skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Western Liberal democracy is basically vanquished in Asia, right at the time that Asia seems to be poised to dominate economically and demographically. Liberal democracy isn't making any inroads in Africa and Russia has certainly given it a firm no, with the Vysehrad states in Eastern Europe also turning away. Basically only Latin America is up for grabs at the moment and the results there seem mixed at best. We could well face a situation where this is a phenomena reserved for Western Europe and North America, with the rest of the world following the Chinese model. People forget that the U.S. beat the USSR in the cold war because of economic, not ideological, superiority. But it appears that the connection between democracy and economic outperformance is looking strained.

But what is perhaps more sobering is realizing that North America and Western Europe themselves look to be more interested in following the Chinese model, basically a surveillance state led by an anti-democratic elite that has no qualms about using violence and extra-judicial mechanisms of social control to supress popular movements like the Yellow Vests in France. In that case, the big difference between the Chinese model and the Western model would be that in the West, popular movements can be crushed as long as the big corps are OK with it, whereas in China the big corps are firmly under the thumb of the government.

I think those worried about authoritarianism should be much more concerned about the power of tech and big corps to control the public square than having the "wrong" people win elections, because the defending the process is much more important than the worrying about the outcome.
What I heard is that companies are not even giving detailed references for fear of being sued. They just send some boilerplate. I have always said where I would be going next and nothing bad came out of it.
And the security of the system is proportional to the total amount spent in transaction fees (plus block rewards, which taper off). Yet security concerns play no role in setting tx fees.
> if I use an authenticator app, like Google Authenticator, how does that even work?

The authenticator oath tokens are generated in a standard way, usually as TOTP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_One-Time_Password). You can use any authenticator and they'll work the same.

> What happens if Google decides to close my account? How do I backup these apps?

Your authenticator should not be bound to any account. Make sure your can export your data or setup a new one.

You can make a backup by saving the QR code you use initially, or the text code you're provided at the time.

In case of other issues, each service should give you some kind of emergency access. Usually emergency access codes you can save / print out.
> I believe OP is pointing out that secular groups (at least those within view of OP's demographics) mostly fail to have explicitly defined value systems.

And there are good reasons for that. The currently dominating set of progressive views is inherently dynamic and based on the Overton moving in one direction. This is in direct opposition to religion where the basic set of values is normally fixex, often by a sacred book containing the words believed to be spoken by the founder or a deity.
> even Bitcoin experiences inflation as more of it is mined (as does gold).

Surprisingly they don't understand what inflation means despite having just quoted its definition a few paragraphs above.

Inflation doesn't mean that we "have more of something", it means we "need more of that something" to buy the same good over time.

Do we today need more bitcoins to buy a pizza compared to 2013?
I am curious to know what part in the Talmud refer to proselytizing.

The passage you cite refers to a gentile that wants to convert , not a tentative at active pproselytizing
Actually no, i think it’s great.

You can argue about the UI or why it’s called “people also search for” instead of just “related entities”, but as a feature, for me it greatly enhance the discoverability aspect of browsing Google (and hence the internet), i use it all the time to explore new topics and i’ve at times found really useful info there!

So this is my opinion of course, based on my use case.
Cryptocurrencies can have inflation too. All it takes is to change a few settings in code. Some cryptos already changed their monetary policies.

And somehow daily trading volume is 10x higher than actual transactions on network. It is almost like someone is printing money out if thin air.
It's hilarious to see SV firms pushing for freedom of speech while they disparage that same freedom in their own origin country.
Where did you get that?

> Rent Prices in San Francisco, CA are 129.25% higher than in Munich
Resta
I take the "influence" of India to be the pipeline of labor to SV. Those can be work-visa holders or those working in Indian offices, to me these two categories go hand-in-hand.
Low Earth Orbit training for athletes in 2G will be a thing once it's cheap enough. They'll come back to earth absurdly strong.
> Make something 10 people completely love, not something most people think is pretty good.

I've built multiple services which are completely loved by ~10 people but it always stays there and it becomes a prison. Since they love it so much I feel obligated to keep working on it, even if it doesn't bring in any net profit.
Feminism does not attack men, it attacks families.
> It's not a recent phenomena - it's been happening since WWII.

Yes, they don't seem to understand their point.

QAnon/BLM would always have made it out pre internet, just it would have taken years.

Things now are quick. Even early internet ie 2000-2010 it was much slower.

The turbocharge really is how quickly it changes and mutates. The feedback loop is what's different.
> Ideally everything would just be in a single process.

Any real example where this makes sense on an internet-connected device?
If you think of the Hamiltonian as a 2x2 matrix operating on the flavour eigenstate, there are off-diagonal terms arising from the amplitude of spontaneously changing from particle to antiparticle. The leading-order diagrams look like this: https://ppd.fnal.gov/experiments/e871/public/images/Kaon_mix...

You get CP violation even if |p/q|=1 but Arg(p/q)≠0.
Interesting, that they can only get 30 times faster with modern technology and more complications.

I guess, if you really wanted to solve this fast, you'd massively parallelize.

In any case, this was more about easy of implementation than about runtime speed.
Most books are still printed with serif typefaces because they are easier to read. Is that becoming less true for younger people? A genuine question.
Fascinating that lace panties, essentially a type of fetish gear, is just fine and is even marketed to children, but granny panties are “vulgar”.

The attitude is just as prevalent in the west. I remember reading a relationship advice column where a young woman was distraught because her boyfriend didn’t like her lace panties and wanted her to wear plain ones instead. She thought that only a pedophile would prefer plain over lace.

Me, I just don’t see the sex appeal of using an objectively flawed product, but that’s probably the engineer in me speaking.
This got downvoted, but I’m pretty sure it is objectively correct. I feel like the same sentiment occurs with one queue vs multiple queues.
1. calls

2. ask me to write code for them for free, to be "evaluated". This has always seemed like a scam to me. Either I'm working for free, or it's code that they won't even look at
Your sarcasm gets your point across but what I think you're maybe not seeing is that for a lot of people, dealing with recruiters is a complete negative.

There are a lot—a lot—of shitty, slimy, unprofessional and rude recruiters out there. The number of actually-good recruiters is dwarfed by the teeming masses of bad recruiters. The vast majority of recruiters reading this probably think they're in the good minority but they're just Dunning-Krugerrands and they're actually shitty too.

For real, most recruiters are awful and dealing with them has zero upside.
Lodb
That is such a tiny part of TikTok nowadays that it has become a meme itself ("boomers think that TikTok is about lip syncing").
Yes, you have to sift through it, but the point is you get more than one or two primary texts, and so with a variety of witnesses you can make a stronger case. In the ancient world, it's not uncommon to have only a single text from a specific point of view and so there are always charges of propaganda to deal with.
As a hiring manager, if someone did this, I would just feel bad for the person who was on their way to me, that they had to work with people like that.
By comparison certainly. It was the best drama in town.
An entire article about inflation in the US, and not a single word mentioning that 35% of all USD in existence have been printed in the last 10 months [1]

Is there any world where you can print that much money and not devalue a currency?

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/kdpc24/35_o...
Keep in mind that there are many teams at Google and they will need to be convinced. The Fuchsia may have broader ambitions but they seem to be starting with Google’s lesser-known OSes on embedded devices. This is in itself a win at a big company since there are fewer obscure OSes to maintain. That doesn’t necessarily mean that the Android or ChromeOS teams decided to commit just yet, as far as we know.
Can we stop with all this IT cell bullshit? Modi got in because he was more competent than the rajputra of the Nehru dynasty. My family are from Gujarat. We’ve known about Modi since he was governor. We moved out of our ancestral village several generations ago but still return on special occasions because our kuladevi is there. The area is semi-desert. Modi got water from the Narmada dam piped in. Now cash crops can be irrigated and the kids don’t die of dysentery any more. We used to have to stop at a larger town and walk a couple of miles down a dirt track to get there. Modi got a road built and regular bus service to the nearest city. That’s why he is popular. That area was staunchly Congress since 1947 and still is but you won’t find anyone with a bad word to say about Narendra Modi. He got things done and that’s what counts. The Hindu nationalism is just icing on the cake. (Remember there was a time when Congress also used to brag about how e.g Sardar Patel rebuilt Somanath.)

Now with the latest missteps such as demonetization and the COVID response etc. the bloom is off the rose a little but he is still genuinely popular and more importantly there isn’t anyone on the national scene “who might be trying to follow.”
In a world moving towards "zero trust networking", this appears to be going in the opposite direction, where the network is now being implicitly trusted.

This enables unauthenticated file transfers between hosts on the same network.

Given the world we live in today is that RCE vulnerabilities are relatively common, what happens when host1 gets some malware and uses this to transfer itself onto host2?

I assume this has been considered, and it's been decided that the convenience of the feature outweighs the security and reputation risk considerations?
> When US will learn that only Europe can be considered their ally in this world?

For Europe China is now largest trading partner. And European politicians will forever remember that private US companies banned acting president of the USA from the platform. Europe is also taking steps to get rid of Facebook, Twitter, Google and other SV darlings.
Insane take.

> Christianity has had 2000 years and reformations to knock off the rough, anti-social edges. Religious doctrine has been tempered with social controls and moral codes that largely (though not completely) prevent demonizing your enemies.

Funny that you then effortlessly go on to demonize your "enemies":

> Far left ideologies have a century of murdering tens of millions of people that didn’t agree with them or in some cases just didn’t cheer loudly enough.

Ah yes, because climate activists, reproductive rights activists, and hell, let's throw in feminists as well, are all authoritarian Stalinists, right?

> When it comes to not murdering me or putting me in re-education camps, I trust devout Christians way more than I trust climate activists or gun control advocates or (insert advocate for secular left position here).

This is incomprehensibly insane. I don't even know how to formulate a response to this.
only the UI thread is, you can have concurrency and there is a nice library to execute rust code for high efficiency compute
That's actually the opposite to what people do here in Sweden. Because once that letter goes out to everyone the new contract is already signed and the current employment is already terminated.

We usually have 1-3 months resignation period, so there is no resignation letter. The closest we have is a goodbye letter that goes out to all your co-workers. And this letter reminds me most of those.

The actual resignation is done in person with your manager. Of course you could do it over e-mail but I'd be willing to bet 99.99 out of 100 times your manager would schedule a 1-on-1 meeting with you if they received such a resignation.
Most culture, politics, education, and business in Japan is conducted in Japanese, and a large majority of people in Japan—some surveys suggest around 90 percent—do not regularly use English either online or off. The influence of American culture and political rhetoric is not very apparent in the discourse conducted in Japanese.

I am an American professor at a Japanese university. When I came to Japan, nearly forty years ago, I thought that the American influence was indeed strong, because, at first, all of my media consumption was in English and most of the Japanese people I interacted with spoke English and had some connection to the United States. After I learned Japanese and broadened my social contacts, though, I realized that I had received a distorted view and that most Japanese people live their lives with little influence from or thought about the United States.
There’s a lot of people in here complaining about various things recruiters do. Let me give a different perspective. For the first couple of years of my career, recruiters just ignored me. It was like I simply didn’t exist. I hadn’t studied computer science and didn’t work at a well known company. Meanwhile, my coworkers with CS degrees constantly complained about having to bat away recruiters offering them crazy money.

It’s different now. I worked at a well known company for a few years and get plenty of recruiter emails. Many of them are for positions I’m not interested in. Many of them use tactics I’d prefer they didn’t. But I don’t complain because the only thing worse than receiving these emails is not receiving them.
Regrettable Exit at Google, Advice
Never ever? I wouldn't mention it in the resignation letter like in the OP but it's been very natural for managers and colleagues to ask where I'm going next and I've been happy to share. I also ask colleagues who are leaving where they're going next and I never saw it as a problem. Then again, I've worked with mostly reasonable people.
Simple scheme for deduplicating strings in Python:

dedup = {}
for s in strings:
s = dedup.setdefault(s, s)
# Do something with s

It hashes each string "s" and looks in the dictionary "dedup" to see if there's an existing string object previously in the list "strings", in which case it uses it, and otherwise it stores the current string object in "dedup".
Plus traditional OEMs are locked in waterproof contracts with dealers that pretty much prohibits any integration/optimisation of systems, changes of sales processes etc. With most OEMs now going the direct sales way, there are lot more of these tussles to come. One of the reasons why Tesla is able to scale so fast (and of course they’re a much more nimble OEM)
Wasn't aware of that, thanks.
Well bitcoin does have an intrinsic monetary policy despite not having a monetary authority.

It is possible to engineer currencies to be inflationary/deflationary without an external authority.

It just cannot be a guarantee as there are many other factors to take into account.
Sim Tower and Sim Ant were both great network-building games. They seemed boring until you really delved into the details. Maxis was really genius up until EA bought them. Here's a pretty cool project they did that never came to light...

https://www.gamesradar.com/simrefinery-the-lost-oil-plant-ga...
Whatever THAT is.

Another douchey HN headline.
Chess is an awesome game too. Nearly no end to getting good at it, either.
All other things aside, Modi’s first term started in 2014, Trump’s in 2016. Even assuming that one is similar to the other, it raises the question of who’s following whom...
Yuval Harari makes a very similar argument in “Sapiens”. I really recommend reading it. It’s an eye opener.
it is interesting to note that at no point during the war both sides fought simultaneously against the other side. E.g., the USSR was on Germany's side during the battle of Britain (supplying fuel for german bombers). The Japan non-aggression pact was kept until after the defeat of Germany. The many European countries that fought on both sides along the course of the war, etc.
Santa Claus ain’t coming to town: is childhood innocence worth preserving?
actually it is pretty stable for dart and c interrop code you just can't have external view support like a browser yet
Because one guy saving 100s if not thousands is more noteworthy than the thousands of people who saved ten each. The underground networks that smuggled people during the third reich is documented, but many of the active people were jews and did not want to talk about that time. I've seen dairies about the time showing up now, hidden away by traumatized grandparents who didn't want anything to do with Germany.
What the article forgets or ignores is that Bitcoin is just a piece of software. The reason that there is "only" one is that is a brand, an agreement amongst miners and exchanges that this particular one is the Bitcoin and the others are Bitcoin cash, BSV etc. Anyone can take the Bitcoin software and start a new chain or fork out of the current Bitcoin chain. In that way the supply is infinite.
When I was three years old and limited in experience, I was astounded by the massive and powerful beast that was the city garbage truck. I was captivated by it's ability to lift heavy trash cans, dump huge dumpsters, and compact trash bags. It's diesel engine roared like a lion, the king of the jungle, as it barreled down the street. It was also driven by strong men, who could lift full trash cans and throw them empty across our driveway. It was at that point I knew I had to become a garbage man - what more to life could there be?

About the same time, I saw on TV the grey-haired white man talking on a podium. Everyone was quiet and listening to him speak boldly. He certainly sounded like he knew what he was talking about, and people would clap for him! In fact, I discovered there was a long-time tradition of grey-haired white men speaking at podiums for all kinds of events that are supposed to be important. Wow! I did not understand what they were talking about, but I knew that I needed to grow up to become a bold-speaking grey-haired white man if I were to be taken seriously. Bonus points if flags are involved with cool looking good eagles on top of them.

All these dreams faded. I never dreamed of becoming anything besides the stereotypical hero, until teenage years brought exciting new experiences. The high school had a program with the local hospital to train students for a nursing internship. I dreamt I might become a nurse, then join the military and become a medic. A year or two later, I would take a step back and dream about becoming a philosopher. I eventually learned what IT certifications were, and dreamed about achieving them. This, I actually did. I also had a mentor for a time, and he pushed me to pursue a career of my dreams. I even got pretty close to making it reality...

Still dreaming.
I mean, if I ran a team and I paid recruiters to find people to hire, I think I'd be disappointed if they ended up antagonizing the candidates in the process.
I really don't know how you can see Germany as whitewashing the Holocaust. It is pretty evident that they ensure every generation knows the horrors that were caused. Although I can understand why the modern generation might get annoyed at the sense they are supposed to take ownership of something they can't change.
Crypto influencers and companies use "inflation" incorrectly. "Inflation" has 2 means; the physical meaning and the economic meaning.

The physical meaning is the increase in size of an object.

The economic meaning is the decrease in purchasing power of a currency.

Bitcoin will become deflationary (physical term) one day, which means with time total accessible supply of bitcoin will decrease. But this is will be true only when;

number of lost bitcoins > number of mined bitcoins

We can assume this to be true after 24 years perhaps when mining reward will be too low. But at the current time bitcoin is probably inflationary (physical term).

Bitcoin's inflation (economic term) is a function of demand and supply. It is not a function of its reduced mining rewards because that does not say anything about demand. Whenever the price of bitcoin vs USD drops we can safely say the bitcoin has inflated (economic term). Over a period of last 5 years yes bitcoin has been highly deflationary (economic term). It might continue to be deflationary (economic term) for the next 100 years. Which means Bitcoin might continue to rise in value against USD.

I think no one should fool people to say that Bitcoin is deflationary (economic term) just because of limited supply. Limited supply tell us nothing about the demand. Someone's shitcoin is limited in supply too but they can't surely sell it for an ever increasing price. There has to be demand.
> 35% of all USD in existence have been printed in the last 10 months

Yes, currency in circulation increased, which is exactly what you expect when deposit rates are basically zero.

Now please explain why withdrawing some money from your bank account, which converts a deposit account into currency and causes "printing" of money (this is the only thing that can cause printing of money) is going to cause inflation? Seriously, I'd like to know. By this argument, if the US imposed a national teller fee that discouraged cash withdrawals, inflation should plummet, no? Why do central banks bother with interest rates when they have such a powerful inflation fighting mechanism at their disposal?

At some point people need to understand that different assets are fungible. There is no difference between cash in your pocket, a money market mutual fund, a deposit account, or a sweeps account. Shifts in these from one to another may cause swings in M1, and they are the only possible cause of "printing" USD, but they don't cause any inflation.
It was copied by China so your father could well be right.
> If your current job is in the top 10% of jobs, then the odds are 9 to 1 that switching will get you something worse.

This is a wise insight. It therefore would be good if developers had created a Glassdoor-like site where
people can enter technical details about their jobs (languages used, appreciation of refactoring, software tools, pair programming, technical documentation, use of version control, A/B testing, unit tests, UML, ...) in order to permit people to get a sense of what they're getting into. Asking about this at interviews is not productive, as hiring managers may bend the truth a bit to get talent on board.
Wonder if the added strain (eg on heart?) would reduce their likely life expectancy though?