skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You don't control a country by controlling a single building.

This isn't some random building, it's literally the Capitol, with Congress in attendance. This was also not an isolated incident.

In 2020 Ammon Bundy of Malheur standoff fame led an armed mob which forced its way past the State Patrol into a session of the Idaho State House of Representatives. After occupying the gallery above the House they were "allowed" to stay and observe the session, with their guns.

On January 6th itself an armed mob forced its way past the gate at the governors house in Washington state.

Also on January 6th attempts were made to enter the capitols in California, Georgia, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Oregon. Some of these involved armed mobs and gallows.

On January 9th an armed mob showed up outside the Kentucky State Capitol.

Consider the connection between Waco, Ruby Ridge, and Oklahoma City to see how this escalates.

> And worst case, you send the military and the crisis is over in a few hours.

That worst case involves the mob actually reaching the representatives, killing them and claiming power. In that case the military can't just magically set everything right. If hostages are involved nothing is getting done "in a few hours". The military isn't going to undo any damage.

A successful attack on Congress that incapacitated, killed, or persuaded enough representatives absolutely could lead to control of the country.

> If you believe that this was an insurrection, that was the most peaceful insurrection ever in History.

A woman was killed by the Secret Service after breaching a barricade in pursuit of the Vice President. Members of the mob used chemical weapons on police. Call it whatever you want but it wasn't peaceful and it wasn't innocent.
This is pretty accurate, but somewhere between step 8 and 9 or step 9 and 10 is "Argentinian government 'resets' the currency, causing even deeper loss of confidence"
Prices of commodities are expressed in dollars and are global. The agricultural sector thinks in dollars, not in pesos. It's not that the dollar goes higher: the peso goes down.

The illegal dollar market is not small, and its prices change similarly to the legal dolar market (mep, ccl).
It may help to take a look at Marcia Yudkin's works on marketing to/for introverts.

https://www.yudkin.com/index.htm

Replace "introvert" with "deep person / product" if that's a more comfortable model.

Self-promotion is a really important area of consideration here and our shouty marketing culture is really kind of unipolar about it until you know what to look for. Good luck.
Are the kind of chips being used to mine crypto the same kind that are keeping Ford from building trucks?
I was thinking of AdSense.
I think he's talking about today, not 10+ years ago.
Could also have been a task assigned to a junior engineer or something, to see how they handled such a project - one with real world stakes, but minor ones.

Alternatively, could have been a junior engineer doing it of their own accord, to show the bosses what they were capable of.
Yeah, chat and email basically prove that the vast majority of the public don’t actually want to run and maintain a server themselves, which basically leaves

* carriers (universally disliked by the population, tolerated at best, and pretty scummy trying to trap you into their own networks or bloatware if they can get away with it)

* apps that monetize using ads

* apps that monetize with payment

* an OS-level standard (iMessage is very successful, the Android chatting less so, and nonexistent on desktop OSes)
Yes but without a foreign policy economic investment may be difficult.
By “they” are you talking about Paul Pelosi?

Can somebody explain how buying stock for $100(1) and selling at $165 causes a loss?
I’m not being flippant, it’sa serious question.

1. https://www.businessinsider.com/nancy-pelosi-stock-trades-pa...
Youtube was purchased, so that one isn't anything innovated in house.
A "free market" isn't borderless. There's virtually no precedent for that.
If you want to make whatever point you're trying to make here, you have to write it a lot more carefully than this. Imputing negative traits to entire nations or cultures is explicitly not OK on HN:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Thank you, friend, very interesting, I will give it a look!
The US still produces a lot of computer chips…

Intel is still a very large player in chips and dominate in some areas. Even TI which has tons of fabs (not highest end) as well. I don’t really understand this.
>there's some code out there that is a work of art and can inspire awe in everyone.

and the people who wrote it didn't spend thousands of hours memorizing the same stupid leetcode exercises to pass lame interviews for 6 figures job, they worked on real projects

tell me the fast inverse square root from Carmack would have been praised in an interview...
People already complain about the infamous "$5,000" wrenches and other silly ITAR compliance shenanigan's the DoD plays and drains their coffers... leading to increases in funding over the past many decades.
Show HN: Fragmenting Your Exposure to Big Tech
It is with great excitement and trepidation that I’m finally posting my first Show HN!

Though this short book is meant for a lay-consumer audience, it was written with the goal of being able to withstand the general scrutiny of the Hacker News community, which I cite in the references for any readers who are upset at the suggestion that they might not actually be all that technically inclined.

Though a creative type with uncommercial tendencies, I still have a drive to succeed, and so I come to HN to hear about all the independent hustling, side projects, and tinkering going on, because I appreciate the spirit of it, even when I only understand so much of what is being talked about.

Anyway, it took me 25 years as a writer to come up with a business plan, and here at the 8th title from the resulting small press, I’m finally ready to share it with HN, where I’ve been lurking for 11 years. I hope you enjoy it, or at least don’t find yourself wincing too much, cheers!
If a society makes the choice that they'd rather be a bit wealthier, at the cost of having slightly lower life expectancy, that certainly does say something about the society in question. I don't think I would describe a society that knowingly and intentionally made that decision as having "utterly failed", though.

US society has failed the "knowingly and intentionally" side of that, and also mostly the "trade" side of that (vaccines being the exception -- we actually did succeed at trading a pretty small amount of money for much-better-than-baseline outcomes there). But the problem wasn't that we chose to trade life for money, the problem was that we failed to have and act upon coherent priorities at all.
> Paul Pelosi purchased on June 17, 20,000 shares of Nvidia, a top semiconductor company, worth between $1 million and $5 million, the Daily Caller reported, citing disclosure reports filed by the House speaker.

Price on June 17 was $158, right now it’s $178
I don't think that's accurate at all. It's more like you couldn't tell the difference between a previously unseen, but real, Da Vinci sketch, and a fake one that was drawn to mimic every aspect of his style. There's nothing similar to a four year old here - more like an art forger with a deep understanding of the artist.
you are right that I didn't phrase it well, but no.

My argument is that a method of defense that carries a jail sentence if it succeeds is suboptimal.
I think its killer feature is the memory safety guarantees, but other than that, I just don't find it as readable as other modern languages, mainly because it's symbol heavy.
"I have a personal opinion that pronouns are not important."

The point of respect is that your personal opinions are not important; the opinions of the person on the other end of your communications are.
We give genetic testing to every person for free at a few of their regular checkups with their primary care doctor.

If you test positive for some genetic markers, you get free IVF, paid for by the government. If you have some kind of anti-IVF bent, it's not mandatory, just a benefit you aren't using. The IVF process picks embryos that have the least undesirable traits - but you will definitely have a kid and it will be yours.

You have eugenics and no forced sterilization, no murdering people, nothing.

It still won't work, but you have ethical eugenics.
That list would be a lot more informative and accurate id you include the launch date of each
That was some kind of privacy thing, right? So you can't take voyeuristic revealing photos that see thru peoples' clothes to an extent?
I feel like it’s even worse. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn’t and I haven’t figured out how to get it to do what I want 100% of the time. Just have a mute button on the player!
I believe I saw small Legos kits as a kid in the 70s, but I certainly didn't have any of that. As you say, we had just a bucket of legos bricks.

What I really liked to do with them is to make all kinds of all-terrain trucks with lots of wheels and stuff. This was all just from imagination, and they I came up with fresh designs every time.

I really don't understand what people do these days, with kits that are supposed to be assembled just so. I mean, I get that people like to build scale models, but why not just do that? With lego, it's not going to look like the real thing anyway, so why not use it for your own expression?
Judging from the downvotes you get the level of understanding of 101 economics among the HN audience remains precariously low :-)
Solid. Thanks.

By the way did you ever play the game Cyberdogs back in the old days? My brother and I had a blast with it. An enjoyable classic.
Pretty sure that’s already the case.
I think in this case the US is different than say Chile because its such a large market. AKA its large enough to support home grown manufacturing if the incentives aren't out of wack.

The chicken tax, as been an incredibly efficient way to assure that car's are manufactured in the USA, so much so that the cost difference between a Ford manufactured in Mexico and a Toyota manufactured in TX is basically 0.
I didn't read it as how to take down an outsider, because why would an outsider care how "they do things there"? If someone has a club where they only open doors with their left hand, it isn't particularly interesting to me as an outsider who isn't subject to the same rules.

It seems more about educating a newbie to the group, or someone in-group who broke some social rule, in a manner that accepts no rebuttals. The "we" in that sense seems inclusive of the person being chastised too.

If a parent says to their child "We don't throw balls in the house", they aren't saying their child isn't part of the family.

Having said that, I don't like this advice because it is condescending(which is why it was so easy to find an example of about a parent-child relationship).
OpenVSP 3.29.0
Absolutely nope. Giving Google (smartphone) and Microsoft (work laptop) total access to anything I type on my keyboard is already difficult to swallow.

Also, because I developed some sort of gag reflex when I see anything related to them after being forced to watch their ads repeatedly for months.
Drive (and docs/gmail) is also profitable. So is maps and youtube.
Not much any more, but in the 90s and 2000s, having zero, or negative interest rates was a real peculiarity. People couldn't figure out how it could happen or why Japan couldn't fix it. Meanwhile 20 years later we've all been in the same boat.
Thanks. I did not mean XAML literally though, something like that would be super nice for Linux. The project you linked brings Windows RT as a requirement.
But just something with the richness of QT + Rust on Linux would be welcome. I am hearing the rust bindings for QT are just a pain and incomplete. I was hoping for Rust to really offer an alternative for C++ here.
Based on the size and shape of the tool I'm guessing it's a brushed DC motor, which in that size can easily achieve several kRPM --- unloaded, that is. When it's actually being used to do the work of melting the plastic, probably below 1kRPM.
> Wait, so you want to prohibit individual landlords in favor of large corporations managing the country's rental stock?

How did you get “prohibit individual landlords in favor of large corporations managing rental stock” from the upstream criticism of the forces driving both individual and corporate investment in housing-as-appreciating asset.
11. Due to extremely taxes and an extremely unfavorable official exchange rate, citizens hoard dollars illegally and it exacerbates their currency reserve problems.

Note that 11 is really an issue of both government policy and the culture. Tax evasion is both a response to inflation and a result of a culture that doesn’t see an issue with putting private benefit over public good.
There is no such thing as "the free market" - it's this mythologized idea that people keep pushing, usually to damage workers so they can ship jobs offshore.

If anything, the more something resembles a "free market", the worse it is - you don't think Intel wouldn't poison the water supply if it juiced the Q4 earnings?

It's always more economical to just dump the toxic waste into the local river. If anything these subsidies even the playing field for people who don't think that's a good idea.
It still exists; Nokia sold it, and now some EU automobile manufacturers own it and maintain it well - https://wego.here.com/ (apps for both android and ios are available, and you can download maps for offline use statewise or for whole of india). English only though.
Ask HN: Computer Vision for Collective Good?
I've been a computer vision-focused engineer for years now, working on projects I'd consider morally... neutral. Nothing harmful (surveillance, weaponized dog-bots, ad targeting, etc) but nothing that's even close addressing our social and planetary ills.

I love the day-to-day nuts and bolts of my current CV work, but feel drawn to make some sort of contribution to the collective good. Does anyone know of companies that combine the two?

I'm being deliberately vague on what I consider "good." I'm interested in whatever you think is putting out our shared dumpster fire.

Thank you!
"We listened to the customers and they were wrong"
How does the "official" exchange rate work?

The gov says the peso is worth way more than it really is, so can't you exploit that to get really cheap dollars?

Do they only allow "one way" official exchanges, from dollars to pesos?
That is a hopeful idea but I feel it might be our naivety that propagates it.

To my understanding Google's interviews have gotten easier and more arbitrary perhaps over time. The competition is high and thus there is the expectation of having studying to pass. Google is famous in the end.

Consider there are the following cases (kind of complete):

a) New employees hired are not brilliant

b) Google doesn't want to hire brilliant employees thus the leetcode interview

c) Leetcode has little effect on "they are brilliant" check, so a different trait is selected and indirectly brilliance distribution inside of Google is different but not the main one affected

d) Even if Google was full of brilliant people it wouldn't matter; they have no power over what happens by design (or inadvertently)

Google is huge. The main job of everyone there, I claim, is to not screw up the money maker: ad auctioning. After that they can do as they wish. The job of every manager there is to make sure that doesn't happen. Innovation is next. And they do innovate but not on things that make enough money to sustain. There is no direction thus.

As evidence I provide the following. They have been throwing ideas at the wall for years trying to see what else sticks even as close to the ad auctioning and data collection scheme and they kill what doesn't appear to. Thus, their reputation of killing things.
Yes, inflation hurts workers. You know what also hurts workers? Low wages.

The fed has specifically stated that reducing wages is one of their goals.

I'm not against the fed raising rates. But any benefit workers see from such a policy is unintentional.
That would be pretty close to OCaml.
I've been a Dreamhost customer since ~2006 and am not seeing any issues. I've always liked what they have done, with only a few complaints (give me back squirrelmail damn-it, I don't always have access to my systems and atmail is literally the worst webmail client ever). Any time I've had a real issue, they have resolved it quickly, even bending over backwards for me a time or two on billing issues to help me avoid issues with domains expiring. I hope this gets resolved soon, but it does sound like a pretty minor single server. (their shared hostnames are interestingly grouped)
https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/violation-tracker...

follow up source: https://www.doj.state.or.us/media-home/news-media-releases/o...

Quote: "Today’s settlement follows a two-year investigation by the Oregon Department of Justice into evidence that suggested Pfizer was using unreliable and unsubstantiated claims to promote Zyvox®, a relatively new and expensive antibiotic used for treating certain types of pneumonia and bacterial skin infections. Despite lacking evidence required by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make such claims, Pfizer allegedly relied upon flawed clinical studies to substantiate assertions that Zyvox® was a superior to vancomycin, a comparatively inexpensive generic drug that holds the largest market share and has been available for more than 40 years. Pfizer’s sales representatives detailed and distributed thousands of copies of these faulty studies throughout Oregon to promote the sale of Zyvox®."

Very long and pleasant way of saying "they lied".

Not enough?

How about Chantix:
1. https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/lawsuit-news...
2. https://www.youhavealawyer.com/chantix/

Totaling almost 300 million in settlement payouts, they opted to do this AS A SETTLEMENT rather than let things drag out in court. Hmm... I wonder why. Couldn't be because they lied, hide, or downplayed information about Chantix's impact on people's mental health. This lands in their top 10 in terms of pay outs :)

And again, I will direct you to: https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635

While they haven't been fined for it yet (because their new contracts make it almost impossible :^) ), we have pretty substantial evidence Pfizer lied about a myriad of data points collected at at least one facility in regards to their covid19 injection trials.

But hey, at the end of the day I don't care what you believe beyond this post. You can defend the ultra corrupt big pharma company that bakes hundreds of millions in fines into its yearly operating budget.

Makes no difference to me, I'm healthy :)
Having spent a good number of years in these companies, I can say that there is no shortage of creative and skillful employees there. What kills innovation is the lack of real ownership and the feedback-driven politics. Employees with great ideas and ability to execute can't go ask for funding and work on their ideas - those ideas would be either stolen (politics), or priorities would change (no real ownership), they would still have a manager to answer to, and they'd still have to be careful to not cross anyone's feelings for the inevitable complaint will wreck their careers (no real competition). So everyone plays it safe, wears a fake smile and cheers the team even when that team is surely going to sink the ship. The bigger a corporarion gets, the more pronounced this risk-averse safetism becomes. The terminal stage of such corporations is a gov-like bureaucracy where safety is the idol and risk is a slur word.
Yes it is, there’s always been taxes. Free market typically refers to regulations, free commerce (means ability to buy and sell), etc. that doesn’t mean no taxes, particularly tariffs.

The US federal government was initially only able to make revenue from tariffs. Basically you control the borders, but inside the borders there are no control (ie free market). Once you deal between nations, you cannot have a perfectly free market, else your enemies will eat you. Which imo is what happened the last 50 years.
This is all very useful, thanks for your feedback!

> 3.) Supporting staging/local dev environments with as little additional dev work would be awesome. You may already accomplish this, didn't go deep into the docs.

We currently have test/prod environments for each account and will be adding staging/local envs as well (great for local/integration testing etc).

Would love to have you check us out for future projects!
> The long term goal for Wikipedia should be to collect information on anything that is of interest to one or more person.

That is very explicitly not a goal of Wikipedia. Of course you're free to disagree with what Wikipedia ought to be, but they're at least fairly clear and explicit about their own goals.
also note that CSR (corporate social responsibility) is public relations, not a moral or ethical position, part and parcel to the term 'greenwashing'.

in the same vein as the article, we should stop talking about climate change in favor of pollution. climate change is vague, pollution is not. we can see and feel the effects of pollution, which makes it more likely that we can create a coalition to address it rather than this unspecific notion of temperatures rising. pollution affected us yesterday, affects us today, and will continue to affect us into the foreseeable future. in the 80s this framing was used effectively against acid rain (sulfur dioxide) and CFC/HFCs.

coal plants are among the most impactful in terms of pollution, so if instead of arguing about 1 or 2 or however many degrees of temperature rise, we pour all that effort into getting rid of coal plants (principally with nuclear right now, some gas at the margin, and renewables gradually, as storage and transmission tech improve), we'd be able to make meaningful impact in the next few years, with a byproduct of also reducing carbon emissions.
Utah's Surprising Success in China
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER

“It will be the world's largest magnetic confinement plasma physics experiment and the largest experimental tokamak nuclear fusion reactor.”

Does the $3.9B spent on ITER not count?

https://www.science.org/content/article/cost-skyrockets-unit...
Mr. Blue Basketball Sneakers has been stealing all kinds of stuff from parked cars in the radius of my home. He's been caught on camera probably a dozen times. He wears a black mask, hoodie, and pants but wears some very conspicuous blue basketball sneakers that absolutely glow from the motion lights he ignores. I'm sure he lives nearby as he's always on foot with a backpack and the hits all seem to be one big neighborhood. Hopefully the cops catch him before some crazy homeowner with a gun does.
Biggest problem I see with the current system is that it’s only a deterrent if the fines are large enough. If they are too small they have the opposite effect and actually encourage criminal behavior because the reward will be worth the risk statistically.

On the other hand, defaulting to go after corporate leadership directly does create an opportunity for shareholders to mostly get away with things they supported behind the scenes.

Very complicated issue overall and I haven’t really decided anything on it yet other than “we can probably do better”.
> and less details about what different “personalities” are saying

What are these? Can you quote them?

Pompeo could qualify I suppose? Though he was Secretary of State, which seems to be more than a "personality".

The rest of the "details" are about the opinions of congressmen, not "personalities".
It sounds like you are a really talented designer-builder!

Are you saying you saw your gazebo for sale by someone in China, and it used the same weird attrapments that yours did?

(And I'm curious, taking the more common case, how would your neighbor design it?)