skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> seeing 'ads' for the US on social media every day

What ads are you talking about?
>I'd wager that as soon as the first homeless* person puts their tent in your garden, you'll find walls, borders and land ownership a lot more attractive.

you'd lose that wager. i've lived in the third world (africa) and my relationship to space and community is probably much different from yours.
History is full of folks complaining about migrations / stranges and states / groups taking action to prevent
/ persiculte newcomers, and travel was not easy.

I feel like your comment makes it seem a lot more fluid than it was for a group to simply migrate and enjoy their new country.
I can only make informed decisions based on the information I have. I don't have the time or expertise to personally audit every piece of code I use. I have to leverage the available resources and evidence that others have put forward.
Can Design Thinking Save Business?
It has a huge attack surface, also a lot of its code runs with high privileges. There's plenty of documentation on this.
Nim, Zig, Jai, Odin, Beef

I wonder if a large company will throw into this royal of small and productive system languages. It seems like Nim, Zig/Odin, and presumably Jai all fit into their corners well. Someone with funds to generate tooling and combine the static structure of Zig, the productivity of coding in Nim. I think these language have all shown the potential for a great new language in this space.
I know this is a terrible answer but consider checking out Julia. In Julia, vectorization is a macro, you literally do this

@simd for x in 1:9
factorial *= x
end

and the @simd macro handles conversion from loop to simd.
Yeah, I agreed until his comment went off the rails there. I have noticed a movement to try to brand libs as 'crypto-republicans' recently for whatever reason. Its okay, and rational to not only think along 2 (or 3 or 5) party lines.
Use Signal or Matrix.
If we just threw open the flood gates sure, but that's far from the only option. Simply increasing the immigration quotas gradually year-over-year would eventually allow an equilibrium to be reached without creating a large shock to the economy.
Just making a smaller Twitter won't change the nature of the Problem. It's less about the size of the community than the amount of topics, I believe. If you have a community that is about trains, and trains only, you may get a heated discussion about some train stuff, but you won't get a brawl about the political issue de jour.
We don't.

It is a feedback loop. The American ideal of rugged individualism has mutated into anti-neighbor and is exactly the model for echo chambers (not neighbors with diverse opinions but cultural clones!), which are facilitated by technology. The ease at which our culture Balkanizes is backed up by trillion dollar profits from a handful of companies, which then pay politicians to look the other way.

This online toxicity is a reincarnation of the populist hate that has driven wars for millennia. It is a cancer that has been given super-steroids because of the intersection of huge amounts of cash and limitless political control. Not to mention the propaganda that idolizes billionaires and strongmen.

I think the crash and burn of America would be a solution: the collapse of trillion dollar companies and monopolies that own the government. Unfortunately this is infecting other countries where the top 1% want's to be as rich as America's, hence their urgency to imitate what is happening here for their own profit.

There's no cure: the tech monopoly and insatiable greed of the top 0.1% will be the main drivers of global poverty and oppression, and to get there they need to keep us hating each other and divided. They even picked wedge issues like race and religion, which are almost 100% irreconcilable.

I would give the top-tier credit, but I think stimulating base beliefs for profit isn't really that hard, you just need a country-sized platform.
Because it's the most capable multi role modern fighter in production and at less than 80M[1] it's cheaper than any other modern western jet fighter.

[1]:https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/defense/2019-10-30/l...
Another horrible misleading clickbait title by Vox. The title for the post should be changed...
This is my internal logic too. Although upon some quick Googling I was surprised to find that in the U.S. it's a legal gray-area which varies from state to state.
> I don't want to take someone's job, or milk the welfare system

How are they supposed to know that? A two year vacation is extraordinarily strange.
Of course he hasn't had a fair trial, he's been hiding in an embassy for the past decade.
> The link between conscientious personality traits and interest in high-status cars was found among both men and women. In contrast, the connection between self-centred personality traits and high-status cars was only found among men, not women. Lönnqvist has no clear answer as to why this is the case.

Here's an idea -- because it's all p-hacked nonsense.

The abstract leaves out 1) how this population of 1892 was acquired. 2) what the definition of a high status car is -- is it equivalent to the cost or is it an arbitrary split on make/model? 3) the actual statistical tests and their results. While we see N at 1892, what were the sub-populations. Presumably N[high_status] is low relative to N, which would go along way to explaining the high 'conscientious' result -- that they are both meaningless statistical artifacts.

> The present study was motivated by the authors' everyday experience of most traffic violations being committed by male drivers of high‐status cars.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard Feynman

This is bad work.
I think what mc3 was talking about is some SaaS companies advertising their products as $X/mo when in reality the monthly pricing is more than that and $X is the cost iff you commit to an annual plan.

For example you might see pricing for $100/mo but that is only if you commit to 12 months ahead of time. Otherwise you'll pay $120/mo with no annual commitment.
It was also common for people to randomly get killed, barbarically, when crossing/migrating to another place uninvited.
Exactly. Mostly because we've discovered that the small town is oppressive, but the Wild West is full of gangsters. ;)
I think that Entity-Component-System is THE architectural pattern for building complex applications

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system

http://adventures.michaelfbryan.com/posts/ecs-outside-of-gam...
> The article mentions that illustration is a lot better than photography

Photography is just not enough. Botanical illustration puts all required details, and only those, together in the same place.

1-Can show all the plants in the same family in the same figure.

2-Can link features that never appear at the same time (like winter buds, fall fruits, summer flowers and associated fauna and funghia),

3-Can play with the scale showing features of much different sizes at similar scale (i.e tricolpate pollen, the shape of the aperture in anthers, and silhouette of the whole tree).

4-Will show the required details, but not more. A photo will show five plants mixed in the same picture so is often very confuse for an untrained eye to understand "what" is from "who". Photos lead often to "frankenplants" and it takes a lot of experience to disclose it, and this is a problem [1].

5-Will be uniform in design. Not distracting light or cropped leaves in photos. Not backgrounds that vary among figures.

6-Will take care of correct hues and color variations. Cheap caperas distroy red hues for example. Subtle variations are notoriously difficult to reproduce. Colors will be oversaturated and will change a lot when taken in different hours of the day. Similar species will appear darker and its mimic will appear lighter. In the end you have a very confuse picture.

[1] This can seem just pedantry until you realize that your children are looking at a photo showing the fruits of an edible species, tagged as "delicious as raw berries and green parts can be used in salads" but mixed with leaves of a second species growing in the background that is poisonous (and there is not a single warn about it at sight). Internet is full of those mistakes.
A system designed to SSH into production host with high privileges and make changes automatically instead of enforcing staging...
Evidence for H2 dissociation&recombination on KELT-9b, hottest known exoplanet
Within the EU movement if fairly unrestricted and does not require anything that you listed. Go check http://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/en/sheet/147/free-m...
Sooo... the guys he was leaking evidence of war crimes against claim that he endangered people he leaked information about.

While that may actually be true, I’m curious why you would trust that statement from the US Government (the “indictment”) while ignoring the other (that’s “classified”).

If you trust that there’s doubt as to why things were classified and that they may have been hiding things, why would you also trust that they claim people have been endangered? Again, not saying it’s not true, just that blindly taking the word of US prosecutors seems short sighted.
no IDE or tooling, what's the point?
I was saying "any" such hopes. IF someone had such an aspiration, then this would not be a possible course of action.
In theory, if people move around a lot they have less incentive to think and act for the long term in any one place.
Rivers are warming at the same rate as the atmosphere
Why do you not just post your reply to his comment as an actual reply to his comment?

Your point is an interesting addition (have you read "The Art of Not Being Governed" by any chance?) but this seems to me to just be for the sake of getting more karma, which I will not support.
Sure. But even then, knowing that in other circumstances it can be you behaving that way can give a bit more empathy for the other person. That doesn't make it less frustrating, but it may help you handle it a bit more gracefully.
Proof of self sufficiency.
Because other people that seemed to be like you based on easily measurable characteristics tried to stay after all.

That said, apart from the US, I wouldn't know any country where a rich German citizen couldn't get a long-term business or investment visa.
If I'm trying to consciously evaluate my actions, then yes, I might pause to think before continuing. This doesn't usually happen with something as simple as eating a bagel, though I've certainly contemplated the nature of cream cheese once or twice.
What’s the best “WireGuard as a VPN configuration” doc out there? Many are not clear about what is being set up, why the cidrs are chosen, how it works without DHCP etc. other guides focus on only proxying rfc1918 traffic and not your entire connection. Is my DNS leaking? Is ALL traffic going through it?

OpenVPN, with all of its issues, is simple to set up in a way that’s not leaky.
There's a recent model of what migration within America will look like. https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/as-sea-levels-rise-l...
21% of people in the EU would migrate? Wish they broke this down by country and where they would go
all of them are shit toy languages, they have 0 future since they aren't built with tooling/IDE in mind
Solution: K-means clustering of accounts, with long term effect.

Everyone starts out as a “noob”, seeing the unfiltered cesspool, and nobody with significant grouping weight sees their comments (except other noobs, and people who’ve categorized themselves as “noobs” by Liking inflammatory nonsense and Disliking reasoned debate.

In the year or so it takes for your identity to begin to develop weight toward your cluster, you see less and less “noob” content, and more “cluster” content.

If you like one-sided (eg. dismissive statist left/right, or aggrieved libertarian, ...) or perhaps reasoned principled respectful debate — that’s what you’ll see.

Everyone wants to see debate they’re comfortable with. If you want garbage, that’s what you’ll see. If you want understanding of opposition views in a reasoned, respectful environment, that’s what you’ll see.

What you won’t see is — trolls. They’ll all be busy trolling eachother, and we won’t see their garbage.

The idea that we can use single-axis rating to create a universally acceptable online environment is just, well, crazy. And yet, since the mid-80’s, that is what literally every online “social” tool has been trying, vainly, to accomplish! It’s stunning, really.
They were right to freak out. Swastikas and the n-word being tolerated as "jokes" for years was a breading ground from which militant fascists emerged.
> reflect for a moment on how much time is spent on standups at a company with 20 or 200 engineers, what one hour of their time is worth

> Your minimum commitment should be north of $1,000 per month; practically nobody can integrate with your API for cheaper than a thousand dollars of engineering time, right.

That's my thinking as well, but haven't had much luck getting companies to accept this kind of pricing. Even though it's all inbound interest (no advertising or outreach) and they're sometimes large companies.

Here are the problems I'm aware of:

1. People generally don't think about the cost of standups or meetings or per hour employee cost. That's just not something typically being considered.

2. They've compared with other APIs or use other APIs/SaaS and are used to <$100/mo. So $1k/mo or even $500/mo is a shock and they decline or disappear. Apparently deciding they don't actually need it that bad or going with their 2nd choice.

How do you overcome these? Do you actually point out that the API is cheap compared to employee cost? Help them justify it to themselves and/or their manager?
I like owning firearms so I'm regularly told that I love dead children. Welcome to the club.
Even within the EU? I thought that was largely the point.
But those are super edge cases, the vast super majority of things aren't clear cut at all. "Is that policy going to increase employment? Will it depress wages, and by how much?"

Good luck with judging who's right and who's wrong.
You have to couple immigration policies with compatible housing, zoning, and social policies. Immigration policy is not the only lever.
Discussions like this are frustrating to me because they always seem to skip over what feels like a crucial element:

Do you know _why_ this uptick has happened? Does anyone?

I get the feeling, in general, when people talk about wanting to "Do Something" about this sort of thing, they are always focused on managing the symptom and never focused on addressing the cause. Frequently, when I try to bring this up, the cause is waved away with "oh they're just stupid/ignorant/angry" or some other such explanation. The current-year favourite is "they just believe fake news", and I'm sure next year there will be a political explanation, and then the year after that we'll loop back to generic ones. (The irony of denouncing other people as causing polarization "because they're just angry and stupid" is lost on most people)

I don't know why this is happening. But I do know that until the why is address, and done so with care and respect, this problem will be papered over at best but never solved.

Also

> Do we ditch them and go back to a literal timeline?

If I got one wish to change the world, but I had to give up a bunch of great things, I would sell out all technological wonder in order to get literal timelines back. As soon as other people decided they knew what I wanted to see better than I did, the problem started. And as soon as they got tired of doing that and made computers do it for them, it got worse
By society. We don't want to fund people to separate fact from fiction, yet we lack the time and ability as a population to do it ourselves, so we latch onto outlets (especially celebrities) that seem to match our world view, and we treat what they say as gospel.
Prior to the 20th century we also didn't have mass transit and air travel. That pre-Renaissance nations didn't have borders as we have them today isn't really a meaningful distinction because, as you say, the Nation-State didn't really meaningfully exist.
Also different is the velocity. It's easier than ever before to spread something far and wide.
I have a degree from US, been living here for 6 years now, been working here 2 years now, still cannot move here and need to wait about 3 more years to get a Green Card.
What makes you think I don't commute to afford being here? You still haven't addressed how making my property taxes double is going to encourage me to accept poorly planned building ... I'd argue I would be doubly against it.
Again, anyone that purchases a house now pays taxes on the market rate. People buy in my town not for jobs but for the culture and location ... If houses get cheaper here the wealthy will just buy two.
Now if you said something thoughtful like eliminate prop 13 for anything but primary household you might be onto something but otherwise you're failing to convince me.
You might also stress increasing minimum wages such as my town recently enacted. I'm curious if the obvious will happen: business that rely on ultra cheap labor will fold (which I'm ok with) and/or more workers will be attracted from further away (which I'm not ok with). I know Costco and Starbucks already pay a bit above state minimum and a large portion of the service industry folk I patronize are my town neighbors. Why do you have a problem with improving to middle class taste? I definitely prefer my neighbors not living in squalor.
Ransomware hits TV and radio news monitoring service TVEyes
On a related note, say I have proprietary software A, but want to offer my customers the ability to use AGPL software hosted by me (Redash) on their data.

If the only link between my software and AGPL software is through SAML (and the customer DB), is there any "link" between the two programs for AGPL purposes?
Nocode: Write Nothing; Deploy Nowhere
Some numbers: There are 264 posts with animations, a bit more than 1/2 of the original collection, with the possibility to rerun in js the simulations.

Whenever possible there is a mol file attached to the animation. There are about 490 mol files. If they are too big to be used without stalling the js reduction, this is signaled by the message “mol too big” in the post. If there is no mol which matches, this is signaled as “mol unavailable”.

Of all 264 posts, 36 of them fall in the “mol too big” category, 46 in the “mol unavailable” and there are 6 posts which don’t have a chemlambda simulation inside. So this leaves 264-88=176 posts which have matching mol files to play with.

The original revived collection is here [1], but since 2 weeks the traffic is too big, or something strange happens [2], I made a copy with smaller images, to fit the github constraints.

[1] http://imar.ro/~mbuliga/collection.html#153

[2] https://chorasimilarity.wordpress.com/2020/01/29/ddos-attack...
I agree. Big centralized platforms (youtube, Reddit, the chans, HN to some exent) mean that the internet riff raff (i.e. people with no interest in the niche and who may feel like trolling) are free to show up in any given niche area of the platform (e.g. a subreddit or someone's channel) and then shit all over it. A community that would have been perfectly peaceful on a newsgroup, IRC channel or forum now has to contend with literally anyone from anywhere else on the platform. The old 4chan quip about /b/ leaking is now the default state on basically every platform because the platforms are so big even a small trickle of trolls is a full on flood of crap. People are getting fed up. I think there will be some decentralization in our future.
You speak-write with such certainty that I'm sure you have an argument in your mind, but it didn't come across. I feel like some sentences were erased from your comment.
I think it is more of a social problem we can’t solve with code.

As methods of communication get cheaper and more accessible, it opens the world up to see what humanity is, not what humanity wants itself to be.

People that maliciously attack those online are broken people. Broken people exist in reality, thus broken people will exist online.

Google and Facebook can write code to stop harassment, but they can’t do so without marginalizing people who are already on the fringes of society. Plus, their system can be gamed. The output of such changes would mean that it would stop some harassment at the cost of losing accessibility for everyone and a meta game playing in the background that costs the corporations engineering resources.

The best answer right now, in my opinion, is to create tools to fight harassment, but give those tools to the users of the site rather than automated algorithms. A good example of this is a mute feature. Other tools like customized word filters, block lists and safe lists can also help empower users.
My local university had these old books that contained maps of the area, going back to the 1800s. One of my favorite parts of them wasn't even the maps, but the intricate calligraphy and lettering, big brazen impact hand lettered fonts. That kind of thing doesn't exist in the modern flat and minimalist design style.
> We now have people who 100% believe objectively wrong things and have an obsession to spread their belief as fact.

There's usually enough truth behind every lie - enough to make it compelling enough to believe in. I'm sorry but I don't think it's as obvious as you're making it out to be. We all probably believe something that's objectively wrong. The truth is really in the middle, but all I see is people going further towards fringe opinions.
Definition of “Take”
Inside a German U-Boat
I'm pretty sure they offer that, but it might cost you lots of money.

For example, Singapore requires you to have SG$ 2.5 Mio in assets if you want an unlimited visa.
The Rise and Fall of Labor Unions in the U.S.
Excerpt:

"My keyboard doesn’t have a ] sign on it."

Which leads to the following question (for future language designers)...

How do developers in foreign countries, using keyboards with no '[' or ']' symbols on them, type square brackets '[]' for array notation, when they are using arrays, in any programming language that requires brackets for array notation?

?
In November, Facebook made a branding push in its major aquistions (e.g. Whatsapp and Instagram):

https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/04/facebook-branding/

My guess it was for the "I don't use Facebook, I just use Instagram" crowd.
That's how rules/law work. If they'd let people enter 2 years on a tourist visa, for every person like you they'd get 100 with the intention to settle. So better ban it outright.
My employer (not a tech company but a healthcare provider) has a system whereby I submit a Potential Conflict of Interest document. They review and either give me their blessing to continue work (outside work hours obviously) or further review is to be conducted.
Schengen includes some non-EU countries and still excludes a bunch of European countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Schengen_Agreement_La...
>This is just a UN employee.

Read again, is not a car driver for UN , this is his job and duty to investigate.

>Why do you think his trial could not be fair?

The article says that and I believe it, do a search for "fair trial" you should find it, let me know if you need a summary because you are too busy to read but honestly read the entire article not skim it.

>That is not what we are debating on. Rather I am talking about the claims that the Swedish prosecution and investigation are malicious.

I am not sure what comment you are refering but maybe this time the Sweeds will respond to the 50 issues that were raised instead of citizens trying to denfend the authorities illegal activities.
UPS invests in startup Arrival, orders 10k electric trucks
AGPL is not an Open Source license, but a Free Software license.

Its goal is not to help corporations, but to give end users freedom to control software they use.