skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lived in a fantastically not-awesome apartment in Mexico for awhile, across an alley from a tortilla factory that started squeaking at 5am every morning. Literally, every machine in that factory squeaked. The ladies would line up to buy fresh tortillas around 7am and I'd try to sleep through it.

Anyway, there was a half-finished building across the alley, and on Sundays, the tortilla factory was always quiet, but there was this "ping....ping...ping - BANG - ping..ping..." happening. I never knew what it was.

I should add that the Maras had covered my building in graffiti so it wasn't like I was going to go check out the alley at 7am to find the source of the sound.

Anyway, one day I see some guys in business suits walking on the roof of that unfinished building, and I waived across the alley at them. I said "Hey, could you try to keep the noise down on Sunday morning?" He said "what noise?" I said, "you know, the ping, ping ping BANG noise." So this guy goes "oh shit, Sunday morning is when they're stealing our copper wiring".

That episode has made me think for years that pennies are worth more than 1¢...but there's only so much time in life to hoard useless shit.
I find browsing used-bookstores tranquil and comforting. I've spent far too long in my life craning my neck looking at books in the quiet maze of these stores.

Incidentally, as someone who tends to move around a lot, this has also been a burden. Once I've bought a second-hand book and spent hours reading it, I find it very difficult to abandon it (especially if I enjoyed it). So whenever I move from a city, I inevitably spend a small fortune on funnelling them back to my Ma's house.

When I finally buy a place I plan to gather them all and have my own little library of used books, from all round the world.
I agree with these statements. Although I do not understand why this is not making any nosie internationally? NSO (ergo the supporting state) seems to be stealing data from EU leaders as well. Is this mean we have many NSO like companies out there that we do not know about and each country has one and everyone knows about these? Does anyone know what is the Swedish NSO?
I don't know the cost in US, but in my country Euro prices are: highway at 6 million/km, rail at 10 million, viaducts over 15 and tunnels over 20 million. The elevated rail would be at least 50% more expensive, probably more than double because in case of viaducts there is no restriction on what is below the construction and you can put pylons anywhere, if it is above and existing highway there are many limitations.

So it is doable, maybe a good idea if you have the money, but I heard California is burning money like there is no tomorrow and there are no funds for such a project (maybe not true, it's just what I heard).
The US does not have a capital tax.

The US does have a realized capital gains tax.

Assets contained within a mattress are not realized capital gains, no matter how much their value increases while sitting there.
Belarus is currently considered one of the least safe places in Europe to be LGBTQ+. I'm not sure if they enacted the Russian-style "anti gay propaganda" law they spitballed a few years ago, but even without it, it's safe to say LGBTQ+ people in Belarus are "being mistreated".

In my experience tech workers in Eastern Europe are not significantly more progressive than other residents, but if Gitlab's company culture is at least somewhat progressive, it's likely that it attracts people in those countries who tend towards the progressive end of their respective countries' political spectrum. Given that Belarus has a very low bar for what the government considers a "political activist", it's reasonable to assume that some of these people might find themselves in trouble without having to go as far as donning black masks and tossing rocks at police officers.

It's also worth keeping in mind that software development is one of the professions easiest to get into as a marginalized person because you can teach yourself enough to get started and especially when freelancing it's possible to work without ever meeting the other person face-to-face. You'd be surprised how many programmers are queer, disabled or neurodivergent.

EDIT: QED?
That’s one of the concerns of groups who prefer government to be no larger than necessary: the larger it is (around 15% of Americans are directly employed), the more self-inflating it tends to become.
There is the problem of one document not necessarily being one file. Sometimes you have sidecar files or some meta data that is stored somewhere else in a database of sorts. So it can be messy, especially dealing with antiquated formats like dcim (easy file name conflicts), gopro leaves extra thumbnail files scattered around, wtf is even DS_STORE, etc etc. I also think that file managers are not powerful enough for searching and managing all kinds of data, the fact that we need photo management software proves it.
In which country is this?

In France, the "social security" (run by the state) doesn't cover the full salary, not even close. It only covers up to 50% [0], and only after three days (if you have 10 single sick days, you lose 10 days' pay).

You have to have your own insurance ("mutuelle", usually chosen by your employer — which you cannot refuse, but can augment) to have a better deal.

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[0] It covers 50% of the salary, but the maximum salary taken into account is 1.8 times the minimum wage, which is 2 798,24 € before tax.

https://www.ameli.fr/assure/remboursements/indemnites-journa...
> A crypto service provider being anyone who mints a block, right?

Wrong. It's the providers of custodial wallets, which you would have discovered if you attempted to read the article.
We can deduct far less than you can in the Netherlands - mortgage interest for example is deductible for you, but not in the UK.

Someone on PAYE will have most of the deductibles handled by their employer (pension, any salary sacrifice schemes etc).
> The governments are putting more and more strict regulations in place for last decades and they often don't care what the society thinks about those.

Society votes for these governments.

I know, we all would prefer to argue that some shadow cabal decides what the government does and society has nothing to do with it, but at the end of the day it still stands: We vote for these people. We get the government we deserve.
Cycling is way quicker in Berlin for all sub 7km journeys
Even newer EVs can only charge to 80% range in 30 minutes, while a stop at the gas tank takes about 5 minutes to refuel to 100% range.
Charitable contributions? How are those treated?
But its also a case where "perfect" exists. A case where you can, in principle, have perfect information about the internals of your bridge at any point. A case where you can, in theory, design the bridge to handle an infinite load from above.

In software, you can spec the behavior of your program. And then it is possible to code to that exact spec. It is also possible, with encryption and stuff, to write specs that are safe even when malicious parties have control over certain parts.

This is not to say that writing such specs is easy, nor that coding to an exact spec is easy. Heck, I would even doubt that it is possible to do either thing consistently. My point is, the challenge is a lot harder. But the tools available are a lot stronger.

Its not a lost cause just because the challenge is so much harder.
America's way behind in government digital services in comparison to Europe and China. It's almost impossible without a meeting. You'd have to make an appointment for anything, even though most of the time all you do is filing an document, and nothing else.
This reminds me of a very similar product, QuokkaJs [0] which works across many popular editors, VSCode, Atom, Sublime, Jetbrains suite.

[0] https://quokkajs.com/
The immediate takeaway from this article is that if any of these threat actors are on your radar and you have an I phone then you should delete iMessage.
Shows how powerful lobbying is.

In the UK, unless you're a special case (e.g. Lloyds Name) you simply file on the HMRC website.

Then again, we can deduct far less, don't have state AND federal tax, so it's somewhat simpler.
It'd make for some interesting bugs as well
So you want to get something for less than it is worth, at the expense of the owner? You can just nationalize their property, why bother paying something? Viva la revolucion, comrade Che.
> They might as well be controlled opposition, actively undermining open web technologies.

Yeah, this pretty much sums it up. A conspiracy minded person might accuse them of all kinds of nasty shenanigans, especially given who their primary finding source is these days.

>They deprecated RSS support with very flimsy justifications, but they make supporting the latest DRM standards a top priority, because they are terrified of losing the blessing of Netflix.

Oh now you're just being cynical. RSS support was like 150 lines of code! A huge attack surface! And it was invented before the year 2000! That makes it useless!

As for DRM, I'm sure that encryption algorithms are much simpler to implement and have less attack surface than an RSS reader, and that Mozilla added this tech for my own good, and that I just don't understand how it's useful to me because I'm a dumb.
This sounds like a classic prisoners dilemma. If the business owners would both raise both wages and prices, all would thrive.
Interesting idea and it certainly makes sense to ensure working software at all times.

However it doesn’t have to be one or the other.

Sometimes a single commit (or PR if you prefer multiple commits) can update the api and all clients at the same time.

Sometimes client callers are external to the repo/company. In which case backward compatibility strategy is needed.

There is no need to abandon a concept of a single repo just because you might not use one of the main benefits all the time.
It isn't feasible because it was designed around the idea that everyone would have cars.

Again, the cars are the reason it was made to be infeasible. Cars damaged our cities.
I use it as money as it's intended, to get paid for my work. The supermarket doesn't accept BTC, does that still make it 100% viable?

You better believe I'm going to be paid in USD from now on.
It seems you are incapable of justifying all the relevant and egregious claim you have been making on this thread (Understandable, because they are made up for spreading a fake political narrative). You just made a claim about ethnic cleansing in Bengal. I called you out to provide reliable and credible source. Please provide reliable and credible sources that indicate ethnic cleansing in Bengal.

Your other allegation was that I have called Modi a monster. In spite of calling that out, you yet as usual fail to back up your allegations. Again, so understandable and predictable. By doing this repeatedly you are just exposing your kind to the rest to see and make up their own mind on who is telling the truth.

For claims I have made on this thread I have pointed to sources.

I will end the thread here.
Rich can try to redefine the English language all he wants, but he'll find it a lot more difficult than redefining Clojure.

The fact is, the solutions the core team have been putting out for the last several years have been neither simple or easy, and in fact tend towards a weird and arcane complexity in service of problems no one seemed to have.

I remain baffled by Spec, by the clj tool, by deps, and now this. At every step it seems as if the team lives in their own world, and not in ours, and each new tool is as cryptic and convoluted as the last.

They frequently don't even seem to encourage code that is consistently idiomatic to how the rest of us even write Clojure. Who else was even using namespaced keywords for anything until Spec decided to not only use them, but link the entire mechanism to a mutable namespace registry? How is that "functional" in any way?
you didn't answer my question.

I asked how many times you saw this exploited in the wild, not "how would an attack theoretically work".
I think you're on to something!

Personally, after a short amount of mindfulness meditation (perhaps about 10 hours cumulatively; never more than 30 minutes per day), I began to struggle with uncontrollable awareness of bodily sensations. My consciousness would gravitate uncontrollably toward a certain bodily sensation, and I became unable to decouple my consciousness from the sensation. The harder I'd try to focus on something and ignore the sensation, the more intense the sensation would become. This would culminate in a panic attack.

The issue mostly subsided after a month or two, but it never fully went away. I've become convinced that mindfulness meditation is precisely the opposite of what an anxious, inwardly-focused person needs. If there were a way to train the mind to selectively attenuate information/signals, on the other hand, that would be very helpful.
Those are claimed by the recipient under a programme called Gift Aid.
I wonder how will the patriots react when they realize their $500 phone doesn't even pass safetynet
Have you ever tried to open a brew issue ticket? Unless you follow the exact format of their template, your ticket is deleted almost immediately.

Lat I looked the template assumed a very narrow scope of issues you could be reporting and demands an exhaustive amount of information.
Then same logic applies for python, java too? What if there is bug in internal implementation?

Rust Lang strives for safety and safety is no 1 priority. Regarding the unsafe in std please read the source code just to know how much careful they are with the implementation. They only use unsafe for performance and even with unsafe rust, it doesn't provide too much freedom tbh.

The 3rd party thing you are referring etc sounds childish. They are not the rust lang fault tbh. If you don't trust them don't use. It is as simple as that.

So I think telling people rust program that doesn't have unsafe will not have memory safety bugs. Exceptions to this statement do occurs but are rare.
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> What we do in the civilized world is we don't allow everyone to have assault rifles at home.

It's not so uncommon to have a assault rifle from the military or other guns at home in Switzerland and their numbers are way lower than in the US [0]. It's not about having guns, it's about proper training and not giving weapons to psychologically unstable people.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...
Q: What do your NEED scenarios have in common?

A: Popularity.
Although this is annoying in the sense that they did this secretly and feels fishy, is this fundamentally worse than what google is doing ? Google sell user data to external companies but people are fine with it.
I actually don't think this is a huge problem, to use their referral link for a price to use their product seems not so bad.
US built first a large railway network, then a highway system, then stagnated. While there is room for debate on why this happened, the reasons are fairly obvious but writing about it here would bomb the writer to oblivion.
Meta-Learning: Learning to Learn Fast (2018)
What I'm wondering about is whether, assuming the developer is sued and found guilty, the whole situation will play out exactly as described by MuseScore.

Putting aside the legality and ethics of piracy, the premise of somebody getting sued by a company, losing, getting deported to a hostile country that's then tipped off by the company on an entirely different issue, seems very wrong - but perhaps only ethically and not legally.

I'm not sure how else to interpret the quote in runnerup's comment together with this quote from the article: Chistyakov then threatens that, if the repositories in question are not closed, he will have to "transfer information about you to our lawyers who will cooperate with Github.com and Chinese government to physically find you and stop the illegal use of licensed content."
Right, the reason to use Create New File Here is because Windows can't do drag and drop to save files into already opened windows
I think Hay is the most famous in the UK, but there are others such as Sedbergh.
Vulkan Memory Allocator
They don't perceive each other when they evolve independently, i.e. when they are valid solutions of the schrodinger equation.
MongoDB Atlas Serverless Instances
Several of those are in the middle of actual wars.
i was responding to the claim "It is sheer ego that would cause anybody to say that they can feasibly write a safe program in C or C++". of course, the feasibility part is questionable.
How to write unit tests that matter?
Tests are important part of software development but they cannot slow us down or give us false feeling that we are safe. Let's discover together how to write tests with coverage focused on real use cases which help us avoid those pitfalls.
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> Shouldn't you then assume that all people will do the maximum amount of evil given the power they are granted.

Not OP, but you definitely should!

> And what exactly makes government different then other places where power is concentrated? For example, crypto miners.

One of them can send people-with-guns to your home to arrest you and take away your stuff.

Note that I'm not some crypto-anarchist absolutist, but IMO being weary and critical of governments grabbing more power is the right reaction.
> In a perfect world, US and European governments would wake up and realize that arming authoritarianism is really is bad for democracy

Well, they haven't done that since what, the early XX century, what with "he may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch"? If the US really cared that much about "democracy", perhaps they'd have by now sorted it out in, say, Mexico already: after all, that's their closest-connected country after Canada, right? Yet the last time I've checked the news about upcoming Mexican elections, there were quite a lot of dead/missing opposition candidates reported (just as it was during the previous elections, and pre-previous, and...) Interestingly enough, the US press doesn't report much on that: apparently things in Afghanistan, across half the globe, are much more important for home security.
Old news, already discussed as stated @jsnell.

Also, the founder of Brave discussed about this here: https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1269289242905042944
In the UK, many of these solutions are held back by regulation - electric scooters aren't legal yet, despite a significant fraction of the population using them.
Similarly for electric velomobiles and bicycles, limited to 15mph is limiting given that many cities have large 20mph zones.

Once the regulation has caught up, I can see the price dropping for many of these vehicles. There are gaps in the market for (weatherproof!) city transport for 1+1/luggage eg. for shopping, school runs, work commute, mobility etc.

As far as scooters go, with such small wheels, they put you at risk every pothole. Hire scooters should really be using 12" or larger to be safe. They're also not weatherproof so not ideal for many demographics and locations. Agreed that we need more innovative transportation though!
But from the viewpoint of those who pay for the referral, it is fraud. This is in fact very similar to click-fraud.
I don't think your criticism is accurate. The shared Photos folder on my phone is a bit different than the database of photos Google Photos has access too. But don't get me wrong. I want to criticise the shared ownership model. I just think the model the PP intended to mention was different than the one you criticised.

The Photos folder is just a folder. Applications that have requested and been granted permission can access it using a user interface of their choice. This is the "shared ownership" location.

The Google Photos database is stored on Googles servers. Third party applications do not necessarily have access to it. It is thoroughly owned by Google.

The "shared ownership" model somewhat blurs the lines between the two of them. I think this is a considerable part of why this approach is poor: it is considerably more confusing than the old filesystem approach.

With the filesystem, you know exactly where the file lives. Most people know how to copy files and send files and can understand putting something onto a shared drive. The shared ownership notion blurs the lines with exclusive app ownership, and the idea that there are files which I can manipulate becomes obscure. It is hard even for experts to distinguish between local files and remote database entries. The distinction between copying a file and using remote tools to share access to the same file (or a copy of the file) becomes frustrating.

The way forward needs to be about respecting and empowering the user. The user wants to feel in control of their data - that is why we have the GDPR and other comparable laws. The user doesn't want to subordinate usability to data trust; they want companies to fulfil both, and since there is a hole in the market, they have turned to regulation to help plug it. Unfortunately, companies have not responded in ways that give us grounds to trust them.

A new model based on user-controlled resources and programs that can access resources (given to the program by the user) without gratuitously logging in should be the way forward. This doesn't mean a reversion to the old approach. It had its problems. But the future should look more like the past.
> asylum applications to EU/EFTA/EEA countries because with asylum you have to work a shitty job for a while to prove you can integrate

Which countries are those? While the UK was an EU member, it required that asylum applicants not work, and I believe that's not an unusual restriction.
This may be contentious but no matter the system, if your manager doesn't like you and decides to kick you out - you're in a tough spot. No PIP system means they just straight-up fire you. PIP system means they let you know you're being fired and give you the chance to quit. Either way you're in a pickle. The only real defense against either is pre-existing political capital.

From an HR perspective I'm not sure there's any meaningful way to objectively separate an under-performer from someone whose manager has it out for them.

So, I'm kind of with them on this one. If you're going to get fired, then I doubt their sponsorship of your transfer would do you much good - you'd still be forced to return on departure would you not?
"The terminal" can be really abstract or frightening (eg: you can remove all files without them going to the trash) to use even for programmers. I've had lots of colleagues that just copy-paste oneliners from a file without understanding what they do, to do their job and be fine with that.

> your profile and current shell

What is my profile in this case? What is the current shell? What even is a shell?

A better way would be to ask the user if they want this step to be done for them as part of the installation process. As first-time users will often have to install Brew just to get started on the learning curve of terminal usage.
So then the right question to ask is "why is the tax code so complicated?"

Yes, EZ file should work for 99.9% of the US. But it doesn't, because the tax code is horrendously complex
No, it doesn't.

The parent explicitly mentions that there are no warnings for a cleartext http connection, but warnings for an encrypted connection to a self-signed certificate.

This is security theatre, not actual security.
Jeff Bezos never flew anywhere in a rocket
...And I'm sure Jeff Bezos never flew anywhere in a rocket. It was just such a trick. Well, you yourself know what I mean ...
The most common error is installing Brew in the first place.
Are these like those things I've seen tourists riding around in San Francisco?
> that NSO own security isn’t great

Better. it s good that they have bad security. they arent in the security business, quite the opposite. It's a company that has found the legal loophole to sell theft-as-a-service. Kind of like banks compared to robbers.