skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's sad. Immigrants do pay taxes, for instance car registration directly I assume.

The politics on immigrants of color right now is so gross. The Biden administration has to be severely inhumane and the other side cheers on literal whipping of black Haitians who clearly need our support.

I also don't understand why businesses don't use their power more to try and open up & increase 'correct immigration' that politicians claim they support.

We keep hearing about not having enough employees right? Social Security is going bankrupt because there aren't enough workers paying in. There are studies that show undocumented migrants are net contributors in terms of public resources they consume vs. what they pay back. I genuenly believe the color of the skin of most of the migrants plays a large roll in this, including right now Asians who are experiencing a lot of hate, kind of like Arabs post 9-11.

Adding a couple hundred thousand a year won't cut it. Why not a million a year?
But Bloomberg didn't show an SOT-23 package. They showed something like an 0402 or maybe 0201 capacitor on the tip of a pencil.

Could China be hacking motherboards and then shipping them to the USA? Maybe. I'm certain that they're trying to figure out a plan at least. But the Bloomberg article was fully bunk and just FUD from the start.

And I think we all know how we'd hack Supermicro motherboards anyway: those BMCs are well known to be poorly updated, proprietary chips with full access to the keyboard / mouse / display of every single Supermicro motherboard ever made.

One would _assume_ that a Supermicro motherboard hack would involve a BMC attack, if it were to exist at all. If there's news that some hacker is using some other means than the "obvious" BMC, it'd be news, but you gotta be really, really technical and explain just how it works... so that you know, it'd be useful to IT departments to know how to defend against? (Ex: put BMC on its own VLAN at least)
Why should we make every speech policy around the extreme fringe of content? Overtly racist content does happen too often including against white people in the BLM era--which isn't to say that whites have it harder or any such thing--but why does that justify policies that restrict lots of socially critical speech (e.g., challenging the factual basis for a given movement or citing research on the efficacy of nonviolent protest or publishing an interview with a Black man whose views defy media stereotypes [0])?

[0]: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2020/06/case-for-liberal...

I get that it's hard to craft precise moderation rules, but drafting policy based on the rare exception seems strictly harmful.
> south of England

Guilty as charged. South west though, not posh!
I had so much trouble getting my head around Fourier transforms at University back in the 2000s - and now interactive diagrams like these make the whole concept click almost instantly. Love these.
This is tangential but also a validation.

FoxPro (& dBase) is a realization of the concept: To deal with databases, you need a database language.

Exist a lot of minor things that our apparent "general-purpose" languages lack in the moment you need to deal with certain niches. From very small stuff as not-even available decimals, dates, currencies, units types, to lack of simple way to transform data, to ad-hoc queries, to ad-hoc data validations, to lack of relationship modeling, etc.

Even if you say "linq!, ActiveRecord!, functional!, lisp!, pandas!..." and others all that are a shadow of what the dBase family provides.

How far? I was not in worry about all the stuff everyone worry about today (injection? orms? impedance mismatch? reactivity? <- an over-complicated patch on top of unfit languages for it, so kudos for this idea!). That is what make me put some time aside in build a language in the spirit of it, because is so much details that are not available if the languages is not designed with data(as of the kind of business) in mind.

So, in short, most languages, even php, python, ruby, ... are not that good for web programming (and worse for database programming!), just that are not that terrible, either.
Coincidentally, Alephjs (https://github.com/alephjs/aleph.js) added a commit hours ago that also seems to solve this particular problem for React.

So now there's a React hook (useDeno) that takes a callback that is only executed on the server-side, and the returned value is sent back to the client side transparently.
Yep, and I bet that’s non trivial and takes a lot of resources to maintain. Selling games is also their core business.

Seems like a cryptocurrency fits nicely into “abstract credits with a consistent rate across currencies”.
I already don't really like how websites can detect whether a tab is active or not (perhaps because callbacks/timers get delayed when a tab is inactive?). For example, dslreports's speedtest fails your measurement if you switch tabs, and Duo's web 2FA interface fails to approve a device which you've set to remember for 30 days if you're in a different tab.
Not wanting to hire people who are racist isn't being "political", it's just basic human respect for your employees who are targets of that racism.
The only truly effective way: serve corporate with a lawsuit!
> there's really no recourse for it in the spec

There's not only a recourse for it, modern firmware implements it. You just use the IOMMU to restrict Thunderbolt devices to being able to access their own buffers.
Like any other tool? If it's useful, use it, if it's not, don't. In many graph problems and parsing problems, it's useful, because it lets you express your solution more "naturally" with respect to the underlying domain. That's where I've used it seriously.
Humans measure time by measuring the sun's relative position to their standpoint on the earth -- If the sun is above my head, it is daytime and I will do all sorts of activities. And if the sun is below the horizon then it is night time and I will go to bed. A 24h clock rotation system is designed to measure the progress of a "day".

Getting rid of timezone conversion makes it difficult for human brain to understand the relative time of day in other locations on the earth.

Knowing that it is 22:00 UTC on the other side of the globe doesn't mean much to me. But if it is 12PM local time there, then I immediately get a basic idea that it is roughly the lunch time.
And I’ve had a used 2016 Thinkpad running MacOS Catalina for almost 2 years. I looked at the prices and they are the same as when I bought it.
> Or is there a difference between SARS-CoV-2 and hookworms/common livestock bacterial infections that matters in this case?

One can be continuously infected and reinfected with parasites or bacterial. Viral infections like COVID either kill you or get cleared from your system, at which point for all practical purposes you are fairly immune for a while.
I pay for Youtube and multiple podcasts on Patreon for exactly this reason. I think both ad-supported and subscription-supported are viable, and where possible creators should support both.
As the rosy promises of Silicon Valley flounder and the naked reality of techno-capitalism becomes apparent (hello serfdom, err, gig economy, we've missed ya), it is imperative to find a scapegoat. What better scapegoat than a disciple of Girard?
>To be able to find Home Row, I added a couple large rubber dot things.

Have you considered this keyboard is just bad for you? Old keyboards were a lot more ergonomic, clickly, and keys had indicators to let your fingers scan for keys. Spacebar wasn't completely flat, was either rounded upwards (not dipped like all other keys). F and J have these indicators to let you find your way on keyboard: https://cdn.mwave.com.au/images/400/AB55032_4.jpg

>The CherryMX Kinesis split keyboard was is too clickey

Was it the one with red switches? I've never heard complaints, but again... are you using that crappy laptop microphone all the time? No one ever complained on my keyboard and I don't mute myself during meetings.

Are you reinventing '90s keyboard?
That's true, although for my purposes AirFoil has been worth the (admittedly too high) price. It also can output audio to bluetooth speakers and airplay devices at the same time, and has quite nice latency compensation built in.

Wish it was free, or better yet built into the OS, but it's a very useful piece of software.
See, the problem with your methods is that Twitter's not taking a cut. They might even require a user to leave Twitter for another site! And we can't have that.
> 1. Subscription. I'd pay for a one time license. I'd pay for upgrades, but I'd want to own it.

I'd love to have this, but as latchkey says for a one-time
purchase. Ideally, the app would be open source and available for Mac as well as Linux, so one could add bespoke extensions. Note the reason I say "open source" is not because I would want it for free, but because open source means I will still be able to use it in 20 years on whatever platform will be mine then.

Wish list:

- plug-in for Emacs, Atom and Sublime.

- versioning support (Git integration)
This is great. It's useful to be able to not just visualize this but to go from nations/territories to individual treaties, which are then linked to tribal sites describing those treaties and (very often) how the U.S. government has failed to honor them.

Map link on click leads to

https://native-land.ca/maps/treaties/point-elliott-treaty/

which leads to, among several others,

https://www.duwamishtribe.org/treaty-of-point-elliott

All very clean and direct. This helps me at least understand these concepts a little more easily. Thanks to the folks who made this.
Apple Watch Series 7 Supports 60.5GHz Wireless Data Transfer
> At some point you have to trust people.

This is true in some respects, yes. For example, I have to trust that the supply chain that brings food to my local grocery store isn't introducing toxic substances into the food, so when I open a package of food and prepare and eat it, I'm not poisoning myself. I can't possibly fact check all of the steps in that supply chain. The best I can do is to keep track of which sources have a track record of trustworthy behavior as far as I can see it.

However, the scope of things for which I have to trust other people is much narrower than most people appear to think. For example:

> have you even been to Finland? According to your philosophy you don't know if it exists then.

My question is, why should I care? What part of my essential life activities do I have to condition on whether or not Finland exists, or what it is like? If there are people living in Finland, of course they care, but they're there--they can see for themselves that Finland exists and what it is like. But for me, in the US, unless I am planning to travel to Finland, I have no reason to care who is a trustworthy source of information about Finland and who isn't. Even if I buy products from Finland, I can judge their quality by the same means that I judge my local grocery store; I don't have to know what Finland in general is like, or if it even exists. Maybe the products that are labeled "Made in Finland" are actually made by some high-tech automated factory on a seasteading platform in the Atlantic. If they meet my requirements for quality and price, why should I care?

This same reasoning applies to much, if not most, of the information we are inundated with in our daily lives: we don't actually need to have an opinion at all about how trustworthy it is, because it doesn't affect any choices we are actually going to make. We could just ignore it and it wouldn't make a difference to our actual lives. It only makes a difference because we are surrounded by governments and media organizations who have an interest in manipulating what we think, and one of the ways they do that is by trying to convince us that we do need to have strong opinions about all kinds of things that we actually don't.
That's a dangerous and naive plan/intent.

Trusting ANYONE ELSE to manage your property is always a bad idea!
Filed under "when your only tool is a hammer," which makes for an interesting lemma to Dunning-Kruger.

To expand on that:

First, the moderator culture at WP is exceedingly well known as a massive, toxic, politicized trainwreck.

But even when you isolate what it has been successful at,

it is not clear why the premise could possibly scale to the near-realtime streams of social media; nor how you would possibly get emergent trust amid competing agendas.

Especially when the problem in the first place is that state- and other organized and funded actors, have totally pwned discursive space, and are decades into an arms race around detection of puppetry and other manipulative tools to produce the illusion of consensus and multiplicity.

We live in an era where the gray market of Public Sentiment as a Service is going vertical.

Altruistic partisans, even well intentioned and real ones, are not going to fix that.
Wouldn’t that have the opposite effect?
No thanks. Even pre-covid people were terrible about being sick in public, coughing on planes, etc.

I hope the mask mandates stay, especially for places where distancing is hard. Everyone who knowingly exposes others to illness is at least forced to reduce the trajectory of their droplet spread somewhat now.
I guess e40 doesn't have an editor any longer
As a SF resident, I can confidently say there is only one requirement they city should care about: people digging through the cans. No one gives two hoots if the cans are attractive (the current green ones are unsexy and unobtrusive which is fine). The issue is garbage goes in, and garbage gets pulled back out, before they are picked up. For every overflowing trashcan there are 5 that have been dumped by someone looking for food scraps or cans. At lest the people digging for cans tends to more respectful.
I don't understand how this kind of deal is even legally allowed? This is clearly against the Shareholders' interests to overpay the fine in order to protect the personal interests of some top FB executives.
Ophis =5^77[Prom+music]
To add, it's common to see a headshot in an acting resume.
OTOH, if it wasn't that good we would be using something else, good and better that win3.1 and the history would erase Windows.
Sorry, but this just seems completely unrealistic. The commercial software development industry in any country that adopted such a law would become a toxic wasteland. Open source has always had a terrible track record of producing effective, commercially viable results, and you would be reducing the whole industry to that kind of level. Not that you could pass the laws required to make it happen without causing a major diplomatic problem anyway since it would probably violate about a million provisions of the WIPO treaties and so on.
A Carbon Dividend fueled by a carbon VAT tax...
I guess then he wants both...
Unpleasant fact best learned early: the stack is not free.

The "very natural" appearance is an artifact of the languages we have (very unnaturally) constructed.
> I'd much rather have the Mozilla foundation focus on security

I would, too, but they're not able to keep up on that, either, despite vast funding.

Foundations and nonprofits used to do one thing well, not 12 things okay, and 5 things pretty poorly.
When Joe Manchin can no longer hold the Senate hostage and Dems have larger majorities ;)

But to be less flippant it does look like we are pushing with our European counterparts to build a framework with provisions to punish trade with countries that do not reduce coal power.

That pressure + China's public marketing to become the new hegemonic power seems to have moved the needle. China just announced they won't fund new coal development which is a positive step forward, just not the giant marathon miles forward we need immediately.
Not GP, but my take is that Meteor is more like Flash, if we're going to go with a game platform comparison...
The person delivering to you will either raise their price, affecting you indirectly, or be subsidized directly by the tax rebate.
I am genuinely not sure why this is a controversial statement. Allow me to rephrase this in a very quantifiable way.

FB IPO opened at $38 ( https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/11/17/if-you-invested-50... ). Today it trades at $346 ( https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/FB?p=FB ). That is 9 times the initial investment value.

Now, we can argue how much of that increase should be given to Zuckerberg in the form of credit for directing the company, but I am relatively certain that the answer is not zero.

I stand by my initial post. It is very much arguable.

edit: Hatred of Zuckerberg really should not be blind. I mean there is enough there to dislike him for. There is no need to invent stuff.
That's not how it works. It's hierarchical. Someone with an ad to show doesn't send the ad to the web site that wants to show the ad. Instead it just tells that web site "I'll pay $.005 if you show my ad", then if it wins it serves the ad it wants to show. There's no time at that realtime auction to do analysis. The ad doesn't even need to exist as a fixed thing. It can be dynamically generated tailored to the specific user (think of "Come back and shop with us" ads where they show you things you've looked at).
Including frogs and birds.
Are you directly connected to this nuclear plant, or to the grid?

Even as a baseline energy source nuclear accounts for a maximum of 19% of generation. 60% comes from burning dinosaurs in various forms.
Hubble Snapshot of “Molten Ring” Galaxy Prompts New Research
I want the user experience to be stuck in 2095. I want the user experience to be better than it is now.

I'll give you an example of a web app that I like: github. It is built as a web app because it makes sense as a web app, it works really well, there's no cruft. It could be better if it were an API with user built clients, something git is designed for anyway, but it's not bad.

I would be fine theoretically with web apps, if there were some way to ensure actual web apps that need interactive functionality were the only ones that could use it. The situation we are in now every document is a web app, every piece of content you try to see online loads it's own application just to render. I have a video player on my machine, I shouldn't have to download and render a video player onto a one size fits all abstraction layer every time I want to play a video. I shouldn't have to download an entire rendering framework just to display a CNN article.

The right way to do the web is with APIs, client applications and protocols. If you're delivering a document, I should use a client applications to render documents, which is what browsers are supposed to be. If you're building an interactive service, give your community an API to build a client or build a client yourself. An instant messaging application should not be rendered in a document delivery program delivered over HTTP. If there's some use case that requires a standard, a standalone application that implements that standard is the way to go. Think XMPP and pidgin. How terrible would it have been if XMPP could only be used in a web app?

These design decisions are not about the user, they're deliberately designed badly because incentives are misaligned. Can't find what the user bought on the internet and sell that info to marketing companies if you just deliver content and let the user choose what software they execute.

The future is what I'm looking at, not the past. To deliver a truly useful web you have to determine it's shortcomings and rethink the architecture that led to those shortcomings. Saying "this was a bad design decision and look at where it led us" is not the same as saying "let's go back to 1995."
> Oh well :)

Not going to be so great when they engage in criminal activity that points back to you. I do a password reset on their account whenever I find someone using my email. Then you can change the email to a throwaway or delete the account. It's unsafe to let it be.
A classic... https://www.fark.com/
Probably not because Facebook is taking on a really hard problem. Connecting people at global scale.

Compare this to Google which increasingly silos information...if you live in the US, you have to work to get results from England or Australia or even Canada. Never mine Turkmenistan, the Philippines, or Mexico. Same for Wikipedia.

On Facebook however, if you know someone half way round the world, sending a friend request is the same as to your next door neighbor. And pictures of their breakfast have the same weight as someone you went to high school with.

Outside the tech bubble, ordinary intuition recognizes privacy theater for what it is...even if people don't articulate it that way. You only have to use a run of the mill ISP's DNS server...like most people do...to see how obviously outgunned, out spent, and out lawyered we are.

Coal made people's lives better too.
Not sure why this is downvoted. A popular refrain throughout the BLM years was "you can't be racist against whites" (and to a lesser extent "Asians and Jews are white-adjacent" with the heavy implication that it's okay to discriminate against them") which certainly suggests that a lot of people misunderstand "racism" (or if you prefer, they've overloaded the word with a new meaning and one which is literally racist, per the standard meaning).
> Next epic lawsuit: Apple must have a justified reason for banning a game / account that is outlined in their TOS.

Do you have a dementia? Court clearly ruled Apple is not obligated to reinstate Fortnite/Epic in Apple Store because they breached the contract and court can't force one business to work with another. It's not communist Russia.
I'm curious how the FTC could make Zuckerberg personally liable in any lawsuit.
No it's more about survivability. Tankers are a vulnerable part of the logistic train. And storing large amounts of fuel is a fire risk.
On July 11 ThereminGoat had reviewed 1031 different switches:

https://twitter.com/GoatTheremin/status/1414247177203900418
I always use IntelliJ. It's very slow on anything less than a cutting-edge high-end machine for larger projects, but the intellisense is invaluable and unmatched for the Scala language.
> Client is on Cloudflare page

... few hours later, after hitting the free 100,000 requests/day limit:

> We've hit the free 100k req/day on @infura_io, and switched to @AlchemyPlatform

But in his own screenshot it shows AlchemyPlatform also has a 100,000 requests/day free limit. Ummm? OK. $436 to deploy a smartcontract, $0 to pay for a server running static HTML and some JavaScript bundle.

> project-memento.com

Wait, what is this? You pay this guy to own a letter in his 20x20 ASCII square? It's a joke, right? Why would someone pay money for that? I will pay you twelve cucumbers to write LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME from x:0 - y:16 to x:19 - y:16.

"Crypto" hits a new peak insanity every day. Absolutely bonkers.
For reference, it requires a permission dialog and the demo is here: https://reillyeon.github.io/scraps/idle.html
This is the wrong place to criticize Thiel.
The average of the sum of money gained or lost by each individual person is negative.

Whether a larger number of people gain any amount money than those that lose any amount of money is less easy to analyse, but, given that a person can only lose 100% of their money (not taking into account massively unwise loans people might take out, for simplicity) but some people do gain much more than 100%, it is likely that average person has lost or will lose money.