skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So it's a way to dodge the law? (while ruining the environment, of course)
Additionally, I think people make a hidden assumption that they don't even realize they're making: that when you ask for random numbers from numpy, they're more or less "true" random numbers, not seeded ones. Like, I think the intention of the programmers is just "give me a bunch of random numbers, I don't really care how as long as they're random", and assumes that that is what that numpy function does. But it doesn't: it provides you a pseudo-random sequence – not true randomness – so of course the sequence is identical after the fork.

Like, they think they're reading from /dev/random, but they're not: they're just running rand() (metaphorically speaking).
Fair enough.

Changed.

On the other hand, as a European, the very few State Senators I have met / known have been decent honest people - but very focused on local (to the State) issues - or on what I would call global always on politics like decent labour laws etc.

But then again, their very job is to focus on the local.

Hmm, re-reading this bit:

>>> It’s those exact globalist policies you’re trumpeting, and their ideological underpinnings, that forced the very people who feed you into a position where you can comfortably shit on them as you are here.

I am not sure I get this part ?
Ink isn't a programming language, it's a markup for scripts that branch a lot or have text substitution rules. The FFI means that if a project hits ink's limits, you can go beyond them. Despite being a markup, ink is very close to turing complete. XML is another type of markup that relies much more heavily on external languages. So I think ink is quite powerful. (at least enough for most interactive fiction!)
>Cheap flights are a market failure

Could you explain this? I'm struggling to understand how something becoming very cheap can be considered an (economic) failure? Isn't that something the market optimizes for?

EDIT: Perhaps you mean expensive rail is a market failure?
I don't own an Apple device myself but don't they have a pretty good track record when it comes to the security of their apps? Plus all the guidelines they've been enforcing lately when it comes to user tracking etc...

At any rate my general point still stands I think, it doesn't really matter whether librem apps are signed or not, what matters is where you put your trust. I'm sure some package managers (first party or otherwise) will be able to provide a curated experience if the platform is successful, like what linux distros offer.
Is this like a "no true geek" test?
This is kind of an intrinsic problem with transport that needs infrastructure along the whole route (i.e. trains and cars). You need a minimum amount of travel along a route for it to be worth it to construct and maintain that infrastructure. The system naturally evolves to a hub-and-spoke model.

Planes just need infrastructure at both ends, so it's a lot easier to create a point-to-point model.
I hope they also start doing something about meat consumption.

https://www.cowspiracy.com/facts
I know many like this sort of article, but I lost interest at "Henry Adams, one of the most important thinkers in the 19th century", because it promises that the article will blather on with philosophical arguments for a long time before actually revealing its point (and thus before showing whether it is worth to spend any time on it).
> a person who signs and is bound by indentures to work for another for a specified time especially in return for payment of travel expenses and maintenance.

This != That
is this suppose to be good? this sounds awful. it just reads like finance and tech have eaten literally everything, down to a person's life

I guess there is more "freedom"? but that seems to come at the cost of stability and more winner take all scenarios

like a lot of this stuff isn't new, but the degree to which is seems prevalent reads dystopic
I never claimed I was in a "rural" area, just a "wooded" one. Indeed, Starlink will be a great option for many places. I personally hope they improve the coverage with more satellites so I can continue using it.
> less efficient

But much more secure.
Overall I am for this, but I do wonder if most short domestic flights are business trips. I can definitely imagine a situation where if I was taking frequent day trips for work and that extra 30 minutes to an hour is the difference between me seeing me kid before they go to sleep or not choosing to take the flights.
My understanding is that Charles (man in the middle attacks) will only work with apps that don’t use certificate pinning. If an app uses that, I’m not aware of a way around without jailbreaking.

https://www.raywenderlich.com/1484288-preventing-man-in-the-...
I wonder what the unintended consequences are with this measure. Here are some:

1) I can imagine weird situations where a multi-leg flight could be broken up by this ban, especially if you are traveling from the middle of nowhere (connected to a smaller airport in France) and you are flying to another middle of nowhere place (connected by _another_ smaller airport in France). Instead of having one flight, you now have two flights with a train trip in the middle, which can of course be inconvenient in case the first flight is delayed and so on.

2) Say I live in one of the larger French cities, but not Paris. I want to travel to northern Japan, for example. Previously I could go to my local airport and transfer in Paris CDG. However now there are two other options viable for me because I can no longer fly to Paris: I can either take the train to Paris (Charles de Gaulle), hauling my checked luggage on the train and possible taxis (skis, travel gear, lots of duffels)... Or I can just go to my local airport, dump the luggage on that airport, and transfer in Frankfurt.
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The La La Soufriere volcano on St. Vincent Island as seen from the GOES-East satellite.
The Delaware Court of Chancery is among the best in the world, if not the very best, and Delaware’s corporation law is extremely well developed, far ahead of most other states.

When they teach corporation law in law school, they usually teach Delaware law. It’s the most advanced in the country.
What does it even mean to account for externalities?

The relative time on the airport is not high.You can literally come to the airport just a few minutes before your departure (and many people in fact do this).
Also most airports are in my opinion much better organized than train stations.
Fair enough. Thanks. Thought I might have been wrong about that.
>Instead, they'll all have cellular connectivity and we'll have no idea what is being sent, to whom and why.

Don't worry, the rich will still be able to build faraday cage homes...
"Israeli media have suggested that the malfunction was a result of an Israeli cyber attack."

"Last July, sabotage was blamed for a fire at the Natanz site which hit a central centrifuge assembly workshop."

The same facility was targeted by Stuxnet in 2010.
My daughter did exactly this with some old prints she found online. It was really cheap and the prints actually turned out quite well.
"Game engineer"

Well, guess we can add that new "engineering discipline" to the other new ones such as dev-ops engineer, gis engineer, growth engineer, UI engineer, Azure data engineer, customer engineer, cloud engineer.

No wonder the real engineers (e.g. structural, mechanical) are pissed.
Akon has been an active entrepreneur in Africa for a while now. He runs a solar company that provides electricity and jobs to Africans who would otherwise just be dependent on charitable giving. This project involving Akoin started in 2018 and he's been working closely with Senegal leadership to make it a success.

On the other hand, have you seen Will.i.am's smart watch? It's... Horrible https://youtu.be/5BRbMatqN3c
> And flights costing 29 EUR are simply a market failure

That’s actually the market working as intended. In the case of flights you have competition which drives the price down, in the case of trains you mostly have a monopoly of the national operator which increases prices each year (DB, Germany). Train prices are prohibitively high, and when I face the choice I always end up driving vs taking the train (the price advantage grows larger with the number of people travelling).
The version of the librem 5 that is shipping now is the "evergreen" model. Their next model is going to be named "fir" which is supposed to have a 14nm CPU[1] as opposed to the 28nm CPU in the evergreen model. This should mean better battery life, so if that is something that interests you then you might want to wait on the librem 5. Personally, I don't want to wait that long so I'm getting evergreen.

[1] https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-shipping-announcement/
It's not a character flaw or lack of skills in not being able to "sell yourself". It's a sense of dignity and pride as a working person.

You are not a commodity, you are a human being. You may look like a commodity to a business owner, but you refuse to allow yourself to become one.

Honesty and honor are worth more than money. There is money to be made in making yourself into a sort of corporate dog, but it will leave you feeling empty inside.

I am definitely not politically conservative, but I live in a conservative way as well. I don't think it's superior, but it's nice to have peace and stability.
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European rail is also highly subsidized, on the order of tens of billions of euro annually, per country.
> In Windows, the shittyness is much worse. Basically any Qt app is unusable with hidpi in Windows.

In my experience, it isn’t. On my setup (200% + 100% screens, Retina MacBook Pro in Boot Camp) KeePassXC, qBitTorrent, Qt Designer all look great on both screens; VLC has slightly weird fonts on the HiDPI screen but still works fine.
and Motorola Atrix 4G sortof had that 10 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Atrix_4G#Webtop
Those who know the rules of a game and can play it well are often best suited to make good changes as long as incentives align.
Its the same thing with the upper tax brackets. People point to the 50's and say "look we taxed the rich at a much higher rate!!1" but what they miss is that there were so many loopholes that the rich didnt pay anywhere near that rate.

Loopholes are the lifeblood of corps / billionaires. No one will fix them though because thats where their campaign contributions come from.
Neither, just found it interesting that the _one_ address always comes up, but you don't hear of the runner-ups (although it seems I have also missed the mention of the other big player that someone quoted from the article).
https://archive.is/aHlk0
Correct. The remote ring signal (90VAC @ 20Hz IIRC) that causes their phone's bell to ring is generated by their central office. However, I believe (it's been a long time since I did anything phone related) that the "ringback" that the caller hears is only generated when the remote switch verifies that it can complete the call, so it's probably synchronized that way.
Railway systems usually dont play well with capitalism as there is very little competition (given that infrastructure and the train operator is usually a state owned company).

Aviation is simply much more efficient.
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Been dealing with this this week. It’s about a 40x performance hit to run x86 via qemu in our estimates.
Desperate investors, neoliberalism and Keynes: how to increase returns
This is not the same at all. Librem 5 runs desktop apps on a phone, not making mobile apps run on a big screen.
"Currently, there’s no national or global authority that would force satellite operators to take action on predicted collisions."

Exciting.
yes, power wants to act surreptitiously because that minimizes both reputational damage and potential resistance, and transparency is a natural counter to that.

i'm a strong proponent that transparency should increase superlinearly with power, which is something that our framers (in the US) had approximated, but never made particularly explicit. the average individual has a substantial right to privacy, basically having much autonomy to control information disseminated about themselves.

on the other end, the average multinational conglomerate should have basically no privacy, for the company itself, its owners, and its management, as well as its political & commercial transactions. of course you'd have to be careful of the privacy rights of customers and suppliers (who'd also have varying transparency levels for themselves), but those could be anonymized. the neat aspect of that is that only larger entities would tend to be susceptible to being deanonymized through transaction pattern analysis, which is fine, since larger entities require more transparency anyway.

in between are powerful individuals (full politicoeconomic transparency required) and small businesses (little transparency required).
> I'll offer to write a check for the debt in return for a negotiated percentage of their income from now on. Silence ensues.

Writing someone a check in exchange for their future earnings "from now on" is a terrible deal. You're essentially offering a loan that can never be paid back, yet requires payments forever.

Loans are a good deal because the terms are known ahead of time, payments end when the principle is paid off, and the cost can be calculated.

The idea behind ISAs is that they try to align the interests of the student and the educator, as the educator only gets paid proportionally to the students' future earnings. ISAs also have limits on how long they can collect from the student and thresholds that have to be met for collection criteria, as well as an upper limit on payments.

What you're describing is just facetious and condescending to those with six-figure medical debt.
not sure what this is ordering
I think the author explains perfectly the risk of the future where we see more and more winner takes all scenarios.

But the conclusion seems a bit off. Basic income seems like the only recourse IMO
Haha I love this.

If we think about it in terms of pure game play, medicine is a part of the game where the strategy is to take on a massive amount of debt, high risk and uncertainty for incredible returns.
The amount of carbon emitted on domestic flights in France has about 10€ in carbon cost per seat. I believe you are attributing too much to it
By what definition? In the lambda school case you only pay back if you’re in a job that pays >50k/year, it’s a percentage of income, and it’s capped at 30k. Indentured servitude requires you to do basically anything for your indenture holder for no pay until you’ve paid it back. Student loans that cannot be discharged regardless of circumstance sounds far more like indentured servitude than an ISA to me so “not really” I think is a fair assessment.
Counterexample: in Summer 2019, I took a one way flight from Rome to Lisbon via Ryanair for $57.40 USD / ~€48.77 (current conversion rates, my receipt was denominated in USD).

That's a 1,160 miles / 1,870 km / ~2.75 hour flight (distance is as the crow flies). A train cannot compete with that. Not that a reasonable train itinerary between Lisbon and Rome exists.

For May 2021 [0], I'm seeing several roundtrip itineraries between Lisbon and Rome for USD$31 / €26 on Ryanair. I think the fact that such a low-priced flight can exist is actually a triumph of capitalism.

[0]: https://www.google.com/travel/flights/s/a5Ea
See also smokeping, vaping

https://github.com/20c/vaping

https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/
> There is no reason to fly short distance if you want to go from city center to city center.

In France. In nations like the US (outside the DC-to-Boston corridor anyway) without a well-designed and -maintained rail infastructure, 1-2 hour flights are routine and not really replaceable with other options. Infrastructure investment pays off for decades and decades, and Europe has done really well here.

> However, if you're already arriving or leaving on a long distance flight, the whole overhead of getting to/from/through the airport disappears

That's an infrastructure problem too, though! There's no reason rail service directly to and from airports can't be integrated with the system. It's true in many places already, though I know nothing about France.
Given that starlink is in LEO does that mean there is enough friction to deorbit fragments of a collision in a relatively short time frame? Does anyone know?
Kessler syndrome is scary because it could render certain orbits unusable for a long time and starlink ups the risk by having a huge constellation but I've wondered how much of the risk is mitigated by being in LEO.
> But if you get hired, you can be quite sure, that you will never make more than $250k a year.

From https://www.levels.fyi/

Google (total comp):

Level 4 - $266k

Level 5 (Senior) - $353k

Level 6 (Staff) - $484k

... and similarly at other FAANG companies.

If you're good/lucky, you can make it to Senior in 3-4 years as a new engineer.

It used to be that Level 5 -> 6 was a difficult jump, but nowadays there are many Level 6s and 7s. At Level 7, even your base salary >$250k a year.
> It’s really short on the crypto and offers no insight into why TLS behaves the way it does. ... It’s a lot of “using openssl s_client”-type of discussion;

That is literally how the author explained in his book's Amazon Kindle version's free preview[1]. The author specifically said he is not a brilliant mathematician so he's not going into the details of explaining the math but rather explain the how-to from a practitioner's standpoint. Obviously, you don't need to be a brilliant mathematician in order to under the math behind public-key cryptography but for many engineers, I agree with the author that I care more of about how to configure it and make it work securely rather than the reason behind the scene. The author also claimed that he would recommend some further readings if you would like to dig into it more.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B091TBX4WH
While it’s technically correct that RMS didn’t defend Epstein, just the simple fact that he keeps obsessing on semantic edge cases while not showing even the slightest hint of giving a shit about the abused women themselves IMHO disqualifies RMS for any managerial role.

RMS is rightfully being called out for his behavior. Sure, that wrong allegation should be corrected but I wonder if that would even change anything in the overall picture.
If everybody "kept it to themselves" until every i was dotted and t was crossed, we'd all be dead.

This is not about being rushed. This is about a paradigm already existing that's both better than the scientific method, and ok to use with incomplete information. Bayes. We aren't in the 1700s any more :) the scientific method is pretty cool, but it hasn't been cutting edge for a long time.
If I felt confident that the law as written and applied would end up putting in place more or less what I’ve seen in corporate America:

- Do something egregious like steal or curse out a customer and you’ll be escorted off the premises

- For poor performance you can get a write up and a meaningful chance to improve before being fired

- You can be laid off just because your department / function / office isn’t needed anymore but they do something for you severance-wise

I’d support a legal change.
French rail receives 13 billion euros annually in subsidies

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_subsidies
It would, but the last time France tried imposing a carbon tax there were riots in the streets. This might be the best we can hope for.
Ask HN: 30 years old attempting a career change, advice needed.
I just turned 30, quit my job as I want to pursue some other adventures in my life. I'm from one of the poorest country in the world, Madagascar, but I've been living and working in France for the last 12 years. I came to study and stayed when got offered a job as an accountant. The thing is, I miss my country and going on vacation is not enough anymore, plus my parents are getting older, I'd rather be with them. I have enough savings to live there for a long time, without working thanks to exchange rate, but I'd rather not take more than a year off. After reflecting on what I like, and what I could do (given the pandemic crisis going on), programming for a living seems like the way to go. I can hack some quick and dirty script here and there but that's it. Now I want to do it rigorously, and have a already made a plan for that (link at the bottom). My end goal, if things go the way its planned is to find a job and earning between 600 and 900 dollars a month.
- I know have to have some projects built so I can stand out. But for now I'm thinking of what I could do that is meaningful enough and not just a random stuff that has been done a thousand times, by following a YouTube tutorial.

- Beside my plan, what do I need to know to get hired? (by the way if you know some good java open source codebase I could study, please link them)

- How low/high are my chance of getting hired by a foreign company while living there? Anyone that was in the same situation please reah out.

- Freelancing, creating a business are other options, so if you have any tips on doing that don't hesitate.

I speak french, and I like to think my English is ok (tell me otherwise so I'll add that to my study plan), so communication should not be a problem. As for internet, believe it of not you can get what's advertised as "fiber" for 55 bucks a month, 100Mbps up/down on paper.

Link: https://github.com/Woadray/bootcamp/blob/main/courses.md
Poverty is not simply a financial condition. It is - for lack of a better term coming to mind - a disease; and certainly not a diseaae anyone chooses. In fact, poverty creates tunnel vision. It limits vision. It, in the minds of the impoverished, limits choice.

It's complicated.

Matt Desmond's "Evicted" was a profound moment for me. Similar to this study on sleep, he highlights how areas of higher eviction rates ultimately destabilize the broader community. That feeds back into the disease and the cycle perpetuates, like a virus.

https://www.evictedbook.com/
Are you saying that the elected position of state legislator comes with the assumption of indecency and deception and that it strengthens your perspective that you’ve known a few who aren’t? As a European (what a surprise), you are aware that Colorado is more akin to Switzerland than one of its cantons, right? The U.S. is more comparable to the EU than one of its constituent nations. Knowing that, why does “State Senator” vex you so?

The line you drew between decent, honest, and representing the people who elected them is even more bizarre than what brought us together in the first place. If it isn’t apparent why an elected official from rural Iowa doesn’t have global tax policy on their radar, you are not qualified to be speaking about American politics, economics, or legislative structure in the slightest.
No. What law is being dodged here?

Again, no. Brute force Nakamoto consensus is bad for the environment, but lumping all crypto into that bucket is ignorant/intellectually dishonest.
"Space Force’s urgent alerts sent OneWeb engineers scrambling to email SpaceX’s Starlink team to coordinate maneuvers that would put the two satellites at safer distances from one another."

This is exactly how it should work though.
This sounds pretty technical but I think I can follow. If you let people out of their houses to buy stuff, after they couldn't for a year, then the economy is going to show growth in the quarter you let them out.

They've solved all of economics! Just suppress growth intentionally for a while so then when you stop suppressing you'll get a couple great quarters!

Its the economics equivalent of a perpetual motion machine
It was one, maybe one and a half paragraphs before it got to the point.

I only know this because after reading the meat of the article and seeing your comment I went back to check.

I had noticed the waffle the first time around because I'd skim read until I got to the relevant part.
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