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Ask HN: Why Grammarly browser extension is not supported on HN?
Grammarly browser extension is not supported on Hackernews: "For technical reasons, we currently do not check your text on this website."

screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/JlJ23ab.png

I wonder what technical reasons could there be? HN seems like a pretty straightforward site with valid html tags like `textarea`.
Is that intended to either justify or excuse the inclusion of that language? If so, I strongly disagree.
obviously they lied about their time commitment in working hours, and it's not about the number of hours, it's about honesty and their lack of commitment as promised.
China would be much better off if they just gave up on the whole Taiwan charade. I understand how badly they want to put Taiwan under thumb like they did HK, but Taiwan is really the only issue I foresee with potential to derail China's progress.
> Europeans were quick to scorn Trump’s policies

yes

> China has been unfair in its trade practices

yes

but these doesn't have much to do with each other.

It was already known before Trump that the lack of trade/investment reciprocity with China is big fucking problem. (2016 Brookings report, and Brookings is not a conservative think tank. Quite the opposite - according to conservative pundits.)

Of course this concern was mostly completely ignored, because the money was good. (The economy was booming, who cares if the CCP is a narcissist control freak. Human rights violations are nothing new, it's just Tibet again.)

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/hvmilner/f...
Depends on where you got it. For business email it is unlikely to be personal data. Unless it is something like name.surname. And even then I think this is reasonable use case. So not really problem with GDPR.
The strength of slow-growth vs fast-growth wood depends on the anatomy of the tree in question. Ring-porous woods (oak, ash) have (as the name suggests) growth rings that have a very distinct ring of pores running the length of the wood.

That means that fast-grown oak or ash is actually stronger than slow-grown. As you look at a cross section of the wood, slow-grown wood has a much higher amount of void space than fast grown.

As I understand it, the southern longleaf pines are the opposite. Because of how their growth rings are formed, they have alternate layers of more and less dense wood. Slow-grown has a higher percentage of the dense, stronger wood. On this point I'm speaking from reading, not firsthand knowledge. The only SYP we get up here in the northeast is pressure treated. PT works totally differently because it's so damned wet and I don't use much of it either way.
> My personal view is that the SEC just wants to ban all finance employees from ever being allowed to use encrypted messaging (9mm people in the US), which would then put pressure on Facebook to decrypt its messenger (the government's actual goal).

I’m afraid your completely off base on the purpose of these regulations and the interests of the SEC. Don’t feel bad or take this personally, such misunderstanding are common outside the industry, until I worked for an investment bank I didn’t know any of this either.

The purpose of the regulations is auditability and accountability. Financial institutions must record all communications pertaining to trading so that it can be scrutinised by the SEC and provided to courts in case of a dispute.

The SEC is absolutely fine with these communications being encrypted, as long as they are logged by the employer.

The SEC has no problem whatever with people in finance using Facebook for private communication that’s nothing to do with trading, where then it’s encrypted or not, because that’s entirely beyond their remit. However persons covered by the regulations may be required to provide copies of their private communications, in order to show that they were not using those channels to discuss regulated activity. They have to sign contracts affirming that they will do this if requested to.
> We're not talking about any other hypothetical case where a person might lie for good reasons. We're talking about this case, and the lie/misrepresentation was at the heart of why it was unethical.

I don’t find this type of benign use of anonymity/misdirection to be an outright lie of the unethical kind.

> She had a panic attack she was so stressed about the legal implications of the implied threat.

What?! When/where? She said the request stressed her out… come on. If webmasters have panic attacks when encountering spam then perhaps we should outlaw spam (I’d support this).

> Your "put another way" extrapolation is just a complete straw man. Noone here other than you is talking about observing people in the park.

Please… I 100% do not understand the reason why this experiment should be considered unethical and I’m trying to explain what I see as parallels. It’s not a straw man and I’m not the only one.. read down thread.

What I’m looking for is an explanation for why you think that legal normal behavior (even behavior that causes stress) is allowable but legal normal behavior for science is not allowed.

I also believe context motive and intent matter, for the record (which I why I believe censorship imposes a net negative on society, example: comedians are “allowed” to use offensive language). I simply find the intent here to be arguably ethical depending on what your goal is for society.

For example, if the goal is to never have any individual experience 1 ounce more stress than is absolutely required throughout their life, then this behavior is unethical arguably whether it’s an experiment or not but definitely in the case of the experiment because it’s unnecessary. On the other hand, if your goal as a society is to make sure people’s data privacy rights are protected, it seems strictly ethical to conduct such an exercise to raise awareness and document how well institutions comply with the law.
(not Indian)

Maybe the way they implement it is if the domain is first visited by their user, it is put in a queue to review if it's compliant?
Nah, it would require them to put principles over the profit of a few constituents. China's geopolitical strategy is brilliant. They see that their adversaries in democratic western countries are beholden to the quarterly profits of a handful of corporations. China, unlike any of the Western nations, WILL take a stand on their principles over profit (At least they seem to, but more on that in a second.) So, they've really effectively backdoored our politicians. If US companies don't comply with their demands, they just pull their rights to do business in China. When that's worth like $100-150 million annually, the corporations care, and so the politicians care.

Seems like nobody in these corporations or in politics has a spine anymore and is willing to say, "Yeah, I understand, but No, and fuck you for even asking."

Now all that said, I think if they saw some real unified push-back Xi would drop that shit in a hot second, but for now it comes at very little cost.
All that would happen is that the Chinese government would become even more authoritarian and a whole lot of people would be worse off. These fantasies always seem to ignore the human cost.
Well "dd" stands for copy & convert ...
Because 65% of Ohio's adult population has chosen to receive vaccines and want to live normal lives because of it?
Presumably that won't matter so much in 50 years, since either Shell will be bust, or civilization will have collapsed.
Lots of SF companies that do remote without price alterations. A friend used to work at one: Safegraph.

I gotta tell you, though, that life at these SF startups isn’t the same as the low-output stuff you see at big companies. I’ve worked at a few and the expectation is that you are actually senior, i.e. you take ownership over things.

A lot of complaints you hear on HN are not meaningful in these environments: like when HN users complain about “management” telling them to do things and so on. Your job is execution on the product, not to be a func :: Specs -> Code.

Lots of engineers don’t want that sort of responsibility, so if you’re one of those people who prefer to just be someone supplied a detailed spec and then write code that matches then it’s not an environment you’re suited to.

It does pay well, though.
loved this - thanks for sharing!
> So where somebody produced both male and female gametes what sex re they? Both simultaneously?

There are no recorded cases of this actually happening, and if it did in the future I expect an accurate description of their sex would depend on exactly what unusual biological circumstance has caused them to produce both gamete types. Both sexes simultaneously could perhaps apply in this scenario, e.g. if it was an instance of genetic mosaicism.

> Are infertile people sexless?

No, why would they be? They'd still belong to the sex class corresponding to their reproductive anatomy, even if it isn't fully functional or has been removed.

> Seems like according to this framework you would need to include neuter and perhaps intersex.

With most DSDs, the subject's sex is unambiguous. For example, Klinefelter syndrome only applies to males, Turner syndrome to females, etc.

Which conditions do you think wouldn't fit in this framework?

> I simply don’t hear people making arguments along the lines you’re talking about because “gender” is generally emphasized instead of “sex”.

I've observed these arguments being put forward in discussions of transgender issues. Though more recently there seems to be a trend towards arguing that the more nebulous concept of 'gender identity' is the most important factor in determining if someone is a man or a woman (or 'non-binary'). Not that I agree with that either.
The Chinese government had demanded Lithuania’s remaining diplomats in Beijing hand in their diplomatic IDs to the foreign ministry to have their diplomatic status lowered. The move raised concern in Vilnius that the officials could lose diplomatic immunity, putting their safety at risk if they remained in China. [1]

After Lithuania allowed Taiwan to open a representative office in Vilnius under the "Taiwan" name, and subsequently getting blocked from Chinese customs from EU shipping routes [2], and now being asked to change the ID of their diplomats to remove the diplomatic status, many would not doubt that the Chinese government would arrest and detain some embassy staff in this move, as ordinary residents of the country, like they have done in the past in the case of Canadians [3]

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/587cff8f-3a7f-45c3-b4c7-8ac6f3e0a...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/china-lithuania-trade-idUSKB...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_Michael_Spavor_an...
That's a big of a strawman.I think more correctly would be to say western europeans(and even then not entire accurate, many brits and germans for example like trump,especially when he defended HK) were more critical of trump (if not outright TDS oftenly) than the rest of the continent.

Especially eastern europeans(not the media) weren't critical at all of Trump,for key reasons: he was pro-nato, he promoted 3SI, pushed back against Russia(contrarian to what MSM said).The very important distinction and the reason you might have that impression is because the media is de facto the same on the entire continent and very much US-aligned.The EE media outlets literally copy-paste western talking points, you rarely see opposite voices, obviously with the exceptions of outlets that are either local or not the biggest, and why not often owned politicians with opposing voices..

With very few exceptions, the entire EE dislikes to a degree(to say hate is strong here) China,mostly on an ideological context.The more important question is to analyze China's (forceful) involvement into EE and specially Balkans.You see how hard they try to push development projects in Serbia,Bulgaria, etc and you really get surprised.They try to fund everything they can(because they have money) in order to expand their sphere of influence.However they have less success when it comes to critical infrastructure with nato members.Also on the Taiwan/HK issue, i don't think many people are pro-china at all.
I wonder if there really is a case. I don't think you can sue anyone for your needs of fulfilling your legal obligations. After all, if these people had fulfilled their legal obligations they could have given response with minimal cost.
If you built a proto as fast as possible to test hypothesis ? yes.
IME it's always been a mistake to keep the MVP's codebase (and a pure catastrophy when said codebase is dumped on another team)
> Sounds like he has a steady client that accommodates as many hours as he likes at that rate, and has done so for a dozen years.

It sounds like he’s basically been employed by this one company for 11 years, albeit on a contract basis.

These positions exist, but they’re not all that common. Usually if a company is paying a single person a premium for many years they’ll just hire a full-time person and be done. The average freelance contract you find should not be assumed to be a decade-long opportunity.
It's not opt-in and they never claimed such a thing, it is a mandatory update to their terms of service for all users.
Europe is much smaller than you think.
Because, this is how we do things in Enterprise.

Okay, more seriously... this is why I am currently staying away from Rust. Because sometimes I don't even know if the random number generation crate I imported for my banking app came from Rust team or some random dude in zanzibar.

(Sorry, I know HN loves Rust, so do I. But I currently that the cargo/crate system is a bit too easy to use and misuse).
Can anyone concisely explain how this hack works, as if one were to introduce it to a five year old?

I'm having a hard time understanding how a USB switch can manipulate a monitor, directly or indirectly, to behave as an alternative to a KVM switch. The project README fails to provide practical examples and detail this hack in the simplest way possible. I'd love to have this solution working for a personal homelab, as prices for KVM switches are too high to financially bear.

If I get this solution working, I will contribute back to the README to address this issue.

UPDATE: Never mind! I found a relevant thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29609573
From the same article: "Although activists expressed satisfaction in seeing law enforcement funding go into social programs, some remained frustrated that Mayor Eric Garcetti and the City Council recently increased the LAPD’s budget for the fiscal year that starts on July 1."

And just one month ago, LAPD's budget was increased by 12% for the upcoming fiscal year, up $213 million.
I am not sure which securities you are referring to with “they”.

You only have a loss when you sell a security. So if you are interested in needing to be able to sell securities in the next 3 years, then invest it in a security that will not lose value in the next 3 years, such as bonds or FDIC insured accounts or cash. If you are not selling in the next 3 or 5 or 10 years, then historically, equities do not lose money that far in the future. The further out into the future, the lower the probability of loss.

So you “insure” yourself by making appropriate investments for the appropriate time horizon.
That was how it started (I think about 2-years ago) with that rule but now it has become normal, and are more lumpsum. She doesn't care much and she is more into reading something over and over again, and would usually point things out to me in extreme details. So, no longer a hard rule or a motivating factor.
I wasn't able to get a working copy of the Chrome extension https://fermatslibrary.com/librarian; not sure if it's unsupported, unavailable, or there's some other cause. I also do not find "librarian" available in the Chrome listing of extensions https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions.
In the end they could, though it would be a hard transition. The western world pre-Chinese manufacturing was better off than China pre-Chinese manufacturing. But in reality, we're in a relationship neither side wants out of, so we should probably learn to compromise, and that compromises cut both ways.
Or the HOA says you can’t block the star completely so they resort to extracting energy from specific wavelengths.
i don't pretend to read everything on here but i have yet to see any "asian bashing". i have seen people raise their concerns about the CCP. i hope that's not what you are calling "asian bashing".
> I’d guess it took 4x longer to ship than expected, which allowed doubt in the project to run rampant.

Isn't that an MVP working as it should? Implement something small, realize the whole project is _much_ more complicated than expected, and therefore realizing it's a bad plan after investing 'MVP' sized money rather than 'full project' sized money?

Formulated otherwise, you haven't wasted X in building a useless MVP, rather you invested X in gaining knowledge that saved the company 10X (or 100X) by not investing in the wrong thing.
TripleA Game
3 years receiving vested stocks. If price stayed the same, it would be worth 200k. Today it is worth 80k. So no, thanks. Stocks are not worth unless you're FAANG
I wish whole of EU would declare in unison support for Taiwan. Wonder if China would kick out every single EU nation embassy then?
Why is there any problem in restarting your logging system? There is nothing in a logging system that could be harmed by a restart. Restarting it is exactly how you should handle changes, because it deals with plenty of stuff that isn't reconfigurable on a lower level.

The only way to make a "reconfigurable" logging system is by having a stable facade that restarts everything behind it. But that extra layer does not belong on a logging system, there are plenty of other things you need to make "reconfigurable", and now you are adding an extra layer into each of them, instead of having only one on your main entry point.

Pushing that feature down into the logging system is the choice that maximizes complexity and minimizes functionality.
> Were the safety of the embassy's staff under threat?

Without question. Previously, China arrested Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig to force Canada to release Meng Wanzhou. No one forgot that.
Music's a lot more than a collection of notes ... and the timbre of one piano is about as far away from a mixture of reeds and dulcit electronics as you can get. (The Fulero is very nice.)
A Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn
In diplomacy "give them hell" is usually not the right answer. Closing all Chinese embassies will just leave a black hole with regards to intelligence.

Politics is what it is, and the diplomats role is most often not to combat, but to ease communication.

For the same reason the UN may often seem toothless and not able to execute. But it is just a reflection of world politics. It is hard sometimes.

The precursor to UN was the League of Nations. And they were much better at condemning. Germany. That didnt work out much better.
10 total days off would be below normal. Usually, vacation time is quoted as an addition on top of normal holidays like Christmas and Thanksgiving and other days.

Average professional job has about 8-9 paid holiday days, plus vacation time on top. My worst number of vacation days was 10 at my first job right out of college (they had to change after they struggled to attract employees) but every other job has been more than that.

But only accounting for 10 unpaid days per year would barely cover minimum federal holidays, so it’s not realistic. It’s equivalent to saying you’re never going to take time off unless the company is shut down for a federal holiday.
Like everyone else is saying, you want publicly traded equity - Amazon, Google, Shopify, etc that you can convert to cash, usually in the first year or three. Not the lottery tickets that startups hand out.
> See also the ZTE and DanceByte sanctions. WTF was that about?

Legitimate reasons of concern.Either estonians or lithuanians released a very detailed report (from their ministry of defence if i recall correctly) showing how chinese manufacturers installed backdoors(these are not mere malware viruses, because that would assume infection post-purchase) on their phones which actively surpress any messaging/information exchange about TW,HK, or touchy subjects that the Chinese governments wants to shut down.
This makes me a little bonkers.

The MVP is a Lean Startup tool for exploring user needs in a startup context when the biggest risk is that you won't find product-market fit. (Which is the biggest risk for most startups.) It's a way of testing the hypothesis, "I think X is the basket of functionality needed to get users to keep using our product and get enough out of us that they'll happily pay us money."

If you're using it outside of that context, it's not an MVP. It's just a sparkling prototype. If your biggest risk is something other than product-market fit, please use a different risk mitigation strategy.
This shift was really about a turning in on the self, and reflected more the post-60s despair and disillusionment of the Boomers in the failure to create real change in society. If anything it intensified in the 1980s, on the one hand with the "greed is good" attitude of the Yuppies, on the other with the explosion of the wellness industry that continues to this day. Probably the most egregious example was Jane Fonda, who went from the leftist guerilla manning an anti-aircraft gun in Hanoi to doing aerobics videos a decade later.

This reflected the new neoliberal consensus that there is no such thing as society and only individuals are responsible for their own well-being and prosperity.
Why do we think this cliché hurts all of us?
I think so yes. the "summary for policymakers" is as far as I've gotten but I feel it gives a good snapshot of the current mainstream view.
Can confirm. Little floating islands of pain. Very ouch.
> This comment is the equivalent to saying that people with mental health issues don't matter and don't count because they are abnormalities.

No it's not. They're just pointing out that these are unusual chromosomal configurations, not new sexes.
The Centre Pompidou in Paris, opened in 1977, is what made a then-unknown Renzo Piano (co-designer, together with Rogers) an Archistar (in my humble view: rightfully so).
> He despised China so much that he made sure to strengthen his personal businesses with them while simultaneously weaken the US trade partnership with their rivals.

Would you mind expanding on this? I could only find articles describing a bank account opened in China, that indicate only a little less than $500k business per year. What do you know?
> If it takes them 6 years, they're not getting enough actionable data quickly enough.

The phrase "over 6 years" means that the sample set was six years long (since AP was first deployed), not that the data is six years old! This doesn't seem like a serious argument.

My point, to repeat, was that regulators absolutely look at this data, to the extent that a cluster just 13 accidents was enough to trigger an investigation. The data is absolutely available! And to the extent that it's not, let's talk about specific reforms you'd like to see to improve the quality.

But none of that is an argument about whether or not Tesla FSD beta is currently operating safely. Again, it's quite clear that it is.
In the (good ol') times of DOS, Qedit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_SemWare_Editor#Qedit
was an almost ubiquitous text editor, the actual program was named q.exe, invoked by simply "q".
A bit of both. The market is white hot right now, so there's a better than usual chance of getting something. Of course there's still a lot of applicants so it's useful to have the right degree.

The thing to do is talk to headhunter firms. I've always maintained a number of relationships with the leading firms in my area (quant trading) and they'll call now and again. But if you don't know them, get in touch and they'll usually tell you if you're useful to them.
The cynicism of China foreign policy never ceases to amaze