skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Trump is painted as an imbecile

I don't think the media is (only) to blame for that. When Trump speaks publicly, he isn't exactly eloquent - he goes back and forth, says the most bizarre things, and often rambles incoherently like a madman.

> do you really think you can win the presidency of the US when you are below average

Yes, you just need to be popular, and that is not a contest of raw intellect; it's about saying things that people want to hear, and having them hear you.
Less people were killed than in the Capitol breach

How do you figure that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Ukrainian_cr...
SpaceX hot fire tests its Starship vehicle three times in four hours
| So, let's just legalize them all and hope that people will use them responsibly.

Like for alcohol, I doubt that would work. Some substances are simply hard to use responsibly, some offer unique ways of escapism (especially during a lockdown), many people lack restraint. I don’t imagine the number of people dependent on substances would go down, it would probably just diversify. In the end, I think it’s very hard to predict societal outcome of such a big decision. To name a few – confused parents, drug tourism, self-medication instead of going to doctors.

In any case, we don’t have to go fully legal-as-broccoli drugs. We could start by decriminalization for well-defined amounts, by legalizing drug checking, by educating instead of fearmongering. But since we replaced the worst imaginable state representative for drugs with the second worst imaginable state representative for drugs, I doubt anything will happen here soon.

| Either we find (all) drugs bad, or we stop being such liars in regards to this.

It’s not that people are liars, most just don’t know that alcohol is among the hardest drugs out there, and fear the unknown.
The thing is people are rarely good at handling grief especially when it is out of the norm, e.g., an old parent passing away. If it is something that is more long term, a depression, or similar, something I've noticed is when I've been with a friend through it, they may be thankful but once they come out of it they tend to no longer want to spend that much time with you because you remind them of those times. It may be an acceptable cost to pay but realize that you may help and lose someone. Sometimes, professional help is better.
To be fair, the US doesn't exactly keep out uncertainty or anything like that. US military policy is subject to the whims of the current management - and no one can really expect the US to keep any sort of agreements at this point. Not only that, but enforcement seems to be more aimed at trying to show strength (ships in china seas) or sanctions, and less on making sure folks can trade or have safety.

I'd argue that the real reason for being able to "just trade" is simply that most countries aren't interested in warring and impeding this: The agreement works out for many. The organizations set up at Bretton Woods would be in place even if the US fails completely.
Meta note:

The comment I reply to was downvoted. I don't know why, it contributes to the discussion.

Lately, I feel like there have been a lot of reddit-like dislike-downvoting here on HN.

I hope the admins find a way to preserve the "maturity culture" I have always loved about HN.
It wasn’t really elitist. He was an elite (e.g. refer to his paternal grandfather) with folksy affectations.

But you are right that a person’s actions (and policies in this case) is much more important than whether they happen to say silly things.
That's not all that uncommon in eastern Europe. I used to earn 5€/hour at my first programming gig in Slovakia. LV in the parent's post likely refers to Latvia.

In fact, even in the first world countries like Italy or Spain it's not uncommon to earn less than 1700€ net.

Here in Finland, 80% of the US GDP/capita btw, some entry level positions are at 2000€ net.
Bush looked abit slow and confused. Maybe inpart becouse journalists picked 'mean' photos. A classic trick is to transscribe in a way that sounds stupid but is accurate for the non-english audiance.
I'm the same way. Mindmaps are by far the best tooling for how I think. They're also just not portable. I keep trying. It would be awesome if mind maps could be united with a console somehow, so that I could inject things from "wherever".

I've spent a lot of time caring about KM/KB and can't settle on anything that survives more than 2 years. What do you do today?
Then where do you leak the IP that will get you ddosed?

I wasn't talking about public vs "private" servers. The fact that the admin can see your IP applies to all.
I'm pretty happy with what I'm getting in Denmark. I think there are many jobs more important than what I do (teachers, nurses, doctors and so on) that get way less than me.

I do wish we had more startup culture and VCs in europe..
It's similar to when "human rights" is brought up.

There is no exact immutable universal definition, especially when it comes to edge cases and specifics. It varies across cultures, jurisdictions, and time.
What's this supposed to prove?
I kind of agree that the oil argument is stupid, though I would not say it is baseless, it is probably overly reductive though.

Fracking is what lead the US to rebound as the largest oil producer, and IIRC that became big after the invasion of Iraq?
> avoid dealing with VISAs

VISA is a name of a company. What you mean is just "visa".
Being from the Netherlands, I recognize this shame. High positions in the workforce are often shamed, talked about as "easy money", as if it's inherently corrupt, people don't acknowledge their risks and responsibilities. Whether that warrants those high salaries or not, I'm not commenting on that debate. Public functions or private organizations in which the government invests, must cap salaries at what the prime minister makes, which is "only" around 200k euros, a fraction of what american CEOs make. This includes public television talent; imagine your US network television nightly news anchors being capped at 200k. (I understand those are private, just making the comparison because they're the highest watched shows in either nation. Private television in the Netherlands is not subject to the cap, but also has not the highest ratings.)

Now that I live in the USA, I've never heard anyone talk like that about a successful CEO. Envy yes, aspiration too, admiration yes.
If these kinds of errors occur there might very well be an SQL injection going on.
Jack Dorsey (Twitter CEO) on Banning Trump
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> they soon attract most things illegal

"Most things illegal", at least the violent kind (weapons, etc) is typically related to the war on drugs. If we stop the war on drugs, the demand for weapons will fall dramatically. Most violence you get in major cities is drug gangs fighting each other. The war on drugs ending would also put an end to that and their demand for weapons.

Fraud can be dealt with technical improvements. There's no reason card fraud is still a thing in today's day and age. You're telling me I can buy a ~50$ smart card, put a client certificate in it and nobody else can login as me without physically having the card but banks can't do the same? Come on.

Whatever remains then (which is going to be in much lower volume) can be dealt with later.
Have you read the guidelines?
Right, but Prof Hennessy wants you to understand that he was brilliant at understanding the facts and carrying out the analysis for deciding that he should be a war criminal.

Eye roll.

George Bush, brilliant or not, earned his tainted legacy. If he was really so smart, perhaps he could have found a way to avoid that we are having this discussion about him now.

He's just lucky that President Trump came along to steal the title of "greatest criminal in the White House in the last 50 years" from him.
It's easy in hindsight, nobody knew iphone would take off so strongly. Did you sell the house and load up on Apple stock at the time?
That’s a very European media thing. Republican presidents are consistently portrayed as dumb and evil; Democrat presidents are consistently portrayed as smart, funny, and fair.
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Given that in modern economy it's insurmountably more difficult to earn first million than the next ten, 50% increase in SWE salary would give a huge advantage and produce non-linear effects on inequality gap.
Freedom from some consequences, yes, but it's secondary. The primary meaning is the ability to say things to the public.

In the Soviet bloc all media were state controlled and even xerox machines and typewriters were tightly controlled. It was non-trivial to even publish something (not to say there weren't consequences).
> One of my students asked “How involved was President Bush with what was going on?” I smiled and responded, “What you really mean is, ‘Was President Bush smart enough to understand what was going on,’ right?” The class went dead silent.

I hate this kind of self-centered storytelling. The "dead silence" is embellished for effect, and the author of the story makes the student asking the question into a crude idiot so he can have his comeuppance with the witty reframing. The odds of the events in question actually happening as describe are nearly zero. It makes the whole thing read like an email forward from a dumb aunt.

When I think about the people in my own life that tell these kinds of stories, they're all awful to talk to. Every story involves them at the center of some otherwise anodyne situation where rooms full of people listen to them slack-jacked in awe of their perception and wit and charm. Drama comes almost exclusively by anonymous third parties being embarrassed by the repartee. Awful awful awful.

That this particular piece takes that already deeply unattractive personal characteristic and applies it to the context of partisan politics is somehow even worse.

The odds are that in the real story the majority of the students were borderline asleep, that the question asked was not a coded insult of Bush's intelligence but rather a curious student trying to learn about the division of intellectual labour in policy circles, and that the answer went over like a lead balloon because it involved evading the question to go on a moralistic lecture about how liberals are bad.
It should self regulate, once American exports become cheap again.

12% is not much, the USD has had its ups and its downs in the last 20 years (compared to the EUR).
How volatile is the housing market in Germany? And there are solutions to the other problems - getting the house properly surveyed before buying, insurance for fires.
(Sensible) drug use doesn't hurt anyone else though. Most of the violence surrounding drugs is because the lack of a legal supply chain for it.
> the first thing that should come in people's minds when they think about Bush should not be silly & almost endearing gaffes, but Gitmo, Irak, Afghanistan and the hundreds of thousand of corpses he left behind.

Isn't this the case? Maybe less so at the time but this is his legacy and the first thing I think of is the wars he left and the evangelicals he mobilized.
These risks will most likely only reduce over time as our science and knowledge develops, barring a world-affecting mistake or war. If we can make a ton of energy, we can do many other things like launching the waste into outer space, and having a positive ROI by making more energy than it cost.
True, I was going to put a note on that but apparently forgot or removed it while editing: some software, mainly cross-platform from windows (which is CI) will break in CS file systems, while Unix software is more likely to break on CI.
I think misguided XSS protection is the most likely culprit here.
If you maintain that infrastructure for the sake of national security you are willing to pay a premium. The problem isn't government intervention because that can be done properly.

The bigger problem is that Intel is a company that both designs CPUs and manufactures them. The government isn't actually interested in Intel's CPUs specifically, only the domestic manufacturing capability. Intel has to be split up before the government can get what it wants.

>Why can’t people learn from all the instances where a government tried to micromanage and horribly failed in the mid/long run?

Counter example: Central banks are making lots of money available but the governments are not using it to employ people (either directly or indirectly) so it just fuels a long term asset bubble without achieving the desired economic growth.
Ahh, a classic case of "if you don't understand it, you are bound to reimplement it".
Actually, I am Dutch, but have lived in the UK and am now living in France. I agree that "freedom of speech" is less of an issue for the average European, than for an average American. But Angela Merkel for example critisized strongly the actions of Facebook, Twitter et al.

You may agree with private entities censoring now, because you disagree with the censored statements. What if the roles are reversed? What if Mark Zuckerberg runs for president and uses his platform to this end? What if whomever-you-disagree-with pays private entities to censor your newspaper / internet site?

Democratically defined censorship, enforced by the state is one thing (and already complicated). Censorship without all those guarantees is, IMHO, quite another.
Someone dying isn't natural selection: It is just death.

Sex education and free access to birth control, sterilization, and abortion lowers population without the trauma of war.
This article reminds me of those clips from Aaron Sorkin shows where the protagonist goes on some rant while the room goes dead silent around them. They so clearly crave some foil so that they can do their soapbox act about their pet peeve.
Except I wasn't talking about Ireland which has low taxes and high wages for sw devs compared to continental Europe.
> What’s risky about the investment?

The German population is shrinking.

Real estate as a safe and stable investment in the long term relies on steady population growth to insure that demand will always be there for you to be able to sell at a good price.

Of course, if you buy in the most desirable locations you may be shielded from this because demand outstrips supply by a huge margin to begin with.
> The ones they consider less important are put in a backlog.

True, but this just proves my point. It still doesn't take 6 months to fix this issue... if they wanted to fix it. Deprioritizing it was a deliberate choice by Apple. The reason the exclusion list shipped to the public in Big Sur wasn't technical, the reason is that Apple's priorities are messed up.

From my perspective, the explanation is simple: ContentFilterExclusionList wasn't a "bug", it was a deliberate "feature". So from Apple's perspective, there was nothing to "fix". At least one developer was told it "behaves as intended": https://twitter.com/david_ddw/status/1329017113709842437

Only the public backlash caused Apple to remove it.
Income taxes for a $500k/year person in California is $210k

Income taxes for a $500k/year person in Arkansas is $196k

Income taxes for a $500k/year person in the UK $220k - but that includes healthcare

Why isn't Arkansas the centre of the development world? Does skipping healthcare and increasing your takehome pay by 3% really make a difference?

sources:

https://goodcalculators.com/us-salary-tax-calculator/

https://listentotaxman.com/366000
Corrupt admin on a private, rival server.
Interestingly while income inequality in Sweden is fairly low, wealth inequality there is one of the highest in the world and higher than in the US (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_eq...)
No - he may or may not be a war criminal, depending on whether he committed war crimes. You don't need to be a convicted criminal to be a criminal.
I think that was meant to mean that the two beams interact. Two crossing light beams will pass right through each other without much happening while two electron beams will interact. But this is because electrons are charged and photons are not. On careful inspection and with high energy photons one would also notice an interaction between two light beams due to photon photon scattering [1]. But one could reasonably call this a kind of distraction due to different charges of different particles. Ignoring those makes photons and electrons behave identical in respect to the phenomena discussed in the article.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-photon_physics
I agree, this is 90% likely malicious. The non-malicious usage I can imagine is that for debugging the firewall you don't want to lock your other services out of it in case something goes wrong (or as you said, for reliability issues)
I would like to pose the question: why do you think these salaries have to increase?

I work in Europe in a SW company, earning a well above country-average salary (around 2.5x). I live quite well. My colleagues live quite well. The company is doing quite well.

Do keep in mind, that every extra euro that ends up in my savings account, is an euro that is not ending up in
someone else's wallet in the country where the customers are. That is, if my company decided to raise our salaries, the customers would have to raise prices on their customers, and so on, I would have more savings, but someone else wouldn't be able to have a coffee or pay their tuition money.

Why then, would we want the already well above average salaries raised?
> He's just lucky that President Trump came along to steal the title of "greatest criminal in the White House in the last 50 years" from him.

Pretty hard to make the argument than in terms of kill count Bush doesn't win this one
I've heard quite a few anecdotal stories about how GWB was a lot smarter than he was portrayed to be in the press. There was also a snippet online on youtube somewhere where he was unaware he was being filmed and discussing something very cogently and logically with his adviser. But then again there is also those scenes of awkard silence in documentary's like Michael Moore's. Meh, who knows, the media controls the narrative these days
> If I really believe in stoicism, shouldn't I just take drugs that make me feel happy/satisfied/virtuous?

Are there any? Perhaps the tenets of Stoicisim depend on there being no such drugs.
> Free Speech is, in most societies considered to be a concept that applies to the government's ability to censor people's speech.

While this is mostly technically true, unique aspects of the law in the US compared to other countries makes this false for practical purposes.

For example, labor protection laws in other countries protect employees from retaliation for their speech: a company is usually only allowed to fire employees for cause related to their employment. Private speech unrelated to my employer wouldn't suffice in the country I live in. Effectively, this means my employer cannot censor me.

A standard retaliatory consequence for disapproval of speech that people seek in the USA on the other hand is to have a person fired.
I think it's just a story that software engineers like to tell themselves to feel better about earning more than almost everybody else. Meanwhile, there are plenty other "force multipliers", who are paid a pittance. Even a cleaner is a "force multiplier" - they enable people not dying from diseases coming from dirt - that's much more in terms of multiplying output than we do (without cleaners, everybody dies and there's zero profit).
> The odds of the events in question actually happening as describe are nearly zero.

And if it did happen the comeuppance is cheapened by the fact that the author was a person with some kind of authority over the other person. You don’t really have to be a brilliant speaker or rhetorician in order to make your own students feel awkward...
What happened with rent control in Berlin?

Rent control sounds like a good idea in theory but in practice it seems the opposite, creating two tiers of renters.
I hold a position that very successful people can't be really dumb, you might not like their character, they might do stupid things from time to time but overall you need to be really intelligent to be highly successful in life.
And don’t forget murder. So, so much murder: https://ourworldindata.org/ethnographic-and-archaeological-e...
The MBA in the video is an M1 Mac.
But a pigeon can only live for about six years.
Old military tech also has a longer shelf life. There are lots of military installations that were built before the internet.
Well, so is, in varying degrees every US president. I'd say Obama outperforms Bush in that regard.
Great answer. I did want to highlight the selling of ads as I believe this is the primary and largest reason behind influencing less informed masses to take unwarranted actions in a harmful 'us vs them' way. Engineered (human or otherwise) attention/action getting ads have given us clickbait, raigebait, and cross-sectional identity politics. I believe that without regulation on the beancounting ad algorithms that fight for attention this will continue and we will have even more extreme "us vs them" attitudes and fallouts in the future. How that is done, I have no idea, but cancel culture seems inherently wrong to me. Perhaps educational reform is the place to start and should focus on helping people be both open-minded and skeptical in their openminded-ness ie, switching from 'i'm right, they are wrong' to 'no one is right'. and from there, humbly rejecting objectively(scientifically) proven falsehoods and seeking to understand the fallacies we all fall victim to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies
IBM still exists. Microsoft still exists. Apple still exists. Notably, AMD also still exists and flourishes again. All of these companies were at one time or another considered dead in the water. Did every big company survive? No. But I don't think there's enough data to make a prediction which fate Intel will see.
So in a chapter 11 bankrupcy a corporation is let off its obligations, creditors suffer, but the corporation emerges wealthier than ever?

Why can't an average person do that?
I am streaming the M1 bring-up process right now: https://youtu.be/d5s9fYfvzmY

Currently working on the bootloader/research tool.
> Has this happened as HTTPS adoption has increased?

This is such a naive way of looking at things. First a trap is built. Then you wait. Years. Only when the trap is filled to the brim does it snap shut. Many examples of that pattern.