skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Marx was a social scientist, much of his structural analysis of capitalism still plays out accurately today.

None of his structuralist analysis has played out accurately. Indeed it was discredited long before the Soviet Union collapsed. Marx's ideas of historicism have been largely abandoned decades ago.

You no longer hear people talk of "historical necessity" of socialism, nor do people believe that man goes through stages of capitalism to socialism to communism. And with the collapse of the Iron curtain and China abandoning communism, all that is left of modern marxist-lennist thought is the actual Lenninist part -- e.g. party dictatorship, which has proven resilient in some cases as a form of authoritarian control. Even the modern has left has abandoned class conflict as the source of ressentiment and is now pushing racial conflict - in fact one can argue that the modern left is firmly rooted in the professional classes, viewing the working class with great suspicion as a source of reactionary beliefs. That was always the problem with Marx, whose focus was on the politics of the city - real poverty lies in the rural countryside, which tended to be religious and conservative, wanting to honor God and King. This bothered Marx to no end, accusing the poor of having a false consciousness and not knowing what was in their best interests, whereas the urban leftists knew what was good for them. It was the failure, for example, of the republicans in Spain to win over the farmers that was the death knell of the left in the Spanish Civil war. And it was the farmers that were slaughtered first whenever lefist revolutions succeeded, from the Vendee in 18th C France to Ukraine in the 1920s to China in the 1950s. Marxism itself was always a bit phoney with the class conflict -- it is, at the end, a cultural conflict, and the economic stuff was tossed overboard like a used glove the moment a better one was found.

It's true that the world is discovering how fragile democracies are, especially racially diverse democracies[1], but that insight is available even in Plato, and really has nothing to do with Marx. That is, while Marx's notions of some economic end-state turned out to be false, the larger framework of the cycles of history as outlined by the Greeks still hold some sway.

But that does not mean that all of Marx is worthless. He did a good job describing the economic history of the English industrial revolution and was a keen observer of the urban reality of his day. It's just that his recipes didn't work and his predictions didn't pan out.

[1] My favorite trilemma is that you can have liberty, diversity, or centralization. Pick two.
The kindle hardware is excellent, but the kindle software is one of the worst pieces of garbage ever. Just filled from top to bottom with utterly deranged behaviors.
Just a correction, Zinc only lowers copper, copper does not lower zinc. Zinc creates metallothioneins that stops copper from being absorbed into circulation from the intestine.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/209a432f-1eb4-4c01...
What setup do you use for new Android apps? I dabbled in building an Android app months ago and sort of gave up because I couldn't decide on the best "framework".
"innovation"
I don't doubt that there are some legitimate use cases for SUVs. The problem is all the people living in cities have virtually zero need for an SUV. Since it is absolutely unfeasible to require people to provide proof that they need an SUV before purchase the only way seems to outlaw them.

The massive push for EVs while simultaneously allowing car manufacturers to build larger and larger ICE SUVs seems stupid and counterproductive.
Axie may have done it wrong, but the concept of in game currency has been shown to be wildly lucrative in the past. Let's take Valve as an example. You get a CS:GO knife you're sometimes able to sell that for a large chunk of money. Valve takes a gigantic cut of any of those transactions, and then the money can only be used to buy further products from them. Is that more ethical than what Axie is doing? Wouldn't it be neat if instead of "valve fun bucks" it were real world money that players could pay their rent with?

If someone does this correctly it could end up being a very good thing IMO.
I have been blown away by how reliable and convenient my Growler is (a Stanley Classic Easy-Pour Growler 64oz). I love carbonated water and work in an underground mine, I fill that thing full every day I work and bring it down. I never lose pressure (aside obviously from when it's opened), it stays cold seemingly indefinitely, the safety latch ensures the swinging lid hits nothing, and the thing is so solidly built it hasn't sustained a single nick despite falling on rock, etc. I'm a happy customer.
Moderna is starting development on an omicron-specific vaccine, as well as testing their other vaccine variants.

I wonder if maybe the manufacturing data required for approval could be expedited in these sort of minor vaccine version updates?

https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-d...
I assume you're talking about Rudy Giuliani vs. the Sicilian Mafia. But -- what then was "Y"?

Maybe some Ukrainians and/or Russians? Not exactly a reliable source, but:

https://www.thecut.com/2019/10/giuliani-ukrainian-associates...

Also this:

http://trumpfile.org/giuliani-donor-and-trump-associate-oute...

It's starting to look like Democrats vs. Republicans in New York might be as much about Italian vs. Russian mobs? Who knows...
IMO this is what makes it dangerous. Content like this gains currency by providing simplistic but "useful" models for common situations. But it packages them up with a worldview or ontology that isn't so great.
> transactions between entities of different currency types.

Because crypto->USD doesn't have any conversion fee. Right.

>Plus the added benefit of not converting your money into an unstable currency (ie, Turkish Lira)

You mean, 'unstable' like Bitcoin, right?
and by playing recklessly with interest rates, they inflate assets like stocks and real estate while destroy savings. While making these decisions they decide winners and losers and then privately trade stocks to get rich using insider information.
Deconstructing the Garbage-First Collector [pdf]
It’s a good article. At Namely we use Dapper which is a “micro-ORM” developed by the folks at StackOverflow for .NET. I really like it because it gives us the mapping part without the sql code generation part which I think is the thing that ultimately gets you in trouble, and it works really well with Postgres and SQL Server.
Check out https://craftinginterpreters.com/. I created a interpreter with the help of this book and it's been a great resource.
The stories of the Euro as the main currency in Montenegro and Kosovo (which both don't belong to the Eurozone) are very interesting:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenegro_and_the_euro

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_and_the_euro
Vaccines aside, many of us never saw others dying lung-less "after a flu". Vaccines included, some of us were never told that "a flu" could frequently provide long term impairment (this with reference to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29339783 )
Inside the bathroom itself, the doors on individual stalls usually open inwards. One pragmatic advantage of this approach is that if the door opens while you are seated, you can push it closed without getting up. Or requiring help from someone else outside. This also drives the use of push-in-pull-out handles.
In Thailand most in person transactions are done by bank transfer via QR code:

https://www.bangkokbank.com/en/Personal/Digital-Banking/Prom...

The local sellers pay little to no fee, and the transfer is instant. All of the popular banks here support this form of payment.

It's also very common for people here to do bank to bank transfers, and they are all instant.

The US is behind in many ways.
This year I...

- brined in a mix of salt, sugar and herbs for around 36 hours

- injected a butter mix under the skin (this one was my partner's idea so I'm not sure how if affected the outcome, but I suppose it couldn't hurt)

- fried the turkey in peanut oil

It came out really, really well. Process improvement for next year is to remember it took a bit longer than expected for the oil to heat up so it threw off timing with all the side dishes, so get the oil heated before you need it. I'd also be curious if buying an organic bird changes the taste.

The turkey was always dry during my Thanksgivings growing up, so when I hosted my own Thanksgiving dinner, I was determined to get it right. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.
ok thank you this. To all the people that has doubted their own pseudo science skepticism every time this book comes up here at HN- you may be relieved as it doesnt work if you have a structural cause for the pain.
Actually letting the virus mutate without adequate immune response is what produces those variants, as you remove local minima from the evolutionary chain.

The fact that most VOCs popped in areas with little to no vaccination coverage quite aligns with that.

For omicron the main hypothesis is it actually evolved in a severely immunocompromised HIV patient.

Edit:

This isn't exactly new[0] and it's also been witnessed for SARS-CoV-2[1]:

> These compilations of case reports indicate the need to identify whether certain forms of immunosuppression are associated with an increased risk of such multimutational escape patterns — for instance, specific cancers or specific therapies, such as the development of B-cell aplasia related to CAR T-cell or anti-CD20 therapy, prolonged use of glucocorticoids, long-term chemotherapy, or radiotherapy. Similarly, organ transplant recipients and those with untreated or poorly controlled human immunodeficiency virus infection may also have prolonged SARS-CoV-2 infection and could constitute a reservoir of divergent escape variants that can spread in the general community. Prolonged viral replication in the context of an inadequate immune response facilitates the emergence of immune-pressure escape mutations.[0]

I'd appreciate an actual counter argument, other than a poorly understood Marek disease analogy.

[0]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4249157/

[1]https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb2104756
Not quite sure what I just read. Can someone shed some light on this?
I like the affordability too, but it also does not take into account edge cases.

Our office door has this metal plate, it pushes outside (I believe it is that way for fire safety reasons). If there is strong wind on the outside, the door has the habit of whipping around after pushing it a bit, leading to shattered glass once every year or so.

Closing the door in strong wind also means grabbing it on the edge and pulling it, the wind kind of reverses on the last couple inches, I have no idea how that did not lead to broken fingers yet (you do it once, then you never try to close it again).

I guess it's a failing to consider all use cases of the door, and the metal plate thing should only be used indoors.
The tech variant of blaming it on the dog.

“After all, technologies don’t scam people, people scam people.”
Haha, I actually liked it. And it was the first time since long that I clicked a popup (or should I say popright).
My numbers are from measuring round trip latency through headphones and phone's built in mic and then basically guessing which part is input and which part output latency (they're both small). 200ms is certainly in line with most Bluetooth headphones. I'm not sure what the guy is doing differently from the app I'm working on, but for us AirPods are clearly the lowest latency choice.

EDIT: Ignore what I wrote below and see the update. I'm getting similar latency numbers.

Generally, the guy is getting so massive latencies that I suspect he's doing something wrong. The app I'm working on has MIDI to wired audio latency around 10ms when audio buffer size is dropped to 128 samples, so 70ms sounds really excessive. Touchscreen is both slow and the timing is all over the place (try playing drums in GarageBand to see) so it might explain some of it.
The authors of the website really undermine their own point by including a lot of "hysterical" comments that are still reasonable warnings or complaints, were completely reasonable at the time (things change!) or are just sensible questions.

The sections on computers includes an article matter-of-factly informing about a virus being found on 3000 computers. Calling the virus a time bomb is not hysteria - it was literally designed to be one. And surely computer viruses are an even bigger problem today?

The clipping titled "Perils of the lazy age", which predicts that people sitting down in front of the television instead of chopping firewood will make people "unable to stand on their own feet" sure is obnoxiously written, but the sentiment is not wrong: Obesity and cardiovascular disease is basically an epidemic today.

If these are some of the best examples of past hysteria, I guess we should listen more to those we consider hysterical today?
Your totalitarian way of thinking is frightening.
"The problem is all the people living in cities have virtually zero need for an SUV." - who are you that you know so much about so many that you don't know? The problem is that you're a self centered totalitarian.
You can get new feet for not much on ebay https://www.ebay.com/itm/174018177659?_trkparms=ispr%3D1&has...
I cannot stress this enough:

-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased

Looks _horrible_ on non-retina (read: most external) monitors with macOS.
Browsers have sane defaults for every OS! Please retain them rather than making me install TamperMonkey just to read your blog.
It is never, ever going away.

In fact, the 4 other endemic coronaviruses in the human population with zoonotic origin can be traced via mutational drift to their leap to humans; the most recent I believe came from cattle in the 1800s.

These other coronaviruses are mostly a problem only for immunocompromised individuals such as transplant recipients.

The real issue IMO is whether SARS-CoV-2 was artificially engineered (ok, even if it weren’t it is more like SARS and MERS) and whether it will remain potently virulent even for healthy individuals who are exposed as children (as we all were to the endemic coronaviruses).
that's every distro and *nix derivation
I'm on Firefox Android and didn't see that. Where do they pop out?
Blaming the scam for not having been run on the latest generation of AMD CPU.
The outside money is the value people are willing to pay for in game stuff. If it's a good enough / popular enough game that ends up being billions of dollars. Ask Riot games how well you can do with just cosmetic items that do absolutely nothing but make your character model slightly different. Their net worth is hovering around 25 billion these days, mostly off of things you assume can provide no cash flow.
> If there can be orderItems without invoice (why would that happen?)

Because people mess up... In this case they'd then fix the missing invoice references post-consolidation.

Stuff like this usually happens either due to stress, lack of experience or training (summer temps are a menace) or just negligence.

In addition to our consolidation procedure, I've naturally had to write a procedure to undo the consolidation.

> then I'd just add another field "plainOrderItems: List[OrderItem]" next to the bundles.

That could work, would be more tedious when you want to operate over all items (we do this fairly often), but not terribly so.
Vesting schedule is the same.

Did you think you have to wait 4y to get stock?
3 Problems for Community Builders and Managers
My Doc Martens. The design of a shoe is pretty well worked out, but the devil is in the details, and my Docs have been carrying my fat ass through deserts and snow and jungles and cobblestones and pavement for twenty years, and I got em used. That's not just down to materials, it's down to design.

The Gerber Chameleon (and its Remix followup) pocket knife design. (https://www.gerber-tools.com/Gerber-Remix-22-01969.php) Absolutely brilliant - the pivot itself is a ring, so when you use the knife you have zero chance of slipping and cutting yourself, and instead of a side to side motion for cutting, you just use your hand naturally, the way you would a handsaw.

And the iPad stand and mount I use, whose brand escapes me. It folds compact to fit in a bag and the legs and main clamp separate for easy carrying, but the feet pivot outward or can be used, when pivoted inward together, as a base that can be slid into a holder (that came with it) or anything that can hold it up. I often slip the feet behind the vertical pipes in our kitchen to watch videos while I'm doing dishes, and I've built a lap desk that uses pipe strapping to allow me to slide the stand feet underneath the desktop, so the iPad itself doesn't take up any space at all on the desktop - it's just hovering over it like an IKEA worklight. Fantastically simple and useful design.
Sugar maple, red maple, black maple.

Acer genus, Section Rubra provides most of their sugar export in Northern Myanmar despite having their own Maple genus.
Spike (My Little Pony) Sings Crab Rave
"Trump further diminished the U.S. in the eyes of the world by expanding his travel ban. This new “African Ban,” is designed to make it harder for black and brown people to immigrate to the United States. It’s a disgrace, and we cannot let him succeed." - Biden
You're narrowing down his ideas to only those relating to socialism, which I didn't even mention. I said much of his analysis of capitalism still holds. You know, the content of Kapital, where he analyses the capitalist mode of production, how it arose from feudalism, the form it takes in terms of a working and capitalist class and how their interactions drive the economy. The vast majority of that is still predictive today.
Therapy is 10x as profitable as drugs.
And then we can upload that video to YouTube
Covid is known to be transferrable to animals and back.
There's no way to kill it without measures that make the lockdowns look pretty or futuristic tech we don't have (no 'vaccinate everything' won't work, unless someone feels vaccinating every cave bat in safe third-world countries like Afghanistan in a reasonable timeframe is actually possible).
<< Top tip: Don't stand next to a conspiracy theorist, people will think you're a conspiracy theorist. Calm down the crazy people who agree with you so they don't steal all the attention and make you look crazy too.

I used to think this way and I will admit that guilt by association is a very strong driver for one simple reason. It works. But it is a double edged sword. Note how well it was used to lower public support for OWS and now BLM simply by associating both groups with less than savory types the public is not willing to support.

As far the 99% claim, I don't have data to back it up so it is hard for me to opine. I only hear of CRT as part of my news feeds. I mean, it has its own wiki ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory ) and I can kinda see why it is being perceived as a threat to status quo based on that entry, but I personally see it as inconsequential in the grand scheme of things.

As a side note, I want to point to something amusing, which will hopefully lighten the mood somewhat. Not that long, anyone suggesting NSA has the reach disclosed by Snowden was dismissed as a conspiracy nut.
The old IP address this resolved to was 76.76.21.21, so you can load it by editing /etc/hosts (also nulling the IPv6 Google addresses):

76.76.21.21 hostilecolors.com
:: hostilecolors.com
The thing about Omicron is that it has a very large number of really bad mutations:

> The variant has a large number of mutations, of which some are concerning.[8] 32 mutations affect the spike protein, the main antigenic target of antibodies generated by infections and of many vaccines widely administered. Many of those mutations had not been observed in other strains.[9][10]

> The variant is characterised by 30 amino acid changes, three small deletions and one small insertion in the spike protein compared with the original virus, of which 15 are located in the receptor binding domain (residues 319-541). It also carries a number of changes and deletions in other genomic regions. Of note, the variant has three mutations at the furin cleavage site.[11] The furin cleavage site increases SARS-CoV-2 infectivity.[12]

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Omicron_variant

The "receptor binding domain" is the portion of the spike protein that actually binds to the ACE2 receptor the virus uses to get into our cells.

In contrast, Delta has 3 mutations in the RBD (https://asm.org/Articles/2021/July/How-Dangerous-is-the-Delt...) and it has 10 mutations affecting the spike protein (https://gvn.org/covid-19/delta-b-1-617-2/)
I believe C++ is getting this (in C++23? I think it was approved…) in the form of if you have `void f(auto&& x)` (taking a universal reference) and call `f(x)` it’s by reference but `f(auto(x))` the `auto(x)` will make a copy so `f` will be passed an rvalue reference.
But wait; why not give it, another chance.
What is this. I was hoping to understand how this computer was deeply involved in the ponzi scheme but I basically learned that he "wrote reports at scale" and no more details.

The whole article reads like a weird, sideways attempt at saying "computers are bad, maybe we should regulate their use."
Well, the beauty of aeropress is that you don't have to rinse the inside of the cilinder every time. It cleans itself. Most of the time I just clean the rubber. Also, storing them separated takes more space in the cupboard.
Kubernetes does:

- secret management
- storage management
- network policies
- autoscaling
- extensibility (cert-manager, ingress controllers, ...)

Each of those things are needed even for small orgs, except maybe autoscaling.

Docker Compose does:

- run containers

You still need to put your secrets somewhere safe, you still need to allocate storage, you still need to build your firewall, your reverse proxy, your certificate renewal workflow, etc...

The fact that k8s is so widespread is not because "so cool, much hype, wow", it's because it solves real problems and help you scale without having to rewrite everything every 3 months.

I can have a managed Kubernetes on DigitalOcean with all of my infrastructure set up in less than 30 minutes. But yeah, I'm a hype victim...

Kubernetes IS NOT only running containers. And you NEED more than "docker run" to serve an application. Claiming the opposite is a proof of ignorance and incompetence.
If you read the article linked in the comment, they say Vonnegut was, probably, kidding about the semicolons.
> Moderna is starting development on an omicron-specific vaccine

Also the Novavax producers.

RSS feeds hours ago were full of "ready in 100 days" expressions; as I am making posts-vetting checks on search engines I am seeing one «would have the shot ready for testing and manufacturing in the next few weeks» (https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/novavax-tes...).
Ten Million a Year: David Wallace-Wells on Polluted Air
I would add binoculars in general are pretty amazing - putting the distance between optical elements of a refracting telescope into a small ergonomic package.
All the concerning mutations we keep hearing about arose in overwhelmingly unvaccinated populations*. Alpha in Britain before it widely vaxed. Beta in South Africa. Gamma in South America. Delta in India. And now this in Africa again. If we want to keep the occurrence down, we need to vax as much of the world as we can.

* Hiding this fact is a serious problem of the 'never name a mutation by a place' new WHO policy.