skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an active topic of discussion actually. In general the trinity of qualities that result in a "strong in the real way" country have been approached as realism, nationalism, and liberty. The scholarly community is currently in conflict because in the modern era one of these things is seemingly very unimportant compared to the others.

Previously, it was believed that liberty contributed to economic output for a myriad of reasons that boil down to "free markets". There's an emerging, albeit more romantically framed, belief that diversity and too much liberty are actually handicaps because both can retard a government's ability to engage in realist policy while, at the same time, deminishing the homoginizing effects of nationalism which has its own independent benefits but which also acts as a lubricant for realist action. This is not to say all assumptions and observations about liberal policies have been wrong, it's more about re-assessing our understanding about the magnitude and utility of these effects.
> C compiler is installed

It's a great idea but that part is a big ask for any Windows user who doesn't develop desktop applications.
Yeah, both were part of the Minoan civilization, which suffered significant decline after the eruption.
https://crates.io/crates/typed-html-macros
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Reading that page, and this HN article, reminds me of a classic phrase: "There is a fine line between genius and insanity."
Reading this article one thing shocked me: Do a lot of homes not have double glazing in the UK? I thought it was a standard, because it's so much more efficient at keeping cool/warmth inside/outside (depending on season)
Are they included in Unicode for any reason? They're not textual and don't make any sense (they are actually ill-formed[1]) as independent glyphs.

[1] OK, they're not ill-formed if you really want to insert a miniature icon of a free benzene molecule into running text, but in chemistry you're mostly talking about benzene rings as a structural element in larger molecules, not molecular benzene.
Yeah, this is pretty ridiculous. I'm putting a reminder for 2025 to reread this piece to see if literally any of it came true.
I don't know, why would we continue to subject ourselves to useless TSA security theater rubdowns and millimeter wave scanners that can see your naked body under your clothes adding hours to the onboarding process when most experts agree it is ineffective and most logical beings understand that another 9/11 can never really happen again the way it did?

I suspect what will drive a lot of changes like these will be insurance. Companies will want pandemic insurance and insurance companies will not offer reasonable premiums without certain precautions in place because the cost of payouts is too high.
If the space is available, it is nearly always cheaper and more efficient to build horizontally.
Didn't Yahoo close unused accounts at some point opening the doors to all kinds of takeovers?
This is insane.

China abducts a Swedish citizen; recognizes and prosecutes him as citizen of China, denying Sweden access to the trial (note that China does not even have double citizenship); when concerns are raised over violations of Vienna treaty on consular relations—and hey, by this logic China can abduct anyone anywhere—China declares that (I am not joking) consular relations are on hold until COVID-19 is resolved.

How on Earth is anyone OK with this?
This was my experience. I'm seven years into remote working and I spent the first half absolutely fighting to force myself into a 9-5. I did all the habits that everyone typically recommends here. Separate office, machines. Get dressed in the morning. Keep regular hours.

I'm not a regular hours kind of guy. I want to put in a couple hours at 2 am. I want to sleep in. I'd like to go for a couple hour walk in the afternoon. Maybe chores or something personal was stressing me out that needed to be taken care.

Once I came to terms with just letting the two blend together, so much stressed came off my shoulders. Now, I'm available 9-5 on my cell if the team needs to chat -- but I get tickets cleared out when the I'm at peak motivation for that kind of work.

I'm far more productive then when I was trying to force myself to slog through unproductive afternoons. I got the hours in, but not the work. Now, I feel much more balanced between work and personal affairs.
Xi’s crusade on food waste triggers rare anxiety over supplies
> Livestreamers who film themselves eating huge amounts of food have been censured,
That's my point. So is MAMP/WAMP. The devs have always stated their setup was meant for development only, yet lots and lots of novices use a MAMP/WAMP setup as their production environment.
It's been a while since I did any UI dev, and this thread has been very informative, thanks to everyone giving advice.

But man, the balkanization of OS GUIs and widgets should have been subjected to the same very public shame that IE6 was subjected to, and a standards body.

No wonder electron is so appealing.

There is no technical excuse for modern OS's to have converged on a very well designed crossplatform UI toolkit. It really does underlie so much of why people are fleeing desktop OSs for phones and tablets.

Does Microsoft Office still bake their entire own Windows UI/Widget stack?
Ah, that old dilemma: Do I work best under pressure, or do I work only under pressure?
No, these don’t have configuration files and can be set up from the command line arguments.
It's especially annoying if you took two quarters of Greek like 35 years ago and recognize it just well enough to have trouble seeing it as weird English lettering.
There are already quite a few biometric detection options in production out there that can ID you just fine with a mask on. Just your eyes and forehead are probably enough for a lot of facial recognition and then there is gait detection that can identify you by how you walk or even heart beat rythmn detection that I believe requires a laser sensor of some type.
Ten countries kept out Covid, but did they win?
Yeah, there's a system for macro definition where you define the language the macro accepts. It's very powerful and can probably do most of what you're imagining in this comment.
I"be seen netcat used to support oauth login in some shell scripts.
In 2015 9% Americans had never sent an email.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/lindsey-graham-isnt-alo...
Apple succeeded in what Google has failed with, namely to put value on quality apps. A few small missteps and it will become like Android or Windows Phone.
Apache usually just needs to reload the config file not reboot, and it's also often only a few lines to get whatever you want done. Reload might take 1/2 a second, but I doubt it takes even that long. Sure, if you want to load a module with a bunch of new functionality you might need the 2 seconds it takes to reboot unless you have thousands of sites, but that has been a rare experience in the last 7 years or so for me. If you have thousands of sites you are not using python server anyway. In the end apache config is relatively easy -- especially to just test stuff quickly --, it's the overall server security that is more nebulous due to the variety of attack vectors throughout the stack. I would guess all that is similar on Nginx.

So sure, it is a little easier to just throw out a one liner, but it doesn't give you an environment that is similar to deploy, so the extra 2 minutes to open the apache config and reload is worth it to me for the implicit bug testing going on. Of course none of us has a horse in the race and to each his own on his own box. But it's fair to keep their names in the conversation at least.
> Make a product that people want and are willing to pay for.

Exactly. In fact, it's not even about the product. You need to solve somebody's problem in a way that they are willing to pay for. The product is just how you choose to do that. The designs and code and engineering decisions and artwork etc. etc. aren't for the customer, they're for you. What the customer is paying you for is solving their problem.
But...OVPN is also based in Sweden: https://www.ovpn.com/en/about
The issue might actually be the opposite. It would probably cost too much to employ the number of bridgeworkers that were employed for the Golden Gate Bridge.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol's_cost_disease

This can’t be a complete explanation though as other places can still build things.
This comes up so often I wrote an a blog post explaining why it won't work that I can refer to every time it comes up. Here it is: https://robert.ocallahan.org/2020/05/why-forking-html-into-s...
Please don't be biliously predictable in HN comments. Obviously there are plenty of good (and bad) articles at the NYT.
The obvious issue is whether you can think openly when you can get in trouble for it.

Einstein was not a conformist. Could he have survived such an environment? Or would they beat him down, or would he leave?

Consider Li Wenliang, who first noticed covid19, and was interviewed by the police, and investigated after his death for disrupting public order.

OTOH the PRC have been very astute in adopting capitalism. If they can, they will find a way for research. I'm just not sure if it's possible to reconcile thought-control in one sphere, and not in another.
In DOS/Windows the shell does not expand as the sibling comment says (which puts some burden on the programmer - I had to use a Windows DLL in a perl script once to replicate Windows-style argument handling) but as most people know they also have paths with \ and options with /, and / is not a valid filename character.

This use of / for options goes way back to VMS apparently[0] and changing the path separator to avoid ambiguity does seem sensible. Of course, Windows has its own quirks like CON.

0: https://superuser.com/a/176395/206248
I think he has more than enough skills to be his own boss and charge by the hour.
The bridge's safety record was revolutionary at the time, mainly due to the introduction of hard hats and safety nets (https://www.history.com/news/6-things-you-may-not-know-about...). It's hard to find a comparison to an equivalent project in America today, but looking around the world the numbers aren't much better (e.g. 9 people died in 2019 building world cup stadiums in Qatar - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/mar/16/q...). And construction is still in the top 3 most fatal job categories in America (https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.nr0.htm).
There's tkinter.ttk that makes your widgets look slightly more modern.
If anyone can suggest a better title, we can change it. "Better" means: more accurate and neutral, and preferably using representative language from the article itself (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=5&prefix=true&sor...).

Edit: I've taken a crack at it.
https://archive.is/539Hv
Exactly. How many times has Apple said the iPad is a laptop replacement?
The Jews off BBC!

Its always been Jews vs gentiles. For over 2000 years! Wake the fuck up you dumb shits!
It would be interesting indeed to compare the stress level of students from one country to another.
> Of course the customer cares about fast, powerful and efficient things they can use.

Only if the thing being fast, powerful and efficient actually solves their problem better.
> I believe that scripts without a shebang line cannot be executed by execve.

This was once true on old systems, but current ones (including Linux) have native support for scripts starting with #!. See fs/binfmt_script.c in Linux, which has existed for several decades.
Climate is seen by most people as something that might kill future generations hundreds of years from now. Carona is seen as something that can kill us today. So there is a big difference in perceived urgency between the two. I think it would be naive to think that there won’t be some permanent changes to society as a result of this virus, the explosive rise in remote work being the biggest one. Companies have been forced into it, and now realize that it works very well and saves them a fortune. We will see far more remote-only teams, etc. We may also see a large reduction in live events going forward, or at least significant changes to them, which makes me sad.

However, I believe you are correct that many of the precautions taken in this article will not stand the test of time and would be viewed as paranoid. I don’t think thermal cameras and masks will be a thing forever, and I doubt voice-activated elevators are going to be in widespread use anytime soon.
To keep your trademark, you need to defend it.

It’s a duty of trademark holder to keep an eye on potentially infringing applications and take action if it notices them. If you don’t take actions it means you have given up your trademark.

Not sure how else Apple could proceed here.
I want the same for ‘emotional hooks by PR’. It works so well on the internet that we get flooded with it.
I can’t read the article, but previous articles I have read on the subject indicated that the road authorities who evaluated the tech never found it suitable to install on a public roadway to begin with. Besides the durability/maintenance issues, it also had lower friction than a normal road surface. I think one here in the US gave it a trial run as a sidewalk and even that use was a failure when the freeze and thaw cycle of the ground broke them.
This is also true in most cities in China, especially the huge ones. In Shanghai German-made middle-to-high end models form a surprisingly high fraction of the cars.
You perhaps didn’t go through the terminal for international transiting connections (terminal E?)

It is fantastic. Just about the best airport experience I’ve had. Easy to get from one point to another, nice lounges if you have access, and outdoor viewing decks.

The rest of the airport is just so so. And it’s confusing to get from one terminal to the next.

But terminal E is a marvel. Airports actually have internationally established minimum connection times for flights, based on how long transit is expected to be. Zurich’s is among the lowest.

The other comment covered the credit card issue so I won’t address that part.
What you say is true.

I think the challenge is not only what you say but also what you don’t say or do?

In other words, do you say the “right” things, do you go to the same church, the same sports club, and so on.

It doesn’t take much for someone to be the wrong kind of neighbor once the fear takes over was my point.
> let them pay for your development time like a consultant...

Do they not then own at least a share of the IP? You'd be lucky to find a customer that takes you on as a consultant but lets you keep the IP you develop during that time.
"Όντως φορητό εκτελέσιμο" ?
Usually I'm responding to an account's recent history, not just one comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24253754, for example, affects the priors.

HN has been having lots of discussion about racism, just as the rest of society has been (or rather, societies, since many countries are represented here). If your question ("Is HN a place where discussion about social problems [is] not allowed") comes up, that can only be because of unfamiliarity with the history. If you want to get more familiar, HN Search is a great resource (see the box at the bottom of every page).

The process of how we moderate political and ideological topics on HN is pretty stable by now. If you want to know what it is, check out the past explanations at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... There's a lot there; you could start with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902396.

People often feel like their most-important topic is under-represented or outright suppressed on HN. Even the most common topic feels "censored" to some people (see e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23624962). This is an unfortunate consequence of frontpage space being the scarcest resource on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
Commodores never die, they just keep evolving.
I did some research on network coding a few years ago (see [1] if interested), and I was very excited by the potential until I read the paper by Li, Li, and Lau that proves the maximum gain in throughput we can expect in undirected networks is 2x.
https://iqua.ece.toronto.edu/papers/zp-transit.pdf
This makes me think there is no point in introducing all this complexity... just stick to packet networks and routing, and you're at most 2x less efficient than then optimal netwrok coding scheme...

[1] A short literature review paper on network coding dating back to 2009: https://minireference.com/static/tmp/network_coding_review.p...
The whole dialogue around Hydroxychloroquine has been bizarre with neither side actually addressing what the other is saying in the political arena. One side has, ineloquently, said "We think Y can reduce your odds of getting X" and the other side replied by saying "Y isn't a cure for X". After this point the conversation ends and both sides go back to preaching to their choirs without addressing the fact that neither made a statement that genuinely impacts what the other said.
It's a racket. Universities must use the latest textbooks to remain accredited. This is why syllabi will always list the latest edition of a textbook as the required text (and mentioning that the last edition is sufficient is always done parenthetically). Publishers can fix a few typos, change some example problems, and call it a new edition. Every university will have to recommend the new edition to their students. The students who bought the last edition last year will have to sell their now obsolete textbook for a fraction of the purchasing price.

Markets in everything: University textbooks are always priced to be marginally outrageous. If they were to cost something ridiculous like $1,000 a piece, there would be protests and riots on campus. Instead they merely fleece the students for $100 or $200. Enough people pay up that the system is deemed imperfect rather than inherently flawed.
It has just one location within the city limits of Los Angeles

Not true...there are at least 9 locations in Los Angeles city proper. It is understandable to miss the San Fernando Valley locations, since they use colloquial neighborhood names as the city (e.g. Sherman Oaks, or Woodland Hills) despite actually being in Los Angeles, but there are 3 that have Los Angeles listed as the city (Westwood, Venice, and LAX)

https://www.google.com/maps/place/In-N-Out+Burger/@34.127224...
Was it worth it financially? Like are you earning loads now?
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It would be interesting to see how this scales with cores/threads. Current gen CPUs have ~128 threads per socket and you can find hardware that is quad socket. I've seen some systems with <512 concurrent processes running. In those use cases would this patch have the effect of pinning each process to a single thread (ignoring io/other sleep states)? Would the performance benefits of this patch scale super-linearly against thread count?
Ah yes, like the geodesic domes erected over major cities that filter the toxic air, contaminated by the bioviruses released during the Great War. The mud-girls and mud-boys of the Sprawl fight over the scraps of obselete tech left behind by the chrome plated gods of New Eden; watching over the condemned above the gravity well.
Second Hand books get recycled or donated to thrift stores or bought out in bulk and sold on Amazon for pennies with $5 shipping. In the age of the ebook there is no need of a second hand book store.
Bloom's paper largely focuses on when/how students get feedback and less on the particulars of the assessments.

For example, maybe mastery learning works (in part) because it helps teachers pay attention in a group setting more like they would in a 1:1 setting. From Bloom's paper: https://share.getcloudapp.com/rRu7WJRz
Personally I find this disturbing (I am a UK Citizen) for quite a few reasons.

The first is that I suspect that this is an attempt at normalising such invasive measures into everyday life.

The second is that I am extremely suspicious of whatever the BBC presents anything in this artwork style. Many of these pieces appear to me as propaganda pieces and are not news (even though they are listed under news).

The third is sanitising the whole world I doubt believe is good for people's well being (mentally and physically). My mother suffers from compulsive cleanliness obsession, I am sure it is a form of OCD but I am not a psychologist.
When I still lived at home everything must be cleaned excessively and there are many arbitrary rules my siblings and I had to follow. It also caused significant friction in my family to the point where there was constant arguments and upsets due to her compulsive problem. I would wager that what is suggested in the article would also cause a lot of friction between people.
I also have a number of allergies which I suspect is due to my mother's compulsive cleanliness in my childhood.

The fourth reason is that this might be a gateway of your employer monitoring you in the home. I was recently talking to a friend of mine who owns an off-license. He was telling me that his girlfriend is required to have a laptop camera on while working to verify she is working.

I really do hope things in the UK don't end up like this. However we are probably one of the most watched societies outside of China.
So does bank apps, there has to be some kind of exceptions.

Maybe because pay apps count as banking? It would be absurd to charge 30% on banking.
It reminds me of a line from a Jack Reacher novel - a guy with a scarred face (who obviously thinks he looks scary and tough) asks Reacher what his face tells him, and Reacher just replies "it tells me you've lost a lot of fights."
With all due respect, what kind of bargaining chip is that gonna be if U.S. dev work starts shifting to remote as the norm? Your higher cost of living in the Bay Area would count against you.
You reminded me of Fisher and Sperr in Highgate, gone but not forgotten, and illustrated a little by this article:

http://www.dalemcgowan.com/samples/bookcrawling.html

It is a grand theme of life that we fail to appreciate these things until it is too late. Thank you for the reminder.
That was a terrible idea. Apartment buildings with 45,000 people each? Most with no exterior windows?
And I would guess you get fewer artifacts - the version linked in a sibling comment with just one end has a lot of factors and yet is not very accurate.
The article asserts that a bunch of things will change in the future, but it doesn't say why. We'll live in more expensive houses, further from work, renovate all of our offices and homes, and change all of our daily and weekly routines, because of a virus that everyone is vaccinated against?
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>maybe that’s because Florida and Alabama and Louisiana and Texas are being more careful right now. First of all, does that sound right to you? With schools opening?

>Florida have 60% more restaurant reservations

>Also note, those green states are a lot of the states that were most vehemently opposed to masks and lockdown- places like Florida and Louisiana.

You seem to be ignoring several things about the largest county in Florida, Miami-Dade County: indoor dining in any restaurant is forbidden since July, and ongoing. Masks are strictly required in public everywhere, even outdoors, and enforced with a $100 fine. And a strict countywide 10:00 pm curfew has been in place since July. And schools are not opening. All grade schools and colleges are online only.
I think the comparisons could also use some normalization with respect to per capita income (mean, mode, median?). 1 USD in the US doesn't mean the same thing as 1 USD in China.

From the consumers' perspective, it's about affordability, not absolute cost.
I thought what we’ve learned about TSA security theater is that another 9/11 could happen and what we’re doing wouldn’t prevent it.