skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Poor and Small are comparatives.

Compared to the UK, USA, France, Italy, Germany, China, Russia and on and on: Azerbaijan is poor and small.

It ranks 112th in the world for size, 99th for population, 86th for GDP.

When comparing things, especially when it's relevant to the subject (facebook doesn't care about comparatively small and poor countries) then it is not offensive.

Unless you want to take offence.
Its not "believing" if its true. Most of the world money supply is created through loans. I looked at the numbers last week and my memory is failing me, but is think that less than 6% of circulating euros are issued by the european central bank. I mean you just have to look at the money supply (estimated) and agregate all ECB issued money since 2001 (data freely available online, but you can pay to have the work done for you). Government creating money is a drop in the water. At all time, money is created through loans. Reimbursing the money destroys it.
Ask HN: Who are some good web development recuiters in New Zealand?
There are some zingers in here:

> Someone responded to a post of mine saying not masking is about FREEDOM and he “will not wear a mask of FEALTY” and look buddy I don’t know why you decided to make a simple hygiene item part of your big oppression cosplay but the rest of us are just out here trying to survive

I'm definitely going to start using the phrase "oppression cosplay". I haven't previously found sufficiently belittling words to describe people like this.
I mean I can understand how stupid siri is. I find it so irritating that I always keep it disabled. But the point that anything Apple doing bad is for the lack of spending is hilarious.

In fact I'd say Apple is just keeping spending money instead of shutting it down. When IBM Watson AI sank like turd in market it cut funding and let most of team go. I think Apple doing same might be more sensible.
People go on an on about the moon but sputnik and gagarin were the real achievement.
> Why would I pay for dull news wire stuff from the mainstream media when I can get fantastic, expert, lengthy, niche content on stuff I care about via newsletters?

I'll just tell you why I won't pay for this, but would pay for something like the NY Times or my local newspaper. I care to know what's going on, in general. I'm not a new junky, but I read headlines from a bunch of different places, and sometimes the entire article. Paying for a place with original reporting on a bunch of different topics appeals to me. What's that old saying, a mile wide and an inch deep? That works for me.

Paying to read one person write about one topic... not so much. I already get a bunch of free newsletters from a bunch of different people on a bunch of different platforms. Someone would have to be REALLY special for me to pay to read their emails. I can't imagine there's more than one person like that.

That's just me, of course, there's probably enough people out there that are willing to pay for a bunch of special emails to keep substack going.
One of the great strengths of the US approach is our highly transparent capital markets. Plenty of non-US companies raise money here despite having to make a ton of information public. Why? Because just as much as companies want secrecy, investors want transparency.
If two (neutral) objects were only slightly separated along that dimension, no matter how compact it is, wouldn't they be able to move through each other as seen from our perspective (as in, occupy the same position in the usual three dimensions at the same time, because they are separated along that additional spatial dimension)?
Not complaining, just giving y'all some interesting and updated information about my profession's economic situation and wondering why at least the patient end of the deal isn't getting any better. I'm pretty happy with my lot in life.

May be 97% by hourly pay but that implies I can work as many hours as I'd like. But I effectively already work all the hours I can work for various reasons, making my family 80--90th percentile.

Unfortunately, due to the physician oversupply and other forces I described, it's getting very hard to find random doctor jobs anywhere in the country. Just another interesting thing about medicine that is changing.
Being a Perl leader means doing things like releases; that is a key purpose of the role. Try reading what the author wrote at the end, where he raises the topic of organizational continuity in light of his departure:

"I am slated to release 5.34.0 in May, and I still intend to do so unless PSC and the Core object to it. Once I cut the release, I'll remove my permissions and commit bits to GitHub, CPAN, and mailing lists."
Zombie Genes: Researchers Find Some Brain Cells Increase Activity After Death
What is the unit of measurement for criticism? As a metrology nerd this is a very important question.
I appreciate that you’re trying to help, but I’ve been searching for a long time and it only makes me feel worse.
I don't know but I've paid for a couple substacks in the past few months, I've not paid for a newspaper in 20 years.

It's like getting someone to cook just for you - hyper targeted content. A newspaper is like a buffet, and these days a not very nutritious one.
Professional leetcoders often suggest using Python because there is less to write down on the whiteboard.

An underestimated part of getting through coding interviews is time management, and every little bit counts.

Of course, Python is a lot more different than C++ than Java is, so...
The grass is always greener, until you finally realize you're the one killing it on your side of the fence.
For reference, the couple in that cartoon are racists.
Traditional newspapers and newer media (like Buzzfeed, Huffpost, Vox...) are scared, especially their journos. The clickbait, garbage content factory approach just doesn't cut it anymore, and it doesn't raise their profile as journalists offering anything of value. They despise Substack because it threatens to erase the last thing they have left in this business, a kind of ill-perceived legitimacy that they demand their work at a major outlet should give them. The success of independent Substack writers just vaporizes this entirely.
They are stuck in a low-paying job, have no prospects in this industry, and no one to appreciate their pathetic work except their like-minded media colleagues. That's why they hate Substack writers. Substack writers pull traffic, the average journos @nyt, wp, you name it, don't.

I highly recommend this post from ferddie de boer https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/its-all-just-displaceme...
Thank you and yes planning to do that just in case
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Best Practices
From what I just learned about sea lioning, it seems you arr doing it :)
It has some great visuals and some of the character/casts are great (Margo), and it gives interesting perspective on how the astronauts feel in their job, ups and downs. However, lots of "human-story" scenes are too tangential, boring and slow. Sex topics are completely out of place and boring.

The radiation storm on the Moon was very nice, very mesmerizing, but story-wise, it was squandered. The heroism scene was mediocre.

Ronald Moore did great with Galactica, but this show is a mixed bag. Not that great.

Also, somehow they don't do good music in shows these days. It is too generic and forgettable.
It’s my preferred language for personal stuff.

(I have no idea what’s behind it, but I’m sorry to see Sawyer X leave. And there certainly is cruft in Perl.)
>The defendant has the right, but not the obligation to be present. If they're informed of the trial but don't show up or send a representative, the trial can go ahead anyway.

According to the wikipedia article, it's not as simple as that. It's allowed in some european states but not others. In the US it's disallowed with a variety of exceptions, none of which include "accused was too hard to apprehend".

>It would be difficult to try minor crimes (like traffic court) if not turning up to court meant you couldn't be punished.

AFAIK those are civil offenses, not criminal offenses, so you don't get many of the due process protections.
Lernaut & Haupsie went bankrupt in 99 holding the monopoly of every viable dictation platform and the aftermath of a enormous stock fraud that enabled management to hoover up everything at ludicrous valuations eg IBM Via Voice for something like $4BLN cash deal closed in unbelievable time, provided sufficient obfuscation and destruction to lay the sector to rest for two decades.

Microsoft is making a intervention with things purchase the way I see it.

What they have to do is provide a Linux version or at least O365 interop as good with Edge for Linux as Windows.

Nuance support and products are hopeless - my subscription for $120/yr stopped working with ios14 and the app refused to send password reset emails and then we discovered that no online account management existed and cancelled instead of relying on 8/5/300 telephone queuing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernout_%26_Hauspie

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_ViaVoice
A telltale sign that they're siding with the bullies or not taking this seriously.
Not probable. El Niño events have a bigger impact in the population trends. In any case, we have much more californian seals now than in 1970.
Things I'm thinking about when I check a Pull Request for accessibility
> fantastic, expert, lengthy, niche content on stuff I care about

I wonder how you'll find out about stuff you didn't know you needed to care about. I feel like this approach pushes us all deeper into our in-groups and away from a larger sense of community.

I also wonder what will be lost in terms of collaboration and oversight.
TFA, and the archived posts, make the author (and maybe much of the perl team) seem like a bunch of emotional high-schoolers. The author seems a bit of a SJW, so maybe there's more than just the perl group at issue.
Cool! Did it contain anything hazardous while in regular use? I'm only seeing liquid H2 and O2. Maybe wall thickness would be a concern for habitation.
The longevity of these technologies amuses me. I'd say that some of the technologies listed are in demand right now, and I don't see signs of it changing soon. Slowly but surely, new technologies will replace them both faster and have more extended longevity.
If the problem is that the full social cost of burning fuel is not captured by the price, then tax the fuel itself. No-brainer.
Yes exactly. And now it has matured immensely, even expanded their offering into a Backup-node product and various ways to make use of zfs and ceph. Such a fun solution to solve problems with. I have used it in production for container workloads without any issues, for 4 years.

I only wish they would build a way to also handle handle Docker containers[0]. It is no problem to run in a VM of course, but the footprint of a VM is completely different than from a container.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Proxmox/comments/g3wozs/best_way_to...
Reasons Patients Dislike Telemedicine and How to Address That
I see that the scans pick up a lot of writing on the back side of the page. This is usually because the scanner lid has a white background. I accidentally found that to avoid picking up the back-side writing, you should either scan with the lid open in a dark room, or use a lid with a black background.
If you are aware of that, then I'm not sure why you would include Tesla in the list of companies, as I don't see how that point would apply there. For SpaceX I'd agree, and with PayPal I don't know enough about it's history.
Thank you for providing details and not just assuming the JIT was the cause of the difference.
And now you know why there will never ever ever be “free healthcare for all” in the US because this is how profitable sickness is. Plandemic.
New open-source CQL driver for Rust – 0.1.0
I wonder if they had an article "Why We’re Freaking Out About Blogs" back around 2000? (That sounds snarky, it's not meant to be). This discussion sounds almost exactly like the ones we were having about 20 years ago when blogs first got started. It doesn't seem like Substack is much different.
ACME HTTP challenges (Let's Encrypt, for example) literally do this. Your web server gets a challenge from the issuer, serves a special page with the response to validate that you own the domain, and the issuer gives you a cert for that domain.
Not only the engine - but in Huntsville you can see two Saturn V launch vehicles! A mock up standing, and the other one made of actual stages (not intended to fly, though).

The only other places you can see the Saturn V are the Johnson Space Center and the Kenndy Space Center.
Perl 6 has been recognized as its own thing, now -- that's all over. The perl we all know and love is quite alright, and holding its own.
Yup. Substack writers may know their niche very well but they're only going to write about what interests them. This could be a boon to things like industry media that displaces trade magazines but I can't see how they could possibly replace boots on the ground journalism thar only comes from professional newsrooms.
Me either, and I'm quite sure there was no trauma. I also remember more but still quite little from age 9, and more than that but still little from age 10, progressing pretty monotonically until about high school.
It was basically cash-windfall porn for our capitalistic society.
I used the method described here:
https://elijahliedtke.medium.com/home-lab-guides-proxmox-6-p...

Similar approach: https://matthewdeporter.com/proxmox/proxmox-pci-passthrough/
Thank you this is amazing advice and just the kind I needed
> PS is superior to bash, period, no matter platform

Simply untrue. See [1]. PS _may_ be superior _where it exists_, but without question it is available in far fewer places than bash.

[1]: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/12612
One difference I've found between MS and Google: MS is much more annoying about everything they do. (Hear me out)

I'd be surprised if there is any real difference in how either company respects your privacy (neither does). But for the most part, google seems to do its thing in the background and leave you alone. Microsoft is constantly popping things up asking you to rate this or that, flinging things you didn't ask for onto your screen, basically the spirit of clippy reborn into modern data collection practices. If I'm going to have my information exploited no matter what I do, I'd rather at least have it happen unobtrusively.

(To be fair, this is just my perception. I was in a g-suite shop for three years and now onto office 365 and I feel like it bothers me about stuff way more often the g-suite ever did)
How do you define mind? I would agree that the mind is regulated by brain inputs but not sufficiently. It is self-determining.
I am sorry I can't answer your question: I read many many sources (from big name media to small time bloggers), contrast and apply common sense. I know my limitations to access the 'truth', and I live with that, always in doubt.
That said, regarding Facebook, I genuinely never used it really (I have a placeholder account), never used Instagram, never used Messenger, never installed any of these apps on my phone, never log into these web apps on my PC. I use WhatsApp constantly to communicate with friends and family across the world.
Spot a $5M/year scam in 5 minutes flat on Apple App Store
> Lay the FB 'hate' aside, will ya? For all its dehumanizing power (as much as the rest of 'social media' and technology in general) FB has not committed the 1/10000th of the harm these champions of virtue in the MSM have done for the last couple centuries

All the problems you list with legacy media are true but also have a clear expiration date as these outlets are usually money losers. Meanwhile Facebook looks like it's here to stay.
This would have not be a problem if there was no algorithm to show you the top stories.

Just show the stories in chronological order - let the users think before subscribing to 1000 pages and having 800 friends.
Chatbot or Anger Machine?
Thanks, that was an interesting read! It does of course raise interesting questions about a nefarious powerful government that wants to get rid of someone for "endangering national security". Taking the example of sensitive GPS coordinates, I can easily come up with an a way to encode a pair of coordinates (with 10m precision) in 5 bytes, or 40 bits. And that's no longer a number where probability is so much on your side. Unscrupulous government agents have a decent chance at finding those 5 bytes in the dump of your 1-terabyte drive!

I guess the counterpoint here is, a government that wanted to put you behind bars by justifying it with 5 random bytes would have no problems with fabricating some much stronger evidence against you instead.
The blog claims that it is so devices can continue to work when it's offline, not that it didn't use Azure when it was online, and also that the devices are intended to by deployed via Azure IoT Hub.

Which is to say, the blog doesn't make it sound like I can use this without an Azure subscription, even if it works offline sometimes. Whereas the Microsoft Speech SDK, I could just include the DLL files and run with it.
Of course the UN is a proto world government. And the history of the UN is a history of impotence. The UN couldn't stop a genocide in Rwanda committed with fucking machetes.

Is the UN a good thing? It's good that states talk to each other. But as a government, as a law-making and law-keeping entity, the UN is a joke.
Somewhat related: I did a similar thing with a periodic table: https://josh-perry.github.io/periodic-table-of-projects/
There's reason to expect that, too. Processing an event writes it more durably into the brain, and we have good reason to continue processing bad events until we have extracted whatever learning is possible from them.
Sure, it doesn't work for that use case, but most folks aren't going to be running a ProxMox system in a desktop use case anyway.
I'm building a deep learning dataset right now... I feel the grind in my bones.
See the errata http://wondermark.com/2014-errata/
Sure, I understand the appeal (and I even use substack, but just free tiers tbf).

Just trying to understand why is traditional media scared of substack and, apparently, not scared of other similar sevices.
Minus the collaborative catfights because it was a more solo venture didn't we already hear much of this already for writers of different formats with print on demand books and eBook publishers? Most overlapping with news are "blog books" but well that depends upon staying power for the type of blog for if people will pay for yesterday's news as it were.
Interesting that they don’t just use this technology to erase the recordings. They must be messing with us.
Modelling a 2D-Array of Multiple Types
The ICC is not allowed to hold trials in absentia. It would wait for a State party to take the accused into custody and transfer them to the ICC
Maybe that's kinda right, but i really comes down to production. You can't have hyperinflation if you're producing enough. You can have a big inflation, but not the venuezela kind.

And if your country is producing as much as the US is producing, you should not fear hyperinflation.

Tangent: Money supply is an adjustment variable, and most government don't even have direct power over it (not even China). more than 90% of all euros are created through loans. Consummation loans alone created more money that European stimulus package.
> just because you don't see it as bullying - and bullies rarely see it that way - it doesn't mean it isn't bullying

I disagree with this claim, which seems indicative of the current moment in (U.S.) culture. There has to be some kind of cohesive, functional system of standards (or rules or basic shared definitions) for all of us to be able to communicate and work together. It would be a very dysfunctional world if everything were entirely subjective, particularly definitions of "good" and "bad" behavior. At some point we have be able to distinguish our feelings from their causes and be able to evaluate the causes against a standard of behavior (when the causes are other people or our selves).
Can You Forge a University Degree?
Perl has had a really rough time. When I was in my Bioinformatics Grad program, back in 2016 I briefly considered learning Perl b/c there was/is still a lot of tooling written in Perl. I was able to get by and at this point I will probably never learn it for my job. I'm not poopooing the language. I think language design is hard, and it sucks that once a language reaches 1.0 it's shackled by decisions that will come to haunt it decades later.

It really sucks that popular open source projects have to face so much abuse on a daily basis. Sometimes I wonder if this is a product of the internet or programmers in general. I've had plenty of bad experience on stack overflow, and various other programming forums even just asking questions, so I can only imagine what it's like being a maintainer of something people actually use.

If I ever create something popular that people use, I'd probably move it to gnu savannah, or use svn or mercurial, to make it harder to contribute and weed out the haters. But I've never made anything useful enough to warrant that.
UK's National Rail backs down from greyscale website tribute to Prince Phil
I'm not going to rely on Cloudflare Pages personally... It's concerning to see they let free traffic in regions be broken for over 8 hours _without_ redirecting traffic to another working PoP as well[0].

0: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/qjwxv73chh5b
74MM ppl voted for someone who used to be President and is now permanently banned from all social media platforms. This article agrees with that. If you were one of those people, you would not want to associate with this company.
>Boulder Portland asheville nashville bend boise missoula Austin tacoma, others I'm sure.

If you asked someone to build a list of cities where a massive inflow of outside money has screwed things up for everyone the list would look very similar. But nobody moving in notices the decline because the all things considered state at any given time is always better than the state of the place they're leaving (or they wouldn't be relocated).
> The "carcinization" is a callout to, I presume, xkcd 2314 ( https://xkcd.com/2314/ ), about how crustaceans tend to repeatedly evolve into crabs

That’s not an xkcd joke though, it’s an actual observation of evolutionary biology, first published in 1916.
The presence of a white paper gives any project the luster of pseudo-academic rigor.
Juan Gilbert’s Transparent BMD
Publishers are middlemen between writers and readers and are terrified of losing that rent seeking position.
In the case of France, there are some low hanging fruits. The two main airports in Paris, which are also the country's main hubs, are connected to the train network. But to transfer from most of Paris's train stations to the airport train, you have to navigate a maze of tunnels and staircases, and bus and metro lines. I would seriously have to think about how to transfer from Montparnasse to CDG, and I've lived there. Having better, clearer connections between the main train stations in Paris would benefit all train travelers, not just those going to the airports.

There is a planned dedicated express train from Gare de l'Est to one of the airports: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDG_Express
Perl is a nice tool for quickly mangling textual data. I ended up using sed/awk and Python instead for much of what used Perl for back in the day.

Today, data is often semi-structured and jq has become part of the toolbox as well.
I'd be inclined to agree if traditional newsrooms weren't dumping their boots on the ground journalism as fast as possible. The worst thing websites like Buzzfeed did was to tell the old guard that this was an unnecessary cost center.
whats wrong w/ that? its art
Also, it's fun! I don't play often, but when I do, it's for the daydreaming and "what if"-s that comes with the experience.
Phone Can Get Hacked for $1‪6‬
A random sea lion has appeared: What makes you think he's an SJW?