skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The american system is bad for the poor or unlucky" is a very different argument than "the american system is bad for the average person."

The difference in median disposable income between the U.S. and the U.K. is stunning: almost $17,000. Even after you factor in things like student loan debt (averaging $220/month for the minority of people who have student loans at all) and out-of-pocket healthcare expenses and premiums (a few thousand a year on average, versus maybe a thousand or so in other OECD countries), the median American household is coming out way ahead.
Amtrak Has Lost Money for Decades. A Former Airline CEO Thinks He Can Fix It
I just do some things. These are my priorities:

Maintain a healthy relationship

Socialize and enjoy life

Maintain a healthy body

Experiment and try new things.

I spend a disproportionate number hours working, I don’t see a reason to prioritize it beyond that it naturally is prioritized (regular baseline hours and obvious objectives).

We all have our baseline for how much we can accomplish and it is important to not force yourself into a mode of life that you cannot sustain or which makes you miserable.

Sleep in, go for walks, don’t fret about leaving things unfinished if they’re not sparking anything in you.

I guess this is to say, don’t do things for their sake, do them for your own sake. Enough things will fall off that your time will allocate itself naturally.
I think multiple studies about the topic were enough to convince people in power, but screaming "CHERNOBYL" or "Nuclear Bombs" convinces an average voter way better..

It's a tragedy..
> 4. CryptFS. Great Idea but slow as

"CryFS solves all of these issues, but because of the increased security it is a bit slower. It is also a very new project and currently only available for Linux and Mac, but has experimental Windows support in the newest version. So if you don't need Windows support today, you can give it a try." https://www.cryfs.org/comparison/
The article doesn't spell out why Category IIIc (the mode in which the "decision height" is zero and the computers will put the plane down even if there is literally no visibility at all) isn't used in practice. The reason is: ok, now your plane is on a runway, we all agree that's good, but what next? You can't see, that's why you need Category IIIc rather than just Category IIIb which is sometimes done in bad weather. So you can't taxi the plane off the runway safely. Your ground controllers can't see you either. This is strictly better than not being able to land, but that's all.

So Cat IIIc (and to some extent even other Cat III landings) come into their own when the busiest airports can safely handle ground operations in all weathers, which may never happen.
Yes I can confirm VPNPRO is most likely owned by NordVPN. The site itself wrote a hit piece trying to defame me (falsely claiming I work for one of there competitors). Ironically, lots of Nord shills also think I am the CEO of PIA or something. This article lines up perfectly with Nord's "MO" of casting blame around at other companies to deflect themselves from the bad PR.

Now NordVPN is trying to remove my reviews on my Youtube: https://youtu.be/gZdQx9iv_1U, and they've been caught blackmailing another VPN provider.

The site always rushes to NordVPN's defense when any bad news is going on, and there are several shills on Reddit trying to spread this article around.
All the necessary physics could have been developed just fine even if there had always been a dense fog of debris surrounding the earth past the moon.
"Hypercore assumes a linear history. It can not support branches in the history (multiple entries with the same sequence number) and will fail to replicate when a branch occurs. This means that applications must be extremely careful about ensuring correctness. Users can not copy private keys between devices or processes without strict coordination between them, otherwise they will generate branches and 'corrupt' the hypercore."

https://www.datprotocol.com/deps/0002-hypercore/#the-linear-...
> I asked my dad how they let my brothers and I wanted the suburb on our own as kids.

When I was 6, my parents took us to Mexico and let me and my two younger siblings wander around on our own. They also barely registered any idea of possible danger. The closest they got was when my little brother was petting a horse from behind more than a mile from home and got lightly kicked in the head. They told us to be more careful and watch out for each other, and we were wandering around the next day. It could have gone bad, but it didn’t, we survived. Other memories of my childhood include things like bouncing around in the back seat of their Buick without seatbelts.

My wife had a hard time letting our own two boys wander around on their own in safe middle class neighborhoods until they were both over 12. I was pushing for more autonomy, but I have to admit I’d never have given my kids as much autonomy as I got.
I don't think it's anywhere illegal if not used for revenge porn or harassment.
I think I just read a post from the owner of that house on Quora. Still can't decide whether she was rational or not.

https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-make-children-not-eat-all-o...
Yep looks like $600 and they only last 20-25K miles.
Most things suck or are not directly relevant to your immediate situation. Thus you can eliminate and prioritize.

A lot of those goals seem generally good but won't necessarily benefit you like they benefit others. So you shouldn't feel obligated to have them, and let them go. Journals/meditation/exercise/reading material etc all solve specific problems, they shouldn't be treated like they're absolute must-haves without context.

If you truly are ambitious and not afflicted by mimyesis (most of those goals are vague and high-level/generic/conventional, likely not informed by what your real opportunities are, or if they are you aren't describing them, which suggests that they're not coming from you), then the most important thing is to have the capacity of achieving those goals over your lifetime.

This mainly implies good health -- bite the bullet and prioritize exercise first, buy a gym subscription and trainer to push you to accomplishment and give you the presence of mind and body to feel more energetic and willful towards your goals through life.

"Socializing" would be a good second priority because problems and interests rarely occur in a vaccuum, they occur relative to other people and their traditions of practice. If you don't have a sense of your interests or don't feel like you have any real problems, get some by treating that as your first problem and start exploring your interests based off of your own hunches until the larger picture forms. This also constrains the vaguer goals like "Read" (lol) and even "Study" (when you link up to other developers).

IMO the way to more productivity is by starting with small amounts of productivity and do the most natural least effort way of doing it first, then improve. Starting habits is hard, and sustaining them is hard, but doing them tends to be easy, which means that you want to figure out the least intimidating way to do them first so that you'll actually start it, then build up to sustain it.

I can't reiterate enough: if it isn't critical, put it off until later, and just do the most useful thing until it stops being useful. You're under no obligation to accomplish these tasks and there isn't anyone watching over you to accomplish them. Just do these things for you and because you want them or need to now, and you'll be OK.
This is a little different because it's really Clear Channel, a 47-year-old radio company.
Can you trust reddit, though? There's plenty of social media campaigns out there that have people plugging stuff on reddit to promote some company or agenda.
Did you consider rclone [1]?

[1] https://rclone.org/crypt/
Mostly with the FAA self-certification process.
Little by little things get done. When you wake up in the morning you don’t start “remodeling a house” you install door knobs. You don’t “build a new web app” you work on a feature. It doesn’t matter how much work you get done, just that you’re making progress. Chip away at your goals and forgive yourself when you don’t complete everything you wanted and try again tomorrow.
In 4 billion years they may well have evolved intelligence and have their own spacecraft.
From being in a similar situation here is what I learned recently. You have Finite time and you have finite energy, usually people want to do more things than they have available resources for. You have to internalize and accept this. You cannot accomplish all the tasks you want to do sustainably.

Fully internalizing this allows you to find what it is you really care about. For example you want to write a personal journal not for journaling sake but there is a goal you are trying to achieve that you think journaling is the way to reach it, same with meditation, work and everything on your list. They are tasks that lead to a goal. Accepting you have limited time allows you to prioritize your goals. When you do this you will be able to focus on what is truly important to you. Not everything on your list will move the needle to your real goals, slash them. Working hard and pushing yourself does not gaurantee success... remeber to live the life you want not the one you think you have to live to get the life you want.
It's sad to see these threads get quickly out of hand with emotions getting the best of some of the HN audience. I have been commenting from time to time in these threads, but it seems impossible at times to have rational discussion. I don't really feel strongly about China one way or the another, I just know they do not always uphold the same values as I do. (And so do many other things)

Anyway, I think it's important to look at this issue as a whole from also the viewpoint of the Chinese - to understand how the Chinese society works and why there is such strong emotional response when people start accusing China. Because I don't really have first-hand experience, I found these very interesting videos that I think are enlightening:

serpentza - How China stops Overseas Students Integrating

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uXreGimP-o

serpentza - China NEEDS an ENEMY to Survive!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg2fUGBQDMQ

The author who is from South-Africa has been living in China for some time, and how he describes his life there is quite illuminating. In short: China seems to have mastered how to create an "us vs them" culture and blatantly aggravates their citizens to move their focus away from their internal problems. Well, I know it's a little bit tangential, but I thought it was quite interesting.
Similarly to many MS technologies from that era, WPF/XAML is not half bad at the core, but so verbose. Probably intended to be primarily generated by tooling.
Spot on.

My last year was terrible, and I had developed the habit of watching video as way to self-soothe. I wasn't really enjoying it or getting anything out of it, so when my major source of stress ended, I decided to kick the TV/Netflix/Prime habit. For all of June, I eliminated it and video games.

It was hard at first, but it has been great. When June ended I was curious to see if I'd pick those back up. So far, nothing. It turns out if I let myself be bored, it will drive me to do something more interesting.
Agreed. This may become more common since as far as I understand aviation authorities around the world used to trust the FAA. Now they don’t and are doing their own due diligence.
Yup. If I retired right now, I'd show as 20 free years and 17 busy years. But I would feel like I had 32 free years.
So you get to define it?

As Wikipedia suggests, 'There is no single definition of the term, which developed in the 19th century and has been used to mean various different things'.

Included in these is a non-perjorative one as in 'a political philosophy supporting the rights and power of the people in their struggle against the privileged elite or The movement organized around this philosophy.' (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English)

A personal agenda will decide which one to pick.
Isn’t a simpler justification for the first story (epileptic seizures during recitation of a poem) that the particular synapses the student was using to recite the poem had a problem (demyelination?) that provoked seizures when used? Like a CPU core that has flawed silicon, or a road with a pothole, the system as a whole can work fine if you avoid it, but it’s a fatal flaw if you don’t.
More specifically, while linear logic grants the 'must use-once variable', Rust implements "affine types", where values must be used no more than once.
> For example: NordVPN, one of their "Top VPN providers" is run by the same guy who runs a Lithuanian data harvesting company [2]

Did you even read the article you linked? Nowhere in that article it says that NordVPN is ran by the same guy as data harvesting company. Also the same article you linked says in the end: "However, after thoroughly investigating this recent “scandal”, we still feel confident that NordVPN is still one of the safest VPNs around. It’s quite possible that its rapid growth and increasing popularity are part of the reason it’s being attacked by other VPN providers."
Don't answer.
You never know who is behind the "phone".

I wanna recommend a book to the Scientists called "Three Body Problem" by Liu CiXin. It's a story about inter-galactic struggle between Mankind and Aliens started off because a scientist answer the call.
I'd fly hundreds of domestic flights on an un-fixed 737 Max before I'd fly a single flight on a pilot-less airplane at this point in the state of technology.
Horrible advice. Deadlifts are a great exercise but can go horribly horribly wrong if you try too hard to lift an amount of weight that is too heavy for you. Instead you should focus on maintaining perfect form on every lift and incrementally add weight the more you progress. If you try and "ego-lift" a huge amount of weight you are risking serious injuries to your back, dont do it.

Also as to what is a heavy amount of what is a light amount - its irrelevant to an individual. You should lift the an amount that pushes you beyond what your comfortable with, but not so much that your risk injury.
The Three Body Problem(Novel)
7zip with aes-256 and random pw in password manager should be enough I think.
https://github.com/pierrejean-coudert/ReduxDelphi
Not really, sorry
I find myself on "new" when I've exhausted everything on the front page. I don't really visit "new" with the intent to promote things to the front page.
does it work with .net core? i.e. linux?
We haven’t so far, though we’d consider if it would be of interest to more than just Lispers. The code is open source though!
Does that mean poverty is not a problem worth addressing, because on average we’re a reasonably wealthy country?

Is inequality not a problem, because on average we all have the same opportunities?
It's also negative natural selection if Aunt Anna is very old, can barely walk, is losing her mind, yet still eats all the food the children grow ...
Ask if they're free for a hot date on Saturday.

That's what Kirk would do.
Do you have a problem?

There is help. There is hope!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1QFlgnN-7Q
Time to advertise my open source encryption filesystem: https://github.com/netheril96/securefs
Hard to guess. This would have to be people who still look like a dead-ringer for a criminal even to a human who compares their face to a database photo, and who are not able to supply ID to prove that it's just coincidental resemblance.

Police have always relied on facial recognition, just not facial recognition carried out by machines. We accept imperfect facial recognition from machines if it is faster, and leaves less work for humans to deal with.
For drugs that are new enough not to be available as generics, insurance companies typically have a "formulary" that specifies which drugs they will pay for and what the requirements are for them to pay for it. It might specify conditions like "we will only[0] cover drug Y from the class of drugs X" where drug Y is manufactured by AbbMerquibb and has negotiated a good price with the insurance company, or "we will only pay for drugs from class X after the cheaper frontline treatment Y has been tried and failed".

Doctors prescribe specific drugs. They don't prescribe "whatever SLGT-2 inhibitor your insurance plan covers". They also don't prescribe "whatever your approved first-line therapy for rheumatoid arthritis is". If doctors prescribe without caring about the cost to their patients, the best case scenario is that those patients come back for another prescription after the pharmacy tells them that their drug will cost $$$$ because insurance is not covering it. The worst case scenario is that the patients don't come back and decide they can't afford to have their condition treated.

[0] Barring patient intolerance to the preferred drug or various other exceptions.
Did you follow up after requesting for the check?
Just saw another post about answering calls from Aliens :
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20369901
It might be apropos to share my favorite science fiction related to Aliens and one of the possible consequence of contacting them.

It's a fun read and is critically acclaimed(Won a Hugo award) and it presents a very different way to look at life and the Universe.
it's the standard innovators dilemma isn't it. They're making X amount of money, to go full into EV space, they'll make less than X amount of money temporarily while they they ramp up EVs. Yes, it's a risk but somewhat a validated one. But they will cannibalize themselves as they move to new space.

Most businesses never want to make a step that makes them less money, it has to be growth, growth, growth at any cost.

This is why startups win, because they make less than X money, and can afford to chose different paths to slowly move up. Big Corps are notoriously afraid of choosing paths that cannibalizes their main business.

Barnes & Noble, Kodak, Yahoo, Blockbuster - Got killed by that sort of thinking.
What HTML/CSS rendering engine does it use? And in case it has its own implementation, then how good and up to date is the HTML/CSS support?
Veracrypt [0] is open source and has passed a security audit in the past (when it was forked from (Truecrypt). I use it for encrypted volumes and it has extra features for the truly “paranoid”. Combine this with Backblaze and you’ve got yourself a good secure backup for sensitive/personal data.
[0] https://www.veracrypt.fr/code/
So are they "privately" reporting data to the regulator and the regulator wants to publush it for public review effectively? I'm guessing all the data gets published or this wouldn't be an issue...
He's great! He also did the Scuttlebutt protocol guide:

https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/
Here some good material on unreinforced masonry:

https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/20130726-1728-25045-...
> I would prefer the default theme to be dark.

I would not. Now we're cancelled out.
You can carry a lot on a bicycle. https://www.urbanarrow.com/en
> Given the lack of demonstrable, specific harm, the matter is--rightly, in my opinion--deferred to the political branches as a political question (as opposed to a legal one).

I'm not sure how it can be relegated completely to political representatives, given that the secreacy means that the check on representative desicions (an informed populace voting for their representatives) isn't present.

> That said, let's keep in mind context. Here we have a government program which we're able to freely debate. If enough of us prioritized its removal, it would be outlawed.

You can freely debate specific policies in China, and broadly unpopular policies in China are suspended.

That can't be said for the US, where whether a law is passed has more to do with whether the ruling class supports it, rather than it's broad popularity.

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...

> That functions as a fundamental check totally lacking in China, moreso now that Xi is a dictator.

The whole 'Xi is a dictator' thing is severely overblown in Western media. Oh no, he has the same term limits as Angela Merkel now. Literally a dictator.

PS: linking to the states secrets wikipage to increase your number of citations is lol inducing.
No. I love the competitive aspect of games. The competition is the fun - I'll compete in anything and love it.

You make a mistake, you learn from it and play better next time. You don't get to take it back. Next time don't do it. If you could always take something back where is the urgency is making good decisions, playing better than your previous self or someone else.

And absolutely not, if you cannot remember what has already been played, well too bad. That's part of the game, especially cards. That's half the point of trick taking games. "are all the trumps out?" Besides the one in office, no way I'm telling you that, and if you are playing at my table, don't answer that for somebody else. You might as well keep track on paper at that point.

Competition is not a dirty word. It isn't anathema to enjoyment. You play to win. It is part of the fun. Competition makes me sharp, I concentrate more, I get that little adrenaline rus when I win. And when I lose... We don't talk and such improbable things.

All games are blood sports.
> As for replacing pilots for “autonomous” aircraft

My fear, is that AI would generally work, but do worse than humans in failure scenarios. Flying is inherently higher-risk than cars because cars can (almost) always just stop moving and be safe.

> They crashed short of the runway on a simply manual landing in perfect weather because they couldn’t fly the plane properly!

This. It was a clear day, but they couldn't read the visual approach indicators and didn't have the sense to go around.
Parenting.
There is deliberate practice and there are geniuses who also do deliberate practice...

If you have not yet seen the extremely talented composer and piano player Emily Bear perform the “Bumble Bear Boogie”, you are in for a treat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru9Ep62RRBk
Roll your own VPN server on AWS in 10 minutes
I bought a synology, and used their solution.

Haven’t tried a full restore, but I occasionally browse old backups and download something as a spot check.

I would much prefer a turn key open source solution that’s commercially developed/supported by one firm (but not tied to that company’s hosting).

Maybe someone will release something under the BSL, and build a healthy company out of it.
I'd tend to disagree with ya on that!
Psiram
Could someone explain why in question 5

i = 0;
return i++ + ++i;

Could produce different results?
Having been a Turbo Vision and OWL user, which lacked UI designer support, following up with VB and Delphi/C++ Builder, I never understood the macho attitude of doing GUI design manually without tooling support.

Any framework that comes with tooling support out of box is a plus for me.

Hence in what concerns Web, I care mostly about WebComponents, CMS middleware with page designers and SPA frameworks like Angular.
Do you really think people do not get used to brackets being in slightly different places and things being ordered slightly differently? (The ones starting with functional languages certainly do when they start using other languages later :D)
Oh, all the classic comedies like 'Kidnapping, Caucasian style' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2_sjEURwgo) and 'Diamond arm' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-iVfLX2tvY) are available there, that's nice.
I took it as "What will this do on your compiler?"
There's explanations at the bottom after you click the button.