skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of the silliest progressive ideas are being / have been normalized thanks to Big Tech and the establishment doing one or more of three things:

1) actively censoring people who speak out against them

2) preventing discussions from happening in the first place (comments disabled, dislikes hidden)

3) actively promoting the ideal progressive version of the idea to cut down on dissent

Take the pronouns thing. Every other Instagram account of a female has her official pronouns (which you may only choose from a list of officially allowed ones so as to cut down on dissent via things like “your majesty / his highness”) set to she/her. I’m sorry but we all know you’re a woman. Why are you putting your pronouns up? The idea is a preposterous one; don’t even get anyone started on the they/them abomination.

And yet dissent and mockery of this abject stupidity is largely censored. As a result it’s bleeding out into the real world.

I hang in very progressive social circles. Trust me when I tell you, you do not want this reality. Their lives are defined by their progressive causes and perceived slights and micro aggressions. Every introduction “must” involve your pronouns and if you “forget” them they will innocently ask you of them. As a result people are bumbling pronouns all the time, I cannot tell you how many times even the pronoun experts start to say “she” or “he” in casual conversation referring to someone but then panic and stutter and say “they” because they can’t quite remember what pronoun this particular person wants to go by today or if they’re a they/them who despises people who feel like they should be able to speak freely without knowing they’re very, very special and are too special to go by a binary pronoun.

Mockery is the best defense against stupidity. Which is why it’s under such a big threat. And it’s why Elon is taking over Twitter.
They're still 50 cents a lot of the time at Walgreen's. Not quite that low, but I bought 3 for $2 today.
Gemstone Irradiation
Color blindness is a common injury among incautious radio engineers who stood in front of transmitters too many times.

Dish Network's satellite uplink station in Wyoming can "burn" away cloud cover when needed, and unfortunate birds have gotten cooked when they've flown over particularly intense beams.
I have here a UPS bill for customs, the total charge comes to 44.45, the GST + PST (taxes, for the non-Canadians) due on the package was 4.98 + 6.97 the charges are as follows:

Entry Prep Fee: 19.95 (Basically shipping and handling through the port, even though UPS has an automated system for this)

Bond Fee: 6.00 (A surcharge to get more money in case charging all these BS fees causes you to not want to pay the fees)

COD/Online Fee: 5.00 (An additional surcharge to try and cover the risk of charging you so many surcharges)

Customs GST: 4.98 (the real number)

CA BC PST: 6.97 (the other half of the real number)

Brokerage GST/HST: 1.30 (taxes on the majority of their BS fees)

COD GST: .25 (taxes on their COD surcharge)

When I'm being asked to pay taxes on BS charges your company isn't actually paying... that's when I get truly irate. (Just a PSA for anyone shipping to Canada, please send packages via USPS not a fancy package carrier, CanadaPost is amazing compared to all the private companies up here)
The protocol doesn’t support that - it’s streaming audio.
Does this stop their government from doing it?

Are the courts independent enough to even utilize this law?
Can you do the same in a more realistic style? https://www.artstation.com/artwork/E1qPv

I always thought the idea behind pixel art is to save on artist resources, but since the AI is doing it I think indie devs would rather do more something more advanced.
For a lot of stuff your credit card number is the reliable join key anyway
LV pioneered this for what's essentially just a hotel room, but now I'm seeing it everywhere. A three-star hotel in RandoCity will tack on a resort fee.
If you have no intention to actually follow through and it's a false promise, that's a pump-and-dump. It's securities fraud, but it's not insider trading.

If you have an intention to actually buy and make a good faith effort and fail, that's just business.
This website is full of "we want to" and "we plan to" statements. Something like this would of course be extraordinarily useful but it smacks of free energy scams.
Exactly we need an END TO FREE SPEECH. I propose a list! We make a list of things that are "OK" and ALLOWED -- LIKE KINGS of 14th century.
Awesome!! A custom client for YouTube that bypasses all their front end code. I wish there was something like this for every single web site!
Remember when Walmart had the vending machines in the front of the store? Sam's Cola was 25 cents while Coke/Pepsi were a dollar.
Computer Science Open Data
Sales tax is added at the register, not as part of the price tag. This is a good system, as it lets people be aware of what voting for sales taxes costs them.
I just want to say I think it's good you're supportive of that. As I'm sure you know, getting into software for the wrong reasons ends very poorly.
> I'm curious, why do this for entertainment rather than therapy?

That's a good question.

I love the entertainment aspect of mentalism, I do it because it is entertaining and intriguing. As I believe that therapy has no place into an entertainment context, I do not mix it with mentalism. Some people disagree and will mix and match but I believe that the risk for harming the person by triggering something bad is too high in this context (therapy should not be done in public for entertainment, when you have time constraints and should focus on the audience's experience, I believe it should be done at the subject's rhythm and in a safe space).

However, I have taken the time to study both counseling and the therapeutic aspect of hypnosis, I have used them privately as one-off quick fix to small things and I often think that, in another life, I might have pursued this path further.

So I guess that the answer is: because I am primarily an entertainer, not a therapist.
Human bodies are a tiny fraction of the mass footprint of a space mission, and especially a deep space mission. Imagine the cost savings of spinlaunching the pieces of a vessel and supplies into orbit and then being able to launch an astronaut on a rocket the size of a telephone pole.
The dark-blue-with-light-text color scheme was used by MS-DOS based dev environments too back in the day. Both Microsoft's "Quick" and Borland "Turbo" series used it. It was even featured in the EDIT fullscreen editor on MS-DOS.
> Any data on whether inherited or gifted assets have become a larger fraction of net worth than labor for most Americans?

Presumably, that's what the book The Asset Economy studies in detail, but unfortunately this essay only touches on it in broad strokes and does not serve as a review of it. Looks like here's one, though:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24175336
It will be rather difficult for the board to argue that it's satisfying it's fiduciary duty by rejecting an offer with such a high premium so the current shareholders can continue to own a company that's losing money.
> Their secret sauce is the plastic shell and connector shape.

And load leveling, over/under current protection, metering UI, etc etc. Also, not all 18650s have the same characteristics for dis|charge rates, and capacity.
New Dashboard to Analyze Churn Rate (Stripe and PayPal)
>Shareholders have had numerous opportunities to sell at this price and higher, so it makes no sense to recommend the sale at this price for all shareholders.

Plenty of shareholders have sold at the offer price or lower, which is why TWTR was ~$38 pre-Elon.
We just released a new dashboard to help subscription-based businesses track, analyze, and reduce their churn rate.
> Yes, as we all know Elon Musk is an extremely trustworthy person

He refused to ban Russian media through Starlink when everyone was banning them and anything that smelled like russian. So I'd say he can take the heat for free speach when it truly matters.
Samsung.com’s exploitative chat system makes employees work for free
I had my first experience realizing mid-life -- and its ghosts -- when I was just about your age. I bought a book about it and it helped me understand where most of that anxiety were coming from. I don't see a therapist, dont take any meds or feel that I'm depressed. I have bad days every other week, but I think that's normal and somewhat "desired" to keep me focused on my goals. One thing that helped me fight the bitterness of mid-life crisis was physical activities, adrenaline. I have intensified my bike rides a lot. I used a popular bike training app to quantify my performance and then push it harder. It's been working good for me in general. I have lost weight, improved my sleep and eating habits. My bike has become my best companion throughout this weird phase of my life.
Analog-only phones had great quality because they didn't sample voice. Once phone systems were changed to digital backbones, it became necessary to sample voices, and the sampling rates that were chosen were done so for efficiency using the tech of the time. Usually 4 khz samples. While there are better quality standards today, many phone systems will fall back on old standards.
Invest as much of your income as you can, not to eventually be rich (which you likely could be), but as insurance against being stuck in a boring/miserable job just to pay the bills.
+1 for religion.

Do you have any religious affinity, @0414throwaway? What's your story there?
I was in a few startups, but stopped moving around and climbed the org chart with the last acquisition.

Kept myself up to date, so I’m pretty comfortable on modern stack infra and backend (avoid front end churn).

Agile is everywhere, we work in two week sprints here. But take a more sanguine view towards the metrics, it’s not the end of the world if something slips.

I’d love to avoid meetings, my current role leans 70% meetings in my calendar.

But I just seem to accumulate architecture, process and delivery responsibilities in whatever team I go into, which is annoying because I love nothing more than head down coding, but I can’t stand things being done the “wrong way” (a.k.a over engineering or under engineering, wrong debt being taken on at the wrong time, etc).

And this means meetings and lots of communication.
Progressive taxation to hundred percent for both individuals and corporations.
Yes - if memory serves me 99c was actually a high price for a drink in the 90s convenience store setting; or maybe on par with a 20oz soda. They came in big cans to make it worth the cost.
> Nautilus is so broken I prefer to use the console for most file related tasks.

I feel this way about every file manager. If there was a CLI file save dialog I'd never see Finder or Explorer or Nautilus.
Twitter's users are worthless.

Recent studies show that a very small percentage is responsible for some 97% of all tweets. And worse, 80% of those 97% of tweets are retweets.

There's almost no original content of any value on Twitter. You could now delete half of all Twitter users and absolutely nothing will happen.

Twitter is a bunch of celebrities/politicians saying things that fuel division and outrage, which generates the bulk of activity. They won't ban anything as because without Twitter richly rewarding them for idiotic takes, they are nothing.
Unfortunately it’s rarely that these kind of decisions are based on technical merit, but instead because they’re part of the business proposition, or requested by other parts of the business (sales/marketing).

Other than that, I fully agree that you should try to minimize your dependence on them, it’s not good a good position to be in; what’s in the best interest for YouTube today may not be the case in one year.
Alternatively, we could, as a country, ban the display of partial charges on advertisement. In Europe it's standard for sales taxes and other charges to be included in prices displayed to consumers. We just don't do that over here because... I guess we like charging a stupid tax? That's what it is in the end, if you think the broom for 19.95 actually costs 19.95 and budget for that we'll punish you for not properly doing advanced mathematics.
That definitely seems to summarize what the introduction of neoliberalism in the '90s and the financialization of everything has led to.
In the same way that you would expect most people in the US to adhere to puritan Calvinist beliefs?
But if someone rejects your offer, that usually implies it's worth more, not less.
Ok, I suspect your trolling at this point:

If you're not, here you go: https://www.givewell.org/
I guess it's mostly academics who have unusual problems that demand custom solutions, but which are small enough so people can switch to a language their lab group is not using and still be successful with their projects. I also wish for more common adoption but it is hard to make headway against python and R that have years of development for "basic packages" for typical users in them, which is just not the kind of stuff most academics can spend their time on.
instead of only downvoting, could someone also clarify how this statement is wrong to help educate myself on the facts? thanks for your help.
The failure of those other platforms has nothing to do with free speech or lack there of. Twitter has a moat that you aren't going to be able to break by just trying to out Twitter them.
I have no problem with per-stay fees, and agree they make total sense.

My qualm is that they sometimes aren't included in the advertised price of the listing, which makes comparing listings much more difficult, and incentivizes owners to create huge cleaning fees to artificially lower their advertised price-per-night.
I've used GNOME for so long that anything other than Nautilus feels clunky to me. Though to be fair I almost never search for anything, so those pain points don't bother me. I just want a file manager that gets out of my way.
So Crypto Andys like to hand-wave about the risk of a 51% attack but consider this:

> This is in addition to the long-standing concentration of Ethereum mining power, with normally three and sometimes only two mining pools controlling over 50% of the mining power.

There is further hand-waving about how Proof-of-Stake (over Proof-of-Waste) will magically fix these problems. But it's actually this PoW computing power that makes the network more resilient to hostile takeover.

I've heard it described that the attraction of Crypto is the essence of the American Dream: by getting rich by doing nothing while lauding how smart you are over other people. So much of Crytpo can be explained by Bitcoin FOMO. Everyone just jumps on the latest shitcoin or NFT because "I'm not missing out this time".

Ultimately something has to create value or it will come crashing down. The only use case we really have is illegal activity. Some of that is justified on ethics grounds (eg bypassing capital controls in Venezuela). A lot of it is just shady.

There's a ton of talk about the "potential". So far the offshots (eg NFTs, Web3) are just ludicrous boondoggles in finding problems for a solution. I have doubts this will ever create value for the masses.
> how is it different from China again

It's a matter of degree. Not everything is black or white. Things can be better or they can be worse.

Since there is no way to just argue one's way out of it, I'll just point you to the ranking established by the World Justice Project [1] in this document [2].

Overall ranking (lower is better):

- United States: ranking 27

- China: ranking 98

- Russian Federation: ranking 101

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Justice_Project

[2] https://worldjusticeproject.org/sites/default/files/document...
Can you please stop breaking the site guidelines? We ban accounts that post like this, because it destroys what HN is supposed to be for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I think best balance is living elsewhere but having good ties to the bay area. I work remotely for a bay area company and love it when i visit there (10-15 times a year).
Your quests are all about money and success. Once you attain them you no longer have a rock to push up hill.

You need something transcendent, a bigger goal that keep you engaged in live, something big enough that inspire you, that you might never complete.

It could be art or technology or religion but I think it need to be something.

I am a bit in the same doldrum. It look like you are a builder and might need something to build, to be productive to be happy.

Also:

-friends
-wife
-family
-kids
-job/career
-hobby/fun activities

Those are the normal component of life for 90% of people. Look to see if something simple is missing in the list, work on that.
> If you’re spending a ton of time blocking / unfollowing

Do you really spend hours doing that? I use twitter and really don't need to do all that maintenance, and there are TONS of trolls and nasty people.

What are you doing on twitter that requires such high maintenance?
OTOH, Russia successfully elected a POTUS that helped cripple Ukraine’s ability to defend itself.
This might be a case of the enemy of my enemy (capitalist USA) are my friends. Actually they are only the enemy of their enemy and also capitalists, but the hopes of a lifetime can be self delusional.
Agreed. Good thing for me, I have a diet Dr Pepper habit and paying beer prices for a can of soda increased my water consumption!
> You're still approaching this as "A's feelings vs B's rationale".

Not necessarily. I also wrote:

«If one part obviously feels so much _stronger_ than the other, why shouldn’t the other just give way?
…
some people tend to feel _more strongly_ about most things, and others may not feel particularly strong about anything (although _they are not void of feelings/opinions_).»

I’m thinking about the degree of feelings involved. (No one is fully and solely rational, after all.)

I agree with you on the other points you make.
Why not just let her be a stay at home mom and put this whole career thing to rest?

You can afford it, and having a parent that can be around 24/7 with the kids is immensely valuable.

A teaching career isn’t going to contribute much to your family unit.
I presumed most developers did, until a few years ago I asked some colleagues and not one of them said yes. Here's a handful of mine ...

- Static site generator

- Web server that delivers live-transformed Markdown

- EPUB and/or DOCX generator

- Book library management tool

- Markov-based text generator

- Hex map renderer

- Automatic Go API generator from structs

- Automatic C# API generator from Postgres database

- ORMs for Postgres in C# and Go

- C# migration tool for Postgres and MySQL

- Seneca-style microservices toolkit for C#

- Functions platform for Go

And many more ...
> I wanted to come up with a flashlight that really works for all elements on the page, but I don't think any combination of DOM elements and mix-blend-modes would do it.

I think CSS clip-path might be a solution like you want but without the canvas. Just tried it out here to confirm: https://codepen.io/dsmmcken/pen/BaJqrwX
Right. Too many people are reading the offer literally.

Musk wants to exit his Twitter position, and is using this offer to pump the price before he dumps stock, under the justification of "they rejected my painfully, obviously low offer so now I need to exit".

Except the market has already jumped back down.
I already had all my Rails hot takes half composed in my mind before I even finished clicking. What should I do with all this energy now?
Any software you use might steal your YouTube credentials.

It might be this API wrapper or it might be any other dependency. It might even be the scientific calculator you installed that had nothing to do with that project.

What makes this especially scary?
Why wouldn't a streaming audio protocol allow for that?
That's crazy. If he is satoshi what's his excuse for not having the private keys to those coins in the main bitcoin network?
You guys should start a fundraiser or something, so you can stop hosting this on your basement Raspberry Pi cluster and finally rent out some proper cloud hosting :D
Please don't post like this. We ban accounts that do, regardless of how dumb another comment is or you feel it is.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
They've switched to an interesting (though, to me, annoying and I hope it doesn't catch on but it kinda already has [other fast food places are doing it too] so add it to the list of shit that's terrible about the current world) model where they price really high on the menu but then offer deals and coupons that get you back down to what would have been a sale price before the price hikes.

It's a kind of price discrimination tactic—people willing to clip coupons or use the company's app might pay 1/3 or less the menu price, and those who aren't, pay the full (and crazy-high) menu price.

Like, yes, coupon shopping has always been a thing, but not like this, because the normal menu prices used to already be pretty good. They're super expensive now, but if you burn some time, they'll give you a really good price, consistently, pretty much any time you want it.
A solution to the SQL vs. ORM dilemma
China's government, like Russia's uses the west as a tool to consolidate power. The western world, and specifically NATO (which is really just another world for America in this context) serve as a looming enemy. We have now clearly seen that the actual actions of the West do not matter. China and Russia suffer from intense corruption, low overall standards of living, and the massive income and power gaps that arise from these types of governments. Western democracy ain't perfect, but there is a good chance that given the ability to accurately compare their options the Chinese and Russian populace would start to push back against the power structures. You can see this in the case of Hong Kong, and in Ukraine's westward trajectory.

Thus the people in power need to control information and unify the population in order to stay in power. If the west doesn't directly provide ammunition for this information war, they will just make it up. And they already do this. I have come to realize over the last 5 years or so that China and Russia have ZERO information in maintaining a truly friendly relationship with western (there needs to be a word for this that doesn't ignore Japan and Korea) democracies. They will continue to act in whatever fashion preserves the power structure, and that will include simply inventing threats. Such as Ukraines doomed bid to join NATO.
Near as I can tell, just don't be named Tyrone. There is no unbiased hiring process. Even the AI hiring teams are rife with bigotry.
I have some Twitter stock, and will be happy to transmorgrify it into another Musk company!
Having nuclear weapons is the only sure way to prevent someone from “liberating” you through an invasion.
I read the title too quickly and thought the article was on Python’s partial and the author was using a very elaborate analogy from molecular biology.

Was not disappointed.
No. Escape Velocity (https://www.wikihow.com/Calculate-Escape-Velocity) is: 11.2 km/s.

From the article, they've only achieved 8,047 km/h or 2.23 km/s.

Also, flinging waste from your home into the air and hoping it won't come back down sounds like a really bad idea.
To temper your enthusiasm some:

They cannot fling things to orbit, they can fling things very fast but a (smaller) rocket is still needed to finish getting to orbit.

and G Forces are extreme so this is only suitable for payloads that don't mind extreme G forces.
If this is true, why isn't Clubhouse a resounding success?
Goldman supposedly had the stock rated sell @ $30, before recommending the board reject $54.20.

There's a premium expected for a total buyout, but I don't see how they justify ~80% higher than their current/previous rating.