skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is actually true. IF you go threw all the history of development economics, sure its easy to point out 'X government did X and look at that, now they are successful at X'.

However that is selection bias, government and international development agencies tried literally everything, many things 10 times, often over years and years. Often wasting resources that then didn't go into their successful part of the economy.

Quite often governments also do lead following, they do something, something else is successful, then more money flows into that and then a few years later all the bureaucrats congratulate themselves on their success.

We actually have pretty good and very clear numbers on what actually works. Basically it boils down to 'don't be a shit government' and if you manage that you will have some amount pretty good amount of growth. Avoid a few idioitic policies, implement the basic of law and business (property rights), don't punish successful people, don't be ultra protectionist.

Any country that manages that usually manages to get a fair amount of growth. It might not be growth in Steel industry but better more efficient framing, mining, tourism, labor intensive industry and stuff like that are still very helpful base to build up the basic infrastructure and business environment.

The old Post-WW2 version of 'lets not import steel, invest many billions in building our own steel industry' kind of plans actually have a terrible history of success.

But this debate has been raging for 3000 years now, in modern history mercantilism vs free market debate, then the socialism vs capitalism debate (calculation debate), then Post-WW2 development of 'Development economics' that had all these debates again. Look at India, and its strange 'Indian Socialism' based on many British ideas.

> So much like we allow children time to learn in school before we expect them to compete in the job market

Mostly what we are actually doing for most jobs is kids basically showing that they can be good little workers and have basic social skills.

For a country this would basically be, show that you respect basic property rights, don't have polices that make creating a business impossible, be reasonable accessible to global market. If you can do that, welcome to being adult, you will likely be reasonably successful.

> we should allow developing countries to employ protectionistic policies like tariffs

Allow them sure, who are we to deny them. But that doesn't mean its a good idea most of the time.
"ADT, Dropbox, Eventbrite, Reddit, Vimeo and Wikimedia joined Mozilla" suggests a kind of leadership.
I'm sorry I take issue with these articles written from the perspective of they are a victim. They took $78k in loans to get a degree whose prospective returns were abysmal.

They made the choice to defer resolving their debts, and let the interest be added to principal while not making payments.

I'm not saying that the system doesn't do everything it should to help people understand. But the contracts they sign for the money spell it out.

I went through the same, it took me several more years to complete my education than it could have, but living on borrowed money, at the rates that were offered were foolish.

I know my view on this is likely different from most, but reading this article most of what I see is a person, making bad choice after bad choice and then somehow surprised when they are worse off than before.

I feel for the person, as I do for so many that took that route, but it wasn't like they didn't have everything they needed to realize this was a series bad choices.
The intense interest thing may be of help then. Getting over the activation hump can be challenging, otherwise. Pair programming might help with difficulty investing into learning things, as well.
An invasion is coming. This spring, trillions of cicadas will emerge from ground
I'm pretty sure that not just anyone can get a checkmark. If it were the case that anyone could get the checkmark, then sure, I agree it would just be just a form of verification. This would be perfectly fine :)

You're right that acknowledging status exists is not the same as creating it. But does one not go hand in hand with the other in this case, where you are selectively picking who to acknowledge?

Now, I don't know the specifics, but from what I understand, there is an overwhelming disparity between journalists/politicians getting blue checkmarks compared to others who may have more followers. Of course, that would also be fine, assuming there was a rigorous definition of what a "journalist" was. Keep in mind, this is not evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni8CpIJpmqw

I want to be clear, I was not implying political leaders royalty. But when you hold some group to a different standard than others or have rules for them that differ (whether more restrictive or lax), you have basically reinvented legal inequality.
A vast carefulness is occurring. A ubiquitous attempt to stay on the right side of the twitter mob.
> TE people advocate policies that create those outcomes.

This just isn’t true.

> I've seen none support creation of separate but equal facilities for trans people. It's too costly for such a small minority they say.

TERFs don’t say this. People controlling budgets do. They are are the ones withholding services from trans people. Not TERFs.

> Cis women and trans women are in the category of women.

Only according to certain trans perspectives.

You have clearly agreed there are two kinds of women. It is reasonable for them to not see one another as members of the same category.
Even if it this worked on Linux, would a chrome running in flatpak sandbox be able to escalate privileges?
Since I dumped on the author in another comment, let me defend him here: going up one level in the URL is really not a problem. It’s even easier if you use something like Vimperator, where you just need to type “gu”. And there is a nice table of contents.
"When I finished school in 2007 — with an undergraduate degree in biology and a master’s in science journalism — I owed $78,060 in federal loans."

According to [1] the current avg salary for a journalist is approx. $41K. Assuming some inflation since the author graduated the author accrued 2 to 3 times her expected yearly salary in debt to get her 'dream job'. I think the root of her problem was she had no education in financial literacy, took the terrible advice of 'follow your dream' and now expects those bad choices not to continue to bite her. College is bet and she made a bad one. I don't think this is a good argument for debt relief, but its a great argument for promoting financial literacy and directing young adults to accrue only what debt they can reasonally pay back with their chosen profession. If your dream job pays nothing and is uber expensive to attain then maybe you shouldn't follow that dream or accept you are making a bad financial decision in the first place.

1. https://www.salary.com/research/salary/recruiting/journalist...
Drew did take an interest in zig for a while. It does look awfully like zig. I think I see two major differences:

First:

> we want the first release to be a complete, stable, production-ready programming language with all of the trimmings

so arguably drew is ahead of zig. My understanding is that Zig is being open now (there's a major breaking syntax change in the pipeline), but will be very conservative about what goes into 1.0, so there is a lot of tying off loose proposals and finishing out the language, and documenting everything ahead of getting to 1.0. That's going to a while with such a large community as zig's.

Second:

I'm guessing this new language will have less complexity in the "comptime" space. The syntax is really close. If I had drew's ear, I would almost have him write the spec to match Zig and market it as Zig--.

Coda

I'm a huge zig fanboy, and if it is up to being a "competition" I would guess that zig will do better. 1) Andrew is extremely skilled at figuring out? (marshalling?/delegating?/not overdoing?) the social/branding/growth of the language. 2) having had a more open initial design, Zig will cover far more interesting ground than drew's language. 3) I don't know if this is deliberate or accidental, but it seems to me Zig is following microsoft's "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" philosophy quite well, with a holistic view of not just building a better language, but also replacing C toolchain components: killing make/automake/cmake, replacing cc, and now replacing ld, these are huge painpoints in the C ecosystem... On the other hand maybe it's not best to think too hard of programming languages as 'competing entities'.
"Cicadas." #siliconValley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxh2X6NjuhY
There is a streamer who has a very expensive live tracking setup who actually streams entirely from inside (what is basically) a game emulating a stream room. The content itself isn't really my cup of tea, but the visuals are already beyond the uncanny valley.

https://www.ginx.tv/en/twitch/who-is-code-miko-the-virtual-s...
The way Portal works was to render the world from two different camera angles, one at the portal exit, and the player view, and then combine them with a stencil buffer. This allows for recursion if desired. It also allows for moving portal entrance/exits without performance degradation.

The way Build mirrors work is to copy the level geometry across the mirror plane. Recursion or moving the mirror would not be possible.
I think it's a bad example, but illustrates an important point he doesn't make explicit, that sometimes the variable you need to estimate is the DX itself, not just X1 and X2 to produce X2 - X1 = DX. With a sufficiently high amount of variance in your approximations of X1 and X2 their difference will tell you little to nothing about DX.
Note that the police statement makes it clear that said credentials are allegedly being used to "steal papers", which to me sounds like Sci-Hub's actually just using said credentials to do, you know, exactly what it's advertised to do: download any and all paywalled research papers it can find, to be shared with the general public.
We just built our own subscriptions on the Subscription API and it is extremely thin. Just a few gripes that I had to build around:
1. The "SubscriptionContract" isn't much of a contract at all. You can set a subscription to cancelled but still bill against it for example.
2. It keeps track of a "next billing date" but it does not bill the customer for you like Stripe does, you have to keep track of the next billing date and attempt to bill against the contract yourself.
Yes, I am also afflicted. I didn't know this was a "thing" but invariably it affects me immediately when I enter a used book store. It's not the odor of the books, or anything physically related to books as I have a large library at home. But yeah, first thing I do at any used books venue is look for the signs for the restrooms. I didn't know this affected others, so that's interesting. A mind is a terrible thing when prompted to waste.
I would prefer to allow merchants to add a card handling fee.

If some store said "That'll be an extra $3 for MasterCard or $2 for Visa", I would quickly switch to whichever was cheapest, and card issuers would quickly work to offer very low rates so customers don't go back to cash.

If you make laws about the interchange rate, then rather than competing, all businesses will just charge exactly the maximum mandated rate.
The problem is that ERC20 is an interface specification and not an implementation. Another interface specification won't help.
Definitely, we are leaning towards gerber support with gerber generator, sharing and viewing in web.

With regards to HLS like language, our next step over the year will be creating a universal and open format parser to translate designs back and forth between multiple formats and eventually getting it editable using a language, modular visual editor or a complete circuit editor in the cloud.

Have looked into SkiDL definitely a great tool, will explore more and would love to hear your thoughts more on this as to how we should approach this further.
> `import shopify` makes an API request.

Especially for a company that prides itself on great API design, this is head scratching.

‘shopify.Init()’ seems like such an obvious solution
There's a remaster on Duke3D on Steam and console. It stays true to the original in a lot of ways but fixes a lot of the really annoying stuff you'd get if it were just a straight port. I haven't played multiplayer on it for a couple years but it was pretty fun.
> "illegally access", "removes all barriers", "very expensive", "derail"

I suck at writing in general but it just seems so odd to me that the article quotes such short phrases.
What can R do that Python can't?
For the first 3-4 years of my professional life I used only R and loved it, it was a gentle introduction to programming.

But this last year I've switched to python and just love it. I feel like I was walking around with my eyes closed before.

Is there ANY good reason to keep using R going forward?
DeepL is pretty great for most European languages. Here's a comment on difficult French text from a previous HN submission [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15123833
Woah, this is a big deal. On a weekly basis I find myself trying to dig deep into research and data on a health abnormality that I'm experiencing and often am greeted by a paywall. It's just not practical for me to pay for access to each article when 95% of them don't end up including the specific information I'm looking for anyways.

I think I remember the Indian government proposing something similar to this current sci-hub initiative.

Obviously I don't know if sci-hub is the right way to go about these things, and I wonder how this would change the incentivization behind research. From my understanding though the main gatekeepers here like elsevier act as more of a financial leech on the system rather than providing any real value; since they aren't the ones funding the research to begin with. Would be interested to hear other's take on this.
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A good point actually - from a legal perspective this is tricky. Generally the publisher claims copyright over the arrangement that is "published". Photocopying the printed version would therefore be problematic.

With digital formats, the general approach is to export a PDF from LaTeX (or whatever is used to write the paper) as an author pre-print copy (i.e. not in the final form used by the journal), and publish that one. From a technical legal perspective you would likely need to look at what agreement you signed with the publisher at the time (if any), since that may restrict distribution of the text.

This raises a good point though for works that were pre-open access, and the risk of them "rotting" behind paywalls out of being in a state of legal limbo. Newer science will be more accessible due to open access rules, but older science may end up effectively "lost" to those without access to these paywalled repositories.

There's no real incentive for those publishers to open things up, as they rely on institutions paying large subscriptions to preserve access to the legacy archived content, and that keeps their many thousands of staff employed.
Ah, the snobby, coastal elite cities of El Paso, Amarillo, and Fairbanks :)

Cities/MSAs are the drivers of cultural identification in America, much less so than states.
> Most young people aren't that interesting.

They are not, but I think people will get better at realizing this the way many now know what it means for something to be "photoshopped" whether they can identify it and subsequently dismiss it or not.

I believe that physical "good" looks, analytical and social intelligence, trade and athletic skill, and artistic talent will eventually converge as our future "stars."
All of those things are true, but they are things you believe after you have evidence to believe them. That you should assume free capital is being used in the most productive way possible is the null hypothesis and something generally recognized as true, despite how much HN doesn't like it.
Shopify has an app store, similar to apple's app store. This is what the article is referring to.
On the bike lane. There is none? Either well behaved and aware of the circumstances on the road or under the car.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GckOkpeJ3BY
Isn‘t that exactly what googles global loadbalancer ips are doing?
I don't know if they're literally uncles, but men in that age-range like Elon Musk, Louis Cole, Joe Rogan, brooklyn dad defiant, Donald Trump, etc. are huge influencers (orders of magnitude more so than @azusagakuyuki). It's a bit handwave-y to say "nobody wants to see an uncle".
Ultimately the problem is that Twitter et al is the new de facto public square. Politicians want to go where the people are, not to publish to an RSS feed that some single digit percentage of their audience (which will skew elite) will ever access.

Note also that there are other, broader consequences: Twitter operates the public square restriction from free speech provisions like the US First Amendment—it can regulate access and manipulate the dialogue to suit its own purposes to the detriment of the broader society, which is the whole point of provisions like 1A. Some are content that this isn’t a de jure public square, as though that will prevent us from suffering the de facto consequences.

I think the answer is to start regulating Twitter so it doesn’t have control over so much national and international dialogue. We might say that social media giants must behave according to the first amendment such that it is a “safe” space for politicians to interact. If we’re worried about preserving some sense of moderation, we could require social media giants to implement some common protocol so that they don’t own the dialogue, but only a view (in the SQL sense) into the dialogue.
I can't really understand picking an editor that is so awkward that it relies on me reconfiguring my hardware and breaking the labelling of the keys to make it usable.
> Unlike Interfaces, Protocols can describe the types of things that already exist.

Can't interfaces do that too? You can just say builtins.set implements the receiver interface.
deepl.com it's usually better than Google for everything it supports. Though Google has been catching up.
Yeah, that's my take. You see it often in other areas too - it's a lot easier to get thousands of followers as an attractive person (especially an attractive young woman, but it works for men too). The ability to more easily build a large audience and then leverage that is huge (and can make a ton of money).

My general heuristic is online personas from attractive people are often over valued (specifically considering the value of things they say/do - not their ability to make money which is huge) and when you compare pretty people with high follower numbers to unattractive people (or just people that don't lead with their prettiness) with high follower numbers, the latter are often better quality/say more interesting things. Someone leading with their prettiness has a big advantage in getting attention, even if what they say is dumb.

There's a lot of pseudo-intellectualized bullshit on twitter that gets a lot more attention than it would otherwise because the person is young and pretty, but would not get nearly the same attention if they looked different.

It reminds me a lot of Liking What You See: A Documentary, which is the last Ted Chiang story in his first short story collection - I think it's worth reading.

Obviously attractiveness is only one factor among many, but I suspect it's a much bigger factor than people currently think.
Here's the full press release from the Police force:

https://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/news/city-of-london/news/...

> Sci-Hub is a series of websites that enable free access to over 70 million published scientific papers of all disciplines. It is estimated that it includes 80% or more of the world’s currently published scientific papers, with the volume of data being roughly two and a half times the size of Wikipedia.

Fantastic!

> Sci-Hub obtains the papers through a variety of malicious means, such as the use of phishing emails to trick university staff and students into divulging their login credentials. Sci Hub then use this to compromise the university’s network and download the research papers.

A) Is this true?

B) If so, is it a bad thing?
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I think the average person doesn't know how to prevent it and believes that learning out would be beyond their abilities.
Now that it's been proven and the manufacturing scaled, there may be a fair bit of profit in it. If tuberculosis, MRSA, and even malaria can be targets, that would be world-changing.

I'm not even sure how "cancer" is really a target -- are they talking about individualized treatments for your specific cancer cells?
Wow, so you're fine with hurting creators who just happen to be drowning in a competitive marketplace?

People who don't say those words exist, but you won't find them very easily. There's a reason for that.
Can’t you export it to PDF with whatever software you used write the paper?

It might not be pixel-perfect like a photocopy, but the words should all be there.
He actually has pretty good cheek bones
Can you simply name a few countries on the list that you think should have a significantly different ranking? If not, then what's the issue?
Computer giant Acer hit by $50M ransomware attack
Free speech is not concerned with a person's ability to spew and regurgitate bs in private platforms and I see no reason to give her preferential treatment over anyone else.
I think your ignorance is breathtaking.

All of that money is either investments, loans or hedges. Just because they got mis-priced in 2006 doesn’t mean CDOs aren’t a useful financial tool.

Warren Buffett also wrote derivatives. They are useful contracts for hedging and insurance.

The financial industry dies far more than just CDOs. Do you think there is no place for market making, investment management, underwriting, etc, etc?

I guess by making a companies stock and debt easier to market to a wider range of customers is “inflating” their value?
Don't forget JavaScript/TypeScript.

You can either start with JS and add types later on (you can mix them on a per-module/file basis), or just start with TypeScript, with a loose configuration.
VSCode added the ability to restore “local” terminals after a reload in the Feb update: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_54#_retain-terminal...

I’m guessing that doesn’t work for remote terminals though, I haven’t tried it.

Seconding what the other guy said though, tmux is perfect for this. If you use the iTerm2 tmux integration you don’t need to remember all the commands to switch tabs, scroll back, etc, it just feels local just like VSCode.
> He replied with spiking on upgrading to 3.0

It looks like you just answered your own question about what you should be doing.
Yes, this is garbage news. I dont see anything in the top Swiss papers.
Writing a Postgres SQL Pretty Printer in Rust: Part 1
Hi Kevin, every time you make a change (ie add a new token, delete a token, rename a token) a snapshot is made and saved under the current date.
These snapshots are then stored always in the iCloud Keychian.

Anyway the Apple Keychain retain a local copy on the device, which means that even if in airplane mode Obsidian works by reading the local keychain.
Raspberry Pi as Remote Desktop Client – Open-Source Thin Client
Merchants are already allowed to charge a card processing fee, and no one is competing on the interchange fee. Therefore, regulation is required.
I learned only recently that people on parole have to pay for parole. All of the mandatory meetings and drugs tests are paid by the parolee. What happens if they can't pay?-- back to prison. It's brutal.
The end result would be to force first year hires to work for free as interns, since their job involves a massive transfer of value from GS to them in terms of future earnings.