU software--and therefor all Linux users--in his remaining life?
Peak conventional was 2008, it's hard(er) to make plastic from non-conventional oil, and plastic from plant don't need phtalates (at least PLA doesn't, i know there is other kind of plastic but i don't know about them).
Neat. Does that use steampipe services/API under the hood, or does it consume the AWS/GigHub APIs/... directly?