skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are your definitions for "nationalist" and "internationalist"? You seem to be using meanings which are not operative here or even meaningfully coherent.

For example, nationalism doesn't preclude cooperation or even immigration. That would be some extreme form of jingoism and isolationism that rarely exists. On the contrary, it is cooperation between diverse groups that leads to more fruitful results because of the differences in perspective. Internationalism understood as a homogenizing force could only lead to global provincialism and therefore the destruction of the very diversity that allowed fruitful collaboration and exchange in the first place.

In the case of the USSR, it backfired for a few reasons, one of which was the failure to impose a manufactured identity onto its conquered peoples in place of individual national and ethnic identities (ethnic identity came roaring back after its collapse). EU federalists are repeating the same mistake. "European" is not a real identity. No one would die to protect "Europe". No one speaks "European". It probably should come as no surprise that many significant figures in the federalist camp have communist pasts or sympathies (Barroso comes to mind; he was a Maoist in his youth).

If you want to point to empires, then what you find is that they were ruled by a dominant culture. Sure, the empire may have been multi-ethnic, there may have been a good deal of cultural exchange, and that dominant culture may have included members of various ethnic extractions, but those members of the ruling caste were assimilated into that culture, thus becoming part of a certain "nation". The Romans actually had a process for assimilating people into Roman culture. E.g. if you were Germanic, then you might be sent to Syria as part of the Roman Legion to keep you away from other members of your ethnic group. This would force you to learn Latin and to adopt Roman culture (probably not a bad deal for a Germanic person overall). The ruling caste unifies the empire, but they can only do that by setting the parameters within which the other ethnic groups can operate. This is like liberalism. The idea that liberalism is "culturally neutral" is ridiculous. Liberalism IS a culture. It does not tolerate anything that conflicts with liberalism.

All of this is to say that I'm not entirely sure the opposition as framed makes sense. But know that mass migrations tear apart societies and will only lead to catastrophe. The result will be a period of chaos followed by some formation of (potentially new) nations and empires in the wake of the old.
And it cost Pepsi something like $400 million to implement this new logo.
Which LTS distros were you looking at that did not receive security backports?
Are these types of structurings common in the ad industry?
Basic Ubuntu Commands for Beginners
in the winter, the sun is lower in the sky for most of the day, so the overhangs have much less effect than they do in the summer.

but no, of course they don't let in more light than a window without an overhang.
I think Apple makes it too easy/fun to force-close apps on iOS by flicking them upwards from the app switching screen.
Tags (or other metadata) are:

- A controlled vocabulary. This addresses the problem of numerous terms referring to the same concept, the same terms applying to different concepts, disagreements on spelling or charactersets, and standardisation or cross-references between multiple terms.

- Externally applied, subject to authority independent of an author or publisher. This addresses the problem of keyword-stuffing.

- Capable of referencing information not within a document itself. Its place of publication, earlier or later versions, cultural context, citations, amongst others.

- Can be applied to nontextual media: images, audio, video, data.

Tags themselves are not hierarchical.

Search is not introspective or contextual.
I wonder how, a typical

#include "someLib/someLib2/someThing.h" would look like in a "tagging" world?

Sorry, probably stupid example, but hierarchial has been there from the begining (I still remember how limiting Apple ][ DOS was without folders, and how cool ProDos when it introduced them).
They’re following the same trajectory as previous generations: https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2021/09/01/who-is-the-w...

This stuff is complicated so make sure you’re comparing like with like. Even the chart above ignored one critical adjustment: in 1970 just 5% of the population was foreign born, while today its 15%. Millennials are much more likely today to be recent economic migrants, or the children of them, than boomers. That drags the numbers down, but doesn’t imply anything negative about millennials’ economic status. Indeed, those immigrants are experiencing upward economic mobility, and are seeing themselves that way. The dour attitude among millennials seems to be mainly on the native born, who really are doing as well or better than their parents.

At least, they’re doing better economically. Thanks to social changes, they have less agency than their parents did. They have few opportunities to garner authority and respect in their communities. They’re not building families and getting the hope that comes from nurturing the next generation. They have many reasons to be dour. Their parents failed them!
There is a lot to say on this subject, but instead of focusing on a fear of virtual or machine based therapy, why not focus on the need to de-professionalize therapy. If you really want to de-capitalize the mental-health treatment, develop simple but highly effective treatment training that everyday, competent people can do. Even volunteer based. Reality Therapy would be a good place to start:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_therapy
I'll be waiting on the sidelines. Telegram has grown way beyond what is sustainable by just the founder's funding. It has also managed to avoid government scrutiny and any legal oversight by running behind a web of proxies and servers. While that has served it well for growth, it can't scale forever as infrastructure costs catch up.

My personal thesis has been to wait and watch as telegram is forced to either shut down or turn evil to raise enough money for their finances. They tried to stay away from fiat by launching <del>TRON</del> TON but that got shut down, and now they're asking for money in euros.

Once this ad program succeeds (it better do, telegram badly needs a revenue stream), it becomes a lynch-pin in telegram's model of success - their bank accounts are prone to seizure the next time a scandal blows up on telegram.

Edit: The ToS defines "Company" as "the legal entity which belongs to Telegram group of companies and has a right to enter the Agreement with the Advertiser for the Services". Sounds like they're extending the "hidden-hosting" to "hidden-shell-companies" as well. Would advertisers be okay entering an agreement with an unknown legal entity?
rea.ch is a new Graph based PKMS that addresses some of the same issues so everything from File tagging to notes association as part of a second brain/zettelkasten schema.

[1] https://rea.ch/

Edit:
I should also give a shout out to Treeview for Twitter which let's you select between different tree visualization of Tweets.

[2] https://treeview.ml
No, the ones with such a habit of breaking things that xorg.conf being messed up became a joke
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On the other hand, what if everybody solved the problem of stock price prediction the way Zillow made it with housing market, and a steady growth we are seeing now is just a byproduct of those algos? When will we have a Zillow moment there?
The Way Out of the Fly-Bottle: Wittgenstein’s “Tractatus” at 100
Snapchat Safety Tips: Secure Snapchat Account: https://www.hackerslist.co/snapchat-safety-tips-secure-snapc...
Nah, no problem: Just use some cheap tablet for a bit casual time in the "commercinet" (e.g. YouTube)... ;-)
I can do the bad words one: in Thai, the root word “porn” (pronounced like the English word “pawn”) can be loosely translated as “blessing” and forms the basis of many given names, surnames and place names. Any blacklist that includes the word “porn” will cut out a lot of totally normal Thai names like Siriporn or Pornrapat.
If that's the case, how specifically would you improve that UX?
> so what (technically) is stopping a true E2E P2P platform?

The fact that nobody really wants a true p2p platform: you don't want to lose all your stuff if you lose the device. It is clear that federated services like email are superior for most users bar some real hardnuts mindfixed on privacy.
Renaissance Technologies is rumoured to use methods from topological quantum field theory.

They are fiercely and aggressively secretive, so no one really know for sure.

However, their founder worked in that field before moving to business:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chern%E2%80%93Simons_theory

Famously, he was sacked by the NSA for giving an interview opposing US involvement in the Vietnam war.
It’s going to be painful for Americans to adjust to being an only-ran. Consider how much of democratic politics right now is driven by the ability to run insane deficits to avoid taxing the upper middle class professional base. (Taxes on people making under $500k are still at Reagan levels and Biden promised not to raise them.) EU countries have to tax the middle class to balance their budgets, like proles.
Wow, this is a really great article. Thank you for sharing!

It discusses a fascinating point about browser UI: when the browser displays something inside its chrome, where a malicious page could render arbitrary pixels, it must establish a visual bridge back to the "trusted zone" (the chrome), providing proof that is in fact trusted content.

(The author points out that new APIs allowing writing to the entire screen means it's hopeless and we're all doomed though.)
>Thought it managed to standardise the linux ecosystem on one behaviour: nothing works by default

Except that in reality, everything works, all the time, and most of the reason that it does is due to all the hard work and good design put into systemd.

> 1.5k bugs, with a dozen showstopper blockers at any time

If you look at successful open source projects, you will see that all of them have thousands of bug reports open, and most of them will never be even touched by a developer. You simply can not imply anything about the quality of an open source software project by that metric, only that it's a successful.

I've been using Linux since 1996, and compared to the mess that was before systemd, I'm very happy about it. My remaining hopes are that wayland would finally kick xorg to the ditch where it should've been 10 years ago and that pipewire (or whatever) sorts out the audio problems (like they should've been sorted out 20 years ago).
Disagree.

With the resources available today there is just no excuse to not do some preliminary research on your own before asking others for help. Nothing is more infuriating than when somebody comes to you with some detailed question the answer (or an idea as to the possible answer) to which is readily available a Google search away. You have to do some homework before asking for others time to solve your problem. This is the only way to mentally get involved and engaged in problem-solving and is a necessary part of learning. Too many people nowadays don't even want to take the first step but want everything spoon-fed. This should not be tolerated nor encouraged.
Only Duckduckgo tells us what actually happened in Japan on August 13.
A lot of our ability to simply ignore reality—e.g. budget deficits, or comically high infrastructure costs—comes from having the biggest economy and being the most attractive target of investment.
I'll ask this for the third time, then:

Why would the other labs pay less per worker than the new lab?
Ask HN: What important truth do few people agree with you on?
Peter Thiel's famous question. What's your answer?
Another key difference is that a hierarchical (or positional) attribute is acquired inherently by a document's position within that hierarchy or location.

In both cases, the hierarchy is inherently positional, affords locality, and guides both the reader and the document by asserting that locality inherently.

If you're in a place, then that place gives nearness or farness from objects.

If you're an object, you're in some location inherently.

Tags, in this sense, are placeless, and don't provide attributes of or guidance to nearness. At least not without some additional mechanism.
THAT sounds plausible. I think there are healthy ways to integrate work and life (if you work at a place that has some worker protections in particular), I think being friends with coworkers is good and helpful for both work and personal life, and I think it's good to daydream productively about work ideas, BUT being able to not feel like you're on-call all the time must be a big advantage in reducing stress levels.
"100% of the 1%" is less nuanced than "99%".
I would consider this kind of the disadvantage of Ruby. If everything is obvious nothing is.
To add to that the average tenure in the industry is what like less than 2 years? Are you expected to renew your entire social circle every year or so? Sounds like miserable existence…
Countries which are getting rarer and rarer. I'm in China and we havent yet faced such problems at the office (we too are mandated to get those certs).

But in China, there are 5 Microsoft-approved offline training centers per metro station in any city with IT employees + the flats are so small you cant possible be uninterrupted during the exam during covid, so we mostly go offline.
> I'm not sure how to get hard data on what percentage of expenditures in a given department come from which sources, which would definitely be interesting.

Well, I picked UNC Chapel Hill as the example mostly because it's a public school and therefore (as far as I know) its budget is public information. Is that not true?

I'm perfectly happy to do the calculation in terms of "the chemistry department spend $X this year, and received $Y in grants, so their funding comes out of grants in a Y/X proportion".

> There are so-called "soft money" positions that really are 100% grant-funded. In academia, people with those usually have a title like Research Professor and they're expected to pay their own salary out of their grants!

I was aware of this (well, not that there was a title difference), but there is something I've been wondering about.

When salaries are part of the purpose of the grant, are they itemized in the grant? It obviously doesn't constitute corruption or embezzlement to help yourself to some of the grant money -- that's what a salary is. How much of it can you take?
Harmonicon – An experimental DAW for music as code
On the other hand, one is often called upon to work with many technologies to accomplish small tasks, making it impractical to become an expert in each one.
> That the East Asian nations managed to do it really is a miracle, and they did it on the back of nationalism.

It's worth noting that East Asian nations are not clones of each other. In the one I grew up in, I don't think nationalism played much of a role.

The government actively tries to foster a national identity but I don't think all that many people are buying into it - party due to the modus op of the government in my opinion; being a small nation the government has opted "being a leaf on the wind" pragmatism as its guiding principle and I believe it has rubbed off on (a significant percentage of) the people.

Raw pragmatism that involves toss aside anything that "doesn't work" isn't particularly compatible with dogmatic ideals of nationalism - i.e. people noticed the government isn't practicing what they preach.
Paul Krugman, writing in August of 2002:

"To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. And to do that, as Paul McCulley of Pimco put it, Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble."

It's been a while since Krugman said this, but it illustrates a basic fact about how many western governments do economics today: it's bubbles all the way down.

I like the article, but I think its charge of intellectual incoherence could be applied to a broader category of financial products than just beanie babies, tulips, and bitcoin. Many things, like houses, have simple explanatory narratives for why they have some value, but progressively more complex (and more incoherent) narratives for why they have their actual value.

In an essentially nihilistic economic model, where growth consists of stacking bubbles upon bubbles and hoping to inflate new ones before old ones pop, bitcoin is only marginally more demented than everything else.
Some answers and clarification on ads from Pavel Durov [1](Google Translate):

“Many users have suggested introducing the ability to disable official advertisements on Telegram channels. Today we are announcing two more changes:

1. Users will be able to disable official advertisements.

We have already started work on this new feature and look forward to launching it this month. It can be issued in the form of an inexpensive subscription, which will allow any user to directly financially support the development of Telegram and never see official advertisements in the channels.

2. Channel authors will be able to turn off official advertisements in their channels for all users.

Some channel creators would also like to "turn off" advertisements in their channels for all users. At the moment, we are calculating the economic conditions for this option. Advertisers will soon be able to place an "invisible" ad on any channel that - assuming there is sufficient cost per impression - will result in no ads on that channel.

Let me remind you that Telegram as a messenger will always be free of ads:

Telegram will not show promotional messages in your chat list, private conversations or groups. Advertising will affect only large channels - services where there is already advertising, and the support of which leads to the greatest costs on the part of Telegram.

We will continue to work on features that will allow Telegram to break even. The interests of users and content authors will remain our priority in this process.”

1: https://t.me/durov_russia/36
Open source isn't about value capture. It's about doing awesome things that make people happy. When you do that good things inevitably happen plus it helps if you're coming from a place of security due to how you're sharing your inner creativity to enrich the world. That's how most of the big leaps managed to happen historically. Imagine an ancient agrarian society that produces a surplus of food. People who were harvesting the fields are now sitting around bored trying to figure out what to do, so they come up with things like logic and philosophy. Some figured out how to use it to conquer the known world. Some were punished. But the thing they all shared in common is that they were wealthy in knowledge, and that's the wealth that matters most. I like to think of open source as the latest modern recreation of that pattern.
As an outsider, what is very common is conversion tracking, aka knowing whether people actually click your ad and buy your products, because that's the ultimate metric to optimize for. Most of the ad tracking we see in the web is actually not needed for the targeting part, but for the conversion tracking part. This product lacks conversion tracking, so I wonder if people with large enough budgets find it justified to run ads on the platform.

As a user, I find it great that my privacy is not impinged upon. I hope it will work for them!
There are many P2P chat/instant message platforms but they are very niche.

For example: https://cabal.chat/

There isn't a way to monetize an open P2P protocol, or even a "captive user base" to sell to VCs for a cash exit so not a lot of development has been done on that area. (And I would be highly skeptical of any "blockchain" P2P Chat proposal)
The pricing is actually $0.15/million requests per month.

$5 is minimum monthly payment.

They also have a free plan with 100,000 requests per day.
Absolutely correct!

>you will often spend hours and days stuck trying to solve hard problems with noone else to ask, and having the grit, determination and creativity to do this is one of the greatest skills you can teach an engineer

I would argue that _is_ the very definition of an Engineer.

Also it is an invaluable necessary skill to cultivate to navigate Life itself.
As if this stopped anyone ever! This logic is immediately rationalized with the famous "Someone will do it anyhow!" statement.

I think other comments are more valid. Sale potential. Buyouts.
I don't think you need to "unlearn" one; just become familiar with the philosophy and conventions of the new one. Your first language may always affect your approach a bit but you aren't going to be writing awkward code forever unless you have no interest in improving.
Yeah there's plenty of criticisms for ObjC, but this post kinda makes no sense to me. No one wrote ObjC like that and to make a coherent argument as to why would require a historical non fiction book. I'm not sure who the target demographic for this post is, and it's Java section makes sense, but the ObjC section doesn't seem focused. It kinda turned into a "OO developers are stupid" post. I'm a game dev (primarily iPhone/ObjC!) - we started that shit and I can't get on board here.
I have this problem in Pocket.

I use ... a lot of tags.

(I couldn't tell you without downloading my entire archive and doing some magick to count them, as Pocket won't give me a count itself.)

Pocket lags by well over a minute in even starting to populate my tags list after I enter some text into the field. (Chrome/Android, using an external keyboard.) It similarly takes several minutes to scroll through the tag list using either the Web client or the Android app.

You could argue that this is a piss-poor UI/UX issue, and I'd agree. It's piss-poor UI/UX issue that Pocket have failed to address since I first reported it over five years ago.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5x2sfx/pocket_...

If you'd like another list that has rapid-scannability issues, there's the Library of Congress Subject Headings:

These are publicly available. In 27 PDF files, corresponding to printed books ranging from 12 to 842 pages in length:

https://www.loc.gov/aba/publications/FreeLCSH/freelcsh.html
I’m so grateful for rachelByTheBay.
Oh, I'd say that matches most PHP projects pretty well.
I've been meaning to try out PhotoStructure[1] for a while now as it looks like it might just be a good place to finally put some effort into organizing my collection. Nothing is guaranteed to last forever but it looks like the author is planning ahead in this case such that even if he goes out of business, all the work I put into organizing would not be meaningless (data is stored in a sqlite db and code will be open sourced in event of business closure).

[1] https://photostructure.com/
Having worked in the industry for almost 25 years (in options trading), I must comment that the general quality of the article, and the author’s apparent level of understanding of the industry and options are highly questionable.
The $29 battery replacement program was only introduced after Apple was sued: https://www.macworld.com/article/230860/iphone-29-battery-re...

Also: users were not warned about this "feature", many (most?) didn't know why their phones slowed down, and there was no way to disable the behaviour.
Everyone I've recommended for hiring has been successful.

It's possible you're good at spotting good people, and rejecting bad people, but it's also possible that hiring is just easier than you think it is, and most people are capable of doing the jobs you hire for. You have no way to tell if you'd have the same result just hiring people by picking random resumes. Maybe negatives are just rare.