skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or you could look at it like this:
People in Denmark can easily afford to eat at McD while the staff enjoys a living wage, vacation, sick leave and paternity leave.

But of course this is just propaganda.
And what about how he wishes there was a day where white kids could say the "n word" just to get it out of their system?

And no, I'm not going to respect some sense of nostalgia for the word "fag", because when people were calling me that in middle and highschool, it sure wasn't a fun experience, and I don't look back on any of that fondly.
Yeah, this.

They started off with the arrogance of a liar who thought they were immune from consequences. Now they're looking more like the kid who is actually in trouble only now realizing nobody trusts them to identify the sky color, let alone defend themselves.

Anything and anyone coming out of that shop is tainted.
> Attacks Americans?

I was delineating why the U.S. is fine with selling weapons to e.g. Saudi Arabia but would not be happy about those same weapons being sold by Russia to Iran. You seemed confused on that point. There isn't a grand philosophy. It's international relations. It's anarchy. The U.S. government promotes American and allied interests.

Separately, yes, if you're hacking the State Department, you're attacking the U.S. This is consistent with how cyberterrorism is treated by DNI since at least 2014.
> Why would you possibly want a bureaucrat in Washington, or committee of such, overseeing Amazon's pricing decisions?

Presumably for the same reason(s) that you want an unelected corporate bureaucrat in Seattle making these decisions instead.
I don't understand the reasoning behind using some "designer black" for large blocks of text. Especially when the background is also chosen to be a softer tone, contrast is reduced even further.

Imagine you're walking outside, trying to read an article with your phone, having trouble reading the text due to bright reflections. After finally managing to maximize your display's brightness, you realize that the website designer has decided to use these "nice" colors. You crouch down, cupping your hands over your phone to educate yourself about how to never ever use #000000 black.
You're not "punishing" them by passing off the higher costs of that channel to the consumer. You're creating an incentive to buy your product via lower-cost channels, so everyone wins (except Amazon).
We offer virtual cards too through AppBind and when I can’t sleep at night, sometimes I do game plan the possibility of what it means if we had to change card partners.

I expect we will see events like this fairly frequently in the next decade.

I feel for them.
Amazon isn't motivated to make the best economy, they're motivated to make the most money. They absolutely cannot be trusted and are not accountable to anything or anyone other than shareholders. By contrast, a burecrat can be held responsible for doing things contradictory to the goal of creating a fair marketplace.
Dropbox has a competing product that literally nobody uses. Supposedly HelloSign is a distant 4th place in a market with 4 participants, having a market share 100 times smaller than DocuSign. That seems to be the difference! If DocuSign was worth $50b then HelloSign is worth at most $500m.
This seems rather sensationalist and overwrought. California has had a State Guard for many years. As far as I know, no governor has misused it to attack political enemies or implement authoritarian rule.

And a State Guard is literally a military force, not paramilitary. It's a military agency of the State and members are subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
A bit of an aside, a fascinating video [0] that reviews a recent metastudy: "how many steps per day does it take to reduce all cause mortality".

Turns out the answer is between 3000 and 7000 steps a day. This is a sample of 30,000 people between the ages of 45-80.

Get yourself and your parents moving.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6nW55kH7Do
Thanks--these look great!

Edit: There are a lot of great Vim videos on thoughtbot's YouTube channel, too.
Can you explain the difference between a function being "exponential in the beginning" and "having first derivative bounded away from zero at the beginning" ?
Having never heard of privacy.com, I reflexively laughed at the headline. Just me?
The rocky road to better Linux software installation
These export controls for weapons exist in much of the western world. Once granted a license, Israel has no legal say in how the product is used by the end user.

It’s all very routine and standard, not sure why people need basic explanations of what government export regulation is when the discussion is on Israel.
I'm one of authors (Michael Pokorny), nice to see someone posting this again :)
You make a lot of bold claims with no evidence.

Good thing I guess that you don't get to dictate federal policy, which is moving in the opposite direction.
Let me clarify:

I like Polanyi, but positivism is still very much alive. I mentioned in my post various failed attempts to surpass it, in which I would include Pragmatism, continuations of Marxism, the critical school (excluding some late works by Horkheimer), and postmodernism, all of which retain positivism’s negations.

EDIT: to supply some evidence, in Book III of Science, Faith, and Society, Polanyi argues that unchecked Positivism would result in a society not fundamentally dissimilar from the Soviet society which had prompted him to write the book in the first place. I encourage you to read it and compare it against your experience, asking whether Polanyi secured victory, or whether crucial aspects of his thought went unheeded.
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U.S. weapons manufacturers receive a lot of criticism too, both domestically in the U.S. and internationally.

The comments here focus on NSO because the story is about what NSO did. This is computer tech kind of community so you’re going to see more computer weapon stories here than stories about improper use of rifles.
Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption'
AeroPress
> Are you 100% sure the thing you're making #000000 is the absolute darkest thing on your site/app you'll ever need to declare?

What kind of fear mongering is this? :D If I ever feel we should have made something less dark I will just change it. It's not like I signed a deal with the devil which locks me into that particular colour choice.

I understand if you ask a similarly worded question about some choice in a database schema, but colours on a UI? Fleeting like a butterfly.
None one else was talking about F-15s or drones in this thread. The only mention was of weapons that even civilians can buy is some countries and do not come with a support contract attached.

IMO the US selling F-15s or drones to the Saudis is very similar. The US shouldn't be supporting the Saudis murdering civilians with F-15s, and Israel should not be supporting hacking tools that enable other governments (or private organizations) to murder people they dont like.
If you read the whole "Modern usage" section rather than just the first line, you will see that mathematics is listed prominently there (and also logic, CS, physics, etc...).
The thread you linked to is definitely problematic. And I'm not referring to Andrew's tweets but to the person who decided to launch a passive aggressive smear campaign.
You misunderstand "in the view of the public".

How many people saw that today? How many saw your comment today and digged into the Twitter thread?

And nobody called you a homophobe.
From the customer's viewpoint, Amazon is a Department Store. Customers see a unified product list, reviews, checkout, shipping, returns, etc.
Check out the Weird AL song "Mission Statement". It's exactly this.

https://youtu.be/GyV_UG60dD4
If I'm selling widgets and eBay wants a $5 cut while Amazon wants a $10 cut, it is Amazon that is asking for $5 more. Not me.
no wide open ssh, it's a machine that can talk to it that can also talk out to the wider internet. (A proxy).
So you're of the belief that Physics, which is considered a natural science, does not require "math"?

Interesting.
Oh good. I've considered working for Google, I think they work on interesting things, but I've recently adopted the stance that I won't take jobs that don't allow me the freedom to work 100% remotely. I value that freedom too much, and there's many other companies out there that let me do that.
>In most text editors you might grab your mouse and click on one end and drag through to the other end of the text and press backspace. In vim you can just tell your editor to delete the paragraph. Or maybe you want to change what's inside the parentheses, so you tell your editor you want to change what's inside the parentheses and you do that. If anything, the 'normal' way of text editing has almost nothing to do with how my mind models editing text while vim allows me to tell the editor exactly what I want it to do and it performs it.

That's the problem with telling the editor to do exactly what you tell it to do. Telling a machine to do exactly what you want is programming. For text editing doing what I want with 95% percent precision is more than enough. If that fails I can press CTRL + Backspace to delete few more words. How would you delete a paragraph in vim? I reckon something like:

1) Visually see the line where the paragraph is

2) Jump to that line with 100 gg

3) Run another command to delete the paragraph. Now again some thinking needs here is it a code block between curly braces {} or is it a textual paragraph but why is that thinking required when I can actually see it in front of me and select it.

4) Get back to insert mode

In a normal text-editor:

1) Visually see the line and select it with cursor and delete it.
Most of the apps text editors etc. I use are in dark mode. So yes, my screen brightness is set to above 50%. When I switch to a white-background page I get instantly blinded.
Too bad man. You know what I mean. I hope you have a good day.
I wondered if there was a name for it. It seemed strange to me for OP to be raising a young family while his parents are so old. That means both him and his father had children in their 40s (or perhaps one was even older). It honestly does seem far better for everyone if people have children in their 20s. I wish I could have done that.
Nyxt Browser: Newsletter #2
AFAIK Tesla has no plans to move their high end cars to LFP.

It's currently for cars made in China, and would be for the lower end cars, such as a standard range 3/y. X and S have no immediate plans to switch, or they would be at a competitive disadvantage to people like Lucid and Rivian.
Yeah, if we look at the real world "car" object, we've certainly over decades established some common requirements that you could call interfaces: turn signals, headlights, a rough common size, etc. We've abstracted it + restricted the interface (through laws and regulations) to the point that you can build a highway or an intersection by following well-understood principles.

But if you want to do something more complicated... it breaks down. Imagine trying to write software to do things with a generic "Transmission" interface. All the complicated logic would still be the responsibility of the vendor so you would be out of luck trying to come up with something more granular than "check_status()" and "repair(parts: List<Object>)" as an interface. Which is so limited as to be pointless.
Only if you count general American military spending as supporting Germany more than Israel?

Otherwise, US absolutely provides far more military spending to Israel than to Germany, it's not really comparable.
Moving from SF to Austin: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Ameca Physical Presence
It then goes on to say:

Academic areas that are associated with the term liberal arts include:

Life sciences (biology, ecology, neuroscience)

Physical science (physics, astronomy, chemistry, physical geography)

Logic, mathematics, statistics, computer science

Philosophy

History

Social science (anthropology, economics, human geography, linguistics, political science, jurisprudence, psychology, and sociology)

Creative arts (fine arts, music, performing arts, literature)
> To sell $10,000 worth of clothing today, Steve explains, he must pay Amazon $1,700 in referral fees and spend another $1,500 to $2,000 on ads

So hold up... the "fees" include fulfillment and optional advertising expenses? And it's still only 34%? That's a bargain! In brick and mortar retail, you are lucky to get 50% margin on a product, and that's just in the stocking (fulfillment) costs - let alone advertising!

It's also worth noting those referral fees are not just free money for Amazon - they are buying ad space on other sites on behalf of their customers (likely at a loss). So their report that Marketplace is secretly crazy profitable is mostly bunk - it basically assumes Amazon incurs no costs to ship and advertise products.

The real problem they are dancing around here is that Amazon allowed the direct inclusion of international storefronts in the marketplace. Companies abroad can operate at much lower margins, and the traditional e-retail business model (buy from wholesalers, resell at markup to consumers) basically doesn't make sense anymore.
All of us play several different roles in life. Child, parent, employee, employer, friend, colleague, enemy, competitor, producer, consumer, activist, defendant, victim, oppressor, buyer, seller, exploiter, exploited, citizen ...

Amazon is an amazing thing when we're wearing our consumer hat. Not perfect, but really deeply amazing.

But if you put on some of the other hats, it's no longer so clearly a good thing. Wearing our consumer hat all the time ("Cheap! Fast! Great!") is not a positive thing for the overall structure of society.
> Cost may play a part, as these heavily-engineered windows do come with a higher price tag than some of their less-sophisticated counterparts.

This should be read as "a higher price tag in the US". In mainland Europe these are the standard windows, and are made by many manufacturers all over the continent, they are not a luxury item.

I'm building a house and a 1.2m (62") X 0.6m (24") window with this mechanism, the best frame available (from this manufacturer) and triple glazing was €180. I doubt you could even find a casement window at a US home improvement store for that.

https://www.koemmerling.com/en/products/window-residential-d...
There's other nice easter egg in the url for that query https://partnerdash.google.com/apps/matrix/↑↑↓↓←→←→BA
NSO has a deal with US Telecom to grow its market share throughout the world and hence the +1 statement. /s

Maybe NSA wants every important call goes through USA network (and hence a deal with NSO) - makes the job easier for three letter agencies.
AWS re:Post
Supabase is open source. I believe the hosted version is on AWS, but there's no reason you couldn't run it on your company's Azure/AWS directly? :)
I hope they're making enough money. They offer a fantastic service, and they do have paid tiers as well.
Sudoku for two players and its strategies
This site uses white (on the sides). Does that bother you? Seems fine to me.
It's why you want to get on the board of your condo.

yah more work for no pay sucks, but far better to control your own fate. In many smaller condos, they practically have to beg people to run for office..
Didn't they get pretty close with Huawei when the previous president issued an executive order in response to state spying fears that:

* banned the sale of any of their phones or networking products in the US

* banned US companies selling product to Huawei

* cut funding to wireless carriers using Huawei equipment

...and then pressured allied countries to do the same?
Lunar phases are a natural phenomenon, traditionally you observe four phases. The more detailed model knows eight phases.
Well I love hooks
What's the most dramatic speedup you've had in code from a simple change?
When I was a kid and full of enthusiasm for Legos, I bought a very small pirate set---a rowboat, a canon, a pirate and a soldier---with money I'd earned, because my friend had a larger set with the canon, and it fired a piece via a spring mechanism. To my great disappointment, Lego had changed the design and the canon wasn't functional. I wrote them a letter (pen and paper, back before the Internet), and when they replied it was legal-speak about liability concerns if the small piece ended up in someone's eye.

On top of my disappointment, they criticized me for having written "Legos" and told me that their products should be called Lego bricks or Lego toys... great way to give an elementary-aged boy a poor impression of Lego's customer relations.
Have you tried it after 2.8? The interface is a lot more intuitive now.
I've got a blue tick beagle (he's amazing: https://www.instagram.com/elvisrufflife), we recently had a friend up to our house in the woods and they had their dog run away from them on a walk the first morning they arrived. Over an hour later, i leashed up our beagle, started where their dog got lost by pointing at a few of her footprints and...away he went (on leash!). We followed a trail (that i could not see) for about an hour, i was convinced he was just tracking a deer or something unrelated. Eventually the trail lead to a road a few km away from the house where we met some other people walking their dog, i asked them if they had seen a black dog and they instantly responded with "Yes, we saw a dog 10 minutes ago".

I knew he was smart, but it's next level impressive what he can track. Our dog has had no formal training , i got him as a rescue when he was about 18 months old. He can do all the standard tricks, and apparently track things? I'm certain he knew what i wanted him to do, it was an odd form of communication but he seemed very excited with the assignment he was tasked with.

The kicker to this story is that our friends dog came back to our house all by itself about 5 hours later. We spotted it once during our hunt, but being a rescue street dog from Forida, she's pretty skittish and just ran away any time she was approach by another person.
I uh... I didn't say it was, but I guess you could legitimately read it that way.

I meant "I expected a flood of condemnations, but this is nice." or words to that effect.
Then use your mouse to highlight and do random access editing in vim? this has worked just fine for ~20 years.

Source: my experience of using vim for the last ~20 years
A state school likely has a variety of majors, including liberal arts degrees; not just STEM. You should be bumping into those students in your general education requirements (philosophy, writing/speech, arts, etc). You might find more diversity in those classes, that the entire student body has to take, although maybe not. When you have to take a non-program elective, make sure you pick interesting classes.

If you're looking for people from other countries, your state school probably has an international program (international students generally pay the school's sticker price, which helps balance the books), see if there's some way to get involved with that. There likely won't be as much diversity as at a school with a world renowned program, especially since obtaining visas and crossing borders have been challenging recently, but there should be some.
A major advantage Amazon has over traditional retailers is that it will sell anything from anywhere, in fact it seems to prefer no-name brands from random Chinese factories over more established brands. Go try to buy power tools from Home Depot. It's Ryobi, Bosch, DeWalt, Craftsman, Makita, etc. Amazon has a ton of random brands at prices 30-60% less. The same holds true in many, many categories of goods. Camping gear. Lighting. Cookware. Surely some of these goods are inferior -- but given how much manufacturing has moved to China, some are just as good as name brand items. I think most retailers are overestimating the importance of familiar brands vs bottom line price.
See this comment by another poster:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29431103
> who dictates where and how they can play overseas?

The Director and Deputy Director of the CIA.
> 34% means that Amazon is keeping 34% of the retail price of the product as profit

34% is Amazon's average cut, but it's not profit. They are getting this number including advertising and fulfillment spends.
These articles often target extreme examples, and don't address actual issues.

All I'd want to see is a system where everyone at least gets a shot, right now. If both of your parents are abusive drug addicts and they don't want you to go to college since they're afraid that's going to make you uppity, those drug addicts have an insane ability to stop you from doing anything.

It's beyond stupid. You effectively need your parents permission to go to college in this country, via the way our financial aid system works. Why not just give everyone financial aid, this would also help out struggling middle-class families which on paper don't currently qualify.

I'm not too worried that Zuckerberg are whoever got $100,000 to start his business, I'm more worried about the poor teenager who doesn't talk to his parents, and has no real option to attend college until he's 24. Of course, occasionally you teach yourself how to program and by the time you get around to finish in college, you don't qualify for financial aid anyway since you're already making six figures, but I like to think of myself as the exception, not the rule.
Move fast break things
Every product varies in price depending on the conditions of sale. Shopify's fees are lower than Amazon's. Why shouldn't there be a free market in online fulfillment?
Unfortunately, you're wrong in this scenario. The FAA demonstrates this isn't a concern. You should do your research before promulgating FUD and misinformation.
Oh, I hope more people see it, so people can have a more wholistic idea of who they're supporting when they view Andrew's videos.

Andrew has never walked back these comments, and he's never said "Actually I was wrong in saying these things". Ball's in his court.
No only the business wins here, I'm on Amazon's site because I want to order from Amazon. I don't want to deal with ur shitty shipping and re-entering all of my information constantly.