skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
European unions are completely different from US unions in how they act. UAW is the only car union in the US and recently had federal probes and they arrested like 15 people in the leadership (they were using union dues to buy ferraris, backyard pools, and other such things). They currently have a federal monitor making sure they reform.

UAW is the union trying to organize Tesla's plant.

I should also note that almost all Japanese auto companies in the US are non-union and it's been that way for many decades.
The labor isn't the collective resource. It's the negotiating power.
Can someone explain why it is called a "functional" language?

Wikipedia says it's essentially a pure subset of Prolog, but Prolog is not classified as a functional language, so I'm curious what makes this one called a functional language.

I assume there must be some significant language features that e.g. functions.
The game I wish would make a comeback is the original Tetris Attack. It's probably the best PVP puzzle game of all time, and not the easiest game to get right due to timing issues.
> Low tech societies still have capital. I was looking at givedirectly recipient stories,

I was referring to historical low tech, small community societies, not any places integrated enough with the modern global economic to have “givedirectly recipient stories”. But, that aside:

> Almost everyone uses their money to invest in their home, livestock, or children's education

Neither a home nor children's education is capital. Livestock is, but plenty of historical societies didn't feature private ownership of livestock (though it's probably one of the oldest forms of private capital.)
I definitely agree that is where the main bottlenecks are!
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Vaccines are plentiful.

The vast majority of Americans are still not fully vaccinated due to shortages (not poor acceptance).

The US even gave Canada a bunch of AstraZeneca doses recently.

(Also Mexico) Because Biden is purchasing a legacy at the expense of Americans. Americans are still dying, even from the original strain.
The place nano is best is in environments which aren't otherwise setup for working on. e.g. a fresh linux install or some ephemeral server/container. If you can do this remotely e.g. with the VSCode Remote, great.

I'd suggest if you know a few vi keybindings, vi would be better than nano. e.g. navigating through the document will be quicker with vi than nano.
Unfortunately, they had no idea that one day satellites would make burial sites a little more conspicuous.

There is good evidence that Genghis Khan is buried at Burkhan Khaldun (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkhan_Khaldun). You can see a man-made earth mound at the top here: https://zoom.earth/#view=48.762048,109.009539,17z/layers=esr.... Of course, the Mongolian government would rather not allow searches or excavations for the burial site.
When I was just starting my current startup (a collaborative note-taking platform), I pored over a lot of studies on this subject because I wanted to make sure that if I was going to build a digital knowledge base / note-taking solution I would give our users their best shot at actually remembering what they were storing.

In the end, your theory did seem to be the most frequently validated rationalization when it came to discrepancies between handwritten and typed notes.

As you say, unless you can write in shorthand very few people are capable of writing at the speed of speech / thought, where as many people can easily type that fast. This requires you to be more thoughtful about what and how you record things with pen and paper, meaning you synthesize / summarize / compartmentalize the information as you go.

This was sometimes compounded in environments involving a presentation / lecture slides, as digital note-takers frequently have a copy of the relevant presentation on their device, further reducing the amount of content they feel they need to record in some way and therefore reducing the amount of information synthesis that is happening.

The best idea I could come up with to help encourage handwritten-like behavior when recording info on a computer was to move away from the document/bullet-point format and towards a "digital notecard" format, which encourages you to think about ideas as compartmentalized / discrete ideas rather than a thoughtless information dump. So that's what I built.

But if you or anyone else has any good ideas about how to emulate the benefits of pen-and-paper on digital, I'm all ears!
Doing this (not a blog but a game of freeciv) is how I got into coding as a career instead of coding as a hobby.
He gets no salary already. He's paid only in stock.
“Arrangements are also being made for high-capacity pumps to reduce the water levels in the forward void space of the vessel and the bow thruster room.”

Now it comes out that they're taking water. Things just got more complicated.

At a minimum, it will be necessary to dig the bow out and do some patching.
How big a deal this is remains to be seen. If they're lucky, it's just the connections for the bow thruster. If the hull has to be patched, it's a bigger job. Patching is quite possible, even for big holes.

That's just a temporary fix. The ship may not be seaworthy for long trips. That monster ship will probably have to be towed to a nearby container port, probably Port Said, and the containers unloaded. Then probably across the Med to a dry dock that's big enough, probably one in Greece, for permanent repairs. But by then it will be out of the traffic lane and a concern only to the owners.
An issue dear to my heart (lived in EU most of my life).

I think it's more complex than you state. The EU is indeed one economic block, but the tech industry is quite varied within that block. Amsterdam has a relatively small but growing tech scene and the Dutch gov has been entrepreneur friendly for as long as I've been here. I just saw in the news a couple of days ago:

"Dutch cleantech startup Sympower raises €5.2 million to boost the European energy transition".

Berlin has quite a lot of fintech startups. I know because I worked with one. Yes the red tape and German regs are a PITA and slow things down. But I don't think unions or regulations are the only reason we have less tech startups here. It's also a lack of drive and vision within the population, a cultural thing.
How does the bicep flex help you press the button faster?
When you need to scan billions of rows and get sorted unique strings, theory like this is really useful. You can’t just use a library and call it a day. Sometimes you gotta build your own hash table and profile it out. Then tweak it, and profile it until you get every last bit of juice from CPU and RAM.

Articles like this are really useful for someone who wants to under the hood.
I don't know, when our libraries procured new state wide library software (each city had it's own before) they went with Koha (open source). This means that they are not really paying for development, only installation integrations and support. This opened up the bidding to much smaller players and was much cheaper over all.
I get your point and I want to believe - but I always think about how a big chunk of UBI will just go straight to the landlord. What about getting behind more public housing, instead/first?
I suppose that is one way to get the remote-first evangelists to desire being back in the office again.
There's also a massive difference in what exactly you're doing. Adderall != speed != Vyvanse, and different brands of Adderall have different effects.

You can find a detailed list here: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/know-your-amphetamines

(My own experience is limited to various brands of Adderall, Core Pharma being the worst, before settling on Teva for many years now. Having a good doctor who watches out for your health is important, and it's part of what helped me find a winning combination.)
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hey all,

Maybe I'm getting old, but I still use torrents a lot. It started when I was in college, I liked having all content I could imaging for free. After that I was mostly annoyed by having to many dvd-boxes and books on the shelves so torrents where a practical solution in the spatial domain.

Despite all streaming services available, torrents still have a function. There is no censorship, and as long as people want to share something valuable no corporate directive can make something obsolete.

I notice torrents are in strong decline, for lots of content only a few seeds are available.

So, let's keep independent content available for all free spirits, and let's create an always-on torrentbox!

There are some tutorials online, but most of them are hard to configure setups with customized Linux and Transmission, so lets make it easy.

You need:

- Raspberry PI (3 is good enough, and uses less energie than 4)

- external drive

Installation:

- Just use the standard Raspberry OS

- Install VPN client if your government thinks the world would be a better place without your public available harddrive.

- Install qBittorrent > sudo apt install qbittorrent

thats it!

If you want to run headless, install VNC. Want to have you files available on Windows network? Install Samba.

Now share your intellectual valuables!
The Atari 7800 used the same idea of making everything a sprite and having no dedicated tilemap layer.
How is it clear?
Just a note that’s super interesting: one of the comments points to a 50% reduction in China’s population in the 13th Century census which could potentially line up with this author’s theory of it starting there a century earlier. That said, it could also be part of what led her down that road.
aybe if we mined venus and hauled the materials to mars. Affecting a sort of balance out between the two. But the real problem with Mars is that its got no natural Magnetic Field going to it due to the fact that the planet's core has long ago cooled solid(EDIT: mostly solid). Or rather a weak field, but basically its not strong enough to protect anything on the ground. Combine that with the weak atmosphere and conditions that resulted in much of the hydrogen having left the planet into space, there's just not much to use for Terraforming.

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Right with you on this! Spent so much time playing "T-Attack" (as we called it) I would see the shapes behind my eyes when I would go to sleep. My brother and one friend still dust it off every year to see if we've still "got it". Would love a comeback on this.
Wow, that's one of the books in term of double-speak:
"the webcam system was intended “to respond to the overwhelming concerns of isolation, lack of team engagement and support, not seeing anyone from one day to the next, raised by those who are at home”."

Sometimes, I'm really impressed at PR firms ability to think that the rest of the world is idiotic and will take their statement at face value.

It's a pity that call centers are treated as dead end job and that we have companies pushing for those conditions because a good CS experience does completely change customer satisfaction and is worth cultivating. The race to the bottom with call centers is a very myopic way of treating one's customers.
> Unions are inherently evil, as is any organization which forces you to join.

Nobody is forcing you to work a union job. You're free to apply and work wherever you want.
And there's not a single grid that's green, since they all produce CO₂. Even zero emissions grids like wind and solar still produce CO₂ during manufacturing.

And remember just how far up your own asshole you are with this: You've reject 90% hydrogen gas turbines, future gas turbines of only nine years from now, or even steam power plants running on 100% hydrogen. At this point your rationale is so dishonestly unfair it allows zero wiggle to justify any kind of electric cars. So time to admit you were wrong, not red herring your way out of this.
You should have to live in a house for at least 35% of the year to not pay EXTREME taxes on it. Notably that's 70% among two houses and 30% in slack that can go where-ever.

However we also still need __way__ more housing to get out of the 2 generation debt in many places and 3-5 in E.G. major Californian cities.
I think the difference is that in Prolog you have imperative state management while Mercury only has pure functions, and manages state through linear types.

EDIT: the "about" page may explain this a tad better https://mercurylang.org/about.html
It makes your hand tremble like you've got the DT's. By gripping the controller the right way, the vibrations click the button at higher frequency than you can click it the normal way.
Does anyone ever read articles like this and start to think that perhaps someday, not too far from now, we will view housing as a simple right? In the same way that basic heath care is a right in most countries that can afford to provide it, maybe housing will eventually be thought of similarly. If our government is willing to spend money to keep me safe through police or healthy through health care, why isn’t basic shelter in the same category?
Without looking at how Detroit failed you cannot deduce from the presence of unions that they were the cause.
Projects are necessary for things that are built to last and not change much during their lifetime:

- a bridge

- airplanes

- most houses

- etc

Hardware comes to mind - it’s all hardware on the list, basically.

Software (outside certain realms ofc) like this? I’ve been, like many others here, doing this software thing for 20+ years now.

Big and small, I’ve basically never seen anything spawned from a project-driven organization actually deliver great results.

Most software is supposed to change, indefinitely - that’s the point!

Everyone in this day and age should know that requirements change over even short periods of time, so why even bother trying to pin them down in detail up front - you’re going to do everyone involved a disservice.

There is something to this agile thing and a “project” is it’s anti-pattern.

Not mention how much a quick feedback loop will learn you about the operation side of things.

Operations and change, it’s all you can build for and that is best done one step at a time.

(This joke of a platform is spread across multiple (5?) vendors/partners no less. A couple of them probably started just for this, backed with vc funding. It’s most likely a glorious mess!)

End rant.
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Maybe the should be. I know C is all about staying minimal, but native hash tables have proven themselves to be extremely useful in every other language where they are present.
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You should look up Chinese state sponsored attacks and back doors in Xiaomi devices
>That's fine for companies in industries that are reasonably mature. But if you want to start a new company in a dynamic industry, Germany is very much not where you want to be.

This reminds me about the time we wanted better safety gear to our milling machine and boss basically told us that if we focus on safety too much, we might aswell shut the shop down.

Sure, I work with the risk of injuring myself, so that you can make 10x my income.
If this is the only way a company can gauge individual performance then they are doing it wrong
> I know one person who says of herself that some days she just can't go into the city. Because she knows on those days she'd get hooked again if she were to pass a place where she used to shoot.

If one can opt out (by eg not going into the city), one can also opt in.
>or getting rid of freedom of association.
What are you specifically referring to? I ask, because our constitutional right to freedom of association has not been eliminated in any way.
Seems to be struggling under the load...of HN art lovers? :)
All money spent by government goes into private hands. There are no "public hands"
> Wikipedia says it's essentially a pure subset of Prolog, but Prolog is not classified as a functional language

That statement used “pure” in the sense of “functionally pure” (I'm not sure about “subset”; it certainly lacks some prolog features that are impure, but seems to have features that Prolog lacks; it seems more like it contains a pure subset of Prolog than that it is one.)

> I assume there must be some significant language features that e.g. functions.

I think you missed something I. that sentence, but, yes, Mercury has first-class and higher-order functions.
Bunny CDN is a great option if you want to drag and drop or FTP a website update (without a build step). Dirt cheap, and incredibly simple.
This list seems autogenerated, but manually curated. It's way better than the results you get when visiting the "past" link. Even playing with the phrasing ("Paul Erdős" vs "Erdős") doesn't really help uncover lots of the threads you pulled up here.

If you happened to make this using publicly-available tools, I encourage you to someday write up what your technique is. I'm sure a lot of it is simply experience, but people like me might still learn a thing or two from your advice.

(If it's using private tools, it'd be wonderful to have them available to the wider community someday. But that's difficult, and delicate, so thanks for doing it manually in the meantime.)
You get two aircraft carriers ramming each end from different sides. Then if the aircraft carriers get stuck on the bank, ships can still pass in-between them.
I wouldn't be so sure, I imagine the physical call centre wasn't really much different.
There's a difference between "freely expressing your ideas" and eg. plotting a vigilante kidnapping.

The former should be protected, the latter should be reported to the police.

A lot of the people who say they want free speech actually have some kind of anarchist fantasy where they can do whatever they want without consequences.

It seems like you care about free speech, not anarchism, so I'm not sure why the blog post offends you so much?

As I understood it, the blog post just makes it clear that "free speech" to them does not mean "lawless place where you can hide from the police".

Nowhere in the blog post does it say that they will only allow content or opinions that they agree with.
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thanks for pointing me to how you making these diagrams, very nice posts, keep up this good work.
A customer reaching a call centre is basically a "everything else failed" moment, a moment that is very expensive as 1 on 1 human help costs a lot of money. If you are going to invest, you invest in making sure people don't need to call.
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> however just because the kernel passes control to user-space for the bulk of the driver's number-crunching doesn't mean that architecturally the kernel is still responsible for huge swathes of the computer's functionality

I typo'd that - it should be

> however just because the kernel passes control to user-space for the bulk of the driver's number-crunching doesn't mean that architecturally the kernel isn't still responsible for huge swathes of the computer's functionality
Did Bill Gates buy the digital/electronic rights to the Louvre collections in the 90s? I seem to recall an article about it, but cannot find it.
That was certainly true under feudalism, which is probably why the modern capitalist center-to-right and pro-labor/socialist left all have roots in classical liberalism.

But as capital has matured, capital as a class has effectively subsumed the landed class, largely by driving land into fee-simple ownership.
Funny, I did the opposite for bar exam prep. I took notes on the computer like a machine so I didn't miss anything, then I reformatted them afterward. After that, I hand-wrote them. By the end, they were pretty much memorized.
> reduce the surface area by which an employee can extract data from the facility

Is that what they must do? A software engineer at a FAANG could exfiltrate 1000x more data with their skills and their privileged access. I think they should be treated like call center employees.
Generally, you want to leave some memory available to other things, like the OS, buffers in the network stack, etc.

Having a limit for the VM is helpful. Also, by default it is automatically 20% of available memory.

Personally, I've had to tune this kind of stuff with every VM I worked with (JVM, Node, PHP). :)
As soon as I could watch things on the platform I wanted I stopped torrenting the movies/tv that I bought or would soon to be bought. Still, I watched so many shows and movies I never would through torrents, that at this point I don’t see how independent movies/shows didn’t make money from me/friends/family.
This seems like it would be even faster if you set up hotkeys for launching each.
It seems like we disagree about what it means to actually propose policy.

> Capital is pretty pure critique of the then-status-quo

Yep.

> The Communist Manifesto has a fairly broad program

The Communist Manifesto doesn't do much policy proposing. Workers owning the means of production is about as far as it goes, and to the extent that that his Marx's proposal...that isn't realized anywhere in Europe.

> but narrower and less-well-known works like the Demands of the Communist Party in Germany

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/03/24.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/05/parti-ou...

These are both pretty short and vague, but they are policy proposals. However, they are both pretty clearly not an articulation of his vision for the post-revolution society he describes in The Communist Manifesto. They are pragmatic demands for political parties to make of their governments.

Let's compare. The Communist Manifesto:

> In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

Demands of the communist party in Germany:

> 15. Introduction of strongly progressive taxes and abolition of taxes on consumption.

So, here's the fundamental issue: When Marx is specific, he's mild. His specific ideas are totally bland, and not at all unique to him. He would be a footnote of history if his specific ideas were all he said. When we refer to "Marxism", we refer to the actually novel idea: Abolition of private property. But of course, it is here that he is vague. He gives no indication of how a society without private property might actually function. And it is into exactly that void that Leninism stepped. It did so because it had no choice.

Lenin understood that they didn't have a revolution to institute a minimum wage. They had a revolution to abolish private property. But Marx had no clue how to manage such a society, and as it turns out, neither did Lenin.
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See also "nuclear winter".
That blog post was why I decided to not use them too. Specifically their line about

> "and we have no interest in living in a sea of mayonnaise."

What is that even supposed to mean?? Who refers to people as "mayonnaise"?? While claiming to be against racism??
> making sure people don't need to call.

Almost every IVR I have ever used makes me believe business invest in making sure people can't call or at least have a very hard time reaching a human.
Does this service live up to their name? Are they for free speech principles or do they have their own content moderation policies that go above the legal minimums?
I never used to read books but recently I realised that I can experience fiction books via audio. I probably went through 10 books the past year and I'm really happy about it. I can experience a book while doing housework, driving or exercising. Pair it with a good pair of headphones and it's a great experience, less wasteful than watching TV.
This is full of bias and the bias is the experience and personal opinions of the person who created the matrix.
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