skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true, but it's also very common in America. Businesses get a lot of deference. E.g., we have a whole category of deceptive language businesses are allowed use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffery
We have a good rapport. We talk candidly about comp.
I’m not sure if this an Apple or Netflix issue . Is there an api that Netflix could use to determine if content restriction is enabled ?
Simply not true. It is an exaggerated Western stereotypical view of it. Stephen Kotkins book offer a much more informed view of him and his inner circle.
So as govt has the power to seize bank accounts anyway, CBDC would not make any difference at all in this case, it's a question of govt accountability.

The article seems to conflate CBDC with a totally cashless society, which yes, we should probably think through a bit more carefully.
UK supermarket sandwiches are horribly mediocre and look nothing like what's pictured in the article.
Have our rights deteriorated so much, that so many words must be expended to justify not wanting to live in a panopticon?
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What kind of style/idiom is this ? And what industry/space do you usually see this practice? Is it common? Just genuinely curious because my python is only used for scripting/pandas.
There are good reasons for leases to have minimum terms: a landlord has significant fixed costs around turnovers. That does not apply at all in the case of Adobe. It's just a hack to make their price gouging look more reasonable.
You can weigh up the costs and benefits of each and make a judgement call as to whether they see it the same way or differently. I'm making it and saying it's not even close.

It's difficult to organize a bet, but if it were easy and you were offering even money, I'd take that bet.
I had never heard of Oliver Stone's "Ukraine On Fire" documentary until YouTube banned it, so I watched it last night to see what the problem was. It seemed to be a well documented summary of the events in Ukraine in the last 25 years or so. One notable thing was the number of times Nazis were entered into the picture, and it is strange that no one is talking about it.

I can say my perspective has changed a little bit on the subject.
In 2016, Trump won by 77,744 votes in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

In 2020, Biden won by 42,844 votes in Wisconsin, Georgia and Arizona.

I got my numbers here[0] so feel free to fact check me. I may have been imprecise in referring to electoral votes specifically, but I think I am correct about the margins of victory.

[0]https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/did-biden-wi...
If anything this is the outcome I expect if "web3" sucks enough people in. Along with other things like "I clicked the wrong app and lost all my savings" and "I chose a bad password and lost all my savings" with no recourse.
What about bonus? Your manager should be able to get you a bonus aside from a raise. The latters's supposed to be based on market rate, the former is a catch-all which can be performance, inflation, whatever. It'd probably only be another 3-5% though.

There's usually only two choices once you get top seniority in your position: move to a different role with a higher salary cap, or find another employer. Personally, if I was happy in my role, I wouldn't leave just for money. It's hard to find an actually enjoyable place to work. You might be really lucky and just have GIG syndrome.
I tend to hit up convenience stores straight away when visiting non-freedomland destinations. Japan takes top honors. I've only been to Tokyo, but staying near shibuja or ropongi hills, the prepared food at 7/11, lawsons, family mart, are just amazing. I also tend to eat at Tesco or Spar in UK/IE (I just don't like eating huge meals alone) and I don't find those sandwiches much better than the US counter-parts (they are likely using the same machines and standard anglo-american components).

The article really dives into why the sandwiches are much better, tastier. Mind you I've lived within a block of fairly good Japanize food marts here that have very similar offerings (e.g. Nijiya Market) and would go there to get my fix every few weeks, but the quality and taste really wasn't the same (e.g. the rice wasn't as good and seemed day-old).

Really, everything in Japan had my 80's kid brain going nuts with joy. I didn't much like how prevant smoking was (nor getting kicked out of restaurants for not being Japanese), but I'll take the good with the bad (like anywhere). Absolutely amazing place.

One of my favorite parts of leaving japan is loading up on the sandwiches/rice balls at the airport - from the 7/11 vending machines in the seating area.. god I love that country.
Not affiliated with Substack, but this doesn’t feel like a fair assessment. For me, email is the best way to consume curated content that I don’t get distracted. Often, like with Matt Levine, it’s a way around a paywall and obnoxious sites.
> lot of it seems very “slippery slope” to me.

Most phenomenons are in the slippery slope category. Very rarely you see binary and immediate transformations in societies.

The point raised is much increased power over your money and your utter lack of alternatives in the future. Seems like a logical conclusion of where we are headed.
Our security doesn't matter to them, the only security they value is their security from the rest of us. This bill grants them just that.
Oh well, duckduckgo falls to the propaganda machine.
Substack has the unfriendliest login process of any service I use. And I’m disappointed to see no improvement in the app. When the app is first installed, why can’t I just login with an email and password? Why is “we’ll send you an email with a login link” considered a better option (by you) than giving the user a choice to enter a password?
> what occasion have any of these new cyberattacking boogeymen-on-steroids done anything to anyone?

One of them is invading its neighbor.

> I'm going to continue to worry about criminal fraud and my own government

That's fine and these are things to worry about. But if the argument wants staying power, it needs to be adaptable.
Try contributing to open source. You can easily find very interesting and challenging projects and there's always more tasks than people who can work on them. Many projects have great documentation/code comments and welcome new contributors. Also, a lot of people would be happy to explain things to you on mailing lists, IRC, etc.
Which gas station has the best egg salad sandwich?
As a developer that has worked almost exclusively in startups for the past 16 years, I have not once had to create or even look at a Gantt chart. Most organizations I encounter follow the Agile principles (at least in a loose sense), which emphasizes getting things done over upfront planning. That's not to say that no planning is done, but it's more and more common to see Kanban-inspired processes where work is prioritized into a backlog and then pulled by a developer when they have capacity to work on it.

Like I said, my experience is mostly in startups. YMMV.
No, that is very much what the study concludes. Quoting directly from the abstract:

"FCM [facial covering or mask] mandates in schools were not associated with lower SARS-CoV-2 incidence or transmission, suggesting that this intervention was not effective."

In other words, if masks were effective, you'd expect to see exactly the opposite, namely that older (masked) kids get sick more often than younger (unmasked) kids. But per the data, the masks had no visible impact at all, and age was the actual primary determining factor.

Of course, if you've ever seen young kids wearing masks (poorly fitted, not covering nose, hanging around their chin, etc), this is not in the least surprising.
There's a pretty big difference between the introduction of a CBDC (essentially just a government bank account + debit card) and the deprecation of cash such that the CBDC is the ONLY way you can transact.

And it's not like these totalitarian measures couldn't be implemented already by legislating banks into complying with them, assuming we get rid of cash somehow. There's no difference between "FedWallet has declined your transaction" and "Citigroup has declined your transaction (in compliance with US law)." The article spends a lot of time pretending banks don't exist: "[T]here would be no more tax evasion, either, since we have a complete record of every transaction made by everyone" -- banks already keep track of all the transactions that take place.

A CBDC alone is neither necessary nor sufficient for implementing the kinds of restrictions the author of this article is worried about. Meanwhile, it actually does have a shot at providing financial services to people with bad credit or in precarious situations. So the article strikes me as kind of hysterical.
In Russia if you report the wrong thing you go to prison.

The west is not remotely like Russia in this matter.
FYI you can do this with Applecard as well
Clearly people mostly do pay it back, or it would not be a very profitable business, which it definitely is.

There's no reason CB can't issue loans directly, rather than indirectly through the banks. Perhaps more realistic is a debt market where private enterprise take on loan risk for commission or interest of some kind, but the power to create fractional-reserve money is not a requirement for that.
Ah, so all that sweet talk about unbiased results was a lie? Surprise XD
Got 9% bump in base, and RSU top ups - wasn't expecting any RSU, given our stock performance (yes, even with the market turmoil, it's up a lot since I joined).

Biggest effective raise I have gotten without leaving for another company, and I considered myself obscenely compensated to start with. Pretty content.
"Renowned curator Jacques Saunière staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum's Grand Gallery."
It’s all about balance. If someone had killed Hitler, would something worse had taken his place? Or, how about in Australia where a fence was constructed to keep dingos out of the south. But dingos are a predator to kangaroos so the kangaroo population increased and now they are overpopulated. Butterfly effect kind of thing.
Just arguing point and responding to same.
What does any of this have to do with the EARN-IT act? This all appears to be just claims about possible uses of encryption with no particular relation to the subject of the article. If these other uses of encryption you're discussing wouldn't be affected by the EARN-IT act, then they aren't relevant here.
Sounds like Snap. Just leave.
The glorification of industrial food? Japanese convenience stores sandwhiches are OK but do not deserve that kind of praise.
> I can be confident that once I do get a setup that works it'll likely stay working for years without breaking overnight

I feel the opposite. I switched to Pop!_OS a year ago, and had a fairly standard setup. A recent update broke my dock and my launcher and made the whole machine unusable for days. I eventually fixed it, but the dock kept crashing and the launcher was acting wonky, so I've switched back to Mac. I don't like everything about Mac philosophically, but at least It Just Works!
Exactly. "They can already do that" is a strange argument used here, and it's the same argument often used as to why some new product/business doesn't matter, or isn't interesting.

If you make X easier to do, it will get done more. It's close to 100% certain.
No, we're not. We're talking about the EARN-IT act, which wants to legally require all website owners to report all kinds of things to law enforcement, without any probable cause that anyone has commmitted a crime and without any kind of warrant.
I guess Ireland is part of PESCO?

https://pesco.europa.eu/
Here's at least one time it was discussed that doesn't show up in that search (which I would think it ought to):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25916905

It doesn't match the description either, but I can't/haven't ruled out there are others. But I would agree that this doesn't appear to be regularly discussed on HN, and I'd speculate this bug/imperfect performance from Algolia is due to this term being rare in the corpus of HN comments.
What Is a Law of Nature?
It's like a roux sorta kinda - it really does change the texture of the bread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SROWxMuu-Zc

My favorite recipe: https://www.ethanchlebowski.com/cooking-techniques-recipes/s...
The sandwiches in delis in petrol stations in Ireland are fantastic, in my biased opinion. Nice fresh rolls with fresh ingredients - and not as heavy as something like Subway. Handy in a pinch.
Law firms and accounting firms solved this long ago, they all send out new rate cards effective January 1, [YEAR] during Q4 every year. I would not be ashamed to do the same.
> If someone had killed Hitler, would something worse had taken his place?

Unlike Hitler, there are countless mosquitoes. That enabled scientists to do controlled experiments. (Something the Australians didn't do with the dingo fencing, either.) I don't have a strong opinion on this measure. But before supporting or criticizing it, I would at least glance at that evidence.
I got 3%, it's clearly time for me to leave. Lots of other people already have.
It’s relative to western convenience store food. Gas station sandwiches are some of the most depressing meals in existence.
There's literally no difference. None. This was tried before with special locks that 'only the TSA had the keys to open'. The keys were posted online for anyone to make their own. It's also been tried commercially with various DRM and failed.

There is no such thing as a 'government only, and only with a warrant' backdoor. There is either private or not private.
Amazon's pay adjustment was long overdue, and not driven by inflation. The base pay has been capped for so long, and the comp model made an assumption (a historically generous one) about stock performance that hasn't held true for quite a while. That together with their vesting schedule, something had to be done, in order to compete for talent.
As dispassionately as possible.

Be matter of fact about new prices, and try to explain as little as possible.

(But always give some reason. Any reason beats no reason, but a simple even vague reason beats too many reasons.)
1. What benefit can a government bank card can possibly provide, as opposed to private banking in a country with a modern banking system?

2. No, you cannot implement the draconian measures via legislative push on domestic banks, unless you are willing to cut off ALL foreign banks and ALL foreign business vistors and ALL tourists, and cut off ALL foreign payment systems.

Government CBDC is superfluous in a country with modern banking. It's only intention is to control you, it provides no other benefit. Simply because they aren't phasing out cash at the same time as introducing the CBDC, to make the connection obvious to you personally does not mean they cannot phase out cash as the next step. In fact, cash has been essentially phased out for all practical purposes, it's already been stigmatized to such a point that even legally earned cash is confiscated routinely in legally-sanctioned robberies, aka "civil forfeiture". Some stores even have signs "we don't take cash". It's history.

What more do you want? Government officials telling you under oath on prime time TV daily at 8pm every day of the week, in case you forget, "yes, we are doing this to control you more, and specifically, personally you, yes you - bccdee"

?
County highways are named with a letter followed by a number. For example Lawrence Expressway is G2. You can see the faded G2 sign at the exit from 237. https://goo.gl/maps/NGaa56Qkb9a8hzXg8
> assuming we get rid of cash somehow.

Cash is finite. Just stop printing it. And tell the populace they have until XXX to convert their cash to fedcoin. After that date, financial institutions will no longer accept it. India and lots of countries do this when they want to introduce anew currency (devaluing)

> banks already keep track of all the transactions that take place.

Not cash transactions. And they don’t do things like calculate your reputation score based on who you are transacting with (casinos? Liquor stores? Pot stores? Stripper clubs?)
Meanwhile Blair is hoping he won't be arrested for war crimes when he travels for his part in the Iraq war.
"I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice – not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother’s death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany." — John Irving in A Prayer for Owen Meany

An excellent book throughout, but an especially gripping opening line.
Like this.

The reason (relating to my other comment) can literally be ‘it is 2022 and these are the new rates.’

Often that’s enough reason.
Personal take: Apply for lots of jobs, at companies that have these problems, on the roles/teams that solve them. Some'll have room for a relatively junior engineer who can teach themselves. You should talk about technical challenges as a big reason you're excited by the role, but not to the exclusion of all the usual "care about the business/user" stuff. Practice talking succinctly about your side projects and what you learned/demonstrated, and be able to get detailed if asked.

You'll learn more quickly on the job, from people with practical experience, and get paid to do it. Your lack of CS degree isn't necessarily an issue, any more than for jobs where you write CRUD. (Of course, some employers will filter you out. I don't know if you could meet visa requirements in a different country, work experience sometimes helps with this)
> Malone knowingly lied about safety, making claims he knew were untrue at the time he made them and continued to do so.

What is your source for this? Aren’t you assuming bad faith?

Regardless I think you are missing the point. Dissent by definition will not have to conform to your worldview or notions of what is true or who is considered a scientist. If you only allow things which your worldview considers true, that is not real dissent. Twitter does not permit real dissent on their platform.

There was a time when the claims Galileo was making about the sun were not considered true nor were they acknowledged by scientists. Really consider that.

> Had he simply said “I don’t agree with this” his account would still be active like all of the other people who do this.

No, if I tweeted “I do not agree that the vaccines are safe enough.” I would get banned. How do I know this? Because I tweeted this and I was banned from Twitter. You’re not being honest.
This implies that a central bank digital currency (assuming this is the United States) would have these capabilities.

Maybe this is naive, but I would think that this digital currency would be designed to preserve people's rights in the same ways that current money does.
What is substack
An entire year’s salary in RSUs? Is this common or a reaction to the times.
Or "bad times create strong men, strobg nen create good times' chestnut

Anyone parroting this crap ever seen what 5 years of hard labour do a human body?
I am 99.99% sure right before covid I read (and saw them installing something) they were using some kind of heat or thermal reading on the 110. Me being curious I always set my transponder to 2 and turned on my passenger seat warmer on after that. Never got anything in the mail.
The Chinese and Japanese have similar methods for pre cooking a portion of the flour and water before making the dough. This helps to give the final bread a fluffier texture.

Go to an Asian bakery and compare the bread to say a brioche.
There have been some very popular websites that ignore Accept-Encoding and only send compressed data. Sometimes I want uncompressed responses. I always have the urge to complain about these websites on HN but I sense that HN commenters/voters would be unsympathetic. (I do not use curl nor python.)
neeva.com is a subscription search engine. I think privacy counts as a premium service now.
Although, I wouldn’t expect anyone to not work with the police, even if you pay.
The census is extremely important not just for voting but also to assigning government services.
> It has a lot of flexibility, but everything in LaTex requires a lot more effort to type then in something like MS Word.

It's not just super-flexible in the output but also in the input. It takes one short line in your preamble to define a new command or math operator, redefining long commands you use often - with parameters and/or optional parameters, if you like - to be whatever you want them to be. It sounds like you don't know that. Everything is redefinable, and it's easy enough to also make a short command name for a combination of symbols, or a new symbol, or anything you like. Commands can even draw pictures inline, e.g. with TikZ.
Moreover, they lose a customer by doing that. Multiply that out and they lose lots of customers. Why would it be in their interest unless legislated to do so?
Are you me? Exactly same.. no, perfectly exact thing (to the same 5.5% and every detail there) happening to me.
My C-Suite (SMB) thinks they’re the smartest guys in the room. They’re giving us 3% and telling us “it’s a bad idea to peg to inflation because we just had a long stretch of low inflation and we wouldn’t have been able to give you a raise.”
I’m gonna go on cruise control for a few months and take as much advantage of PTO as I can then GTFO.
This is small-m meta, right? Nothing involving Meta...

> Bandai Namco concluded its mid-term plan by stating that realizing the metaverse concept is one of its three primary strategies for its digital business unit. (IGN)

Funny that they have a meta-plan too. Nice.
The triangle sandwich of the UK high street is its own unique thing. It’s not particularly good, but it is culturally distinct. I have a soft spot for them. Tuna and sweetcorn; cheese and pickle: these are cultural artifacts.

A kiosk at the railway station in Germany will serve you an objectively good sandwich. Why doesn’t someone globalize the EU railway kiosk?
I'm sure he performatively complains about regulation because he's a wealthy CEO who doesn't want to pay taxes, but at the end of the day, he has no financial interest in "protecting the little guy," because he's not a little guy and neither are any of his cronies.
Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Tech offline and lab with ADS neutron source
We'll learn that cold, rainy, and very hot places are all much more sparsely populated than previously thought.
NetBlocks:

> Confirmed: The Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology in #Ukraine has fallen offline after an attack by Russia. The targeting of the lab which hosts an ADS neutron source is being called an "act of nuclear terrorism" by authorities
Can you expand on that for a bit? I look at the history of governments and I see less direct control of the economy throughout history.

For large chunks of history governments owned most of the economic output of their constituents in the form of slavery.

Even in the supposed free market heyday of the late 1800s USA the government controlled most of the productive land either outright or via land grants & treaties, they controlled right of ways for the major tech innovations like the telegram & railroads and they enforced labor rights at the end of a bayonet.

Monetary policy seems like a softer power than the previous regime to me. What am I missing?
As if the United States has ever had any qualms about wasting money on the justice system. Remember the war on drugs?
Putin only told his chief spy (and others on so called security council) three days in advance on Monday. I doubt anyone in finance/banking knew anything before wedn night if not thu morning