skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure others who've spent more time in Costa Rica can provide more color, but I found it a very interesting place. There's generally an "enlightened" government in place with relatively low corruption.

The government has prioritized important things like clean drinking water, food safety standards, power, and internet (sometimes at the tradeoff of roads). There's a national emphasis on preserving the natural ecology of the country, and there's no military. The budget for which goes into social programs, education, and health care.

You can go from the Caribbean to the Pacific Ocean in a few hours, which is great. But be warned the coastal areas are both incredibly hot and humid. Fortunately, much of the country is at altitude and not nearly as hot thanks to numerous volcanoes which also feature a hot springs culture in certain areas. Because of the rain forests there's an impossible number of flora and fauna (and of course rain). All of this combines to make the country quite beautiful with some of the freshest tropical fruits you'll ever eat.

The population is generally well educated, Intel used to have a chip fab there for a time and HP, Dell, Bayer, Bosch, IBM and more operate there. It's a heavily services oriented economy. Housing is affordable and the people are generally friendly enough. Food can be relatively basic, but is very filling and generally cheap.

It's also fair to point out the downsides. Transportation around can be...rugged and the cities can be bogged down with traffic. The Capital city, San José...I didn't care much for...at least near the city center. It's also a very small country with a very small population (~4 million). This can be constraining for some outsiders.

Overall though, I found it a fascinating and beautiful country and really did enjoy my time there. I would definitely go back given the chance. I also had a friend who lived there for several years and ran an consulting business to companies in the U.S. The timezone turned out to be rather advantageous and he was able to easy support U.S. East and West coast companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Rica
I wonder if anyone would've really cared (or at least cared this much) if they just nixed the possible plans to do end to end on the entire iCloud and just did the scanning server-side. I probably wouldn't have started looking at other options, personally.

It's somewhat funny to me that switching to a Mac and eventually to multiple Macs is what had me thinking that I could probably be fine just using Linux for my day-to-day computing that doesn't involve gaming (I've a Windows desktop for that) and now this has me thinking "yeah, I can pretty much make the switch and realistically not feel like I'm missing out on too much, anyway.".
How did you choose Zig for Dida, and would that be your language of choice if you were considering a rewrite? You're super clear [0] that Zig was better for you than Rust in this instance.

[0] https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/assorted-thoughts-on-...
David Chapman is still very interesting (now a Buddhist philosopher). Here are some of his references to his collaboration with Phil Agre

https://metarationality.com/ken-wilber-boomeritis-artificial...

https://metarationality.com/abstract-emergent

I was also a subscriber to RRE. I sometimes wrote to Agre in reply, usually with pretty naive commentary; he would usually then tell me that my commentary was pretty naive.

Agre's disappearance/reclusion reminds me of Grothendieck's.
Blood type and Covid-19? (2020)
Oh, and I’m going to read [1] now. I thought the heading was timely and lovely since we were discussing this and I look forward to reading it (I haven’t yet so I do t know what the article says yet)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28167835
Going directly to The People(tm) you mean? Yes, I think it has been more beneficial for more people this time, but also, during qe after 2008 the govt. was able to basically "buy back" that money by recovering the losses after markets recovered, then shredding those dollars. This time, I don't think that will be possible.
> It's an ideal that we try to maintain. It's a stated goal that we can all read in black and white. We have lawyers and constitutional scholars to mediate disputes over this stated goal.

Well you’re not trying very hard it seems. You literally have “in god we trust” printed on your money?
Yes, I thought there had to be a grave accent method like altgr+e makes é, say altgr+ee makes è (it's easy on a touchscreen phone keyboard!).
Pura Vida!

Just kidding, I really did not like Costa Rica. The exchange rate ( The colon is worth more than the dollar, really ??? ), the people were rude, power goes out a lot and internet was spotty at best ( on the Atlantic side ).
Your comment exemplifies my point. I don't think people should be exploiting their employees. Frankly, if I make $1B for myself and not at least 10% as much for each of my employees, then I'm not a good leader in my own opinion.

And, oh wait, I guess some people would rather complain about people complaining rather than make their own $1B...
You might get something out of this [1] article, especially it's section on nihilism but the preceding sections on requirements for their being meaning will probably be helpful to you. Who I really recommend is Camus and sartre who wrote quite a bit about it and how to live with it.

1. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/life-meaning/#Nihi

2. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/camus/

3. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sartre/
I think it's great that you're not hyping it, and hope you don't until it's close to ready.

That said, even though I am not an MMORPG player, I'd be interested in seeing it.
In March-May 2021, I was looking for an apartment or smaller house in my city of birth, Ostrava. The market was crazy, but the prospective buyers looked like regular people. Sometimes 15-20 of us met in a single location and had to be shepherded through the dwelling in groups.
Separately, I'd agree the game is rigged, but there isn't much I think I can do about that beyond casting my vote responsibly... it doesn't really bother me.
Ask HN: What we as community can do to adopt IPv6 faster?
All I can think of is tweeting, emailing big corps or maybe creating a petition, so that these companies take this seriously. Anything else that you guys think maybe more effective?
Well, cancer is a leading cause of death so it may not be easy to tease that one out.

Regardless, where did you get the idea it's "practically universally" consumed?

Taking soda for example, people typically either do or don't drink diet soda, and in much of the beverage chillers I've seen "diet" is stocked in the minority (with limited regional variation). Bear in mind diet itself is fractured into aspartame and stevia and various others.

Similarly, aspartame or sorbitol or other artificial sweeteners are presented as an option for most hot drinks, alongside sugar - in my experience it's the sugar constantly being replaced on the table.

Looking at packaged foods, I can find few products containing it, and again, packaged foods are only a subsection of all foods out there.

Also there are those among us who consume predominantly (in many cases only) fresh vegetables, fruit, grains, legumes etc.

Look at India, China, Africa, and everywhere in between - this is well over half the worlds population and while many are exposed to at least a small selection of packaged foods, few can afford them, and many simply have no interest.

Just a cursory glance and very rough estimate showed 6000 metric tonnes of Nutrasweet produced in 2014. Divided into a population of 7.8 billion gives each person less than a gram per year.

Aside from the fact that like all products a chunk of that will go back to landfill unsold, there simply isn't nearly enough for it to be universally consumed.
I was an avid Paradox player, but I pretty much stopped when they started pumping out DLCs at a rate I couldn't follow with, in the CKII/EUIV era. I played EUIV a bunch but I probably still have more hours on EUIII
Rethinking Data Protection in the 2020s
> That is, living like an animal.

Not sure why you'd assume animals don't have memory and predictive ability.
But that's another thing to keep patched.

I wonder if it would be feasible, when using a stripped-down container host OS like Bottlerocket, to configure one container host instance per availability zone to also do NAT. Note that I'm assuming a setup where the containers are running in ECS tasks that use the awsvpc network mode (i.e. each task has its own VPC network interface and private IP address), so security groups can be fine-grained. So even the tasks running on container hosts that do NAT would need the NAT.
Aren't stocks going up in value compared to cash positions when taking inflation into account, though? Or are you saying inflation is actually eating all of the stock market's supposed gains?
15 inch Macbook Pro's from 2015 are regarded as the best Macs for Linux and hackers in general. The ports are a big plus too.
Both had a stylus. Possibly, we could have ended up with many humans embedding a tiny piece of hardware in their index fingers, so that they wouldn’t have to carry a stylus around ;-)
It's an SPI flash that isn't mapped to /dev.

As far as I know, fully wiping it is recoverable, but involves putting the Mac into device firmware update mode, and then recovering from another machine.
"And if you wonder about my "definitions", just assume that they are as diametrically opposed to your view as possible."

Looks like a solid definition of trolling...
I guess our definition of wealthy is different. There are bucketloads of 'nomads' under the NHR that have no wealth and just get money from outside PT: I am talking a few 1000 per month. What is wealth for you? The Beckham law wealth is what I would call wealth and sure there are people using nhr to move their wealth from some fund to their person within the 10 years without paying tax. However, unlike the Beckham law, for the NHR you do not need capital to benefit.
While I don't doubt that there are indeed pathways to countering (most of) climate change, it seems like a very weird idea to try and predict more than 40 years into the future when we can't predict basic input parameters like oil demand even three months in advance. (OTOH, scientists are gonna science so you can't expect them not to make predictions of course)
Apple can afford a small country, and shareholders will certainly support an Apple management that insists on adequate QA.
Yes. Kernel mode code needs to gracefully handle OOM conditions.
That makes sense. Thanks for sharing. I have more friends who've made multiple millions from their businesses and their success doesn't create an itch in me, maybe I should think of him this way.
To be clear, this was a horrible event - but frequently like here it leaves out any other events during the period.

Killing 2000 whites at once is horrible. It came the end of a fight for independence / freedom from slavery that had been killing on average 10,000 blacks per year for 100 years. Over 1 million blacks died in Haiti during slavery.

Killing does not justify killing, but at the same time 2,000 in the context of 1 million is something different. And yes those 1 million included women and children as well.

This was not peaceful treatment:

> Torture of slaves was routine; they were whipped, burned, buried alive, restrained and allowed to be bitten by swarms of insects, mutilated, raped, and had limbs amputated.

The life expectancy of an enslaved person was 3 years. Yes that level of absurd. It's almost unfathomable.

And during that same war Napoleon's armies were also committing massacres - and the thing that stopped them from elevating to genocide was that they kept losing battles/territory. Ie one army succeeded at what the other failed at.

What happened in Haiti and the major powers treatment of the colony was disgusting and severely understudied/unknown by most people.
I think they are sick of it, but not because the grandparent post is wrong. They're sick of it because the emergency is "supposed" to be something you can overcome, feel triumphant about, and move on to the next thing.

But the emergencies in the media don't work that way. It doesn't matter how much you recycle, the media will keep screaming about catastrophe. It doesn't matter how many solar cells adorn your roof, the media will keep screaming. It doesn't how careful you are with your children, the media will keep screaming about child abductions. It doesn't matter if you pour hundreds of hours into organizing your neighborhood and fighting local crime, the media will keep screaming about crime.

It's the nature of this particular beast.

Consequently, you're never able to escape the "crisis" atmosphere, and stay stressed full time. That's not normal, especially in the absence of real, proximal crisis of that degree.
> I ran a team that provided “engine” code (C++) for native apps (on a couple of platforms) for decades.

Same here. The best approach I’ve seen is code is 80-95% C++ business logic, plus a small platform-specific GUI shim in the native language to keep the nice platform look and feel. All the major PC and mobile platforms still can call into and out of C and C++. This is the way! It has been tried and true for years.
Lots of good advice here about how to handle your feelings.

I'll add one more idea: it might help you to consider your friend's feelings. How is this affecting him?

Becoming wealthy rapidly is obviously a great problem to have, but it can also be an extremely disorienting problem. Friendships change (as you know), relationships break down. Some people are ruined by success - they fall out with friends, marriages collapse, drink and drugs etc

It's like gravity was switched off for you only, but you still have to walk on the ground.

I'm saying this not to help your friend but because it might help you handle this, if you can understand his challenge.

Though, if you do understand, then maybe you can be a good friend.
99.99% for-rent apartments I’ve seen in Western Europe were owned by some huge company. That’s a stark contrast to Eastern Europe where you’re much more likely to rent a privately owned property.
IMO it's because they used stupid semicolons in the syntax instead of sticking with periods. Nobody likes hitting the shift key, especially so rapidly and while typing numbers.
Add Dynamically Job Scheduling
Any framework to add dynamically job scheduling like cron ? I find https://github.com/viniciuschiele/flask-apscheduler . Anything else like this?
OpenJDK 17 is in Debian 11 as well [0]. A decision was made to include it before its official release since the release is so close (September). An updated package will be available when it's released.

From the release notes [1]:

Debian bullseye comes with an early access version of OpenJDK 17 (the next expected OpenJDK LTS version after OpenJDK 11), to avoid the rather tedious bootstrap process. The plan is for OpenJDK 17 to receive an update in bullseye to the final upstream release announced for October 2021, followed by security updates on a best effort basis, but users should not expect to see updates for every quarterly upstream security update.

[0] https://packages.debian.org/source/testing/openjdk-17

[1] https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/release-notes...
Maybe the people who want absolute safety can stay in their homes, & whatever tiny perimeter of limited interactions can guarantee their safety, while those who accept some risks still have the human right of travel? Just a thought.

COVID isn't caused by travel itself – especially among populations where there's little or none – but by close shared-air contact with current cases. Maybe those who travel can wear a bright vest, so those who want to trade that freedom for safety can just stay at a safe distance from danger, not shorn of all movement rights?
Mini is not expensive. At least in its base configuration. It's a pity you can't upgrade it with cheap RAM and disks anymore.
Tax on trade marks must be low, so you make a company in Canada, purchase trade mark rights from a guy in Costa Rica, your Canadian company makes no profit ... isn't that the sort of thing the big companies like Amazon do to pay no local taxes.
We had even slightly lower interest rate on mortgages in 2017 and the market was nowhere as hot as today.

I am sort-of familiar with real estate market in Prague and Ostrava, two very different cities.

Apartments in Ostrava were hard to sell even with low interest rates, because the city lost 10 per cent of its population - a typical rust belt phenomenon. Even just two years ago, an apartment put on market in Ostrava could be there for half a year before attracting a serious buyer.

They are now hot like hell and more than twice as much expensive.
Why is division a more expensive operation than multiplication? Reverse Integer
Trump was treated more than fairly by the press. He thrives on and encourages controversy. They played directly into his hand at every step of the way. When he plays the victim, that too is an act. He's a reality TV star, he's a heel, and people on both sides gobbled it up.
East Germany did that too in the early years for building up their "inofficial army" (called "Kasernierte Volkspolizei") before the "official" NVA (National People's Army) was founded in 1956. After that they mostly got rid of old Nazis in the army though, at least the high-ranking ones. In general, the more specialist and "valuable" an old Nazi was, the more it was likely that his history was quickly forgotten, also in the East.
That certainly doesn’t justify slavery, and also doesn’t really provide any useful context in my opinion. There isn’t a big difference between “they didn’t want their slaves to gain freedom” and “they didn’t want their slaves to gain freedom and be angry at their former masters.”
> I'm going to go ahead and guess that the problems discussed
were fixed, and I'm closing this bug report.

If only there was a way to find out, instead of guessing.

I’m going to start trying this at work. I wonder how it will be received?
Yep, a few years later Haiti invaded my country and did the same thing, some towns still tell the stories of the massacres hatians committed in DR, they closed down schools and universities, killed blacks, whites and mulattos, by the time we got rid of them our economy was in shambles and the population was about a third of the population when they invated DR, I think this is the single event that has caused the most damage to my country ever.

And let's not forget for those 2 decades we also payed Haiti's dept to France, something we had nothing to do with.

Haitians love to bring up slavery and their treatment by France and USA as the only and main cause of why they're so poor, but the elephant in the room is how corrupted Haitian politicians and business people are, in the 1950s DR and Haiti had about the same GDP, and now DR is about 10 times richer. Corruption is the main cause of why Haiti is so poor nowadays, I should know, my own country is full of it. For some reason they never bring up Papa Duc and Baby Duc and all the other dictators and corrupt presidents they've had in recent decades.

I really hope some day Haiti can get their shit together and start to develop their country, that'll be the best for everybody on the Hispaniola island.
> Any media processing can generally gain significant performance with SIMD instructions

To a limit. JPEG (and many video codecs based on JPEG) have 8x8 macroblocks, which means the "easiest" SIMD-parallel is 64-way. And AVX512 taken 8-bits at a time is in fact, 64-way SIMD.

To get further parallel processing after that, you'll probably have to change the format. GPUs go up to 1024-way NVidia blocks (or AMD Thread groups), which are basically SIMD-units ganged together so that thread-barrier instructions can keep them in sync better. 1024-work items corresponds to a 32x32 pixel working area.

But that's no longer the format of JPEG. It'd have to be some future codec. Maybe modern codecs are seeing the writing on the wall and are increasing macroblock size for better parallel processing 10 years into the future (they are a surprisingly forward looking group in general).
Did not read past the first bold paragraph.
'Nihilo' means "out of nothing, nothing is produced"; why does the author think that nihilism needs to have a famous proponent?
A linguistic quibble far off the mark.

UPD: I tried reading further, and it did not take long for the author to convince the readers that he is an idiot.

Quote: "Committing to nihilism, deciding that you “are a nihilist,” is unusual, and typically a big deal." No, it's not. Most people in this world are in search of meaning: it is probably the most common source of suffering in the modern times - feeling lost, not having a purpose, etc. The fact that people don't brand themselves as nihilists doesn't mean that they aren't.

Cue the downvotes from pseudo-intellectuals.
Sometimes I get lost in public discussions these days. Everyone is “fascist”, “far-right”, and “leftist” at the same time.
This has always been my problem with emacs. The basic interpreter and interface design is phenomenal, but it is so bogged down and buggy it is frustrating to actually push it to the limits of capability. I wish the devs would just drop support for stuff that can be maintained just as well as a plugin.
SV is a disease that is dangerous for preemies. So 15 months of preemies had a drastically reduced RSV infection rate, and this month's preemies have a slightly increased RSV rate.
I read GP as considering ~4 years total and 2 years out of support a long time.
Many people were expectantly waiting for this to be announced at WWDC 2021, especially with the M1-based iPad including silicon support for hypervisor/virtualization and the 16GB RAM / 1TB storage model. Yet nothing was announced, suggesting that the only use of 16GB RAM will be upcoming memory-consuming Adobe "Pro" apps.
So, you’re suggesting we should prepare for unlikely events, seems reasonable as a general thought. And at the same time armchair questioning the best science we have on climate change without any specific evidence, contributing to the very doubt that has already fueled our inaction and inability to prepare to date. How are we to be resilient and prioritize preparedness when we can’t agree on the priorities? Certainly we can’t just ‘be prepared’ for anything that could possibly happen in anyone’s imagination, right? We do need to take a look at history and the current state of things and make some educated guesses as to which crisis might actually happen. We don’t have infinite amounts of money and resources and time, do we?

Given your stated distrust of research, how exactly do you propose to be proactive? This isn’t a choice between 5% odds, pulling a number from thin air and framing it that way makes it seem like there are easy choices. What if the choices are closer to between six million wildly different possibilities of one in a billion odds?
I said specifically "the Russians' usage of the term..."