skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> does seem to repeat all of the well known Kremlin talk points.

Not the only one. Look into the back history of accounts that have been pushing this flimsy "Ukrainian coup" taking point for a long while now, .e.g.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=yucky

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=crateless
I don't dare to speak about what is or isn't propaganda these days, but when I was a teen I had a chance to witness Russian army leaving their base in Borne Sulinowo, Poland in early 90's. They did in fact took toilets with them, along with things like radiators and, in some places, even bathroom tiles.
This is fascinating, my experience is quite the opposite. The coming up is a very uncomfortable experience, both physically and mentally, but the coming down is the best thing ever: everything is at piece, in its right place, the world has a beautiful glistening aspect to it. I truly bite the bullet of the up phase to bask in the comfort of the coming down phase.
A workaround can just as easily become tacitly expected domain knowledge that serves to obfuscate both the problem, and its solution, sadly :/
Maybe. I wouldn't know for certain, because I am not a lawyer. But my understanding from working in this industry for a number of years is that under most state money transmitter laws customer funds are held in trust, meaning that in bankruptcy they are not actually company assets that can be assigned to debtors. Customers would have to be paid first.

In addition, it is very unlikely that the company would be allowed to go into bankruptcy. Right now, the company has ~$1 billion in cash of its own, net of debt, above and beyond customer funds. They can afford to take some losses as they continue to grow. Arguably, they should spend this capital on growth. Isn't this why they raised the money in the first place? Isn't it what their investors expect?

If their cash reserves diminish to the point where they cannot sustain or justify those losses, banking regulators will shut them down before dipping into customer funds even becomes a temptation.

Bill payment companies have existed for decades under this same regulatory scheme. Interest on float is an essential aspect of bill payment companies' profitability; for some companies, it exceeds their fee income. There is nothing that Bill.com is doing here that is not standard for the industry, and regulators know what to look for (after being burned in the past). If Bill.com went south in the way that you seem to be worried about, it would be a major scandal.
Tooling for injected plastic crosses over somewhere about 50K units. Before that you have to think hard about whether you can use advanced 3D printing to get where you need to go.

> There are no real discounts in volume for consumer electronics.

My FAEs and sales reps beg to disagree even in this mess. The first useful discount on microcontrollers I can get hold of generally starts at about 250K units annually (generally that's the first point where I can even get manufacturer attention--and even that's not great) and normally increases until about 1M units annually. The discounts increase from 1M to 10M annually but very slowly.

> Just look at the supply chain crunch, sometimes it's actually harder to buy components in bulk and you end up dual sourcing chips just to meet demand.

Right now is very different from when Pebble was producing product. Right now, I've actually had pricing revoked on me. However, that is not normal behavior in the semiconductor business.
For some systems it seems as though a prisoners dilemma develops where communicating in bad faith can give one actor an edge over another.

In company environments I think it’s a factor of size and what core leadership will tolerate. With a good CEO, it’s hard for a bad-faith leader to thrive at a 1000 person company. But at 3000 (anecdotally) it somehow becomes easier for this behavior to thrive.
> > What do the homeless mostly suffer from?

> Not having a home.

There are typically quite some homeless programs running, but many get rejected for not abiding by the rules they (understandably) must have, i.e. don't be violent or do drugs. It's not enough to give these people a home, you must also address the reason they are homeless.
All that does is neuter domestic airline hubs and give more money to the Gulf (Emirates, Etihad, ...) or America-based airlines, which is neither good for the economy nor for the environment.
> at a personal level: have you ever tried to put in practice "highly skilled, non-naive good faith communication" ? If you did, you've probably noted that more often than not, it doesn't make you weaker. It increases your value, your status, even your financial success.

Opposite experience. It leads to wasting time, especially compared to getting to the same conclusions using more effective, if less 'true', tactics. It just doesn't scale.

At some level good faith is superior on a very large scale, since the reality tends to provide a somewhat consistent feedback, but there remains a local niche of maxxing out persuasion skill tree. Not to beat dead horse, but large organizations with too much resources seem particularly prone - it is an obviously self correcting mechanism, but the tactic remains valid locally.
> Both ends of the political spectrum (the far left and the far right) express this view.

I'd strike this phrase, because it's far from clear what the "far left" is. Is it wealthy Silicon Valley liberals with radical ideas about gender? Or is it for instance the trotskyist World Socialist Web Site, which buy Russian false flag conspiracy claims but are free speech absolutists? And "far right", are we talking about Ayn Rand fans, neo-traditionalist catholic populists like JD Vance etc, or neonazi militias?

Last of all, is the political center necessarily more honest or devoted to good faith public debate? Not that I can see. Their strategies can be different, since they can get away with just never acknowledging disagreement, which makes little sense for small fringes, but there's nothing inherently honest or good-willed about centrism.
I would much rather setup an unskippable video of some horrible war brutality.

Ok, harder to do, but your current setup is probably making things worse, not better, you confirm to every neutral Russian the propaganda line that the world is against them for simply being Russians.
One worldwide country would be more successful in bringing peace. Discuss.
I'd just like to take a moment to express my appreciation for the discussion on this site. I believe there is a better ratio of good-faith to bad-faith communication here than on any other public forum where everyone is free to participate.
I get an invalid HTTPS cert error when trying to view this page. Anyone else?
I think you're confusing internet access with reachable from the internet.

If I remember correctly, you don't need your server to be reachable from the internet, but you still need to be able to contact your DNS provider and the LE server, so you need internet access
> I wonder if Gov.UK works with browsers?

You mean works with browser developers? Otherwise I can't see the reason why their site wouldn't work on modern browsers. Especially given the lengths they'll go to make sure it's as accessible as possible.

Edit: formatting
I'll snipe you a bit harder. In the event of a hung jury, the case can be retried (aka the distribution resampled). Practically though, no prosecutor wants to redo the same case over and over. So its safe to assume that 2 hung juries is as good as charges dropped.

I'm glad you enjoyed this problem, both as a riddle and as a neat demonstration of how a societal system can be better (more fair, just) than the underlying society that builds it.
My goal was never to get a Tim Ferriss-sized audience. It was primarily for personal expression at the beginning and then gradually grew over time.

The blog was the 2nd largest in its niche and lead to me making a TON of friends, one of whom I was later best man for at his wedding. I also ended up getting sweat equity in a business and learning a ton due to that blog. Moderating comments was little to no burden and even if its traffic were 10x more, moderation would still have been a trivial task.

It was a huge success in terms of ROI from my perspective. Having accounts and user-generated content on that site wasn't "betting on myself not to succeed". It enriched my life.
You're off by a few orders of magnitude for WD-40 (WDFC). They had 488 million in revenue for 2021.
I wouldn’t say irrelevant as this is free service as well and same people are making decisions in upper management. There is always a catch and they don’t make anything if it is not bringing more revenue.
Ask HN: What Ever Happened to CurveCP?
DJB announced it back in 2010. The website is still up, but aside from the occasional discussion here, not much to be found.

https://www.curvecp.org/index.html

I'd have expected better uptake for a DJB production. What's the story here?
I think the bit on window management reads a little too much like someone who sort or made up their mind upfront. I use windows in my professional life, because that’s how we roll in Denmark, but back in 2015 I bought my first personal MacBook and it’s been a great relationship ever since.

On windows I need to install tools for things like snapping pictures because the default snipping tool isn’t quite good enough. I also hate window management, especially on multiple screen setups where you can’t move the mouse from one screen to another if the resolutions are different (4k screens and an open laptop as an example). Mean while a lot of the things the author complain about are things I find decent on a Mac. The fact that you can easily auto-size windows so that you have 1 full screen, 2 half screen apps, and x csized windows on 3 different window spaces is just awesome.

The biggest issue is that even after 7 years I still have no idea how many little tricks I still don’t know about Mac OS because it never tells you how to use it and pressing shift command (or maybe it’s option) 4 to snap a screenshot isn’t exactly intuitive.
My background is in ecology & evolutionary biology, and I think your job is wild. ;) Many of my (ex-)colleagues spend a lot of time camping in various places doing fieldwork. Do you spend a lot of time with cool animals/plants at the reserve?
Look up "bleeding Kansas"
> There is racism in Mathematics, just as race has affected every other human endeavor.

Would you mind to share examples of racism in math? I mean instances where people chose to cite or not cite someone because of their race? And how would that improve if we encourage scientist and mathematicians to favor race instead of applicability, relevance and scientific rigor as a criteria to select references?

> To not acknowledge this is blind denialism.

Perhaps you should make a stronger case for your hypothesis instead of blaming the reader.
> Because Republicans can tie-up such laws in committee to prevent it.

But this doesn't explain why it hasn't been achieved on the state level.

> Obamacare is a huge improvement over what came before. It's rather absurd to complain it isn't enough.

Not really, you can appreciate an improvement whilst looking forward towards further improvements.

> California spends a considerable amount on generous public health programs. A great many homeless have health insurance from the public programs in California now. Tearing down all barriers would leave California at risk of medical tourism draining public funds.

This sounds like a solvable problem. You could have an upfront tax or medical availability delay of a few years to make health tourism really unattractive.

Blaming other people sounds like a great way to not deal with the issue.
Most of middle management work is being pushed onto employees, who can now absorb that work because remote work has led to everyone working 2-3 hrs extra.

In the past if upper management wanted a demo of what was coming up, the “middle manager” would put it together, especially if it involves several team members’ work.

Now, with the fact that everyone is putting in more time, and that we are now all accustomed to spending hours and hours in meetings, they just throw an hour long meeting in the calendar, and ask the 10 people on the team to each do a 10 min demo.

Far more inefficient, but that’s ok because upper management is getting it for free.
> You need a government with enough heft

Governments have the monopoly on the use of legitimate force on their territory (and the means that go with it). Isn't that enough heft to go after any corporation?
We'll have to give it this treatment if it ends up being right.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30958502
I have seconds in my status bar. It isn't distracting at all. My brain filters it out just the same when I'm focused on other stuff open on my computer
I think the thing to remember here is that inputs should only be `type=number` where the semantic value is best represented with a numeric scale, not just where it is a number only field.

> A simple way of determining whether to use type=number is to consider whether it would make sense for the input control to have a spinbox interface (e.g. with "up" and "down" arrows). Getting a credit card number wrong by 1 in the last digit isn't a minor mistake, it's as wrong as getting every digit incorrect. So it would not make sense for the user to select a credit card number using "up" and "down" buttons.

I don't think browsers can infer the semantic intent enough for this to be a fixable problem without some distinction in syntax.
All depends on the type of the certificate you want to get and who will be your CA.

Domain Validation certificates are insecure for quite a few types of security certifications due to how stupid easy it sometimes is to get your subdomain validated through social engineering.

Manager X that manages a small project in subcontractor level can get screwed over way easier than security expert that is managing top level domain of specific corporation.

So there are pros and cons of that solution.
> Would it make Madrid - Paris train route competitive? No, not at all.

Just to provide some data points:

Madrid-Paris by train takes about 17-20 hours and costs between 261 and 350 Euros. By plane, it takes about two and a half hours and costs (in your example) around 170 Euros.

Also take into account that for many international travellers, the time saved aspect is more relevant than the money saved aspect, as lifetime is a very limited and non-regenerating resource, and planes will win pretty much always. The idea of Europeans going from Madrid to Paris by train happily is a green pipe dream outside train enthusiast circles (for our American friends: How often would you say you take Amtrak from Chicago to New York, roughly the same distance, before you get bored of it?)
I already closed my shop, years ago. It doesn't make sense to offer hand made products if you compete directly with AliExpress and the users has no way of telling that 90% of the platform is China resell.

You can claim whatever you want, no control, no warnings, nobody from Etsy actually cares.

The reason I finally stopped was because they did not accept my new credit card and I had no way to contact anyone to clear this up. I made several thousand dollars a month on Etsy yet nobody actually helped. With no credit card attached I couldn't use any paid features anymore and my shop was dying either way. I contacted every email, every support forum and never got any kind of response more than a link to the faq that didn't help.

I may still recommend it to test the waters for cheap (if you are lucky and have a credit card that actually works for them), but I wouldnt recommend anyone to build a business around this shady platform
I disagree. Social media as now implemented are Darwinian black boxes optimized to evolve the most contagious memes, because engagement is stupidly easy to optimize for compared to any sane metric. As it turns out, the things we share the most when encouraged to do so are finely distilled vitriol. Moderated tone is critically important and good faith in disagreement is vital to a conversation. Twitter, is instead, the digital equivalent of literal shouting. It doesn’t really matter what exactly random strangers are shouting about in my estimate…
Oh my god. Is no Secure Boot safe?

Let's just give up the charade already.
Eh, it's not that bad. i3 does it every five seconds by default, along with other status information, but to me that bar is small enough to not draw my attention if I don't need it. Actually I even often miss when it changes the color of some text to notify me of a critical situation, eg available memory dropping below 500mb.
Qalc – Like Soulver/Numi but in VS Code
Yeah, this is understandable. TBH I'm still trying to strengthen the intuition and looking for more clues that it scales.

The good thing is: the strategy for personal success seems to be aligned with the strategy for a global good faith.
So I can live with doubts: maybe it scales, maybe it doesn't. That doesn't change my daily behaviour, I'm maximizing for myself. This is not a prisoner dilemna where I lose if I cooperate.

I would even argue that if it wasn't aligned, this would certainly be doomed.

The books "Reinventing Organizations" (Frédéric Laloux) and "The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education" (Edward Deming) (intro: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20161226) gave me good intuitions that this can work at least at a corporate level.
Okay I was wrong. I thought it meant something different.

> All high speed lines in Germany (ICE)

I suppose almost all:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICE_TD
Because "bad faith communication" is about the talking head on the TV sowing doubt in your mind on complex issues. It is oil company shills telling you that climate change is not man made and it is Malthusian environmental activist that it is impossible to get safe and carbonfree energy from nuclear. Neither of these are communicating with you in good faith because they have an agenda.
Oh no, the rest of the planet isn’t immune to this. We, in France, will choose our next president in two weeks between a man who spent the last 5 years breaking all the public services he could or an openly fascist woman.

The EU countries just have more social safety nets that renders them more socially solid. So we are not doing as bad as America right now but don’t be fooled, the trend is the same one.
A browser tab alone doesn’t do much after initial page load, ignoring CSS animations, JS timers and dynamic media tags.
I just wish "spaces" worked like xmonad workspaces [0], specifically that in xmonad there are some number of workspaces (9 by default) and each display is a view into _any_ of those. Macos has a checkbox "Displays have separate Spaces", and neither checked nor unchecked gives the behavior I want.

Let's say I have just two monitors. That box being checked means I have spaces A1 A2 .. An and B1 B2 .. Bn, and monitor A can display any of the "A" spaces and monitor B can display any of the "B" spaces. But if I want everything from B2 to get displayed on monitor A, I have to create a new space An+1 and drag everything over one window at a time, like a cave man.

Unchecked means I have spaces AB1 AB2 .. ABn, and switching spaces switches both monitors at the same time! So if I want to see the A side of AB1 and the B side of AB2 at the same time, I'm out of luck.

Xmonad workspaces allow me to do any of the above behaviors (oh, and it switches workspaces instantaneously, instead of this left/right spatial thing macos insists on, I guess because of the trackpad swipe gestures). One of these days I need to try to make Hammerspoon fake workspaces in a way that works for me, because (like the OP) this is by far the least comfortable thing about working in macos for me.

[0] https://xmonad.org/tour.html#using-other-workspaces
> Impossibly tight deadlines, unrealistic schedules, and constant pressure to develop and release applications on time, while at the same time achieving excellent quality. Sound familiar?

I can understand that this article, being an Ad for this company called "Mender", they try to generate "urgency" focusing on software. I didn't feel that any of the points touched in the article were for embedded applications; just high-level stuff that runs on an embedded platform with a fully working OS/kernel; Applications at that level can be written in Go, Java, Xamaring, Python, etc.

I was never rushed to finish a final product (in my 20 years of embedded firmware/BSP development). And I've never see it happen to my colleagues. Perhaps to some high level, Android/Java/Xamarin application developer (but I don't consider these to be fully "embedded applications").

Or we might have been rushed to finish a "hacked-together" demo, but hey, it's a demo and may be broken by design.

Also some areas of embedded are dangerous and can cause real harm to people and property, so there is no rushing there as there may be in other software areas/industries.

Many, if not most, embedded applications go through some kind of certification. This can take a while. And there are other internal tests we do, like climatic chamber, burn-in, mechanical, etc. Embedded doesn't limit to software, and it's rarely a one-man-team.
Beggar thy neighbor policies require higher level coordination to escape. E.g. tax competition between states to attract large companies, which not only reduces public funds but also disadvantages smaller local companies, is hard to prevent without agreements between states, or policies at a superstate level.

Replace taxes with permission to pollute, or worker rights, or other regulations, if you don't see a problem with tax competition. The point is that competition in practice reduces the sovereignty of the population of smaller government units.
Glenn Greenwald is worthy of being on CNN and MSNBC, and has been on before, but mysteriously was no longer invited once he started criticizing the liberal establishment. Hmm..

And in-fighting is not the same as calling out the corrupt elite that maintain the Overton window of what most blue journalists and politicians speak about.
That's just not what happened, slavery wasn't a main topic for the average person. Even in the south where there were slaves most people didn't own slaves. The debate around it did exist but it was an infrequent topic. Much much more common was discussions regarding import and export issues and transportation networks. Support for the poor and insane were big issues. Religion and temperance we're far more debated than slavery.

There's a lot of places to read newspapers from that time period online and you can see what topics were frequent and divisive.
Ever been to rural Russia? The places that many Russian professional soldiers come from, because being in the army is a nice professional career compared to the crushing poverty around, even though the pay is actually low? Not a flushing toilet in sight.

Russia has horrible levels of income inequality. A lot of the oil and gas money flows into the hands of the oligarchs and is thus concentrated either abroad, or in a few elite places like Sochi. Of course, the largest cities such as Sankt Peterburg and Moscow do reasonably well, too.

But a random village in Siberia has unpaved roads, wooden shacks and outhouses. Fully comparable to poor parts of India or Africa. This is where many of the soldiers come from, and where time has stopped, because the Russian state does not give a f*ck about living standards of rural people.

We had the same experience with them in 1945 and 1968 in former Czechoslovakia. And when they withdrew their forces in 1991, they bargained guns and grenades for stuff like toilets as well.
The only reason to check Squarepusher is because he's the brother of Ceephax!
I was looking for a VS Code extension precisely like this, and after plenty of searching I managed to find it. Given how polished it is, definitely deserves to be better known. And of course FOSS to boot!
Is finger the old Unix command or something else here?
Coffin dance meme sold as an NFT for $1M