skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They demonstrably do not. Look at any competitiveness index, or standard of living index, or anything measurable.

The article you’ve linked is banal. It talks about how monarchies are good at protecting established property rights. Duuuuuh. That’s their entire purpose.

Thinking that stability of property rights is equal to economic performance is moronic. So either you think that I am one or you are one.

Here’s a quick test you can do: look around you and count how many items around you are produced in the Kingdom of Lesotho? Or Kuwait? Or Madagascar? Or Bhutan?

Such post-industrial powerhouses of economy those must be.
> Meanwhile the people got to live in relative peace and safety compared to their home countries.

While the colonialists are ravaging your country why not accept their generous offer and go live at one of their zoos!
"There's a reason almost no widely used language implementation relies on ref-counting. CPython is the only real exception"

Perl is also ref counted. Swift too.

Edit: Also TCL, and PHP is mostly recounted...the "GC" just deals with circular refs.
My sense is that the project started in its inner sanctum and has been iterating gradually towards something that can be understood and used.

It actually can be explained simply:

Cross platform deployed VMs with their own primitives that also have the ability to network with each other via a custom protocol.

That's interesting and potentially very valuable.

Keep in mind this whole Hacker News and Ycombinator paradigm is effectively an outworking of the same process. Some savant Lisper with their own dialect making in a unique way that over time was re-coded and made more accessible.
That depends greatly on the distribution of the speeds. If the baseline goes up then yes, you can do with smaller rotors. But if it is gusty or disturbs the laminar flow because vortices will carry further then it may very much upset existing wind power installations.

Spacing of machines is a pretty tricky balance and if the wind patterns start changing in unpredictable ways that will be a very hard thing to design for. You may end up playing it safe and under-powering the windfarm or go for maximum power generation and end up with a number of machines switched off (or worse case: damaged) for longer periods of time. Steady windspeed (narrow distribution) is the biggest single factor in wind installation efficiency.

That's why some of the earliest wind parks were set up where there was a constant source of wind with a relatively constant speed.

This is a beautiful example of one of those:

https://canwea.ca/news-release/2016/03/14/end-era-cowley-rid...

The simplicity and efficiency of that design was only possible because of the wind conditions. The black blades are an anti-icing measure.
OpenTelemetry provides a single set of APIs, libraries, agents, & collector serv
Or MyPaint.
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I read your comment as "There's arguably a market for compromised messaging/queueing…" And there is by repressive governments every!
The JIT compiler could have support for emitting system calls.
This works the other way too.

Corporate power resides in hubs and connectors that can be identified and disconnected to weaken the entire hierarchy. Lot of movements succeed because the hubs and connectors shift loyalty.

Niall Ferguson has written a good book [The Square and the Tower] analyzing Historical Events from a network theoretic perspective rather than the usual historical perspective of studying just the top most person(node) in the hierarchy. It has a ton of examples of how all powerful hierarchies devolve.
> Only after many years, and much struggle, did the institution Jefferson created take its place among the great universities of the nation and of the world.

That's hardly condemnation.
Hierarchical Representations for Efficient Architecture Search (2017)
How does it compares to Yggdrasil?

https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/
I'd prefer embracing the hyperlink and think he might be tackling two separate problems at once here: (collaborative) content creation on the one hand and content curation and consumption on the other.
That's not accurate. Lots of organizations ended up using Omniture for one reason only: it's not owned by Google.
> while presumably if you have gone to the trouble of learning Dutch, you'd know how to pronounce "Scheveningen".

It’s actually hard to do. This is a good choice of shibboleth.

I’d propose “squirrel” as an english word to find german speakers.

Famously, pacific theater allied forces occasionally used “lollapalooza” as a shibboleth, also for fairly obvious reasons.
I hope you will change your tune in future. You're not wrong, but its still bad.
For what it's worth, Perl (5) has the same problem as CPython. Accordingly, there's not only heaps of allocation- and ref-counting-avoidance optimizations (eg. the stack isn't recounted) but also heaps of bugs from the optimizations. Again, the (main) stack not owning references is the biggest source of these bugs.

The problem with predictable destruction, we typically called "timely destruction", but more accurate would've been "immediate destruction" and if your language guarantees it, it tends to be great for automatically releasing resources (memory, file handles,...) in a lexically predictable manner. Softening any such guarantee should lead to entertaining resource races magically appearing in the real world. It occurs to me now that I never checked what pypy guarantees if anything?

We (Perl) never really came up with a great strategy for working around this (you tended to get the worst of both worlds in most naive reimplementations of the behavior in a GC-based interpreter) and while I certainly haven't tried to work out a clean argument to the effect, I'm fairly convinced it won't fly at all.
Curl is a lot more than something humans can use from the command line for http/s requests.

This seems like a small tool with good ergonomics for http/s requests only.
TVs that connect to the internet often send data about what you're watching back to their manufacturers.
I've moved a while back to yadm[1], and largely prefer it over stow.

Has somebody used both, and still uses stow? What is your experience with both?

[1]: https://yadm.io/
That's not what I meant.

I meant there is no ioctl method in the Java standard library. So how do you call it without using some FFI to import the method? You cannot.
i.e. This Is Water - Full version-David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech
She said it's not a foreign accent, not that it's not an accent.
I skip breakfast almost everyday. I get my morning brain startup sugar from cream in my coffee. I too get pushback from people when they find out I skip breakfast. They say it's the most important meal of the day. I tell them that's propoganda. Thank Kelloggs for that. People always ask how I'm so "skinny" (I'm not, I'm just not overweight like most Americans...) I believe it's because first off, I eat meals when I'm hungry, not when I'm 'supposed' to eat. I will sometimes miss or 'forget' lunch. If I'm not hungry enough to remember, then I'm not hungry yet. Second, I believe my longer fasts between meals, skipping breakfast, I believe I go into ketosis sometime in the early AM. By not breaking my fast my body continues to burn fat. One other thing to note: if I eat a breakfast, I'm bound to get hunger pangs around breakfast time the following day or two. If one succumbs to the hunger pangs, they will soon be eating breakfast daily. Get through the pangs for a day or two (drink coffee, water, or tea) until they are gone then you can get off the need for breakfast. Also, I avoid alcohol in the evening. Especially anything more than one drink. Getting drunk will lead to hunger pangs the next day well into the afternoon.
I'd say unix generally. There's a slowly evolving set of laws (POSIX) made by broad consensus; people roughly follow the laws most of the time; and the whole thing just about works. Everyone agrees the whole thing is deeply flawed, but can't agree on a replacement.
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Just for the record: Raku (née Perl 6) most definitely does not do refcounting. If you want to do serious async programming, refcounting becomes a nightmare to get right and/or a source of potential deadlocks.
It conducts heat, just much less than expected
These questions don't help. I get that you're trying to troubleshoot the OPs mail server and are trying to figure out what might be done to get their mail delivered again. But that's a form of victim blaming if that server was never used to send spam and the OP is not sending out spam their mail should not be classified as spam and if it is that is clearly uncompetitive behavior by Google because the difference between incompetence and malice is something for Google to illustrate, not for the rest of the world to bend over backwards to accommodate their demands.
Which don't exist... How thick are you?
I've heard both sides of the debate (art should not be treated as commerce vs art has investment value). I think it's a very confusing debate as I see the point of both sides. Art is made to evoke beauty in all sorts of ways that we can appreciate. in an ideal world, we should not attach a sense of bazaar to it. At the same time, we need a better idea of value in art (and the illusion that said value is at least roughly quantifiable) to create an industry where art can flourish. Artists should be paid. Dealers should be paid. Neither of those things can happen without people thinking the value of their art can go up.
Can confirm. It's going to be a generalization, but doctors have a sense of authority (in some countries more than others) and hate to be challenged by just anyone.
Your life is not going to improve. Let's actively avoid the delusional masses
Let's face it, your life is not going to (+)improve beyond a certain point, ( even if you won the lottery) if you continue actively dealing with the deluded masses. You have to form coalitions with the non-deluded people to insulated yourself from the deluded masses:

More here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21608028
Show HN: Accounts Receivables for Startups on Autopilot
(it is the title of the talk)
Apparently it's transparent.

I'll have to remember this the next time I need to build a whale tank
> I'm always confused by statements like "a republic, not a democracy." These words don't have clear, practical meanings.

Erm, they do. A democracy is "just anything goes along as more than 50% of voters approve of it" (and you can end up with fascism this way if you don't pay attention), while a Republic puts a central document (in the US the Constitution) as the supreme guide that even voters will have a very hard time to change by themselves.
Oh god yes. But you can't trust any organisation in general that's grown large and is profit-oriented.

This isn't quite in line, as it's about the 1960s when they were going mad with new drugs, IIRC a sleeping pill was sold that had a barbiturate shell that knocked you out. This was designed to take ~8 hours to dissolve away, and at the core was a lump of amphetamine to bounce you back to eager wakefulness.

Granted people were a bit naive back then but it must have been obvious such things were not intrinsically safe, but dammit we have sales targets!

I worked in the area and I remember being told a story about a drug being approved for use based on the word of the top exec of the drug's manufacturer that it was safe, and a handshake. That's all. This would be in the late 70's. Things have been very much tightened up since then, but still.
> commands were abbreviated from "copy" to "cp" because ermahgerd two bytes is a huge saving

Considering the number of times I type that command, I wouldn't be as quick to throw out the savings here.
_The_ method to manage dotfiles is to use git bare repos. [0-1] Its the ideal method as:

* It doesn’t require any configuration except for a ‘git init’ once & an alias (no symlinks, no b.s.)

* Files are version-controlled

* It’s unintrusive & universal: Because it doesn’t move any files or do anything special, there’s no surprising behavior, and you can try out a few files & stop using it with an rm -rf

* and on and on...

I strongly recommend eveybody trying out, no meed for configuration/mapping, and it’s easy to try out.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071754

[1]: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles
From 2017
No, Python has never (last decade) had a startup time that is noticeable by humans when running CLI scripts, unless your CLI script is importing a large codebase. JVM languages are an example of languages which do start up too slowly to be attractive for CLI scripting. You are right that python can be horribly slow to import a large codebase, for example when starting a web server in a large django project.
DC drops Batman image after claims it supports Hong Kong unrest
25 years ago Word was renowned for its fast load time. Really! I don't use it now but I guess that's changed.
https://www.yoctoproject.org

"The Yocto Project (YP) is an open source collaboration project that helps developers create custom Linux-based systems regardless of the hardware architecture."
I have been using curl for command line http stuff for years and years. I tried out HTTPie a few months ago for testing a json-flavoured API and I found it is amazing, it is so much less awkward than piping curl into jq and struggling with curl’s POST body options
So what do you get when you peel off the layer of indirection?

I am curious about how an operating system project can be this political, but i'm reluctant to dig into it myself, because any time spent learning about Urbit is clearly absolutely wasted. But if you've already done that work, could you share your findings?
There's no space for nuance in this pep talk. Users will not decide to use your software because of your perception of the maturity of the tech world as a whole! Users will decide on features they expect in the moment, ones they can grasp quickly enough.

The growth-at-all-costs mantra proves that all of big tech believes they are playing a winner takes all game. I'm inclined to believe them considering how much they value user habituation and abhor competing visions that liberate.

They used to say a customer needs to buy from you 5 times to establish brand loyalty. Now I wonder if these monopolies think they need 2 or 3 generations of offspring acting on impulse to achieve world domination.
Even with a Google account, a great deal of data like analytics is not associated or partly associated with the Google account.

In theory one would have to go to every website and request they report/purge data from analytics, but Google provides no mechanism for websites to comply with such a request.
Raku (née Perl 6) has phasers that will be called when exiting a scope. One such idiom is:

{
# do stuff
my $dbh = DB.connect(...);
# do stuff
LEAVE .disconnect with $dbh;
# do stuff
}

Whenever the scope is left (this could be because of an execution error, or a `return`), the code of the LEAVE phaser will be executed. The `with $dbh` checks whether the $dbh variable contains an instantiated object. If so, it topicalizes (set $_ to it) and calls the disconnect method (`.disconnect` being short for `$_.disconnect`).

For more complex uses, and more tuneable finalizing, there is the `FINALIZER` module in the ecosystem: https://modules.raku.org/dist/FINALIZER
Yeah, I think this is definitely the way future labour movements will go.

That said, the decentralised setup has its own issues too. In addition to the misinformatioon aspect you point out, it makes it very difficult to control the 'reputation' of a protest or movement, since any Tom, Dick and Harry can claim to be associated with it and do whatever they want. This makes such an organisation easy to co-opt, or to misrepresent to the media.
> which basically states that good conductors of electricity will also be proportionally good conductors of heat, which is why things like motors and appliances get so hot when you use them regularly.

NOOOOO!!!!!...... How can science reporting be so bad???
As Dutch person I find it sounding more like this as well. For sure it is an accent you don't hear often (it sounds quite strange to me). I cannot say I hear any Italian/French sounding speech in it at all.
This is pretty handy. I usually default to httpie for playing with my APIs and documenting examples - it's much clearer than curl.

It doesn't seem to get much development attention though. There hasn't really been features I find useful added in the past year. The biggest issue is no support for nested JSON bodies, meaning non-trivial API calls end up just as complex as curl.
Numeral Systems of the World
I understand the urge to reply in multiple places. I think it would be better to write up some more detailed reasoning, like you did here, and link to this from multiple subthreads. Better than just repeating the same ixy link with a new snide comment each time.
Sure does :)
> since it's in support of the monetization of another person's emotions

that seems to describe close to 100% of commerce.
Is this a troll? You think half of the world's decision makers are in the US?
Poverty is extremely relative. What you consider poor is someone else's rich. I was born in one of these countries with less than $5.5/day and not owning a car was not considered a negative, nobody had one in the entire village, but nobody considered themselves poor.
Now we are considered wealthier than one of the countries in that chart (we are neighbors) and the government considers 45% of the population is poor. even if our "poor" neighbor is listed with just 16%. The conclusion: lying with statistics is a fact of life.
>Seriously, I can enter my pin far more quickly than the alternative of print -> find flat surface -> sign -> return.

Now you have to pay attention to the machine for an extended period of time instead of just waiting for someone to hand you a pen and the receipt. Terrible keypads seem to be the norm so it’s hardly easy to rapidly enter your pin every time.

As far as finding a flat surface goes, do you not have arms? You literally only need to touch the pen on the paper, nobody cares what your signature looks like.

>And we have contactless for small transactions where you might swipe and not sign, which is again faster.

Yes, we have contactless. I don’t see how this is related to chip and pin?

If we’re going to go there then ApplePay with fingerprints is obviously the ultimate solution for these payments, which I think just further supports my firm opinion that I shouldn’t be required to remember PINs for the two places where ApplePay doesn’t work.
That doesn’t change the definition or the etymology of the term. Why are you getting bent of shape about it? Or are you just hijacking the comment for lulz?
Not saying this isn't a real bug (it definitely is!), but most quadcopters aren't powered on for 50 minutes at a time, let alone 50 days. Unlikely to make anything actually fall out of the sky.
Note though that when many of the former soviet economies liberalized some of their economic and social outcomes were initially not so great. They experienced high inflation and, in some cases, a sharp drop in life expectancy. [1,2]

I understand that some economists explain the high inflation by saying that pent-up demand was "unleashed" after the Soviet Union collapsed. To me this seems kinda hand-wavy (is it possible to measure pent-up demand?).

On a related note, something that comes close to a natural experiment is a comparison of the economic history of Finland and Russia. Finland was part of the Russian empire and, like the rest of Russia, was very poor at the time. It then broke away during the civil war, which is, of course, around the time that Soviet communism began to take root. Meanwhile, a little later, Finland took took a different economic path and instead implemented some social democratic policies and is now per capita richer than Russia and indeed many countries in Europe. [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_economy#Transition_...

[2] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?location...

[3] I realize Finland is not a perfect social democratic economy, but it is a closer approximation than most European economies
Because reporters aren’t scientists.

The article links directly to a page on the law so maybe a little grace could be given?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiedemann%E2%80%93Franz_law
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Mixcloud data breach exposes over 20M user records
Using the word makes you sound like a smartass. As if other people don't know what a shibboleth is. Everyone knows it without needing a word for it.
I don’t have any of this :(
Forward polyfills: How the web should work
Dates are usually added to posts that aren't recent.
There's plenty of single parent families out there.
Fun fact for those who don't know: Windows already has a database API. I've never used it, but it's called the Extensible Storage Engine (JetCreateDatabase, etc.).
The difficulty in removing google analytics is the main reason I decided not to set up a Freeciv web server.

IMO that’s a major part of a mechanized pathological attack on the public mind and exposing my friends to that feels wrong.
AoC is pretty likely to have a graph problem at some point that will give Rust newbies fits! But that will help you learn!
that’s the way everyone first tries it
Understanding What It's Like to Program in Forth (2008)
I keep using httpie for all testing and manual stuff, because with cURL (or wget) I have to continuously call up the help pages to find the correct options. In httpie it seems the philosphy is that you mostly use various non-option strings for these common additions (headers and query parameters) and I can remember these more easily :)