skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other interesting scenes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFkHadvj4DI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSfciVMm5IM

Fun fact: la Haine was filmed in color because the coproductors didn't believe a b&w movie would be a hit
Yeah I am confused as it appears you agree with me and I'm debating against myself that is my confusion .
More than 90% collapse in Mexico from 1520 to 1580, mostly from three epidemics. Starting from ~22m, 8m (37%) dead from a 1520 smallpox epidemic, 12-15m dead (~80%) from a 1545 cocolitzli epidemic, and another ~2m dead (~50%) from a 1576 cotolitzli epidemic. Mexican population didn't recover to its previous highs until the 20th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoliztli_epidemics
Sure, they may very well win the battle. What I'm trying to say is that in the course of doing so they would very likely lose the war.
Meanwhile in the US some recycling circuits have stopped because of “labor shortage”
'bash -c $(curl )' doesn't mitigate a website's ability to detect whether you're downloading a file via curl versus accessing it in a browser (e.g. if (headers.USER_AGENT.includes("curl")) {}).

It does mitigate a different issue whereby the website can detect if you're piping the output of 'curl' directly to bash.

The safest option is definitely --> curl to file, audit what you downloaded locally, not in a browser, then bash -c that downloaded file.

But, again, this only really mitigates attacks from sketchy websites. If the website is trustworthy; both the website you're getting the curl | bash download string from, and the website the script is hosted at, such as Github, where 90% of these scripts are hosted; its not really mitigating a legitimate threat.

The copy-paste thing is interesting, but frankly: That's an argument for why the web is insecure, and that insecurity impacts every single method of software distribution which touches it. Copy-pasting a 'sudo apt-get install' line is the same class of risk here as copy-pasting a 'curl | bash' or 'bash -c $(curl)' line; you could swap the script to a new URL, or you could have them install a malicious package from apt, or even just nuke the apt-get install part and just do a curl | bash anyway. Definitely something that's great to know and educate about, but its not the strongest argument against curl | bash.
In practice (I have experience with union labour), it depends. The older workers will usually step forward in negotiations and secure plum benefits for themselves, very often at the expense of younger workers.

Don't get me wrong - I think everyone does better with union negotiations (even managers to some extent - at least with a union contract, everyone's expectations are clear). But it definitely pays to be represented there at the negotiating table. It's a challenge to convince the younger workers to take an interest in this.
You keep saying that "public sector unions" are bad for society without giving any specific reasons why we should think so. What is so disastrous or traumatic about public sector unions?

From my perspective, unions come with plenty of problems, largely the same problems as any large organization, but on the whole workers are better off when they have a union that represents them. Society as a whole benefits when people do not have to put off seeing a doctor because their employer decided to give them a garbage health plan. Society as a whole benefits when the wealth gap is kept under control. Unions, historically and currently, negotiate compensation and benefits in ways that individual workers cannot -- because an individual negotiating with a large organization is at a disadvantage (and corporations know this, which is why they try to prevent workers from forming unions). Society benefits when the people we rely on to sort and deliver packages are not being told to pee in a bottle just to save some time. Unions have been particularly important in dangerous occupations where cutting corners or working multiple roles can result in death or permanent injuries -- which is why unions formed in the first place and why unions remain strong in certain industries (railroads, etc.).

Market forces work poorly when one side of the market has greater negotiating power and a greater ability to externalize costs than the other. Corporations have been known to rely on the welfare system instead of paying workers the minimum wages needed to live in a given region or provide effective health and retirement plans. Corporations work hard to avoid compensating workers for injuries and have faced few penalties for discrimination, harassment, and other abuses.

Almost all the complaints about public-sector unions are based on myths or at best unusual and extreme examples. Things that work well often go unreported, and unions typically work well.
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Well I'm not the absolute judge. But warehouse work is hard, I know that from close connections. I've heard 1st person accounts of things that suck working in an Amazon warehouse. The fact that for Amazon particularly, there's a very revolving door for warehouse employees.

It all comes together to "yup, a union seems reasonable". Not a conviction that Amazon is the devil, nor do you need condemning evidence for collective bargaining to be a good idea.
> Again, use whatever you want. But this is such lazy writing

It is, but I also think ‘use whatever you want’ is lazy, or at least resigned, in a different way.

There's a pattern that often takes hold with new desktop Linux users involving an intense evangelism phase. Some of the reasons for that phase are cultural artifacts that aren't especially interesting or valuable, like a tendency to ground one's identity in consumer choices.

But the evangelistic phase in a new Linux user's journey with desktop Linux is also grounded in experiences of joy, wonder, and a kind of digital ‘pride of place’ that really are special to free software desktops, and is nowhere realized as fully as in the desktop Linux world. Those kinds of experiences are worth sharing, examining, and celebrating, even in naive forms. Some good examples of content creators who've gone through this process in the last few years are Jason Evangelho (Forbes writer and longtime tech/gaming journalist) and Chris Titus (longtime Windows sysadmin and power user gone Linux YouTuber).

The ‘right tool for the job’, ‘use whatever works’ nostrum is as uninteresting and useless a meme as ‘Arch Linux is teh best and Ubuntu is for n00bz!!1’, with the additional problem that that its emptiness is obscured by its apparent even-handedness.

To be clear, I agree with most of what you've said and overall critique of the specific article in the OP. But I want to point out that ‘why Linux’ as a genre or topic is not just flamebait, and that there are other articles along those lines that I think have a legitimate place on HN or any forum where people are interested in people's experiences with computers.
Massive props to John Carmack! We also need laws to protect consumers when they don’t have an enlightened champion on their side.

Part of the reason I buy Apple devices is because Apple is unlikely to get acquired or go out of business for the foreseeable future. I wish there were viable alternatives. Android devices are not an option for me, as they are more likely to be abandoned and/or contain Google/manufacturer/carrier malware, and I need to use banking and work apps.

In that same vein, I have a preorder for a Framework Laptop because, at least for actual computers, I have the option of not splurging on a non-upgradeable, non-customizable Apple device.

We really shouldn’t have to wait for Librarian of Congress-granted exemptions, which can be rescinded at any time and are meaningless with locked-down devices anyway.
Are golf and such things still important to startups nowadays? I would have hoped that was dying off already.
Some people actually use those "takeout" features to collect archive data. So then you do get the archive, it's like having somebody's cuttings from a local newspaper rather than a complete set of local papers on microfiche.

One reason I take these is that I have RAM and I have grep and apparently either the people who had the data don't have RAM or they don't have grep, and so while I can ask my local Facebook archive "Er, didn't I write something about anti-freeze?" and get an answer in seconds, Facebook itself will try to suggest I might want pages about anti-freeze, a group that cares about anti-freeze, a sponsored advert for anti-freeze ... and not the thing I wrote.
1) You want someone who can tell you what will sell, if you build it.

2) Also, it's never clear. So you want someone who you can work with to forge a path through the jungle.
The TCL interpreter, unlike other scripting languages, doesn't perform any checks at the start of a program. That is, even silly syntax errors are found not before that very line is reached. If that happens to be in a lesser trodden error path, you might find it only at a very inconvenient time.

I learned to hate TCL with a passion.
How many "von Braun" types do you think exist in Taiwan? People who are willing to work on cool projects no matter who is in charge?

von Braun worked for the Nazis to make missiles during WW2. Then was picked up by USA / NASA to make missiles / ICBMs / Space Program.

It turns out that a surprising number of engineers are rather flexible when it comes to ethics. They just want to work on cool things.
Print it in a book, on good archival quality ink and paper. Make a couple of copies stored in various locations in case of natural disaster.

Look the English language is a lot different today than it was in 1621 and with the pace that technology changes I strongly doubt that anything web related will be able to run. (Assuming that civilization will still be standing, they still have a way to power technology)

So, that pretty much leaves ink and paper. That's your best bet, and even then that isn't a sure thing.
How many % of overall EV are refueled by battery swapping? That is actually a better indicator then saying X company has performed X swaps. Its probably like 0.0001%.

Compare the amount of swap station to the amount of fast chargers.

Battery swap is niche of niche of a niche for cars.

Gogoro is for scooters, I think its pretty clear we were talking about cars.
All of that stuff is fine and good but it's the same incremental progress as always. I don't see anything particularly special about using this device with a dock, that seems like a really niche use case. These type of devices are not new and have never been big sellers. I'd assume most customers would just use it for games and don't care that it technically runs Linux and allows them to switch out of their game and fumble around trying to use LibreOffice or GIMP on a touchscreen until they get frustrated enough to plug in a keyboard. Unless Valve is planning to invest billions of dollars in overhauling KDE for general uses (including non-gaming uses), then I don't think anything is going to change significantly. Yes, that's how much money it would cost. This is what Google had to do to with Android to make that kind of "Linux" a viable platform, it won't happen with anything else unless similar amounts are invested.

And for windows software I'm not talking about Microsoft Office or Adobe, I'm talking about the "long tail" of Windows apps that don't get attention from Wine developers. There's still a lot of those.
Those aren't the type of goods these companies are making. All of these companies have durable market power (in search, networking/communication, marketplaces); and can and have used it to expand their own power like the article says, and do it at the expense of smaller competitors. Hence the new anti-rust view being one that stops such anti-competitive actions.
You and gota both need to read the literature on patent strategy in maturing markets. This is well-known and informed everyone's strategy in the 2010 era, Google's and Microsoft's.

The literature says that in mature markets, the major players all have cross-licensing agreements sharing their giant patent portfolios, shutting out the minor players. They form an oligarchy, in other words.

I may be a few years behind, having been retired for a few years, but I don't think this has actually happened. It's possible that Google and Apple and Microsoft really do have cross-licenses now, but I kinda doubt it. It would be too complicated to negotiate. What they have is mutually assured destruction.
I was skeptical, but a quick web search verified that this 100% happened - recently even, in 2017.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2017/11/02...

> The Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that the suspect was, in fact, asking for a “lawyer dog,” ..

That's bad, dawg.
Of course for military equipment there are also other cost drivers - more demanding specs, less units produced to spread the development cost etc. etc.
Five hundred years ago is Shakespeare, roughly. Still readily understandable for the most part.

Now if we go back a thousand years…
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What case is that, and what court?
American Renaissance's entire channel. That has, as far as I'm aware, never called for violence, or spread misinformation, though I welcome news to the contrary.
"small" things like this I assume end up really expensive in wills.

Making a page of text available to the public for 500 years might involve 25 people (each person being responsible for 20 years), and each of them has to be paid enough to care. To ensure each is paid enough, there needs to be a fund to pay them, and that itself needs to be managed by someone, who will also want paying for their troubles.

Also consider that in 25 generations it's pretty likely there'll be a major war, civilization collapse, change of monetary system, etc. To make such a scheme resistant to such things, you're probably going to need multiple people involved in every generation, all geographically separated, and all will need paying.

Even if you set aside $1M of your estate to this, I don't give it more than a 50/50 chance of survival.
Well that's definitely the answer I was looking for. Thank you for this. I will concede that I agree with your points.

Nothing further to add, your honour.
It does not make sense to compel someone to confess, because that presumes the person is guilty. But it may make sense to compel someone to share factual information ("the PIN is 1234") or to provide access to information.
For the trust route it might be worth looking into a corporate trustee vs a natural person. It’s much less likely (though not impossible) for it to fall through the cracks at a bank’s trust department than at Doe & Doe Law Firm.
I recently saw headstones with photos on them. Now I’m thinking about writing a bunch of stuff and encoding it in a QR code on a headstone. The QR code is likely to be replaced with something else, but maybe if it says “QR Code” under it they could snap a picture and figure it out.
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Look at Arweave. https://www.arweave.org/

Taken from their site:

arweave is a global, permanent hard drive built on two novel technologies: the blockweave, a derivative of the blockchain, and proof of access, a custom incentivized proof of work algorithm. These innovations provide truly permanent data storage for the very first time and at a massive scale.

Essentially it is putting files on the blockchain in a permanent manner.

There are some podcasts out there where the founder talks about the details.
I admire and respect John Carmack for his role in the history of computing (and his ongoing contributions), but I don't see how making 3D video games was really helping humanity more than this. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It depends what you mean by long term objectives. The supreme objective of the CCP is to stay in power in China. All and every other objective is subsidiary to this.

The CCP decided many decades ago that economic growth was absolutely necessary for them to stay in power because it is required in order to maintain social stability. An economy with hundreds of millions of unemployed peasants in the countryside, and feeble industries was not sustainable. This is why they purged a bunch of ideological marxists and embraced communism with Chinese characteristics, AKA Capitalism.

For a long time the CCP maintained that 7%+ economic growth was necessary in order to absorb the unused labour pool and maintain social stability.

Needless to say a war with Taiwan and the US, plus blockades by the rest of the world would be a somewhat risky situation from a social stability point of view. It would be a complete throw of the dice, and for all Chinese people love gambling with money, that's not the CCP way with politics.
There is no market on PredictIt for that, as far as I can tell. Where can one buy for this prediction?
> I think there's a big mix here. I think you'd find a lot of "TERFs" would support exactly this (take a look at someone like JK Rowling for example).

JK Rowling isn't really much of a radical feminist or a TERF as far as I can tell. She's just sympathetic to their views. The organizations that TERFs support and staff however do indeed do things like campaign to support Ken Zuckeresque conversion therapies for gender non-conforming youth.

> I haven't seen many people deny that sex is real, but I have seen a lot of people saying that it isn't socially relevant and that for example people ought to define their sexuality in terms of gender identity rather than sex.

Maybe you're alluding to something like the sports argument here? The transgender movement is a big tent that is made up of people who have no medical intervention or even gender dysphoria and also people who take cross-sex hormones and have gender affirming surgeries. The sports debate is muddied by the need to not alienate anyone. If you get down the brass tacks though, the real argument is about how much impact cross-sex hormones have on the performance of a body that has been through a testosterone dominant puberty.

The conservative position seems to be that being AMAB grants you superior performance at all times regardless of any other condition, which complete androgen insensitivity syndrome seems to contradict considering that CAIS girls have no physical advantages over XX girls despite their Y chromosomes. The most radical liberal position would be that all sports should be open via self-id. The real answer is probably that trans kids who never had an androgen dominant puberty should be allowed to play any women's sport and trans women who transitioned later should be allowed in some women's sports but not others depending on how much the development of their skeleton during puberty number one might impact their performance. This nuanced view is rare however as both sides keep taking more and more extreme stances to spite one another. Look at how in Texas a 7 year old trans girl is considered too dangerous to play softball with cis girls. That's obviously dumb but the conservatives proposed HB25 to send a message that trans kids aren't wanted first and to """protect le women's sports""" second (a distant second).

Nevertheless, self-id is one issue that has some real nuance but it's one issue in a whole constellation of other debates which have much less nuance and simply come down to: trans people look weird and I want them to not exist.
No we don't.

But then I live in a place where gun control is a thing and has 6 times less homicides than the USA after adjusting for population, so there's that.

The popo are mostly unarmed and I'd rather things kept that way.
What would happen to all the future and swap denominated USDT contracts? What would happen to all of the AMM pools? What would happen to all the firms who keep tether reserves to trade with?

It would be a blood bath. Almost everyone who works professionally in crypto agrees with this statement.

Moreover, BUSD is kind of a joke and the only thing I ever use it for is trading a couple BUSD denominated binance swap products.
> the job market favors engineers hopping around instead of staying at one place

Does it? That's a fair description of the consulting space, but I don't think it's an accurate representation of the job market as a whole. When product companies hire software engineers, they tend to aim for the long haul.
The whole point of energy credits is that slow moving large companies who use bad old technology give money to fast moving young technology who use modern green technologies.

That is exactly what has happened and was a success as a business was created that no longer relies on credits and it has clearly accelerated the advent of EVs.

Not sure what your issue is with that.
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Here you go, Bernal Diaz del Castillo's account of the conquest of Mexico, written as a soldier in Cortez' company: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32474/32474-h/32474-h.htm
Here is the twist: on iOS devices (iPhone, iPad), third-party browsers such as Firefox and Chrome must use Safari's faulty and outdated WebKit engine. Therefore, websites will experience the same bugs even if you use a different browser.

Suddenly you realise that Safari indeed effectively has a big market share - namely all Apple mobile devices browsing the web.

I just spent a whole day working around a very annoying iOS Webkit/Safari quirk (HTML button elements not receiving focus). I had to resort to user agent sniffing and working around from there. I haven't had to do such stuff for a long time.

Back in the Internet Explorer days, you could at least say "just use a better browser". With the Safari situation on iPhones and iPads there is no such choice. Installing Chrome just gives the browser a different skin with respect to the browser engine.
Still a work in progress. I'm planning on sharing it once it's more ready.
But how much of the universal mushiness of slow cooking vs braising is that they usually have different definitions of done?

In a lot of cases, braised dish ingredients are the same as slow cooker recipe ingredients. A braise has a lot of intentional steps to develop flavor, whereas a crock pot recipe normally just says "dump it all in a crock pot".

But for the mushiness, I would say it's where a crock pot recipe often says "cook on medium setting for 8/10/12 hours", and a braised recipe says(should say) "cook until done". If you braised for the same amount of time crock pot convenience recipes use, you'd get the same amount of mushiness.
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This is true, but you may find that if you had to support something (and keep it relevant) across 20 years those specs and requirements may look much the same whether they are military or civilian.

For example, the amount of bending of the case of a device has to be DRASTICALLY less to allow effectively sealing contaminants out for 20 years vice 2, as well as the seals themselves being an order of magnitude better if there is no servicing involved. For most military equipment we have all of those AND regular servicing, something that consumers would absolutely revolt against nowadays.

One other thing people fail to realize on the electronics front: many of the chips in these older systems are getting very difficult to come by. About 10 years ago I was involved in repairing F/A-18 avionics, and one specific chip in that system was extraordinarily important. It was a radiation hardened 80286 CPU, and had a single production run for the entire budgeted lifecycle of the systems it was in. Unfortunately a design flaw in the power delivery systems meant that the CPUs were being destroyed at a rate roughly 4x as fast as expected and they had to figure out what to do. This specific chip was one of the many reasons (but a key one) that we retired that airframe.
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