skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Ghana, imported secondhand clothes are called obroni wawu, dead white man’s clothes. In Malawi, they are kaunjika — literally “clothes sold in a heap.” In Mozambique, they are known as calamidade, calamity, for their historical association with disaster relief aid.

Fascinating article if only for such an interesting glimpse into Africa and African culture and how it is being shaped by its relationship to the larger world.
The propaganda headline has nothing to do with the article and also is completely wrong. According to [1], daily deaths now at 39, but on 01/31/2021 7 times that at 303.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/portugal/

edit: typos.
I'm a skeptic, this could end up as a tyranny of metrics. Even the smartest people are often wrong about what is best for everyone. There's an information problem in that though there are/will be plenty of metrics, not all of the necessary information can always be known. That's ok for a company, but not an economy. Just make the data "open" to everyone, "the model" itself is a misnomer. Denmark already has one of the most free and open economies in the entire world...hopefully this idea doesn't help to kill the golden goose. I frankly think it will have no virtually no influence or impact.
I empathize with OP. I live in the Bay Area and most people here are convinced that every other place is a slum, particularly the “flyover states”. The negativity drives people to become sensitive to the topic.
I switched to Colemak 4 years ago or so, and I think it is one of the best investments of my time ever made. Yes, you will feel similar to that feeling you get when you write with your left hand (something like, why tf I'm doing this, if i'm perfectly capable of living my life as I have been doing before), but it is a skill that will benefit you all your life and I would recommend you to do so.

Still, it is not perfect. The pinky getting tired is something that happens, but it is still so much better than QWERTY. I don't think I will try that QWYRFM layout, as I haven't felt big pain since switching (before switching I felt some pain, but after, I slightly feel something, but after a lot of effort, and not enough to feel worried). And I think if I start feeling something to worry, there are some things I could do before, like using a split keyboard, or optimizing the desk height, before switching to another layout.

Again, try Colemak (or if you want to try any other layout, welcome). It will do good for you.
Two thoughts here:
- This is why ETL + variants are hard
- Graph databases are (arguably because HN) better than the relational model (e.g., flexibility, ease of modeling, accessibility of algorithms/analytics)
You'd have to have two intervals though, one for on, one for off. It bounces both ways. Hardware is more elegant but obviously the tradeoffs depend on what you're implementing.
Kind of. When NYTimes or Medium only show the first bit of the article it's because you've exceeded your free allotment. Tracking number of articles read uses cookies, which Googlebot does not send.

Still, some sites may condition on User-Agent or otherwise present different content than a clean browser and I think those should be de-listed for cloaking.
I think you've got it backwards. This is much more efficient than running cables everywhere and putting up giant towers all over the place in density needed to service everyone. That's why it's working in the first place. It's cheaper to do this than the alternative. (Too many Europeans assume rural places in America are similar to rural places in Europe. The layout is fundamentally different.)
Right, each optimization is fine on its own but the combination is dangerous.
I am working on a scripting interface for Loadjitsu as well.
You will be able to run tests using a small DSL very soon.
QWERTY was designed for enabling fast typing by avoiding typebar jams. See http://widespacer.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-hidden-secrets-of...
Should we still be outraged about Harvard? What proportion of its students are Jewish, compared to the US overall? It seems the president of Harvard is Jewish*, so it can't be too antisemitic, can it?

*In fact, 5 of the 8 Ivy League universities have Jewish presidents, if one follows the links from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League
This is actually a much broader critique of crypto, NFTs, DAOs and the entire culture/ideology that pervades these communities. It's long, but very well researched and informative.
I've always wondered[1] if there are "large molecule" drugs.

[1] but not enough to look it up
Hey there, GitLab Dev Evangelist here. Thank you for flagging this and for the suggestion.

A change based on your comment was merged earlier today (with a link to your comment in the description): https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/78933
Highly recommend you look into keyboards that have "Enter" and "Backspace" reachable by thumb/index fingers. I've been dailying a TECK for nearly a decade, and it's helped immensely with RSI.

Their new Clevo keyboard is a bit different, so can't vouch for it, but my SO likes it so far as first foray into ergo keyboards: https://trulyergonomic.com/
My uncle founded Jenmar, heard of the company and software?
Thank you for your kindness but it really would help if you could do something about toxic anti-vaxxer community forming here on HN. This is also destroying this place.
It's an ad hominem because you're saying bad things about the author rather than bad things about the paper. There's a reason that blind reviews for journals exist.
I've never had issues with typing. It's the mouse that irritates my wrist. I swap it from side to side to alleviate the problem. i do have wider hands...
Point taken, but 30 is very young to be having issues with ergonomic injuries unless you're genetically predisposed to carpel tunnel or tendonitis or something.
I guess by "high school" you mean the school that kids in the US attend in their mid teens

My hope is that the sort of instruction that a kid will respond to (e.g. structured or unstructured courses) will be identified early, and that that kids will be taught in this way. I'd like this to be done from the moment kids start school (as a young child). I'd also like to see all schools think about the best way for each kid to develop socially and emotionally, not just academically
I tried that, but I try to search in wide world, sometimes about topics that I don't even understand. So I don't know where to look. And many of my searches are like that (examples: how merchant fees work, how QC affects stock prices, effects of vitamin D3, how price parity is determined, how to focus on something boring)
All these are varied terms and most of search results will be like that, so I wonder if moderated directories would ever serve that.
I agree with your take. I felt the same way while reading this.
I agree JMeter is a great tool, it has tons of features.
Will be gradualy adding more to Loadjitsu, one day I hope it can compete with JMeter
What are the now acceptable alternatives for "senior citizen" and "dummy variable"? For myself, I welcome senior discounts wherever I can get them and use plenty of i / j / k in code.
Hello internet, I'd like to file a return
Republicans would probably be happy to support universities if they were no longer under the control of people who wish them ill.
Is this going by the size of the employees or the square footage?
I guess you are right. It's much easier to just pay up than to migrate. That's what they really want.
No it's not feasible for multiple reasons but the primary one being cost. Putting high quality optics on so many satellites is cost exorbitant and the problem isn't the quantity of optics, it's the quality needed to be cost effective.
> Supposedly at one point, early in 1990s, some high rank officers from both sides got to meet and look at unredacted data about capacity of both sides in Europe, with NATO representative going "oh god, with those numbers you could steamroll us, why you didn't?"

This makes for a good story but seems pretty unlikely. Recognizing the disparity in army sizes available for rapid deployment in Central Europe, the NATO doctrine through the Cold War was to stop any invasion attempt somewhere in Germany with large-scale use of tactical nuclear weapons. There were enough NATO forces in the area that invading Soviet forces would have to be concentrated enough to be vulnerable to theatre deployment of nuclear weapons.
I'm an atheist and I am really enjoying reading "The Heart Of Buddhas Teaching" by him. I wouldn't say his teachings are heavily religious from what I've read so far. But some parts require a lot of imagination. You don't have to become a monk after reading his books. Sometimes good teachings transcends differing beliefs.
I am working on a scripting framework for Loadjitsu. You should be able to run custom tests with domain specific inputs
UBI cannot be implemented unless somebody pays for it. It's necessarily redistributive. All existing experiments only look at one half of the equation. I think it's a fair question to ask what the effect will be on people who on net will pay more than before this system was introduced. Breaking peoples legs is not a prerequisite for others to run faster.
Many, with the benefit of a prosperous economy and stable polity.
I think those salaries are probably not too different from the US if you go outside major centers and FAANG. There is also the question of taxes and out of pocket expenses like healthcare that makes salaries harder to compare between countries.

In Montreal or Toronto there are lots of devs making > 200k CAD (170 USD?). Salaries are definitely lower than SV but the disparity is not huge.

For out of the way places, like Calgary or the maritimes, there is a local appeal where people from there want to stay there, and so salaries are lower because people are there for lifestyle and the companies that set up there do so because they know they can pay less.
To be honest, some shrinking manufacturing doesn't always mean it's bad. It could be, but not always. Sometimes it means increasing the efficiency or disappearing products that aren't in the demand of the society.
There were multiple reasons to make the maps.

An asteroid smashes into Mexico and millions of refugees are rushing to the southern states. What logistical implications to expect?

New factories are being built in Ohio. Why?

Soyuz crash-landed in Arizona. When US will get to it?

US is moving Minutemen rockets from Memphis. Where to?

Los Angeles is in riots. How will it affect SU?

Somebody tasked with analyzing such intel would have to have maps. Maps are important and keeping mapmakers' skills sharp required a constant workload. Teaching fresh intel recruits about the US knowing they are never going to visit the US required maps.

There were gazillion reasons to produce and maintain maps in the Soviet Union. And I am glad they did. I used to use Soviet military maps for hiking back in the day.
Tried to fix this. Can you please try again.
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I think people should really talk about mass market fashion vs luxury fashion. Many people seem to think that buying LVMH clothes or other luxury brands is somehow more ethical when those brands can be even worse. Those brands just sell far fewer items so it's not the same amount. If 99.9% of clothes are fast fashion than 99.9% of left over clothes should also be fast fashion, it's actually more like 100% as luxury brands will just destroy unsold merchandise usually to prevent damage to the brand.

I'm a guy so clearly things don't change as much but almost every piece of clothing I own is "fast fashion" that I'll wear until it's ruined. Consumers are told constantly by the media, social media and brands that they need to continuously change or be out of fashion and "cringe" or "cheugy". I think fast fashion companies in general are one of the least to blame for these trends, they seem to just copy quickly what is deemed as good but others.

Kmart in Australia is a good example. Most stores sell crappy out of date stuff so you have to shop online but Kmart has heaps of good cheap stuff under the Anko brand. From $3.70 t-shirts with a good fit, to $50.00 air fryers to nice containers to store stuff in. IMO it's a big win for most people to have cheap good stuff to buy. If it wasn't for Kmart it would be far harder to not be "cringe" while being poor. If the coolness industrial complex decides that this stuff is not good then Kmart would need to get rid of stock to replace it with new cool stuff. Is that Kmarts fault? I don't think so.
They did, turned out painting things black makes them a lot hotter. They instead opted for sunshades, which is what this study shows, a great improvement in the brightness of the satellites roughly equivalent with the guidelines. The original article for this spun a positive study about how little the effects of Starlink are into a negative one.
> I have run without support for 14 years, I take about as much resources for them as a gmail account.

It's may not be about supporting you as a user,but about supporting the feature of a free-tier of features whose users are >99.9% paying customers. I imagine having to pepper "is_billable() && !is_grandfathered()" everywhere gets old, and leads to some subtle bugs/test failures for a feature that's used by 0.03% (a guess) of users, who also happen to be non-paying.

Additionally, at Google's scale, systems interact with each other in non-trivial ways. As a hypothetical, if the CEO/director decrees that all teams should use G-Pay's code & internal infrastructure for all payments (for compliance reasons) by 2023, that may necessitate code & schema changes that do not work with "(mostly) billable customers" because grandfathered accounts may not have a billing method available (which G-Pay systems require); the G-Pay team can't add support for the "billable-customer-but-not-really" feature until the second half of 2024, unless the Workspaces team can just removing an item from the 2022 G-Pay roadmap that's projected to bring in an additional $200M revenue p.a.

Disclaimer: I'm not a Googler, I'm speculating based on my experience in large organizations with intricate cross-dependencies. The Workspace engineers may empathize with you, but their hands are tied,and they can't publicly share the trade-offs that are being made, which is unfortunate.
I just felt like the Zoom calls that I participated in telehealth wise were really sloppily managed - I wasn't clear as a patient with smaller providers if they were using a HIPPA compliant provider account or just a personal Zoom account.

In a group therapy Zoom I encountered one of the members being inflammatory/disruptive, and there are no controls for me to block that user's video/text on my end. Before briefly thinking of ways to programmatically block out the screen using Greasemonkey/macros I just quit the group.

In addition I was on a local city government summit call that was just a nightmare. They were trying to be accessible to people who needed interpretation but what it ended up looking like was that every time someone said something, it was repeated back by interpreters in 3 different languages, making everything 3 times longer. Some of this stuff was worked out at the end, but the solution was just basically to stop people from expressing themselves. Maybe there's a better solution to this both then and now but if there was they didn't seem to be aware of it. It does seem like a no brainer to be able to opt in to translator channels and not have all the translations going at once.

In all these cases I saw that people were changing their meeting styles and habits around the limitations of Zoom, which led to worse outcomes, worse creativity, and more stress, rather than Zoom being particular proactive in adding new features that could address these valid roadblocks people were running into. That's where I feel like a startup with an eat your own dogfood approach could have addressed real issues like this rather than just profiting from being the only company around and not really meaningfully expanding features in any way since it's been widely adapted.

I don't use Zoom THAT much and these are my personal experiences, but it feels like a junky product - maybe to people who are used to Office 365 it's fine, but as someone who used Slack and other startup friendly tools/services Zoom and Office just seem like they are so stuck technology wise.
Talking about overkill, he also use 4 physical machines each with a 4 core CPU. But its not about what you need, its about what you want to learn. So if you want to learn about cluster/orchestrating i think its warranted.
Hiding content is supposed to be against Google's stated policies.
Maybe not an attempt at annexation, but Winston Churchill made speeches late in life bemoaning the effort’s failure to ‘strangle bolshevism in its cradle.’

Tell me where things would have stopped if the Whites, Allies, and Czechoslovak Legion had gained the upper hand.
You still can't meaningfully use "Watts per day" in that context (for that matter, I struggle to imagine a scenario in which it was a meaningful unit).

Given the number involved was 160, I suspect the likely unit they meant was "Watt-hours per day".
I’m curious what the author will do if they encounter the same issues at their new company.
https://archive.is/FhnlE
Interesting, although a bit dubious. The claim is that there are no microstructure models in banking, and in the paper he cites two econ 101 textbooks.

I mean, I guess the introduction is technically correct in stating that these textbooks are not sufficient to develop a microfounded model of banking. But then, one might suggest the author to perhaps look a bit further than Mankiw's 101 book? After all, textbooks treating the subject in more detail than even the present paper do exist, even from heterodox sources, if the mainstream is unacceptable.
Hey it is single binary
You should be able to run it with
`./loadjitsu-mac-0.02`
might have to do a chmod +x
I really appreciate your explanation from the point of view of the software developer.

One question: Zoom web client supports screen sharing using WebRTC Screen Capture API. This is why Zoom web client allows screen sharing using pipewire on Wayland. Do you think WebRTC screen sharing codec offers suboptimal performance?
Was wondering that too.
In the Netherlands they finally changed divorce law to end the practice of alimony payments. This is also an incentive for both parties to pursue a career lest you fall into poverty after divorce.
The video said cars are better able to drive on a small amount of snow, so maybe they rely on that for ambulances etc.
Starlink can't cause a Kessler event. It's orbit is too low.
Death rate from covid is low in Portual and Spain (compared to USA) since summer, possibly because of the high vaccination rate. Unfortunately, the covid death rate is still much higher than flu.
Not in the slightest. But, a candle can melt snow. And provide light, useful in emergencies.
I am looking forward for the upcoming release of WiseJ 3.

WiseJ is a drop-in replacement for WinForms apps, to make those run in a browser.

The WiseJ 2.5 is yet on .NET 4.8, but the new WiseJ 3, planned for March, is running on .NET Core.

The key features for me are: (1) all the wiring is hidden, so no need do not deal with Javascript. All processing is done in server. (2) Refreshing the browser by pressing F5 keeps user's session. (3) Background tasks work seamlessly with UI updates. (4) Can use System.Drawing.

It is a paid library, but very reasonable price.
They'd be staring at a bunch of lawsuits if they did that. Remember Google itself pretty much forces/nags you to login if you're on Chrome.
Hey thanks for reporting this.
It is a single go binary
Please do the following after you have downloaded
1. chmod +x loadjitsu-mac-.0.0.2
2. ./loadjitsu-mac-0.0.2 server
This should start the load testing server
Tim Cook's Product Strategy
As a heads up they fixed the intel xe graphics sandboxing issue in firefox 96. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1698778 It works great on my Framework with NixOS. My about:config settings (taken from my home-manager):

graphics = {
"media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled" = true;
"media.rdd-ffmpeg.enabled" = true;
"media.navigator.medidataencoder_vpx_enabled" = true;
};
You are right about the figures, but they are at their daily peak for cases which seems newsworthy considering many countries are mandating the covid vaccine.
You don't use your ring finger for l?
Yes it's incredible how the original article misrepresented things before hacker news replaced it with the original press release. They spun a piece of positive news into a negative news piece.
It's on his personal blog. Who are you to police what he writes about there?

Blame the person who submitted it to HN, or the 25 people who upvoted it to the home page. Or, you know, just shut up and get over it.
This man had 8+ years at Facebook and they still made him do programming questions? What is wrong with our industry?
Information about prices is what they were talking about.
Nothing of materialistic value.
I think the future is EVs, but there will be a niche for EVs with on-board generators to extend the range out indefinitely. These already exist but they will look really different in the future. Maybe that fuel for the generator will be hydrogen.. but I doubt it, there’s no hydrogen infrastructure.
No, China specifically outlawed a lot of the recycling trade that was coming in, and it caused havoc to municipal recycling a few years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_National_Sword
I am in the process of doing so.

I am using both Dolphin Smalltalk and Free Pascal/Lazarus. Both produce very good looking forms in Windows at least, which is my target platform. Both are easy and quick to develop in, particularly Dolphin. Both have powerful events systems, sane object systems, both very amenable to MVC. Both backed backed by SQLite3.

Selling point for users is that user data is retained locally and not sent to a remote server, execution speed, and familiar workflows.
A lot of us have other stuff that it's unclear how we migrate. YouTube premium subscriptions, Google Voice, YouTube channels, "sign in with Google", Google play purchases, the list is endless...

Some of it includes pricing/specific products you can't sign up for any more, either.

I'd be happy if there was a way to migrate my account as is, with everything in tact to a regular@gmail account.
From the article:

"...It is the highest number of deaths of people with covid-19 in 24 hours since February 25, 2021, when 49 people also died..."
Peace is not just the absence of violence but the presence of community.

I similarly attended these retreats and the community was profound. At every retreat I went to attendees participated in communal work, kitchen cleaning, food prep, compost rotation, temple cleaning. Nothing was a chore, not even silence, because you weren’t isolated. A big part of community was also the integration of monks, nuns and lay people (attendees). The kindness, acceptance and joy the “contemplatives” (monks and nuns) shared with attendees was really very special.

So, theoretically one could meditate alone at home during a weekend but…that’s an entirely different experience.

Short of attending a retreat, the next best thing is finding a Sangha locally and practicing together. Not every journey begins on a lonely road, some start walking slowly alongside others.

https://plumvillage.org/about/international-sangha-directory...
That's fair, and Japanese apartments also tend to be smaller, for sure.

Nevertheless, Tokyo is a metro of 40 million people, with national importance that's equivalent to slamming NYC, LA, and SF together into one region. That its rent has managed to stay this low is a result of zoning that's practically the opposite of the US: density by default, rather than density as exception.
I for one would prefer to live to 80 with "apps" than make it to 90 but live in a cave