skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They certainly did try to make San Marino a communist economy. It's just that they didn't think that this meant the immediate nationalisation of all property.

They were far from alone in doing so, notably Marx and Lenin agreed and advocated for similar trajectories, so it was far from a fringe position.

A popular communist program for developped countries is to remove all political influence as a result of money, encourage cooperatives, nationalizes key industries (as in China), and manage productive surpluses to provide for everyone, removing markets where they are zero sum of negative sum (housing, etc...), and coordinating markets for optimum growth, until the economy is developped enough that the entirety of the local economy can be ran as either part of the nationalizes sector or by cooperatives.

It's a fairly mild program when compared to Stalin. There is not really any reason to abolish private property until the economy is large enough that it can be fully run by the workers from a communist point of view - Stalin did it because he judged that heavy industry was not developing rapidly enough, which was a strategic judgement mostly on grounds of the preservation of the state (and therefore himself). Otherwise Lenin's policy of managed capitalism/socialism for a hundred years or so was in place.
Eh, I think this framing discounts the fact that sober moderation and extremism tend to be present in every human endeavor, and have always been. Some people make their country's traditional food on holidays; some people garb themselves in flags and yell at immigrants. Some people went to Chopin concerts and went home peacefully; others succumbed to Lizstomania. Some people fought wars with chivalry and granted a dignified surrender to their enemies; some massacred and pillaged.

I don't think there's anything "modern" (or religious) about the fact that there's a wide range of opinions on how to treat others.
It’s too bad that nobody can find a middle ground between the increasing amount of heavy handed censorship on Reddit and literally all Nazis.

I thought /r/gendercritical and /r/nonewnormal both fit into the bucket of “I can see why this is controversial, but it’s more dissent from mainstream opinion than clearly ban worthy.” Again I’m not espousing views in those subreddits I just didn’t view them as ban worthy.

All sorts of “misinformation” is totally fine as long as it goes with the group think such as the Rolling Stone story on Oklahoma covid units being overrun that turned out to be false.

Reddit has unpaid moderators who wield way too much power and blackmail the company into getting their way. Now Reddit has raised money so we can expect even more purges to become as advertiser friendly as possible.

Some sort of app that would connect federated backends would be ideal, Lemmy was on the right path but yet another dead on arrival project due to ideology.

I know we seem to be on a path for increasing centralization but I predict the pendulum swings the opposite way as the user experience on centralized sites keep deteriorating due to pressure to monetize and people get fed up of a few power mods on these sites dictating permissible opinions.
I run large datacenters with thousands of boxes.

I have a little app (written in golang) installed on each box that effectively is a task runner. Tasks can be written to do anything, including apt-get installing software.

If apt-get fails to run, the task fails (context.WithTimeout) and is run again at a later date. No random hacks needed. Everything is built to be idempotent, self-healing and eventually consistent.
I have said no such thing, quite the opposite. If you have truly missed that then, an further discussion with you is doomed.
Decoding viewstate might technically be illegal according to the DMCA, but shouldn't be and if the journalist is convicted they should be immediately pardoned.
Every dollar spent on the elderly who had their whole life to prepare is a dollar not spent on a child growing up in poverty who has not yet had a chance.

Families should take care of their own. If nobody is willing to do that for you, you probably aren't deserving.
>in order to give the M1 Max some real competition, one has to skip laptop chips entirely and reach for not just high end desktop chips, but for server-class workstation hardware to really beat the M1 Max

this is really interesting
What is a communist policy? When Lenin invited foreign investment and allowed private property to facilitate it as part of his plan to build a communist society, was that not a communist policy? Or perhaps Lenin didn't want to implement communist policies?
When I was nine years old, my cousin died of a heroin overdose at nineteen years old. Most of the grownups around me were very sad, but I didn't really know my cousin very well; he lived on the opposite side of the country, and he was a full decade older than me so the times I did see him we didn't really play together, and so I wasn't really able to feel "sad" about it. People I don't know die every day, I can't feel bad for all of them (cold as that might sound) and my cousin dying wasn't terribly different.

Fast forward eleven years, on my twentieth birthday, and I had a realization: my cousin was the first person I had known that I outlived, and I felt this sudden sinking feeling. Why had I been spared when my cousin had been taken so young? Why did I get to spend more time on earth then he did? It's not like I was some sort of cosmically better human than him, I had been a dumb teenager who was just lucky enough to not have friends who were willing to talk me into doing drugs.

I started asking my parents about my cousin, and it made me somehow feel even worse when I found out that my cousin had a bit of a downward cycle with drugs throughout the tail end of high school, tried joining the army in the hope that it might straighten him out, it didn't, and just fell deeper and deeper until he eventually died. Alcoholism seems to run in the males in my family (with the exception of my dad and me, strangely), so this sadly wasn't even really something completely unexpected.

Addiction is tough, I feel really fortunate to have dodged that bullet. I can't even pretend to know what addicts to hard drugs are going through.
I don't agree with you, but even if I did, Microsoft is probably best positioned to take advantage of such a trend, since they have the most seamless experience going from their cloud products to their hosted products.
I had (and still have) a launch day iPhone and it had "Cingular" on the carrier icon at the top of the screen.

Maybe the rollout timing was different in different markets.
> The problem with any education is how do you figure out the actual value added?

Answer: with a randomised controlled trial. That is, the school randomly rejects a number of applicants who meet the enrolment criteria, then it follows up after 5 years to see if the accepted students are significantly better off than the rejected candidates (eg. in terms of income).

Austen Allred, the CEO of Lambda School, has already floated such an idea: "I’d love to eventually do an impact study that statistically shows how much more attendees of Lambda School make over the course of their lifetimes." https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1433260773040693257
I had a somewhat different experience. I found this special not particularly funny or insightful. His emotional stories felt flat.

However, I absolutely do not find the hysteria around this special justified. He clearly expressed his intent and highlighted the silliness of protecting some groups or topics from being able to be joked about.

Netflix protesters who physically assault and direct hate at Chapelle’s supporters are more alarming.
> However, disk speed is a noticeable factor in day-to-day workloads, even when I'm running an IDE like IntelliJ and indexing a large repo.

You may want to check IOPS benchmark rather than throughput.
Amethyst is another option, but doesn't require disabling SIP: https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst. Does require accessibility permissions though.
I'm sorry the recruiters lied to you. The H1-B and Green Card process is terrible enough without people BSing you about the reality of getting the visa in the first place.
I wonder if this is true for me as a EU citizen. Per the GDPR, companies can use personal data without consent when there is a legal requirement, but I think they can't just hand it out without consent when they just feel like it.

Maybe that is where the warrant comes in, to make it plausible that it is required?

I guess we'll find out when they arrest the first EU citizen based on this data.
Is there context for this threat? Did you offer to sell it on a marketplace or host offensive/brand-damaging information?
So glad to see PouchDB included. We use it and have generally had a great experience! We use it with CouchDB on the backend, and Couch seems like a fantastic way to go for use cases involving syncing data between devices with an offline mode and syncing between clients. It was built from the ground up with replication in mind.

Biggest bummer of CouchDB? If you’re not hosting it yourself, there’s only one major player in the market that I know of: IBM Cloudant. They contribute much to Apache CouchDB though, and hosting it yourself doesn’t seem too difficult, especially for small, simple use cases.

Anyone else using CouchDB?
I imagine that Supabase would be a perfect candidate for this project! I would love to get the authors opinion on it too.
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy[1] states that in any bureaucratic organization
there will be two kinds of people:

First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization.
Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many
of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some
agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective
farming administration.

Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples
are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of
education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff,
etc.

The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep
control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions
within the organization.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Pournelle's_ir...
The AMD Threadripper 3990X costs about $5,000 and I'm guessing that's cheap compared to the Xeons.
Who should they hire, Ric Flair?
Tether is perfectly stable.

It never wavers significantly from it's $1 USD value --- blessed and bestowed by the unregulated crypto exchanges regardless of any backing or the lack thereof.

By itself, this should say all you really need to know about the crypto markets.
This is an excellent Mac PDF editing tool. I'm not affiliated, just a user.

https://pdfexpert.com

I was editing pdf drafts from a publisher and just couldn't stand another minute of dealing with Acrobat. Found this, removed all vestiges of Adobe, and haven't looked back.

I've used Preview a lot, but it just isn't reliable (for me). Apple seems to muck around with the code every couple of versions and break things. Odd.
Don’t get me wrong, I like java and hate c++. I worry about the rapid pace of change post 8. Some of the changes seem great individually but trying to be everything to everyone is how you end up with c++.
Slogans? This wasn't a 5-second soundbite or a banner ad. Sure they should use slogans, but this was their official press release on the issue, and it was practically content-free. A few sentences would have been enough to outline the details of what's going on.

Parkinson's Law doesn't really apply when pointing out hypocrisy.
Some charts for that table would be so awesome.
Another way to think of it is that the business owners decided not to take some profit out of the business in order to improve the culture of the workplace.
I'm a big fan of tomatoes - we used to grow them at home in Europe, and I swear to you I have found 0 tasty tomatoes in the US, aside from this one tomato that my friend's boss grew in his garden, which tasted almost like a tomato should. Sometimes I feel like entire generations of people in the US don't know what a good tomato tastes like because they've never had a proper tomato.

I find the tomatoes in US stores bland and watery. They must be collected when green and ripe on the truck or in the store. I even grew my own tomatoes here from organic seeds and they ended up being just mildly better tasting than store-bought tomatoes. What happened to the tomatoes in the US?

Can someone demystify this for me: where are all the good US tomatoes at?
There is no now on earth, as each point on earth has its own light cone disjoint from everyone else's. Of course that these light cones intersect quite a lot, and because of this intersection you are free to declare a region of small spacetime around an observer as "now", provided that it is within the intersecting region. Of course when you do this you invent an ontologically distinct notion of now that very different from any set of points of equal time coordinate in GR. And this notion of now is very useful for us on earth, for sure, but its definability depends on exactly how much the light cones on earth interact, and when you deal with events that don't interact this notion becomes meaningless.

When you talk about equal-time coordinates in GR, the notion of now is non-unique, and this is interesting, but popular articles fail to convey this.

When you talk about the human notion of now, the notion of now is local, it's not that this notion of now in astronomical phenomena is different, it's that it can't be defined at all. Popular articles not only fail to convey this, but give the impression that it can be defined. It can't, and that is what is interesting.

There are multiple levels of category error happening simultaneously. The confusion between equal-time surfaces, and neighbourhoods (4-volumes) around points, along with the conflation of a point with its neighbourhood. And from these popular articles fail to convey the interesting properties of either -- the observer's choice in defining surfaces, and that 4-neighbourhoods can't be extended arbitrarily far while preserving their topological properties.
I really enjoy examples like this, thanks, I’ll be exploring it.

As an aside… I would truly love to explore a collection of interesting ways to use SQLite. It’s such an impressive piece of technology that I’d like to use more often. Please share if you have something similar!
I decided to delete all proprietary messaging apps and use XMPP exclusively in Janurary this year. It took some time to explain but now most of my friends and family can now be reached via XMPP.
sell it for 250,000
Unfortunately, this is incorrect.

I have seen weird pdfs that only display “help” messages when opened in preview… you have to follow a link and then open it in actual acrobat.
“Long escalators..” /Laughs in DC Metro
Made the account an hour ago, maybe that's why. Thanks for the heads up
I don't think you give the Amiga in particular enough credit. It wasn't really sold as a workstation, in particular the 500. It was sold for gaming and home use and was way better at that than anything else of the day. Including Mac and PC. At least in the Netherlands they were wildly popular among home users and not oddball at all. I bought one even though I had a PC because it was so much better for games.

It also had a pre-emptive multitasking OS in ROM which other platforms got only many years later. Like the Mac I'm the early 2000s.
Many planes, even some general aviation planes, can autonomously fly all the way to a safe landing.

The trouble today is that systems can fail, weather can change, and unlike a car you can’t just stop on the side of the road until the issue is fixed.
But how do we get people to choose the slow release over the rush? Buprenorphine and methadone are the slow release analogs you speak of, we already have those, and they are helpful for some. Still, there is a fraction of the addicted that are not interested in slow release.

Anecdotally, a close friend of mine sold his buprenorphine so that he could afford to purchase heroin.
I thought CCFL vs LED but maybe CCFL was dead in 2013
The distribution of matter influences the expansion rate of spacetime and here's how:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/9/10/37...
Google Maps was successful from the start, and in my view, has become worse over time. Docs started off "app-like", though I haven't used it in such a long time it may be different now.
In support of this comment, compare the dockets on courtlistener in this case (https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4181898/total-recall-te...) versus, say, Epic v Apple (https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17442392/epic-games-inc...) or Google v Uber (https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4609586/waymo-llc-v-ube...).

What jumps out at me is how little is available via RECAP on this case. The amended complaints, for example, aren't available--and that's literally the most important of the lawsuit! In the more interesting cases, far more of the docket is available, and often even some of the uninteresting minutiae of the docket (e.g., applications for pro hac vice) are sometimes available, presumably because someone unfamiliar with how the courts work wonders why this isn't available, buys it themself only to discover that it actually was uninteresting.
They feared that because people were being poisoned. Pewter plates were common at the time and the tomatoes acid leached the lead out causing acute lead poisoning!
One-Way Spinning Top
I know this may seem extreme, but you could always run Adobe in a separate MacOS user login to keep it sandboxed. When you don’t need Adobe, just log that user out…
I'd assume the most common reason is that the owner wants to do something else, like retire or start another company. You can't really do that without selling, you can hire a CEO but you can never fully delegate the responsibility.
I’m not sure this answers what you asked, objects that are referenced from multiple objects are simply wrapped with Arc<T>.
They kept two USB-A ports on the 2020 M1 Mac mini. I’m grateful for that, but having them provided by a dock is fine for me.

It’s possible they’ll show up in upcoming machines like the iMac Pro and Mac Pro.
I've never seen this before, and I've been using the Preview method described above for 15+ years. I have also never installed an Adobe product on a mac, ever. Do you have a link to a file that can produce this error in Mac Preview? It would be fun to learn how to bypass that.
> The BSDs have grown in popularity significantly in the last couple years.

Is the market share for BSDs growing?
I considered to add Supabase, RethinkDB and meteor. But they are not really client side databases. They realtime stream query results from the server to the client.
cfengine3 does that (and much more) form me.
Mmh, perhaps the fixed width instruction set makes ultra wide decoders easier.
I am really curious about how the storage engine works. Would you be willing to explain the idea behind it and how it works?
The link to China is common knowledge. I made no claim on the particular wording of the statement :-)
What's wrong with someone being on camera and eating? If you book me for lunch, I'll show up. With video. Eating. Same as if we were in the office. Book me for lunch? Expect me to show up with a plate or ask you to "go talk over lunch".

If you have the camera off, I have no idea if you're listening. If we're in a regular meeting in an office I can see that you're disinterestedly looking at your cell phone and react accordingly if I really need your attention. If you're camera off in an online meeting I have to assume with every single thing that I say that you are distracted and even if I say your name I am not sure if you even heard me until I say your name and wait for your acknowledgement (e.g. you turning on your camera or saying something to the effect of 'now I'm listening because I heard my name'). Seems like this is a real drag on productivity. This can obviously be different within an actual team that has a history of working together and working together well without the need for this. I.e. if you have a team meeting and you know every word is listened to even if everyone is off camera. That's not the kind of meeting we're talking about here though I think. We're talking about cross functional meeting between people that have lots of other stuff on their plate and at least half the meeting is not interesting to them.
Nice demonstration of the Paradox of Tolerance [1]:

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them."

This is the naive weakness exploited by every strain of authoritarianism, the idea that if we only object to every form of constraint of expression, we will always be free. Sadly, that is exactly what leads democracies to fall into authoritarian states.

Played out here in a free-speech site falling into an abyss of hatred that no non-idiot would want to support, so it failed for lack of support.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Seems like an application where the latest and greatest machine learning + javascript bloat may actually prove useful.
The point of the article is that their tech stack is embarrassingly out of date. A major institution shouldn't rely on ridiculous legacy tech from the 90s. If, for example, a bank is running on a PDP-8 I don't care if it costs millions to fix that, that's the banks problem.
Not a chiphead, but saw this in the article that might be a reason ARM is better for this kind of thing:

"The theory goes that arm64’s fixed instruction length and relatively simple instructions make implementing extremely wide decoding and execution far more practical for Apple, compared with what Intel and AMD have to do in order to decode x86-64’s variable length, often complex compound instructions."

Not sure it's true, not an expert. But it doesn't sound wrong!
> isn't just about incentivizing would-be thieves to not do it

If the law around petty theft doesn't actually reduce the number of petty thefts that happen, then all it's doing on a societal level is wasting money.
/usr/bin/sandbox-exec is still on macOS Monterey. It's not pretty, but you should still be able to roll your own sandbox rules and run any arbitrary app with it:

https://mybyways.com/blog/creating-a-macos-sandbox-to-run-ko...
It's their official press release, why are you defending them when they didn't even lay out the issue in their official press release? And sure, if you go through everything linked, you can piece together a fair bit of the story. It's a press release though-- as in something they want the press to pickup on and report on. The press isn't great at reporting on technical issues to begin with. Do you really think the EFF is doing a good job when it sprinkles the details over links to a half dozen other pages?

Don't get me wrong, this isn't the way all of their stuff reads. But it happens from time to time,and I expect better from the EFF when a simple extra paragraph would do the job and they're an organization that I very much expect to do a better job at providing information than this.
> From my memory of the early rift I am positive that outside of Palmer it was Carmack's genius that made this viable and Carmack's video lent credibility to the campaign.

I'm positive of this. Palmer spotted an opportunity to use phone screens + MEMS sensors for cheap VR and garnered public support for his prototype by presenting it as an open source gadget.

Carmack thought it was cool, and brought his name, time, resources, business acumen and legendary development skills, got it running Doom 3. Next thing you know they have a million dollar Kickstarter and are pulling in massive rounds of funding.