skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You got any citation for this opinion or any other one in your post history? You speak like you're an expert on this subject and others are voting like they trust you, but why? I don't see anything in your profile or history that indicates that you know what you're talking about, and you've provided no evidence here.

Your comment sounds like fear mongering to me.
I have always just liked the way that “lien new…” or “lien new app…” sets up projects.
I agree. The UK has a serious problem with admin costs for these programs: UC rollout cost something like £12bn, which was a double digit fraction of the amount paid.

The Tories also had an obsession with "work coaches", these contracts cost an absolute bomb, and had no effect on unemployment going to 3% whatsoever (the issue in the early 2010s was jobs not being there).

But my counter-point would be that part of the problem has been that definition of "need" and the quantum of that "need" has changed. The Tories assumed that everyone was on the take (and to be clear, Labour did this too around 2002-2004, they managed to reduce disability spending by 20% by just removing people from the benefit and telling them they weren't disabled anymore...even Duncan-Smith wasn't this thick) which meant they invested very heavily in pointless things.

It is actually fairly easy to determine whether someone needs money or not...look at their income, look at their savings...it actually isn't hard.

My concern is that the universal benefits brought in by Blair precipitated a situation where we have massive subsidies for the middle class whilst the govt is trying to take money from everyone who actually needs it (how can we spend more, we spend so much on in-work benefits). This is basically what happened in the pandemic.

Maybe the solution to bad admin is good admin (the system that the DWP has with disability is patently ludicrous, they ignore GPs, they hire doctors who can't get work anywhere else, they rely on "examinations" by non-doctors, I had a relative with a chronic neuro issue...she had her benefits removed once, under Labour, by a non-doctor and the re-assessment was done by a physio...tbf, the Tories pulled back once they realised what was happening with early assessments, they never went as far as Labour...but it is an insane system).
We're not talking about storing/transferring data between different countries within the EU though. The cross-the-pond-friendship example was only provided as an example of the topic at hand and not the fact that 'mericans don't have European friends.
So exactly how do you know what TikTok is full of, then?
If they are scared but want to continue the "business" then they are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Getting hacked is a nice "out" from their contracts without losing money to reimbursements. Remember, they won't be accepting as wide a clientele anymore, so presumably a fair bit of that money they wouldn't get back from re-signups. On the flip side, they now have extra money they can use for incentives to the clients they really want to sign back up.

So, I think there's a good case to be made that this is the best course of action, given they are scared but don't want to quit entirely (which seems clear). It isn't nearly as bad a hit to their reputation as just taking the money and running, so they don't have to hide their identities and rebuild new ones to start over in crime, and they don't lose nearly as much money, and they probably won't lose the clients they actually care about.
i'm not saying the deserve to be poor, but they cannot be rich - and at best, society can keep them alive and provide the minimal, necessary sustenance for survival. While they wait for technological improvements to cure them of their illness (if such tech comes to pass).

What would be a viable alternative? If this had happened in the jungle pre-historic times, they'd just be dead. So is it not an improvement?
A question I always have for diagramming software is how it handles refactoring. This is often the most frustrating part of every tool. How does IcePanel improve this experience? Group selection and dragging to hopefully have enough room for something new is not workable in complex diagrams.
Makes sense and I think this should've been required all along. Moving personal data into new jurisdictions is just a trainwreck waiting to happen.
You can't.

If you implement income guarantees in one part of a fixed exchange rate area, then the unemployment simply moves to the part that doesn't have the income guarantee.

The USA may get away with it because of the number of countries that peg to the US dollar. That is where the unemployment will get exported to.

That doesn't apply in the UK.

An income guarantee in UK terms is one of two things. It is either equivalent to allowing an individual to obtain their retirement pension at age 18 rather than 68. This is despite the age of that pension increasing from 60/65 to 68 over the last few years because of an unsustainable 'dependency ratio'.

Or it is equivalent to removing the age cap on Child Benefit so that it is paid to supposed Adults. Child Benefit is the original 'basic income' and the value of it has been run down over the decades as usual with income guarantees of all types. It has also been curtailed for 'high rate taxpayers'.

UBI doesn't work because it doesn't add to the sum total of production. It is a way of transferring real output from workers to those that don't want to work, while trying to hide such people in a crowd of worthy causes.

Ordinary people tend to see straight through it.
The Great Composite Comparison
Miami isn’t going anywhere for at least a few hundred years, by which point they will have plenty of time/tech to keep things above water. The most likely models show 1 to 4.3 feet of rise by 2100 compared to 2000 [0] which has relatively low impact on miami other than the miami beach [1] which is already making plans for keeping/getting flood and rain waters out.

[0]https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...

[1]https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/#/layer/slr/3/-8927718.607502826/...
Both, unless your "friend" does not consider you as a friend, in that case it is only in yours.
That's definitely useful, and I'm not completely mystified by the notion that simultaneous borrowing of something as both mutable and immutable is something that Rust watches for.

In C++ you (usually) do this with `const`, which is fairly low friction, very statically analyzable, and I'm a little unclear what bug hardcore borrow-checker static stops me or my colleagues from making that `const` can't catch?
... sometimes the simplest solutions are the best. I feel so dumb, thanks!

I could probably even set the page size to the right dimensions in LibreOffice Writer
You may be confusing the various engines. The first link is about the Quake 3 engine, the second one is about Quake 1.
Ah, the great suppository of wisdom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oep_DPDy6xw
I appreciate the effort, but it doesn't matter how many times I read your post, I don't see what's being accomplished there and it honestly feels both condescending and unneccessarily complex at the same time. Even in your example, there is clearly state change (how could there not be).

In particular it's the casual anthropocentrism that doesn't sit right with me, but it's so much more. You're mostly concerned with human perception and philosophical aspects that have roots in human feelings. If your main objection to the existence of time is that it doesn't fit in with your definition of consciousness, that means we're not even remotely talking about the same thing. We might use overlapping words, but that's it.

Consciousness is not a scientific concept.

Penrose did a lot of damage trying to legitimize it with his quantum woo, but it's fundamentally incompatible with scientific considerations outside of psychology.
Right, so you are looking at the pie and seeing a redistribution, and going "this is all equal".

The key you are missing is that this fixes the incentives. Currently NIMBY's(No in my back yard) say no to new housing so that their home prices appreciate in values. Currently companies buy empty lots and leave them empty for 30 years.

What happens when you have a UBI funded through a LVT? Well, exclusivity drives market values up which drives taxes up. As a result of a LVT you will end up having YIMBY's making sure that there is enough housing in the area, and LVT naturally favors dense apartments over single family homes. That will drive the market price down, and as the market price drops the tax will drop in response to keep the market cost at replacement cost.

The pie gets bigger.
A sea wall around Miami wouldn't help due to the karst substrate; water would flow through the limestone channels under any wall. The main concern with sea level rise in South Florida isn't that the seawater will come in but that rainwater won't drain away. There will have to be a huge investment in pumping systems.
Is this in your ideal system? Because that is really far from being true.
> Some fringe regions of the planet may become a lot harder to live in (note that climate change is not uniform, it will affect some places a lot more than others) and of course some coastal areas may experience more flooding but by and large day to day living in the first world will be similar to what it is today even with 2C of warming.

How can this be known at this point? I can certainly imagine changing weather patterns such as monsoon, drought, heat waves, cold snaps, etc not being limited to fringe regions.
The difference is that, as an E.U citizen, the governments and agencies that might access this data, along with the laws that allow for that access, are ultimately accountable to me and my fellow citizens. If my data is transferred to the U.S, I have no ability to influence how it's used at all, I effectively have no rights.
Well, I will say that the class that had us learn assembler started with (software) FPGAs, then assembler, then C. The idea being that it demystifies a lot of what is going on underneath your code. Does it actually help you write better code in most instances? Probably not. It's helpful if you're writing embedded things (and that was the whole gist of the class), but for many devs it's not that useful. But that knowledge is still comforting; I've met devs who didn't have it, and they felt a little uncomfortable that they didn't understand how the code they wrote actually affected the underlying machine. shrug Certainly, "our CS degree is good for anything that isn't too low level" isn't the vibe most universities are going for.
Before Swing.

Also, I wrote a themeable, JNI-using installer that ran a JRE from a CD-R. It was slow to load at first but it seemed impressive to users.
"financial independence and retire early".
There's something to this. Rust was built to do low-level programming well, and as a result it's quite hard. It's fundamentally more work to do things than in a GC'd language of similar modernity. That's a perfectly reasonable tradeoff.

But somehow, Rust got cool, and now a large fraction of its community wants to use it to write web services. So there's a lot of gravity dragging the ecosystem, and even the standard library and the language, in that direction. Even though it is a poor choice for almost all web services.

One day, the shine will wear off, and it will be easy to see that it's a poor choice for almost all web services, and we will feel some regret over the amount of time and energy that went into building in that direction.
I find it funny in this case: If they operate from a bank in China then the Chinese gov. will block all tech exports to US until you unblock their bank.
Not true. Job Seeker's Allowance is not means-tested.
https://www.gov.uk/jobseekers-allowance/eligibility

If you are still unemployed whan that runs out your savings are taken into account but you can still have £16K.
https://www.gov.uk/universal-credit/eligibility
Have a look at diagrams.net, you can run it locally, and there are quite a few interactive elements (panels you can close and this kind of stuff).
I agree, "why some things propagate and others don't" is a very interesting question. I enjoy contemplating on the variety of propagating things inductively--jokes, poetic phrases, turn of phrase, but also skills, techniques, basic knowledge--just say the phrase Org Mode sets up the cult of the organized for preaching the gospel of Emacs. haha.

Though, my curiosity in meme propagation is preempted by the curious rejection of memetics as explanation for social or psychological phenomena outside of its adherents.
When my Rust code successfully compiles, it usually works. Frankly in terms of user experience it's selling point #1. I could talk about the borrow checker, trait-based generics, native build system and dependency management, performance, relative ease of writing multithreaded code etc... But thinking about it the thing I like the most about coding in Rust is how hard I can lean onto the compiler and type system to spot mistakes and let me know about them.

C++ is not even close in that respect. Duck typed generics, lack of borrow checker, lack of sync/send markers for multithreaded code, easy-to-abuse overloading (that's even abused in the standard library, so there's no escaping it), legacy cruft that springs up in unexpected places, non hygienic macros, exceptions and frankly I could go on for quite a while.

I think for some of us Rust is effectively the promised land. I learned some Lisp and Haskell but I could never really get into them seriously because despite some cool language features I just don't like paying the performance costs of a heavy runtime, dynamic typing and garbage collection. So instead it was C and C++ for better or worse. But then Rust came out and said "hey, how about having your cake and eating it too?" and I never looked back.

But of course many people don't share the same objectives. If Haskell and Common Lisp are what you consider to be your baseline I can definitely see how Rust's very strict type system would be seen as an annoyance, especially if you don't mind paying some runtime performance cost for the sake of simplicity and speed of development.
Presumably you've read enough to know that memory safety and UB are Rust's biggest selling points? If that hasn't convinced you already, I'm not sure what would. Just keep using C++.

(I use C++ and I love it.)
For diagrams that are long-lived and refactorable, diagrams-as-code is really your only option. Changing complex diagrams with drag-and-drop interfaces is a nightmare.
Ecclesiastes 9:12
Because we are already seeing it and can model for the future. See the first image in this article and note how some areas have experienced no warming while others a lot as compared to 1900.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/does-global...
Since the tests are at different indivividual scales, possibly.

We might even get some idea of how scale affects the results, which could make the conclusions applicable across scales even though the results vary, but extrapolation is always more dangerous than interpolation.
Show HN: Tool to customize syntax of programming languages
Can't say I'm surprised. This is what 0 regulation and free market capitalism looks like. In theory they would secure their systems because a hack would be bad for business, but in reality with bribes, lobbying, and networking, once you have a contract you pretty much have it for good so there's no incentive to spend extra money on things like security, environmental safety, etc unless it's required.
I was initially thinking like you too. But it likely isn’t true.

With Facebook’s lowering importance and my self getting older, my interaction with non Americans has lowered. If we are talking about the EU only, the amount is minimal.

Thinking about others around me, most don’t have anything significant with EU residents or have one specific set of friendship[s] in the EU.
I'm a bit disappointed you're not the real Henry Kissinger.
I wish there would be a mixture of diagrams.net and mermaid.
I’m not even talking about gas. I’m taking about chips, lumber, chicken, and much much more. All of them are having shortages and it has nothing to do with randomware but it is important to recognize that using stimulus is like using a budget, spending money in one spot means you can’t spend it in another, while we have gone all in on the pandemic we forget that other problems like ransomware and whatever else comes up still need to be addressed and take money to correct.
It really was nice and simple back then!

I always chuckle when i come across this class, which has been there since the beginning, and does absolutely nothing:

https://github.com/ufuu/JDK10/blob/main/src/src/java/lang/Co...
Yep, reddit used to allow lurking too.
Didn't Opera solved this 10+ years ago with Tab Group ?
I think this is a good approach for many public records: add just the right amount of friction to the process. Just because a record is public doesn't mean it needs to be published in a readily accessible database.
We could try that experiment. Good luck persuading those pensioners who've lost half a state pension they believe they've earned and single parents made homeless that UBI is a positive change because some other people are better off though. Or getting the Parliamentary votes to even try that...

The Finnish trial "worked" in the trivial sense that unemployed people given an extra £2k a year on top of any other income they might earn were marginally better off. It didn't work in the sense that it was considered worth raising taxes to pay for it to be extended
> said he prepared a 24-month, $1.3 million plan for Colonial.

Sounds a bit cheap to fix such a thing.
I agree. A lot of zoning is intentionally based on the idea of raising the cost of living so that the poorer part of the population is driven out. Things like rent control primarily benefit those who were not struggling in the first place. They just get to pay less on their expensive apartments. If you were struggling to pay rent, then rent control does nothing for you because the rents you were paying were not significantly above the mandated rent control level to begin with.
However, since you are struggling, landlords are not willing to rent out units to you because any missed payment is a loss for them. They can't price that risk into their rents so they simply take someone with a better economic background.

That's how you get systemic racism without any single individual even thinking about skin color.
> ...just like you've done here.

For what it's worth I did not mean to imply a relationship between the average median life expectancy for the population as a whole and the life expediency of a person who's reached that age.

As you point out doing so would be a statistical fallacy. E.g. someone who's reached the age of 5 has already made it "past" infant mortality, and therefore has a higher life expectancy than a newborn.

I was using it as a shorthand to reference how lopsided the age distribution of COVID-19 deaths is. We can quibble over whether an 80 year old who's died from it would have lived an extra 0, 1, 5, 10 years.

But even if you were to completely misunderstand how life expectancy works, you'd be a lot more accurate than the GP's reference to a 747 crashing into a mountain, since that example implies deaths from a random sample of the population. Now instead of being off by 5-10 years you're off by many decades.
Those match "ergonomics" really tripped me up when first trying to learn Rust.

I was trying to figure out references and deref, and I kept thinking I "got it" and trying to make sure by writing examples that should and shouldn't work.

However, because of all the deref "ergonomics" magically spread around thinks like match, it was really hard to confirm whether I had the right mental model or not. Lots of things that surely shouldn't work somehow worked, and I couldn't explain why. I kept having to go to forums and people just told me "oh, this is a special magic case we added". Very frustrating.
Yeah I'm not quite seeing how the pie gets bigger. You have a UBI at the cost of massive wealth destruction in the housing market.

How does LVT favor dense housing? And why would people be building more now that they don't expect the price of homes to ever increase?

I'm not seeing how the scenario you've outlined is the most likely to happen.
They actually don’t tell you if you ask them. I’ve tried to do this with a few recruiters at the phone screen stage just to save everyone’s time but they usually don’t give a number, presumably because they do have flexibility for filling out roles that are in demand.
> This comes after air strikes on Shati refugee camp which killed 10 including 8 children.

Is your position that targeting journalists and destroying their long term office building is some sort of reasonable solution (or proportional retaliation, if you like) to that awful catastrophe?
If you said 2+2=4 and I said I don't agree, that doesn't change reality
I was considering Visio until I saw the price, the only alternative I found was MyDraw[1], which looks competent and is much cheaper ($69). I haven't used it yet though. In the past I've relied on Dia[2].

[1] https://www.mydraw.com/
[2] http://dia-installer.de/
This might be the case for some individuals, but in the examples I have been given, this was not the issue.
> only pose a significant pollution problem if capitalism is somehow prevented from profiting from it.

This is fundamentally false.

The entire issue of environmental pollution exists because, or when, reuse isn't profitable.

If new raw materials are cheaper than reusing, then capitalism will absolutely result in dumping old materials and increasing pollution.

Why would you think otherwise?
Chromium is a *way* legacy codebase, I think WebKit goes back to like Konqueror or something? Chromium is a very weird example to cite for modern C++ vs. modern Rust memory safety.

AFAIK avionics software is still largely written in Ada, because it won't let you fuck up meters vs feet type stuff. And if someone said: "Rust has a slam-dunk niche: we're going to crank static analysis past helpful to downright intrusive because sshd simply can't buffer overflow", I'd be like, yeah, ok.

But at the time I stopped using it, Alacritty couldn't handle meta keys on Big Sur, and I wanted to fix that, so I spent a weekend or two that I really couldn't spare trying to unfuck it, but between `print` not being obvious (because someone had already borrowed the thing I wanted to print out) and the build being slower than C++ I timed out.
Flight classification using deep learning
> This is what 0 regulation and free market capitalism looks like.

Nope, that’s nothing like what this is. Oil pipelines are heavily regulated, with ZERO competition. As government protected monopolies, they’re the exact opposite of a free market.
This seems...oddly overzealous.

First, why should anyone trust what the CDC says?

It should take years for them to rebuild any credibility at all, and their guidance thus far is wanting.

Why, for instance, the rush to harass retail workers?
General anesthesia is fraught with peril. Every time somebody is put under they're dicing with death.
This is very insightful. I did not get it, in my mind I incorrectly added the rule that if I put in a bad sequence it would count as a failure. This is a great little demonstration.
Crimea didn’t have decades of preparation making strategic allies to defend it, nor was it of similar strategic importance to allies. That is also not to mention the fact that, Russia is not exactly doing great in the wake of the annexation.
That's a beautiful website. Love the colors, mascot and the way you've laid out the information.
Germans wouldn't have started the war without loans from the US or help from companies like IBM. So it's not so much as stealing, but rather trying to claw back some of the "investment" when the war machinery started to collapse.
I have forlorn hopes that Rust will fix build times and I'll tolerate the abusive relationship with the borrow checker if it can move the needle on that.