skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Market shelves empty no, but that's due to panic buying caused by media reports more than actual shortages. As for HGV driver shortages in Europe, here's one discussion from an industry insider:

https://trans.info/en/there-s-a-europe-wide-hgv-driver-short...

The idea it's to do with Brexit is a red herring. There's a certain section of society that tries to blame absolutely everything on Brexit in a kneejerk fashion, regardless of reality. Border rules changed on Jan 1st and problems are hitting now because they're actually mostly driven by lockdown and the damage it did to supply chains. One of those components that lockdowns disrupted was approval of new HGV drivers. There's a backlog of 40,000 HGV driving tests the government just stopped doing during lockdowns. Well, lots of drivers are retiring, so if you throttle the supply at the same time as destroying the goods economy you're going to get a big shortfall. That's inevitable.
Aeschylus did great work, winning prize after prize in playwriting competitions. Only seven of his 90 or so plays survive. It'd be great to read the rest of this work and there's no particular reason to believe it's of low quality.
The hospital in rural Kentucky needs a physical person in KY

Silicon Valley does not, I am not sure why SV would not just hire the programmer in India, instead of bringing them to Silicon Valley, infact I am pretty sure we are going to see that more and more in the next few years
I've been doing a lot of research on early astronomy lately and have been digging into how exactly we know what we know about the early Greek astronomers like Thales and Anaximander [1]. It turns out that it's pretty remarkable that we know anything whatsoever about these early figures.

Thales was active so early on that philosophers weren't really writing anything down at that point. One of his successors, Anaximander, wrote his ideas down, but did so in verse rather than in prose, and even still, those works were lost to history. But centuries later, a student of Aristotle named Theophrastus wrote a text called History of Physics (or something similar), which was by all accounts a thorough exposition of the thought of the major Greek natural philosophers up until his day. But this work was also lost.

Fortunately, however, a later author, St. Hippolytus, wrote another work called the Refutation of All Heresies, which used Theophrastus's text as a source and basically went point by point through the various philosophers that Theophrastus covered to explain why each was wrong. St. Hippolytus was so thorough that we can actually reconstruct the original chapters in Theophratus's work. So one of our main sources for the ideas of Thales and Anaximander comes to us two sources removed from the original.

There are other sources for the ideas of Thales and Anaximander, but it's a similar story where the surviving works have been filtered through sometimes as many as three intermediate works that were all lost. So understanding the ideas of these early astronomers means piecing together fragments from a lot of later works, trying to figure out the chains of transmission and the potential biases at each link. It's almost as though we were living 2000 years in the future and trying to understand the ideas of Charles Darwin, but the only sources we had to go on were a newspaper clipping from the Scopes Monkey Trial and a Reader's Digest version of a book by Stephen Jay Gould. Understandably, the error bars on our knowledge are pretty big and there's very little we can say for certain.

[1]: Shameless plug: https://songofurania.com/about/
None that I can think of. History of projects is by the people who do/participate.

If you want to remove the right to modify the project (which includes the history if shared as common on Github) it is not open source (free/libre) software any longer.

In this case such a license wouldn't be needed either honestly. There would be no win with it, b/c it would have been similarly easily violated and that's it. Don't hope for a strong "legal" thing here, it won't help to solve these kind of problems (IMHO).

And for the license troll:

Instead declare the repository on Github as Database Work. Put it under a proprietary license. Github _might_ falsely read a license from a software stored in that database as the database's license, but you can easily leave an "all rights reserved" in the project description that is more prominently visible than that.
The OAIS reference model was created to address the issue in space data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Archival_Information_Syst...
> If you are arguing that woman have had more power or roughly equal power in most societies, you are absolutely wrong.

I would argue different power.

In warlike times (much of more antique history, WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam) many of the powerful men were at home with the gear, while ordinary men were conscripted and dying/maimed on battlefields.

There has always been a pecking order of the powerful above the ordinary plebes, and powerful women have always been a part of the Optimati.

> You listed exceptions, as in exceptions to the rule, the rule being male dominance in human societies. And all of those exceptions come with a truckload or two of caveats.

I think there are more than a few exceptions, and you are dismissing them out of hand.

Just think about it - England, during its Golden Age, the most powerful kingdom in the West, was under a female monarch, during which time the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Spanish Armadas occured I would presume that is one prominent reason why English has become the Lingua Franca.

When people think of Egyptian Pharaohs, many would immediately think of Cleopatra, or Ramses II.

Russian history would be lost without an Empress Catherine.

Who was the Queen that authorized/sponsored Christopher Columbus on his Journey West, Isabella perhaps?

And, there is a much bigger list of important monarchs [1] of which only a few are noted.

> " In virtually all societies through all of history, this has not been the case."

Your words.

[1] https://www.thoughtco.com/powerful-women-rulers-everyone-sho...
Because the majority of US citizens of school age are from historically disadvantaged minorities and you're saying they're just not good enough to compete with the East Asian global majority even with better education. In fact, you appear to be saying we shouldn't even bother to try and that people from wherever it is exactly you're from are innately superior. That's why it's racist and offensive.
Foxboron on the Arch team is very serious about security. Check out the Security page on the archwiki for guidance on building your own hardened Arch system.
Your bogeyman largely did nothing for four years. Actually sorry, he was the first politician anywhere in this country to guarantee women basic human rights in prison (he federally guaranteed that women in prison have access to sanitary products not through commissary, which is a priviledge that can be taken away).

Biden has been a trainwreck for 50 years. Barack Obama himself said "never underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up" and that's exactly what the man did in Afghanistan, which might be the worst diplomatic blunder in our history. Our allies are extremely unhappy with us right now.
I have noticed some unfortunate server settings that screw with https redirection, usually when it redirects to the www subdomain. It's as if https://example.com redirects first to http://www.example.com and then redirects to https://www.example.com

Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't, but with Firefox's built in https redirect it often gets caught up in there claiming that I need to continue to the insecure version. I click accept and then it goes to the https version.
It depends what you mean by a couple of political cycles away.

The Democrats and Bill Clinton considered Mandela a terrorist.

It was George W Bush who in 2008 lifted Mandela from the terrorist watch list - although he waited till the end of his second term and for Mandela to approach the age of 90.

https://www.france24.com/en/20080702-us-drops-mandela-terror...
Cuba is an undemocratic authoritarian one-party state where elections are not free and no opposition is permitted - but hey, they have women in parliament so let's celebrate them?
How can you talk about Belarus and ignore the elephant in the room?
It's dark/foggy and you're cycling along a bank of parked cars. Up ahead you see a flashing arrow pointing right but can't make out the car itself.

Is your first, gut instinct "up ahead there is a car pulling out to the left from the parking lane"? Or is it... "WTF is that?"
This is a solvable problem. There are already categories for different occupations. You could put nurses (for example) in their own category with their own quota.

Rand Paul, of all people, actually had a pretty reasonable alternative to the 2019 bill [1] that took a different approach: nurses were simply excluded from the annual quota.

[1]: https://www.cato.org/blog/sen-pauls-believe-act-raises-skill...
Absolutely fantastic tutorial, thats going straight to bookmarks.
Here's the US immigration page: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrat...
Cannot tell if sarcasm or naivete
> And what do estimates provide here, that sales just picking a number doesn't?

Example #1:

- a company in the industry asks your company to implement $FOO, they want to know how much it'd cost
- the sales people talk to the engineers, who come up with a certain amount of time it could take
- the sales people turn this into a monetary figure of $X
- a contract is made, the project proceeds to be developed, probably with some delays and overruns, but works in the end and is profitable

Example #2:

- a different company in the industry asks your company to implement $BAR, they want to know how much it'd cost
- the sales people decide that $BAR is similar enough to $FOO and that there's no need to consult the engineers, they just give a similar estimate
- turns out that the project MUST be made for JavaEE, since that's what the company is using
- turns out that the project MUST work on Java 8, since that's what the company is using
- turns out that the project MUST use Oracle DB, which then requires licensing and particular setup for the environments
- turns out that the project MUST use GlassFish and instructions must be written for it, because deployments will be done by the clients' Ops person
- turns out that the project MUST be deployed as a .war file, because of the above
- turns out that the project MUST work in RHEL 7 because that's what the clients are using, same situation as with Oracle
- turns out that the project MUST have both a test coverage of >80% and integration tests, which weren't a consideration in the previous project
- turns out that the project MUST support IE because for some reason that's what the employees of the client company are using
- as a consequence, the technical implementation takes about 200-300% longer than previously estimated
- the project is no longer profitable and is a net loss for the company

Example #3:

- there's yet another company that asks for $BAZ, they want to know how much it'd cost
- the sales people had a really bad time with that last project, so this time they decide to increase the estimate
- turns out that this new project does not have any of those constraints
- because of this, the estimate is really large
- the company looks at this and decides to go with your competitor instead
- your company loses out on the opportunity of working on the project entirely

In the example #1, the ballpark figures were accurate enough for the project to be done in a profitable manner. In example #2, there were factors that weren't considered and would result in either contractual penalties, the clients deciding to break the contract because you can't deliver on time, or to take you to court. In example #3, past data was used in an inaccurate way due to not being applicable to the constraints at hand (or lack thereof).

Of course, the above happens when you're in a market that requires estimates as a part of BOMs, which is a lot like bidding on projects and is just a race to the bottom for the most part.
Indeed by applying the "dark circle" (ideal filter or sinc filter) in the frequency domain would introduce other artifacts. The restored image would contain some "ringing" around sharp edges, which might not be perceivable in the image shown. [1]

As of the darkening in restored image, it depends how the software interpret the band-stopping of dark holes. By dark circling in the frequency domain, energy is taken out from the image. Re-normalizing the image might be desired, but then it would turn dark areas brighter.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringing_artifacts
The fact that the "blame Brexit" brigade is currently trying to convince everyone that the solution is to flood the market with cheap Polish drivers again instead of letting wages rise to meet demand. That imposes a pretty big risk on any such strategy. Plus the government stopped doing HGV driving tests so there's a huge backlog and people who want to get into the market can't.
The Mini turn signals are close but not quite as annoying as GM’s “reverse” light on when vehicle unlocked.

https://www.motor1.com/news/233379/gm-reverse-lights-annoyin...
It's kind of a shame that C has fallen out of favor as a language for new programmers these days. I still haven't found another programming book as good as K&R and its hard to convince people to read a book for a laungage they probably won't use.
Not trusting the methods used by scientists is pretty natural if you get to see(experience) how the sausage is made.
Yes, and that post comes from Metafilter Projects where the author posted it himself: https://projects.metafilter.com/5949/Copying-a-mid-century-s...
From what I have seen of American cars, this one is completely compliant. The horrible part about this car is that the signals are red and that they are the same light as the rear/brake lights. Which is apparently extremely common in the US.
It's always funny that every big revelation has dozens of comments of people coming to the realization that the FBI, CIA, NSA, etc are not friends of democracy.

We are fortunate that they need to bathe themselves in the trappings of democracy, unlike, say, Putin's services.

It's instructive that they view the third world and the UK as different rules. They get to shit all over the third world and know they can get away with it. Assassinations? Abductions? All A-OK in the brown countries.

This isn't me characterizing things, the quotes are from the officials in the article.

As for the mafia, the founding basis of all mafia romanticism is that government is just another source of power and abuse, and the mafia are simply another competing source.

That would be ridiculous, but the security agencies of the feds certainly do their best to make it plausible.
Australia is the example we should all strive to emulate in matters of national health, citizen rights and privacy regulation, as well as a forward-thinking climate policy.

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Not.
Because successful business is all about relationships, and it's very difficult to build relationships with people you never see.
> The hot take at the beginning on the end of liberal democracy is a bit silly.

I found the article difficult to follow because of that.

Is it a political statement? A frustrated rant by a concerned parent? A technical article?

I read the whole article, but am unclear without going through its references, which I haven't done. This is where an editor, even just a detached friend, would help.

Author seems to be saying they have effective telemetric contact tracing apps in Europe? Is he saying the Australian app is based on the European model but has unfixed bugs, or is he saying the Australian app uses a flawed model?
And sensible too. The general public has a different idea of what autonomous means. Level 5 autonomous vehicles are not even guaranteed to appear as early as 2030.
Many legal things are immoral.
I like Listary, its a sort of Spotlight for files.
OSS is not "don't like it, don't use it", OSS is "don't like it, change it!"
Not quite. There is also a "rules infraction" where failure to adhere to the laws of chess OR the event regulations can cause you to lose.

Murdering your opponent will almost definitely be considered a rule infraction.

Although there might be some edge cases if the murderer was an absolute ruler of the current country. Or maybe if you happened to kill your opponent in self defense somehow.
> Of course, the above happens when you're in a market that requires estimates as a part of BOMs, which is a lot like bidding on projects and is just a race to the bottom for the most part.

Yeah this, to me, totally invalidated the rest of your example. Pick a low number to win the bid, blow the timeline/estimate, require more money to do anything at all. It is not clear to me that any "estimation" changed this calculus at all.
"Everything Search".
out of curiosity what does terrible means relative to other web server frameworks, and any idea what explains it?

I would expect a Swift web framework has at least the potential to be performant
That could be the case, but I've never heard about any studies about child safety in ancient Egypt. Though I'd like to read that. I really enjoy learning more about how the common folk lived in ancient times, what they thought about, what kind of conversations they had. Unfortunately, we do not have that much to go off of :(
Second "Everything" it works, and is fast.
Ask HN: How software tools are made?
I am curious, how software tools like JetBrains or Visual Studio are made? It's hard to find more information about about it.
This sounds like "Domain Modelling Made Functional" by Scott Wlaschin, maybe? It walks through the software development process of automating a small business starting with requirements gathering, a valuable step that is often overlooked in programming books. It uses F# but I think anyone familiar with a typed language should be fine, and the info can be applied to any functional language. It uses the type system to great effect to enforce business requirements. I've recommended this book to at least five colleagues in the past year. Very good!
> the name is pronounced Parandzem (not P'aranjem)

Even with the same pronunciation, the spelling depends on the chosen romanization scheme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Armenian

(Based on the table in that article, I think "P'aranjem" is using the ISO 9985 scheme.)
Years ago, I read a tongue-in-cheek list of tips on how to win at chess. One of them said, "Never resign. There's always a chance that your opponent will drop dead before he can checkmate you."
Are you sure it’s panic buying? I have been seeing it for weeks now. The gasoline shortage might be panic buying but the other ones have been happening for way too long to be due to sudden increase on demand.

Why Europeans don’t panic? Are they too chill?
I tried both with the same result. Weirdly, my phone is one of four devices that I tried to update at the same time, all of which were running the same version of the OS to start (14.4.1). Three of those devices let me upgrade to 14.8. Only one (my phone) did not. It's weird. My guess is that I got stuck in some sort of A-B test.

I contacted Apple tech support and they have so far escalated through two levels. The ticket is still open.
Seems like the same absurd misunderstanding of remote work as office-simulation that leads to those silly iPad-on-a-stick telepresence robots. Coupled with the sort of management culture I can’t imagine to be pleasant to work for
This is just handwaved nonsense. You're telling me that prior to video calls, people didn't cultivate relationships on non-video phonecalls? Just total nonsense.
I think the idea is to attract back foreign drivers, for example from Eastern Europe who left because of Brexit/Pandemic
I dont think so, certainly nothing on the scale of the original Snowden stuff which by all accounts shook up google et al.
When I saw the link named "explaining [FFT's] ingenuity in more detail" I was nearly certain it would be a 3B1B video, and it was:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY
The real source of embarrassment of the leaks (ESPECIALLY the state department ones) is how much these services are basically at the beck and call of the elite, and how all the dirty shit that is done for those power brokers then blows back on us.

Most of the time that blowback is the gradual, steady erosion of America's soft power, ideals, and "good guy image"

Sometimes it is planes crashing into skyscrapers.
Given how bad Apple is at fixing bugs, does it even matter?
Two counterpoints:

First, the H1B visa in particular is classified by law and by USCIS as an immigrant intent visa. That is to say that it's not incompatible with having intention to immigrate to the United States. Put another way: this specific case was thought about and included in the visa system so you can't argue it wasn't the intent. It explicitly was.

Second, there's no reason why someone should be in work visa limbo for 20 years. That's by choice (of the US government). Having made that choice, you're somewhat responsible for the consequences. That includes not deporting people to a country they may have no memory of and may not even speak the language.

This same issue is relevant to DACA recipients (aka "Dreamers") who are typically children who through no choice of their own were brought to the United States as young children and know nowhere else as their home. It is cruel and unreasonable to deport such people to countries they have never known.
Need to know the problem before we can offer tools for how to solve it.
The casualness. Construction industry was allowed to work. Turns out the right to work is predicated on the state of the ultimate gauge of human worth, covid-cases-per-million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_work
It's "very American" to value personal freedom above all else. The EU culture is more collectivist.
Because AppStore is a monopoly and if you want to publish apps for iOS users, you have one course: obey to their draconian rules and arbitrary review processes.
X11 screen lockers are not secure at all if you can get them to crash in any way, they revert to showing the full desktop unprotected.
I wouldn't celebrate too much. We recently had a female prime minister who was probably the shittest in British history (until her successor).

And yet Merkel and Arden seem great. It's almost like gender isn't the characteristic that marks a good politician after all...
That sounds annoying. Good luck!
The AfD at 10.4% number irks me.
Coffee consumption can increase can increase ADD symptoms, no idea why though. L-Theanin from green tea can work in the opposite direction.
> Not only were his communication constantly monitored for years, already a breach of client attorney privilege, the US considered flagrant assassination as a potential way to handle him.

Not sure how OP could be more clearer
This isn't quite true. There are some X11 screen lockers (maybe only GNOME?) that coordinate with the login manager so that a crash just leads to a restarted login manager.

...but yes, most X11 screen lockers have this flaw.
over 250k in process... https://visa.ooo/form/I-918
The fact that one reviewer missed a potential policy violation is no good reason to ignore a policy violation when it’s found.

If violations got automatically grandfathered in, you’d get devs pulling tricks like sneaking barely functional violations into the app so it’s unlikely to be spotted then when they got it approved make it fully functional.

In any case, it looks like Apple is already engaged with the dev to sort this out. They’ve made some major changes to review appeals in the last year or two.
That is a band-aid fix, not a solution. Sure Congress can pass a bill to exclude nurses from the quota. Then do they pass another bill when the shortage is over, to prevent abuse? What if the year after there is a shortage of welders? Should companies rely on Congressional action every few months and for every profession?