skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Imperialist Communist dictatorships try to destroy the identities of conquered countries and 'foreign' internal regions, including the USSR and China (Tibet, Xinjing). That fails spectacularly - when the USSR collapsed, all the ethnic identities reappeared.

To be fair the USSR had scarcely 3 generations to make this work and they were nominally committed to respecting the cultures of the nations they subsumed, they just wanted to eradicate all the ideologically 'incorrect' aspects of cultural expression. China is likely to be much more successful if it has another 40 or 50 years because they will have successfully conducted a complete ethnic cleansing of Tibet and Xinjiang, which the remaining ethnic population there reduced to a discriminated against curiosity.

Historically plenty of subnational identity groups DID get successfully wiped out or have it be near enough to not matter. Germany, France, and Italy, for example were all the products of a big nation-building project that involved standardizing linguistic differences (sometimes even forcing German speakers to switch to French and vice versa) through public education and other state interventions.

In Europe it's hard to disentangle the nation-building process (as a cultural thing) from the formation of the modern, industrial, bureaucratic state (as a technological and social thing) because they both happened at the same time. We see the same processes play out with state-formation and nation building in the developing (post-colonial) world and if you apply the same trends back to what was happening in Europe around the start of the 100 years war it's a little easier to see the commonalities.

But we can see examples in Spain, where the state didn't get quite as advanced as in France or Germany until after WWII, and there still are several sub-nationalities that never got fully absorbed, like Catalonia or the Basque region. But once upon a time many of these https://i.redd.it/qw2f5wir7mq31.jpg would have been considered different identity groups, with the distinctions between them considered as salient or more salient than national identity (though probably less salient than whether you were catholic or protestant).
I wonder if it would be feasible to just set up a toilet to provide genetic samples?
Ask HN: Is it legal to barter or volunteer help in Western Europe?
I recently read a comment which suggested that in many Western Europe countries it is illegal to voluntarily help someone who is not family or to barter services.[1]

I've been trying to find information to this with all sorts of search queries to no avail. It this actually a thing I can't find because my google-fu is not strong enough?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29144043
It could be a different kind of farm, like an automated testing farm.
You have a fundamental misunderstanding. The point is you simply will not get certain creative works in this model. They will not be worth the opportunity cost. There is no reality where you get “no scarcity” as well as “all the creative works you would have gotten with scarcity.” (Ie, probably most of those which have led to our present day wealth.)

Your proposed world is to say we ought to just not have people create lots of stuff they would have otherwise, in the name upholding a philosophical principle. Which is fine, but own that, and don’t act as though its the just the deficiencies of others leading to a world where you do not get a endless stream of value from them.
I agree completely here. I refrained from recommending them in this article because it would have made it even more controversial, but both Elm and Rust have made _incredible_ strides on this front.
This is interesting - do modern missiles need visual facsimiles of warships for targeting?

What is the value of making it look like a real ship (from above)?
I was assuming they called it an interposer for a reason. However as the sibling comment by mkoc mentions it might just be a spacer, and the X-ray image[1] of the package seems to confirm that.

[1]: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/look-inside-raspberry...
Title is wrong, the updated configuration (https://wiki.mhut.org/_media/software:libgen_desktop_mirrors...) is using ipfs.com and cloudflare-ipfs.com, so it's still being fetched over HTTP(S), not IPFS.
University of Chicago is a very selective school. You don't just choose University of Chicago and then get to go to University of Chicago.
In the stories, being old _was_ the partial transformation (Protectors become sterile - older people become less reproductively able, Protectors get an extra heart where the genitals were - older people have heart problems because they only have one, Protectors are monomaniacally fixated on family, and so on).

The original stories were written in an era when there was an absence of direct proof that humanity was related to other life on earth (that would be the default assumption, and there was tons of evidence, but it was theoretically semi-plausible that we weren't); molecular biology more or less killed that off, ruining the stories :)
In the linked article, IGR and a lawyer both claim that only CNEM could authorise the move.

And the "handover" to the new owners was very acrimonious, with the new and old owners fighting in court. What seems clear is that IGR lost access to the location and filed several complaints about the machine being left there.

If IGR was securing the machine and trying to get it moved before they were thrown out of the location and prevented from visiting it as they claim, I don't think they're to blame at all. Of course details are fuzzy on that.

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EDIT: According to this court sentence [1], IGR never notified CNEM:

> Then, under pressure to leave the site, the IGR transferred its headquarters to another address, and ended up abandoning the obsolete Cesium-137 pump in the old building, without even notifying the CNEN or the State Health Secretariat of the fact.

> On 05/04/87, the demolition of the building began, by order of the former partner of IGR, AMAURILLO MONTEIRO DE OLIVEIRA, culminating with the almost total destruction of the original building, which left it without a roof, doors or windows, despite the existence of the aforementioned Cesium-137 pump on the site, without any warnings or notices.

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EDIT2: According again to the court sentence, the demolition was ordered by former partner of IGR, who had to pay 100k for the whole ordeal.

> On 05/04/87, the demolition of the building began, by order of the former partner of IGR, AMAURILLO MONTEIRO DE OLIVEIRA, culminating with the almost total destruction of the original building, which left it without a roof, doors or windows, despite the existence of the aforementioned Cesium-137 bomb on the site, without any warnings or notices.

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[1] https://jus.com.br/jurisprudencia/16292/sentenca-na-acao-civ...
"Help, help, I'm being oppressed!"
[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29144043
A startup nearly went bankrupt because of caching
This strikes me as an unfair comparison - we don't have for cars what IDEs are for programming. The best analogy I can think of is, "you should teach people to drive the car before you let them use Tesla Autopilot".
This should immediately make it legal to apply a crack in my opinion. I hope this is the case.
US oil giants top list of lobby offenders holding back climate action
I can't imagine how difficult 3d space would be to navigate when spinning like this.

I already have trouble mastering driving a car, and that's removing like half the dimensions a pilot has to deal with.
I am not installing an application which collects my data and spoonfeds it to entities with the explicit intention of influencing my behavior. No matter what side benefit that app provides.

And yes, I prefer to not communicate with people who would make such demands of me.
If you read the cited study, light flickering, “a sense of injustice” and noise-induced annoyance are the health effects. So actually not really health effects in the sense a normal person would recognize.

I am frustrated by people who are quick to NIMBY climate change and energy security solutions over the type of problems caused by every other type of industrial activities, including highways.

Being miserable by noise, and not just adapting to it as nearly all people adapt to other kinds of constant noise, seems like an attitude issue. Feeling powerless comes from making unreasonable demands and trying to put personal preference over the greater needs of the community and society.
> I can also ask: why does so few other support the single somewhat functioning democracy in the region?

In the West Bank, Palestinians are not allowed to form an army, have control over borders, or even control of travel around the West Bank. So they are made to nit have their own country (which Israel opposes) but to be part of Israel. So can they vote for Knesset candidates? No. (Yet an orthodox Jew from Brooklyn who has never been to the Middle East can make aliyah to a West Bank settlement and vote for Knesset candidates immediately).

Some "democracy".
If you did start something like that you could call it Labcorp and make sure it’s the only game in town.
You develop your intuition by looking at (or designing) a lot of these. It's like any other profession, I guess, experience makes pattern matching easier.
> Also, most assumptions in the article are false.

Can I ask what assumptions I made that you consider to be false?
Though I really wouldn't recommend trying to use it for blogging.
Sure, maybe a better word would’ve been we have “circumstantial” evidence of UAPs. Of course the current evidence is not enough to definitively state what these UAP are, or even enough to convince most people on here that UAP are even “real”. However, I would argue there is enough there that further scientific research is worthwhile. Avi Loeb’s Galileo Project costs less than $2 million, and if we can capture evidence of UAP then we can begin to better understand whether these are some sort of craft, or an unknown natural atmospheric phenomena. It’s frustrating to see other scientists against this type of research.
Productivity Tips for Your New Hybrid Work Life
I'm not super familiar with this stuff, but I believe you could then use a key-value store with automatic expiry like Redis for automatic pruning and faster lookups.
Windows (which has native support for Xbox controllers) shares a digital game store with Xbox now, there's even a subscription service that lets you play some games at launch. It's probably the best deal in gaming, if your metric is dollars per fun hours in trendy games.

Sony has not one but two subscription services with free games. Like USD $50/yr for access to 24 best sellers. You play them some time after launch. You can play recent releases on their more expensive subscription, I forget the price, but it's competing with the Xbox service I mentioned earlier.

So there's plenty of ways to play best sellers and fresh games for less than launch day full price. And even though the gardens are walled to their respective ecosystems, Sony and MS are targeting the same audience so the consumer still benefits from competition.

If Steam enters the arena with Steamdeck, they will be the ones competing against two established console makers who have steam's desired audience already bought in to subscription services.

I'm not convinced Valve moves to the front by default. I think it makes a three company race and Valve is going to have to lean HARD on the steamdeck form factor their first generation to establish themselves.

I don't think Valve is ready for the fiercity of the console wars at all. They couldn't even keep Epic game store at bay when they started dropping Fortnite money on exclusives. I'm sure they've learned their financial lesson on that one... now imagine inviting two more companies to bid on exclusives against you!
Toyota is #3, presumably for being so anti-EV. Remember their "self-charging" commercials?
> I get it’s not end to end encrypted but that’s not what I am asking for with telegram - just a decent messaging app that makes it easy to remain anonymous (not sharing phone number)...

Big thumbs here to TG: I don't use WhatsApp. Never installed it, never will. TG is not just about "not being FB": the UI is really cool and the synch between several devices (say phone and laptop) is flawless.

Now... You wrote "easy to remain anonymous" but AFAICT you cannot register a TG account without a phone number? Or can you now? As in: can you only download the desktop app and do all your messaging from you computer, without ever installing anything on your phone and without ever giving out a phone number for verification?
Perhaps, but how many purely defensive militaries do you know of? If a single soldier steps outside the country's borders to do anything but prevent a demonstrable imminent invasion of their country (so peacekeeping, preemptive strikes, fighting terrorism don't count) then it's not a defensive military.
Well, it also wouln’t have worked if not for Python ignoring raw quoted strings. It’s those two behaviours of the two languages which makes this limited polyglot script possible.
Likewise, performing a radical mastectomy on girls would significantly reduce the incidence of breast cancer. Why don't we do that?
The ´Books' tool [1] has been doing the same for a long time as well, can be used anywhere where Bash runs and - given its shell-based nature - is eminently hackable. It comes with a CLI (named 'books'), TUI ('nbook' and 'nfiction') and GUI ('xbook' and 'xfiction') and supports both IPFS, Bittorrent as well as direct download. It can search on all fields.

Source: I wrote this about 6 years ago and maintain it every now and then

[1] https://github.com/Yetangitu/books

[2] https://forum.mhut.org/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=7816
This sounds appealing until you remember that you can't get all the nice apps in Linux.
I would appreciate that! A lot of people have criticized this piece pretty vaguely and I'd love to see some points in opposition laid out in a more long-form piece.
There's no way for insurance companies to buy this data and discriminate against people to improve their bottom line right ?!
While it's clear the US government participates in terrorism on foreign soil, it's also clear they would never call what they do "terrorism", so it's simply a matter of "us" vs "them".

"They do "terrorism", we do "peacekeeping"". If you're on the other side, the arguments looks the same.
Actions by large national militaries tends not to be called terrorism. Basically, once a nation has enough influence, they can preform "peacekeeping" actions anywhere they can get away with it.

Convert warfare has been used in the past to describe terrorist actions done through third-parties.
This link may not exist. Notably, if you start with minimal bootstrap of ubuntu focal (20.04) and install "python3" package, you'll end up with "python3" and not "python"
This follows what I think of as the best technical interview I ever had. It was for a more junior role, but it was pretty good.

Here's a basic straw man rails controller. There are a few things wrong with it. Apply suggestions. It was nice.
A little but I wouldn't want to dox myself. Essentially I'd been doing some related stuff as a byline in my previous career as well as some enthusiast stuff and private freelancing. I cashed out and did some dedicated study to fill in some gaps and then started jobhunting. Overall transition took 1 1/2 years, plus a further 8 to get into my current specialty and pass income parity with previous career
Success is not the amount of stuff you have. It's about being content.

Capitalist culture is convinced that greed and desire and impatience is good, because it leads to more stuff being created and bought, and from some arbitrary standard, this "economy" is the golden standard of success.

And yet suicide rates and loneliness go up in these places, while family values go down. What are you really working so hard for?

Poverty is a problem, but most poor places are poor because of corruption. And corruption happens because some people think they need 8 cars or whatever to be content. And the reason they're not content is because they think contentment leads to complacency and poverty.
point mutations?
It's not controversial. I'm the one making controversial statements, I admit, and I'm genuinely thankful that you don't just dismiss it.

I just think, we can't be agnostic about what success is, what the goal is.

I don't think "grit" really is a thing - if we both believed in the same things, shared the same ideas about what's important and valuable, I think we would be equally capable of the "sticking to it" part of it.

But changing the way we teach won't help, because bringing people around to your set of values - whether it's convincing them that math has inherent beauty, or merely that mastering it is a great way to a lot of awesome material comforts - that isn't really teaching. It's preaching. It has to come from someone who believes it, and lives it - and is sufficiently similar to his students (or congregation!) that they can imagine themselves living it too.
Integrity Makes an Impression
Indeed, the difference is somewhat subtle, as explained here:

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/15227/why...
Ah that's right. I was misremembering; it was the jest test suite that ran with node and had to contend with differences between node and Workers' V8 engine. I don't suppose anyone's come up with anything better?
Except that this kind of person is related to other people who might have different views on such consent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT18KJouHWg
You could learn about a non-paternal event, I suppose.
Your lack of concern for gain-of-function research is not shared by experts in the field. They almost uniformly appreciate that that there is a risk of creating a pandemic that would be unlikely to arise naturally, and they take strong (but, imo, not nearly strong enough) safety steps to prevent it.

Nature generally didn't develop wheels or nukes either, but humans did and use them to great effect.
You may note that I do, in fact, call that out as the deeper problem:

> Use a language that teaches the fundamentals of the paradigm you’re interested in, like Scheme or Python. (Please, please not Java.)
While this looks funny and smart, it's not really a good solution as it lacks well communicated documentation. Python has a proper way to check for version, which is backward-compatible till version 2.0, so around 20+ years.

import sys
if sys.version_info.major < 3:
raise Exception('Need Python 3 or higher')

EDIT: correction, sys.version_info.major is only there since Python 2.7. For older versions sys.version_info[0] should be used.
It seems like FB is making similar mistakes then if they want to keep it as a 'own the venue' model. I think they can afford this mistake considering but in the end, it will greatly slow down the adoption of their platform.
Suspected hackers arrested in global ransomware crackdown
That's nice. What does it have to do with the article?
Yes, but it's not cheap.
This may be a matter of loose terminology - in the flare (and when slowing down in level flight generally), once you have reached the angle of attack giving the maximum coefficient of lift, you will descend (and therefore, in the flare, touch down.) Though there will be some flow separation at this point (and before) it is still a couple of degrees from a full-blown stall.
You can download the full installers from the command-line: https://512pixels.net/2019/10/download-macos-installers-with...

Wikipedia shows the exact version number of the latest releases for each.
Here is what i do at every new job where by definition i am the "new" software developer. Note that the below activities are not necessarily sequential;

* Ask for any and all user manual, design and code documentation however incomplete. This could be docs/pdfs/wikis etc. Spend a few days/week on going through this and taking notes.

* Ask a Senior/Knowledgeable developer who has a good idea of the entire System/Codebase for a few hours of his time for a couple of days. Take him to lunch and segue into a "brain dump" of the System. Again take notes. In particular; spend a few hours going over the layout of the codebase and writing down an overview of each component.

* Don't ask questions while doing the above. Your aim is to get an idea of the "lay of the land" as far as the logical/functional and physical design of the system is concerned. Absorb the information and try to form a model/image of the system in your mind.

* Sit with QA or another developer to learn to run and use the system as a end user. I always find this difficult since one needs to have an idea of what the system does before one can understand how to use it.

* Now you have some internal view i.e. logical/functional design and physical codebase layout which you can attempt to map to end user functionality. Start diving into the code, fixing bugs, adding small features to gain understanding and confidence.

* You can now start asking any and all questions and revising your understanding of the system and its code.
So that's how people should react to a software bug?, move to a new OS and try to get as close as you can to all the apps you were using for years...
You don't have to halt science to decide that the benefits of gain-of-function research is not worth the risk. We don't test nuclear weapons anymore either.
Likely, the site was set up before all browsers supported automatic hyphenation (fairly recently), and the soft hyphens were added to assist with hyphenation.
To me he clearly show signs of the personality that got him fired. On the other hand you have to ask how messed up the company was to not only interview him again but spend so much time having back without red flags telling the interviewer something is wrong.
Aside from the fact that the skydivers weren't really that close to the plane during the recovery, it was pretty much just luck. In a situation like that training takes over, and the only thing you're really looking out for is the ground to keep your bearings straight.
With good windows, you probably shouldn't hear them.

I live under the approach to IAD (DC suburbs) and have jumbos passing overhead much of the morning. They're loud when I'm in my yard, but I barely hear them when inside. Same with the evening outbound jumbos - they don't pass overhead, but we can hear their engines run up for take-off if we're on the deck, but not in the bedroom.

Same for the Dulles Toll Road. I can hear it outside, but inside it just blends with general suburban ambient noise.

And both were here well before I bought the house, so I'd be a right dickhead to complain now (not that that stops many locals from doing so).
I think I remember that the reason we moved onto serial buses was due to the complexity of ensuring signal integrity for high speed signaling.
A great organic-food fraud
But they do walk away from mass bombings. I mean, heck, folks walked away from nukes (most later died of cancer, but not all). More folks survived the hindenberg than died in the crash. And so on.

Mass bombings tend to kill folks in the blast areas, but there are a lot of places that aren't directly in the blast. If you destroy one house with a bomb, the surrounding houses will likely have damage but still stand - and the residents will know.
That seems extremely unlikely. I lived in France for over 10 years and I never heard of any law like that. It is however illegal NOT to help a "person in danger" there.
> You do not have to start a new project from scratch. It’s perfectly fine to submit something you have previously created yourself. Maybe it’s something you work on in your spare time, just for yourself!

Yeah, no, nobody is or should be giving you their own personal work. It's offensive and probably illegal that you'd even ask.

> The novelty and creativity of your submission

Yeah, no.
I assume that the radioactivity is dispersed enough to not be a concern. Leaving the objects whole would have risked them being found and used/recycled.
Queens hate this one weird trick.
A dystopian story about when data teams go bad