skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Canada declares plastics toxic, paving the way for restrictions
Create bootable image from Docker image or a YAML config
I don’t think you mean to sound racist, but a statement like “constitutions mean nothing in the Middle East” sure does make you look racist. It sounds like you are stating that your country needs to be of European origin to have a constitutional democracy. You know very well that that is not true.
What would happen if the laws of physics changed and photons acquire a tiny mass
There are certainly special features that make the Netherlands attractive for foreign multinationals.

The Dutch government has, for a long time, actively presented itself (euphemistically) as a great place for foreign business. They of course would not openly advertise that as a tax avoidance opportunity, but you do the match.

While I'm not sure if this still happens today, the Dutch IRS used to have "special arrangements" with many big companies, for which the details were notoriously never made public. I believe this mostly applied to companies with a physical presence within the country (therefore also impacting the local society and economy and used as rhetorical justification for these deals). Still, since these deals where made behind closed doors, who knows what they may have arranged with foreign multinationals.

The problem with having any confidential deals, is that it becomes impossible to know what goes on as a whole (until a whistle-blower may steps forward). It doesn't mean there is any conspiracy going on, just that it becomes impossible (or at least really hard) to rule it out. History does have something to teach about what usually happens when opportunities for abuse are readily available, without much public scrutiny.

To drive this point a little further: Dutch citizens were relatively recently confronted with how their IRS turned out to not be quite the impeccable (or even legally operating) agency it is supposed to be. With that in mind, only God (and the IRS itself) knows what the agency exactly does with multinational corporation. I'd say they certainly lost the benefit of a doubt by now.
Out of curiosity I looked this up. SMP was introduced in NetBSD 5.0 which was released 12 years ago. I think you're a bit out of date. :)
Royal Dutch Shell, indeed.

We claim to want our systems to operate like chess, but they tend toward poker.

The global tendency toward populism is at least partially driven by the gut feeling that there are two systems: chess for thee, and poker for me.
If that's a thing, I'll just end up treating them the same way I do now with sites who don't make GDPR consent easy to deny : blacklist them forever regardless of content.
Nothing beats fossil fuels, what are you talking about?
I went down this rabbithole a few years ago. At the time, I looked around but couldn't find any more details about centaur chess, or evidence that centaurs could outplay AIs.

Then, last year, I stumbled across the following pair of articles. It's about the correspondence chess world championship, where both players are allowed to use engines, and (crucially) have a very long amount of time to analyse each position in-depth and consider long-range strategic implications of each move. The chap interviewed learned to exploit his opponent's over-reliance on the engine, and played in such a way that he was able to gradually accumulate small but compounding positional advantages that eventually gave him an edge. The whole time he used his own engine to catch tactical weaknesses in potential move sequences. A fascinating read.

https://en.chessbase.com/post/better-than-an-engine-leonardo...

https://en.chessbase.com/post/better-than-an-engine-leonardo...
I, too, loved the old logo. Not being of a nationality that has been involved in the pacific war though had kept the iwo jima reference hidden to me.

They didn't "suddenly" change the logo. As usual for NetBSD, everything was accompanied by painstakingly detailed discussions on the mailing lists. I always thought their communication practice to be exceptional and good enough to be a role-model for other OSS projects.

The list of platforms was partially very obscure bits, and not all supported at the same quality. We / they also had the problem of GCC stopping support for some of these architectures right around the same time. Also, bragging rights ... those to whom you may have bragged about it claimed linux was ported to more, not understanding the concept of an OS (in contrast to a kernel) in the first place ... and left people wondering, "fine, but does it run on today's hardware equally well?" so it was obscuring the system more than it helped, IMO. The message, again, IMO, should always have been: "obscure or in fashion, historic or bleeding edge, we have such a clean architecture and implementation that we scale across all these dimensions for a secure, performant, integrated, well-balanced OS being as close to POSIX-compliant as it makes sense for an OS to be." The list of platforms didn't get that across well.

The numbering system of the releases .. Was it 1.6 that was the last one with -current cycling about the alphabet and we had 1.6ZA as next version after 1.6Z? Or was it 1.5? I don't remember. Anyways, it was weird.

Don't get me wrong. I too long for a simpler yester-time. But I don't think they've done wrong, as a community found consensus on what to do, went ahead and did that, and they're still rocking no matter the specific version number of their OS.
Amusingly the Netherlands is a narco state too but unlike Mexico it's more civilized.
Open source geo based video sharing social app created
That is not a performance optimization.
Please see my comment to another post above, and read the following pair of links!

https://en.chessbase.com/post/better-than-an-engine-leonardo...

https://en.chessbase.com/post/better-than-an-engine-leonardo...
I get really confused when these kinds of posts get lots of upvotes. There's almost no insight here. And the tiny little glimpse of insight he has -- they flub it.

The valuable part is not "being direct with other people so they can be direct with me". The valuable part is "creating psychological safety so that people can be direct with me". This is much harder, because you'll need to take into account how they work. Some people need the praise sandwich, others just need to be told, others will only want to be told what's wrong if you'll also tell them how to fix it.
Not seeing the vision; why would anyone choose to watch ads if there was nothing in it for them?

That seems worse than the current situation (for me) - right now I’m ‘paid’ to watch ads by being able to access services (eg YouTube) which would otherwise come at a direct cost.
The real issue right there. This set up is actually costly and is only beneficial above a certain revenue. If anybody could do that, then it wouldn't be a problem, the fact that it can only profit big companies and not the little guy is the very moral issue with that tax set up. They roughly spend a few millions to save a few hundred of millions in taxes.
"What if marketers can build an infinite shithole of ads inside the virtual world instead of the physical? Wait, hold on a second..."

this makes me glad for add blockers, VPNs, TOR, Canvas manipulators, piholes, and such. Sitting in front of a friends TV for a coffee and the amount of advertising from the moment she turns her TV on (the damn thing has adverts on its menu bar...) and then the sprawling chaos of attention grabbers from free to air tv and finally youtube itself. Thankfully I saw the recently uploaded and monetised video her sister put on line including its 5 seconds of advertising at the start and 15 seconds of unskippable advertising 25 seconds before the video finished.

I have no regrets for my ignorance
If 1000 people want to tell the CEO he is wrong, he'd better listen.

If there is a choice to be made, he should make it, explain it, and live it.
I don't think it would change anything. Ad blockers usually do the blocking on the network request level.
The Strange Story of Dagobert, the “DuckTales” Bandit
I would like to apologise for my behavior, I understand that I should have behaved better. I didn't mean to cause a flamewar, after reading the article I was infuriated but I understand that we should strive to uphold high standards on everyone, especially ourselves.
Nah. SMP support predates NetBSD 5.0 by a decade or so. May sound like nitpicking but .. roundabout 11, 12 years ago was when the default kernel config switched to SMP on all architectures where it made sense. Before users had to enable it themselves. alpha & sparc64 SMP, I'm pretty sure, is quite older e.g.

I'm wondering if it's a sarcastic comment in the style of the 'BSD is dead' meme.
3 years in and Elixir still rocks!
oh whoops just saw someone else doing it so I stole it :c
The Matrix Space Beta
People, and particularly software people I've noticed, seem to chronically underestimate the magnitude of B2B where you have a potential number of different vendors to settle with in the 6 digits, that changes over time according to vendor internal reorg, closings, openings, relocations, changes of payment and financial service outsourcing arrangement, etc.

That doesn't at all come for free. Entire departments and businesses revolve around making that complexity disappear. Gettting locked out of your infrastructure to do that is essentially paralysis of your business period. It isn't a case of "Just put some meters on the tap of the pipe" .

You have to be able to read them, you have to know to read them and when, you've got to know where the invoice goes, what terms were negotiated, etc. If you don't have access to that dataset, the only physical way for the human network to recreate that web is by people picking up phones and blowing up and slamming your point of contact which runs into the issue of having enough people on your end to handle things in the meantime, and your customers actually knowing who to call, and javing planned a procedure for a massive degradation in your info system, even if it means going back to pen and paper.
Yeah, how Musk is generally a hero in the popular imagination of the internet rather than a Bond Villain is beyond me...
I’m sure that, if enough people report it, it’ll be delisted. It only has 500 users so I doubt it’s in any priority queue for a human reviewer to look into it.
There is more than a hint of ‘They Live’ about the whole thing.
I love this site. It's a deep mine of sustainable computing approaches. The part about using compressed air instead of batteries is fascinating.
Alpha Xtra Boost Review, Legit or a Scam?
If you get this information to a tech journalist who makes a story about it, it'll probably be delisted much quicker.
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I read the article as agreeing with the first half of what you say (similar rates so far), but is really looking to the next phase and highlighting a potential issue around different rates of vaccine hesitancy.

I hope you're right and there is no big disparity. The polling numbers referenced in the article suggest that there might though, and that might hinder getting to full herd immunity (or whatever the ideal rate of immunisation is).
Those who are easily offended could subscribe to a service that would clothe everyone decently. Then the rest of us could dress as we please.
There's basically no evidence either way

The article this article is about (Nick Wade's article) is built around the opposite claim, that there actually is by now quite a lot of evidence and it supports the lab leak theory. And in particular, there is no evidence of natural animal-to-human transmission that could balance out the preponderance of evidence on the other side.
Interesting to see someone work in Haskell professionally. Jobs in Haskell don't seem be plenty atleast in my area. Could I know what do you work on, and what was the process of obtaining a job there?
Actually now that I think about it, promoting to a second king would be pretty sick. Then you have a spare so losing the original doesn't lose you the game immediately. I could see an incredible game where someone uses this to salvage an otherwise unescapable checkmate.
YouTube refs are great for music, but awful for any kind of ‘content’
here you go, all the nukes are right in here - https://www.google.com/maps/place/Negev+Nuclear+Research+Cen...
Do very well in what sense? Money?
Wade's article explains that. With SARS-1 they did find the animal transmission path very quickly (within months). Part of the argument here is that despite an overwhelmingly large and well incentivised search, no such path has been found for SARS-2. Meanwhile there is microbiological evidence that is suggestive of lab work.

Unfortunately due to China's stonewalling there is no way to prove anything beyond doubt. However, the balance of probabilities at this point says that the WIV was doing GOF research on these sorts of viruses and one escaped. One reason to believe this is likely is that they apparently were not working at especially high biosafety levels. Just ordinary lab coats and gloves.
> Whoever thinks we could replace our global energy consumption completely within a couple of decades needs to reconsider.

It will take a long time because it will take a long time! So don’t even try!

No - it is entirely up to humans to decide how long it takes.
They say the devils greatest trick was making humanity believe he didn’t exists.

And advertisers greatest trick is making you think that ads don’t work on you.

We like to think we are above it all (I know I do) but why do I drink one brand of vodka as opposed to another. Objectively they are all identical. Clearly at some point some piece of branding breached my defences, you know?
I'm also Dutch, but I'm mainly frustrated that the press does a very poor job of explaining what is going on.

Uber has its corporate head quarters for the EU in Amsterdam. For a company the size of Uber to have 50 different entities is not particularly special, you will find several other multinationals there with the same number. It makes sense to have one for each jurisdiction they operate in, for example. The term "shell companies" seems to imply something nefarious, and that may very well be the case, but in itself having 50 entities in The Netherlands is not really a sign of that.

It's also important to point out that they do not choose The Netherlands for low corporate tax rates, they are not the lowest in the EU by far, but because of "tax rulings". Those are agreements they can make with the tax authorities that ascertain them how much tax they will pay this year as long as revenue, costs, etc, stay within a certain bandwidth. In the US it can take over a year for them to get any certainty on what their tax bill would be for the previous year, and shareholders hate that uncertainty.

No one thinks it's a good idea to compete in a "race to the bottom" of attractive tax laws, but as far as I'm concerned competing on better service is fair game. Many politicians screaming at The Netherlands tend to conveniently forget the part where their own country just delivers very poor service tax-wise.
wrong way around, this is the older submission. (and at least right now the one with the better ranking)
> Uber probably are doing something dodgy, with all these shell companies, but this opening remark just shouts "Don't trust this source - they don't know what they are talking about".

Uber, like all massive companies, are always doing dodgy tax avoidance things. But, even if they're doing tax avoidance, it's still legal as long as it's not blatant fraud.

Like all media companies, Business Insider has manipulated the content to cause outrage with their target markets for readers.

Though, on the topic of wording data, it's always interesting to see how media organizations & companies as a whole swing things, for example:

"Uber claimed $4.5 billion in global operating losses ... in reality, it brought in $5.8 billion in operating revenue" could've been written as:

"Uber brought in $5.8 billion in operating revenue, however, declared a loss of $4.5 billion"

or

"In a 2019 filing, Uber declared a $4.5 billion loss, despite earning $5.8 billion in operating revenue."
This is exactly the case - large consulting companies tend to hire loads of people fresh out of college (out of any engineering discipline) get them through a crash course and hand over work that's secured by onsite consultants. Attrition is a factor that's already been taken into the equation.

Basically you get what you pay for. Large consulting companies offer peanuts compared to good software developer salaries. But compared to the salaries you can expect in other fields of engineering if you are an average student (considering the glut of mediocre engineering colleges here)- consulting salaries seem decent.

Create a branch office in India and offer the expected salaries for software engineers and you can find great developers.
I earn 300k, pay the rent at 50k, then my right hand pays 450k to my left hand and I claim a 200k loss.

Not that I disapprove of that, I just wish I could pull the same trick with HMRC - I'm just not rich enough or in friendly terms with governments overseas to do that.

Is this equality?
the only things that exist are those that are measurable, didn't you know?
It's not argument "against" selecting it (it's a free world, and mileage vary), but a couple of scar-earned advice:

- Be careful about libraries. If you know that your system has to interact with X, don't assume that there is a running, idiomatic, maintained libary for X on `hex.pm`.
Do a bit of due diligence.
We had experience ranging from `meeh` (oauth2, graphql, http) to `pretty bad` (mqtt, swagger.)

But as other say, if you're doing vanilla Phoenix/Plug/Ecto with exactly the right kind of DB, you'll should be ok.

- Give a little though about how you'll be deploying and operating. `releases` and `configuration` haved changed in pretty big ways in the past (https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2019/06/24/elixir-v1-9-0-releas...), the ecosystem is constantly in flux (`config.exs` vs `Application.get_env` vs ENV_VAR vs..) . Plus, the erlang virtual machine (BEAM) has knobs that are not always easy to play with. And if you hide it behind, say, docker containers, you'll have other troubles. Don't expect an `heroku do-some-magic` experience.

- Unless you're familiar with the Actor Model already, and your application is very simple, expect a learning curve made of:

1. A period where you're afraid of GenServer and fail to do anything because you don't want to create a supervision tree
2. A period where you think you've understood GenServers and you create GenServers like crazy
3. A sobering period where you don't understand anything about your application
4. A couple of refactorings where you move the pendulum until you reach something that's acceptable

- Finally, you're coming from RoR, so you're probably fine with not having static types anyway ; may St Isidore help you ;) There is a thing called `dialyxir`. It might help a bit ; It will disappoint a lot.
The chrome web store is overrun with phishing apps like these, I think it's safe to say Google have given up.
I'm always sad to see the negative stand against all the media on forums like here or reddit.

From my central European perspective, (serious) media are so incredibly important for our society and democracy.

I understand that the USA has somewhat more independent and strong public institutions than us and can rely on them, but still.
Yes. What people are thinking of here is Galileo and the idea that the Earth revolved around the Sun. Nobody has ever thought the Earth was flat in any great numbers because it's obvious to anyone living in a society that has boats that it can't be true. It's some sort of garbling of what was really being debated in those times.
Imo, it's not a good idea to directly link to the extension as one might accidentally hit the "Add to chrome" button. (e.g. when coming from the homepage and not peeking into the thread here)
>It's not too far fetched either to hope that their customers would be willing to self-report.

Spoken like someone who has never done business.
It is surprising that they apparently haven't added a more strict check when an extension claims to be from a known company.

I would have thought they would have a list of names like "Microsoft", "Facebook" etc. that would trigger a more thorough check. In this case it should be clear that they tried to pose as Microsoft, and it is coming from an account that has no association with Microsoft.
DarkSide Ransomware has Netted Over $90M in Bitcoin
Dark Web – Vendors Comparison
Show HN: Online Game Emulation Platform – Afterplay.io
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Grandparent commenter with "Austin" in his name was saying his power gets shut off even w/out ransomware. Parent commenter asked "when?" and I answered the question.

I'm not taking a position on the similarity or dissimilarity between shutting down a service because you can't bill accurately and shutting down a service because you refuse to interoperate with other providers.

All I'm saying is Texas customers did get their electricity cut off recently.
Very off-topic, but I recently learned that one of the first nuclear detonations possibly (its unknown and disputed) sent the first man-made object into space (a large manhole like cover to seal the bombsite). Nice YT video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSeL5c65v-g