skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't that kind of be the case for poor people too?

I mean, even if you transferred all the knowledge of personal finance to them in an instant - investing or putting aside $0 is still going to yield the same result: $0. For many, it is impossible to execute such things, because they simply do not have any money to spend - nor do they have the chance to make more money, because they're already trapped with multiple jobs, children, and what not.
> Essentially, it's Spain funding Germany's leap ahead.

No it is not. Germany is by far the biggest net payer, while Spain is a net receiver of EU funds. It is Germany getting a share of its own funding.

https://www.statista.com/chart/18794/net-contributors-to-eu-...

You can argue all day about the Euro or the market benefitting Germany and how Spain was hit hard by the financial crisis. But EU budget wise the claims you are making are not only false, but exactly the opposite.
Debian 11 Bullseye upgrade festival
"Open source" means literally nothing for the majority of Tor users that are downloading prebuilt binaries from US Government-funded www.torproject.org/download/
yeah think that's right, esp considering their background at FTX
It is indeed dead simple :-)

The spec, the implementation, and using it. It's by far the simplest scheme I've ever seen proposed for C. You can see this from the article.

I suppose I could add it to D's ImportC:

https://dlang.org/spec/importc.html

even though ImportC's charter is to implement C11 as it stands and not fix anything.

But would the committee accept DasBetterC as an implementation?

https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html

DasBetterC does implement the slices.
Exactly, this article is pretty goofy. There was never a real possibility that the Trinity test would ignite the atmosphere; the idea was proposed largely in jest and dismissed with the briefest of calculations. The modern-day equivalent would be the protesters who argued that the LHC (and before it, the RHIC at Brookhaven) shouldn't be powered up because it might create a black hole that swallows the Earth. Or those who argued that the RTG on the Cassini probe might break apart in a launch accident and poison vast swathes of life on Earth. Why didn't the author mention those concerns? They had just as much merit.

The Cuban Missile Crisis, on the other hand, was no joke. We were amazingly lucky that Murphy was on vacation that month. Our reliance on luck to avoid destroying humanity is much, much scarier than our reliance on reason.
I'm interested. Currently spending ~$58/year with Protonmail including a custom domain.
If it's too lethal, it would probably kill all its carriers before spreading too far

I wonder if anyone's ever calculated the optimal parameters for a disease to end humanity
I don’t really buy this. The Kelly criterion is fundamentally assuming log utility of money which I think doesn’t really apply to most people (that is, I think utility is more linear or superlinear around where their earnings are. I don’t think it applies to a VC fund either.) It is also mathematically somewhat complicated and hard for ordinary people to apply to the real world (note that as a Hacker News reader, you are already likely much more literate and numerate than an average person). I think it is better to try to give people a more intuitive understanding of risk (that is, what is risky and what it means for something to be risky) and push them towards safer, more diversified investments.
According to the first comment on TFA, it's in a built up area. I checked Google maps [0] and it's pretty bad: 50m of tarmac (no EMAS I think), 50m of grass, then a minor road with commercial buildings.

Regardless, that's one to be considered another aggravating circumstance, not an additional failure. When deciding whether this was a close call, you can treat it as if every runway is wet and in a permanent tailwind and immediately followed by a wooden building full of schoolchildren.

[0]
https://maps.app.goo.gl/u4eFmqDAysMVbbWC8
Your "unceasing but uncoordinated efforts of activists" sounds indistinguishable from people adopting the term because it's useful. Is there a better, less loaded term you'd prefer they use?
That guy creates a lot of instruments, including portable ones. He's a very passionate woodworker and a great collaborator, it seems.
Postgres comes with the building blocks for both sharding and HA out of the box, and they're extensively discussed in the docs. You don't need proprietary addons other than as pure convenience.
No more money is the passport. Financial literacy in most respects represents absurd gatekeeping and arbitrary knowledge gathering AND obsessive news gathering.
Thanks for pretending to be the arbitar of truth, but you are the one who responded to my comment (made to another), "If you don't accept that you have free will, than nothing you write or say has any meaning."

It is now obvious you have no point other than wanting to debate words and are being intentionally obtuse. This is not a high school debate class, and I will no longer engage in your foolishness, since you have stated that you are not actually commenting on the subject of the conversation.
Same but it’s not out of the realm of possibility that they’re a Greenpeace-like organization that jeopardizes human life and property.

Or they’re just some college students spouting inconvenient truths ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
the flu cuases a certain annual death toll as well and has for a long time. Once the initial lack of partial or even full immunity to COVID diminishes in the U.S and elsewhere, it will become part of the regular background of manageable infectious diseases, and this is what people will adapt to, fairly well I think. Your extrapolating the large existing death toll forward over the years is misguided. Aside from all this, what alternative would you prefer? Perpetual rolling lockdowns and endless streams of prohibitions until some highly ambigious future time?
Yes. Yes! I’ve never understood how people argue that they are somehow better than an ISP by default.
Sounds like you haven’t heard much if the theory behind LVT.

For example one way it aligns incentives is pressuring land to be put to more productive use. Aka if someone can’t afford the taxes they might have to sell it to someone who can and likely that second entity will build more units on the land which utilizes the land more efficiently. Not in every instance perhaps but enough to matter. Its a way of forcing communally central land to be put to good use and for the profitability to feed back into the community.
I am a prolific writer of comments and commit messages. It’s not common for me to write single-line commit messages¹, 4–8 lines is probably my most common size, and I’ve gone well above 100 on occasion. At my last place of employment, I think I had 17 of the 20 longest commit messages in the main repository.

I act like this on public and private repositories.

I know others I have worked with have benefited from and appreciated my detailed commit messages, and I’ve even thereby convinced some to write at least three or four decent lines rather than just one bad line.

I myself have certainly benefited from the verbose commit messages that my past self has written.

But here’s the real secret to it: I have benefited by writing these verbose commit messages, even in cases where it’s unlikely anyone (including me!) will ever read them again. You know rubber ducking <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging>? Commit messages are about describing what you’ve done and why, and the act of writing that down helps you to think about it. More than a few times have I felt the need to justify the approach taken in a commit message, only to realise as I explain it that I had neglected some key consideration so that the approach I used wouldn’t handle certain corner cases, or that a better technique was possible.

I also write changelogs manually, because commit messages and changelogs have somewhat different purposes. And that helps, too, especially in case of deprecation or breaking change, where the changelog should ideally guide the reader in what they should change.

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¹ Prominent likely exceptions are found in new projects where I’m doing a bit of everything in an unstructured fashion, and commits on my website repository that just add a new article.
I actually agree with you that the war in Afghanistan was an absurdly wrong move, and have thought this since it started.

However this statement:

> There is no connection at all between 9/11 and the necessity for the US to have launched what turned out to be a 20 year occupation of Afghanistan. None.

Is simply not true.
Would agile be effective without its tools?
The greatest tech entrepreneur
I checked out of curiosity and the SuperMicro article was written by the same author, Jordan Robertson. Make of that what you will.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-h...
I do miss the manuals, particularly the simulation games that had technical references, historical information and stories.

The art-books that came with some games were pretty cool too.

But for the most part, the packaging and pack-ins were just junk. and while I'm still storing a fair amount of it, I haven't played those games in 20 years - I should probably just write down the CD keys and throw everything else away.
short of violent revolution

But that's exactly what happens when you start murdering people and a significant minority knows it can happen to them.

How do you know that? I think collectively agreeing to suspend basic human rights for reason A would make it very easy to agree to suspend basic human rights for reasons B

I don't think the default position is just a slippery slope. I think someone making this argument should have to show some evidence why you think Australians would agree to impose a curfew for some more sinister reason now other than just "we're used to it". Because we aren't. Despite agreeing to it for public health reasons, in absolute terms people are NOT happy with it. I'd argue the opposite: like a vaccine prepping your immune system, being forced to live with curfews may very well strengthen our resolve to not go through this again if it can absolutely be avoided. Lockdown fatigue is a very real thing here and anyone suggesting lockdown for political or other nefarious reasons (as the author tries to imply) very well could find it now harder than previously.
Yeah lol this is so misleading.
New PR ploy
> Add the embodied energy of the other components in space and on the ground, and I could easily believe we get to a year payback—now bringing the total (manufacture plus launch) to two years and an EROEI around 10:1.
> If my 100× light-weighting proves to be unrealistic, and we can only realize a factor of ten improvement over our rooftop panels, the solar panel launch cost climbs to three years, so that adding other components results in perhaps a 4:1 EROEI.
> In the end, the EROEI is not as prohibitive as I imagined: it’s not a net energy drain as I might have feared. But it’s not obviously better than conventional solar either.

His overall conclusion may reach that conclusion, but his EROI give SPS a net 10:1 to 4:1 energy returns even in his worse case. So regardless if its cost competitive to ground based arrays or not, it might have uses and would likely result in net energy gain vs input (including materials).
Fat biking is dead now? I see them everywhere.
Basically, you want to run a messaging service over an onion routing network (Tor, I2P), or even better, a mix network. You should check out Nym (https://nymtech.net/) and come back with what you think about it. It is very suitable to what you want, and Loopix is resistant to global adversaries.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00536 (Loopix's paper)
There’s a game about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_Inc.
I just got a puppy 3 weeks ago and I almost cried reading this. Dogs are amazing
I am just in awe. Good Bash code is art to me!
But if you ever want to do business in the UK or travel to/through the UK, or in/to/through any country that might have MLAT with the UK ... then you're highly incentivized to take them at least a bit seriously to avoid really (sorry, royally!) pissing them off.
I don’t know what to say. Pilots are trained for this exact situation, flight plans are designed for this situation. Every reasonable measure is taken to ensure that this exact situation isn’t unnecessarily more dangerous than it absolutely needs to be. As proven by this exact incident.

You can talk about hypotheticals like snow, but this is a commercial airport. They will either have snow clearing equipment or they’ll redirect planes if they can’t clear the snow. It’s also Taipei where it basically never snows around the city. Simply put if it was unsafe to land this plane in this state with snow (and snow was believed to fall that day), then the plane wouldn’t even take off.

Lockheed aircraft aren’t passenger airlines, they have a completely different risk profile and risk appetite. I imagine Lockheed aircraft occasionally get taken down my enemy fire, but we don’t build commercial aircraft to handle that situation.
This doesn't fit the narrative and will disappear quickly...
Measles is more infectious than Covid, less fatal than Covid, and (outside of pockets of anti-vaccination activists) has been largely vaccinated out of existence.
Time is the most fundamental quantity that is innate to life and as a result it has a mesmerizing characteristic. Its an amazing piece of art by the student. If anyone is interested in clock mechanics, there is an effort to build a clock that can self sustain for atleast 10000 years[1]. When completed, it will be a pinnacle of human arts and engineering. This effort is designed by Danny Hills and supported by Jeff Bezos. There is also a technical paper that describes the clock mechanics[2].

[1] https://longnow.org/clock/

[2] https://media.longnow.org/files/2/10_AAS_11-665_Hillis.pdf
I want to mention that I was particularly irked by seeing the same old 20th-century "music theory" on something labeled "21st Century". I don't understand why this stuff is somehow particularly for the 21st-Century Classroom.
Show HN: A Discord Bot but Oddish?
Some brick and mortar shops can turn into some kind of club.

The owner tries to federate people around the shop, and sell his stuff along the way. In the case of a game store, he may organize tournaments, special events around the release of a game, help discover some obscure games, hunt down rare items and imports, and of course give competent advise.
I didn’t say it would be easy for many countries to eliminate. My point is it is possible, whereas the person I am criticizing says it is impossible to do better than a vaccine alone. That’s clearly false as there are living, breathing counterexamples. Hard does not equal impossible.

New Zealand, Atlantic Canada, Taiwan, most of Australia (NSW doesn’t have elimination as a goal), some caribbean islands, China

Many of those places have outbreaks, but they’re beaten them or have beaten them.
Just because your bubble exposes you to the craziest people doesn't mean they represent any majority. It's easy to see those screenshots of people being completely unreasonable, but the truth is most people who are "woke" aren't anything like that.

We see the world through the lens of social media optimised to make us angry at other groups of people.

Most of the people I know are queer and extremely leftist, and they're all massively annoyed at some of the bullshit performative wokeness we see. It's only a very very small minority of people who actually behave like that.

It's like what the linked article mentions with only 4% of people actually caring about the use of latinx. You get angry at people pushing for this and think progressives are stupid, but actual progressives are also annoyed at it because they know it's going to be used as an excuse to make their communities look stupid.

Idk what's a good conclusion on all this but I'd just say, keep in mind that extreme stuff you see online is usually not reflective of any sizeable amount of people
Professional Networking for Gamers
druid / pinot - ingest-time aggregations, plus aggregation of sets on the server, like hyperloglog or theta sketches at either ingest or query time
> I work with projects where this is utilized and I'm not sure they are better than nothing.

At least you know which commits caused a breaking change compared to spelunking the history to figure out how a library broke compatibility and how you need to adapt to it. Breaking changes are honestly one of the main reasons I read changelogs.

> The real problem is that commit messages and a changelog serve 2 different purposes and have different audiences. Changelog exists to explain what happened with the product, and commit messages exist to explain what happened with the code.

imo a commit summary and the start of the body should explain the the goal, the user facing aspect and then should dig down into the whats and whys of how the changed lines support that goal, using Inverted Pyramid / Bottom-line Up Front writing style.

Of course, if the commit has no end-user impact, you signify that with the type (feat/fix/etc vs chore/style/etc)

While doing a hand-curated changelog for end-users would be more polished, the summary of a commit message should still be passable.
Even if ProtonMail had not stored these data, it could have easily been, legally or not, collected from the ISP(s) providing Proton with their internet access.
The article is from June and pretty out of date.

The Carvallo study this heavily relied on has major problems:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/ivermecti...

The Elgazzar study it also uses was withdrawn after findings of plagiarism and massive irregularities:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02081-w
That's more paceworthy I'd say, at least compared to the natural evolution of language continuing as it has for all of recorded history.
The point is that they were wrong, not that they were happy.

They reversed course and deleted the video. Masks have returned. The video was like Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” photo op in 2003 to declare the end of the Iraq war. He was happy too, but wrong.
CockroachDB dev here. We've gotten a good bit better in the last few versions in terms of schema change stability. We're still not very good at large schemas with more than 10s of thousands of tables but we've got projects under way to fix that which I expect will be in the release in the spring of 22.

I'd like to hear more about the magic.
It doesn't have to kill anyone. Just sterilize the young.
Hi!

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I'll be making the first set of introductions in a couple of weeks and I'm looking for gamers who are interested in trying out the platform as an early user. I've already got quite a few friends signed up who work in a range of industries from tech and startups through to law, venture capital, and banking. If you're looking to change jobs, start a business or just mix up your networking game, please join the waitlist and I'll send out more info soon :)
You seem to claim some sort of discrimination of KfW. Provide proof or stop those accusations. I find your tone in the whole debate quite upsetting. You keep complaining about hard to get social benefits as if you are natrually entitled to them. Of course things can always be improved, but after all those are paid with taxpayer money of people you call privileged and clueless here.
Off topic, but it always amazes me how often I see Gandhi misspelled as Ghandi. I'm not American, so I am curious if they always teach this wrong spelling in schools? Check the other replies here. OP literally quoted the right spelling but still misspelled it later.
"Their homepage says..."

Is the parent suggesting that no one should bother to read the Terms and Privacy Policy, linked to from the homepage. https://protonmail.com/privacy-policy

Despite the parent's claim, the Privacy Policy says the company may log IP address. Temporarily. Irrespective of any request from local authorities regarding a specific user. IOW, they may log anyone's IP address temporarily regardless of whether the particular user is casuing trouble; they can log IP address for everyone. The policy says they log this data for the purposes of preventing fraud and abuse. The problem for privacy-conscious users is that if they log the data, then that entices authorities to try to successfully request it.

The policy, which imposes no obligations on the company BTW, reads as follows:

"IP Logging: By default, we do not keep permanent IP logs in relation with your use of the Services. However, IP logs may be kept temporarily to combat abuse and fraud, and your IP address may be retained permanently if you are engaged in activities that breach our terms and conditions (spamming, DDoS attacks against our infrastructure, brute force attacks, etc). The legal basis of this processing is our legitimate interest to protect our Services against nefarious activities."

There is nothing that says "By default we do not retain any logs". This clearly states they may be expected to retain IP logs. ("IP logs may be kept temporarily...")

But wait there's more.

"We will only disclose the limited user data we possess if we are instructed to do so by a fully binding request coming from the competent Swiss authorities (legal obligation)."

This clearly states the company may disclose the data they possess, e.g., IP logs collected to combat fraud and abuse, if in response to a request from competent local authorities.

Further down is a curious statement about decrypting messages.

"If a request is made for encrypted message content that we do not possess the ability to decrypt, the fully encrypted message content may be turned over."

Why include a statement such as this, specifically the part that says "that we do not possess the ability to decrypt". The company already specified it may disclose the data it possesses. This further statement suggests there could be some situation where they may have the ability to decrypt some messages. Besides their own communications with customers, why would they ever have encrypted messages that they can decrypt. They could state something like "If the request is made for encrypted communications addressed to us or sent by us, ...", but they do not. As such, their statement must include other messages, too.
So the taxpayer money wasn't squandered but actually put to good use. Who would have thought?
I don’t think NYC is really a counterexample/gotcha to their argument. If the commenter is right that a 1.5ft rise in sea level will cause a lot of damage to New Orleans, surely that line of thinking applies to both places (and all places close to the sea).
Google Spanner does the three.
The spreadsheet that stuck in younger me's mind was as follows: How long do I have to keep contributing $X periodically until the returns are greater than my periodic $X contributions?
That old (in tech terms) chestnut - “If the penalty for a crime is paying a fine, that law only exists for the lower classes.”
IIRC Soekris basically decided they couldn't make any money.

Is PC Engines acceptable as an alternative? E.g. https://www.pcengines.ch/apu4d4.htm

It does have limitations, e.g. only 1 GHz clock speed.

The bigger problem for all manufacturers is the chip shortage. E.g. most of PC Engines stuff is "expected ~ 2022". But there may be some stock at their distributors. https://www.pcengines.ch/newshop.php?c=4

Edit: if you dig deeper you may also find hardware you didn't expect. E.g. at some point OpenBSD was able to run on some Ubiquiti hardware. I don't know if Ubiquiti still make products that can run OpenBSD. https://www.openbsd.org/octeon.html
Plenty of people in remote Yukon and Alaska use an alternator from a wrecking yard and make some kind of water wheel / turbine to drop in a river or creek. They work exceptionally well, though the water being solid for ~5 months of the year is a problem.