skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nigeria, Venezuela, Azerbaijan and Libya are corrupt because the US/UK/others install corrupt regimes and topple democratic ones.

There's no clear explanation for why some countries are rich and prosperous and free while others are not. Anyone claiming to have such a theory is bloviating.

Futher, you assume that the default is democracy and prosperity and we must explain why some countries lack that. But that's not the default! The default is corruption, privation, and instability. Those were certainly the conditions preceeding colonialism. The real question is how to escape that, and we have no particularly good theories there either.

Finally, the idea that certain countries have no agency is insulting and unhelpful.
Technically yes, but it will be made significantly more difficult and more expensive that going at the culturally acceptable time and a lot of the value with fade overtime. I’ve tried to go back and I’m not even particularly old.
I have a metal roof and it's no louder than the shingle roof in my childhood home. I think the big difference vs your awning is that my roof is fully supported by the home's sheathing and is screwed down in many places. This limits the opportunity for the metal to resonate.
Ok, now I see where the confusion is coming from. Fortran is used pretty much exclusively for numerical software. A lot of numerical software has very simple control flow using very few and very simple types. Numbers haven't changed much since they were invented. Fortran is used very differently than you're imagining.
This works for me out of the box. Your bash profile might not be sourcing systemd's /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/systemctl or equivalent path.

This host has bash 4.4.23 and systemd 247.6
Classically you should be able to measure any "information" present in the system. In general a useful machine cannot depend on indistinguishable microstates. If you include quantum mechanics then you may run up against to No-Cloning theorem, but that's a contentious question.
If a body is frozen to low enough temperatures, then the movements of all atoms are reduced to vibrations around some fixed average positions.

After freezing, in vacuum, you could remove the atoms from known positions by shooting ions to them and then you could identify the removed atoms.

Of course this would be exceedingly difficult to do for a large body, because identifying the type and positions of all atoms would take a huge amount of time and because if the body is large it is difficult to freeze its deeper interior fast enough to prevent any damage.

Nevertheless, there is no theoretical reason for this to be impossible.
In 2004 the state of Berlin sold 65000 flats for 405 million euro. Now they are buying 14700 flats for 2.46 billion euro.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSW_Immobilien . Back then they had the same coalition in power as today, the taxpayers money at work.
https://kernelnewbies.org/KernelMentors
Something that others might not be aware of - Gimp could be a lot better by now, but Adobe actually has patents on features that cannot be included into Gimp, including certain UI elements. So there is a limit on what Gimp can do, not because of competency, but because of legality.
Is it though?

It's misleading, I'll give you that, but let's be pedantic (lawyers are)!

They can probably provide the missing bits in dead tree letter format upon written formal request received at their post address.
The U.S. did not "install" Saddam Hussein lol.
> since Covid has sent demand into the earth.

This needs more context.

Around here, it's nigh impossible to get a place. Social housing has waiting lists for over a decade, private renting is more expensive than a mortgage, and buying a house requires you to overbid. There are (plenty) stories of folks overbidding 50k€ and still not getting the house.

If you can afford to buy a house, buy it, divide into subunits, charge 80% of mortgage to each of the 5 subunits.

Anyway, that's what tge housing market looks like here. So I'm guessing your experience is from elsewhere.
I use iTerm2 connected to debian over mosh
As an alternative, there is also `pytest --looponfail`.

Install pytest and pytest-xdist, then run:

pytest --looponfail

It watches for file changes and automatically re-runs any previously failed test. Runs the complete test suite (or a selected subset of tests via additional arguments) if none failed.
Software is the antithesis of that philosophy? Or did you mean Silicon Valley Hypergrowth and Billionaire-worship Culture is the antithesis of that philosophy?

Because it strikes me that software can be many things, it's primary attribute of course being malleability.
A lot of comments in this thread about corporate buy-to-let seem reasonable, but only under the nihilistic assumption that prices cannot fall and home ownership must be perennially out of reach for the median earner.

What about instead of shifting from private parasitic landlords to corporate parasitic landlords, we just let people buy the homes they live in (by enacting one of many possible policies to limit the profitability of BTL and thus reduce competition for homebuyers)?

It just doesn't seem to make any sense to try and apply free market principles to housing. There's absolutely no benefit.
I joke that WSL1 should be named "Line"
Is this contrarian?

Immigration should be massively increased in the US. The surest way for the US and west to grow its international influence, economy, and live up to its values is through immigration. It’s not a zero sum game: immigrants create jobs for everyone. They increase many forms of diversity and expose us to may PoVs. Multiculturalism works, as exhibited by the higher social capital in major cities compared to the ethnically homogenous rural areas. The West would increase its economic competitiveness with other powers (ie China) that are less likely to increase immigration. This will strengthen the security and influence of western powers, giving them also a worldly outlook compared to those with much less immigration.

Faux immigration like H1B and other guest worker visas cruelly create a second class workforce. It would be more humane to allow more actual immigration.

It’s an obvious policy win, I wish more people would vocally support radically increased immigration.
There was an interesting thread about this on Twitter a while ago: https://twitter.com/PlanFlowDev/status/1317680078734696448
I was told to read this by one of my investors.

I think the central theme of "the buck stops with whomever" is very important to take to heart, but some of the delivery is a bit over the top.

What would be more useful to me is a book that explains in painstaking detail how to inception these concepts into others on a reliable basis.
Absolutely. This is one of the reason why it is really hard to explain to laymans why robotic perception is hard. The conversation usually goes: why can’t you just make it do “obviously good action” when “condition” happens? And since “condition” is something they can just see it is hard to convince them the robot doesn’t have access to it in a clear and unambigous maner.
If I don’t sell this addict heroin, someone else will. So why not me!
It's noticeable; not much louder than a shingle etc roof tho because we have a "R9" fiberglass insulation layer between the roof studs and the metal. A retrofit roof would have roof decking to help with that, and you could probably arrange similar insulation too.

Its nowhere near as loud as an aluminum skinned mobile home.
This was an awesome read! I love stories like this. Please recommend me more, if others know of any!
Castle Conquer looks like a very similar game to “Hunchback” from the Commodore 64.
After 15 years, I'm just used to it.

Gimp was _usable_ before the same-window toggle (introduced about 2010?), but when they added that I stopped looking at competitors tbh. I wish certain things in Gimp weren't so kludgy (mainly basic stuff like dropdowns and dialogs), but Photoshop isn't perfect underneath its slick-looking UI either.

That said, I use and kinda adore Premiere, so I'm losing the Adobe "synergy" by not using Photoshop. I still can do everything I want or need to do in Gimp, and I admittedly don't do anything advanced.

Paint.NET sufficed for a little while but Gimp hits that great middle ground for me personally between too-simple and too-powerful.

Gimp moves so slowly that I personally can't wait for downstream forks like PhotoGIMP to pick up updates, so I've always tried to stick to the latest official stable release. I love reading new updates hit the front of HN, usually means a meaty release. :)
You should consider looking into Gradescope (Gradescope.com). As a former TA, I can attest to it making grading much more pleasant and streamlined than it would be otherwise.
Oddly, I agree with you.

When I rented from a personal landlord, when the dishwasher was leaking water across the kitchen they told me it was my problem to replace it with a like model as it must've been my abuse. I barely cook so I have no idea what I could've done wrong.

When I rented from a corporation it was no questions asked, even when I was at fault. They were even proactive with things like filters for the heating/cooling.
Demand for _homes_ is sticky. Demand for property ownership is not at all! It is influenced by speculation and rent-seeking. We can easily cripple both those things and reduce housing cost.

(Edit: I do agree with your conclusion though. We need more homes)
> Norway has the rule of law, low corruption, people have confidence in their government, and the government looks out for the people. With or without oil, these things are tremendous assets.

I think you missed that they have tons of hydro power available which is iirc cheaper or at least on par with burning fossil fuel, so they don't even need oil. Cheap power basically runs down their hills. (Similar to how in Iceland the hot water just spawns out of the ground. Yes I'm a little jealous.)
You are saying, “no, the laws of physics are not mathematical constructs”..? If you’re interpreting “laws of physics” in your original post to mean “what’s really happening”, then your original post is effectively “Free will isn’t really happening because I believe it’s not really happening (laws of physics)”. It also sounds like you’re implicitly making assumptions that what’s really happening is obviously deterministic. This is not clear.

“ No one has ever seen something in nature, or in the lab, that either couldn't have been predicted by the physics of the day, or later after new laws theories were created.”
The list of contradictions to this statement is massive, unless you’re just asserting your faith that all questions will be answered.
I believe it, although at least then it's still targeting a class that others might enter. I do also believe that there's a fundamental difference between income taxes and wealth taking in this regard, in that one is retroactive and the other isn't.
I think the one-sentence version of this is that Workers are meant for small, undemanding tasks (for example, they have tight memory limits and don’t have great performance), so using them to do “serious number crunching” at the edge, which is the advertised use case, seems questionable.

I think the blurb about the downsides of Wasm is just too generic, it’s a sort of “why Wasm isn’t preferable to JS in all cases” for the uninitiated. It may not be meant to imply that number crunching is the use case.
"Slower," in my experience

I wonder if having Mercurial continue in python is a development advantage, or it just started out that way but now would benefit from a more performant version
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That sounds super vague. Taiwan is economically integrated with China, so are South Korea and to a lesser extent, Japan. Vietnam is dependent on Chinese imports and they share a land border. Most of Australia exports go to China. At peace time this is just posturing. In time of war no one ever doubted Australia would be on the side of the US.
On gitlab, there has been another way for some time: There is a JWT token CI_JOB_JWT available in an env var which contains the branch name and other info as one of the claims [1]. One can then use this token to obtain production secrets based on whether the branch is trusted.

Github has the same feature upcoming [2], which allows to get also directly AWS or GCP credentials restricted by branch name [3, 4].

[1] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/examples/authenticating-with-h...
[2] https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/249
[3] https://awsteele.com/blog/2021/09/15/aws-federation-comes-to...
[4] https://github.com/sethvargo/oidc-auth-google-cloud
That sucks if that’s your reality. It means you’ve never had a manager that protects their team and sets them up for success.

If my teams are struggling it’s my fault in the eyes of external stakeholders and I own that. If my direct reports cause an issue I expect them to fix it, but that isn’t used as a reason for the failure outside the team.
Well, and remember that in the US (which is where the article is about), minimum is less than half that.
The market for housing sets the price. Whether it is owned by a family, a landlord with one property or a corporation doesn’t change the price.
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Many USA creative agencies have half days on Friday in the summer. That's gotten me to thinking...

What I'm looking for is 40 hrs one week, but 32 the next. The result would be every other Friday off. Then align thoses Fridays with Monday holidays, that would yield a number of 4 day weekends.

So an average of 36 hrs per week (10% less than the current standard) with a beautiful increase in recovery time.
agreed. also, it’s definitely relevant background.
When you start, services like Heroku, Firebase etc.. gives you a lot of power. Imho it's never a good idea. For example I have server rendered websites in go sdk (with the template engine) and other website in full node js stack (in my case react but the concept stays).
I don't really see a use case for mixed use since having two different languages slow you down.
To put homeless in?
>You may have the same soul - for very approximately defined definitions of soul - but you certainly don't have the same identity.

This is a contradiction in terms for me. I have no idea how soul and identity could be different.

We apparently think differently. Changing tastes in music or finding out one's response to a new situation are not inconsistencies or changes to identity, from my perspective.

I don't understand what you mean about "we can't know" emotional and mental states. I can't know your mental state. But it doesn't mean anything to say I can't know my mental state. Who is "I" then? How can there be a mental state of someone who doesn't exist? If a series of 1000 cars was built, what is the paint code for #1001?

I'm doubtful that actions or behaviors can really be inconsistent. I'd prefer to say that when observing someone else, the totality of their actions can be confusing to where I give up trying to model their mental state. But that doesn't mean there isn't one. And sort of, like, the physical world is defined as being consistent, isn't it?

Identity has to be based on physical processes, and therefore I think I'd even say that can't be inconsistent. In principle, there would be a set of numbers that would fully describe a person over time, and it would have to satisfy physical law, and that's inherently consistent.

What can be inconsistent, I think, is explanations for actions and properties of the self. I think it's good to focus on resolving the reasoning and explanations that are used to rationalize everything, but not to confuse it with one's actions and identity.
Yep. This is literally the lesson that is demonstrated extremely clearly by the software of, ironically, Apple.
Really good accessibility support ends up being really useful to all sorts of people in all sorts of ways.

I have near perfect vision/hearing/speech and no motor difficulties, but there are several accessibility features that I enable on my Mac and iPhone because they make it easier for me to do certain things.

Even outside the software realm, examples like adding ramps to entrances instantly makes life a little bit easier for people pushing carts/strollers, which at various times is a pretty huge part of the population.
Music Source Separation: separate audio recordings into vocals and accompaniment
The thing is: not everyone wants to be a “leader”, and rejecting a promotion is basically saying “goodbye” to be company that is offering you the promotion. I was in this exact same situation: I ended up quitting because I’m not a “leader”.
Easy with the conspiracy theories. They may know your height, your eye/hair color, your skin color, your license plate #, where you live, where you work, where you shop, who you hang out with, etc, but you'll still be totally anonymous when they sell that information to whoever pays for it. They swear!
I didn't say "allowable". I said "correctly"; it doesn't mean what GP appears to think it means.

As for whether de facto specifically is hyphenated, go look it up yourself. Latin phrases are not hyphenated; that's generally agreed. This is because they are easily seen to hang together as a single unit without the added help of a hyphen, so the hyphen is redundant in this case. But yes, I am aware that most pairs of words used as a modifier, as in this case, would be hyphenated. I own about eight style guides, so I wasn't just going off randomly about that.
Uninsured motorist coverage is a line item on my insurance documents. I know it is not required by every state but I don't know if there are states where it is not offered. I can't imagine choosing not to have that coverage if it were an option.
Sorry dumb question... but I though _black_ was the best radiator (black body radiation and all that)... what am I missing?
I checked it out and could not wrap my head around Krita tbh. It feels very powerful but focused on solving many different problems, of which photo-manipulation is only one of them.

I need to take another look and give it another try, I don't think I'm done with Krita yet, but it's not a replacement for Gimp yet (as far as I'm concerned.) There's some beauty in having focus.
It’s not a hard question at all. Apple has the money to easily accommodate all of their workers. It would even be a PR win. Tim Cook and the other execs are just anti-labor to their core and (don’t realize?) how clear their actions are being read by future potential employees.
I agree, I think most of my meetings there is a designated scribe/chair and they speak out loud when they are documenting the important details. It's kinda useless to have a second to second transcription of the whole meeting.
Ah, yes. I see what you mean. Thanks for clarifying. Yes, I think we are on the same page.
What you are missing is that corporate ownership makes it much easier to raise rent. It is very hard for 100 000 individual small time landlords to collectively raise rent in normal conditions (i.e., with no housing shortage). Many will lower rent to get their properties rented faster. But if you have a dozen or so large corporate owners it happens almost automatically.

This is very simple and well understood economics. If you lower the number of providers of a good or service they gain bargaining power.

Large corporations work very hard to make sure there is as large as possible number of providers of every item they buy and every service they use. But somehow when it comes to ordinary people, we are supposed to pretend it is a good thing. No, it is not a good thing.
This is a philosophical, not a technical 'paradox'.

In your model, why would the ability to make copies, based on the complete information you have successfully gathered, stop the instance you destroy the original?
I once got a Theranos test mostly for fun. Everyone is so focused on the fraud that they miss a more fundamental issue: finger pricks are a very painful way to draw blood. Your finger tip is extremely heavily innervated and very sensitive. Okay, maybe no big deal if you need one drop of blood, e.g. for a hemoglobin test. But Theranos wanted maybe ten drops of blood. Having one’s finger squeezed hard and long enough to extract that much blood takes quite a while and leaves one’s finger hurting for quite a while.

I would take a venous blood draw from a good or even mediocre phlebotomist over a Theranos test any time. Heck, the time I got thirteen or so blood vials drawn by an actual good phlebotomist was basically painless and may have been faster than getting a single magic Theranos cartridge drawn.

So count me out. People who want tests can go to Labcorp or Quest and get reasonably priced testing done by professional phlebotomists. Both companies have offices all over.
All that is true. What I was criticizing was the logic of the linked paper, which went, essentially: ‘When I do slightly insecure things, nothing bad observably happens. Therefore, Mossad must not be after me. It follows that it’s OK to not be very secure, since only Mossad could break through my security anyway’. This logic is faulty for the reason I wrote; your slightly bad security can be broken without you necessarily knowing about it, since the reason the entities I termed “the NSA” have for breaking your security is different from the reason which what he termed “Mossad” has.
So it is services generally that you have a problem with?
The Norwegian armed forces' most pertinent threat is being invaded by Russia as part of a bigger east/west struggle. Russia invading for oil is unthinkable. If anything it would be a conflict over arctic drilling. Source: Am Norwegian officer.

However, it makes more sense for us to export our petroleum than to let supply decrease, driving up prices for the Russian exports.
I don't think it's an intrinsic property of social media, just one of free-to-use social media designed specifically to maximize engagement.

The alternatives are (1) legislation that forces them to focus on more than just engagement-at-all costs or (2) a paid platform akin to Neeva ($5/month ad-free search engine).
Teaching new users about "--force-with-lease" may pay dividends over the less considerate "--force": https://git-scm.com/docs/git-push#Documentation/git-push.txt...

That is to say: I totally benefit from "git commit --amend && git push --force-with-lease" but 100% percent of the time want that flow to call time-out if someone has pushed before me
I miss beige computers.
> I read about an experiment where people were shown various black and white drawings over random grayish backgrounds. They then had to estimate the hue of the grayish background - which was tricking because it only has slight amount of red, or blue, etc)

I'm colour blind, and if a picture is in black and white, I can't always tell.

A long while back our CRT TV broke, and started displaying everything without colour - I had no idea until my wife pointed it out! It's like my mind just makes up what it doesn't see.

Another example that I always use is grass: if you showed me a cropped image of grass and I didn't know it was grass, I'll tell you "I don't know what colour it is, but I think it's either red, brown or green". But if you point to some grass, I'll always say "it's green!".
Effect of Bimagrumab vs. Placebo on Body Fat Mass
I have not heard of fzf - but anything that makes cli interactions with systemd is welcome by me. I love it as a tool - but it is kinda verbose with cli args.
The problem with offering promotions to people already in your company is: what if they don’t actually want the promotion? (Promotions involve more responsibilities and not everyone wants that). And usually, Rejecting a promotion is seen as a bad thing (“oh, Joe doesn’t look ambitious enough!”).
I for one hadn't thought about the cost of shipping your own standard library with every bundle, so it was informative for me
"It's like a burrito!"
Simply pointing out common phrases used by fellow HN'ers for research purposes and the crime of curiousity
Scientists develop way to make concrete in space using space dust, bodily fluids