skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've spent the last 70 years ignoring complex treaties. There were treaties that suggested we fight for Ukraine's sovereignty, for example.

The entire moral of the story is "maybe don't back Poland." (WW2)

WW1 was stupid but inevitable, in that if it didn't happen then it would have happened soon after. A lesson all had to learn.
Workers are often told not to talk about pay. That's not legal
> People take ivermectin instead of vaccinating or complying with NPIs

Doing one thing but not another doesn't imply you're doing one thing instead of another.

Do you truly believe the people ODing on ivermectin would be lining up for vaccinations if it didn't exist?
In the de-constructive palingenetic perspective some see in its human promoters:

> And had not «mere anarchy», as W.B. Yeats put it in 1916, been «loosed upon the world»? To many, the war had seemed the greatest calamity since the fall of Rome. Germany, from fear and ambition, and Austria, from resignation and despair, had willed the war in a way the other belligerents had not. It marked the culmination of the wave of pessimism in German philosophy which was its salient characteristic in the pre-war period. Germanic pessimism, which contrasted sharply with the optimism based upon political change and reform to be found in the United States, Britain, France and even Russia in the decade before 1914, was not the property of the intelligentsia but was to be found at every level of German society, particularly at the top. In the weeks before the outbreak of Armageddon, Bethmann Hollweg's secretary and confident Kurt Riezler made notes of the gloomy relish with which his master steered Germany and Europe into the abyss. July 7 1914: «The Chancellor expects that a war, whatever its outcome, will result in the uprooting of everything that exists. The existing world very antiquated, without ideas». July 27: «Doom greater than human power hanging over Europe and our own people». Bethmann Hollweg had been born in the same year as Freud, and it was as though he personified the "death instinct" the latter coined as the fearful decade ended. Like most educated Germans, he had read Max Nordau's Degeneration, published in 1895, and was familiar with the degenerative theories of the Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso. War or no war, man was in inevitable decline; civilization was heading for destruction. Such ideas were commonplace in central Europe, preparing the way for the gasp of approbation which greeted Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West, fortuitously timed for publication in 1918 when the predicted suicide had been accomplished.

Paul Johnson, Modern Times.
Yeh thats true, I did think about offline vaults after making this comment but I feel theres still a dependency somewhere.

I guess even if you have offline storage, you still need a way to get that onto other devices. I guess you'd just sign up for a new service.
> If the turtle concluded that 'there can not possibly be any seafaring civilizations, because I don't see any'

The hypothetical turtle did exactly that, loyally following suit with the commenter who I replied to.
Given the recent fall from grace of prestigious journals like the Lancet on the Coronavirus evidence, I think it is useful for all of us to remain skeptical and purely science-based.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
By experience, if you don’t pay attention to the news somebody will tell you about it soonish and for the most part there is not much you can do about it anyway.

Sometimes you can mitigate it (incoming hurricane, upcoming pandemic lockdown), very rarely can you fix it. For mitigation and fixing, getting the information in a timely manner is important.

Of course most of the news has no relevance anyway.

My personal plan is to pay attention to hyper local news, things that impact my job and, once we move on from Covid-19, as little as possible to anything else commonly called news.
Only works if you have a website
I know this will sound like a product pitch, but please, bear with me. One of the reasons we set out to create our service Murmel(https://murmel.social/) was because we were pissed off reading the same crappy story retold by ten different sources. On top of it all, each story tells you the version its author wants you to see, but rarely shows you all sides of the picture.

What we wanted to give people was a little bit more context. We wanted to abstract away from stories being distinctly left or right-wing. Instead, we simply ranked the stories that a large group of people on Twitter thinks we should be reading, and mashed the Twitter discussion into each story.

This way at least, you can tell from the discussion whether a story is worth reading: https://murmel.social/top
If you're a good Scrum Master, the goal is to get as close to 100% plus or minus BUT never as a punitive thing. If you miss the target that shouldn't mean your team failed, that should mean that the velocity was wrong and will be reflected in the velocity for the next Sprint.

I personally think forcing the team to 100% or punishing them for not hitting 100% is extremely toxic.

For me, bugs are 0 story points, and misestimated tickets are never re-estimated. If you re-estimate or adjust a ticket you are messing up velocity. Velocity when done right has a built in allowance for bugs and misestimates. It takes discipline.

Eventually, since story points per Sprint is based on a measured velocity, I've found you end up in a natural flow where you hit 100% without trying.

The one part where it gets tricky is the burn down/up chart when used as a way to tell the team to speed up vs just an estimation tool.

Also, that gets to one of the issues with agile, is that what the velocity says can be done may be less than what the stake holder wants and it takes a very strong account manager to be able to explain that rather than agreeing to the unrealistic.
There's no reason a computer or phone can't have both Bluetooth and a headphone jack. Mine do, and I use both.
20x leverage = 20x return, but also 20x risk.
In the first year of a 30y mortgage, yes interest is a big component... But even in year 5 or especially in year 10+ interest is much smaller and the principal impact greater. The long term impacts of ownership are the benefit, of course a large purchase will not stack up against renting in the short term!
This! Putting down 20k on a house in my late twenties was one of the best investments I’ve ever made.

I was especially surprised so many of my peers who had no clue that’s how little it takes to get into a mortgage. Of course, assuming you have a steady job/income.
I find once a week news reading is the best bet. Read the Weekend WSJ, the Sunday NY Times, and a couple of weekly publications. This way you're not chasing and getting aggravated over the news cycle.
WW1 was the first turn-of-the-century war fought with automatic rifles. There were battles foreshadowing the impact of automatic guns (Russo-Japanese War) but the real impact (trench warfare and the later development of war tanks) were seen developing on the fly.

Just go and search for early pictures of ww1, France was still using 19th century flamboyant uniforms that proved totally ineffective and later gave way to brown, camouflaged cloth.

Everyone thought WW1 would be quick and dissipate in a matter of months. Nobody was prepared for year long conflicts.

We can think that the war was predictably stupid because in hindsight we can see all the stupidity, but that is our historical privilege. Nobody was prepared for that in 1914. Just like we might very well be totally unprepared for the probable next worldwide conflict.
The "pay to source" is an interesting approach. I am not sure what my opinion is, but I will follow closely if this model will get used more often in future. Also, I would actually consider paying for this if I was in need of an animation framework at the moment (so maybe I do have an opinion?).
I'm fully vaccinated too (and I'm typing this on a Purism 13, so your estimate is good so far ;)

One of the reasons Windows started asserting more and more control over computers is that people are easily duped into doing the wrong thing. I totally agree that Windows was never designed for t'internet, and security was badly bolted on rather than being an integral part from the start. But even if it had been, most of the botnet exploits are social rather than technical. Linux is more secure than Windows, but it is not inherently more proof against social attacks than Windows. However the people who choose to run Linux are more proof against those attacks because we're more knowledgeable about computers, so there are few social attacks that work on Linux.

I'm not victim-blaming. I'm saying some people do not understand the environment they are in or the dangers they face and their bad choices can negatively affect other people around them. Just like with vaccines, mandating some behaviour in this situation seems like a reasonable response.
> These eight principles form a shared understanding of what it means to be a Green Software Engineer independent of: Application domain, Industry...

Let me stop this right there. We as software engineers have to stop turning a blind eye to the impacts of the actual businesses our code is for. It isn't "green software engineering" if the businesses we are helping are by design net negative for the environment.

Don't help the ad industry create more needs that don't increase well-being, either directly by working for them or via monetization of some other service. Don't work for surveillance capitalists. Don't build software for industries selling vanity commodities or ones that are based on planned obsolesence. In general, make sure the purpose of your code isn't to accelerate overconsumption.

After that is taken care of, these are solid points.
They're not compromised - they're running the show.

"Yale group spurs Mao's emergence" [0]

[0] https://psypolitics.org/2020/07/05/the-political-career-of-m...
You are right of course, I also don't think that individual action is terribly meaningful. I just wanted to address the "penny wise, pound foolish" part. Fractional pennies can be saved by individuals without expending pounds of carbon elsewhere.
So in other words "Chinese authorities confirm Evergrande is insolvent"?
There were multiple articles about apple's csm with discussions.
You expect consistency from the IRS, because that domain is easy to fully articulate and constrain inside policy.

You don't expect it in the FDA because the trade-offs between safety, efficacy, urgency, clinical/statistical significance, and other dimensions are going to be rather specific to each silo of expertise/each product, and rather difficult to fully prescribe and encode a priori. So out of necessity, some amount of discretion and autonomy are going to be provided to each group of specialists, and you are bound to get inconsistency.
Agreed, retract all the meta-analyses you want, but never dismiss actual front line results by physicians. If you have a regimen with zero deaths for a disease, I don't think we should be suppressing their clinical data. What a world...
They say the Apple doesn't fall far from the tree...
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That would be a powerful mind control technique.
Fortunately for me, I know next to nothing about ivermectin, except that the American left is very, very concerned people might be taking it, and I don't know of anyone actually taking it that doesn't have a radio show or podcast. So in my ignorance I would guess very few people are actually taking it and a lot of people are talking about it.
Oh, nice! I found myself on the people page. Thanks for the share!
Again, you don't have to expand to more than a couple of self sustaining planets in a couple of solar systems to establish a reasonable redundant backup for mankind.

I don't think new discoveries suddenly change the physics of escaping gravity wells. I question whether interplanetary trade will ever move beyond intellectual property.

Basically, colonization will have to be altruistically funded without any expectation of economic return. We've proven we have limited capacity for that.
Don gloves and eye protection prior to dropping the drives into the shredder if your shredder is missing the cover. [1] Ideally buy a shredder that has a protective cover and a slot for hard drives. Use a shop vac with a hepa air filter to get any pieces that don't make it into the bin. There are shredding services that you can safely shred the drive for you for a small fee.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb3Xa1h_RqM
Same here. I have been daydreaming about starting from scratch and building up. Of course, everyone's definition of "from scratch" might be different, but for me the starting point would be an FPGA prototyping board. I'd start by implementing my own CPU, memory controller and IO peripherals. Then I'd move onto creating a development toolchain for the platform. Then writing an OS and so on.
Not a great argument, really. In much of the country ownership is a much better deal both financially (cost for equivalent housing per month) and in terms of stability. Once you buy, unless you're foolish enough to get an ARM, your costs are fixed -- but rent is subject to capricious shifts upward annually.
How Forth implements exceptions (2021)
Contextful Exceptions with Forth Metaprogramming
Case fatality has been declining for sure, but it's still at about 3%. So it shouldn't be that hard to find a signal.

https://www.abs.gov.au/articles/covid-19-mortality-0

https://www.ajtmh.org/view/journals/tpmd/104/6/article-p2176...
Adtech as a whole totally earns far more revenue than the electricity cost to run all that client side javascript.

Slow ad loading costs them more in lost revenue than the electricity used, so the incentives are still aligned.
Title should be changed to Linux - thought this was Ubuntu-only at first (like if it were only in Ubuntu repos)
Most wars are stupid.

For some people it doesn't mater how stupid a war is. Only if it's profitable.
The back-end can render that content when requested, adding very little overhead to an AJAX request just returning the raw data, and it can pre-render and/or cache objects as well. Both Facebook and Reddit do similar when loading extra content into an existing page - they embed HTML content in the JSON response for things like profile popovers or when loading more comments. Saves the front-end from having to render a template (takes time to load the template beforehand and time to render it, maybe for many items) or build it programmatically. Directly using AJHX to get HTML is the same when there's just a chunk of HTML with no metadata.
> It's not incompetence though

Or is it?

The concept of organizing things hierarchically is not unique to file systems. People were doing it long before computers even existed.
Society isn't ready to watch science any other way either. Media outlets routinely take individual studies and vastly inflate their results. I suppose it's better if the study is peer reviewed, but not much.
Interesting. Last I knew he created livememe.com and that website looks very similar (he was good at flash). Thanks for the tip!
A computer that flies a human into a wall at max speed is a PR nightmare
Yes, unless I missed something, the analysis doesn't account for the decrease in interest costs over time. Still an interesting piece, just would be a fairer comparison.
Fuchsia is really the only new OS under development that I’m aware of. And it’s not even clear if Google intends to ship it outside of niche embedded use cases like Nest products etc
> The correct way to deal with this is to move this directory tree onto my phone (either via network transfer or attaching a USB filesystem) and then browse those files with a music player app. Anyone familiar with iDevices knows that every piece of the simple, standard workflow I just described is totally impossible.

On the contrary, any number of apps support precisely this.

- https://readdle.com/documents (not just music)

- https://www.everappz.com/evermusic

- https://brushedtype.co/doppler/

- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sony-music-center/id724406878 (if you use Sony headphones)

- http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html

- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mrmc-touch/id1062986407

There's no point in listing all of them.

Having ripped some 20,000 CD tracks a couple decades ago, I use several such apps.

As a user of such apps, I'd argue with "correct" though, given Apple Match with iCloud One combo and last year's update supporting high resolution / lossless.

Over time, I have come to use those apps less than Apple Match, which mirrors my rips using tracks from Apple's library where they have them, or uploads mine where they don't, giving me more seamless access across all devices, spoken access from Siri on HomePods, etc. Match was a debacle at launch, is now almost never wrong on even the most obscure tracks.
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Citizen Scholar (Awesome New Substack)
"Small Consulting company promotes themselves by attacking Large Consulting company by playing off allegiances to tech religions"

https://devbizops.medium.com/are-you-tech-religious-fb281b39...
> how can we remain informed and how do we decide what is important enough to be informed about?

I stopped reading the news several years ago. I replaced it with becoming more informed about the world. I read a lot of books about the sorts of things that pop into the news. That serves as the basis for "evergreen" knowledge about what's going on.

Once you have that, you can occasionally glance and headlines to get a diff/update.
One of the biggest problems with anbox and ARC was that they would need to do tons of work on each new android version. If somebody is willing to keep updating this for new versions of android at least every other android release then it’s reasonable to say this will work long term, otherwise people will use of a year then abandon it.. so Google is now switching to using arcvm where they use a VM instead of trying to do a bunch of work to make android apps run in chromeOS running in a container that requires the right kernel and special compatibility libs / services running to pretend to be android.
Spinning seeds inspire floating electronics – and monitor the atmosphere
Missed edit window, but comment should say "laid out the pads in the wrong orientation"
Like advertisement already is. (Infomercials is a thing.)
Underground detonation.
A lot won't open on the Android program.

A lot are just clickbait.

A lot of the time the article is debunked in the comments.

The comments don't [buy Coca Cola] need Reader Mode or un-paywalling.
You just described how the US civil war started too. Expected to be less than 3 months initially.
Firstly... Any stock vm isa can be linearly compiled if you give up certain optimization.

For example, if wa wanted to use a coloring allocator it wouldn't be linear time anymore. That's not a fundamental part of it, just an implenebtation choice.
TikTok’s Latest Craze: Stealing Stuff from School
I loved the UI and the phone offerings from Nokia. I wish they would resurrect it - and I'm a dedicated MacOS/iOS user.
Gitlab 14.3 Released
I don't believe that for a moment. Much more likely the complex machines could be simply disabled and their firmware wiped by remote management. This happens with other stuff too, you can't even stealthily move it, because of embedded GPS and the like.

edit: Apart from that, what would that stupid act do to the economy of the involved parties, and the world in general?

It's all interwoven.

Fuck it all, and great reset, or what?
Depends on what you’re trying to do. Might be a viable strategy for avoiding filters that are aware of thing like base64
I’m not a huge fan of the 10X thing. I always feel like it panders to one’s vanity. I’m just a normal guy who enjoys what he gets to create.

But I’ve worked with a lot of people over the years who I thought of as 0.1X. They often just don’t seem to care.
It's not really initial conditions, the US government is already spending a lot on medicaid, medicare and social security, I believe almost 50% of its federal budget. [0]

As an EU citizen I definitely can't see the USA becoming more like European countries when it's already spending that much.

It's quite likely that the current powers are just leeching the citizens (tax payers), so until there's some reform in health care, the budget is going to be drained as much as possible.

I saw it in my EU country (public hospitals writing very specific requirements for a business so that only 1 business fulfills them, families rotating care of a disabled person through all individuals so that all end up getting the pension - the pension is priviliged if work requires you to care for people with disabilities, and a bunch of different EU fund extraction schemes, from public universities to individuals). People learn the tricks of the system and then exploit it, probably more aggressively in the USA.

Pension systems in EU countries are collapsing a bit. Just look at % of budget for pensions in Austria, Germany, Croatia etc. Every year they rob the younger generations by raising the pensions for the elderly. I think Croatia recently basically cut pensions by 25% for all people that have about 15 years more of work. Austria is constantly raising the pensions because the life standard increase is driving the elderly to poverty.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget#M...
Incidentally, approximately 11 to 14% of the USA population has pinworms, which can be easily stopped by ivermectin. Given the very high level of safety of ivermectin, it might make sense to make it easier to get on this basis alone.
> "Our recommendation is to not buy new Chinese phones, and to get rid of those already purchased as fast as reasonably possible," Defence Deputy Minister Margiris Abukevicius told reporters in introducing the report.

This is applicable equally for every other country.
Because it is an analog computer it is a kind of breadboard though, isn't it? ;-)

No, having all the Op-Amps wired up for me, powered for me, "nulled" for me is a huge improvement over the mess I would have to make on a breadboard to replicate even a part of it.

I only wish it had more than one output (meter) component so I could observe steps along the way.
Hopefully Wikipedia will stop their fundraising, now that they are swimming in $$$.
I would bet on the US letting them take it. Like they let the Taliban take Kabul. There's little appetite for starting a new war after Afghanistan, and wouldn't starting a war with China send civilization back to sticks and stones?
Dissecting the 2021 Jakarta EE Developer Survey
WSL2 is pretty bad in my experience. Networking is dark magic, filesystem access is fast only when working natively but GUI doesn't work on the linux side (without using X server which has glitches), there's no systemd, docker for windows does not work identically as native linux version ...

In the end I just resigned and I'm using Linux in VirtualBox. Far from ideal but also much better than WSL2.