skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Colonization provides a "safe, stable and reliable society" only as much as prison provides a "safe, stable and reliable living". Your average colony is a stunted caricature of a country, with borders and an economy that only make sense in the context of servitude to a remote power.

The only consistently prosperous form of former-colony is the type where the colonizers just removed and replaced the native population entirely - an extension of their own society into newly-emptied land. USA, Canada, Australia, etc.

There is no prosperity for the locals under colonialism. It's either servitude or erasure. And you're surprised people rejected it? And you're questioning if it was a mistake to reject it?
They are loaded at boot an executed for each matching requests.
I've bought new items from Amazon that were clearly used that were unsatisfactory. So, maybe I received your item and you received mine.
They hide a thousand sins it’s said, so plenty more reasons to wear them round these parts
> Reading anything that plays that fast and loose with language makes me think that the author plays equally fast and loose with other aspects of their writing that I'm not qualified to judge (in a way similar to how we can spot errors in movies that depict hackers, but are more likely to "buy" whatever we see on a medical drama), so it makes me generally distrustful of the material.

This sounds very like Gell-Mann Amnesia.
The First Battery-Electric Freight Train Has the Power of 100 Tesla Cars
The 'paradox' here is not how the person changes over twenty years, but what happens in the very moment of creating a copy.

We're not dealing with a Ship of Theseus problem, that's something else entirely.

I personally am horrified by possibly developing dementia one day, exactly because of that. But this is also a different problem because it affects the original body.
I can't decide which I prefer the political class or the mandarin class... Maybe being contrarian I would go with mandarins...
That is a tough question because I can't think of any places really. Maybe look into the Institute of Traffic Engineers, they may have a forum of some sort.
Raspberry Pi config for all things Internet
I'm a bit surprised. I thought the referendum over this wasn't due for another week, since there will be general and state elections next sunday.

This looks like a hail mary move before elections could have switched up majorities and brought a change in administration. As a born-Berliner I'm highly critical of this populist move, that was mainly organized by transplants who demand stuff for free all the time: UBI AND open borders. Unfazed by the fact that somebody will have to foot the bill for socialist cloud castles eventually. These people will move back to their hometowns when they have made the living situation in Berlin become untenable, for me it's my home and where all of my family lives.
Is ssh-agent even worth the trouble?
How to rapidly improve at any programming language (2016)
Well, he is the founder of dreamlist, what did you expect him to say?!
> They sold 2.8 million of them

Internationally? I don't recall having seen any of them in Germany in the 1980s. Plenty of Sinclairs and Commodores, even an Armstrad, but nothing from TI.
I thought they were probably talking about IgG testing?
You are learning a valuable and important lesson, which is that ideas aren't worth anything unless you do something with them.

You have an idea. Great. So does everyone else. Can you build consensus? Can you implement them or get them implemented? Can you get buy in from others? No? Then nobody cares.
I'd guess that for many, the point is that it's not simply a list of things they want or need to buy for themselves, but a list they can send to others. In this case, though, a todo-list might have been a better choice, although I myself also keep ideas for others in the wishlist service I use.
I want to use the best-of-breed libraries for image handling, movie decoding and suchlike - and most of those are still written in C.
The glassholes have returned. This time incognito.
Did you know we can make unix tools (like jq) interactive (lik a REPL) using fzf?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28577337

Checkout Daniel's other scripts:
https://github.com/DanielFGray/fzf-scripts
Corporate landlords are speculating on housing with central bank artificial lowered interest rates.

Its also maybe not in accordance with UN human rights article 17.

"Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others."

If a corporation owns the property and you have to rent then it may not be in compliance with article 17.

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...
Hungarian pre-election against Orbán hit with DoS attack
> my own Scheme for Max/Pd, that sort of thing.

I think I ran across your video on the "Music with Lisp" YouTube channel some time ago. Neat stuff!
They’ve managed to maintain their wealth in social order largely because they’re neighbors of the British and friendly with them. And they’re part of NATO.

When Philips struck at Ekofisk some very smart people in the US/UK came to help them develop.

Norway was (by their own account) a country of scattered fishing villages.
But responses will not match for legitimate reasons of dynamic configuration at specific domains.
Hrm. Interestingly, someone posted the sources to Amdahl UTS here two days ago. Which is apparently the same thing, just ported to run on IBM S/370 under VM/370.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28560334

Including two videos explaining how to install it, and all the requirements under Hercules, and many, many other links.

Now I'm wondering if it would be possible to install an IRC-client under it just for giggles, or if it would be possible at all?

Sigh. So much to try! :-)
I've been using GIMP since at least middle school. I learned about color, layers, opacity, paths, etc all from GIMP. It has always been free, available, and it doesn't change too fast. I have used photoshop for advanced features (CMYK halftoning), but that never comes up for me often enough to subscribe.

Having learned on GIMP, its super easy to me. I have a hard time understanding what could be better just because I am so used to it.
I'm not disputing that Western nations have meddled in these countries too much.

But it seems like you're completely absolving these countries and peoples of all responsibility for their country and themselves, that in and of itself seems like the Western elites' "these people can't help themselves" approach.

The reality is likely a mix somewhere between the two, variable for each country and circumstance.
I don’t quite understand your confusion - did you read his comment as “at any point since its founding [i.e. just not before 1776]”?
Those skills are typically built through training anyway, but MTurk doesn't seem to have the necessary training pipeline.
Why Were Old PCs Beige?
> While we’re using anecdotes...

Shallow dismissal. Singapore discriminates against LGBTQ couples as a matter of policy. Just because it doesn't affect you doesn't mean it's an anecdote.

https://the-singapore-lgbt-encyclopaedia.wikia.org/wiki/Publ...
I'm well aware of how companies are in various governments' pockets, 5 eyes, global surveillance, Snowden, etc. Have I dropped enough names for you?

I said, "Email is an inherently unsafe communication medium. If you want it safe you need to encrypt the message with the recipient’s public key and your own private key, but that is hardly ideal." There is nothing about email the way it is now that is safe. It doesn't matter where it is hosted. If my email is hosted in an underground bunker in Switzerland, but I'm sending emails to a gmail user.... If I want secure communication I need to use Signal.
Real estate and flat purchase prices have been rising faster in Berlin than anywhere else in the world over the last five or so years. The rental market is also rising, there's a growing startup sector and lots of international immigration. There is a housing crisis in central Berlin within the ringbahn where demand far far outreaches supply. Going to a Berlin flat viewing is an exercise is intense competition. Rental prices are rising accordingly.
> the A-10 is not a nimble plane

...err, what? It is a very nimble plane.
Well, I'd maintain that your memories 'live' on, but you're no longer there to enjoy them, that's someone else. If that's enough for you, great for you. I personally enjoy having experiences myself.

> What does that even mean?

What does what even mean? To stop existing? Is that a serious question?
Strange quote from the article:

> Rest in peace, Mr. Wiggles. (1980-2003)
#bettertohavelovedandlost
Mr. Wiggles was lost due to an unfortunate adult circumcision.

Can anybody explain who is Mr. Wiggles and the relevance of his death / circumcision to this product?

There’s a picture of a cat, but then it explicitly says that this cat is not Mr Wiggles. And why would you circumcise a cat?
> I guess I’ll stick with my error prone Javascript Workers or, more likely, spend an afternoon migrating to a minimal Typescript setup.

If the OP wants a zero-config typescript experience (assuming Deno isn't available on Cloudflare workers), I can't recommend esbuild enough
You'd be surprised how many people didn't notice them, tbh.
Unloved by generations of soldiers, the MRE finds a fan base
How is the headline misleading? Banks would be doing the reporting and it would be a dramatic increase over and above the data they currently report.

Here's a statement by community banks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28562153
Does it suffice with systemd's bash completion? On debian it's bundled with systemd.

systemd: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/systemctl
There's a couple of settings for it. One disables the item reading entirely, one disables names for things marked as gifts or items ordered around major holidays.
Thank you for the comment and I wish you luck. Yeah, I remember organic carrots were hip among past engineers a few years ago. I’d imagine it’s pretty hard to figure out profit projections without lots of years of data. I think apprenticeship is the only way to get going, and you seemed to have done that.

Do you feel like you are “working” in a traditional sense? I myself think I will have some sustenance-level farming as a hobby but I don’t think I would commit to doing it as job; I’d probably do a bakery before then ;)
I think it’s a harder question than either side is willing to accept. You have someone who isn’t of much use as an employee, but by no fault of their own. It’s a horrible situation for them to be in, and it’s one we have to think about as a society, but it’s unclear why Apple specifically is obliged to provide them welfare at its own expense.
I'd guess it's just a copy-pasta error, because all the source files contain the AGPL header text: https://github.com/jorisschellekens/borb/blob/v2.0.9.1/borb/... and https://github.com/jorisschellekens/borb/blob/v2.0.9.1/borb/... for example

But the plot thickens! It seems the top-level LICENSE file was actually changed 13 days ago _away_ from AGPL https://github.com/jorisschellekens/borb/blame/master/LICENS...

So, yeah, confusingly for sure
> Do you die every night when you go to sleep?

Of course not! It's a different person every time.
Its fashionable to hate on Facebook for these negative effects on mental health but it's a fundamental property of social media, blaming them won't amount to anything in the long run.
What will happen, I think, is a large amount of inflation. Prices of everything else (including wages and rent) will increase substantially, but house prices will stay (nominally) about the same.

That way, they cease to be overpriced but the owners avoid negative equity.
McAffee: Boolean Algebra Anomaly
Smartphone aren't smart either.
> If a corporation owns the property and you have to rent then it may not be in compliance with article 17.

A corporation is a vehicle for owning property in association, so denying it the right to use itd assets to acquire property would arguably violate Article 17, as would not permitting such associative ownership vehicles.

The right to own property doesn't imply the means to individually afford the particular quantity, class, or specific item of property you desire, only the freedom to use the resources you have to acquire property.

EDIT: OTOH, if the market conditions the government allows to persist make adequate housing (not necessarily ownership) unaffordable, after whatever social support is provided and considering the cost of other necessities, it is a violation of Section 1 of Article 25. “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.”
My social media is full of ads for various kinds of medical testing. Usually “at home” versions, sometimes completely at home, sometimes mailing something back.

Automation in labs is already a thing, progress marches ever on.

Places like LabCorp that do testing for doctors offices without labs also already exist and they will do a la carte tests for anybody.

You want to wrap it up and do better, you’ll need to be able to build highly automated machinery that may need FDA approval and do so cheaply enough to replace lab techs who can do hundreds of different kinds of tests.

If you were successful you might be able to make a difference and a lot of money but not before you reached a huge scale and because it’s medicine there is a huge mountain to climb for doing lots of things safely and accurately, and a narrow gap to find where you can save money and time.
> I'm working with a researcher who is conducting experiments using turk, and he has a half-written shoddy version of what crowdflower offered

For doing research, I think Prolific [1] is a popular alternative.

They include features like pre-screening based on demographic features (including participants' approval rates in past studies) [2], and attention check questions [3].

[1]: https://www.prolific.co

[2]: https://researcher-help.prolific.co/hc/en-gb/articles/360009...

[3]: https://researcher-help.prolific.co/hc/en-gb/articles/360009...
Hi! I wrote this. I’m happy to answer any questions.
Wall St. Journal coverage of the same topic: https://archive.is/jdXf7

Source document: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28566846
How many of your peers and colleagues are regularly checking mturk for suitable well paying tasks?
Love the idea, but instead of a web page, I'd love to see this as a slack shortcut
Others have commented that Norwegians aren't "getting high on their own supply", but it isn't admirable that they're exporting it to countries that use and abuse it while lecturing others on fossil fuels.

Not that Norway is alone in this hypocrisy. Other countries nearby such as Sweden for instance with its arms manufacturing industry (instead of oil) while being seen and promoting themselves as super liberal peace-mongers.
An AMBIGUOUS LICENSE situation is a red flag.

Was the issue raised with the author?
Overtime: We Need a Shorter Working Week
Fighter jet development costs are punishing even for the USA. Going to one multi-role airframe with three configurations was probably intended to keep the costs under control.
> it seems likely that the operations of consciousness are purely “classical” in the sense that the exact quantum state is not needed

There really is no evidence for this.
Judging by how often this gets slammed when I’ve discussed it in the past, I’ll assume it’s contrarian enough.

On HN, downvotes serve little purpose, assuming that the user base actually believes the notions of superiority and quality of discussion here compared to other sites on the internet.

For explicitly off-topic or guideline violating comments, flags exist. Downvotes seem to serve no other purpose than as a low effort “I disagree” or “I don’t like this” which wouldn’t be an acceptable reply if it were a comment.
I was really disappointed when I saw this, but not because of the content, which is great, but because I saw Cats (Year) and assumed that the link was going to be explaining git using the _movie_ Cats. Sadly, the movie was Cats (2019).
Just because she did not work in PR explicitly doesn't mean she isn't doing "PR" for the company. My take is that apple does not actually care, at all, about "mitigating the impact of mining valuable minerals in conflict zones". They care about not getting caught doing things that make them look bad, and her role was to prevent that from happening, to not actually change anything. She seems to have realized this to some extent, and when she made a stink about it, they reassigned her.

To me it seems odd to stay at the company for several years after that. Something makes me think she's really just looking for more pay, because if she really cared about issues with rare mineral mining in conflict zones, she'd work for a non-profit that deals with that.
https://archive.ph/lu4zn
Maybe the real problems are: the lack of advancement opportunities and lack of a real meaningful and achievable tech ladder at most companies.

You have maybe a 40 year career. If you get the "senior" title 2 years into it, odds are you'll have the same title for the next 38 years. That's kind of demoralizing if you're a "ladder climber" personality.

I remember quite clearly sitting in an office back in 2006 or so as a young punk but with enough years behind me to have already reached the salary plateau. Looked around me and saw a guy in his late 50s doing the exact same thing I was doing, with the exact same title, and probably making pretty close to what I was making. It filled me with existential dread! The realization that this industry hardly has any avenues for growth as an IC once you become "senior" and hit that salary plateau. If you don't want to be a people-manager, you're likely going to wander from company to company as a perpetual "Senior Software Engineer" until you are elderly and retire.

There are a handful of companies that have those "staff engineer" and "principal engineer" and "fellow" titles that come with actual salary growth, but they constrain those roles so severely, that most people won't get into the club. Just like most managers will not get into the Director or VP club. And these titles are not meaningful across the industry: If you do make "principal engineer" at your medium-sized startup, nobody else cares: when you get hired at Google, you'll be back to "Senior Software Engineer" and on the treadmill again.

It's kind of a reality that us worker-drones need to just accept and deal with. Companies don't seem to be motivated to provide actual, achievable growth paths that are transferrable from company to company.
The taxpayers should also gain from any appreciation of the housing stock, no? Seems like a reasonable, if very abstract, take on community ownership (on paper).
Great overview OP, and it's nice to see a kind of "in-between" scenario tested, i.e. not a super fast web request or transformation, rather something more akin to a lightweight batch job. It may not be quite a "recommended" use case but it is always interesting (for me at least) to see how these sorts of services' capabilitied can be pushed and or (gently) abused. The memory and code size limitations do seem very restrictive right now, which is a shame though.

Seeing WASM evolve as the new sandboxed runtime target dejour is a super interesting and I love that it is bringing more variety of very powerful but traditionally backend or systems languages to the web.
You did not answer: Do you find any advance towards autonomy in cars, in their current form, such as lane assistants, or working well in good weather on interstates, etc. is completely worthless?

Autonomy today is in the same situation that cars once were; even the current state of 'autonomy' has obvious advantages already and will only become more in the future.

Edit: How do you think cars were useful at their inception? Slow, with a range of a few miles, needed to be rebuilt every few miles, gas to be bought in pharmacies. Quite a bit had to change before cars became something practically useful beyond showing 'I am rich'.
good? landlording isn’t and shouldn’t be pitched as a risk free investment strategy. I’m glad some landlords have finally realised this.
Diystopia - this is what happens when I do a home renovation
So first, let's get the ad hominem out of the way. I speak 2 languages fluently in addition to my native language after living in 4 countries throughout my life, so don't patronize me.

Then, your argument is so silly that I wonder if you're just being contrarian for the sake of it. By your logic, anyone speaking language A should make sure to dumb it down as much as possible, make it extremely basic to make sure that anyone in the world who doesn't have a good grasp on language A can understand it unambiguously.

First of all, I don't owe you anything. If I decide to type a tweet in Italian, or Russian or whatever I don't have to accommodate you. If you don't understand the language, you're clearly not my target audience. Even though you can click on my tweet to read it doesn't mean that I need to make sure someone who doesn't understand the language can read it.

Second, this is a total disservice to people learning the language to not use idiom and common constructs. These are expressions people use in real life, if they are serious about wanting to learn a language they want to be exposed to them.
Both, but only with usefully-detailed specification on albedo.
There a Netflix show a while back about Russia invading Norway to control the oil reserves after Norway decided to go completely green, and stop exporting oil to EU partners.
It's hard for me to articulate how this makes me feel. As someone who values anonymity and, for no particular reason, would prefer not to be photographed and have my movements tracked, I feel like I am being forced from public spaces.

Regulated CCTV coverage of certain areas is one thing. This is untracked, unlimited surveillance by a private company whose goals and motives are completely removed from any semblance of public, democratic influence.

Facebook must be destroyed.
If Facebook's own research finds a problem, and they choose not to tackle it because of money, it's absolutely justified to criticise them for their choice.

That can be true and it can be true that social media is a net-negative to society.
I can't find any solid stats, but it does seem like most of the sales were US and Canada. And probably a fair amount of those sales after they priced it below cost during their death throes. I believe it was under $50 at the end, which was crazy cheap at the time.
Note: Article is from the Style section.

The different sections of a newspaper have wildly varying journalistic standards. It's important to understand where your news comes from, and these writers don't specialize in medical news. I doubt this would be getting so much attention if it wasn't in NYT
Here in Berlin, the measure has large support and I don‘t know why. It‘s mostly because the measure is called „disowning“ corporate landlords, which seems to resonate with everyone being angry at the rents.

Had they called it „paying out the last decade of profits to corporate landlords to keep the rent of 5% of Berliners instead of building new housing to lower the rents of 95% of Berliners“ (which is what‘s planned), I guess it would have way less support. It‘s a populist market rigging measure just as futile as the failed rent control and I‘m not looking forward to the impact on the city.
The Jakarta Method came to Brazil to install a military dictatorship, then after that ended, didn’t they have good growth under Lula and more questionably under Dilma?