skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be interesting to have a table comparing how this works across countries.

In the UK:

- Police are mostly professional, but there are voluntary special constables [1]; ~130k professionals, ~10k specials [2]

- Firefighters are kind of all professional; most are full-time, but some are "on call", having other jobs, but running off to put out fires when needed (and being paid for it) [3]. On-call firemen are often the only cover in rural areas. About 20k full-time, 10k on-call [4].

- Ambulance staff are almost all professional. There are volunteers, but a small number [5]. However there is also the St John Ambulance, a medical charity that does some ambulance-esque things, including providing first aid at public events [6]. Air ambulances are completely separate and operated by local charities [7] [8], so not available everywhere in the country.

- Mountain rescue, cave rescue, and sea rescue are all entirely charitable volunteer organisations. Search and rescue helicopters used to be provided by the RAF, but are now a private service contracted to the coastguard.

- We don't have any equivalent of the THW, as far as i know. The fire service do some kind of disaster relief, particularly if it involves pumping water. But for the rest of it, there just isn't any systematic response.

[1] https://www.met.police.uk/car/careers/met/police-volunteer-r...

[2] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

[3] https://oncallfire.uk/wp-content/uploads/On-call-firefighter...

[4] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fire-and-rescue-wor...

[5] https://www.londonambulance.nhs.uk/working-for-us/volunteeri...

[6] https://www.sja.org.uk/what-we-do/

[7] https://theairambulanceservice.org.uk/

[8] https://www.londonsairambulance.org.uk/
> If NSO/HackingTeam were in the business of selling physical weapons to foreign governments, would they have been responsible for a government killing journalists with said weapons?

If they were in the businesses of selling weapons of war and caught instead selling covert weapons with no legitimate use in open warfare to countries that disclose illegal acts of war to them, I think they belong in the Hague being tried for war crimes.

(After that, I suppose they can be referred to human rights courts as a defacto part of each government that had violations. Since they were active participants in the use of the weapon as shown by the phone list, they have no argument that they were not active members of every conspiracy involving their service.)
Yeah, I wish the governments in India and Nepal would provide some subsidies to incentivize companies to manufacture boards like to RPi which as far as I understand have open specifications.

Giving a RPi to a family without resources in India is a force multiplier. They typically have a small television set and letting them access a proper computer vitalizes learning for the children of that household.

I only have anecdotal evidence of this though, from when I handed an RPi I wasn't using to my housekeeper's daughter and also got her a 3g dongle with a cheap data plan for her to connect to the internet. It got handed down from her to her brothers as well.
I think up until recently, homebrew was also recommending incorrect instructions for fish shell users in a similar sounding way. The instructions basically said add "fish_add_path /usr/local/bin" to your config.fish file, but in actual fact you only need to run fish_add_path once and its added permanently to your $PATH for all your future sessions, as well as your current session.

I only realised when I finally got fed up with my terminal taking several seconds to start, I dug into why and found that my $PATH had something crazy like >1000 items with the homebrew path taking up pretty much all of them.
I do believe metal traders have to do some diligence and question suspicious supplies, like large amounts of cabling (cable theft is a real problem, they sometimes come in and cut cables from buildings or railways)

Anyway they should, but in practice they make good money off of things as well so they turn a blind eye.
Well, no, but I can easily exchange monero with money and viceversa with another person.

Argentina has been trying to ban people from exchanging pesos and dollars for years and it worked as well as you could expect.
Reminds me of a Sinclar C5[0] (my grandfather worked for the company I believe, there are photos with him, my mum and a bunch of these C5's)

It was mired in troubles; low visibility, low range (lead-acid batteries being... low density compared to li-ion), quite easy to break and being easy to steal.

Still, I think the form factor is a wonderful idea and it's nice to see some alternative methods being explored for electric vehicles again..

I sometimes see little electric "Fatboys"[1] in operation around Malmo (a famously cycle friendly city); though sadly I think they're mainly used by drug dealers.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5

[1]: https://www.urbanscooters.com/products/mototec-fatboy-500w-e...
Reminds me of the reliant robin.[0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQh56geU0X8
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What I like about a place like Tokyo is that you can choose the mode of transportation that is most suitable for your journey. If you're someone who likes cars, there's no shortage of roads and highways. It's a great way to travel into the mountains where the trains can't go.

Personally, I use my bike whenever possible, up to about a 30 minute journey. Farther than that, or when the weather is bad, I use the train. If I need to go somewhere remote, I can rent a car or call a taxi.

As for a commute, housing is cheaper here than you'd expect, partly because housing is not viewed as an investment. It's not difficult to live near where you work, if avoiding the trains is a priority for you.
Even ordinary interpretations of QM don't explain the source of randomness in QM. This randomness can be entirely deterministic which would make the entire universe deterministic. So superdeterminism can still be the case, even if it isn't the reason for entanglement correlations. The entanglement correlations would instead be due to shared RNG references across spacetime, effectively nonlocal.

My point is, locality and superdeterminism aren't mutually exclusive, they are independent. All 4 combinations are logically possible with current experimental evidence.

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/quantum-randomness
If you remember the total trashfire that was config.sys/autoexec.bat on DOS, I really hope installers do not start editing startup scripts.
Amplitude (YC W12) files confidential S-1 to go public
That’s about 15 minutes of labour for a software developer. So less time than you’d spend eating it.
I can only attest to how Google does (did) it, but they use the monorepo as a serialized consistent history. There is no concept of deploying "the whole system" -- even deploying a single service requires, mechanically, multiple commits spread across time.

In fact, when I was last there in 2017, making a backwards-incompatible atomic change to multiple unrelated areas of the codebase was forbidden by policy and technical controls (the "components" system). You had to chop that thing up, and wait a day or two for the lower-level parts of it to work their way through to HEAD.

I would generalize this to say that the idea of deploying clients, schemas, backends, etc all at once is an inherently "small scale" approach.
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For most starting out it's editors in playstore, There are editors for different langugages, I started with the pydroid editor. There you can write code and hit compile to show the output. As traversing menus by hand gets quite hard, the next approach is probably to learn termux and terminal as everything is keyboard driven.

I have tried jupyternotebooks, vscode on browser but the small screen is the real blocker and you can barely see the editing field.

I use termux for everything now, for websites I just open a localhost port and see it in my browser or do live reload in spare phone. Video and images are also redirected by the termux to respective apps.
I wouldn't take an online post as credible source of anything. Whatever people say in posts may often be bragging or arrogance, or at least exhaggeration or situational. For example the point about understanding all of this, when you really need monte-carlo simulations of multiple complex mathematical models playing out to make meaningful findings. Not to mention the needed complexity of the models themselves exceed the bandwidth of typical online postings.

Anyways, no poster or researcher ever owed you anything. If you want information, you have the responsibility to seek it out yourself. What the poster thinks about could very well be false and unverified information, so may not be the gold you seek.

When seeking knowledge about this, dismissing peer-reviewed research and experts would lean heavily over to Dunning-Kruger effect. Why would so many researchers be so stupid as to overlook simple effects, or collaborate in some elaborate scheme. After so many decades of verified results, I would rather ask who are feeding people misinformation and discounting credible research without substantial proof and debunked claims [1]? I would be very sceptical of those who seek to distract for personal gain. People are also inclined to take in information that is somehow reassuring, moreso than factual.

There are research I've been following for many years, ie. Henrik Svensmark's papers looked promising. But the research don't explain the added accumulating warming after 1930's and the funding and reasoning is looking suspect and fail to be leading. It would be nice though, if some of the results can be shown to dampen effects of CO2.

But I'm no expert either, so will have to trust the consensus of those who work with this deeply in the field, though also read other sources. Both with pinches of salt.

Anyways, my main point is, please don't take random online posts too seriously as to think they represent the scope of credible researcher work.

[1] https://skepticalscience.com/argument.php
Of course ideas have value only when executed. That's like saying a lottery ticket or a check only has value when cashed.

That fact aside, some ideas are indeed worth more than others, just like some checks are worth more than others when cashed (aka executed). It all depends on what type of experience they are coming from. Most ideas are not worth much because they are coming from a place with little to no applicable experience, they are generated by someone looking at a problem domain from the outside rather than being an insider
Crooks also thrive on confusion†. We can and should make software more robust against getting confused by bad guys, but Grannie we can't do much about.

So alas, even if on every previous transaction, Grannie was told, "Please read the SMS carefully and only fill out the code if the transfer is correctly described", she may not be suspicious when this time the bank (actually a phishing site) explains, "Due to a technical fault, the SMS may indicate that you are authorising a transfer. Please disregard that". Oops.

† e.g. some modern "refund" scams involve a step where the poor user believes they "slipped" and entered a larger number than they meant to, but actually the bad guys made the number bigger, the user is less suspicious of the rest of the transaction because they believe their agency set the wheels in motion.
How so? Why not just refuse to sign contracts containing discriminatory terms and refuse such requests?

Discrimination is not a solution to anything and should never even be considered as an option.
Attribute all excess deaths as Covid deaths? And there's a supreme court order to give money to these families. Tough times for the govt
this should be a vscode extension! wonderful work!
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Basically algorithmic complexity analysis often ignores the cost of accessing data because the underlying storage is sometimes unknown - be it in memory, on a spinning disc or on magnetic tape.

Unfortunately that gives suboptimal algorithms because that basic practically is ignored. You then end up with a bunch of algorithms that look worse “on paper” but still outperforms the theoretically optimal ones.

Often the number of items is also ignored. If you want to implement a set-like feature but you’ll be using less than X elements, you can often get better performance just using a linear search through an array than use a full fledged hashed set.
Configuration as a Service and Ruby on Rails Application
For a digital equivalent, I quite like openlibrary.org It's got a similarly chaotic vibe (partly because they've not totally normalized their metadata yet) and lots of obscure stuff.

One particularly weird benefit is searching for your fave author and finding some PhD or other obscure fan produced work about the author (and/or their works) that would never make it into an actual bookshop, even a digital one.

They have some digital experiments to recreate the browsing a library feeling too (similar to the rash of Mac book cataloging apps that appeared on the Mac way back and may have kicked off the most recent revival of the skeumorphic design trend.)
You think this is insane? Wait til you find out about who is part of the oh so trusted government.

The ECB president is a convicted criminal charged of financial crimes: https://www.complianceweek.com/imfs-christine-lagarde-convic...
Isn't the reliant robin the ICE equivalent that was/is completely unstable around corners?

It makes a good space shuttle replacement though.
I agree with the caveat over the last ~30yr we've normalized calling law enforcement over the most petty things. When teachers threaten to call the police when kids get in a fist fight it substantially waters down the gravity of calling the police for something that actually matters.
I don’t understand why the US seems so incapable of simple action that displaces a very minor special interest.

In Australia we got rid of the one and two cent coins 30 years ago because the buying power of the ten cent piece then was less than one cent piece originally when introduced in the 1960s.

There was no big debate or opposition and no lobbying by coin producers or those who produced the metals. It just happened and basically everyone was happy not to deal with more pointless small change. And people still largely paid with cash too so electronic payment wasn’t as significant as it is today.

It shouldn’t be this hard.
> I see this kind of cyber weaponry as a simple subset of the above complex.

This is exactly my point. I think that NSO should be just as responsible for the outcomes as any other arms manufacturer.

And I'm not waving away the government's responsibilities. Just the opposite - cyber weaponry is equivalent to other types of weaponry and should be treated as such.

This is why I feel that the discussion around NSO itself misses the point. It's like discussing Colt's responsibility whenever a government uses an M-16 to shoot a human rights activists. Colt may be responsible in some cases, but the important question is who bought the weapon and why did they use them against that specific target. Also, should the buyer be sanctioned and forbidden from purchasing such weapons in the future.
Honestly I don't think that was the effect of the comment. The comment seemed to show that every country is a little bit the same - we all think we have our unique problems and our unique institutions, but in reality we're all humans and thinks are a bit the same everywhere.

I think they could have expressed their observations in a nicer way. I don't think you need to collapse into ontological angst either.
“But here’s who’s on the list: Three sitting presidents, France’s Emmanuel Macron, Iraq’s Barham Salih and South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa.

Three current prime ministers, Pakistan’s Imran Khan, Egypt’s Mostafa Madbouly and Morocco’s Saad-Eddine El Othmani.

Seven former prime ministers, who according to time stamps on the list were placed there while they were still in office: Yemen’s Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr, Lebanon’s Saad Hariri, Uganda’s Ruhakana Rugunda, France’s Édouard Philippe, Kazakhstan’s Bakitzhan Sagintayev, Algeria’s Noureddine Bedoui and Belgium’s Charles Michel.

And one king: Morocco’s Mohammed VI.”
American pennies are 97% zink, copper coated, since 1982. The new ones feel like plastic, but copper is just too expensive.
The thing is, SQL injection and cross-site scripting are both trivial to defend against — at least compared to memory safety. It has a small surface area and most frameworks do help with it, or at least it is in their realm of possibility.

Preventing buffer overruns require language-level support.
That thread is for ChessBase. How does Fat Fritz come into this?

(Pardon my ignorance)
Those Fatboys look perfect for all sorts of local delivery, food, drugs, groceries in general.

Not sure why it's particularly sad that drug dealers have adopted a practical delivery vehicle though.
> This seems exactly wrong to me. Getting rid of complicated deployment lifecycles is exactly the job that people use monorepos to solve. Wasn't that one of the reasons they are used at Google, Facebook, etc? As well as being able to do large-scale refactors in one place, of course.

No, neither of those is why big companies use monorepos. Clearly the kinds of things you wrote are why the general public thinks big companies use monorepos, which is why this argument keeps popping up. But given making atomic changes to tens, hundreds, or thousands of projects does not actually match the normal workflows used by those companies, it cannot be the real reason.

Monorepos are nice due to trunk based development, and a shared view of the current code base. Not due to the capability of making cross-cutting changes in one go.
>There's no flow between the OS and application UI in most instances.

You can copy and paste paths between file manager and Open/Save file dialog in most instances.
> I think freely flowing capital is going to be good for everyone.

The US and 'west' is already financially liberal, so we can make an observation: it is NOT good for everyone. Capital flows freely, but it flows upwards. Trickle-down economics is proven false. Advocating for more liberal finances also means being okay with leaving people behind and in the shit; the unemployed, the homeless, the working poor, the huge percentage of people who constantly live one paycheck or one medical issue away from bankruptcy, the people who work 16 hours a day at multiple jobs and still can't make ends meet, etc etc etc.

I mean to rephrase your claim, yeah capital / money should flow freely, but egalitarian. The wealth of an individual should benefit all. The richest countries in the world shouldn't have poverty on an individual level. There shouldn't be a case where a handful of people have more money than half the world population.

And I get it, building a space company and launching yourself into space is cool, but that money could also have gone to your employees to lift them out of poverty and insecurity.
> I would rather have nothing but chain restaurants owned by megacorps than have people working for less than a living wage.

Those megacorps do everything they can to pay as little taxes as possible and get as much money out of the country as they can in the form of off-shore corporations that hold the trademarks for said corp, the US subsidiary of which pays it massive 'licensing' fees.

They're also the worst at keeping money within a local economy. They use other large corporations as much as possible for 'efficiency', but it has the side effect of meaning that said business doesn't spend money for services anywhere in the local economy. Joe Drain Buster doesn't get business from Five Guys having a grease clog; some nation-wide plumbing services company does. Maybe they contract out Joe Drain Buster, but not before taking their cut.

It gets worse. The larger the employer the easier it is for that employer to grift the local, county, state, and federal government for freebies, tax breaks, eminent domain gimmes, friendly legislation and regulations, etc.

Witness: Amazon and Walmart. Companies that generated a handful of people with unimaginable wealth who fight tooth and nail to treat their employees like shit.

Jeff Bezos has a net worth of $200BN as of a month ago. The average network for a resident of Mississippi is slightly over $17,000. That means it would take roughly 11.5M Mississippi residents to equal his net worth.

Mississippi has 3M residents.
Fat Fritz is a product that ChessBase sells.
> car transport is 15% of emissions

How is this quantified?

From my lay-person’s perspective, “emissions” is a vague term that covers everything from VOC in housepaint to methane in cow farts.
People have migrated away from bookmarks (in fact I'd argue that non-technical users never embraced them fully in the first place) because there is no longer any trust in that the URL you used yesterday will still be there today. Link rot is now so prevalent that even the concept of a URL as a destination is starting to become less and less important. Look at Google and it's on-going attempt to de-scope the URL bar in Chrome.

I have a personal Web based Bookmarks app, that I have self hosted for years, but even now I hardly revisit it unless I'm really stuck and a Google search can't find the site/page I need. It's got 1,000s of bookmarks in it, and I dread to think how many no longer work.
I think most major areas have their own public firebrigrade, if I remember correctly Falck will manage the smaller firestations though they are still manned by large with volunteers.
Chessbase owns Fat Fritz.
The old version won't coexist when the change is contained within a single binary, which seems like it would be true in a bunch of cases.

In our monorepo we have to treat database changes with care, like you mention, as well as HTTP client/server API changes, but a bunch of stuff can be refactored cleanly without concern for backwards compatibility.
Yes, and because it's a single example and buried inside the article, you might think, oh that's a weird choice. But if they said in the headline "Don't trust Wikipedia, they think don't think Covid is a marxist conspiracy!" then they'd maybe get less click throughs and ad impressions.
Kinda; if the dark net markets have known wallet addresses it can be looked up and analyzed in the blockchain. Or if the other public addresses are known, transactions can be deducted from them.
> It could equally have been a fear that if more than 50% of women are qualified for the job some will have to be excluded.

It could not equally have been that.

Tech executives are vastly more male than female, and Gitlab specifically is trying to increase the ratio of women to men.

That means if Gitlab considers a group of similarly qualified men and women for an upcoming opening in "senior leadership" (whatever that means), a woman is guaranteed to get the job.

The only reason this would be unfair is if you pre-suppose that, more than 50% of the time, the "most qualified" person is a man.
Ruby makes me want to become a programmer.
Amazing that the US still, for the most part, considers health insurance should be tied to employment.
> The US is the most privileged country on the planet

...for some of its population. For others, no.
Xcode playground are similar, very helpful when learning.

As others mention, this could be a VSCode extension.
> I think this is unlikely, but should it become the case, you can easily install an alternative launcher, something presumably impossible on the sheild.

Pretty simple to do on the Shield too.