skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Russia can't ask US service to deny making business with US citizen (for example). It's completely outside of their territory.

Not sure what US citizens have got to do with this. Russia obviously was able to order Google to block relevant apps and documents for Russian people. Why would they care that US citizens can still access them?
IMO this kind of race-baiting, divisive satire doesn't belong on HN.
No fine print. Even their data transfer limit (10 TiB out per month) works as advertised. I run a tor node which pushes ~9.5 TiB out each month, leaving half a terabyte for myself. No issues yet.
This article is cherry-picking. There are good reasons why people often compare Sweden with similar neighboring countries like Denmark and Norway. The less similar the compared countries are, the more additional factors need to be taken into account: health systems, compliance levels, population density, population habits and frequency of contacts, how they deal with elderly and how often young and older people mix, economics, and so on and so forth.

Experts will provide thorough analysis of fatality rates and the effectiveness of healthcare measures, but it will take a while and I'd rather wait a few years until emotions have cooled down and this is no longer such a "political issue" (most of it is not, but some people chose to make it one). Personally, I'm quite happy with how my host country Portugal dealt with the crisis.
Dont use dynamic dns for a email server...big NONO
No, population density is how many people live in a certain area. They can live spread out over the entire area (rural) or concentrated in cities and similar (urban).
FT has a good one-stop place to compare case and death data between countries and US states:

https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=usa&areas=tha&are...

What's hard to line up are the changes in policy, behavior, vaccination, and variant mix that obviously have a big effect on the dynamics of the epidemic. I suspect it'll be quite a while before that data is compiled in a form that allows really strong analysis.
Aside from the apparently compulsory CGI fight in the sky in the last act, Shang Chi has excellent action scenes.
Hello from China
It's not just Search, YouTube has very good earnings too. But yes, almost all ads, at really fucking good margins.
Meetings vs. Me: A Short Memoir
This is an incredibly important point that I agree with. I would take this further to separate "legal person" from "mind", as I understand the mind is itself an emergent and self-supporting adaptive process[1], very common to find among any persistent complex systems. Politicians don't make politics, it's the other way around.

[1] I use this phrase to replace "intent", because outside of requiring the "intender" to be person who can be held to account with punishment or reward, the reward mechanism is the same environmental pressure.
> an attitude of "we want to do it our way, and at our pace"

In Japanese, there is a term for this, and it's actually borrowed from the English "my pace" (マイペース). If somebody has this attitude, you can call them a my-pace. From what I've seen, that term is always an insult: nobody ever calls someone else a my-pace as a compliment.
He's saying that Sweden is larger but that you can expect the same population density in places where people live, i.e. cities, so just raw national population density is not a good metric.

I don't know if it's true, mind you.
I vaguely remember that Gecko-based browsers used to be more common.
I hadn't thought of such a card. Now I want one.
The more specific criticism in Germany in the 60s was that may of the then-current elites had also been in positions of power two decades before, as (literal) Nazis.
Yes. In JS it is best to avoid FP principles such as immutability in hot code paths, the extra allocations and GCs are not worth the cleanliness.
I feel like right now, society has just over-committed to wasteful use of resources.

There is a gas station attendant working at 4am because they only cost $8/h and the company makes enough revenue during that hour that that is worth it.

If they need to start paying $15h/h and have to close from 1am to 5am, some people might not be able to get cigarettes from the gas station, or buy gas without a credit card.

Or maybe, out of 5 gas stations, 1 will remain open and now have 5 times as many customers during those hours, so it's worth it to stay open again.

But right now, 4 out of 5 gas stations are open simply because they can be, no matter how useful they are.
Costs of doing business get baked-in to the sale price.
The solution presented in the article uses the bitcoin protocol. BSV is just one implementation of that. It could also work on BCH if some default limits were lifted, and (theoretically, not economically) possible on BTC.
> We do have a representative democracy, and a shockingly effective one. It represents the people who can drop $50k + annually on political donations. My time in that world is some time in the past so I'm probably badly underestimating the amount.

Ha! Yes this is true.

I don't find this controversial, I find it sad that poorer people were lied to about their ability to participate or what the vote means or its weight.
There are some really interesting choices for F/OSS email servers these days. There are SMTP+IMAP:

- maddy[0] (I use this)

- chasquid[1]

- docker-mailserver[2]

And combinations:

- haraka[3]/ZoneMTA[4] (SMTP) + wilduck[5] (IMAP)

Modoboa brings something new in that it bundles together the frontend but I'm very happy with Thunderbird (and there are other frontends like Sogo) -- the competition is stiff and modoboa really could use a front-and center image of what the app looks like on the main page.

[EDIT] I forgot two!

- iredmail (https://www.iredmail.org/download.html)

- Apache James (https://james.apache.org/)

[0]: https://maddy.email/

[1]: https://github.com/albertito/chasquid

[2]: https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver

[3]: https://haraka.github.io

[4]: https://github.com/zone-eu/zone-mta

[5]: https://wildduck.email/
Rider, their closed-source .NET IDE, is supposedly written in Kotlin though (except for the parts that are written in C#):

https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2016/01/13/project-rider-a...
Looking at the other articles on the substack, it reads a lot like propaganda in the other direction, defending Ron Desantis in FL but attacking CA for its mask mandanes...kind of blantant likely partisan propaganda.
Watch out for:

> Resources identified as Always Free will not be reclaimed. After your Free Trial expires, you'll continue to be able to use and manage your existing Always Free resources, and can create new Always Free resources according to tenancy limits.

> However, Ampere A1 Compute instances are disabled when your trial ends and then deleted (terminated) after 30 days, unless you upgrade to a paid account. To continue using Arm-based compute instances as an Always Free user, you must delete your existing Ampere A1 Compute instances and create new Ampere A1 Compute instances.
Why does the author put so much effort into testing VMs? Bare metal installations aren't even tried, so the article won't represent more typical setup (unless you want to run in cloud, in which case it would make sense to test in cloud).
> Schmidt also references youtube as a messaging/social platform in the podcast episode.

I've heard that from other people at Google as well. But the fact that YouTube isn't a messaging/social app in any significant way is part of why I stick with it. I wonder if I'm not the only one.
Test is difficult to be automatically generated. Unit testing Shane's when it catches the edge cases, which cannot be automated or they're very different. That's why a few teams are employing AI to solve this issue.
It's a guide, OK, I agree. But there's nothing smart about it.
What’s amazing to me is how much data they’re pumping out — their bandwidth bills must be insane. Or they did some pretty amazing negotiating contracts considering Netflix is like what, $10-15/mo? And there are many who “binge” many shows likely consuming gigabytes per day (in addition to all the other costs, not least of which is actually making the programming)?
"Wait a second, why is the chance of getting shot and killed by the police a per capita statistic."

To normalize data collected from jurisdictions with different populations.

"The denominator should be the number of police-initiated encounters."

It depends what you care about. If you're a black man in America, perhaps you care about the overall chance of dying this way.

Perhaps, conditional on having been stopped by police, the chance of being shot and killed is the same for white men and black men. But this would be irrelevant if black men are 10X more likely to be stopped in the first place.
For several months last year there was a $600 a week federal unemployment supplement, and there has been $300 a week since the beginning of this year (it expired a couple weeks ago).

Netting out $400 a week (state+federal) isn't a huge amount of money of course.

Several other rules were also changed, but there are still limits on the number of weeks people can collect unemployment.

What I've seen here and there is that the states that ended benefits earlier did see a small bump in employment (but not a particularly meaningful one).
This is how low the bar is for Navalny and his team, specifically. Nothing more, nothing less.
Not great, not terrible…
Well, the shell and the metal drive ring at the centre of the disc (something 8" and 5¼" floppies didn't have).
It's nice that you think healthcare in the US works like that. I promise you that everyone I know who complains about what they are charged for healthcare is, in fact, complaining about the out-of-pocket cost. Let me know how you feel about it when you're paying $800/month for insurance and every time you use it for something that isn't routine, you spend the next month terrified not knowing what you're going to have to pay in addition. And then you get the bill. Either it's mostly covered and you pay an extra $75-$100 on top of insurance premiums or it's not and you have to figure out how to pay the bill.

You've got a very positive view of US Healthcare that doesn't seem to be rooted in experience.
> (I notice a few comments describing this syntax as less readable. My first thought was that these comments were sarcastic/trolling, but I've concluded that they're serious – but written by programmers who think very differently than I do!)

Don't worry, I assumed the exact same about your comment. I still have to remind myself sometimes that people use Python because they think it's easier to reason about.
In my (albeit biased) experience, the CS department has super high demand (everyone is trying to switch into it or apply to it) but to the university, it's just 1 out of 100 different departments so it feels underfunded compared to the demand it has.
Germany had a N95 mask mandate (called FFP2 in Europe), nothing else was allowed, and yet had a very similar infection curve to Sweeden (according to article picture) which had no mask mandate.

Mask quality is definitely a factor, but can't be the major factor, unless people wear masks 100% of the time and never take them off outside of the house, which we know it's not true. There is also the "eye protection" factor, which seems to exist.
> mainland Europe

First time I here that phrase! A testament to the rise of China? The proper term is continental Europe.

Digging a bit further, Wikipedia's[0] article is titled "Continental Europe", but says "mainland" is also used.

Time to speculate: for the British speaking English, the "main" land are the British Isles, so they prefer the term "continental".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Europe
Off topic, but to summarise: it was (by today's standards) so so very slow. One overnight compile per developer per day. Programs were on cards which sometimes got dropped or jammed. And much more time thinking than doing.
Because at that time WhatsApp rose to huge popularity, was bought by Facebook and all of a sudden Google wanted their own walled garden clone.
What do you mean?

The US labor force is on track to be constrained for decades. If we don't massively expand immigration or figure out how to have more babies, that's where we will be.
We’re seeing that people can get reinfected, so it’s unlikely natural immunity will protect you from Covid any more than the flu or a cold. I personally know of someone who got it last year, then got vaccinated, and then got it again and almost was hospitalized.

This is a tricky one.
That's not the alternate reality though. The land will be put into productive use that's doesn't include leaving it to decompose on it's own, at it's own rate. It's either still harvested as hay and fed to something else, or the they grow something else, like corn, that they intentionally ferment into either other feed or energy products.
And? I get the test argument when you look at number of cases, government policies vary so much on that topic that it's useless to compare countries, but the article brings up number of deaths a lot.

Why does it matter if tests are readily available or not when you compare death rates? At the end of the day, if the policy is to say "assume that everybody is sick and just be careful/sensible" I don't see how more tests would change anything.
They did not build YouTube by their knowledge, they acquired competition company. They had Google videos back at that time.
And it was re-exported too. Singapore particularly has developed from the english bureaucracy of the mid 20th C (as well as the earlier Chinese system) and has retained a very strong 'public service' while this has been dismantled in a lot of English-speaking world in the late 20th C
I think calorie IO is a rule of thumb, and a reasonable summary though obviously incomplete. Where it is used as an argument against more sophisticated understanding of metabolism, it would be wrong.

Sweet tastes change a number of digestive processes, as does severe calorie restrictions.
To be honest, it was mostly the suggestion from AMD.

At the time, AMD was the only Gen4 PCIe available, and it was hard to determine if the Mellanox NIC or the AMD PCIe root was the limiting factor. When AMD suggested Relaxed Ordering, that brought its importance to mind.
Most unskilled labor was mechanized 100 years ago.
But if you’re spreading it only to other vaccinated people, then they’re less likely to get it in the first place. So it still does slow the spread.
U.S. Debt ceiling can be sidestepped by minting a $1T platinum coin
Ada Palmer on what's new about Big Tech censorship
I pity your profound lack of self awareness.

Take every criticism of MCU here (which I am not defending) and it applies just as well to one bit of art or another.

The difference is the art house filmmaker either is lying to himself and the world or is simply deluded. That's fine, there's a lot of awards authorities who will award bullshit! It's kind of the point; the market rewards everything else.

It sort of reminds me of ice cream. Not particularly meaningful, but very meaningful to the person it brings joy to. Thousands of vendors make boring, trash ice cream that is formulaic: ice, cream, sugar, and a mix of flavorings and sometimes chunks of sweet and salty things.

But for Salt and Straw, the artsy/edgy types who are too self-obsessed to realize how basic they are, the formula isn't enough. They say, "ice cream isn't art unless it has anchovies". And unless it does something weird, it isn't _really_ anything but trash. It doesn't matter how premium the caramel, how many thousands of hours that went into perfecting the syrup recipes, how polished the flavor balance is, it isn't good unless you add something to make it unpopular.

Because if the hoi polloi can understand, then it isn't art. The sophisticated people who bitch about how formulaic cinema is these days say, "I want anchovies! I want garlic-gruyere-gumdrop ice cream! I hate vanilla and caramel because I resent the common people for liking that, I am better! Formulaic ice cream literally makes people stupid and degrades intellectual discourse! Too many people like vanilla so it is bad! If only no one made vanilla ice cream, the dumb people would be forced to love garlic-chocolate-pine needle ice cream!"

Art is a tool. People who want to use 'artistic merit' as a cudgel against art products they don't like should probably take a step back and reflect on art history. I won't argue any particular way, but if you zoom out far enough to see a whole, the only common pattern is it is all bullshit.

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-duchamps-urina...
CII's Floss Best Practices Criteria
I would guess that they swiped that idea (among many of the core features of VSCode) from IntelliJ a good 10 years after they implemented it. Too bad they can't steal more sane ideas from JetBrains' IDEs, I might actually consider switching ;)
Supposedly we can understand anything through science, and change or control the world any way we want using technology. The thing nobody wants to accept is that we (our technology, our science, our institutions) aren't in control after all. Religion, which science & technology kind of replaced, is out of fashion. But it did give us something we lack now, which is the humility of knowing we weren't in charge. In the religious viewpoint there was something out there controlling the world that wasn't us. That's at least closer to the truth, which is that in fact nobody is in charge! Not a god and certainly not the people who claim to be in charge. Have a nice day!
I was an avid Couchsurfer and early AirBnB host. Initially AirBnB had a vibe very similar to Couchsurfing. Both seemed to lose the personal touch as they became larger networks. Money exchange is highly influential as well, but I don't think we can cross off network scale from the causes.
> C# is just as mainstream as Java, so learning curves and nicheness arguments don't apply, it's just better.

Java has way more web framworks from what I've seen (could be a good or bad thing), and more alternative languages that you can pick from.
One of the funny truths about the business of networks, is that the one who "controls" the most bandwidth has the #1 negotiating spot at the table.

Take for example, if say Verizon decided to charge more for bandwidth to Netflix... if Netflix said "no" and went with another provider, then Verizon's customer's would suffer from worse access times to Netflix.

Verizon has the advantage in that they have a huge customer base that no one wants to piss off Verizon. So it cuts both ways. Bandwidth becomes not a cost at this scale, but instead a moat.
NASA’s ambitious plan to save Earth from a supervolcano
> (I've never worked for google, but did work in a large software corporation)

I wouldn't work for Google, but have worked at a couple of very large software companies and this echoes my experiences with them.

It's one of the reasons that I prefer not working for large software companies -- people there tend to be more concerned with their own career than the products they work on.
Authenticator Review: One of the Best Apps to Manage Double Factor Codes (2FA)
> But all in all centralised protocols have proven to be easier, more stable and simply better.

Show me a centralised protocol that is better at interoperability between various services?
Burned media (e.g. GD-Rs) prototypes tend to show up on eBay from time to time, but there's a lot of private selling going on too in forums like https://www.obscuregamers.com/builddb/

With Dreamcast and Xbox you can also find builds on the internal HDD of the development kits from the last time they were used. That's one of the things that makes Katanas/XDKs sell for so much.
I'm been running a mail server on my personal domain for 20 years. The hosting provider is key. One well-known hosting provider I used to use had lots of IPs on the e-mail blacklists. I found a slightly less well-known provider without this problem.

I test sending and receiving to Gmail accounts and Microsoft 365(?) accounts, and they all seem to work fine if I just configure reverse DNS, ipv6, and TLS (certificates from Let's Encrypt) correctly. I use Postfix. When I e-mail bomb (40 emails or so) from a Moodle server, sometimes emails show up in spam folders on Microsoft servers, but that's the worst of it.
Has it been quite a month yet? If there is an effect I'd guess we won't even see it in the statistics yet, and that's without accounting for the fact that it takes time to find and start a job even in a favorable market.
Sweden's number of deaths per capita related to COVID are also a lot higher than those of Denmark and Finland.

Why compare those against each other? Because these four nations are close to each other geographically[0] and when it comes to the climate[1], rather similar culturally[2], and economically similar too in that the populations are by and large comparatively "well off".

All other things equal (or rather similar at least), the differences in COVID deaths are likely in a larger part due to differences in public policy regarding the direct COVID response in particular and/or health care more generally.

This is just guess work (a lot of people did), of course, but I've yet to read any other plausible explanations for these major differences.

[0] Neighboring each other, with Norway (~150 deaths/million) west, Finland (~190) east and Denmark (~450) south of Sweden (~1450). Schleswig-Holstein, the German Federal State bordering Denmark to the South with a sizable Danish minority living there also has a similar rate (~580) to Denmark. (German rate is ~1110).

[1] Weather and temperature have been identified as correlating strongly with COVID spread, not just because of how well the virus can survive in different temperatures, but also because of how humans will behave in different weather conditions (stay inside or go out).

[2] These nations historically developed close to each other, and occupied each other a lot of times. E.g. Norway only became fully independent from Sweden in 1905. These nations have a lot of shared cultural heritage which still informs a lot of the culture today.
2x seems like a much closer ballpark than 10x, especially with Denmark being part of mainland europe and significantly denser? (Denmark has a higher population than Norway on 1/10th the surface, excluding greenland).
You prefer the European model, where, instead of universities directly seeing where their money comes from, it’s instead laundried through the government, which collects the taxes from juice makers, construction workers, night clubs, and booze sales, then commingles everything together and gives it to universities, so that they don’t see how their bread is being buttered, and can keep pretending it’s pure and untainted by real world considerations?

Either way, unless you eliminate government subsidies, education is paid for by getting a cut on the productive industries. I in fact prefer the UF getting royalties from juice, because at least they earned it.