skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Collectively Europe outspends Russia in military investments. However, there is quite a bit of duplication in the individual European armies that make a straight comparison misleading. I suggest that military spending is not an accurate enough indicator of relative strength.

Defense spending alone is meaningless if there is not an accompanying ability/willingness to project power. Russia is certainly not shy about projecting it's power and European countries have been when it comes to Russia. Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia certainly don't feel their security would be guaranteed in the absence of the United States being in NATO. Thanks to a successful Russian campaign to undermine confidence in the United States increasingly U.S. security guarantees are becoming less reliable.

The shift to a multi-polar world has begun. Will European governments rise to the challenge?
> Land is the exception because people don't make it themselves ...

People don't make the land but they do make the value of the land. Even if that just consists of recognizing the potential in what is already there. LVT does nothing to distinguish between value resulting from the actions of the owner—apart from a very limited set of formally recognized "improvements", mainly permanent structures—and value resulting from the actions of others. And even if part of the "unimproved" value does result from others' actions, these others are not, in general, the ones receiving the tax.
It's considerably less impressive than some of the examples you've linked, but quite a long time ago I wrote a simple Forth VM as a printable postscript document. Might be topical: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Four.Ps
I do, but a) problems of these businesses are well-known, and b) there's a difference between a subscription to entertainment and subscription to necessities (or at least things with higher impact on one's life).

Also, in case of cable/Netflix, a lot of downsides are mitigated by piracy. There's no worry you'll be cut off from the entertainment you want, because you can always Torrent it if push comes to shove.
Anecdote time:

I did a camp tied to Trilogy, that ran through a local University (but really was only administered it, no 'educational' ties).

It was a good camp IMO, it had plenty of flaws, but overall I think it was a good camp.

The real issue ... they don't filter who gets in enough. Admittedly that is a HARD job as you don't know who will do well. In my crowd of folks who did well there was "accountant tired of accounting", "VP or something or other who just wanted to do a coding camp", "director of something or other who just didn't want to manage people", "bank teller who wanted a real job", "musician who wanted to try something more profitable", and a collection of other not great job / folks who didn't do much in college. These were a mix of young and old, age didn't matter, and they all did great.

But on the down side I'd say that at least 50% of the class "graduated" and were IMO, unemployable. I'm not talking about passing an interview, I just don't think they were ever going to learn.

I often think of them and what happened to them. I expect some amount of that but the costs involved were high, I hope they didn't take a serious financal hit.

Personally I'm doing fine, as are the other folks who did well in class, web dev now and happy to be coding away.
Mostly higher rainfall / flooding (due to warmer waters).

For wind, it sounds modest. They project the strongest hurricanes to be 5% stronger (windier) by 2100 than the strongest hurricanes today.

Of course there are other factors too like sea level rise which isn't factored in I don't think. If your city is already flooded and a hurricane hits, I'd imagine the damage would be worse or last for longer.
> So "modern capitalism is not a system that will magically fulfill customer needs in the absence of competition".

But modern capitalism, at least in the American context, is a system being drained of competition. Competitors conspire to destroy it by merging and acquiring each other, and the deregulatory economic zeitgeist that's been in force for 40 years means the government has done little to foster it.

Markets tend towards equilibrium, and bitter competition is a kind of disequilibrium.
At least in my family, we only do gift cards for restaurants. It still has the symbolism of a well-thought gift.

Otherwise, I just give my niece and nephews cash.

(Personally, I hate gift cards. They're usually at a place I'd never shop, so I end up buying something of marginal value.)
Oops, major mistake on my part there, had both threads open in different tabs. Thank you.
does SF only allow fancy restaurants to take reservations for 1/3rd of their tables?
> Brazil?

Up to a point. Larger than that point there are different specializations that you will only get from a single manufacturer. For a few of those that manufacturer is Brazilian, but most of the time it's from the US.
Another way to approach interacting with other humans is to understand that the law only describes minimum expectations and isn't a replacement for ethics or common decency.

You can use all the tools of the law to disadvantage others but word will get around that you're a dirty dealer and it'll be their privilege to not do business with you anymore.
While the financial/livelihood component is a major factor I think most of those affected, if asked, would say that is the least of the reasons for their sadness. It is the intangible things being lost and the end of a way of life that causes the most pain IMHO.
> fewer younger men

I'd expect fewer young women?
No that's not true.

As soon as you use sequences or strings or async you depend on the GC.

You can however compile with gc:destructors or gc:arc so that those are managed by RAII.
Sounds like an easy to crack encryption scheme, probably used on IoT devices and cryptocurrency exchanges.
Been doing this for while now in the crazy competitive world of cloud and enterprise. At that scale, this recommendation does not work.

Customer facing teams are also very different in focus and there are dangers to thinking one is prioritizing a feature vs. fixing an issue depending on the team they are talking to.

Some prioritization is of course normal but it is fluid and not simple unless you're just ready to hand off the business and not improve your platform.
I think the full story is more complex.

A relatively smaller amount of money will influence state elections, and state-level politicians determine things like district boundaries (i.e. gerrymandering), vote roll purges, polling stations, etc. All of those have a very large impact on elections too.
If you buy or rent an old enough house you might still have the vestiges of a coal chute somewhere on the side of the house. Unfortunately, I don't think today you could leave that much external access for a 'package chute'.

Amazon tried to solve this by making your front door the package chute. And we laughed and laughed. Maybe there's something in between, but it's not as simple a solution as replacing the doorknob and lock.
Economic studies are often rife with bias and political motives, as you know. It's foolish to trust such things on faith-based appeals to authority.
yeah you've not worked with low iq ppl before, your second sentence is false.
I guess people might think that while making such policies but I would say it isn't for certain that prices increase. They may actually decrease the value of properties since they cannot be used for more productive purposes. It also increases cost since more transportation (cars) are required, which means more parking, which means less available land for useful things.
The broken tractor is a big reason why the Open Source Ecology project was started.

https://www.opensourceecology.org

Btw, Open Source Ecology does have a DIY tractor as well.

https://opensourceecology.dozuki.com/c/LifeTrac

https://www.opensourceecology.org/portfolio/tractor/

They regularly have courses, workshops, internships at their Missouri farm. There's a full machine fabrication shop, permaculture farm, & sustainable living community. Their courses are a great deal & they even do work exchange. Highly recommend checking it out.
You make an interesting point. I think ideally what we want is:

* easy automation for those that need it; if corporations want to driverless tractors doing all their farming, so be it. They're responding to a market that is demanding a lot of cheap food.

* occupation as a choice; the productivity gains from automation shouldn't all just pile on to the people who made the investment; but it could be used to provide necessities to those that need them. So a small scale farmer, for instance, would not be competing directly in the same market as the corporation, and they wouldn't need to make a profit to do what they want to.

Human brains are great at seeing patterns; we shouldn't be wasting them on repetitive work that can be mechanized. Let people do what they want to without existential threats and see what happens.

In a certain sense, this is already true for the wealthy. The nature of wealth is that it gives you safety nets to fall back on if you fail at what you want to do. A lot many of the greatest artists came from wealthy backgrounds.

I would honestly want a lot more people creating art, video games, curing cancer etc. than have more people picking crops.
I've definitely seen it happen in SF.

I've personally been part of hiring at least four dev boot campers. All were green but you could tell they fundamentally understood logic and would eventually figure out the stack given enough mentorship. They all turned out to be great jr hires.

Most previously had compelling careers in other fields before switching. I can remember a lawyer. And one worked for the CIA?

Natasha Murashev was one of them. I see her travelling the world, speaking, and has a large dev following on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/natashatherobot
I thought uber ran their own data centres, and Lyft was the one running on AWS.
How about this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2603306/#S3titl...

> These findings suggest that the vast majority of Pima Indians susceptible to diabetes were already developing the disease in the early years of the study, and the increasing obesity in youth combined with a nearly 4-fold increase in the frequency of exposure to diabetes in utero [7] simply shifted the onset of diabetes to younger ages in the most susceptible individuals [6].

This wording suggest to me that while diet (and changes in diet), can change the onset of diagnosis, it does not cause the disease, it's a trigger for the disease in people that are susceptible.

This is a big difference in my mind, because it can change blanket advice of 'don't eat too much candy or you'll get diabetes', into 'if you're susceptible to (type 2) diabetes, don't eat too much candy or you'll show symptoms of diabetes'. The first option undermines trust in the advice giver, because there are many examples of people who eat too much candy and don't get diabetes; the second example isn't super actionable, because it's hard to know if you're susceptible, but a history of diagnosis in your family or other genetic grouping is a sign.

This is the same with the blanket war on obesity as a health risk. A large portion of the comorbidity with obesity comes from type 2 diabetes; but the distributed health advice is that all persons with obesity have higher risks, despite evidence that persons with obesity but not type 2 diabetes have pretty similar risks to those without both obesity and type 2 diabetes.
older cars were more repairable. reliability is harder to make a blanket statement about.

the most important difference IMO is that older cars are now dangerously unsafe by modern standards, by orders of magnitude. crumple zones, multiple airbags, pedestrian scoops, and now driver-assists like emergency braking.
I really hope the launch and deployment of JWST goes smoothly. It's costly, being in development for long time, and almost no way to fix(L2 is far away) if something goes wrong.
Both countries had ongoing hostilities. The ayatollah then called for the overthrow of Saddam. Saddam probably didn’t take that too well.

But still, the point is it didn’t just mean “down with you, bah humbug!” as some people are trying to imply.
All the cable networks are owned by major corporations that use them to serve their interests. This shouldn't be shocking.
$1B solar plant was obsolete before it went online
For years my public library charged a $3 fee to get a book sent from another library in the system.

At some point I was chatting with a librarian about this and she revealed they had eliminated the fee so as not to discourage the use of interlibrary loans.

I few weeks later I tried checking out something from another library and was then treated to a 10 minute lecture on how it costs them $20 to process these loans and am I really sure I want it.

No thanks. I'll just get it for a penny plus $3.99 shipping from amazon, less than the cost of gasoline to drive into town to order it, pick it up, and return it (3 round trips).
The propeller is giving way to the pump-jet propulsor on larger submarines
If webpages supported tls-N, then this seems like it could be cool, but as is, I don’t see what this does beyond what originstamp (and similar services) provide .
The tls notary thing others have mentioned here sounds cool, and I hadn’t heard of it. The interactivity allowing for a proof even without the server supporting like tls-n is impressive, if I am understanding correctly!
It's pretty clearly laid out in the docs. Hopefully anyone seriously considering using Clickhouse reads the docs thoroughly and understands what they're implementing.
That's partly because there's so much older stock. Also, the "easily-repairable" products of the past were not nearly as cheap! The closest comparison today would be "heavy-duty", "pro" models, often built by niche manufacturers, which do advertise ease of servicing as part of the value.
I find it’s the opposite - people with limited understanding of licensing (and IP law in general) often have the most concerns, and misapprehensions.
Ah. Yeah. I left right around then. :) That explains it. Still, everywhere I've worked since MS has given me 100% coverage, albeit sometimes indirectly (e.g. via a company funded HSA plan, etc).
I don't see how. There are libraries to interface with these oauth solutions so you basically just send them to the corresponding server and wait for them to come back with their token , which you'll verify with said library... You're done
For as long as any of us can remember, the average person has tried to avoid wasting their time on potentially fruitless pursuits with no joy in the journey.
All he says is "I found this chair that was designed by a Swedish guy". Its black and looks like leather with a high cushioned back. That isn't a lot to go on. I searched and it doesn't seem to be something he has talked about before either.

I was interested too, but to be honest, its probably pretty unlikely that the perfect chair for Knuth is the perfect chair for me or you too.
We didn't leave our brains behind, this is just the internet without heavy handed moderators keeping subforums organized, discussions on topic, and putting the brakes on flame wars. Of course things crash and burn in an environment of total anarchy like what is seen on social media websites, image boards have taught us that decades ago.
Ooh là là Music evokes 13 key emotions. Scientists have mapped them
> Here in SV we believe in trust.

You trust venture capitalists to care about people more than money? I'm genuinely asking, as I cannot fathom that worldview.
Actually most pulsed lidar systems use pretty high peak powers, which result in an eye-safe average power only because they are on for a sequence of very short pulses (~1ns). It's pretty unlikely OP is actually experiencing vision problems due to lidars, but it's probably possible for some kind of weird interaction to happen in the eyeball due to the high power pulses. Even so, it's unlikely to be causing an damage, temporary or otherwise. I would hope it doesn't happen to him/her while driving or something, though.
It seems to me that Russia's desire for the Crimea is rational and understandable. It was an accident of history that the Ukraine ended up with Crimea after the split of the Soviet Union. I understand that my belief on this might not be rooted in reality. What is your view of Russia's Crimean desires?
"The tab has crashed" after clicking on the "new entry" button.
You mean Xerox/HP merger
Tightly coupled storage and execution engines, along with an opinionated view on the actual storage format.
My wife's family is selling a house in Italy and it blew my mind that when you say you want to buy the house you have to give a portion of money (in this case I think it was 12000 euro) which you do not get back if the deal falls through and you don't buy the house.

The above not very precise as I am not involved in it and not especially interested. But the detail stuck with me as one of those other cultures are strange things.
That’s a known (unfortunate) side effect of the electoral college, but both players went in knowing these rules, why didn’t Clinton campaign more in the Midwest? Obama did fine there.
Even after years of being brained washed by the media and the educational system, a typical middle class millennial in Iran does not hate Western culture or America.

Older generations (even in some rural areas) have fond memories of Americanization of Iran in the 70s (which finally led to the Islamic revolution).

The problem that I see with Trump's approach is that it alienates these groups of people that had been pro-American before.

The country and the economy was thriving for a brief couple of years after the nuclear deal. People used their money to visit Gulf countries, east Asia and Europe. I think Internet speed almost doubled in that period.

But new sanctions made the economy collapse. And Muslim ban is a real thing if you are born in Iran. And it does not matter how pro-American you are.

Then now we ended up in a situation that even ordinary, middle class Iranians that could've been in American camp, are feeling under attack by a bully. For them everything that the government has been preaching about the great Satan is coming true.
The teleological purpose of a company is to make money. Also, what time period are you talking about, exactly?
To add to this concept, it would be great if the elements of a quality argument[1] (i.g. Claims, Counterclaims, Reasons, Evidence, etc.) were built in. Also people could flag a comment (or parts of it) with a specific logical fallacy[2].

It would help guide people into arguing more fruitfully and better digesting what they read.

1. https://study.com/academy/lesson/parts-of-an-argument-claims...
2. https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/
It's always a trade-off and placing the cursor correctly is tricky. Things like macros, operator overloading, metaprograming, virtual calls, exceptions or even function pointers are effectively "obfuscating" code by having non-obvious side effects if you don't have the full context. On the other hand if you push the idea too far in the other direction you end up with basically assembly, where you have an ultra-explicit sequence of instruction to execute.

It's very easy to come up with examples of terrible abuse of these features that lead to bad code (like for instance if somebody was insane enough to overload the binary shift operator << to, I don't know, write to an output or something) but it also gives a lot of power to write concise and expressive code.
While I understand that it's part of the procedure and flying is generally very safe, I'd be holding my breath, armrest, and fellow passengers with a vise grip if they power cycled my plane mid-flight.
I'd rather get gift cards because I can't stop people from giving me more stuff. I don't want stuff, I don't need more things. At least gift cards don't take up room or are easy to gift to someone else who might need it.
> So the lawn is essentially a long-enduring symbol of upper-class lifestyle.

Of course, when everyone has a perfect lawn is it doesn't serve that symbolic purpose nearly as well (other things take it's place, like exotic travel photos), and it increasingly just becomes a maintenance hassle.
It's presumptively acceptable, yes. But the comment I responded to was saying that you don't have to even explain it, and I don't think that's true; the law makes it pretty clear you do.
Not necessarily. If I give my mother $50 for a spa place, I'm gifting her a relaxing day that she might not be able to budget for or otherwise justify. If I gift her $50 cash, it's probably going to get used as part of next week's grocery budget if not lost in her purse entirely.
the million dollar question is what % of your code has to be unsafe in a kernel. At some %, it ends up not being worth the trouble. But if the % can be kept relatively low (say 5% or less) then you get a lot of value out of minimizing the surface area of the dangerous code.
> I assume this is a zooming regulation specific to SF? What would be the rationale behind it?

Preventing tech converting all the retail and restaurant space to offices.
I think the problem is family. Western people are astoundingly cold with their families.
cash is a good present only when the giver is sufficiently wealthy that they can give you a meaningful amount of it without expecting you to respond in kind. when people give me cash I tend to just put it in my pocket and forget about it, spending it down on random daily expenses. when someone gives me a gift card, I usually buy a specific item that I will then associate with that person and think of them when I use it.

I'd rather get cash from my proverbial rich uncle, but I'd prefer a gift card from a friend. honestly my favorite way to exchange presents with friends is just to tell each other exactly what we want. then we each get a useful thing that reminds us of our friendship.
Especially when it's burning out on something like ad-tech
Honestly not that shocking because this is the fate of many gifts. It's only a smidgen more shocking because it would be easier to give away a gift card than a waffle maker.
I guess it is possible, although most likely if they are putting malware on mice they are targeting Windows.

(At first I thought it was a joke, alluding to Linux users love touch typing at 120WPM and hate using a mouse, so any mouse peripheral is an 'infection').
Per hour seems like a bad metric to me.

If someone invents a plane which has the same probability of death flying between point A and point B, but gets there in half the time, it's not really less safe.
I'm failing to understand game 4:

Player 0 it is your turn!
The word you are trying to match in meaning is:
antepenultimate
Your char list is:
['i', 'g', 'j', 'u', 'b']
Please input a valid word made from some or all of the provided characters

What's the right answer?
That only works if anyone is doing it.
To take a lesson from Thucydides, "the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must".
Voting irrationally is sequitur from "having interests", just not rational self-interests.

Having interests is not mutually exclusive to acting irrationally.
You can definitely do the stuff yourself. The difficulty in it is setting your own goals, sticking to them, and trying to do it all yourself. It's dreadfully hard most days especially since there is literally no reward for it whatsoever except for the potential of something greater.
The same assholes driving up rent and making homeless situation worse.
I'm getting a bit of a dot-com feeling around these compensation figures, especially seeing the sign up bonuses and how tangible stocks are considered as normal compensation now. The FAANGs remind me a bit of Microsoft, Cisco and Intel before their y2k peaks.
A Scapegoat has entered the arena.