skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the world has mostly decided and actually followed through on not using certain things like chemical weapons

Chemical weapons are not used because they were ineffective even during WW1 and make even less sense now, when there is no trench warfare and targets are generally highly mobile. Conventions have little to do with this.
Portal – A Bridge to the United Planet
Spanish flu survivors still immune after 90 years (2008)
Curious on what you think of what China is doing to the Uyghur people.

Do you believe that this is fabricated by all these media outlets? I would think that genocide of a particular ethnicity would count as totalitarian and racist.
Zürich so far up? Daycare costs are through the roof, so much so that it makes more sense for one parent to quit and stay with the kids fulltime. Have more than one child? You’re in for a world of hurt.
Public security test of Swiss «Covid-19 certificate system»
Documentation, source code and more can be found on github.
https://github.com/admin-ch/CovidCertificate-Documents
I have been living in Sweden for 7 years, I am ready to change it for any English speaking country.

Do not take these as a recommendation on where to settle.

You will be wildly baffled.

Social culture is more important than social welfare.

EDIT : For those that claim X people speak English just fine, I recommend a new metric "Number of English speaking tables at pubs in their top cities"
You can't create such a pedal in the first place, so...
Bullet proof is a little open ended for a spec.

Meteor may be a tad vague.
“What do you mean it’s not Chicxulub proof?”
They could have, it just didn't happen that way.
And more than likely it's to late for that species anyways. It could still save others though
> Through that process, I started to see a lot of similarities between my use of social media and my use of cigarettes.

My experience is that they're not just similar, they're the same. The tug of a vape pen and the tug of a phone are indistinguishable from another except for the object they point to. If I didn't have one on me, I'd reach for the other.
That seems like a compelling use case. The next thing I wonder though is whether that can exist without the ponzi scheme on the side. Is it the remittances, or the ransomware and speculation that funds the infrastructure?
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Honestly in practice everything tends to work fine without any hacks or extra scripts.

I run all of my containers as a non-root user and create the user in the image with its default values of 1000:1000 for the uid:gid. I haven't bothered to expose the uid:gid as build arguments because it's pretty much never an issue in development or production.

With a uid:gid of 1000:1000 built into the image any bind mounted files end up being correctly owned by the Docker host's user under the following conditions:

- Docker Desktop on macOS

- Docker Desktop on Windows using WSL 1

- Docker Desktop on Windows using WSL 2 and native Linux (as long as your dev box's user is set to 1000:1000)

IMO it's really rare that your dev box's user wouldn't be 1000:1000 on native Linux or WSL 2.

In production you also have full control over the uid:gid of your deploy user.

The only time where it kind of stinks is CI, but it's super easy to get around this by simply not using volumes in CI.

I have a bunch of examples of this pattern at:

- https://github.com/nickjj/docker-flask-example
- https://github.com/nickjj/docker-django-example
- https://github.com/nickjj/docker-rails-example
- https://github.com/nickjj/docker-phoenix-example
- https://github.com/nickjj/docker-node-example
- https://github.com/oleksandra-holovina/docker-play-example
Foxconn to develop solid-state batteries
No, that's not my point and it's extreme arrogance on your part to assume that coding is some sort of arcane art only accessible to a select few. Programming is a skill like any other, you develop it with experience. DS&A screening simply selects for people with a decent understanding of the fundamentals, even though it has a very high false negative rate.
> People rarely prostitute themselves (or others) for tobacco though

I'm sure they would if tobacco was as hard to get as heroin.

We often find ourselves in this position where we have to choose between a broad and a narrow defintion (for addiction in this case). Maybe there is no right way to decide but I'd say we've been too often going with the broad definition. We tell ourselves "there aren't real dividing lines" and this becomes an excuse to expand definitions. One problem with this is that broad definitions are often less useful. In the worst case, expanding a definition results in meaningless (consider words like fascism and terrorism).

If addiction is "impulsive & compulsive behaviours, that people want to stop, but fail to" then anything can be addiction. Is that useful? I don't think so, I think it trivializes the concept and if that definition sticks, we'll have to come up with a new word. That's fine, I guess, but do we gain anything in that process?
>Not hating on SVN, just think the “why aren’t they using a more modern/superior X” should be taken in that context.

Take it into context? If there is no befit why waste your energy?

>You should look into the history of RCS->CVS->SVN (and revision control systems in general) to understand the nuances there.

I don't know what you want to say. Newer is better? Distributed is the only way to go? Mongo better then sqlite?

It's a source control system, and if it matches your organization good, if not change it.
No surprise on top pics - we (Scandinavians) forego many things for the security of a good work/life balance, as well as social safety nets. You will see that salaries are quite compressed / centered around a mean.
yeah, I don't disagree w/ the fact that the word "addiction" shouldn't be thrown around too casually, but I don't like the way they're scolding others for being insufficiently scientific while they demonstrate their own ignorance
Alibaba’s Cloud Computing System Now Compatible with RISC-V
And if you know somebody from Microsoft, they can give you an employee discount. With the discount it's around 3 USD per person per year for 1TB storage each.
Most recently at https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/nootropics-survey-2020...

Note that he's switched to a different URL for his blog; that may be why you couldn't find it -- although I'm pretty sure he mentioned it on the old site several times as well.
https://github.com/Chevereto/Chevereto-Free might be interesting
and re: hard drugs, casual use of those that doesn't meet addiction thresholds is way more common than most people think
Everyones angry at Denmark for enabling, but US did the spying... Not saying that clears DK, but at least 90% of the outrage should be directed there.
Local law firms do this for most people. The state courts will resolve any disagreements, and reassign administration of the will if, say, a giant meteor wipes out the entire law firm. There are also rules for if I'm incapacitated but not dead.

Estate law is a well-worked out system that has dealt with all the issues that have come up for millions of people over hundreds of years. It'd be hard to have similar confidence in a system that hadn't been around for a long time.
Most orbital junk flies between 7-800km above Earth and the vast majority is lower than 2,000km.

The orbital graveyard is 35,000km. Assuming you are right and our biggest concern is regular space rocks, then why are these areas of especially high concern?

If you saying that the distribution of space rocks should be constantly high like what we see in our rings of trash. But it's not. Earth practically has rings that we can detect. Where did all that material come from? Why is the density of space trash detectably higher the closer to earth you get?

Before you say gravity, remember that these things are in stable orbit. Wandering space rocks have a very low chance of achieving that without intervention.
It's small for most Americans, but not for most Europeans (especially not for European city dwellers).

It's huge if you live in Hong Kong.
The games have to be run on some machine though
Years back i seriously considered an Iran trip out of general curiosity about the region. It quickly became clear this would inhibit future travel to the US so i figured it wasn’t worth the trouble. Super disappointing, it would be cool to see the area.
Sign a PDF document client-side with no data leaving the computer
This is a very dangerous premise and seems to be structured to pushing the linked website's "training"

Smartphone addiction, for example, is a very real thing and causes similar effects to drug addiction.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03064...
As someone born and raised here, may I ask what it was you didn’t like?
See if you can transfer the addiction to a fitness game? Suddenly the addiction becomes a virtue and is strengthened by the endorphin highs.
That misogyny or bigotry requires "intent" is so ludicrously divorced from reality I don't know where it came from.

I've heard the most ridiculously hateful and racist things prefaced by "I'm not a racist but..."

Clearly in these people's own minds they aren't racist/misogynist, but when you are pushing plainly racist or misogynistic views it doesn't matter.

The statements are misogynistic. If you think you can convince your boss your intent wasn't to be bigoted so your bigoted comments aren't actually bigoted then be my guess. I am confident you are unlikely to succeed.
Thank you!

Regarding the website, I would be grateful if you could point out the worst part(s). I would love to improve.
In Europe that nets you about 50-60% after mandatory pension, health insurance and income tax. You listed net incomes. 6.7 gross will be >4k net

And slap 20-25% VAT on top.

That money is really not that much, a generalist MD would make that for eg.
Go Performance Tools Cheat Sheet
GraphQL is an open standard. If you don't like Apollo which, by the way, is open source; you can choose other libraries. To an extent all technology choices produce some level of lock-in, including REST, otherwise you end up rolling your own operating system and transport layer.
AI Likely to Price Products Higher, Without Regulatory Intervention
- GraphQL = Apollo GraphQL ... Apollo community people are evangelizing it really hard?
What is the design target for this service? Is it the technophile who is trying to degoogle, is it some other specific design target or perhaps more general audience?

If it’s degooglers then perhaps convincing us it has everything Google Photos had is job number 1. If it’s missing feature X then you’ve got a reason to say no, if it’s at parity then it comes down to whether we trust YOU and is the deal good enough.

You’ve already convinced us you’re not Google so there is some things implied but you need to lean into it. Privacy, not having you information used for ad targeting, never sharing our photos or information derived with third parties - those are all thing to highlight (be the anti-Google).

I think you need some other killer feature or appeal that makes you different than iCloud here since Apple are already the anti-Google. I think you can also get 2TB of iCloud Photo storage for $10 a month so you gotta hit that if you want to charge $15 for 500GB.
Ya but is that any different than Beijing? The Chinese government has to keep the propaganda and slogans up everywhere, it’s really the only tool they know of to communicate broadly their apparent successes to the people.
Is there an equivalent for chrome on Android?
Yeah, right! 100% agree especially with vendor locking.
And security.
And there is a few things to talk about gRPC vs GraphQL, gRPC and REST API.
As a front end developer my life is much less complex with GraphQL, especially with TypeScript in React.

I'm curious, what tasks do you find more complex?
Surprisingly, Texas is a real outlier here. Most states have some last resort college you can attend, but it's usually a community college, or AS degree institution.

UT Austin is a really good school from what I hear.
This is plain absurd, especially given the page you linked to is about completely free and open source tools.
Creating a Deno plugin using Rust
I think this is equivalent to someone not arguing back because theres no real evidence to support their bias. Saying that all these media outlets are spreading misinformation for some reason is really not supported by fact. Is there fake news, sure. But that's different from saying that everything critical of a country is propaganda.

What are people ignorant about here? There's been several countries/states that deny China and confirms what everyone believes (Taiwan, Hong Kong).
not to mention - it's a little convenient that the author of a book called "Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" is telling us that actually, we shouldn't be worried about those products
It's an analogue to the "how can you tell someone is a vegan" trope.
Do you maybe mean something like a fish ladder?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_ladder
Retired anesthesiologist here, many years using daily IV ketamine in burn wards for dressing changes, oftimes same individual for weeks (this treatment was used in burn wards when I first got there in the 1970s, BTW). As a rule, daily dose requirement increased about 10-25% each week. I don't think anyone back then noticed any effect of ketamine on mood; it was all about relieving the excruciating pain of 3rd degree burns. I can't speak to the addiction potential.
You just prove my point - top 10% is not sky high ? It's what you would expect for a professional in demand. And unless you have savings that income puts you in upper middle class, you can afford a nice lifestyle, but you won't be buying any luxury cars or high end homes.

Sky high is at least top 1%. Maybe top 5% in high income areas.

In Eastern Europe you begin to approach this at 80k.
For the record, I don't think Adobe is ever moving away from Lightroom Classic. I think the naming is a bit of a mirage, or more specifically a way to push consumers towards a more valuable (charge for cloud storage), less demanding (objectively less capable), product. A customer paying for Classic and CC, and only using CC is a better customer for Adobe.

But the problem is Adobe Lightroom CC has effectively zero penetration with professional photographers. If I had to summarize the pro market opinion of CC, it would be contempt. Here's an example: This article (https://petapixel.com/2020/01/02///why-im-sticking-with-ligh...), about choosing Classic over CC, has about 100 comments, the maximum allowed, most panning CC. Of those 100, it's easy to find the single positive comment about CC: it's at the bottom, with the most downvotes.

The problem is the whole basis of CC (cloud storage) is antithetical to how professional photographers work (thousands of large photos per shoot). Adobe can't grow CC into eventually supporting this market because it can't support offline storage, because the whole reason CC exists is to have a product that's cloud only...

So I think Adobe will effectively be supporting Classic forever. Here's an example: Adobe has committed to native support for Classic on Apple Silicon (https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/macos-big-sur-c...).
Exactly! Cash out and die fast! Hopefully we won't see a come back like we see with tabacco/vapping now.
Wow, how RFNA was on a container ship to begin with?

That's literally a rocket oxidiser.
35 years ago we used to draw solutions in school about how to clean up space junk. They had us convinced space would be unusable in a few years if nothing was done.
- GraphQL makes tasks more complex

because GraphQL APIs generally have much higher quality than REST-like HTTP APIs. Designing a proper RESTful HTTP API is actually much harder than the GraphQL one.

- GraphQL schemas confuse junior devs, higher entry level

Junior devs will learn whatever is used in the company. IMO the problem is with inertia by devs who are only experienced with REST-like HTTP APIs

- REST if you understand what you are doing ... can do the same

if you understand what you are doing ... you can do anything

- REST is better for error handling and tooling

I disagree: GraphQL has good tooling, and better error handling patterns. But yes it requires some upfront design.
I’ve worked in lots of countries but think Sydney nails it for the combination of tech work opportunities and lifestyle. It’s a booming first world economy with lots of modern tech to play with, but amazing beaches, food and nature walkable or a cab ride away.

Would move there from London in a heartbeat, Covid mentalness aside.
I don’t think most countries would want another country harvesting their ‘abandoned’ space junk :)
What was wrong with the better original title "The Chinese paddlefish, one of world's largest fish, has gone extinct"
Great feedback thank you.

Personally, purely from a user experience point of view, I’d rather have an online portal where I can manage my info than have to go through a law firm each time I want to update anything.
As such I feel there is a business case here IF the trust issue could be resolved.
For how long though? Cryptocurrency is almost a decade old, yet the fundamentals of them don't look good (IMO).
For what casheers and janitors ? I'm talking about highly skilled professionals. If your making 80k you're making an average in that group, it's certainly not sky high
There are many of parts of the US education system that weed out poor people and disadvantaged people before the University has to deny their application. The poor people who get into elite universities in the US are very much an exception. Having parents that went to an Ivy League or going to one of their expensive "feeder" schools is the best indicator of whether you can get into an Elite US university.
One can be an addict. To my mind the condition of addiction is, at least somewhat, divorced from the object of the addiction. Addiction certainly seems to survive its initial objects absence.

I would probably put the quotes around Technology above, rather than Addicted. Could be it's the pathology expressing itself and whatever the technology is is only tangentially related to what's going on.

To my mind this can all be in a similar silo to gambling or love addiction. How different is a slot machine from many games?

Just my 2 cents and not a professional analysis.
Part of the beauty of the states having power is to be innovators. Federal laws will be the lowest bar possible, since it has to pass Congress and apply to all of the states.
Just switch the Pi for a FPGA and the problem should be fixed.
> Apparently, people think the answer is they should just move to Vietnam or wherever labor rates are lowest.

This is disingenuous, moving to pretty much any European city would be enough. Asking people to donate to an organization that pays people 10x of what you make while pretending that they are in dire need of money is just gross.
Serious question here - not starting a flamewar. Are there any real organizations in China with power that protect the ecosystem and animals there? From an outsider it seems like they just build whatever they want without any concern for the environment they live in which ultimately will do significant damage to their own human population after the environment collapses and can't support them.
"Most of Europe has effectively outsourced its military defence to the Americans"

Only if we abandon the oxford dictionary and head over to DoD where defence means "defend ourselves, our allies, or our interests, or the interests of our allies" which is basically power projection.

You don't need 11 carriers to defend yourself, you need them to play world police, support Japan in conflict with China, etc. You could argue it's necessary, but that's a different argument.

EU taken together has a larger airforce and navy than Russia does, army has better training and equipment. China is too far away to be a credible threat. France has it's own nukes and missiles.
All of Europe, whereever one might draw those borders, is larger still.

The only credible counter argument is that EU military is not united and doesn't act as one, but whether Latvia will spend 2% or 200% GDP they can't beat Russia.

Recently the UK has gotten 2 carriers, with a lot of lobbying from US, while at the same time cutting ground troops and army equipment, so we are sacrificing European defence for power projection.
And London ?
Ask HN: Should you implement your own authentication system?
How would you proceed to add a login to your website? Setup a database with bcrypted credentials? Use a service / oss? What are common pitfalls? What's your thought on Auth0, Azure AD B2C, Keycloak, ORY (especially Kratos) and others? Would you still recommand using a full-blown solution if there are just basic customer logins required (not even self registration)?
People just want them to act responsible. Wikipedia is not a FAANG nor a Profit-Company, so they should not act like one.
As an avid watcher of the show, I really thought it was just an "invention" of the show.

I'm really happy to learn it actually happened! This is amazing!

We would need more event like this these days ...
I wouldn't say that. 2GB dev kit is $50 depending on where you buy them. That's much more bang for the buck, even if you opt out using the tensor cores they were designed for.
But there’s open source and there’s open source right? I mean theoretically anyone can fork Android, but Google has created a lot of hurdles for actually making one a success.

I think there’s always a risk that a product like this can be set up in such a way that OSS is used mainly as an advertising feature, and essential features can be gradually moved from the open source section to proprietary code.

All I’m saying is that open source is not a panacea, and there are plenty of ways for large well resourced entities to abuse it
That's what I wondered. It is pretty easy to get a second passport in Germany for cases like that, e.g. Israel and certain Arabian countries. Show one passport to country A, the other one to country B.
I think you make a great point but not calling it what it is, "gambling", elides the risk inherent in investing in crypto.

It's one of the most volatile assets anyone can invest in. The vast majority of people are investing in it are driven to it by hype alone.

This is gambling. There is no other way to describe it more generally.

People in media and elsewhere calling it "investing" hides the fact that the risk is not much better than betting on a few hands of blackjack.

And hey betting relatively small amounts at a casino OR on crypto is totally fine, go for it! Betting more than you can afford to lose it's just insanity.
...and for Software jobs with the best work / life balance, I recently launched:

https://4dayweek.io/
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> What if this was a government site that you have to interact with for some reason? Something where using your full name is important?

In the US, your legal name for government purposes generally consists only of the characters a-z/A-Z without diacritics (whether - and ' are included depends on the state).
> Wow, how RFNA was on a container ship to begin with?

obvious speculation: cargo?
Interesting to hear similar experiences, I haven't heard this talked about much, specifically with cigarettes and social media. But yeah, pretty much.

I wouldn't go so far to say exactly the same for me, the "withdrawal" feeling of not having smoked a cigarettes was stronger for me than anything with social media, providing another dimension. But yeah, I identify with what you are saying, the circumstances and feelings around reaching for one or the other were very similar for me too, and with both of them I'd decide "I'm going to not use them for X amount of time" and then renege on my agreement with myself when the feelings arose. I still haven't quit social media...
Hopefully they have a DNA sample somewhere. What a shame.