skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be all for the 3rd paragraph.

I'm a programmer living in a first world country (spent the first two and a half decades of my life in a third world shit hole) . I have a modicum of financial responsibility.

This means before I reach my 40s I'll have more than enough to live indefinitely off my investments. While gaining money.

I am not that smart. I am not incredibly hard working. And yet with less than 20 years of work,starting without debts and less than £1000 in my name I'll have enough to live off the money that my money makes (well, unless the world's stock market permanently crashes)

There is something deeply wrong with the financial and governamental systems if they can sustain me like that but they can't sustain most of the population.
The people who supported segregation mostly abandoned the Democratic Party decades ago because of the civil rights issue. It’s one of the prime reasons the south used to be solidly Democratic and is now solidly Republican. Neither party is the same as it was in the nineteenth century.
China lands unmanned spacecraft on Mars for first time
Is there any evidence that there's copying going on? I tried searching online, but couldn't find any. A few months ago I saw people claiming that the leading choice in the contest to name the rover was "Perseverance"[1], which wasn't actually true (see the comment about how 弘毅 is translated). There seems to be a lot of misinformation out there these days.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/konwyz/starship_sta...
You have misread the comment and mixed up two separate but undeniably true things:

1. "... USA involvement in toppling some governments here" - if we go by the 20th and 21st Centuries we have at least Egypt (1952), Angola (from 1975 onwards), Congo/Zaire (1960s, 1977, 1978, 1996) and most recently Libya (2011).

2. "A country I know for certain it has invaded unilaterally others (USA)" - so numerous and well known it's pointless to bother listing them.
I feel more productive TBH, imagine writing a service in Rust vs Python, Rust has better package manager, i don't need to run +400 MB Dockerfile locally because of Python's C and OS dependencies, writing tests with Rust is pure joy, Rust is better in terms of maintainability thanks to strong type-checking.

Well yeah, i still feel like i need to learn a lot of things when i'm writing Rust, but the paradigms and things that Rust forces me to use makes me a better developer overall IMO.
Amusing name collision with https://oxide.computer/ (who also use Rust).
Hundreds of Israeli families lost their homes, hit by over 2,000 Hamas rockets deliberately targeting civilians. Israel warned this building's residents so none got hurt by airstrike. However, just two hours ago an Israeli building was hit by Hamas rockets and a man was killed:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/one-person-said...

So far 10 Israeli people were killed in these rocket attacks over the past week alone.
In the last year 33.8% of all personal income in the US came from the government. It’s crazy to think that number could go much higher but no wonder we are experiencing shortages of just about everything and inflation.
Glyphosate must be bad, because Monsanto is bad. It's inference by moral contagion, which as everyone knows is an excellent way to do science.
Sounds like you might like Zig. It is not perfect either, but many things are done the proper way there. The only thing I really like about Rust it is that it tries to solve many problems at their roots. It failed in my opinion, but at least it tried to.
USA allocates $ 10B to provide internet for everyone
Poor ergonomics are almost non-existent in traditional cultures. This makes some intuitive sense as only in a wealthy industrialized society is poor posture and back/leg weakness de-correlated from surival. This is one starting point to research it: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/06/08/4123147...
This is why a lot of businesses (retail especially) don't like to promote from within the same location.
Can anyone point me to a clear description of what we should expect UBI to do to prices? I definitely worry that it will simply increase rent & other necessities, but I of course don't know.
There are some privacy reasons for it.

A direct link from a search page will let websites see the search terms that users entered in to navigate there.

Google still knows everything so it doesn't protect you from them, but websites are more in the dark what users were doing before clicking the link.
Wow man sounds awful. I’d hate to know that my boss is against cops killing people.
Yes, age and life expectancy is a huge part of it. In the book "Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution, and the New Science of Life's Oldest Betrayal", Kat Arney touches upon this exact question and reaches the conclusion that cancer was as prevalent in ancient times as it is now (perhaps accounting for surges like smoking-related cancers), and also mentions age as a big factor in the archaeological discrepancy.
> It is useful to ask what you are trying to achieve with an UBI?

There is suggestions that paying everyone a UBI is actually cheaper than the current approaches to benefit payments. No more means testing, no more form filling, no more benefits offices or case workers etc, no more physical offices filled with admin staff doing stuff, no more claiming a benefit when you are not entitled to it and having to pay it back again in your tax return to avoid missing out on a state pension (this specifically refers to weird child benefit rules in the UK) Everyone gets the same regardless.

That feels like a nice idea to me, but I have no idea if it is actually true or not.

I know for me personally I have the nice problem of earning too much for a lot of widely vaunted benefits (e.g. childcare, child benefit as mentioned above, tax free allowance etc). It would be nice personally if a lot of these cut-offs and clauses and caveats and minimum/maximum levels and then reporting it in your tax return just went away and everyone just got £500 a month or whatever.

I.e. reduce complexity and the machinery needed to run and police it.
> That's where my taxes will go.

The welfare state already receives the largest fraction of your taxes. Personally, I'm in favour of things that make the welfare state more cost-effective.

> And I have to pay almost a grand a month for private healthcare because of incompetent NHS. Maybe I should move to Wales to get some of my money back.

You don't have to, you choose to.
Possibly no, according to the article.

up to 14% of deaths 400 years ago in the UK were cancer according to the new research. It's currently 29% in the UK, and 17% in the world. 29% is much higher than 14% but according to the article people used to believe it used to be just 1%. How much of that increase to 29% is because of new problems or just because we live longer so cancers get the chance to kill us more vs all the things that used to kill us earlier
> Interesting how political parties are for or against this pilot project before the results are known.

Economists know the results, they don’t need to run such experiments.

It’s like Socialism or rent control, the basic laws of economics will already tell you the outcome.

It just happens that lots of people think that economics is no hard science which doesn’t allow for such predictions.
You mean a guide dog?
I don't know anyone who founded their own companies and moved back to being an employee.

Well my current boss or current customer, as I have my single person company and doing contract (well I am a CEO :D), is still in the business so I don't have much to argue.

I also was not looking for a job as a former CEO or for CEO job openings.

I just know bunch of people who had masters degree and were looking for ANY type of job. If they wanted to just earn anything having masters degree and sending CV for a cashier position was mostly useless. I expect there is the same effect in play that someone with CEO experience will be "overqualified" for the job, meaning no one will hire them because:

a) in case they find anything better they will jump the ship

b) if it turns out they are better than person hiring them, well you people mostly don't want to hire someone who can replace them.
I thought it was no evidence of glyphosate causing cancer. A bit like we don't have evidence than 3/4/5G causes cancer.
Because, really, the cheaters are just that bad.
The best leverage you have during negotiation is to negotiate when you don't really need the job. Don't wait to be out of a job before interviewing. If you can do this, most of the advise in this article is immaterial. Have a number in mind that will make you happy and make you switch. Give out the number. If they can do it, you take it else you stay in your current job. That cuts out all the bullshit mind games described in this verbose article.
Ramblings about Gnome Development
I wouldn't at all be surprised if they did.
If I get enough money with ubi I won't waste my life working on something I don't care about.

The amount of people who would continue their job if it wasn't for the money it's slim

I definitely wouldn't waste my time building someone else product and creating value for society. I'd likely build something fun I want to build which is unlikely to be useful for society or make money.

A large part of the populatin
on would happily paint, cook, read books, watch movies, play videogames until they die - if they had the money.
What’s the link that takes me down the Zig rabbit hole?
This bothers me a little bit as well as an electrical engineer. Being an engineer generally means a shared body of knowledge. We all take a ton of calculus classes, and nearly everyone takes a circuits 101, thermodynamics 101, statics 101 (no not statistics), dynamics 101...etc before getting into core classes.

I wouldn't ever call myself a mathematician or a physicist despite having some overlap.

In the same manner, someone who either goes through a coding boot camp, gets a comp sci degree, or just reads some books and starts coding are not engineers. They're programmers/developers and one of them has the formal training of a computer scientist and can be called that too.

I'm not being elitist, it's just about using the right term. Engineer has meant something else for generations and overloading it doesn't help when they don't mean the same thing.

As far as software engineering goes, I'd have to look into it some more. If they also take some of the same root classes (Ex: circuits, calculus, thermo, dynamics, statics, material balances...etc) and then just focus on software, I'd be ok with sharing the title of engineer as they truly do have the same heritage.
I have heard promising things about fecal matter transplants for situations such as this, hopefully one of those procedures can heal you soon.
I often find the opposite to be true. Where I have to spend a lot of time clearly defining a hierarchical structure, which after implementation needs to restructured. Or fighting against an already defined hierarchy, usually unchangeable and made by someone else.
This raises a questions -

as China's Yutu-2 moon rover is still operational on the far side of the moon, if Rongzhu mars rover could be successfully deployed, assuming those two rovers (Yutu-2 on the moon and Rongzhu on the mars) can communicate with each other, via some relies of course, will that make it the first communication between two planets outside earth? has that been done before?
> where minority groups have been trapped for decades by the Democrat party especially.

What is the alternative, the party of "Jews will not replace us"?
I'd say the US is only partially sensitive to those islands in the south China sea in how they impact maritime navigation for their navy. Key to understanding the SCS dispute is that in comes in two parts. One is who the islands, the actual land, belongs to. Second is how the land impacts maritime rights over the surrounding waters in terms of control over navigation and natural resources. The US has taken no explicit position on the land and only defends a subset of maritime rights useful to itself. It has supported none of the land claims of the other parties, hasn't pledged support to defend the islands of the Philippines, arguably it's closest historical ally in the dispute, it hasn't done anything to stop China's island construction or seize them before they were fortified, and it hasn't done anything to protect local fishermen from being pushed out of fishing grounds by the Chinese coast guard. The only thing the US has done is maintain its right to sail its navy wherever it chooses and dare all the countries in the region, not just China, to stop them. Arguably these half-hearted exercises and the US's refusal to take a side in the territory dispute is why a lot of other countries in the region are lukewarm about aggressively staking their claims. The US is fighting for a narrow set of interests that benefits itself but will not fight for the interests of other claimants that have no direct benefits to the US Navy. If the Philippines decides to build an airstrip on one of their islands and China starts intercepting their construction crews or even goes as far as amphibious landings the Philippines has little faith that the US won't just frame this as a problem they instigated themselves.
Go to the Nim forums and check out some posts from people who wish Nim was more like Python. In the Nim tutorials, they appear to be closely related, so when new users encounter Nim, a port from Python code to Nim seems reasonable. If you post anything like this on the forums, get ready for some hate.

Nim wants to be its own thing, and posters are quick to point out that Nim isn't Python, never was intended to be, and never will be. That's what the DFL wants, which is fine. But IMO, creating a language that is closely-related to Python, arguably one of the world's most popular languages, and allows / encourages porting large Python codebases, seems like a pretty worth goal. Now that Nim has already made a lot of decisions to make that difficult, it can't pivot to that goal without breaking all the existing Nim code. Too bad: seems like a big opportunity lost to me.
> [Image C: in nose]

Looks like CyberGoth Jewelry!
That's a very interesting way of phrasing that question.

Do you think the fact that no one would want to do these jobs for minimum wage if they aren't being forced to by threat of poverty might suggest that we need to approach those jobs differently?
> specifically to the folks who have applied

I like how you distinguish between the people who are eligible and the people who have applied, because some eligible people do not know they are and therefore do not apply.

It is brought up in the press [1] from time to time, and the percentage in France is somewhere between 40% and 50% of the eligible people, which is huge!

[1] in French: https://www.leparisien.fr/economie/votre-argent/aides-social...
The problem with politics is that people see welfare as anything but theft.
Base2048: Binary Encoding Optimised for Twitter
I see ID.3s and ID.4s every day. Renault Zoe are quite common. Sometimes you get to see an e-up.

Teslas are exceedingly rare. I remember being excited about them in 2017 but nowadays I don't care anymore.

Of course because I am living in Germany it feels like half the cars on the road are VWs so VW dominance is not surprising, at least that is how I feel it subjectively.
> The case stems from European Union concerns that United States government surveillance may not respect the privacy rights of EU citizens

These are valid concerns that I share as a U.S. citizen concerned about my own privacy from government surveillance. It's appropriate for other countries to share them and to take action.

But is it clear that government surveillance by EU countries is more respecting of privacy? It seems to me more like the 5/9/14 Eyes countries are cooperating on just these kinds of intrusions. It isn't clear to me that Facebook data held on European servers will be any more secure from intelligence agencies than on U.S. servers ... including from U.S. agencies.
It's the only language existing that is memory safe and provides zero cost abstraction to the CPU capabilities (i.e. no mandatory GC, values don't need to be boxed, ability to mutate memory).

The only limitation that may not eventually be removed is the lack of dependent types (although you can kind of emulate them by lifting terms to the type level and using lifetimes to represent variables).

C++ is not memory safe, Lisp has no type system and Haskell has GC, all values are boxed in a closure and it cannot mutate memory safely, so none of these languages are even in contention.
You should consider to test your app/website on an iPhone, you may have a few surprises.
> The people who supported segregation mostly abandoned the Democratic Party decades ago because of the civil rights issue.

Yup, that's what people like to tell themselves but much of it is wishful thinking. Look at how long people like Robert Byrd stayed around. Look at who actually supports, e.g. extreme NIMBY policies in urban areas to keep undesirable "demographics" out of the neighborhood, and "fights gentrification" to keep them boxed in with substandard amenities. How is that not modern segregation?
I still couldn't get or understand an answer to this question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64705654/why-i-get-tempo...

Why I can put a temporary inside a single expression, but if I bind it first just to move it inside I'm not allowed?

This works:

use lol_html::{element, HtmlRewriter, Settings};

let mut output = vec![];

{
let mut rewriter = HtmlRewriter::try_new(
Settings {
element_content_handlers: vec![
// Rewrite insecure hyperlinks
element!("a[href]", |el| {
let href = el
.get_attribute("href")
.unwrap()
.replace("http:", "https:");

el.set_attribute("href", &href).unwrap();

Ok(())
})
],
..Settings::default()
},
|c: &[u8]| output.extend_from_slice(c)
).unwrap();

rewriter.write(b"<div><a href=").unwrap();
rewriter.write(b"http://example.com>").unwrap();
rewriter.write(b"</a></div>").unwrap();
rewriter.end().unwrap();
}

assert_eq!(
String::from_utf8(output).unwrap(),
r#"<div><a href="https://example.com"></a></div>"#
);

With the temporary vec moved outside it errors with "temporary value dropped while borrowed" on the "let handlers" line.

use lol_html::{element, HtmlRewriter, Settings};

let mut output = vec![];

{
let handlers = vec![
// Rewrite insecure hyperlinks
element!("a[href]", |el| {
let href = el
.get_attribute("href")
.unwrap()
.replace("http:", "https:");

el.set_attribute("href", &href).unwrap();

Ok(())
}) // this element is deemed temporary
];

let mut rewriter = HtmlRewriter::try_new(
Settings {
element_content_handlers: handlers,
..Settings::default()
},
|c: &[u8]| output.extend_from_slice(c)
).unwrap();

rewriter.write(b"<div><a href=").unwrap();
rewriter.write(b"http://example.com>").unwrap();
rewriter.write(b"</a></div>").unwrap();
rewriter.end().unwrap();
}

assert_eq!(
String::from_utf8(output).unwrap(),
r#"<div><a href="https://example.com"></a></div>"#
);
Hyperactive: An optimization and data collection toolbox for AutoML
The Road to Zig presentation:

https://youtu.be/Gv2I7qTux7g

C but with the problems fixed.
But why are we forcing people to work for the essentials when the essentials (water, food, shelter) require a tiny fraction of the population and resources?

Is this the kind of society that we want to live in?
Where trough automation and first mover advantage we allow people to be ridiculously rich while the rest of the population struggles to get by?
This. If it were universal, companies could just start charging everyday products much more. Boom, all people getting ubi suddenly need to start working again and they need to pay more in taxes to support all the money going in ubi.
You sound like a sheeple.
Unless your goal is a simple reduction of hours, you may be able to negotiate fewer days without compromising on salary.

For example, I work what is called a "9/80" schedule. I work 9 hours, M-Th and on Fridays, I alternate between a day off and working 8 hours. This gives me a 3 day weekend every other weekend, while still putting in 80 hours every two weeks.
I'm not sure who actually designs packaging material. I mean, I've never heard of a packaging engineering degree.

A company designing packaging might hire structural (sub field of civil) or mechanical engineers I guess. If so, that means they're an engineer in my book.
Thanks for the tip - I looked into it but it looks to be around 2-4x more expensive than what I'm using right now (DigitalOcean).
> Tiktok is full of girls dancing with very little or very tight clothes on for likes and attention.

I started using TikTok recently specifically to improve my smartphone camera technique. I just swiped the dancing girl videos away and now it has stopped showing them to me.

I was impressed by the competence of many of the smartphone photography instructional tutorials. Getting points across in 15 seconds demonstrates how 'flabby' many YouTube tutorials are.
Yes employers have comp bands for each level within an org. You can always ask to come in at a higher level.

The thing is you never know how much a company values a particular role. By giving a number first you basically preempt the scenario where they might offer more than you would have thought to ask for.

If they come in low to anchor the negotiations on a lower number, that can also give valuable information about how much the organization values your role / function.

Either way it is in your best interest for them to show their hand first.
Thanks for posting the youtube link. Very interesting to me how precise the targeting is... I guess rocket/bombing tech has gotten super good since I was a kid eh?
It's Vine 2.0 with great content creation tools and a surprisingly advanced set of filters. What's there to hate?

There is another comment somewhere down that claims that any positive opinion is "paid or smoking crack" and that is too common when people feel threatened by something.

Many of the things we do in life are simply a Waste Of Time (if we discount being entertained as a worthwhile pursuit). Commenting on HN is a waste of time. Reddit, Facebook, Chess, Gaming, Crosswords, Reading -- total waste of time. It's a bit strange when something comes along that people choose to entertain themselves with occasionally and invariably the "iT's AdDiCtInG!" arguments appear. Bizarre.
Do you think it’s honestly that sophisticated and malicious? Public policy is hard. Adjusting benefits appropriately as people climb out of poverty is a known challenge. It’s called a “welfare trap” and has its own Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_trap
Longevity and lifespan estimation is already well researched within actuarial science. Why couldn't actuarial tables be used for this kind of thing?
No doubt it depends on how you use it, but I find it very slow.

For example, I just tested following a permalink to a comment on a ticket. After 1.3 seconds I see the ticket - but it takes more than 7 seconds until I'm scrolled to the right comment, all the ticket details are loaded, and so on.

And the slow-ass lazy loading means you daren't click something between 1.3 seconds and 7 seconds, because at any moment a new button or linked issue box or the addition of status icons next to links or something will reflow the page.

In my experience this shitty performance is baked into every single interaction with Jira. You want to create an issue? Two seconds to show up the form. You click the 'epic link' dropdown on that form? A full second just to display a dropdown menu. Oh, and you also want to open the 'label' dropdown? That'll be 1.8 seconds.

And all those are on Cloud Jira, at a weekend, on a <300 ticket project, on a powerful developer workstation.
Lots of business to pursue without scaring your military allies and feeding the ravenous dragon on your front porch.
some shortcuts are just stupid. sorry, but coming from a mac some things are a little bit wierd.