skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It simply means something different in the US vs Europe.

In the US, "left" tends to be centered around social and cultural issues, such as racism, sexism, immigrant rights, abortion rights, affirmative action, or increasingly things like white privilege - what is sometimes derisively called identity politics.

In Europe, "left" tends to be centered around the economic sense of the term, that is, socialism, communism, redistribution of wealth, social safety nets, etc.

By US standards, many European politicians are on the far right because of their social and cultural views. By European standards, most US politicians are on the right or even far right because of their economic views, whereas they're to a European perspective absolutely extreme on the social politics scale.

In general, while they're handy for bandying about in a very general sense, I don't think political axes between countries can be compared in a very meaningful way. There are all kinds of bizarre mismatches even in the same domains - for example, the VAT would be considered a very regressive tax favored only by the more extreme libertarian-conservative types in the US, but it's hardly seen that way in Europe.
> The US inflation is too high, IMO

2% is too high? Really? What do you think it ought to be, allowing for a variance of 1-2% around the target?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/244983/projected-inflati...
> Legally the answer is crystal clear.
> If it was intentional? He is. Unintentional? You are.
> I don't really see the comparison.

That's weird...

In any country in the World the answer should be "it can only be decided by a judge, nobody can tell a priori"

In the case you tweak the software in your car and something happens, the justice system is there exactly to settle these kinds of issues.

That's the comparison.
If marketing isn't magic, prey tell how something as user-hostile as the airpods exist.
Facebook Employee Called Inflated Ad Metrics ‘Deeply Wrong’
Modified Laser Cutter Fabricates a Ready to Fly Drone
This is a problem of the current model, and symptoms include the current battle between Australia and Facebook. Here is a solution:

https://qbix.com/QBUX/whitepaper.html#DIGITAL-MEDIA-AND-CONT...

If you’re interested to get involved to build this, get in touch via my profile
I had this thought the other day - what was the last big story the NYT broke that wasn't Trump related in some way? Like, actual investigative work whether in local governments or in other countries. I can't think of a single significant story that the NYT itself broke and led the charge on
The term management instead of leadership gives us a clue as to why the results are not what is desired by most people.
Not true. Most modern geo satellites for internet have switching capabilities.
Apache and Curl are not GPL or AGPL to start with.
My Thoughts on India and Crypto
Have you confused the kind of memory safety that Rust, etc. are about with the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities? Or do you think that each individual array that's potentially subject to a buffer overflow in C should have been allocated by an entirely separate process?
> There is often a culture of cost-cutting in the wider public sector for the purpose of "being seen to be frugal". I've watched people (in their best intentions to be frugal) waste huge amounts of money, through short-sighted attempts to save money through false economies.

One hundred percent... we probably all have stories of this that could go on forever! For my part, one of the most costly ways I've seen it manifest is a culture of treating staff time as free in comparison with any expenditure. Getting a purchase—even say a £10 book—is a protracted process that ends up draining hours of multiple peoples' time trying to find and convince a budget holder and get the right forms signed, and even that often doesn't meet with success. It's a double-whammy for wastage because there's not just the gross cost of funding staff doing this, but the opportunity cost of lost productivity on whatever else they would have been working on.
Configure the Traefik Reverse Proxy with Docker Compose and Docker Swarm
> because you lose stability and reliability

I respectfully disagree with this. Next.js is extremely stable and reliable, so no issue there.

Now without Blitz you would be cobbling together libraries on your own. What do you think will be more stable and reliable, your own homegrown thing or Blitz which has a sizable and growing community that's always making it better?
A lot of the tips from TFA can be done in BASH as well and I'm sure the following of my own zsh tips also have a bash equivelant, but I'd like to share anyway:

Pure theme - My absolute favorite shell theme. Has almost all the bells and whistles of the powerlevel9k shown in the article, but looks, much cleaner and less in-your-face.

After downloading the theme, I've added this to my `.zshrc` file:

# PURE theme - see https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure
fpath+=$HOME/.zsh/pure

autoload -U promptinit; promptinit
prompt pure

Fuzzy find makes searching history much more powerful than what is listed in the article. I only use it together with ctr-r, but you can set it up for even more goodness.

# Fuzzy find - see https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
[ -f ~/.fzf.zsh ] && source ~/.fzf.zsh

Lastly I've added a syntax highlighter, which is really neat.

# ZSH Syntax Highlighter - see https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting
source $HOME/.zsh/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh

I don't use oh-my-zsh, but I think my terminal is as fully fledged as even the best oh-my-zsh can offer.
The Economist magazine was the same. I had to call and talk to someone in the phone.

On the other hand, I subscribed to Bloomberg for 3 months at a nice discount, and cancelling that was easy. +1 for Bloomberg, -1 for NYT and The Economist.
It's not clear that the Romans behaved this way in Britain or not, but they certainly did not in Gaul. They acted there in a way that might be considered genocide today, with massacres and mass enslavement of the population, and within two or three centuries the Gaulish languages and most cultural practices were extinct.

In Britain this was not really accomplished because Roman presence was newer and relatively thin on the ground. Brittonic languages persisted, but there definitely was a strong cultural assimilation, and the upper classes were very focused on Latin speaking. Even at the time the West Germanic tribes invaded en masse the people there probably thought of themselves as equally British and Roman.

It seems to me that the "Welsh" ("others" in Germanic) and "British" identity were formed more as a product of the Saxon invasion, long after the Western Roman empire had left.
How is that you can totally talk about social media/sugar/porn/whatever addiction but when there are drugs there is always someone screaming "OH MY GOD LOOK THIS GUY IS TALKING BAD THINGS CALL THE COPS!"?
They removed licensing from their FAQ, but I was able to find this issue: https://github.com/ossf/tac/issues/26

I'm also curious if they will accept GPL or not
The book series by Bernard Cornwell is also excellent, if you enjoy that sort of thing. The books have a fairly well defined structure (one may even consider them formulaic), but he appears to have done a lot of detailed research into day-to-day life of that time, and happily shares it with the reader. Not quite Neal Stephenson level of digression, but not far off. I haven't read his Sharpe novels, but the Archer's Tale books and his version of King Arthur are similarly enjoyable.
> None of these were colonies though.

Some scholars of colonialism have considered them such, especially considering policies by which the Austro-Hungarian Empire gave land in its eastern and southern marches to magnates from Central Europe.

> And Serbia wasn't part of the Austrian-Hungarian empire.

Serbs were not limited to Ottoman-occupied Serbia or to the nascent independent Serbian state, they also lived (as they continue to today) in Bosnia & Herzegovina, and in Vojvodina. As I said, it was Serbian grievances against Austro-Hungarian rule that sparked World War I when Gavrilo Princip shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo – this is basic schoolbook stuff.
> ARK Invest has vastly outperformed the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100.

There are always funds that do better, until they don't:

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2020/12/a-short-history-of-...

Over a 15-year timeframe, most fund managers (especially in the US) underperform benchmarks:

* https://www.ifa.com/articles/despite_brief_reprieve_2018_spi...
Not according to ExamSoft's minimum system requirements page :-)
There's a huge appetite, it just doesn't matter because corporations have more power than individuals because of how capitalism interacts with democracy.
Hey! We are better and faster with payments and compliance in LATAM. We are also cheaper and have much better customer support :)
“except that I knew that I didn't get to keep any upside. L

Same at my company. They have similar programs but you also don’t get any stake in the outcome and are still controlled by executives who in the end get the credit.

Same for hackathons they tried to organize. The idea quickly turned from fun projects basically into overtime to check off Jura tickets quickly but with the addition of free pizza.

I think leadership in big companies is almost by definition very controlling. They simply can’t let go. It’s against the instincts that got them into their positions.
Development Release: Slackware Linux 15.0 Alpha 1
No. Blitz doesn't work in places that requires "next export"
Yes that sounds about right. It takes multiple decades for some semblance of diversity to return to plowed fields. And it will never be the same as before. The soil biodiversity itself is massively degraded. You can speed up the restoration very significantly, assuming that is your plan, by doing mass native plantings and seeding. If you can introduce biochar before or as part of the process the soil biome will also recover much faster.

Many resources online for all of this.
Of course any such endeavor must have a patina of plausible deniability. That's evildoing 101 :)
Someone needs to write a library / framework for this thing and call it "bear skin."

https://wiki.c2.com/?BearSkinsAndStoneKnives
It’s the in-market ramp because exchanges can’t afford to cash you out with the dollars you put in.

And this is where it becomes a scam.

People need/want the ability to cash out to sit on the sidelines during periods of extreme volatility, market declines, etc. Crypto exchanges can’t literally cash you out, because they don’t have the dollars.

So here’s a brilliant idea. I’ll just print a Tether and give it to you. It’s pegged to the dollar, and so you don’t care.

But wait, aren’t there obvious flaws with this plan? Isn’t this just punting the actual problem down the road? Who controls how many tethers are printed? What if everyone wants to convert their tethers to dollars? Are the tethers actually backed by dollars?

And, most importantly, can’t the price of crypto be artificially manipulated upward by the printing of additional tethers?

If you want the answer to these questions, get in line with the rest of us.
Yes, so much this. Everyone keeps simply saying that the BTC price will blow up because everyone sells Tether. Yes and no! What will really happen is that the BTC spot price will diverge between those exchanges that denominate in USDT and those that do in USD.
Therefore, the best indicator to see if Teether is failing is to track the difference in the rate between exchanges.
I assume it's an argument of how you define 'socialism', but in my mind, the body count and accompanying oppression, enslavement, genocide and theft committed by regimes with socialist roots doesn't exactly inspire much confidence in what it has to offer.
It definitely includes eslint!

Our boilerplate generation is currently optimized for folks building real production apps.

We'll be adding a minimal boilerplate option here at some point (PRs welcome!)
I've always enjoyed reading BC's endnotes about the research he did for each book almost as much as the actual story. :D
It is perhaps also worth mentioning that the construction of the Hanhikivi plant has not started yet. Indeed according to their latest press release[1] about the situation, they say that 5/15 document batches of the preliminary safety review have been submitted so far. So while this plant is going to be based on the same design, there's going to be an extensive review of all the details and quite possibly a lot of changes to match the regulatory requirements.

1: https://www.fennovoima.fi/en/news/quarterly-update-basic-des...
Don't worry, can't have too much Forth (or Scheme for that matter).
That makes a lot of sense. Admittedly the only Hawaiian pizza I've ever had came from the freezer.

Whenever the local Italian restaurant opens back up I'll go and try a properly made Hawaiian pizza :)
I still have this book! I loved it as a kid...
Opioids are insanely and ~~instantly~~ quickly addictive. I accidentally became addicted after knee surgery.

When the pain subsided, I stopped taking them, and within a day I found myself curled up in a ball and wanting to rip my own skin off. It's really true when addicts describe it as "being uncomfortable in your own skin".

The moment I realized I was experiencing withdrawal, I flushed the meds down the toilet and just suffered through it for a couple days.

Never ever touch heroin. Stay away from prescription opioids unless it's really really needed, and make sure it's short term only.
Grants Database
That's a really neat way of trimming the file extension, something that can end up being quite tedious to do with SED.

Do you know of a cheatsheet that describes what all the percentage sign means and other things you can do with parameter expansions?
Yeah, there's a big fight about this - AngrySkillz is entirely correct about "NAIRU", but it's one of those parameters that's difficult to measure because you can only find out when it's "too late".

Heck, even the "4%" is a percentage of people "looking for work", which is obviously a quantity that can vary depending on how good or bad the outlook is.
Coq 8.13
No, C and Rust definitely don't do the same things. If the project is open source, I don't see how any maintenance concerns are relevant - everybody can judge for themselves.
I would hope that they would keep accounts open. I have written several books that rely on GitHub for the examples. I am almost 70, and if I should disappear unexpectedly, I would hope that readers would have the code available until the material is no longer relevant.
I like cargo because I don't like having to even think about build systems.

I often renounce to contribute to C/C++ projects because I know I will spend more time figuring out how to install all of their dependencies than making my two-line fix.

On the contrary, in the rust ecosystem, I know I can just make my two-line fix, run cargo test, and if there is no red line in the output, I'm done.

> I often hear that it’s because of Cargo

I don't think the main reason is cargo. The main reason is that you don't have to worry that the very simple pointer dereference you just wrote may allow anyone on the internet to take full control of the machine of anyone that runs your software.
The (implied) benefits you get is that you can work on interesting things, and probably get much more freedom in your day job.
Looks very fine to me if done on a voluntary basis.
Even when they’re not worthless, most startup options end up being worth less than the salary that one could’ve gotten at a non-startup. Last time I looked into it, and it was a while ago, the median startup option package was exercised for a profit of $30k, not nothing but far less than what one could’ve gotten at a large company like ... Microsoft.

Arguably the existence of several different types of stock options has broken the startup option system, incentivizing founders to play financial games with dilution and debt, and separating their incentive structure from that of their workers. Instead they now get paid with the VCs, which is bad for the workers.

Nothing is worth working like a dog though. That’s always a bad trade.
I do remember reading about this - a balloon would work, but it would be absolutely enormous, far larger than anything we can bring into Mars currently. Maybe some day.
Time for a toggle button?
The error messages in the readme look a lot better than what you'd get from doing a ad hoc solution. That's worth a fair amount.
I am not saying that we should double the reward for villains, but that it is twice as important. Everyone should be rewarded the same way, otherwise, sure, it rewards bad behavior and we don't want that, we don't want to excuse the bad behavior either.

But you rise an interesting point about victims. A criminal shall pay damage to the victims, and a successful author can do it. A worthless thug or someone perceived by society as such can't, not just that but he will continue to be supported by society for as long as he lives.

The reason I think society today is more "lax" towards criminals is that we focus on rehabilitation. That's the only way for criminals to repay their debt to society. We used to have them do slave labor, but modern society doesn't need slaves, it needs skilled workers. We can also kill them all, but that's extreme and carries a whole lot of other issues.
A Life simulator in BASIC from 1978
This is why we need a CPA with teeth. The should be that if you can sign up with a click on mobile, you can cancel the same way. The amount of regulatory capture in our plutocracy is maddening.
"at least established artists had power."

Really? Prince's right to his own (stage) name? Taylor Swift and the rights to her early albums? And even if we're just talking about royalties, it looks like half of established artists have had lawsuits about labels defrauding them in some way, and the other half seem to have similar issues settled out of court.
Mass slavery of the Roman form wasn't "popular" among the West Germanic tribes because they had their own system of subjugation of a more feudal model, or at least something transitional between the classic Germanic class system (king, nobility karl/jarl, freemen, laymen) and what became feudalism.

Or rather, after their brutal occupation and displacement of the Romano-Britons they came to emulate the Franks (the most successful post-Roman polity in Europe) in the structure of their economy. Think Serfs rather than Slaves.

Slaves in the Roman system could be freed and become Roman citizens. In fact it was rather common after a generation or two. Peasants were peasants forever. Not saying one is more just than the other, but Christian influence in Europe certainly hadn't made for a more just system. Just a more theologically based one (God chose your King and Lord)
Money is not a real resource, though. The real burning resource for no reason is petroleum flaring.
Is there any non-zero number that's not too many in a real sense?

There is a balance in almost anything at the scale of hundreds of millions of people. People die in all kinds of ways. Some drown, but we still build pools. Some die on trampolines, but we still install those. Some die in the tub/shower, but we still clean ourselves.

I don't see any reason to think that there isn't any possible nuance on the balance between freedom to move as a kid and the danger of stranger violence. (I have two kids who aren't yet teens. The concept scares me, but I also let them swim, play on trampolines, ride in cars/airplanes, bathe, etc.)
> It's just drawing instructions, draw a line from there to there

That doesn't make it human-readable. I challenge you to tell me what (even the basic shape) this SVG is without loading it in a viewer (taken from a real SVG, not something handcrafted to prove you wrong, but the first thing I found online while searching for public domain SVG files):

https://gist.github.com/danielytics/90446a2314c1ad87017233eb...

Good luck figuring out what that is, even with graph paper. And that's a single layer, single (even if a bit complex) shape, single colour SVG. They only get more incomprehensible from here.
Lived there up until August. It's not nato, it's an insane old man that is turning my country into a concentration camp makes Belarus look like a scary place that needs change.
Sounds like a really interesting blog post that could also get their attention.
this level of monitoring can only become useful with tools that don't yet exist. it's only theoretically possible to aggregate all the available data on any individual. it will require advanced AI and vastly greater data sharing in order to make this a significant issue. i imagine though that by the time these are developed, they will have their teeth blunted by advanced, new, obfuscation techniques and technologies.
graphs don't show for me on page
And of course CPBBD https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3CBOpT2-NRvoc2ecFMDCsA
Is Apple about to admit it was wrong about the MacBook Pro?
I experienced this as well with Twilio. I believe its bad luck or probably like what LinuxBender said.
Chernobyl is the only nuclear disaster that makes me thing "hm, maybe really nobody should ever build nuclear power plants" and it occurred under a dictatorship. There have been significant disasters (Fukushima and Three Mile Island) under democracies but both of those are pretty tame compared to the ongoing harm wrought by coal and natural gas. Even if you just restrict it to direct health effects of their pollution vs. all negative health effects from Fukushima, at worst Fukushima over its lifetime likely cost fewer lives per megawatt-hour than an average coal plant.

(Of course, things like solar and wind are still generally preferable, if you can store the power effectively.)
+1 to FT. I have been reading FT for a while now and have completely stopped reading NYT or other publications. They seem to have solid reporting and are pretty unbiased IMO.
We'd need to have prove for that, afaik the reactor at Fukushima was not old and Japan is a strong democracy.
In the link[1] virgilp shared it says red box participants get 1000 CHF budget, 20% of working time, and access to experts.

So they want you to prove out your idea with an allocation of one workday per week. I’d bet most people have to add their own nights and weekends to make it successful.

1: https://home.getkickbox.com/
Obligatory response with an analysis of memory vulnerabilities found in Curl: https://timmmm.github.io/curl-vulnerabilities-rust/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25805576
Configure it how you want, e.g. 3-5 minute interval should do it. I don't think I type anything for more than 5 minutes without touching a mouse, I don't use vim that much nowadays.
Their low-level design is much closer to an embedded device like a Raspberry Pi, minus the SD card slot.

...or like a iPhone.

From that article you linked:

Some PC motherboards implement a similar feature as part of a separate chip, which can flash the UEFI firmware from a USB stick without actually turning on the motherboard normally, but this is only common in higher-end stand alone motherboards.

That might be referring to boot-block recovery, and I haven't seen any with a "separate chip" besides the dual-BIOS type; it's in the same flash (just a normally write-protected part) as the rest of the BIOS. The older ones will look for a flashable ROM image on the first floppy drive, but I'm not surprised if the newer ones will do it with USB instead.
Ask HN: Web devs, px or rem for sizing? Is there a general consensus?
I've always used px but started to use rem thinking setting the base font size would help limit the number of font-size declarations with media queries. But it never works out that way - the design requirements for font-size always vary so much that simply changing the base font size does not help at all. I still have to declare numerous sizes for various breakpoints. I don't know what rem helps with - since I still need numerous declarations for sizes, I might as well use px which is more comfortable to me.