skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sane alternative is being part of movement of millions of people that pushes for better wages, better working conditions, etc. But no, instead everybody's forced into dealing with their own individual situation(s) as if they are not actually all connected to the greater economic organization picture.
Also re 'hopefully the distros will keep up' -- some do some don't. I hope the C-to-Go issue isn't too much of a speedbump but we should know a couple distros in.

The other day I ran across https://repology.org/project/miller/versions -- something autogenerated on the web; I don't maintain it. Anyway you can see most distros are on 5.10 but there are some farther behind ... I will probably start with Conda and Brew since these are more personal/interactive, then maybe Fedora and Ubuntu -- ?
Not that many. Power from Poland or Germany is not that common in Sweden, Sweden exports most of the time. It can happen during periods of low winds, but it's not that frequent.
>"It's changing the subject."

If you do in fact steal the apples then no. It is calling you a hypocrite and having little moral standing to talk about the subject because you lack the integrity.

If you were genuinely concerned about the fact of stealing the apples you should be working toward the easiest way of reducing said theft. Namely stop doing it yourself and then start worry about Bob.
As someone who runs an ecommerce brand, my experience is you should be working on the business, not in the business. All my customer service is ran by a hybrid internal and outsourced team.

You can use zendesk or a free zendesk alternative, or even shared email box or forwarded emails to a rep, depending on how simple the needs & tracking is.

There are call centers that can handle tickets and phone systems that run for about $10 an hour per seat.

You could also find a customer service rep on Upwork. I've found great hires there. I'd mention that you need someone that can speak on the phone which will filter out anyone who doesn't have great English communication skills.

Another place to look for talent is VAs for real estate on Facebook groups. Not sure why, but the niche seems to have great talent at CS.
If you’re developing a game you’re probably not dealing with enterprise networks. Enterprise networks have their own rules, only loosely related to the specs.
There are widespread allegation of UK conservative party using bots: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-50218615

One of the startup growth-hackers gave us a decent talk on some basic social media manipulation

It is so easy to create entirely false narratives and / or manipulate online discussion, that at this point I would be surprised if any major group of people with access to half decent budget is not doing it.

From twitter to amazon reviews to comment sections on BBC and other websites, who knows how many are fake, the well has been poisoned.

Edit - expanded the post.
In Mandarin, it's pronounced like the latter. You can definitely hear a 'w' sound.
Yeah, there is actually plenty of reason to criticize credit scores (do we really think it's good that if you struggle to pay off some debt you should also start getting shut out of job opportunities or housing?), but that's not a real issue with them.
Thank you for the suggestion. I had not heard about this book and based on the amazon description this looks interesting.

I've worked with a few OSS projects in the past that were much more open and transparent. My expectations were framed by the contribution documentation Lichess provided on their site and it did differ significantly from reality.

I'll definitely be picking a copy up in the near future for reading, currently I have to first finish up with the holiday gift exchange books from colleagues.

I'm not a management person but I'm currently making my way through HBR 10 Essential reads (book) which was given; I'd never have bought it myself but I've found some useful insight reading through it (unexpected).
There are way less Chinese tourists in Europe/US now. I think they might just be oversea Chinese students in US and western world, looking to travel.
You probably shouldn't be given credit if you can't afford to repay it or it seems like you'd struggle to repay it.
It is true that this clause is there in your contract, sure. But the clause itself is a lie - it’s void, because it contradicts the law, yet it is there, to make an impression that it’s not void.
In which case, the person should refinance immediately and lower that rate significantly.
It's democracy. We were much closer to Chernobyl, than all the Americans promoting yesterday's easy future here. Some parts in Germany are suffering the fallout still, when mushrooms and wild game make the Geiger counters beep in the news.

Germany is extremely population dense and nobody wants to live next to radioactive waste. Especially in rich Bavaria were all the AKWs have been build (and where they had suitable rock to bury it).

No one here wants nuclear power. Not even the energy producers. There is no lobby, no support, no future for Atomkraftwerke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer
> If you don't get the car fixed, then you will not be able to commute to work.

Don't most metro areas have public transit? Perhaps buses are not the most comfortable or convenient, but they do exist, and for good reason.
I did the same thing a long time ago. I was actually going to prank a friend who we knew used the site, but I learnt an important lesson. I started to feel really sorry for men. All these lonely guys who can't help their desire for women. I did use a picture of a girl who would never in a million years need to use online dating, though. I wonder if you did too.
- why then, if we go by jhgb's source, is France missing 52 min of electricity per year while Germany is missing 12 min? Are they stabelizing the german grid at their own disadvantage?

- are nuclear power plants cheap? Isn't Hinkley Point C guranteed 10 ct/kwh + inflation. Wasn't it the new Finnish nuclear plant that cost 11 billion Euros? What do gas power plants cost, 20 billion?

> 'which have largely prevented germany from moving away from using gas to for stoves ...'

I would like a source for that. According to [1], 91% of german house holds are using electric kitchen stoves and 7% gas. For heating, they have a larger market share but gas kitchen stoves are not really widespread.

[1] https://www.hea.de/fachwissen/kochfelder/marktdaten
Hope your social credit score doesn't get dinged for this.
That puts things in a very different light, then. Thanks!
> Imagine living somewhere like China and not liking it

Imagine living somewhere in the West, and not liking Facebook.

> A giant human spirit grinder

Yes, you could call it that.
Update: I played around with font settings, and if I disable antialiasing then I think am able to see individual pixels around the curves of letters. I say "think" because I can definitely pick out the sharp edges, but I'm not sure if I can identify the specific pixel. It becomes especially apparent (no longer a single pixel, I think) if you change the display scaling to 2x or 3x.

I'm not a font expert, and I stopped myself from going down a rabbit hole, here. So I'm not really sure if this is a fault of the monitor, the renderer, the font itself, or some other piece I'm not aware of. Are there fonts which are designed for display on ~150 PPI screens, which don't need antialiasing so much? I know MacOS doesn't do subpixel rendering, but I assume it does some form of antialiasing? Or does it use a higher DPI font as I was speculating about?

Overall, the experiment has convinced me that there is some benefit to higher PPI. I maintain that my ideal monitor would be something like a 16:9, 40 inch¹, 8k monitor. I'd run things at 2x scaling to avoid fractional scaling headaches. The increased screen size would leave the size of everything after scaling slightly smaller than on a standard 24 inch, 1080p sceen. And the 200+ PPI would keep everything looking crisp at that size (I find the extra pixels from 4k makes text legible at slightly smaller sizes).

[1]: I'm not sure that's the exact right size, I need to re-do my calculations for how large I want stuff to be at 2x scaling.
There is a fundamental. difference to why they evangelise this as correcting a root problem of fiat money. Fiat money causes price distortion and monetisation of non-monetary assets. It also acts as a constant handbrake of people heavily reliant on holding the medium of exchange - most notably poorer people, salary earners. Fixing this removes a very large systemic impediment to more universally fair system (not equal distribution) to achieve prosperity and social mobility. It isn't a panacea, but a significant improvement on the status quo.
Well... tis true that there is a mine clearing group to deal with the occasional mine that drifts in from the old WW2 mine fields in the North Atlantic. And they did send one of them over to participate in the Gulf War...

https://www.icelandreview.com/news/iceland-featured-the-dail...

...but there are still no battalions in Iceland. There isn't even a permanent US air base any more, they cleared out in the 2000´s.
The USA has been a suburban nation for quite a while now, and previous generations paid to lay down the roads and pipes. The interesting question is why poorer people with relatively crude technology were able to create this infrastructure, but we can no longer afford to maintain it. Infrastructure budgets have increased (in per-capita and inflation-adjusted terms), but our maintenance capacity has decreased; the question is why?
A non-trivial percentage of the Fortune 500 have worked with "grassroots" PR consultants. See Edward Walker's 2014 book, https://twitter.com/evoleadership/status/761959456624082944?...
I would be fascinated to read the original copy. there's a lot of information missing in this story.
Yeah I had just recently had a contract that ended sooner than expected and was unemployed when I started dating the woman I would later marry. A couple of months after we started dating I had a new job and was making far more than anyone she had ever dated in her past (which was still just a modest salary for this crowd).

I can understand someone being hesitant but it's not always a red flag.
I saw a hiring sign at giant eagle the other day that actually said "its better than benifits, it's belonging!" in reference to the workforce being a family. I just can't imagine the people who would unironicaaly push this as a ad for a near min wage job with no benifits, as if your giant eagle family will pitch in to pay your medical bills in lieu of insurance. This kind of ignoring reality for happy fantasies marketing is just getting worse and worse and now it's just becoming a outright joke.
>Yes, the Linux API seems more flexible, but when you think about it, it really isn't, because all the models that actually make any sense can be implemented using simpler interface, which is what jails provide.

Not really, the example of Docker would probably be the most straightforward there. I don't think it's possible to fully port Docker to jails or at least I've never seen a successful port, some of the network topology features seem to just not be possible or straightforward. But I could be wrong, I have not looked into the technical details of this in years, somebody told me it might have been working a while ago but I never heard anything else about it since.

Needing to be root is a major deficiency though and I can't take jails seriously with that, one of the main focuses on Linux containers in the past several years has been to make unprivileged namespaces a good option.
EU/NATO 2018 analysis, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29610932 (takes a few seconds to load the PDF file)
If you are slightly risk-tolerant you can use services like nexo or blockfi to earn interest on fiat. You don't take crypto price risk and they generally only lend out money on an over-collateralized basis, so the default risk is small.
There's no way TSMC equipment would survive an invasion in any meaningful way. For obvious reasons.
Transmission and storage are not just political and financial problems, except in the sense that you can technically frame any problem as being them.
Minor nitpick: Channels are transport-agnostic, you could always do them over longpoll, it's not hard to impl a raw tcp socket channel driver, and hell you could probably figure out how to do it in streaming http 1.1. I might to try to do channels over webrtc.
I agree that one single metric like APR is not sufficient to compare all possible cases of lending without making some options to look worse than they really are.

But if you were a safe enough borrower to even get a $100k loan, then you're sfe to loan $100 to for a tiny return also. Payday loans probably tend to be for people who can't get better loans of any size.
Is it because she used "that shot" as her profile pic?
Spending 6 month a year in Kyiv (at least before pandemics), and used Russian as my main language. Did not meet any language enforcement so far, except in hysterical RT propaganda.
You are possibly the dumbest person on HN.
High APR is quite reasonable for very short term loans. E.g. 36% APR must be around 3% a month, which does not sound unreasonable for a one month loan. Here in the UK credit cards are very commonly at circa 20% APR.

What's important is to mandate detailed and clear information so that consumers understand what the rate exactly means and what the consequences or not repaying quickly are before they sign up. Then it's a personal choice and responsibility.
I was teaching a high school computer course when I discovered Codecademy in 2012. We spent three weeks using their introduction to JavaScript programming. Students learned basic programming working at their own pace. Everyone was engaged, and most students enjoyed this part of the course.

I worked all over the room, answering questions and seeing how students were doing. The site kept track of progress with game-like points and badges. The last week of the semester, students created two interactive web pages using what they'd learned. These two projects were similar to programming labs I had done in past years, but the instructions were much shorter because Codecademy prepared them much better; and the results were better because students were more competent and felt more confident from their Codecademy work.

In subsequent years I continued to use Codecademy for JavaScript and added HTML instruction around 2014 based on their site too. Overall I think hundreds of students benefited. Many thanks.
What is it that Americans do in that case?
Meeting days in an office. Work days at home.

We've had a few work meetups from a cafe lately. Funny enough, it was stuff like "I'll join up to lunch then I have to go home and get work done."

But I hate meetings on Zoom/Meet. It feels like I'm talking to a recording of a person. I can tolerate it for 15 min stand ups, but if we have a few hours of it, I'd rather do it in person. Too bad we've gone on lockdown for so long that most of the team is always in another country.
If you're in a position where you find yourself needing payday loans, I think that shifting around the pay schedule is not going to help; you just have too little buffer for your expenses.
More interesting constructions by the same inventor/puzzle designer: https://youtube.com/user/OskarPuzzle
They were so desperate to stop Bernie and to prevent Trump again that they have backed themselves into a terrible corner with Biden because all their other plans were foiled by Bernie/Tulsi/Yang/etc. In the next cycle they will likely push Harris which is an utter disaster. Some crazy rumors point to Hillary trying yet again although I don't believe they could be that stupid. Either way if they put up anyone other than an amazing charismatic Obama like character then Trump will win. While you think Trump was better, he really botched the Huawei debacle and honestly there is nobody at the wheel because he cannot make concrete decisions. The lack of leadership at all levels in the US is embarrassing and just a massive national shame. Our only hope is that someone amazing comes out of shadows like Obama did so we get some semblance of leadership(even though Obama wasn't really progressive). Its gonna have to be a national celebrity who can sort of bring enough of the both sides together. Jocko Wilink, The Rock, some other celebrities that are charismatic maybe that wrestler from Minnesota(they won't allow him to be the nominee but one can dream). Maybe Michelle...She has all the checkmarks and can probably beat Trump but has indicated she does not want to go down that route.
This logic works when people can live decent lives without loans. It breaks down when that ceases to be the case.
City life quickly becomes mundane and tiresome. People need suburbs for a place to go to get away from the craziness in the city.
If you want to make "the obese" "pay for their externalities", I do hope you have a fantastic plan in place to break the backs of the Nabiscos of the world who literally-not-figuratively design for habituation and drum their marketing into every place they can.

The situation was not caused by overstressed people going "you know, I really want to be fat".
You could maybe paralyze the matchmaking process by making buckets in which players of all the elos are ranked. Nobody in the top 100 will be paired with someone who is in the last 2000 anyways. So why not split it up on every 1000th player and treat them separately.

The leaderboard then only needs to modified (read can be done without race conditions) by the top 100 or whatever.
If the services are truly essential and basic and the government is stepping in, I think it's worth asking if we need to be bothering with repayment at all.
The SEC offers that.

https://www.sec.gov/whistleblower

> The Commission is authorized by Congress to provide monetary awards to eligible individuals who come forward with high-quality original information that leads to a Commission enforcement action in which over $1,000,000 in sanctions is ordered. The range for awards is between 10% and 30% of the money collected.

Someone made $114M this way.

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-266

If you like the idea, there's a bill proposed to give the same ability to the CFBP.

https://www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/majority/cortez-mast...
> But good luck with that issue, dude. Maybe you should try visiting countries sometime. Anyone can claim to have lived in a country for 30 years. :)

Maybe you should visit the country. Anyone can make a claim they stayed there for a few days and only visited the elite, rich parts of the country.
Counterpoint: The town I grew up in just turned 400 years old. Things haven’t always been perfect but it seems pretty self-sustaining at this point.
I was suggesting that instead of the pre-installed OS on Vizio TVs (which is Linux and systemd based according to the lawsuit), you could install your own OS and then run Kodi on top of that. Since Kodi already supports running on Linux, it should not be hard to do this setup once the lawsuit concludes and the code has been released and the installation procedure documented. So the platform offered by the TV doesn't matter, because you'll replace it with a normal Linux one and run whatever you want on top.

For the problem of running Kodi on the web and web-ish platforms, maybe WASM is the future? There is also emscripten for converting languages normally compiled to binaries to JavaScript.

For Brightscript, maybe a similar approach to emscripten would work, transpiling from other languages to Brightscript, possibly via JavaScript. Or I guess a second app based on Brightscript.
I'm ethnically Russian, however, I would've never voted to join fascist totalitarian state, in which Russia evolved over the last decade.
Recruiting more pro-CCP shills out in the open? You're slipping.
> Why shouldn't some minority of people be allowed to lend at 43% interest if there are takers at that rate?

For the same reasons we have regulations and standards in construction, transportation, etc. Because we know that uninspected cars will leads to death and injury on the roads. So laws and regulations are there to reduce selling and using blatantly unsafe vehicles.
Why no monthly fee for Pro? So much more likely to try a 30-day trial and then $10 a month than an $89 up-front fee. Maybe this is subjective but the way SaaS has gone I assume people have A/B'd this and it's the proven model too.
Policy makers don’t raise enough taxes for pay for it.
> This means no one can even tell you were bankrupt

Except the banks who loaned you money! There aren't that many banks, and credit reports aren't their only source of intelligence.

I'm always amazed at the number of people who recommend bankruptcy as, like, an investment or risk management tactic. It's a huge mess, and seven years is a long time.
Just because you read it in an old book doesn't mean people practice it. Any real world experience outside a Fortune 500 will inform you that.
Don't. Keep on pointing out this lie, not so much to smear electric vehicles - given good battery technology these are a good idea - but to make clear that the powertrain is as clean as its dirtiest link. Whether this is a browncoal-fired powerplant, a polluting Cobalt mine employing child labour or fields full of not recyclable wind turbine blades, these things need to be taken out of the chain for the technology to deserve the "green" label. Given that an increase in CO₂ will lead to an increase in biomass [1,2] you may as well apply a "green" label to fossile fuels, it would be just as disingenuous.

[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2015.0004...

[2] https://gml.noaa.gov/icdc7/proceedings/abstracts/bhattHI49.p...
Don't blame the language, blame the library. At least it's not part of the standard library - in C, if you accidentally pass a user-provided string to the first argument of printf() you could be in just as much trouble.
I would say that it's a pretty substantial portion of the population for whom this is not a serious option.
Or for a video version, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IsMeKl-Sv0
But this argument has been made for years. For decades. We are talking about banning the sales of combustion engine vehicles within 10 years. Surely in 10, 20 or 30 years one should be able to see pretty significant progress in the conversion of building heating systems?

I’m assuming old multi story houses with gas heating typically use a water system (radiators) and only a single basement furnace? In that situation, switching the boiler to anything else or even better just using central heating should be a reasonably sized investment.

It’s not like German cities are unique in how they are built and heated. Lots of other cities have done this conversion in the latest decades.

Gas infrastructure was old and established in all major European cities. Now it’s electrical stoves and central heating in many places.
Apparently this was the last line, as reported by the honeypot blogger: "I look forward to your reply without undue delay and at most within 45 days of this email, as required by Section 1798.130 of the California Civil Code."