skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought of these things the same way as the original iMac. Cutesy, but underpowered and nothing to get real work done on, especially with the low screen resolutions.
> if everybody put half their income towards paying down the debt

You realize how unrealistic that is right?
That's my understanding too. Another way that I've heard it: you don't need to reduce your national debt, rather you need to ensure that your tax base is growing more quickly than your debt.
> Git repos?

One of these things is not like the other, and anybody who uses a real editor and VCS but still has to deal with confluence or the rest of the above knows it.

Child poster below going on about markdown etc is absolutely wrong.
The origins of a word don’t quite determine the physical reality of the ideas around it.
That’s not why Zimbabwe’s economy and currency collapsed.

Zimbabwe’s economy and currency collapsed because the government stole productive assets and gave them to people who did not know how to do anything with them, basically destroying the productive capacity of the nation within a few weeks.
In usual circumstances, free work is generally appreciated.
But I imagine it's a bit different with code, as most people prefer writing code to reading it.
Shot in the dark here, but I've got a friend who is breaking into the project management industry. Has a CAPM certificate from PMI and around a year of experience in a Project Management (PjM) role. If anyone is/knows a successful PjM and can email me (kayce at basqu dot es) the help would be much appreciated. Or anyone that has an entry-level PjM role available. Many thanks.
This was from a time period of an upside down logo. That one always made me wonder who at Apple allowed that, or why nobody noticed that when the lid was open the logo is upside down. Ultimately, it came down to the imagery of when someone was carrying by the handle I guess.
As I said, if one can afford it. Also not sure what you mean by wire encryption is on for enterprise plan and income based. Their plans are size based.
America being an ally only really makes them more dangerous to me as an individual. If I were in trouble with the US government there is a high likelihood my own government would extradite me. There's very little chance of that with the Chinese government, and the chances are they wouldn't be interested in the first place*

* Not that the US would be interested in me personally either. But they do take an interest in citizens from other countries.
> Black Americans weren't loyalists because they believed in the divine right of kings, though.

White loyalists didn’t believe in the Divine Right of Kings either. That ideology was promoted by the Catholic King James II, who was overthrown in the “Glorious Revolution” of 1688. The Hanoverian monarchy (to which George III belonged) was ideologically opposed to it because if true it would mean the 1688 revolution was illegitimate, and hence Hanoverian rule of Britain would be illegitimate too. The main supporters of Divine Right of Kings were Catholics and the Jacobite rebels in Ireland and Scotland, not Protestant supporters of the British government. In fact, some Jacobites supported the American Revolution - such as Hugh Mercer.

> Chattel slavery was directly tied to scientific racism,

The Atlantic slave trade was already well underway when the theory of “scientific racism” was first being developed. And it didn’t become widely popular until the mid-19th century, by which time slavery was approaching its end. It was a post hoc rationalisation for chattel slavery, not a cause.

> My point was that the original historical definition of leftism was opposition to the king of France during the French revolution because that's how the seating happened to be arranged in the National Assembly in 1789 (notably before the American revolution, but close enough to make the point).

The French Revolution was (in part) a revolution against the “Divine Right of Kings”, but the American Revolution wasn’t, since the British had already rejected that ideology in the revolution of 1688. If you define “leftism” as merely rejecting that then both sides in the American Revolutionary War were “leftist”, and the British Empire was a “leftist” empire
That’s my expectation, but until we’ve deployed these in sufficient scale, I would hope we are not unwise enough to count our chickens before they’re hatched/put all our eggs in one basket.
It is a rust dev cultural problem that will go away with time and general adoption. Right now almost all people writing in rust are the bleeding edge types that use the latest backwards incompatible features without caring. Combined with these new features being added every couple of months it is almost required to use insecure rustc installation from outside your repos no matter the distro.

Bash actually gets new, backwards incompatible, features pretty often too but you never have to run a bash script in a container or some third party interpreter. Bash devs simply care about having their software be able to run on setups more than a handful of months old.
One alternative is to pay workers enough to afford housing. It’s surprising how rarely people mention that idea. It’s very likely thee d of “worker+housing shortage” which is just a very roundabout way to say “massive inflation.”
That way the logo was the correct orientation when you look at the laptop to open it up!
What a pity... I liked the content, although it was mainly for beginners. He's also on twitter:
https://twitter.com/thelinuxexp
Spolsky’s FogBugz is still out there after a few ownership changes, and is still a hell of a lot less painful to use than Jira.
I dunno, maybe it's easier for them than to implement quite a large existing spec, or they just wanted to.
>These machines were… magical. Heck. Still are.

He never bothered to explain why he thinks so. Apple fans are a little too fond of describing their favored products using this word. Counterpoint: like most other technology, they actually work (or fail to work) according to laws which are known, and do so in comprehensible (in principle) ways. Enough with the "magical", already.
Atlassian software are some of the most annoying to self-administrate. avoid it if you can.
There is actually one: https://www.mailvelope.com/en/ (works on gpg encrypted mails, and handles decryption / encryption entirely on the client side)
Energy usage is a distraction. It doesn't matter how much energy it uses. That energy is buying us something: decentralized currency technology.

If people want to argue about energy, it's more productive to consider which projects deserve the most resources. The fact so much energy is being wasted on bitcoin is sad. As a currency, bitcoin is of very little value, certainly not enough to justify the massive amount of energy being consumed. On the other hand, I wouldn't mind if Monero miners consumed even more energy than bitcoin does today.

> In a world with accelerating climate change, it seems to me increasing energy efficiency should be a moral imperative.

The real moral imperative is to dismantle big oil and stop trading with China. But how will the western world survive without its cars and cheap chinese products?
Forest cover has increased after we cut much of it down. We've replaced much of it with monoculture timber that gets one maybe two growth cycle before the soil is depleted.

Production of food has increased along with our unsustainable use of fossil fuels and the other products needed to do so. Topsoil is disappearing at an alarming rate.

I don't think a person sounding the alarm that we'll have depleted our fish stocks within 25 years, or are losing an incredible amount of topsoil each year, or are heading for dramatic climate changes that will cause an increase in disasters is a doomsayer. They're just living according to what every scientific report says. Being optimistic won't change a disruption in food supply or mass migration due to shifting weather patterns.
> There is literally nothing China can do to me as long as I stay firmly in the West.

If you use TikTok they can manipulate what you see.
I'd rather they do this with Wordpress or Minecraft
The weirdest part of all of this: all of the debt is in a currency it can print, and the USA is mostly in debt to itself.
One might also question should land even be sold. Something like 20 or 30 year lease with re-evaluation of value at end might make more sense. Ofc, this would potentially lead to losing homes, but on other hand would allow redevelopment for increased density regularly.
For what's it worth, at 19 I forecasted myself to found a space startup by 36. The dream came true, but a lot happened in between those dates.
Government finance is not like household finances or even business finances. Most critically, the government controls the issuance of money. In the USA that's done via the Federal Reserve. Which while not part of the government per-se, is sorta controlled by the government.

If the USA wishes maintain the US Dollar's position as the de-facto international currency, then it must maintain a negative balance of trade and high debt levels. Simple fact is that foreigners cannot use USD if they don't have any USD (in the form of cash or US Treasuries). There was once a hope that the Euro could rival the USD but that dream is dead in most people's eyes.
Also, if someone is selling anything on eBay for above MSRP I report them for price gouging. Masks, sanitizer, drives, Ubiquiti cameras, anything. All reported.
hardware key support exists: https://github.com/str4d/age-plugin-yubikey
How much did a new privacy tool distort the 2020 U.S. census?
The last paragraph sums it up well:

"The Bottom Line
Many people believe that much of U.S. debt is owed to foreign countries like China and Japan. The truth is, most of it is owed to Social Security and pension funds. This means U.S. citizens, through their retirement money, own most of the national debt."
Even worse is when a manager has to work harder than you.
How to Snatch an Expiring Domain (2005)
> US blows away all other countries in humanitarian aid too

The problem is that they often do blow stuff away, quite literally. People aren't going to sing your praise for the new well you've dug after you've bombed their wedding and killed all their friends and family.
Daybreak [1] is just a big suburb. It's a far cry from a self-sufficient city built from the ground up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daybreak_(community)
>KillUserProcesses only makes sense in a single-user environment, where logging out is an active decision from the user.

I can't agree, IMO processes left over after a network connection terminating could be considered a security hole. That's up to the sysadmin how to set it up. I certainly don't suggest getting into the habit of launching long running tasks in an ssh session, a remote sysadmin could already very easily end your processes if they find you AFK launching things on a sensitive machine. Systemd just gives some standard tools to do that.

>Typically, logging out (intentionally or through dropped connection) sends SIGHUP to the active process, then recursively to all children. [...] The short-term drawback is that programs that correctly request to be long-lived are killed.

This is incorrect, traditionally SIGHUP only means that the controlling terminal was disconnected. What you are describing is only correct for a single login shell with no sub-reapers, on a modern setup there are other things besides logging out that will send SIGHUP, such as for example if you run your program in an xterm and then close the window, or if you are operating within a sub-shell, etc. SIGHUP provides no way to differentiate those conditions, plus some programs will overload SIGHUP to be a "reload config" command, etc. SIGHUP is just not a reliable way to do it, I would not describe that as correctly requesting to be long-lived. SIGKILL is unfortunately the only method the kernel provides to do a reliable cleanup.

>The long-term drawback is increasing dependence on systemd internals, code complexity, and lack of portability. In both short and long term, the drawbacks massively outweigh the benefits.

AFAIK there is no portable or simple way to do this, please enlighten me if I am missing something. Using daemon(3) and SIGHUP is not adequate here for reasons described above. Of course other init systems are free to create their own simplified implementation of systemd scopes, while skipping the Linux specific directives if they want. So it's not clear what your actual complaint is and what you mean the drawbacks are. Do they need help doing this? If so I would be happy to advise.

>in both cases, programs can persist, so there isn't a security benefit.

This is also incorrect, in the case of systemd scopes, you can further restrict the ability to create them with polkit or SELinux or similar. So you could make it so only tmux is allowed to start one for example. That would be one of the big benefits of having a real API for this versus just sending a signal and hoping the program is well behaved.

>The vitriol received in those threads was in large part due to systemd developers not recognizing those drawbacks.

I don't think that is warranted, systemd developers can decide for themselves the trade offs of their program. The vitriol is not needed and is in fact likely to weaken the argument. In any case there are several other inits to choose from with their own set of strengths and drawbacks, I suggest focusing on what choices you have rather than agonizing over the small decisions of just one of them.
Thanks, I appreciate you taking the time to talk about a view you've held that's been unpopular with your colleagues.

I think you, and everyone who thinks like you, need to take a very hard look at what you've done to eliminate the environmental factors related to your viewpoint that some people aren't smart enough to learn something, because its extremely easy to trick yourself into thinking someone is incapable when in reality other factors abound.

As the article explains, if society refused to educate/feed/raise/nourish red-headed children, there would be a genetic correlation between red-headedness and intelligence.

How absolutely confident are you that you've accounted for every explanation besides the genetic one in determining why some people can't learn algebra?
lead or lead lead?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead–crime_hypothesis
How do people make so many predictions?

To make even one prediction, asking "what would have to happen for this to come true?", and following that chain back to the answer to the other question, "where are we now?" --all of that takes me hours at best, often months.

A wish is not a prediction.
GDP doesn't measure people's income. It measures capital expenditures and consumption. So it would be a 50% sales tax and 50% tax on capital spending.
MMT does say that, but MMT is far from being widely accepted as correct.
Oh, serendipitously, the article currently directly below this one on HN is "Apple iMessage Zero-Click Hacks". So add Apple to the list of companies on your "awful engineering practices" list.
Despite the age of this article, it is still relevant and fascinating. I often wondered how hard/easy it was to simply register an expired valuable domain. Now I know.
This might work for long maturity bonds, but debt in the form shorter maturity bonds (0.5 to 5 years) can't really be "inflated away" without destroying the economy in the process.
But it isn’t a one-way street. Using jquery can eliminate the need for other, lengthier blobs of code. In fact that’s exactly what this “vanilla JavaScript alternative” does.
This is not true however, as under Swiss law, Swiss authorities don't have the legal power to issue such an order. Swiss law is very clear on this point.
If law enforcment can order to log IPs, could they tell Microsoft that there is an Windows user with specific e-mail address (which that user uses as windows login) and order them to deploy Microsoft signed update only to that user devices with embedded trojan written by some three letter agency ?
> black box format shoved inside a database

Are you drunk? Who tf ever wants that?
Yes they are income taxed but dont pay social security or medicare taxes. If you earn $100 wages you pay 6.2 percent SS taxes and 1.45% medicare (employer pays more than this too). If you earn $100 dividends you dont pay either.
Truck Wages
I was very appreciative of the Scott Adams podcast[1] when he pointed out that any story or study that is too "on the nose", that is, hits our confirmation biases too perfectly, needs to be approached with extra caution.

[1] https://www.scottadamssays.com/
No, Social Security and Medicare (collectively, FICA) taxes are not levied on capital gains.
Just to follow up, my attempts to get vimtex to work unfortunately were unsuccessful. However, along the way reading neovim plugin docs I started to figure out the difference between neovim and vim and was able to get things working via the following process:

sudo dnf install neovim

sudo dnf install python3-neovim

mkdir -p ~/.config/pack/foo/opt/mytex

cd ~/.config/pack/foo/opt/mytex

[download https://github.com/peterbjorgensen/sved/ftplugin]

cp ~/.vimrc ~/.config/nvim/init.vim

add the line "packadd mytex" to init.vim

add the line "alias vim='nvim'" to ~/.bashrc :)
Right exactly. I fully expect to pay in enough purchasing power for a house or two and to get out enough purchasing power for a car or two.
What is viability of storing thermal energy for cooking? Out-side very few specific scenarios like sous-vide proteins, the temperatures generally used are too high for efficient energy transfer.
Quite, hence “first order” - although every dollar paid back needs to be paid back to someone, and as the article points out, the majority of the debt is held by US taxpayers, so that money is still likely to be participating in the US economy, just flowing through different hands.
Ask HN: How to use a smartphone in a privacy conscious manner?
I'm on a quest to decouple my online/digital presence from my actual person as much as possible.

I've started using Qubes OS on an old Dell laptop for my daily computation needs. Email is a lost cause since most of my traffic will pass through google/MS at one point. Started using password managers and throwaways etc but I still haven't figured out a sane way of reaping the benefits of having a smartphone without compromising my security/privacy.

I was thinking of Apple despite their business practices but I have soured on them with the last debate and probably it wasn't a very good idea from the start anyways due to lack of control on the hardware. Have alternative OSs (Calyx, Sailfish, Lineage or mobile linux distros) for android hardware reached maturity? Is it even possible to have closed source hardware not spy on you? Is my best bet buying a nokia 3310 and just listening to music on an mp3 player?

Let me know what solutions you use to keep your privacy.
I highly recommend the forum : http://macos9lives.com/
there are custom ISOs that you can install and -directly-boot MacOS 9 on unsupported models.
I wonder about the 'other' viewers on youtube, the matching to 'you might also like' content is terrible. At best I get a lot of the same channel, or videos containing the same title, or worse still the celebrity garbage that is popular in the country at the time.

The algo also doesnt seem to get the hint - it suggests a video over and over again, an no matter how many times I dont ever watch a video on X channel or on Y subject, it keeps on trying.

While I am complaining, Netflix algo is getting worse too. Stop reccomending the movie I watched earlier in the week, I watched it. I clicked thumbs down on it. I dont want to waste another 90 minutes on it.
Do you have data to back up mass drug test failing? The general consensus is that you have to be both outstandingly stupid and an actual addict to fail the well-telegraphed drug tests at most minimum wage places.
I guess looking at your user info you like BSD? I like *BSD better than Linux. But it's not due to personal feelings about Linus, and I respect his talents and good eye for a lot of technical things.
For every person, there exist sentences that are false (or misleading, or create false implications) but appear to be really, really true. It turns out engagement maximizing sentences are a subset of such false, seemingly true, sentences.

Thus, modern internet platforms optimize for connecting you with sentences that are false but appear to be really, really true (or are misleading or create false implications).

I've been on leftbook and liberal reddit. I've been on conservative reddit, Trump mailing lists, gnews, and other hyper-right-wing sites. I strongly believe you can sell crazy, unfounded beliefs to anybody if you dress it up just right.

Humans are like computers with no firewall, and we just connect willy nilly over the internet. All it takes is one youtube channel or subreddit that pushes the right buttons on your psyche.
There is still a finite capacity, say 1,000 Terabytes written to a 1TB drive. You can do it as gently as you want, it is still incentivizing the writing and overwriting of exabytes of noise.
I don't think any of those things contribute to whether or not I could complete a marathon, though they do contribute to how pleasant the experience would be. The same holds for learning calculus, or doing anything intellectually taxing. It's differing in difficulty for people, however it's not unachievable for anyone who isn't experiencing some kind of mental (or physical, in this marathon example) impairment.

All healthy people can learn calculus and run marathons, with varying degrees of success and effort, due to genetics and environmental factors.
An electric bike does not need to be fed with crops.
When I see Billionaires trying to "improve society" I spend my time trying to figure out the angle so that they not only don't spend any of their own money, but become far richer even if they fail spectacularly.
This is HN so definitely serious. There are a lot of people with rather distorted views of reality here. Also armchair criminal masterminds apparently.
Fun fact : Belmondo gave his face to two comic book characters. The main character of the manga Cobra, and Lieutenant Blueberry, by author Gir.

https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2016/02/29/buichi-tera... (French newspaper)
No, this is not permitted in Switzerland.
1. Aerobatics starting with the sportsman routine in a Decathlon

2. Some game in a Lisp

3. Working out regularly and getting in good shape, and having a rock solid sleep schedule

4. Drums

5. Learning the math for general relativity and general relativity
Yeah plotting on a laptop with a 100GB free is not worth it (especially since they typically have consumer ssds in them), but there is a lot of spare storage space on servers/external drives owned by individuals or companies globally speaking. This global storage distribution that already exists and the fact that no specialized hardware (ASICs) are needed is why Chia has been able to become more decentralized than any other cryptocurrency currently.

It will be interesting to see how things centralize or decentralize going forward. When I think of the lottery I'm always amazed by the number of people that play it even with the extraordinarily low odds of winning that exist. I think there will be some equilibrium that's found for the global number of operating nodes that will be a function on the odds of finding a proof and Chia's price.
Massive immigration is one solution.
One interesting thing about this is that the effect of printing money (how it influences inflation) highly depends on perception. Radio Lab talked about this in a recent episode[0]. This has been a measured effect too and so it is interesting that fearing inflation can be a self fulfilling prophesy.

[0] https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/more-...