skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, so if I understand you correctly, you're saying that - with the constraint of what's currently being proposed, a small set of tentative / cautious controls around gun ownership - that there's not much to gain, so consequently there's not much point trying ... ?

If that's roughly it, then I'd suggest:

a) the cautiousness is a political necessity - and does not preclude the option of pursuing stronger, but similarly sentiment policy changes down the road. First steps, and all that.

b) my understanding is that even very basic, not hugely contentious (almost bipartisan support for) ideas, such as removal of full automatic and ridiculously high calibre from the marketplace, stopping sales at gun shows without background checks, cooling off periods, requiring safe storage gun cabinets, etc - would result in a measurable decrease in deaths (murders, massacres, suicides, accidents).

In any case, it feels like even if (b) wasn't a highly likely, the cost of doing it is relatively low to the potential (but, really almost guaranteed) outcomes.

> I find the oft-said quote of "If we can save even one life..." type of argument a massive red flag.

I don't speak for all non-American citizens, but outside of the country looking in, it feels like (media, social groups, etc) this past year or four we've had an alarming reveal about the attitudes of a surprisingly large portion of American society -- even if something trivially inconvenient is requested of them, that demonstrably will save the lives of other citizens, there's an instinctive and violent push-back.

So, yes indeed - suggesting that some lives could be saved probably isn't a sufficient and satisfactory argument for many people there. But that's a separate problem.
Could the business not be 'viable' owing to the fact that there is simply no alternative? If the choice is between making a "reservation" that may or may not be available and between definitely not having a car, obviously everyone is going to pick the former, but that could be within bounds of 99% of those picking the former still being disappointed, just having no other option.
The best thing you can do for a beginner is to train them into being an expert, not make beginner-grade tools. Climbing a high learning curve is good because they end up being more capable of solving harder problems. We shouldn’t shy away from things like domain-specific languages in the name of approachability; if you want a competitive advantage you have to do something not everyone else can.
Always build customer specific work outside the API. The API stays generic, the customer code in another repo. Avoid the single tenant thing, super painful to do ops in the future unless seven figures. Use WorkOS for SSO. If it's six figures it's worth enterprise level CS. This is how a lot of great companies start.
Slightly meta but: Has anyone done an analysis of how well companies, who have their S-1 posted on HN, perform?
There are millions of small businesses in Spain. Tiny bars, cafes etc. it can’t be such a bad environment.
> I guess Europeans aren't happy to impose political sanctions on command.

Right. And so now the United States is moving on from Europe. They still get all the benefits of trade and such without any of the commitment that they feel wasn't being reciprocated.

I'm not trying to make a moral judgement of the US or EU or something here, just trying to interpret what moves are being made.
I don't understand why France sticks with the USA/UK at this point as they treated as bull-crap. I am sure they could strike a good deal with the Chinese and be better off: like leasing land in the Caribbean Sea or making a joint venture in some weapon. France don't really care about the China Sea in the end.

They should be as "pragmatical" as the Aussie !.
> Someone may report that they’re very satisfied by videos that claim “the Earth is flat,” but that doesn’t mean we want to recommend this type of low-quality content.

OK, that's a very simple example they are throwing out there. But there are many cases where nothing is really settled and Youtube will arbitrarily decide what is fake or not - even though they have absolutely no right to make such kind of judgment. "Authoritative News" can routinely mean "facts" and "hoaxes". It's not like we have never seen those in recent history...
He's saying what happened in Derna (i.e. abandoning allies) was and always will be the way of the US government. It's a part their DNA, their heritage, and they'll keep doing it. Personally, not sure if this holds merit.
Cool happenings in Fedora Workstation land
And even there e.g. a blockbuster movie requires the collaboration of far more people than were involved in carving these camels.
> Why should they? America is an unreliable partner

If this question was raised in 2015, it would have been unequivocally yes. So was last 4 decades of partnership with NATO.

We have such a short-term memory and forgot the state of the world before the pandemic, let alone before Trump.
If I was in a bike lane, I would not be interested in sharing it with a 120kg enclosed scooter. If you've got a roof you can go drive in the road with the other cars.
I really like how the further you scroll the more absurd it gets. Great touch
> Even if as a user of their product I routinely find it to be half-baked

I thought so too, but then my enterprise started moving to Github. Hoo boy, that’s a whole different can of worms. Their core functionality is great, but if you need anything outside of that you are shit out of luck.
Fascinating and terrifying.
> Rental car companies cannot control their inventory as well as we might hope.

Why not? Make a late return fee sufficiently high, and see if suddenly inventory control becomes a lot easier.
Sorry, Anti-Vaxxer
Django has always had some magic, although much less than ruby/rails.
That kind of magic is the reason why it is a pain to package a Django project with py2exe, for instance.
US is able to output harm while China doesn't have that ability.
I do not support Cook and Pachal getting arrested over submitting to Putin over their employees being held hostage, but they should definitely pull Apple and Google out of Russia and Communist China. US government should help out, at least by prohibiting US citizens from traveling to these regions without a special exception. Should be easy to do during the pandemic anyway, beats me why the government is so weak about it.
IANAL How might this interact with the ZeroTier BSL license? Would self hosting an alternative controller combined with BSL licensed clients violate the license (for commercial purposes)?
Simply put, the ask-bid spread on barely-used and/or CPO cars are huge (read: they buy really low and sell really high). Dealers make a lot of money this way.
I really wish Google Playstore, and iOS/macOS App Stores would install apps automatically at background. Why I need to open those stores, click to update, and on Playstore even have it running at foreground to update?

Snap installs automatically, so it's modern.

Windows 11 Store, Chrome OS, and Linux Mint also can autoupdate at background.

Hopefully some day on all OSes have possibility to enable autoupdates to run at background.
>You also remove efficiency signals to curtail under-valued work.

I'd argue that the typical diffuse ownership structures you find in most consumer-facing businesses today has the same effect, if not as absolute. The people who see the economic signals and they people with on-the-ground knowledge are split up: a sort of business logic hemispherectomy.
Refactoring by definition doesn’t fix things though so parent comment is still right
Well it’s not that alien, it (along with the other Eastern Slavic languages, Ukrainian and Belarusian) is mostly a run-of-the-mill European language (unlike Finnish, Estonian or Hungarian) except it didn’t lose the Indo-European noun case system like most but instead developed even more cases. That is, where English or French would differentiate the roles of different arguments of a verb by prepositions or implicitly by position, Russian (like German and Latin) has a special axis of noun forms called “case” which it uses for that (and also prepositions, which now require a certain case as well—a noun form can’t not have a case like it can’t not have a number).

There are six of them (nominal [subject], genitive [belonging, part, absence, “of”], dative [indirect object, recipient, “to”], accusative [direct object], instrumental [device, means, “by”], prepositional [what the hell even is this]), so you have (cases) × (numbers) = 6 × 2 = 12 noun forms, and adjectives agree in number and gender with their noun, but (unlike Romance languages) plurals don’t have gender, so you have (cases) × (numbers and genders) = 6 × (3 + 1) = 24 adjective forms.

None of this would be particularly problematic, except these forms work like French or Spanish verbs: they are synthetic (case, number and gender are all a single fused ending, not orthogonal ones) and highly convoluted with a lot of irregularities. And nouns and adjectives are usually more important for a web search than verbs.
http://web.archive.org/web/20140702133429/http://mattmaroon....
I realize grammatically I fucked that one up: I would be better off without them. The world would also be better off without them.
The upset is not just about the loss of a commercial deal, I'm sure there will be some contractual compensations.

The issue is about the manner in which the deal was announced. Newspapers describe the urgent calls from the AU officials to their French counterparts hours before the very public announcement by the US, UK and AU.

Diplomatically, that's a pretty callous thing to do to a partner.
The ballooning costs may have been a factor in the decision, but it's more likely that the move is purely geopolitical. In these matters, there is also no guarantee that the deal with the US will end up cheaper at all.

The more important subtext here is the damage done to the US' image and trustworthiness as it's willing to do backroom deals to serve its interests by disregarding friends and allies. Not the end of the world, but not a very smart move either if you want to be trusted.
> I also suggest you fully commit to yarn or npm, they are definitely different enough to be awkward to combine.

I can't even migrate to Yarn because of issues. Try using a package that has binary (`bin` in `package.json`) or other metadata and publish on your private NPM registry and then use it with Yarn or NPM v7 you won't be able to as it strips away this metadata.

For example, if I want to push a patched version of Playwright to my NPM registry. I can't use it if I don't use NPM v6. Also the daily 404s errors when trying to install your private NPM packages which requires retry your jobs isn't help either.

Sadly it's not an important enough issue for them to fix. I am really wondering if Gitlab is using their products themselves.
Serious question. With the borders closed have there even been many foreign home buyers?
Native Floridian.

They’re coming because there is no state income tax and the most significant taxation hits tourists (hotel, rental cars, property tax on vacation homes, etc.). The winter weather isn’t bad, either. ;)

Property tax is probably the highest tax for a resident who owns a home, and even so, it tends to be much less than many other places.

There’s a misconception Florida is an inexpensive place to live. I hear it all the time from newcomers.

It is becoming increasingly expensive for general cost of living, housing and insurance. Home prices now exceed where they were 15 years ago during the real estate bubble.

Also, the state doesn’t invest in nearly the amount of infrastructure it should for the number people here.

For instance, hurricanes are a threat to the entire state, yet there are numerous counties in the panhandle which have no hurricane shelter, and those which do often have one only rated for a Cat 2 storm. Hurricane Michael hit the region in 2018 as a Cat 5.

Unfortunately, it will probably take a massive environmental disaster (hurricane, red tide, climate change) to convince the all but the most hardened individuals Florida wasn’t a good place to move to.
Pretty much, yes. Enrichment is the hard part and US subs have fuel enriched enough for a gun type nuke.
These nuclear subs run on highly enriched uranium. There is serious NPT issue involved that only the US has the power to ignore.
you are so full of shit it hurts. first, new used cars barely offer a discount. second, how often exactly are you buying cars? carfax hasn’t even been out long enough for you to have done this more than once, and I doubt you even did it then. you sound like the kid in school who just makes up weird lies for no reason.
My understanding is that the foreign buyers use the real estate as an investment, so they wouldn't be deterred if they couldn't visit their property in person.
At least those are "allies" and not existential threats.
US will reportedly impose crypto sanctions amid ransomware attacks
> $5000 reliable car

2nd generation Toyota Prius
And sometimes the purpose is a planned economy, and the pretext is whatever it is today.
The truly safe drivers will wait until a dozen or so of the 'safe drivers' have their first accidents. I wonder what level of candor we can expect from Tesla in terms of a) interventions and b) accident reports?

I for one, would like to see more transparency in this process before I attempt to use FSD.
This is completely insane. The "Imperial System" (and the even looser defined US system) has no advantages vs SI. It confuses mass and weight. That disqualifies it right from the start.

Have you ever done thermodynamics in US/Imperial units? Horrifying, enough to make you swear off everything heat- and steam-related for life.
Could it be an ennui about tech news, resulting from the Tower of Babel of great projects and great ideas, that haven't reliably improved our IT or development experiences?
Sure, nothing is stopping the author from making a web app, and that would actually be fine and most people would use that, and it would probably be the best path and focus. I’m not discounting that.

I was just attempting to summarize the author’s reasoning for making a nonweb/local application. And in all honesty the author can and should do what the author wants and what they feel is best.

There just seemed to be unwarranted and frankly odd “outrage” about it in a lot of comments.
So one thing people forget about serious illnesses is that it's not just about the cost of medical procedures. It's possible that the only doctors who know how to treat your particular condition are in another city, so there are travel expenses involved. Plus, if your health issues mean you can't work for a long period of time, that can also impact your finances.

(for what it's worth, I currently work for a company that makes software offering various kinds of secondary insurance, and I've spent the last few months learning about the kinds of things "cancer insurance" and "accident insurance" are for, and it's been an eye-opener)

And as for your car: yeah, liability insurance is compulsory in the US, but it's really painful to be hit by someone who's illegally uninsured. It actually happened to my mom a few years ago—she got lucky, her insurance was willing to pick up the tab, but she could've been on the hook for a lot of money if her insurance punted instead (to be fair, the damage to her car was entirely cosmetic, and her car was still operable, just with a car-sized dent in it).
> Box trucks cost around 2.5x what they did two years ago. I'm finding 10+ year old beat up GMC trucks going for over $100k.

a) Where the fuck are you looking? The heavy equipment section of CL in every major city is littered with 10-20yo 15-26ft box trucks for $5-16k depending on specs and condition.

b) Purchase price doesn't really matter that much if you are reselling it when you're done.
I read through the README and I'm still not quite sure - given how simple it is to set up wireguard, what's the value add here?
I've looked into replacing my personal WireGuard setup with an innernet [0] managed network. You can throw it onto a generic VPS and make managing WireGuard peers super easy.

It's not unlike Tailscale and nebula (that others already mentioned) but I think it deserves to be mentioned.

[0]: https://github.com/tonarino/innernet
What are the political costs of blockading the Malacca straights? China sentiment worldwide is at rock-bottom due to wolf warrior diplomacy and belt and road corruption, Xinjiang, etc. Hell, public sentiment for boycotting the Beijing Olympics is >50% in Canada. If china invades Taiwan, I'd be surprised if most countries don't jump at the chance to screw over china.

It might not even be necessary to work that hard at a blockade. If there's any hot action in the south china sea, most oil shippers are going to cease operations voluntarily because they don't want their ship to be accidentally shot down by either side.

>100 days

That's 3 months. Not very much.
This is in really poor taste.
Static Analysis at GitHub
Interesting! My product is very frontend-heavy actually when it comes to the customizations (except the SSO and ok... yes the database) Could you elaborate a bit more? I am struggling to understand.
> Those cars went somewhere

The driveways of people who couldn't buy new cars because #ChipShortage.
Eh — that leadership is in title and name only.

Anyone who does this is not a dumbshit, those who get in their way probably are.

OP: would love to make your acquaintance, email is checked in profile.
"Right. And so now the United States is moving on from Europe"

This "US was helping ungratefull Europe, and now is tired of doing so" story seems to have a few pages missing.

The US bases here are largest outside US itself, and are vital for US logistics - they have everything from stategic airlift to nukes. Every deployment to Middle East involved them. So lets not pretend US has no need of them.

US ability to project power around the world depends on countries being willing to host their kit.

Where can I see the evidence of this "moving on" happening in the real world, rather than it just being a diplomatic spat? None of the equipment has left.
> France has 0 ability to protect those territories

France has nuclear-powered submarines carrying nuclear ICBMs. Of course they can defend their islands.

> Sure France could sail the Charles de Gualle to the Pacific

France has a permanent navy presence in the Pacific. They don't need to get an aircraft carrier there. Aircraft carriers are useless against a modern army anyway. It's all about submarines.

> because France and the EU can't really do anything

That's the second economic block in the world. There is plenty they can do to piss off America if they want to. They could think it's in their best interest to be more concilient with China for example. That's how diplomacy works.

> What's Russia going to do?

Russia is a nuclear power and one of the largest country on the planet, a country full of natural resources. They are also quite close to China and an important link in the new silkroad which is an important part of China global strategy. You can't just dismiss Russia. It's foolish.
Because France doesn't need to care about China but they do need to care about Russia, and they don't have the ability to counterbalance Russia without the US. This is part of why their nationalist movement to rebuilt their military is growing strength, but they're far from being capable of being independent from the US.
To the best of my knowledge, you can only determine latitude with shadows (and even then, current state of the art requires multiple photos to resolve ambiguities). To determine longitude, you need to correlate time or match features somehow. The flagpole search did that with flight paths and honking, which isn't applicable here. Vegetation would probably be a more useful hint if imgur didn't compress the detail out of it, but be particularly challenging regardless at the true latitude.
A temporary ban seems like it won't be very impactful in the long term.

Have these sorts of policies, even when permanent, had much of an impact on places where they're implemented? From what I've heard it doesn't seem to have cooled off the market in places like New Zealand
For framing I love Larry Haun's videos and technique. There's nothing like watching a master just blaze through a project and make it look dead easy, while also explaining it simply. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh6cMQnWGwA&list=PLv8J8XldbK...
Hulu was outright refusing to play anything a couple of months ago, for example.
It's not exactly an obscure term. I didn't know what it stands for, but it's very, very common to refer to "OECD countries", so I knew it was more or less synonymous with "developed Western countries".

Looking over the membership list, it also includes Japan, Korea, Turkey, and several Latin American countries.
From what I understand, your basic nuclear weapon (WWII tech) isn’t technically difficult to build because the principles are well known. The uranium is the difficult part.

Sure you could extract the fuel rods, but how many weapons will you get out of it? Is having a handful of low yield bombs worth the international sanctions?

I think you’re better off having strategic strike capability with cruise missiles from submarines. They are a lot more flexible and you can have a lot of them without the other nations getting too upset.
This is not good - the west should be unifying against Russia and China, not infighting. Bunch of comments here about how US is an unreliable partner, how France is throwing a tantrum over trivial matters and how Australia is stabbing them in the back. The larger picture of all this bickering is causing sentiment dent amongst NATO countries and the rest of the western powers. Media finds all this spicy and it has been on top news channels spooking people into tribal instincts. Not good.
Kalevala
This is one of the saddest websites I've seen in a while.
>> But there are also a lot of people who thought that if they learned one environment they'd have a job forever

Well that's how it worked out for me. I learned Java in the 90's and have used it at every job since for a quarter century. It's changed some, but it hasn't changed that much. It's not going anywhere. I learned other technologies when I had the chance but it hasn't really mattered, all that was wasted effort.

I guess it matters more for front-end development, but over the years that has shifted into being done by a separate team most places I've worked. I don't touch front-end code where I work now.
How important is knowing the difference between mass and weight when you are buying bananas?
the blame-the-foreigners narrative has always sounded too convenient to be entirely true. People used to love saying this in California, when there clearly are so many other problems with housing like Prop 13 and zoning. Is there any data from reputable sources that actually quantifies this effect?
I got Mandrake 8 from InfoLinux magazine during their roadshows among universities in early 2000s, along with Rusmanto and Onno Purbo. Good old days.
This is the wrong approach, solving a superficial symptom of a deeper root cause.

The problem is that housing is a commodity, not that foreign persons are purchasing the commodity. I guarantee you that if he follows through on this we'll see enterprising Canadian "entrepreneurs" buying the homes and creating securities to hide the ownership details and then selling those securities abroad.

If the market exists, wealthy folks will find a way to play in that market.
>What about constantly redlining the engine?

Not even close to a consideration as long as the engine is getting scheduled fluid changes.

Source: used to be privy to some OEM testing info.

Also, a Dodge Neon can go 50 in 1st gear, or maybe it was 2nd, I forget.