skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian/Kosovar familiarity with German is something that dates from the era of Yugoslavia, it has little to do with corporate sway in the modern EU.

Yugoslavia 1) allowed its people to freely work in the West, and many people chose to go to West Germany, and 2) Yugoslavia built up extensive tourist infrastructure in Croatia and Montenegro that drew predominantly German-speaking holidaymakers (and not so many English-speaking ones -- UK holidaymakers went for e.g. Spain or Greece during this era). All this made German seem like the language for communicating with foreigners, though among younger generations it is already giving way to English.
It's a fallacy to discard certain (or all) religious practices as outdated. Furthermore the notions of right and wrong do not exist in an atheistic materialistic world view. This is by admission of well known atheist figures.

Today's economy runs off of lending, yet people keep crying from the inequality and other messes we're in, and keep trying to patch them up without success, and that's because the root is rotten, so it will never be fixed. We can learn a few things from economies that didn't run off of lending. See: Islam, and read about the Islamic Golden Age. We already know that there was a time in Iraq where there were no people left to take charity because everyone was well off and honest. That would never happen in an economy based on lending.
The app for my bank account lets me view balances (and some other info), transfer funds between my subaccounts (for free), and deposit checks.

There's not functionality in there to shoot myself in the foot.
Migration Driven Development
How to rewrite code without it being "the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make"
Borderline computer illiterate is a low bar(and probably an accurate assessment of average ability), but how are they supposed to clear that bar when they're fully computer illiterate and maybe, if they're lucky, can get occasional informal tutoring from someone who is only borderline computer illiterate? Maybe a month of proper lessons would do it at least for some. However, as a degreed professional, I've spent about 25 years fruitlessly trying to explain to my dad in every conceivable way "where it goes when you save it" and what a file is, so I suspect this is a massive hurdle for a decent percent of the population. There's a reason so many people are borderline computer illiterate.
Is anyone here experiencing this? It must be really tough.
> I have more confidence in Zig or Nim for this reason

Do you realize that at this point Rust is way more stable than those two languages? It's not a critique at all as they are much younger, but these are really bad examples to compare with.
Certainly has succeeded on this site, though I'm not sure that's entirely sincere on the behalf of every commenter.
It's not just a dark pattern, it's straight-up non-compliant.

Article 7 "Conditions for Consent," paragraph 2:

> If the data subject’s consent is given in the context of a written declaration which also concerns other matters, the request for consent shall be presented in a manner which is clearly distinguishable from the other matters[...]

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-7-gdpr/

Most regulators have taken this to mean that requests for consent must be distinguished even from other noticies required by GDPR. I.e. it must be a separate request from the Privacy Notice itself.
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I think it's the analysts writing these slides.
In Disney movies, that's easily remedied.
I can only assume you did not have the sound turned on?
> IMHO eventually the "editions" will be treated as minimum version to compile with.

This doesn't work, because new features are not only added to newer editions, but to as many editions as possible. The vast majority of new features, when they land, are added to every edition.
So that gets at my second question. I would expect that if async mode is working well, it specifically avoids needing libraries to spawn a thread.

Or put another way - when Rust removed M:N threading and also shipped out of the box with no event handling support after removing librustuv, the recommendation was that libraries should use threads to handle concurrency and make blocking calls on each thread, and modern OSes make threads perform well, so why not. Isn't the whole point of revisiting async to avoid that answer?

I have the same use cases of wanting Rust to be a close-to-the-metal language with a minimal runtime that you can safely plop in place of any C code, and it seems to me that the way to do that is to get the async story to be so good that people start saying "Well, that's not idiomatic" and "That approach was common but the libraries are all unmaintained" to libraries that spawn threads. What am I missing? Why are we associating "more async" with "more threads" instead of "remain on the calling thread and use an event loop"?
PDFs for forms are truly terrible and barely work[1] in anything except Adobe Reader. Online forms are not without their problems, especially from the maintenance point of view, but significantly more accessible to the normal people, especially for the mobile phones, if designed properly.

[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues?labe...
Anyone has experience with the KNX standard?. Seems like the solution to all IoT woes. It's an international standard and widely used. Seems to be that only Europeans have heard of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNX_(standard)
For the most part that's a product of lobbying to increase minimum sentences and overall increase the prison population, since that increases the number of correctional jobs and the sales of the various contracted companies that provide their products.

I was in federal prison until just 3 months ago I can safely say this is exactly what I saw while there.
Depends on the climate. What we think of as civilization also comes with cold winters where humans cannot survive without lots of clothing. Native American tribes had warm clothing where it was needed for life.
Failed revolution. The military then immediately seized control in a coup d’état and threw the new and popular president in jail planning to execute him before he died of a heart attack.
Product Failure Stories: How I Messed Up a Release
Creative Problem Solving with a Deck of Cards
They might want to address issues like this as well: https://gizmodo.com/twitter-stands-by-lets-oann-link-to-repo...
Good point - we should start supporting Etherium when it's moral to do so
Ask HN: What's your remote (as in cloud) dev setup?
I've been exploring how to use my beautiful and light LG Gram 17 as a dev machine. But it's really weak for compiling, so I was looking for a way to use it for the GUI while the heavy stuff happens on a remote server.

Seems like there's a lot of different approaches, what's yours?
Indeed, I feel that it's selfish and imposing for a human to impose a morality on the self-determination of an individual to continue living or to cease doing so. Also, outside of natural end-of-life scenarios, if someone of a young age has been pushed to the point where they are looking at suicide as a serious option, then perhaps more should be said about the people to blame for that, instead of just saying "suicide is wrong" and walking away. Perhaps mental abuse should finally be considered as much of a crime as physical abuse.
Indeed. There's a reason "Kafkaesque" was a word long before the internet existed.
> Men are way more involved in their families then they used to be.

What makes you think that?
I hope that more people are charitable. I don't hope there is a need for it. So many news stories of individual charity like this aren't uplifting. They are actually a depressing reminder of the failure of society and by extension government. Collectively we don't prioritize a social safety net. Some groups and ideologies reject government's role in a safety net or worse that the unfortunate are undeserving of basics like shelter and laundry.

Individual charity doesn't work at scale. Organized private charity doesn't work at scale. This is why the social security administration was established.
I wonder what they actually "do" for 95 hours a week. There is no way it can be productive work for all that time over such long periods.
I have a buddy that doesn't buy lottery tickets. I say "I like to fantasize about if I win." He responds, "I fantasize without buying the lottery ticket."

If I imagine I own the NFT, then I can have the bragging rights too. I just make it up. Which is pretty much the same thing.
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I look forward to having the time to read this in full. My first PC was an AMD 286/12 with 1mb memory. Later on, the best CPU I'd owned to date was the AMD K6-450. In 2010, I purchased a Phenom II X2 BE, unlocked it to X4 and it served me well for 8 years! I finally replaced it in 2018.

I avoided the bulldozer/piledriver series chips, and got a first gen Ryzen 5 1400. It's a fantastic chip, very fast especially at the price, and will last me years I'm sure.

In the late 90's I also did good business selling computers based on the AMD 486 DX4/120's and 133's. Those things were so fast for the time.
Nothing in that spec says anything about the process having the opurtunity to escalate privileges or escaping the chroot after invoking the call to chroot.
The article’s title also doesn’t mention Wuhan. That the submission here specifically called it out makes me think it’s implying the same conspiracy Snopes has debunked.
What makes gambling wrong but insurance right? (2017)
Hey now... Just because a payment is cashless doesn't mean you can't haggle the price down. I've been in plenty of shops where you bring the item to the counter and the cashier enters the price directly into the register. No bar code necessary!

Even if you use a barcode there's no reason why the price can't be entered in directly or modified at the behest of the cashier. In the West we just don't trust our cashiers enough to do that sort of thing so we lock out that power ("Manager assistance needed at isle four!").

What the world needs right now is cashless payments that don't have absurd (>0.1%) transaction fees. I used to work at First Data (largest credit card processor) and you know how much it costs them to execute a credit card transaction? NOTHING. It's literally nothing.

It's not even a factor of, "we have this many servers in this many data centers and here's how much the electricity costs, divided by the total number of transactions in a given day." Why? Because every customer that uses First Data still pays a monthly fee that more than makes up for the cost of all the employees, data centers, software, etc etc.

If all First Data ever collected was that monthly fee they'd still be profitable (assuming all they did was handle credit card transactions).
What a strange take. If someone made up a story about me and then someone else asked if it was true, I'd tell them to get lost, not validate the ridiculous attempt at shaping a narrative by engaging with it. It's very very common to "no comment" every false story, because engaging (even with a denial) creates legitimacy for the falsehood.
The digital world is its own prison with various wardens and cell blocks and so many rules that you will be kept in prison for breaking them without knowing.
Reading through 300-page contracts and the like, then making a powerpoint representation of it.
in any cycle of abuse, bad treatment is a feature and not a bug.
They could have said "we won't ship this yet," and they also could have said "ship it" to the initial design in 2015.

> took a more principled stance

This is very insulting. Bugs are often found in every kind of software. Virtually no languages that exist, let alone popular ones, require proofs before landing new features.
It would be great to hear directly from somewhere who works at GS - anyone here spending some of their 98 hours on HN?
File access on preview7 was atrocious. It would take a seeded postgres-debian container 3 minutes to start (maybe 64 megs of data inside) if you kept the postgres volume on the local disk inside the container!

Intel -- instant. Hope they fixed it!
According to overwhelming opinion on HN they should be able to do more if they worked 20-30 hours a week. Clueless bankers!
8 year girl found a way to avoid online lesson by exploiting Zoom password block
If anyone wants to report a site's bad practices to the UK regulator, this is the relevant link (they are only doing it en mass): https://wh.snapsurveys.com/s.asp?k=150296439091

I'd love to know similar sites for other EU countries.

One thing that I particularly dislike (and seems to be a uniquely US take on the EU GDPR rules) is "you must consent to access our site" banner. Not give _or refuse_ consent, but actively agree to the marketing crap or be redirected to a "bugger off commie" wall. An example would be healthline.com

I think this explicitly violates article 7, paragraph four of the regulations that states:

> When assessing whether consent is freely given, utmost account shall be taken of whether, inter alia, the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is conditional on consent to the processing of personal data that is not necessary for the performance of that contract.

But then -- I am not a lawyer. But if any HN readers are lawyers, I'd love to hear your take on it...
I don't think these are the people that deserve our sympathy. What did they think? That they would get rich by defrauding the world only 40 hours a week?

> mentally I’m in a really dark place

Indeed. First find some morals, then try again.
May I introduce you to the "hopepunk" genre? https://www.google.com/search?q=hopepunk&oq=hopepunk&aqs=chr...

Kim Robinson's Mars series stands out as a seminal example. Also one of his Three Californias triptych is a classic hopepunk story.

Looking over https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/hopepunk there's a lot I'm not familiar with, but can attest to the fundamentally optimistic takes in Andy Weir's The Martian and Martha Wells' Murderbot Diaries.
Wow. Just wow. I remember early cyberpunks talking about how the internet would enable infinite lies to spread and for the truth to be completely buried in the noise. And here we are. Now our entire reality has been taken over by people living in a fantasy world. No end in sight. Maybe they weren't nearly pessimistic enough.
If most is productive work then I imagine its a hell of an education. May give you burnout tough, best only for a short time.
Also on the flip side, our in person banking services are rather poor. I dread when there's something I need in person in the bank, because the branch only opens 10-4 M-F with a large break for lunch, meaning I need to take off work time to do it, and it's full of people who somehow apparently still manage to do their banking primarily in branch despite that.
Imagine taking a job at Goldman Sachs and thinking it would be a nice, chill place to work.
If you're working 105 hours, you don't have time for HN.
Grab the Remove Sticky bookmarklet to take care of that (not my website): https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
I understand "credibly neutral" here to mean the idea that you appear neutral, whether or not you are actually neutral. Compare with: plausible deniability.

The goal of credible neutrality is to convince people that you have acted fairly and gain political acceptance [Vitalik does this by appealing to the standards for property ownership under capitalism]; the goal is not to act fairly [as Vitalik softly admits, the true goal is to do whatever is necessary to support (his) wealth accumulation].

I would much rather credible neutrality did not exist as a justification for particular actions, and that it faced automatic criticism.

Give Bob 1000 coins and admit that you did so, rather than set up a system of rules which is designed for Bob to receive 1000 coins. The use of passive voice is an indicator that someone has disguised their responsibility.
Crypto is a way to opt-out and you should own 1%
This is amusing and on point, kudos to the creator!

The biggest takeaway from this is the dark patterns sites aggressively use to trick you into accepting all their cookies, by making use of creative language that might take a while to parse for the impatient reader or setting buttons to common colours that might confuse someone into clicking.

I really wish there was just a setting in the browser that just says

- Accept 'functional/mandatory' cookies (with exclusion support for sites that abuse this...)

- Reject advertising cookies

- Reject personalisation cookies

- Reject analytics cookies

- Reject tracking cookies

etc. and this config is available for these GDPR banners to query and apply the appropriate settings.
Btw, a nytimes reporter did the something similar, but not as gross.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-york-times-nikole-hannah-j...
Working in the financial industry, I have a few questions in mind
1) how much of this is actually caused by the candidates themselves? If a bunch of competitive people want to impress their boss to get a job offer, how much will they work as a group?
2) how much of it is caused by their inneficient IT systems? Why invest in IT if each you have a bunch of interns willing to kill themselves to do everything by hand in excel?
3) how much is caused by their boss? A lot of people have a mentality of ''I did it to get my job, so you must suffer too''
I really think China is making a huge mistake actually. See how TSMC (Taiwan) and Samsung are free to buy ASMLs EUV machines, while China is blocked. Part of that is due to their rampant IP theft. Why sell machines to China if they're just going to copy them?

China also messed up big time by enforcing their 1 child policy, and taking so long to open up and industrialize. They're far behind economically compared to where other countries were with their demographic. Now they're on the verge of the biggest wave of senior citizens reaching retirement the world has ever seen, with crumbling infrastructure and housing, relatively low GDP/capita and no clear path to manufacturing/export of truly high value goods and services. They're screwed.

China really wants to get out of low-value manufacturing, and in some ways they're encouraging pushing that out to south-east asia and africa. But at the same time they don't have the positive image and reputation needed to be a big exporter of high-value goods. Who is going to trust Chinese companies with things like 5G infrastructure and CPS, when they're all basically an extension of the CCP when it comes to security? Who wants to live and work in China now, when you have no real justice for foreign citizens and the CCP can arrest you at a whim? If anything even close to Shenzhen is replicated elsewhere in the world, I think companies and individuals will gladly develop their products elsewhere. Will a giant Chinese company ever gain the reputation of Samsung or Sony? DJI I guess? But that's a bit niche.

Poland is growing healthily last I checked. The proof is in immigration numbers in other European countries. It seems to be reversing. In Norway there's a clear downward trend in immigration from Poland.
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Cloud hosted SaaS may release a lot faster but it also means you are not on the hook for supporting it.
The problem is that there will always be someone to do this work simply because the pay is what it is. The only solution I see here is regulation.
"Oh they're a bunch of predatory people anyway."

How you create predatory people: pressure, unfairness, stigma on soft feelings, and a hierarchy you can fight your way up.
Blows my mind that we will give animals the right to a humane end of life and yet here I am sat in a "civilised" country (UK) and it's illegal to give humans that same out.

I watched my Dad die of cancer - and for the last week it was simply inhumane that we didn't let him die sooner through a cocktail of drugs. Others who have watched their loved ones die slow painful deaths will broadly agree.

Besides, people can still kill themselves regardless of laws. They can take their own lives in various gruesome ways. They can also fly to a euthanasia centre like Dignitas.

LAws were supposed to protect people from each other, not from ourselves.

It's about time all governments reconsidered their laws on euthanasia.
> Perhaps a better criticism is the mostly useless emphasis on immutable data structures. The example I like to bring up is how Haskell for a long time didn't have a readily-available hash table implementation for completely ideological reasons.

Can you link to some evidence that the reasons were completely ideological?
You might want to take a look at Voice of America, a Congress-funded network that broadcasts almost exclusively outside the US as US propaganda: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America
What do they do that’s immoral?
I'm not sure what the best enforcement mechanism would be, but this should be addressed through national legislation. Perhaps mandatory overtime and/or some kind of business-level tax for anyone working more than 40 hours a week? Nobody should be "exempt" from earning overtime.
A truly Bayesian machine never eliminates the old priors. It updates them, but they remain in there. If somebody starts behind, they stay behind, forever.

And while there are some who are fair-minded, many are not. So such a person is in a lose-lose situation. Those with bias will discriminate against them -- and "fair minded individuals" will use take their poor relative performance to inform their prior. Try to compensate for that, and those fair minded individuals use that, too, against them.

So "fair-mindedness" leads us to perpetuate discrimination. Which doesn't seem very fair.
All of these crypto things are protocols. The representation and actions on the representations are possible because everyone agrees on a protocol for it. Imagine a future where everyone agrees on using these representations where it makes sense by using the same protocol, just like everyone agrees to use the http protocol. In this case, it's an introduction of scarcity to digital items that wasn't possible before, and that has value in possibly lots of different environments.
And no one cared, it something that needs to be reckoned with.
> What did they think? That they would get rich by defrauding the world only 40 hours a week?

To be fair, there's generally a lot less competition when you're doing something illegal, so it should be easier to get rich via fraud not harder.
Allegedly a heart attack. Send mighty convenient for him to die for those in power.
ASCII art is what it was called.

Edit: As aptly mentioned ANSI art is the right word. This was the colorful BBS days as opposed to FXP courier days they were covering.
Isn't it just the ABI and basic semantics that is never supposed to be broken? By extending that logic one could say that the kernel should never patch kernel exploits since it'd break things the exploits expects, naturally this is a silly hyperbole and i do understand that the line has to be drawn somewhere but chroot is old and imho additions that has enabled breaking out would have broken the original semantic.

I do see the usage for bootstrapping and troubleshooting so that does cause an issue.