skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course I only have the view that is presented as I dont know what is happening further, if there were more talks etc.
Maybe I am wrong in that sense and there was more substance than I realize, and as I said I am 100% with you, large organizations should not abuse their power.

I hope that it gets better and I hope to not have offended you. (my comment has already been downvoted as per usual HN environment when someone is not taking the side of the majority )
Interesting that the article refers to prepaid debit cards as “gift cards”. At first I thought USPS was only allowing checks to be transferred to Starbucks gift cards etc, which isn’t nearby as significant of a step.
We have - most of them just transfer the terms we had as EU members to us outside the EU. Good for continuity though. The big one is the one with the EU, which our government negotiated, signed and now say is awful and must be changed.

It's really no surprise international companies are not feeling the encouragement to invest in UK operations. The Prime Minister recently lied in his speech to the Conservative party conference about inward investment levels, claiming we rank much higher than we do.
OP did say "a whole bunch". Although that's rather vague, I think the point is that we haven't done any trade deals that will come anywhere remotely close to making up for the increased friction in our trading relations with the continent.
Trade deals which leave us worse than where we started or offer too little value to offset the damage of what we lost. The deal with Australia is reportedly very one-sided.
I get the feeling but the point is that most mosquitoes do not suck your blood. And the blood sucking ones are just the female mosquitoes of a certain mosquito type and your blood is only meant to help their reproduction. #NotAllMosquitoes
Hi, author here. Thank you for posting this :)
Big discussion earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28793615
It was maintained by a separate (VC-funded) organisation. That got sold to GitHub/Microsoft.
I'm not convinced that you fully understood the point of this idea. The point is not just to just have any two web pages sitting next to each other (this is what your modifications do, right?), but more importantly the interaction between those pages.

I can already have two pages next to each other using Windows 10, by snapping two windows to the two sides of the screen. However, while that provides the correct visual shape, the user experience is completely different, as clicking a link in the left window will not open that page in the right window, replacing what's already there.
How are those two entities separate? MS has a non-removable seat on board and gets to appoint the director. I'm sure that DNF is seen as division from inside MS.
I was looking for this comment.

Not because I know anything about Texas or California, or about traffic as a field, but because any data set - especially a list - can be used to present an argument and then be refuted due to "this detail". I see this on HN a lot and I believe that it has made me much less likely to be misled by someone toting data.
It's pretty easy to do with github actions.

https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate
Yes. If you are going to get predictable, consistent practices for this you need a more or less official way of doing this or projects will just end up choosing one of several ways of doing this. Or worse: they will invent their own.

And this is demonstrated in the thread: people start listing ways you can streamline installs and try to avoid version conflicts. And there are, as you can see, several. Some don't even anticipate what kinds of problems the user will encounter with versioning conflicts, old Python versions coming with the OS etc.

What is a bit disheartening is that people actually thought they were providing helpful suggestions for solutions when what they did was only to prove my point. But they won't necessarily see it that way.
Just let us donate directly to Firefox. Come on.
I'm a shareholder as well. I can see the value add of a friendlier tax regime for the company, its employees, and indeed its CEO, less bureaucracy, and access to clean energy that Texas has to offer over the Bay are. I see it in terms of share holder value. Overpaying for staff, infrastructure, housing, facilities, etc. and dealing with local government that is too inept to address even the most basic challenges (housing, water management, roads, electricity, etc.) is not share holder value.

They have big expansion plans and most of that is outside of California. So, I'd say this is a good move for them. They no longer need the Bay Area investors. That was always the main reason for being there. It was critical to them just a few years ago when they were struggling to survive. But they turned a corner and are now very profitable so they can cut loose from that safely.

Tesla is now a multinational and while California is still an important market for it, they have bigger markets that they are thinking about now where they are starting to operate huge factories as well. Fremont went from being the largest Tesla factory to being one of the older and smaller ones in a few years.
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Hi, xmonad maintainer here. "nothing yet" is probably fairly accurate, although perhaps a bit too pessimistic. :-)

A slightly longer answer is in a bullet point on our fundraising page (https://github.com/sponsors/xmonad):

> Wayland: It's becoming increasingly clear that the days of X11 are over and some Linux distros are already switching to Wayland. We're committed to keeping xmonad on X11 stable and alive as long as necessary, but if time allows, we should explore the Wayland ecosystem and figure out what it means for xmonad. Do we go all in on waymonad? Shall we try to keep xmonad a pluggable window-management component for another Wayland compositor? Honestly, we don't know yet. This one is a bit of a stretch goal: we might need more than one person full-time to actually make this happen.

Elsewhere in this thread, I wrote about some concerns I have about waymonad and xmonad on Wayland in general: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28796909 The gist of it is that I'd like to keep the compositor and WM separate, because a) xmonad is reconfigured by compiling/restarting, b) I don't think the Haskell runtime is good for handling input and presenting frames, c) I don't want to maintain a compositor :-).
> I never would have been able to afford the tuition fees for an equivalent school in a lot of countries.

This is indeed one of the great pluses in French (and, broadly, in European) education

The other points you mentioned are indeed great too (the nature of the questions, anonymity, ...) but there are really black parts:

- the high school you go to may or may not have an impact. For the ones who have 18/20 it does not matter that much. But when you are average (say - 14/20) in a school like Hoche in Versailles and 14/20 in a weaker one, then you are in big trouble. A very limited amount of schools will take the name of the high school in consideration and the rest will not. So being average puts you not in an average situation, but in a very bad one.

Looking at the distribution of marks in Hoche, i can assure you that there are the good ones, and then the rest. So why bother going to a "good" school?

The solution: entrance exams to universities.

Why not the high school end exam then? (baccaluréat) - because its have exactly zero value today, you know where you will be before its results are known.

You then have the "elite" universities (Grandes Ecoles), full of themselves and that do not lower themselves to accepting students before their third year after high school. Instead of just having an exam. France wants to be unique here, but we are just dumb by having our students leave abroad.

As you mentioned, we now have "prépas intégrées" (integrated prep schools), which is just just saying "prepas are dumb, but we want to keep the name to be fancy". It is just a 5 years school.

I went though this system, including an engineering degree from one of the Grande Ecoles, and then a doctorate, then teaching in France at a Grande Ecole, and in a University, and also abroad. The politics in our schools are the same as abroad, with the added twist of demi-gods who think that what was put in place in 1732 is the best solution because our world did not change since then.

I love the fact that France provides a good education to people and that (really) everyone can have it. The unfair marking system and ill-placed elitism is what is making our ministers whine, our head of schools whine but nobody has the courage to change anything.
You are kind of proving my point there.
It depends what you call a deal. Are they new trade deals from scratch, absolutely not. Are they trade deals that have been copied from the EU trade deals to satisfy ongoing deals ("rollover" deals), yes they are. Are we getting the trade deals that Boris promised, absolutely not.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/58818531
The idea for synthetic fuels is that they can act as a drop-in replacement for fossil fules, so you don't have to adapt the vehicles. I wouldn´t call using H2 a synthetic fuel, because it would require a different aircraft design (its probably more reasonable appraoch overall, although access to truly carbon free h2 is limited right now).
Thats like saying America is not United States, we know that :)

While geographically correct of course, politically and economically USA with its 50 states is the center of gravity in North America
just like like EU with its 27 states is center of gravity in Europe
> Essentially you're halving your kidney capacity, which is not noticeable in your 20s, but will creep up on you later as you age.

Yes, kidney capacity is routinely tested in 60+ old people (at least in my country) as well in pets (my two 12 yo cats are tested every year).
Then you injure the cornea. That's why they use UV lasers for laser surgery, because the cornea absorbs it.

Edit: I recently had a small corneal erosion from my eye drying out over night (eyelid was pulled open by sleeping in a weird posture) and I had 30% vision for 2 days on that eye. The cornea contributes about 40% (iirc could be more) to the total refractive power in the eye. If you have a UV-spot that melts moskitos dancing around on that for half a second...
You're assuming that smart lightbulbs are to be trusted. You can't trust them, neither can you trust most of the software you run in your home network.

Take a simple app crash report on your desktop computer. Assuming i'm using VPN (but even without it, it's an issue)... With NAT, your crash report will contain network adapter address: 192.168.0.x. With ipv6, you're disclosing your /56 (or /64) ip range... disclosing your physical location, your ISP, ...
Everyone realizes how bad these sorts of jobs are. Backbreaking work, and you can't really take the job if you don't have childcare, cannot physically do it, or cannot travel with the job for some reason.

Oh, and do I need to mention that the jobs aren't year-round? If you want to work all year, you probably need to be able to travel, which is going to be more difficult since brexit than it was before and the pay certainly won't be as good everywhere. In some places, you aren't even afforded the same protections under the law because you are a temporary migrant worker.

When you simply quote the amount paid per hour, you cannot get the whole story here. And that's assuming that your £30 an hour quote is a flat rate per hour: I don't know how it is there, but in many cases, farm workers get paid per piece, so it might realistically be "up to £30 per hour" instead.
Just about all of those are rollover deals from the existing agreements the UK already had when it was part of the EU. That's not a bad thing, but at best it just maintains the status quo. You can count on one hand the number of truly new deals that have been signed, none of which are particularly significant. Meanwhile, trade with the EU, the UK's biggest trading partner, has fallen off a cliff.
You call Powershell scripts from an Web based admin console, or make use of Powershell remoting.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrati...
I had the same idea a few weeks back. Until i tried it. the javascript there is VERY slow. on an overclocked r-pi zero in chrome it takes > 5 minutes to render one. A few min of r-pi 0 time (1.9W) will kill batteries fast...
I wonder whether a “chrooted distro” would solve that elegantly; essentially, having a debian install where you can put the things it packages well.
Even Odersky regrets the abundance of curly braces, now that Python is eating the world.
I still find Firefox plenty extensible, as well as it is the most privacy oriented browser, hands down.

With containers, and tree style tabs/sideberry it gives a unique user experience. To me it is performant enough and has great adblocking through ublock origin (that is not in danger of removal by API changes, looking at you every single chromium fork).
We need to have a federal grant program to support development of open source software. The status quo of donations just isn't going to be sustainable decades from now when everything costs more money, and the answer shouldn't have to be injecting adware and more deals with some devil.
If your office switched to four days, nobody would really work on Thursdays instead.
The .NET Foundation wanting admin access to repos of projects under the .NET Foundation umbrella is very much not the same thing as how the people who run GitHub could backdoor any repo they like whenever they want, obviously they can they have the source code to the hosting platform.

Except that's pretty hard to do without developers noticing because you'd need to engineer some hash collisions to get their local git clones to accept the code changes.

So let's limit the paranoia to where it actually applies, shall we? The .NET Foundation has made a right mess of this, but it's not the same thing as Microsoft trying to backdoor all open source code on GitHub. I'm pretty sure the people there are smart enough to realise how much that would backfire.
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You can't use copyrighted maps as a data source for OSM:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/welcome

"Unless you have special permission, don't copy from online or paper maps."
It’s a thriving method of pirating movies and TV shows.
Interesting that it’s higher than competitive services like Walmart’s, too.

But I guess the USPS pilot system is more accessible if people without IDs can use it.
you are right, but they are enforcing vaccines which last 10-20 years, not 6 months and those vaccines are against serious diseases causing issues to many infected, not just bunch of old or obese people and lastly those vaccines use technologies which are used for decades, not something first time in history approved in 2019 (viral vector) or 2020 (mRNA)

pharma lobby sure has lot of power in US politics
In the entire US, you are lucky to get fiber at all. Almost all people have a choice of only garbage asymmetric over subscribed coaxial cable with no other choice. A significant portion do not even have that. So few have fiber, that I disqualified 90%+ of the houses that came up in my searches when I was searching for a home.
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Already discussed:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28779947 (102 comments, 1 day ago)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28783381 (676 comments, 1 day ago)
they can but they shouldn't
I'm not sure I understand the question. The assets in your estate get their cost basis reset to the current market value when your estate is passed on. That means the capital gains in his shares disappear.

That being said, the estate tax would kick in for everything over 11m, so he'd have to use other tricks to work around that limitation.
And? Loads of projects moved to GitHub when there was no Microsoft-employee involvement because it's just a very good service. And for a good long time, nothing else out there existed which could even start to compete with it. GitLab came along somewhat later.
Maybe it's just the current Pop_OS version messing up something, but I've got huge issues now on Wayland. Windows occasionally only get redrawn while I move the mouse, which is super annoying while typing some text. Browser windows I don't use for a minute regularly become just grey squares with tab bars.

I only use one screen, so I'm pretty sure I'll switch back to something Xorg-based sooner or later. It's not perfect but at least it always remembers to redraw windows.
My point is just that moving because of high taxes doesn't make sense for him, even if you think he cares about the money. He doesn't have to pay it unless he wants to.
Majority of Jews during WW2 died outside of death/concentration camps [1]. Army, police or SS rounded up Jews in some majority-Jewish town or village, took them to a nearby forest, forced them to dig their graves and then shot everybody. Rinse and repeat. Sometimes non-Jews helped, or even did it without Germans. Sometimes they helped Jews and were killed with them. Sometimes Germans just killed everybody. Sometimes they had list of people to kill for political reason (for example university professors, priests, politicians, army officers, teachers etc. were targeted no matter their ethnicity).

Vast majority of Jews before WW2 lived in small mostly-Jewish towns and villages in eastern Poland and western USSR. It would be inefficient to move them to death camps, also you could steal from them when you murdered them. Win-win.

There was no need for technology, nazis weren't checking the papers or bothering with recording anything. There are thousands of mass graves near formerly-Jewish towns. Non-Jewish population was mostly helping to point the Jews because they were competing for food and resources during harsh occupation conditions, and besides Germans were mass-murdering non-Jews too, just as a lower priority. And if you protested you were Jewish too, right?

According to Timothy Snyder the main difference between countries where high or low percentage of Jews survived nazi occupation wasn't antisemitism but how much pre-war institutions were preserved. In countries where the nazi occupation was negotiated and the rule of law was preserved - it took months to confirm these people were Jews, move them to camps, sort them, etc.

In places like eastern Europe - where Germans just destroyed everything and law was practically non-existant - why would you bother with all of that? It was basically 4 years of the Purge. 1/6th of the population disappeared in Poland between 1939 and 1945. Jews were about 10% of pre-war population.

The involvement of IBM was shameful, but it wasn't necessary. The only technology nazis needed was firearms. And they could probably do it with knives and sticks if they really wanted - like in Rwanda. Or like in USSR or Communist China for that matter.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodlands
What I don't understand is two monitors with the divide right in front of your face. Lots of people are set up that way (at my work anyway).

A primary monitor (32" 4K of late) as the main, centered display, plus whatever you have (open laptop) off to the left, for keeping communications software onscreen, works for me.
Ok cool. Will go do some installing.
What if the FOSS project is not on a proprietary repo host? It would not satisfy the 100 GitHub stars requirement.
> everyone simply stopped doing unpaid emotional labour.

Arguably this is the situation in Europe, compared to America, as there isn't a comparable tipping culture.

In Germany, there is a word to describe how this has tipped over into a "Service desert" - "Servicewüste", a complete lack of acceptable customer service.

However I think a non-tipping culture is preferable.
The two are not mutually exlusive. It's a good piece of content that at the same time advertises SingeStore. Everybody wins.

And if you are afraid of bias, it's pretty obvious that it will look at the things from a SingleStore perspective as it's on their website.
My Pentium with Slackware 2.0 wouldn't share that opinion.
I would. I'd wager Tether's collapse would cause inflows to other stablecoins. It's also worth noting that smart contract based stablecoins, such as DAI, are incapable of being under-collateralized.
I think his experience fits nicely the job of running "counterfeit US Dollar"
The Facebook whistleblower who wants more censorship and all the news sites made it such a big deal. It was all very convenient how things happened.
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the really news sites calculating on your finger hand, as the rest news sites it like culture sites.
Shannon's original paper is very readable.
Maybe a dumb question, but why is the government getting into banking? Is this desirable? IMHO most consumer facing services they roll out are pretty poor. And for what it's worth, seems like Walmart and other companies already offer a service like this -- and for a lower price! See: https://www.walmart.com/cp/check-cashing/632047
Agreed and I am dumbfounded why 10 months after start of vaccination my only options for COVID vaccine are viral vector vaccines first time in history approved by any medical agency in 2019 (ebola) or mRNA vaccines approved in the end of 2020 (COVID).

That's not what I would call vaccine where anyone can guarantee no long term effects after 5-10 years with every day new "rare" side effects being discovered, safe AZ ignored or banned in most of the EU, now even Moderna suspended in Sweden under 30 or Denmark under 18.

Where is my inactivated virus vaccine? That's technology we use en masse for decades, not some VV/mRNA crap used hardly for 1-2 years.
I don't decorate my home.
Thats totally a different discussion and don't see how that is related. Monetary supply/control is a centrally planned policy.
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We're only just at the start of our adjustment process…

1.3M people are reckoned to have left the UK during the pandemic / post Brexit and don't think they're coming back
Because it’s bad to be stupid. People are ashamed to be stupid because it’s a shortcoming. There is no world in which we can value a trait (intelligence) and not feel proportionately bad about its crippling deficiency. Pretending otherwise is some combination of being purposely obtuse and condescending.