skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Debtors aren't just divided into "can pay" and "can't pay", there's a huge category in there of "can meet the minimum payment required to avoid default (and potential legal problems) for a very long time".

There's other categories, but high interest debt (e.g payday loans) is targeted at that one: it locks them into a situation where they will nearly perpetually have to pay a small amount to the debt issuer, while their total debt rises.

The high rate is there to increase the probability that the debt will "lock on", even for small sums. This way, even if they manage to land a windfall someday, it often won't pay back the full interest owed, so they remain in debt and, crucially, making regular small payments upon which the debt issuer relies -- it's basically a SaaS model.

In this way, a person who just needed $200 once can end up paying $2500 over a multi-year period before somehow escaping or defaulting -- and that's why the bank does it, to maximize return.

The person who borrows $1000 but can only get back $800 ever is rare -- the person who can only get $1000 back over the course of 16 weekly payments of ~$60, and can somehow then go on to keep paying $60/week for another full year, is common.
Concurrency and Scalability for Distributed Systems is on my reading list, it's in early release but I think it's what you want https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/concurrency-and-sc...
The constitution protects all American people and businesses. People should absolutely study it, understand it, and use it as part of their reasoning when it comes to responses to government or other legal requests.
> You dont have to know how to encode/decode videos to add video to a page

Sure a non-coder could put an avi file in an html5 video tag but it won't work.

They will need to hire a coder to write code for their site that encodes the video to x264 hosts it on a CDN and then embed that in the site with the video tag.
This depends a bit on what you aim to get out of reading them? I liked both of the books you mentioned for different reasons personally.
Do you have a set of goals you wish for as an outcome? could you say a bit more about your background as well, please?
Are those 12 crashes in one year? The 0.25% figure could be further off.
What sort of web applications do you work on where Python interpreter speed is the limiting factor? Usually, those applications are constrained by network throughput and context switches and page faults.
The future is decentralized, how do we make it happen? It makes me sad that my children and their children are heading towards a sanitized internet where only the corporate mainstream is allowed and the rest is crucified.
> Right there. The cost of violations is priced in. Companies actually misbehave and simply accept a potential fine as a business expense.

That is an inference that you should not make. The set aside of €77.5m was for this case, which has gone on for some time. [1]

[1] https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/whatsapp-irel...
"Poorest of the Nordic countries" is a bit misleading, as the other Nordic countries set the bar very high. Standard of living in Finland is higher than in the UK, which didn't have any trouble attracting skilled immigrants before Brexit.

From what I have heard, the usual complaints are about immigration bureaucracy, language, difficulty of making friends, climate, and darkness. The real challenge in retaining immigrants comes in the first year without a proper winter, when you have to face six months of November.
Funny they say they protect free speech when I was promptly banned from there for posting anti-Trump comments.

encryptluks2

FSM is real
> @item -c

> Only output bytecode in a C file. The default is to output an executable file.

> @item -e

> Output @code{main()} and bytecode in a C file. The default is to output an executable file.

https://github.com/bellard/quickjs/blob/master/doc/quickjs.t...
Mixed control between automated and human for tasks that require persistent attention is bad. We have known this for decades. The example often given in engineering textbooks is 3 mile island. I suspect that the engineers involved in self driving systems know this too, but the liability is too great to make the switch all at once. It seems better to take baby steps into self driving, but history teaches us it should be all or nothing.
How is this different to buying a pixel and installing grapheneOS yourself?
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GitHub Codespaces vs. Gitpod, an in-depth look
It's so interesting how we all seem to recognize these images in different ways. I found a lot of these hard to identify, but Star Wars was an easy one. It stood out because it looked like star troopers and the bottom right looked like Leia.

The ones that I could identify:
* Star Wars
* Edward Scissorhands
* John Malkovich
* National Treasure
* Hot Tub Time Machine
* Willy Wonka
* Space Jam
* The Hurt Locker
* Midsommar (this one gives me flashbacks, btw)
* Mad Max
* Fear and Loathing
* Oceans 11

Everything else was too obscure. Curious which ones other people could identify.
April fools' joke?

https://7news.com.au/sunrise/on-the-show/federal-government-...

Edit: Apparently not:

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/it-s-a-long-bow-soci...
> American citizens may have freedom of speech, but they find themselves with vanishingly few public forums in which to exercise it fully.

Well put. As we've also seen from numerous leaks and incidents over the years, big business and government often works hand-in-hand, with revolving door policies and barely legal indirect bribes happening regularly.

That the government is now seeking to curtail the First Amendment by exerting pressure on these companies should be alarming to anyone.
The answer seems obvious. Legacy car makers will continue to invest heavily in disinformation and lobbying to try to break Tesla. They can't compete on product, especially when you consider a dealer-free buying experience.
> The possibility of having a private v6 network was added much later (some time in the 2000s I think?).

ULA seems to be RFC 4193 (October 2005). NTPv6 is RFC 6296 (June 2011).

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4193

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6296
Which probably works by stapling bytecode to a precompiled interpreter. A tried and true strategy, but not necessarily what people want when asking for AOT compilation.
Feels like Gab just made itself a target of direct investigation. While you may not agree with how Congress acts, thumbing your nose at them directly is a great way to have the focus put solely on you.
Honestly, what is the problem?
I love Ruby's syntax (even if the parser is a nightmare of special cases) and overall feel. But, I have no reason to use it because I really don't like using Rails. Rails remains one of the few libraries/frameworks that I just don't get along with.
Change the Promise, Not the Product
tl;dr I think your critique i justified. The lack of a common methodology, terminology, and subject matter prevents clearly discernible, continuous progress in philosophy.

Long answer: First, although there has been progress in philosophy, it is much slower than in the natural sciences and harder to discern. Second, unlike any other discipline, philosophy has no agreed upon methodology and no agreed upon subject matter.

A consequence of both of these properties of philosophy is that older works can stay relevant and transformations and interpretations of them are often contested. It is very common for secondary literature to re-interpret heavily and in ways that might not capture the original author's intentions. Since work in philosophy is primarily working with texts, this explains the heavy focus on primary literature.

Since there is plenty of progress in philosophy, however, just reading the primary sources mentioned above would not get you anywhere. As a rule of thumb, the older a book or article, the more you'll have to take into account their reception. Otherwise you won't philosophize at a contemporary level and won't be able to publish about the work. For instance, writing anything insightful about Kant's Critique of the Pure Reason or Plato's Politeia will require specialization and taking into account many previous interpretations.

Some people would dismiss philosophy entirely because it has no common subject matter and widely accepted methodology, except for having relatively high standards for working with texts that are similar to those of historians and fairly high standards for laying out arguments. That's fair enough, but kind of short-sighted. Philosophy has had a tremendous influence on the sciences and still occasionally has.

Basically, philosophy is all about reading texts and unfortunately this often gets in the way of actually "philosophizing." I've met many philosophers who got lost in texts and never returned - they end up doing history of philosophy.

My best advise to anyone interested in philosophy is to approach it the way I was taught in Tübingen 30 years ago. Approach original texts seriously and in-depth, but carefully choose those texts and only read what interests you. There is no need to read the Critique of the Pure Reason if you're interested in contemporary analytic "accuracy first" epistemology, for example.
I still remember the days when the SciFi of the day sold robotic drivers as "they don't get tired, they don't make mistakes, they are relentless in their pursuit".

Instead of that, we got robots that are apparently unable to avoid crashing into large vehicles with flashing lights. Sometimes.

As usual, the future never ceases to disappoint me.
How is that a FF issue and not a dev issue for placing the hover on the correct element?
To add on (anecdotally), I've met people online who are Swedish and you basically can't tell they aren't just native English speakers.
get a part time job? take out student loans? study something (stem or law) that will actually enable them to get out of student debt?
Yak Spotting
> Gab does not have (and has never had) such records in its care or control

In response to a request for all “related communications” to terrorism/Jan. 6 etc. It strains belief that they haven’t even discussed these topics internally.
Not true for Boeing airliners; keep pulling back on the yoke of a Boeing, and it will stall just like any other aircraft.
I would have put you more in the third category of American symbolism. So if any, I called wearing it stupid, not weak. But even there it does not fit perfectly. I do not think wearing MAGA in Europe is in any way joining a popular group.

Becoming a Barcelona supporter in recent times is definitely joining the winning team. I think there is a difference between recognizing someone’s qualities and actually joining a movement. Just buying a Barca shirt to me is not the same level as actually being a member of a club, watching the home-games live, because that’s where your community is at. It feels more like wearing a Rolling Stones shirt without ever having visited a concert. And that to me just seems like blindly following a popular group.

(I make pointed arguments, obviously there are exceptions to everything.)
Yeah tough the same after I guessed "The Prestige" when it doesn't seem I should have been able to.
+1 to this! Amazing book!
Apple Letting 'Reader' Apps Offer Links for Account Sign Ups Outside of the App
> So why is Tesla being investigated for being involved in 0.25% of these crashes when they made up 3% of car sales in 2020?

How does the proportion of sales in one year have anything to do with the proportion of crashes that involve cars on the road which were purchased at any time? Furthermore, this is Teslas on autopilot mode--not Teslas in manual driving mode
10/10 on IASIP title card usage, 1/10 on platform moderation
South Korean lawmakers mandate cameras in operating rooms after surgery deaths
Another badge suggestion "Admonished by dang" :-)
Making «foreach» loop as fast as «for» loop in C#
Thanks I didn't know glTF existed its great to see an open standard for models.
Carbon dioxide emissions from energy consumption in the United States from 1975 to 2020:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/183943/us-carbon-dioxide...

It's been going down since 2008. Our emissions are mid-80s level and we have over 50% larger population than we had then. That's not click worthy though; doesn't generate enough fear.
Clarification. The EU asked the Irish Government to collect taxes that it declared were unpaid. It would then decide which countries were owed which chunk or the unpaid tax (all tax was declared through Ireland but sales were not solely in Ireland. So the tax was to be redistributed to the origin of sales). The issue with the judgement, and the reason the Irish Government were fighting it, was the ruling stated Ireland breached the law and provided an unfair advantage to one company. The Government were arguing that every company could avail of the same tax rules so it was not an unfair advantage / subsidy.

As for being a tax haven, this is something that is said by others who are outside of the Irish tax system and only look at the low corporate tax (they fail to see they other hidden taxes businesses have to pay like water tax, bin tax etc). Im not suggesting that the companies are fully "paying their way" but that it is too simplistic to only look at 1 tax requirement.

If you have worked in Ireland you would understand that the Irish tax system is extremely complex.....as employee you could pay tax in 3 separate income tax calculations, then a "bank bailout tax" that has remained even though the banks were bailed out. It is not uncommon for middle / high income workers to pay approx. 50% of their wage in deductions. Similarly if you tried to set up a company you would understand that the rules are not black and white but rather "you apply this tax calculation on a Friday, if the moon is full and the grass is blowing to the west"
yeah, it's scary how all of the internet is basically being hosted on amazon and logged on to using google or facebook
Everyone benefits from the EU in different ways. But that Ireland is a tax haven is not exactly a shocking accusation. Ireland is actively lobbying against global minimum taxation rules, e.g.:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/08/business/ireland-minimum-...
The short lifetime of smartphone security updates makes me want to switch to a linux phone. It's just sad that I have to buy a new device due to software when I am perfectly happy with my current device hardware. I have computers that I have had for over 10 years, and they still get security updates because I keep them on the latest Debian stable. Why can't my phone be like that?
Vague claim. Show us what you posted. I have read anti-trump comments every day since the beginnings of Gab.
England just have to live up to their obligations and accept a sea border between England and Northern Ireland.

In fact, they signed up for exactly that not even 2 years ago.

It seems, though, that they were just kicking the can down the road and never really had intentions to live up to their side of the deal.

Global Britain! Yeah, right...
Governments are big and composed of competing interests, especially in a multi-party system like the EU. Assigning them a single stance is an oversimplification. (Parts of) the EU can be pro-privacy while being against it too.
I still get a real kick out of Ruby's elegant and powerful metaprogramming, which is something other languages don't often compare to.

class String

def colorize(color_code)
"\e[#{color_code}m#{self}\e[0m"
end
end

The general advice is to avoid confusing others though, so changing base classes like this is not really a business-safe idea.
In my case, I always have more important things to do: work, family, sleep :)

But I think this is not the real cause: content creation is one of the most harder things to do for the brain. On the same level as coding or even harder. Especially if we're talking about content topics you're an expert in - you need to structure a lot of pieces of information each of which is meaningful.

But I believe in consistency - you just need to develop a habit and any actions will be easier to do!
So everyone is free to set their price, but here is the top 5 listings when I filter to those with >$1000 ARR.

$1k ARR --> listed for $20K

$240 ARR --> listed for $8K

$892 ARR --> listed for $9K

$99 ARR --> listed for $6.5K

$500 ARR --> listed for $15K

Now obviously people can ask for whatever they want and negotiate down, but you can see that multiples are crazy. To put it in perspective, my little app I sold I had made $5 TOTAL, and sold it fo4 $1500 USD and I had people telling me they would pay more after I had sold it. I think there is just a glut of people that want to get into small side gigs/startups that don't have the skills to code one. They see this as a kick start and lots of people can cobble together a few thousand.
Well if you're basing your expectations of reality on SciFi books than I expect you will be dissapointed quite often.
I'm not following what you mean, what is it you say they shouldn't be allowed to do?

The first ammendment does not apply to private companies at all -- well, it applies in that it gives them free speach rights themselves, so if you mean by "shouldn't be allowed to interpret" that they shouldn't be legally able to express this opinion, well, that'd be a first ammendment problem.

But it doesn't restrict private company's behavior at all. Private companies are not required by the first ammendment to give anyone free speech at all. Which is a kind of weird thing in this statement, they are speaking as if the first ammendment somehow requires them to do this, or as if private companies should be prevented from limiting speech (in general, that would in fact be the first ammendment problem, to compel the private company to provide a platform! although there are ways around that). But as legally weird or incorrect as I think their reasoning or interpretation of the constitution, I don't know why we would think they wouldn't be "allowed" to express a wrong opinion.

Under what grounds do you think someone would have a claim to sue them? Why do you think it would make it to the supreme court? I think you may not have an educated legal basis for that opinion, but you're still allowed to have it and express it!
I'm not sure how a highly partisan opinion piece counts as news or what its connection to hacker culture is, but this just seems like it will inevitably stir up a flamewar.

Because of the inflammatory nature of the link and because it seems off-topic for the site, I've flagged it.
Anyone should be able to interpret.
> With federated services your are still just user@host, completely under the control of whoever owns host. Furthermore the federation aspect is completely optional, if host decides to blacklists some other hosts, there is nothing you can do about it. So I don't see the advantage over the Twitter, Facebook and Co., when everything that makes federation special can be taken away at any moment.

These seem like advantages to federation. You can choose your masters, and you can choose another master (and they can choose to get rid of you) at any time.

I don't think that the advantage of federation over centralized services is that you can say and do what you want and everyone has to listen to or service you. It's that you have more options than one.

Of course, in the worst case, most nodes could federate into an exclusionary cartel controlled by a single, well-financed organization. But that means that the worst case for federation is the only case in the current situation.

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edit: I do think that the major thing missing from the web 2.0 user-provided content internet are tools to facilitate democracy and self-governance. With properly done tools and ownership structures, maybe the users can actually own their accounts, and have as much of a say in how their node was run as you would expect in an organization of peers.
Taiwan should do the same.
Cmd-Shift-5 offers a streamlined interface
People should, on every occasion, first inquire with the government before exercising their most fundamental rights. It is the only way to ensure that the people maintain the ongoing approval of their government.
They'll happily have you as a (non-voting but tax paying) foreign resident. The difficult(-ish) part is becoming a Swiss national.

(I am a Foreign Resident living in Zurich for more than 10 years)
We need to disconnect Australia from the internet. To protect us all.
Crime at Sea: A Global Database of Maritime Pirate Attacks (1993–2020)
> Finland has the best education system on Earth, bar none

I don't think there's a single university in Finland in even the top 100 is there?
Why the only winner of America's war in Afghanistan is opium
A Message to the Future
But the rest of that sentence was:

> with the lowest salaries comparatively—and yet similarly high cost of living and extremely high taxes.

i.e. why would you pick it over the others, you don't make your choice of economic migration to be fairest to the potential destinations, 'the other Nordic countries set the bar very high' just means 'the other Nordic countries are better choices'.
You have no telemetry and no idea what actually happened, car might have veered without enough warning. Which is the whole point of having an investigation, really.
So what? Not the end of the world. The government's not that good at its job. You don't have to be that afraid of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland_as_a_tax_haven

> Ireland's base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) tools give some foreign corporates Effective tax rates of 0% to 2.5% on global profits re-routed to Ireland via their tax treaty network.
I'm not sure how knowing what an adjunction or a pullback is helps serve the mission of the undergrad philosophy department.
Many systems using other “preferred languages” also
implement some form of GIL (e.g., Javascript’s V8 machine,
CPython); we don’t hear complaints about it, because these
languages have a rapport for heavy lifting and parallel tasks.

As a python developer i almost fell off my chair when i read this section. We don't hear complaints about the GIL in python? I love the article's tone in general but that's some heavy Gell-Mann Amnesia or filtered news sources :)
> Which is sobering.

It's even more sobering than that: we already know that busy beaver functions hit the bounds of decidability. From Scott Aaronson's The Busy Beaver Frontier (https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/bb.pdf), BB(748) is already undecidable under ZF set theory if the latter is consistent.

Aaronson even conjectures that BB(20) is undecidable under ZF theory and that BB(10) is undecidable under Peano arithmetic -- he's thinks the existing proofs still have lots of room for improvement.

If BB(10) is undecidable under Peano arithmetic, then all we're left with for BB analysis is the space of very small Turing machines.
sadly they do not provide anything like Swarm and suggest to use k8s.
Yeah, "2x improvement" or "200% improvement" is always a total crap shoot on what that means.