skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What I've found works best is to write tools that take away complexity so that teams don't all need to reinvent the wheel.

The problem is complexity is variable. For developers who never really learn how their code actually executes, or haven't had to be responsible for tuning and such, this is great, but for those of us who want to know where the rubber meets the road, these tools are kid-gloves. How can we fully optimize and support our code if we can't see the compute on which it runs? What other "benefits" will the system bring that we have to account for?

> Then make it so well-documented and easy to use that teams don't need to be _forced_ to use the platform tooling, they'll just use it because it's the most convenient thing to do.

Very optimistic. In my experience with this kind of thing with homegrown platforms, documentation was a distant last, because it always is, and we weren't left with other choices anyway. I would love to pick the best tool because it is convenient, but that, too, is variable. Maybe I know Kubernetes inside and out - that's plenty convenient for me, then, and will be better documented and discussed than any homegrown platform because the world can contribute to it.
Larry Brilliant, smallpox slayer, says herd immunity will fail, but sees option
No, I am not disagreeing, I am just fed up with all propaganda, soon I will read Russia is responsible for global warming and Moon rotation.

Few years ago we had The Panama Papers, Wiki leaks... huge number of document disclosing, war crimes, offshore banks, money laundering... except Iceland has any country done anything about those individuals?

Instead they hunted whistle blowers like a wild animals.

So, when someone asked me what are the world wide political system I have one answer - organised mafia aristocracies, everything else is just illusion and PR.

Clinton - NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
Agreed. Europe struggled to relocate 2.5M of refugees over several years.

What happens when people from India, the middle east, ... are forced to relocate? I expect some kind of conflict/war of expansion and probably famine since a lot of the land will be abandoned and hence become unproductive.
AddDefaultCharset utf-8 in Apache, I believe.
https://content.sifted.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/1111224...

The UK and Germany appear to have the most active venture capital out of all European countries, significantly more so than Sweden.
Not true. In fact, Africa is the place with the highest cold-related excess mortality. This [1] Lancet study estimates that almost 1.2M people die in Africa yearly due to cold, while only 25000 die from heat.

All-in-all 10 times more people die from cold every year (according to the study) than from heat.

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5...
Crypto diggers pilfer 600M of illicit digital currency in biggest heist ever
> The damage caused by war (and industrial exploitation) is horrific. Yet there is precious little literature about the after-effects.

Because the rullers want to be able to justify war everytime they need it. Look in history books accessible to the masses. War is heroic, a fight between good and evil. No indescriminate killing, no destruction, no pollution. Only those who lost were the bad guys and those who win are good ( there are exceptions, see Afganistan and Vietnam for examples).

> For instance, here are articles about two major WW1 battles:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Belleau_Wood

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Delville_Wood

> The battles are described in detail, but the devastation caused to woodland itself - a complex system of soil, vegetation, fauna - is not even an afterthought.

There is also the idea that the effect of the war are punctual in time. In reality war are fought many years after the war officially ends (see bomb findings in europe or china vs taiwan in asia).

> While it's charming that the color of flowers is affected by soil contaminants, the vegetation layer is just the base of the trophic levels that constitute an ecosystem.

> All the other life in the woodland depends on the soil and vegetation. Contamination works its way through the entire ecosystem - definitely not charming.

Yes, but nobody knows about it.

> I've been downvoted many times for my opinions, but the world needs a Geneva Convention that protects natural habitats in times of war. I would go further: this needs to reach a religious level of fervor, so that it would be unthinkable to put men and machinery into pristine natural environments as part of a strategy of human conflict.

Geneva convention does not help. See guantanamo for examples.
There have indeed never been more millionaires, because the bar keeps getting lower and lower. A million today inflation adjusted backwards was $143k in 1970.
Copy-protection for vinyl in the 1970s (2008)
I believe I've answered your questions in two of my previous posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28112208

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28112358

To sum up, the authors did not just use my wording for a short portion. They copied an entire paragraph of my review nearly verbatim. Both the journal and I thought that the authors acted unethically. They violated one of the ethical standards of the journal regarding plagiarism, and these ethical standards were made available to them when they submitted the paper. Those were the rules that I had to evaluate them with for the review, so my hands were tied in some sense. I would also quibble with saying that they mastered the concept, because I really have no way to gauge their understanding if they just copy my own words.
No, that figure is independent of (and approximately double) the officially recorded count. It's calculated by how many more people have died than usual. The official count is an underestimate.
There is bare metal code that almost immediately starts after powering the Pi on. A Pi3 and below with an absolute minimal Linux based OS could probably boot in 3-4 seconds or so. With the Pi4 that has changed and the EEPROM can take a few seconds on its own before the Pi even gets to the kernel loading phase.

TL;DR: no.
For that to happen the industry needs to care more about quality, and that will only happen when liability becomes a real thing across the industry and not only in highly critical software.
Most pensions aren’t going to give you more than 1-2% over the risk free rate. You’re better off aiming to save another x% more of your after tax income and investing through your pillar 3 equivalent (IRA in the states) and, once your tax advantaged plans are maxed, through your own account.
I didn’t want to click this so I assume others here won’t either. Here’s the top points they highlight themselves:

- Facebook engineers have built and open-sourced an Open Compute Time Appliance, an important component of the modern timing infrastructure.

- To make this possible, we came up with the Time Card — a PCI Express (PCIe) card that can turn almost any commodity server into a time appliance.

- With the help of the OCP community, we established the Open Compute Time Appliance Project [1] and open-sourced every aspect of the Open Time Server.[2]

1. https://www.opencompute.org/projects/time-appliances-project...

2. https://github.com/opencomputeproject/Time-Appliance-Project...
> When I was living in Germany, my first residence permit(2014) was similar to the Belgian one. However, they stopped issuing those to foreigners in favor of a piece of paper which they stick into your passport.

Interestingly, they stepped back from that two years ago, as almost all of the residence permits are now electrical. The only problem is that the electronic properties of the permits are not used anywhere.
“remote desktop with low-latency, sound, and gamepad support” _feels_ like the sort of well-scoped highly-technical problem that open-source should excel at... I remember wanting that back in the days when VNC was considered state of the art and being told it was impossible, and now we’re once again in the situation of closed-source innovation and open-source trying to copy it :(

I wonder what the odds are of parsec opening their code / protocol, making their money from renting out servers...
https://archive.ph/2MBSg
As a developer, I love the idea of operating, maintaning, deploying and monitoring the services I work on, as long as I'm using s proven platform such as appengine, tsuru, openstack, heroku, etc.

I don't want to waste my life understanding your custom reinvented wheel Golang tooling around kubernetes and 50 steps guides to do anything.
> anyone think that a US civilian militia has more than a snowball's chance in hell against any committed government-deployed force?

I am not taking sides in the underlying argument.

I am simply astonished that you can make this statement in the face of U.S. forces running away from Afghanistan.
OpenSFF’s Allstar aims to fix vulnerabilities in open source projects
Yes, but there is a very low limit to the number of people that can be on the other end of the violence, and with guns, that limit is even much lower.

When push comes to shove, guns allow normal people to escalate violence to the point the government stops MUCH quicker and faster than without guns.
"Mercedes-Benz will electronically limit the steering angle of the rear wheels, but there will be an option after purchase to pay the company more money to increase that steering angle by a few degrees for a tighter turning radius"

It's the first I see this kind of gating on a car, is it that common nowadays when you purchase a new model ?. Even installing games on the dashboard requires a monthly fee.
I have an mITX setup and the card was overheating under load. I took off the shroud and backplate. I then got the artic accelero kit and installed the mini heatsinks and big heat sink. With the fans from the kit, it wouldn’t fit. So, I put two noctuas underneath the card. Now the card idles at whatever the room temperature is. It is quiet as a mouse because of the noctuas. I’ve only seen it touch 90c one time and that was while training a resnet over the course of 3 days.
> If you think that the US government wouldn't use violence against its own people for breaking laws, even hastily-written or unfair laws, you're sorely mistaken.

The government order is acted on by a person, at the end of the day. During the lockdowns my City authority closed all public parks including the one across the street from my house. They also retasked all Parks & Recreation employees to sit in the parks and yell at anyone using the parks. Many citizens, myself included, outright ignored the P&R staff and continued to make use of the park under the threat of "calling the police." Even after the lockdown ended and parks re-opened, the staff at our local park continued with their own "closure."

However, at no point did officers respond let alone use state-sanctioned violence against citizens. That a government flunky gives an order does not mean it will be enforced let alone result in violence from authorities.

Ultimately, this is a continuous function rather than a boolean as you're implying. Citizen ownership of arms helps juice that function in our favor.
Security. Knowing you have the wealth to subside on if need be is really nice. Some people call it “fuck you money” which is freedom.

It’s funny they reference Taleb here but he also makes the point that can’t be “cancelled” and is “anti-fragile” precisely because he’s rich and depends on no one.
Australia… literally a country of prisoners. Seems like freedom isn’t that hard to take back.
> But the real secret to his success was catching the asset wave that Taleb mentioned. In other words: luck. The period in which he invested started with extreme undervaluations in the equity market

If anyone is curious about the actual returns of the market, I made a sheet [0] with S&P 500 returns over 10, 20 and 30 years at every possible starting point. Note that this excludes dividend yield which is about ~2% today and higher in the past, which should cover inflation for the most part.

type 10yr; 20yr; 30yr;

min -3.57%; 2.80%; 6.94%;

max 17.05%; 15.49%; 12.74%;

median 8.54%; 10.21%; 9.86%;

So for instance, if you invested over 10 years since 1929, the worst you could have possible done is a continuously compounding return of -3.57% (invested in 1927 and sold in 1937). The next worst is invest in 1938 and sold in 1938 for a 0% return. Everything else is positive.

The worse 20 year return is 1927-1947 for an annual return of 2.8%

But of course no one invests like this. They invest over time and dollar cost average. For instance you may invest $100 a month, in which case your returns would be positive and likely very high regardless of when you start, as long as you invest for long enough (more than a few years)

I don't know why a journalist would quote someone without doing 5 minutes of research as to actual stock market returns and important timing is.

I still don't understand why its so fashionable to have these garbage articles come out about how everyone working hard and saving is an idiot and everything is futile. Does the author believe this crap? What else is there to do but to work hard and save? Would you teach this stuff to your children about how they're destined to be destitute?

[0] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dGFQUxyUfGyBE5dnz1rc...
The median house price in Omaha is $128/sq. ft. (~$1280/sq. m.):

* https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/Omaha_NE/o...

6700 * 128 = 857 600. From 2017:

> This is the home of billionaire Warren Buffett. Located in a quiet neighborhood of Omaha, Nebraska. He bought the house for $31,500 in 1958, $250,000 in today's dollars. It's now worth an estimated $652,619. He calls it the "third-best investment he's ever made."

* https://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-modest-home-b...
The funny thing is that all of those things aren’t that gratifying either once the newness wears off.

Ok, maybe the Tesla is, but anyway.
> Also, anyone think that a US civilian militia has more than a snowball's chance in hell against any committed government-deployed force?

I do think that in case of armed resistance, US government will step back instead of nuking Oklahoma City.

Also, search "chechen wars". Large well-equipped Russian army with tanks, artillery and air force lost to people armed with AK's, determination and grassroots support from locals.

For more recent example see what happened in Afghanistan. The best the most powerful army on the planet could do is sitting inside their bases with multiple security perimeters.
I mean, I think they're covering it with the opinion of "why the fuck would you fight a 20 year war and just drop the ball completely now," which is fair, considering that when we invaded they were uniformly like "why the fuck is America invading." I want to strongly separate Iraq from Afghanistan in this, because there was absolutely no reason for us to invade Iraq or to promote the Arab Spring or any of the other absurd things we did post-9/11. These were actually all distractions from and drains upon the mission in Afghanistan. We have an obligation to prevent the Taliban from taking hold there again. And any renewal of their power directly impacts our security. We had no moral right to withdraw, and Biden did it as fast as he could just because it was popular. I understand why it was popular, but that doesn't make it right for us or the people who are trapped there. It makes us look weak and it destroys the hope that people around the world place in us. For better or worse, we are the only power capable of holding back the forces of chaos around the world, and that is where we put our footprint because these specific people, the Taliban aided and abetted an attack on our civilian population. We should never make peace with them, because they have no concept of peace. They will attack us at the first opportunity.

I predict within a couple months they will execute American hostages and we will have to return to Afghanistan. It may be something like Carter's self-immolation in Iran. If so it will only lead to a more isolationist right-wing regime under Trump or someone else in the US. Isolationism does not work. America is a global power and needs to act as one. Globalism is the future and it shouldn't be controlled by China and Russia while we retreat from it. I'm no neocon or fan of Bush-style pre-emptive strikes. But we're the only ones who have some accountability and the capacity to prevent genocide, and we should do it.
Self-paying loans and the magic of Alchemix
For this I have the months written on 2 pages where I can set appointments. I also dont write out daily things in advance. Just the date and what i have to do that day
I'm using the Video Autoplay Blocker for Firefox. It stops videos from playing until you click their "Watch Video" button on the top left corner of the video.
My favourite TDD question to presenters was to show how to design GUIs according to specific UI/UX criteria, while following the TDD religion.
I thought the same as you until I checked how it worked in the app. Maximum is 4 weeks, there is no higher option.
The countries that will be most affected generally don't have well-run militaries either. We're talking about places like Bangladesh and El Salvador.
> These days the medical schools try very hard to make the population of graduating doctors look like the population they are going to treat

So > 70 yo graduates?
Slavery isn't just chattel slavery which is particularly barbaric. There are less egregious forms of slavery like indentured servitude.
Too many fights on too many fronts
Good for them. Good for people. For me, I read books and get better everyday. Kudos to people wasting/engaging to such apps. Keep it up !
It’s a good thing you can will that wealth to people and organizations you care about. This means a lot to many people - legacy.
How to Build Responsive Designs Fast Using Layouts
> the FI part of it is an outright lie

This is a perspective I haven't encountered before! Would you be willing to expand a bit?
I'm from that region with lots of Qanats and I remember we used to fish in them. Thinking back, I now realise how awesome it was to do that. Always curious how the fish ended up there.
Artificial or Artistic Intelligence?
This genuinely describes the recent delta outbreak in Sydney both at the lack of action from the NSW Premier and our Prime Minister.
> the West is now learning the dangers of knowledge unelevated by the spiritual

Such as? Cause from where I stand it seems science is trying to save the world from global warming and spiritual leaders are busy protecting oil money and denying there's any danger :)

All the talk about "spiritual balance" eventually ends with "hate gays, oppress women, endorse slavery, kill nonbelievers". If that's the benefits of spiritual balance then good riddance.
IELTS is justifiable, as (British) English is Australia's official language. Any other European language is just them screwing with the immigrants.
Many more humans die of cold exposure than heat exposure each year. Less extreme cold + more extreme heat would possibly, if not likely, lead to many fewer human deaths. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5...
Analysis of EIP-1559
>>>What YouTubers take 10 minutes to do, a competent TikToker gets across in 30 seconds. The platform itself encourages a maximization of information density.

I'm struggling to comprehend how German artillery tactics in WW2 can be competently covered in 30 seconds: https://youtu.be/3VY10gfnrTQ
All your doing is derailing the conversation. Western reaction to whistleblowers has literally nothing to do with Russian war crimes. The bombing of Yugoslavia 25+ years ago has nothing to do with Russian war crimes. Why can't you just accept that this is a valid thing to report on? No is saying the news can't report on that other stuff, but this is clearly worth reporting on, so stop trying to distract or get us to ignore it.
If you think a 7ksqft 5-bedroom home with fences and security is within reach of the working class, you have no idea what working class is and/or how much a 7ksqft 5-bedroom home costs.
The blog post seems to be written in a slightly sensationalist manner. I tried to find out "what this actually means" but that's also difficult from reading the post itself. The "How does this affect you" section states:

> All of your chat conversations and emails will be automatically searched for suspicious content. Nothing remains confidential or secret. There is no requirement of a court order or an initial suspicion for searching your messages. It occurs always and automatically.

What, even the stuff that I have end-to-end encrypted?

Even this from the first line of the post:

> The EU decided to let providers search all private chats,

Which "providers" are being referred to here?
I have heard about the immigrant that came here with nothing, and made it big.

I have never met one though.

I sometimes think it's another American folk tale.

I'm not talking 30-40 years ago.

I'm talking big money, not graduating from a professional school money--bacically med school.

It seems in the past just hard work, and maybe different cultural values, could be enough to get ahead here?

(I said nothing racist, so please no sanctimonious lashing.)
Things that are obvious to you and I might not be obvious to every reader. Remember that the BBC has a broad demographic, including kids and people of varying educational backgrounds. Their content is intentionally written to be accessible rather than placing assumptions on the readers prior knowledge.
>Also, anyone think that a US civilian militia has more than a snowball's chance in hell against any committed government-deployed force?

Ask the Taliban.
>the subtext here is that Signal thinks people's phones are going to be increasingly compromised

Phones are compromised by default. E2EE doesn't matter if someone else owns both ends.
The article has what we called made up metrics just to push Sweden's reputation.
Sweden has a long way to go to get even close to other EU tech hubs.
in contrast, the state regulations and the mainstream culture in Sweden have limited the openness to new ideas and sidelined foreign founders which are considered the DNA of Silicon Valley.
Indeed. It’s kind of amazing that Singapore, often accused of being overly authoritarian, took a much softer approach to Covid than Australia.

You could always leave. Citizens and PRs could always come back (although if they left after a certain date they had to pay for their care if they got Covid).

Even immigrants workers could leave. You needed permission to come back, but unless Covid was raging they took in quite a lot of workers.
Instagram apologizes for Almodóvar film’s poster censorship
Hey Alex, that was quite a writeup up it didn't really touch upon what exactly did you flash & where did it get flashed?
Larry Brilliant is a former Google VP, close friend of Steve Jobs, medical officer in one of the WHO teams that eradicated smallpox, co-founder of The Well[1], instigator of international NGO efforts to bring eye health and sight to blind and sight-impaired people through medical technology, and generally an all-round awesome human who lives up to his name.

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

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WELL_(virtual_community)
The Chinese did lockdown Wuhan....internally. They prevented Chinese from moving in and out of Wuhan while letting the international flights continue.
Prefatory note: this is about the Haskell library ‘mtl’ [https://hackage.haskell.org/package/mtl], i.e. ‘monad transformer library’.
The Rich Are Getting Richer
Used Xeons are cheap and plentiful on eBay and Craigslist. The power consumption and jet engine fans are something most people wouldn’t tolerate.

That’s why I use PIs and custom built a NAS with a supermicro mobo and an i3 (ECC compatible).

The rig the author has is bordering on the ridiculous side and can never match a Xeon, or Xeon cluster.
Intel Arrow Lake-P CPUs to Compete with AMD Zen 5 and Next-Gen Apple SoC