skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case of Poland the party increased social spending several times, paying people with 2 kids half the median salary every month and lowering retirement age.

They could go on TV saying "we are corrupt and we are stealing from you" and they would still win these elections just because they paid for the votes. That's how populism works.

Frankly I'm amazed they managed to lose the Senate and only won the Sejm (lower house - more important in Poland).

> I can imagine this happening in Poland, Hungary or perhaps even Italy, but not in that many places in the EU apart from those.

May I remind you Trump is the president of USA (and his lawyer is arguing he could murder someone on the street and would still be free to go) and UK voted for Brexit? Social networks and troll farms played a big role in both events.

This is how democracy works now... It's like in 20s-30s last century - radio was invented and democracy wasn't ready for it - and when crisis came the result was totalitarianisms.

Now democracy wasn't ready for internet and after crisis came the result is resurgence of populism.
Skype had its guts ripped out and replaced with MSN shortly after the purchase.
If they hadn't gotten into food delivery, freight, scooters, etc. they'd be profitable by now.
The interesting bit is that the German manufacturers all seem to have aligned on "some point" being somewhere between 2023 and 2025 as the date where they all expect to sell more EVs than ICE. Post-dieselgate VW seems to have a fire lit under them, and it's starting to sound a lot less like optimism and a lot more like a threat (to American manufacturers). It sounds like it is going to be very interesting to watch the next half-decade.
No, the offline account button was simply renamed, don't need to be offline, and didn't changed place.

There is only 2 issue:

The link have the same size than the rest of the text.

The text mean nothing to an user.
What debt does is allow money that won't be available until some time in the future to be used for present purchases. It's a bit like the idea of a chemical catalyst, in that the effort required to trigger a transaction is lowered, though this is a catalyst that requires being paid back.

For the general public, instances of use include:

- Small but seasonal businesses. Farming is the classic case, but any sector in which receipts are seasonal (though relatively predictable) apply: hostelry, tourism, landscaping businesses, construction, etc.

- Small nonseasonal business. Writing or other contract work in which production and income can be disconnected by months, sometimes years. The risk is higher here, but can still be bridged.

- Large-ticket purchases. Automobiles, appliances, and electronics are typical. Numerous present credit banks got their start as the lending arms of large manufacturers, who could rely on a constant stream of incoming payments to advance loans to new customers, increasing net sales. GMAC (General Motors Acceptance Corporation, now Ally Financial, is the classic case).

- Revolving credit lines. These generally started as credit accounts specific to a given store, often a department store. They eventually became much of the current credit card industry, by way of Bank of America. Here again, the general principle is to advance credit, easing purchases.

Credit can be (and very often is) misused. But having a flexible payment mechanism on demand without requiring layaway or specific authorisation, and serving as a general check on other factors (credit cards have effectively been a social credit scoring system for decades) benefits ... at least some.

Interestingly, much of the actual financial risk gets pushed off onto merchants. Though costs of managing credit do land on the individual.

And no, I'm not much of a fan of the system. It exists, and has its uses, however.
No, a bottleneck in production other than batteries fits the bill just as well.
Docker became popular over FreeBSD jails the same way MySQL became popular over PostgreSQL in the 2005-ish. Not based on technical merit but because of ease of use. In case of MySQL it was a Windows installer which made for a low barrier of entry. However MySQL didn't do ACID transactions, views, etc. at that time, all things PostgreSQL had.

Similarly Docker was easy to use with images but security was a mess. The first couple of years Docker stance was actually that their container wasn't to be considered a security boundary and being able to access the host system "wasn't a bug". This in total contrast to FreeBSD jails which were always regarded as a hard boundary.

Docker in FreeBSD is not as simple as you might think. FreeBSD has a Linux ABI compatibility layer in order to be able to run Linux binaties (just like WINE is a Windows ABI compatibility layer). Docker itself, the CLI application, the API, etc. is probably the easiest part.
what does A&D stand for?
This is not uncommon. Lenin arrived in Russia in a railcar stuffed with German cash.

https://www.dw.com/en/how-germany-got-the-russian-revolution...
I was using 123 456-7890 as my Vons' loyalty # for a while.

"Thank you mister... Tester #2? You have $98,427 in savings this year".
OK, I got this working for my Desktop VSCode environment and that works great. But I'm guessing this wasn't tested in combination with the SSH Remote extension?

I can register my local VSCode just fine. When I connect to a remote ssh connection, and try to register that environment, I get a prompt telling me "Failed to register local environment: Install the Azure Account extension". When I look up that extension, I can install it in the SSH environment, but I get the same error still.
I'm a data engineer and I learned SQL before I learned python. I started out as a marketing specialist (mostly working in Google AdWords), then I graduated up to BI Analyst, and eventually to data engineer. I've picked up 100% of my python in my current job.
They served the full article, the JS is just getting in the way. You can pop the console open and read the text in the article tag.

console.log(document.querySelector('article').innerText.replace(/(.{80}\w*)\s*/g, '$1\n'))
I have no idea why Old Spice is expensive in Shanghai, but 200-300% tariffs are not the norm in China. The mean tariff is under 4%, according to the World Bank. I have noticed, however, that many people in China people hold foreign brands in high regard, and are willing to pay a premium for them.

1. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/TM.TAX.MRCH.WM.AR.ZS?lo...
It's rather common to dream about math or computing when you are solving some hard problem or digesting some topics with a time limit (next exam, project deadline, etc.)

As for Fields medalists, they are extremely creative folks who can find new and effective ways to tackle seriously deep problems, even when doing things unrelated to math (swimming, hiking, etc.)
I wouldn’t be so orthodox, there may be some special cases if a database is used in non standard ways to do strange stuff.
However, if cursors are used to retrieve or update data, to do actual database stuff, cursors always look like a capitulation and retreat into procedural territory. If you use cursors you’re not giving the database a chance to shine and make it very sad.
They aren’t separate issues.

Google being a search monopoly is the only issue. Breaking the ad business away won’t change anything except make things worse for the consumer.

Working out how to make search competitive is the issue.
How is crypto made non accessible besides storing your private key with a third party?
I think I'd be in favor of discounting them / forcing the interest rate down to ~0% so that they get eaten by inflation over time.

I don't think it's right to let people who sacrificed go high and dry while the people who abused the system get a break, though that is often how it plays out.

But it seems like there would be ways to lessen the burden for people who did take big loans without it being a complete handout.
Azure Monitor Prometheus integration is now generally available
Microsoft experimented with a 4-day workweek, and productivity jumped by 40%
Still I would never file a bug report to GCC.
Hostile community, hostile bug tracker, hard to reduce test cases to an acceptable state. clang is way better in this.
> It's a hazing ritual similar to data structures and algorithms

What do you mean by that? Genuinely curious.
One thing I worry about is that this funding model only works for somewhat popular developers. You need to be well known to get people to donate to you monthly.

If you're a person that prefers to just do some work and not talk about it much, this kind of sponsorship model wont work.

To me, something like bountysource seems like an awesome model: people could all chip in to support a feature request or an issue, and anyone who is familiar enough with the subject matter can do the work.

(Unfortunately the reward mostly seemed way too little for the effort required -- it would be a nice bonus if you would do the work anyway, but I don't think you could make a living by implementing issues from bountysource)
My mistake if that was what was intended to be communicated. That was not my interpretation of the comment. Going to try to find if and what the bottleneck is if that is the issue.
We’ve strayed far from that, unfortunately. UC schools have some pretty high cost of attendance for in-state students (whose parents have been paying years worth of taxes to support that school system).
The facebook brand has such negative feelings associated with it but the new logo is really refreshing.
Or that time the stock clock didn't have permission to wake up the phone from a sleep state... ironic.

But after you overslept and unlocked your phone it actually sounded the alarm, regardless how much time has passed.
The formalization started in the connection between lords and their retainers. Gradually every other kind of tenancy was subsumed by it. It didn’t happen all at once — the high value relationships were, naturally, the ones that got formalized first.
Adding "Web Crawler" would be helpful
Can you post an example of the sort of processes that were in place in these companies?
Also, my own life observations have told me that whenever people have chosen the money there's always some unforeseen attachment. It's never just the money. There's always at least one string attached that they either didn't anticipate or ignored the severity of.
One of the unfortunate side effects of significantly reducing the power of democratically elected governments is that while the government has less power to do damage, it also less power to correct wrongs.
Why do people think this is a good argument whenever I bring that up? Because I signed an agreement that I must pay back my loans, I paid back my loans.

For the record, I didn't suffer. I felt fine and did plenty of fun things. I think the biggest mistake Americans make as a society is confusing convenience with happiness.

I would in fact be in favor of free college for everyone, but I hate this victim mindset floating around, and I think the largest benefits should go to the most prudent and responsible, instead of taxing people who withheld in their younger years to pay for people who didn't.
You say that like "homelessness" is some super easy problem to solve if we just wave our hands and throw money at it.

This isn't China. Governments in the US are not allowed to simply round up people and put them somewhere without permission and/or due process.
When I visit a site that doesn't work. Usually I carefully whitelist things that I am willing to whitelist until it does work. If I can't get it working, then in most cases, I don't consider the content of that site to be valuable enough to whitelist things that seem sketchy.

In the case of this site, uMatrix just flat out blocked the entire site. it's not that the side page didn't load, or that nothing happened because of, say, missing javascript. I got a huge warning page in FireFox that uMatrix was flat out blocking it. Probably because the primary site is already blacklisted, maybe?
That’s a pretty good counter argument tbh. I don’t think it has practical merit in the US, but I’ll give you it could be viable in other contexts
Apple is throwing their money into a REIT essentially. Guessing a lot will be small apartments for their own staff which will save a lot in wage demand.
Twilio got its number wrong
I've done something similar with an esp8266 + 14segment alphanumeric display[1].

That being said, NTP only returns GMT. You still have to hardcode your timezone and whether DST is active or not, right?

[1] https://github.com/adamm/esp8266-clockradio
You’ve made a good case for pickup trucks for people who need them, but I highly doubt most pickup truck buyers need all of these features.

Most people aren’t carrying 1000+ lbs loads or going off road or towing anything, so the features that make that life easier don’t apply.
The onus is therefore on us to convince them that "voting away their agency and embracing suicide" is red scare nonsense, and to show them who perpetuates those myths and why.

American socialists have been making amazing progress in that regard, as of late.
What you're asking for is a solution in 10-15 years for a problem that's rearing it's head now. If you were to remove government backed loans, you would be locking a significant amount of the US population out of higher education. Without a higher educated workforce, where do you think workers for various jobs are going to come from if we decide to go full protectionist and reduce immigration potential?

Low cost universities don't just pop out of thin air and neither do the professors that staff them.
My mental model is that cherry-picks are like a copy by-value of one or more patches. A merge is a copy by-reference of a specific series of patches.

It just so happens that what I usually want in practice is to make copies by-value. There are other integration workflows that make copies by-reference with dedicated merge commits. But my team's most common use case for long-lived branches is to track bugfixes for deployment to remote hardware separately from mainline development. So, by-value copies of small changes is much more common.
I can't speak for Los Angeles, but in some cities, yes.
It always amazes me when cannibals describe human flesh as tasting like pork or chicken, yet most people read that and still don't question why it's OK to eat animals. These poor people needed to eat human flesh to survive. We don't need animal flesh to survive.
The extracted vocals sound great! But the resulting accompaniment tracks I've heard so far (tried on a handful of songs) aren't of usable quality for most purposes where you'd want an instrumental track – they're too sonically mangled.

Since people are often interested in doing this for a handful of specific tracks and not necessarily en masse, I'd be curious about what a human-assisted version of this could look like and whether you really could get near-perfect results...

What if you explicitly selected portions of the track you knew had vocals, so it could (1) know to leave the rest alone and (2) know what the backing track for the specific song naturally sounds like when there's no singing happening? It could try to match that sonic profile more carefully in the vocal-removed version.

Or what if you could give it even more info, and record yourself/another singing (isolated) over the track? Then it would have information about what phonemes it should expect to find and remove (and whatever effects like reverb are applied to them).
These don't do too well in the Eastern US. WWVB is too far away. They introduced a phase modulation that has a lower SNR required for recovery, but as far as I can tell no chipsets exist that understand this signal, and only one clock exists that can receive it. (And it's an analog wall clock, so good luck with your alarms.)

I use GPS for time transfer. Works great everywhere in the world.
> Why is the assumption "universities are private endeavours that should make a profit" something that goes unchallenged on HN?

Because that assumption doesn't exist, nor does this describe how universities work in the US.
The reason why the EU “slapped” Microsoft is instructive though: in a nutshell, the argument was as follows: it is so big that it can crowd out other smaller competitors because it can offer products for almost free (because their marginal cost is basically zero) whereas starting up and/or sustaining a small competitor (perhaps with a subset of functionality, for a lower TCO) is more expensive. Since producers are (as remarked elsewhere) seen as “vehicles for job creation”, this is a net negative.
this is worth checking out. helps to have someone explain what is going on. youtube is a good place to start. guy also has a twitch channel with a phenomenal amount of viewers.
Agreed. Parts* & Service are two giant profit centers that take a big hit with EVs, which is one of the reasons dealers have been so resistant to selling them for years now. The actual manufacturing doesn't get a whole lot easier, though, which is one of the reasons there have been so many EV startup failures.

*Note: Parts here means only powertrain parts. Tesla, for example, is notorious for having massive delays in repair parts availability for things like doors, trim, and windows.
this insoluble argument is between those who see opportunity and those who see risk, we love and admire those who see opportunity and we dislike those who see risk, until that risk becomes active, in which case we punish those who did not guard against it adequately.

Can't have it both ways I guess, although I am probably most often on the side of those who see opportunity that tendency has come back to bite me at times.
Stalinism killed many people for several reasons that probably aren't relevant to "modern socialists." But some of the main reasons are still relevant. "Modern socialists" are still advocating the nationalization of industries, having vast amounts of economic activity being directed by the government, etc. (Ironically for Corbyn, some of his ideas will only be possible if the U.K. brexits, because of the E.U.'s deregulatory posture.) Those ideas are bad for the same reason Mao's collectivized farms killed tens of millions of people. Central planning is a bad way of running the economy. Businesspeople are better at running industries than government bureaucrats or political scientists.
> You know what else no one here has done? Built something cheaper and posted a link.

Thousands of people have built that for the past 20+ years without posting a link.
Not really, out of state tuition per term at Montana state university Bozeman (go cats!) is only 6k/term.
> We need to learn to relate to Nature as I-Thou (not I-It.) The vast majority of our problem right now is our divorce from Nature and our attempt to relate to Her as I-It.

It was the I-It relation that enabled science. Before that, nature was full of myth and divinity and thereby inscrutable. After the scientific revolution, nature became it, subject to laws and open to manipulation for our benefit.

Going back to an I-Thou relationship with major would be a huge step backward and harmful to humanity.
Requiring scooters to ride in bike lanes seems an easy, obvious fix.

And, objectively, someone riding in a car is far more of a threat to pedestrian lives than someone riding on a scooter, even on the sidewalk. People traveling by scooters instead of cars is better in every way. Seems like a mistake to demonize scooters.
The flip side of that is being remote and away from the politics can sometimes mean y u get work done when those in the thick of bullshit don't.
I could see Facebook taking the approach Google did with Alphabet, but one can only guess what that would look like.
"The person who bought said clock was unaware of its lurking mysteries."
They will probably enforce it by preventing the franchise owner selling to him. Otherwise, you're right, they can't do anything about it - not that that's always enough to stop them from strong arming a person with their lawyers.
How does a 400k degree compare to a state ran online degree for 24k? http://www.wgu.edu as an example.
> universal college degrees for all - access is restricted behind rigorous entrance exams.

that's just not quite true in all major European countries I have a direct experience with.
Or when people choose the promise of money over principles and get neither, as something happens to take away the promise, either being outright cheated or eg stock options becoming worthless when the company implodes.
That's only the most limited version of the theorem which has since been renamed the de Moivre-Laplace theorem [1]. The rabbit hole goes much deeper when you talk about the most general form which works for any set of independent and identically distributed random variables, not just binomial random variables.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Moivre–Laplace_theorem
WilyBot v2.... https://willyreport.wordpress.com/
Going to try this with Joe Biden's "weird???" pics with children
Why don't you enlighten us to women's role is Saudi society, instead of telling me I'm wrong tell me how woman are viewed.
I wonder what was contained in that cease and desist? How could he have been doing anything that could warrant a civil suit from the company? Sure, he doesn't have a license to be a food seller, but that's a legal issue with the local municipality. I wonder what they claimed their "damage" to be?
So this isn’t apoe2? It’s some novel mutation of apoe3?
Does your washing machine have an in-built microphone? And maybe a camera to detect something like dirty laundry? Then your washing machine does 2 things, one of them being spying on you.
That 10% is also dischargeable in bankruptcy. Only the loans made by the US Government are non-dischargeable.
I am always baffled by the conundrum of the futility of launching a spacecraft to go far away by our own ability to invent faster engines.

Say it takes 300 years to get to Alpha Centauri. If you launch it you have 150 years to invent a spacecraft that goes twice the speed of the first one. Very likely. If you launch that one it will overtake the other one. Now you have 75 years to find an even faster engine. Launch it and you got 37 years. etc.

Quite likely you can keep doing this until you can reach it in e.g. a year. So why not hold all launches until then....

Does this have a name? Or original source? Did I get this from Futurama?
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Couldn’t one also just use TransferWise, which provides you a local bank account in whichever currency you need?
It's not stated, so I assume that the current "all in" cost is about $75-80k. Some private universities in the Boston area are not far behind, including Brandeis, BU, BC, Tufts, and I believe MIT.

I have a high school senior and have been visiting many schools across the U.S. and Canada since last summer. The schools with sky-high all-in costs are not even consideration. If they lop off $10k-$15k per year, we will still be paying a quarter of a million dollars for a four-year education. There are no guarantees of this, either, considering grades and our middle class AGI.

The schools we have looked at are mostly public. Our in-state dream option, UMass Amherst, is "only" ~$30k/year all in, but is now super-competitive, likely because of outrageous private college costs driving families to the affordable options. The only comparable values are the schools we have seen in Canada - University of Ottawa, Carleton University, and Concordia.

Out-of-state public universities for out of state students in New England (URI, UConn, UVM) plus Pitt and Temple are generally high 40s/low 50s. CU Boulder was mid-upper 50s. I can't remember UCSD but it in that range, plus travel considerations.
i speak for italy, germany and france: there is no standardized testing. and thank god for that.

standardized testing is mostly a scam.