skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Singapore sounds like a seriously two-tiered society of aristocrats and serfs:

> "Lacking in natural resources, Singapore’s government has long stressed that its most important resource is its people. However, with declining birth rates and low population growth, the country increasingly relies on immigrants to help shoulder the economic burden. In 2020, Singapore’s foreign workforce stood at just under 1.23 million, out of which about 351 thousand were classified as skilled labor. Most of the foreign workforce were employed in sectors that were deemed unappealing to Singaporeans, such as in construction and the service industry, or as domestic help." [1]

https://www.statista.com/statistics/698035/singapore-number-...

The power structure looks like a kind of 'walled city'. The position of Singapore at the east end of the Straits of Malacca, a key transit route from the Indian to the Pacific Ocean, made it a trading hub and Singapore's wealth is due to extraction of a percentage of the wealth flowing through it.
I see this in the network tab -

https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-

what does this do ?

There is no link transparently talking about this.
Why would it all need to be read?

I'd expect that a lot of it is data that is gathered because it might be useful if certain things came to pass that did not come to pass.

For example, suppose in phase 3 they had found that the vaccine provides excellent COVID protection but it also has some terrible side effect in too many people to approve it for general use.

If they have extensive medical records on all the people in the trial they might be able to see some way to tell who is likely to have the bad reaction and who is not. Then they can try to find some way to mitigate that, or go for an approval for the vaccine for people other than those who are likely to react badly.

If things go smoothly on the other hand, there may be no need for anyone to look at much of that data.
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Sounds a lot like Satanic Panic [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic
I wonder if they're just betting on unicorns. Sure, 95% of these stores might die but if the last 5% become powerhouse brands it could be worth it.
Please downvote me more so I can have my account removed from this awful site.
To paraphrase one of my favorite quotes on the matter, "Whoever said that money doesn't bring happiness has clearly never tried being poor."
Add all those differences in price up and subtract from wage increases in the last 20 years. We’re paying way more now for things collectively. Inflation isn’t just a single increases of prices on items, it’s all increases compared to income level. It’s closer to 15% when you take the collective increases of everything compared to current income levels.
The best analogy I've heard is, "Imagine you spent $1,000 for a painting. Now, instead, imagine you spent $1,000 to buy the receipt."
Digging into Linux namespaces – part 2
Ahh yes... was like xmass every morning when you first looked at your irc client !
That's a fair question and it depends on what you're trying to get out of the framing. It's similar to the "mean vs median" thing in averages. The absolute average divorce rate is 50%, but the typical marriage survives 85% of the time.

I often see "50% of marriages end in divorce" as an argument to not get married. Why get married if "until death due us part" is a coin-toss? That framing ignores that the overwhelming majority of first-time marriages are marriages for life.
Alternatively, everyone can gradually reject their manipulated fiat and embrace an alternative economic paradigm that eventually denies the government the ability to inflate away the value of their savings.
Predicting text readability from scrolling examples
Is it just me or is this nonsensical trash that seems to say absolutely nothing?
> He has a point about government attacks. We don't really know yet what will happen if governments simply try to stomp out crypto. For sure market prices would take a hit at first, as they did when China tried to curb crypto.

We've just seen what happens when China banned it as you mention. The price took a dip and then recovered.

It game theory. Classic Prisoners Dilemma. Everyone else just gets a higher incentive to use it when some part of the world is not allowed, because everyone else gets a higher advantage.

Especially Americans will jump all over it if the communist ban it. That just completely legitimizes it for anti communist Americans.
I don't miss the net splits though :D

mIRC... those were the days. Good times, indeed!
Like, I’m a Snowden guy. I rep this dude but this article is garbage.
If you could save money by switching to Linux from Windows, I’d expect to see much more Linux machines in corporations.
I guess, by nature of being online, their stores are always open?

But really it's more likely to be a cynical use of an arbitrary word with positive associations (and a use that itself dilutes those positive associations).
Most of these are common to other platform packaging systems, and I'm not sure I've seen any especially interesting solutions to them.

The macro-based ones are rust-specific and seem especially devious and challenging to me.
Why does a forum post need to be compelling? I just want to ask a fucking question or pick a nit. If it's a "meh" post and I don't get any replies my personal identity isn't wrapped up in the post.

I hate the meme of everything being some "content creator" hustle. I post on forums about hobbies and stuff I enjoy. The last thing I want is that medium invaded by a bunch of social media hustlers trying to sell me dumb shit.
You want this private (banking) company’s app to be open source? Lol
I recall in the mid/late 2000's implementing a markov text generator to create thousands of static html pages based on certain keywords. This has been a problem for over a decade and will probably get worse as text generation tools improve, e.g. GPT-3.
Of course Facebook censorship is insane and incoherent.

But pretty much no widely publicized complaint about these ever says "Facebook censorship is insane and incoherent, so Facebook should stop censoring". They just want to be the ones in control of the censorship instead.
>On the other hand, if I tweet or post on my own personal blog, then I'm not making any assertions that my writing is valuable. It's entirely up to other people to choose whether to follow me or unfollow me depending on whether they get any value out of it. This makes me feel much more comfortable posting random thoughts.

If all you wanted to do was write down your random thoughts and truly didn't need for anyone else to see them, then you could journal them on a piece of paper instead.
Organizing Documentation Ain't Easy
> hero-worship of scientists is very silly

About what they should think when developing a weapon of ultimate mass destruction? Rainbow unicorns?

You can't be a pacifist and simultaneously fight for "peace", that's nonsense. You can only fight for your survival, and for your people, your culture, your principles and values.
Commit to building up significant reserves, then pursue passion. Your compensation rate increases will likely ceiling out at some point, that's when you should consider jumping back out. If you can stand it that long, try to enjoy the ride too so it's not all about the money.
Competing how, exactly?
Spy camera detection using smartphone time-of-flight sensors
Show HN: Create and share mini games/challenges
Gamify is a social media app that allows people to create and share mini games and challenges. The first game mode is "Either Or: Funniest Video" which allows viewers to compare and vote on video submissions as well as the ability to join by uploading their own videos from their camera roll.
They don’t need to validate anything, though. Just treat the namespace as something that can be claimed exactly the way that a crate name can be claimed.

Only owners of the namespace can add crates to that namespace, in the same way that only people who own a crate name can publish to that crate.
I always find it curious that both dark matter and dark energy aren't available locally to study.
This is more balanced view on how to structure your docs than previous article on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26413937
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Love it haha, gonna borrow this sometime!
I presume those who support NFT's (I'm not among them) would suggest that owners would use the legal process in some cases to set a precedent for enforcing rights so that people end up respecting those rights. Like parking tickets for private parking lots, the incentive would be just pay to avoid the hassle if you want to use the asset legitimately. I think the odds of this "pay to display" business model coming together are low but if they did it could be a big financial opportunity for those who hold the rights to valuable content.
You're all talking past each other!

It depends on the machines.

I'm biased towards Linux. I also really like Macs.

I've had Linux machines that just works. Buuuuut, before getting my hands on those machines I researched online and ensured that Linux works well on those. In my personal experience, Dell (Inspiron/Vostro/Latitude/XPS) and some ThinkPads usually work fine.

On such machines, everything works out of the box. I've had to do nothing special on those machines to make anything work. Things worked right from the first install.

Now, there are definitely plenty of machines out there where Linux DOES NOT work well out of the box.

So, I guess Windows gets a brownie point for that — you don't have to investigate upfront if Windows is going you work on a given consumer machine; it probably works on more consumer computers than Linux. (However, there's more to it than this if you think about how this situation came about; I don't want to open that can of worms here).

My hope is that, if enough people choose to run Linux, then manufacturers might be incentivised to support Linux better so that even more people would choose Linux, and so on.

I refuse to run Windows because:

• I honestly just really like Linux, BSD, and unixy environments.

• Windows had a clunky developer experience the last time I tried it (a decade ago); I hear it has improved, but frankly I don't care.

• Statements like "Linux is cancer" from you-know-who never sat well with me. I suspect they're still evil.

I also refrain from running Cinnamon because that reminds me of Windows from long long ago, and I'd rather not be reminded of Windows.

Having said all that, I think LibreOffice is inferior to MS Office. It was the one Microsoft product that I actually liked.
Why did they even choose the name "OpenAI" if they didn't want to make openness part of their mission?
In 2022 Apple will send you parts and tools to fix your iPhone and Mac at home
I did, but I have to pay an obscene amount of money for an out of network doctor :/

What was worst about the whole experience was that my HMO didn’t want to switch me for my benefit, but because prescribing a scheduled substance was inconvenient for them. Too much paperwork or something? The system is not built to protect patient interests.
Housing has gone up significantly. Compare what you’d get buying a new build in 2000 to what you get in 2020. $100k for a solid well built home, now $500k for same sq ft, but much lower quality and corners cut at every possible point. I worked I. Construction for a while and my dad for over 30 years. Look up how many new builds have lawsuits for poor quality now vs 20 years ago. Sq ft isn’t a good comparison.
I don't get how that would solve you problem at all. You can implement a bitcoin miner using functional code then just add an http client as a dependency for getting data to/from the blockchain.
> hate speech and disinformation targeting at-risk users such as women and the LGBTQ+ community are left rampant on the platform

And Israelis too! Or is it Palestinians who are at-risk. Oh well, I'm sure the moderators will sort that one out
Rancher (Docker) managed Kubernetes node unable to pull images after clean-up
> Work and self-actualisation can be rewarding and meaningful, but looking at the sea from an hammock and drinking too much beer with friends three times a week is also a completely respectable way of waiting for the gravitational swallowing of the planet.

Part of wants to accept this from the author and the other part of me is wary. I didn't have a child because I wanted to be happy, I did it because I wanted a more meaningful life. It was the greatest decision I ever made.
The management graciously allocated all the time that the senior needed for all this documentation and onboard plan, then everyone in the company clapped
Gratitude Journalling might help. Noticing and noting down things to be grateful for, at the end of each work week, might help you see the flowers growing out of the field of muck.
That's an entirely empty threat. Our trade deficit is larger than the GDP of half the countries on earth combined. What are we going to do with what we purchase in Europe - switch to buying it from China?
The main part is quitting her job. This at least gives you the opportunity to take control.
Million dollars ain't what it once was.
Microsoft has one of the fastest supercomputers (and no, it doesn't run Windows)
> There is no tight coupling between GitHub and cargo/crates.io (sure it uses GitHub internally but that is an implementation detail).

Cargo had a “locked” option that uses the URL and commit hash from the Cargo.lock file. If the crate, repository, or commit has changed then it won’t build.

This is what everyone uses for reproducible and secure builds, but it’s not as commonly used for casual use.
They also refine a bunch of the Indonesian oil, which I always found funny (refining is where the real money is, so why don't Indonesians do it themselves...?)
No, they didn't mean that. It is nearly free and instant to send with BTC's Lighting Network.
It's a shame it failed and there are no real cheap netbooks anymore (aside from Chromebooks).

I used an Acer Aspire One when travelling through Germany as a student (to research jobs and conferences) - and it was amazing being able to program and write papers on such a small device.

Reading about the hardware issues reminds me a lot of the ZX Spectrum reviews (especially the keyboard!) - keeping a low price means a lot of compromises unfortunately.
I think that's on purpose, on HN. IIRC the stated reason is that it encourages you to focus on the content of posts rather than who wrote it, though IMO it's net-harmful and is part of why certain types of trolling and shit-posting are super effective on HN.

It may also (unintentionally?) serve to limit strong bonds developing on the site and prevent the rise of well-known posters who aren't already HN celebrities for reasons outside their posting on the site, reducing the likelihood or effectiveness of offshoots or schisms that have been a common feature of other large Web forums.
"Master of none" includes crashing every few minutes, dropping messages, lacking critical features, etc.

As for beeper it seems to lack xmpp support (despite some of the services that they support using it internally). Although I will say that it looks cool.

"Yeah, because everyone moved to closed networks."

This is not how I remember it but let's agree to disagree :p

The main question remains though, what does irc3 offers over xmpp and matrix?
this is misrepresentation. you cannot install systemwide software on any enterprise-installed system

THAT was their problem. before limux there was no permission management and everybody was admin.
YouTube playlist for Ed Sheeran's = (equals) new album
I only saw linux machines in SE companies so far (at least remote ones). Maybe, just maybe, it is because non-tech people 1) cant handle it as cli is needed from time to time 2) because personal preferences & habits make it almost impossible to "force" using linux on staff..?
To sucker people into thinking that they were, or were going to. Isn't it obvious?
Haha ja ! mIRC was a great client with excellent scripting capabilities !
You didn't miss out on anything by not playing the lottery. It's not like you would have also won if you just bought a ticket yourself.

It may be stupid and bad but the only reason we have strong feelings against it is because we missed out. You can convince yourself all you want but deep within we both know it's true.
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The Terminal Level Rulebook
funny, the users didn't mind.
>where did I do that?

It's mostly just the unwillingness to have a moderate view towards these currencies. Everyone on HN seems to have blind hatred steering the discussion, rather than admitting that it may fail, or may become the main transaction currency in the future, or (more likely) somewhere between - such as becoming the major way in which large banks and institutions transfer currency between countries.

It's strange to me that people are using the argument of what behavior of crypto see right now will be how crypto will continue to be used in the far future. Unfortunately it got misconstrued in recent years to be an 'asset' rather than currency, but it's still possible for it to return to being seen as more as currency.

It could remain the same or change - but I don't see why everyone is so hatefully polarized over it.
It's sad the article is paywalled because I have developed this theory as well.

(this is the copy paste of a recent HN commment)

> I call it the paradox of discussions on the internet. When it comes to some topic (eg language learning) everything has already been said somewhere by someone very clever. So in the grand scheme of life the value of my contribution to a conversation is 0. Now, if instead of wasting my (and everyone's) time in a pointless discussion I write an in depth blog post or make some creation of some sort that expresses my thought in a deep way and share it then I become a spammer. Whereas a one liner written by a newb or a comment that is posted everyday with a slightly different wording is a 'contribution'.
Yes it took me some time to fully grasp how the ZIL and SLOG worked and how it is not a cache.

There was some work done[1] on proper write-back cache for ZFS by Nexenta several years ago, but it seems it either stalled or there was a decision to keep it in-house as it hasn't made its way back to OpenZFS.

[1]: https://openzfs.org/wiki/Writeback_Cache
Actually, the Limux project is well alive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux#Timeline

May 2020 - Newly elected politicians in Munich take a U-turn and implement a plan to go back to the original plan of migrating to LiMux.
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Neither Virtuous nor Vicious: A Critique of Contemporary Virtue Ethics
>But really it's more likely to be a cynical use of an arbitrary word with positive associations (and a use that itself dilutes those positive associations).

sounds like OpenAI?
And willing to kill tens of millions of innocents to achieve this. Yeah man a lunatic who in his detachment from the common man became less than in some of the most important dimensions of all: empathy, humanity.
I consider Singapore to be the most dangerous dystopia in the world.

It's not even close to the worst place to live. That's not the point.

The thing that makes it the worst is that it is superficially desirable. It's like refined sugar, a poison that rots your teeth and causes dozens of health problems but tastes fantastic and is marketed heavily to children.

Only a lunatic or an idiot would want to emulate North Korea but many sane intelligent and well-meaning people want to emulate Singapore. That's what makes it so horrible. It's a shining beacon of totalitarianism that advertises that wonderful things can be purchased at the cost of human rights.

I would rather live, pragmatically, in Singapore than many other countries, but if I were there I'd be fully aware that it's a road to hell.

The runner up for this designation is probably Dubai, which is even more of a two-tier Neo-feudal slave state with third world style corruption and only a superficial rule of law.
This is a poor argument that I see a lot. Do you really think everyone stops buying stuff when money slowly gains value? (If so, I'd say it would be a great way to address the climate crisis.)
Every potential enemy is also a potential friend or a potential neutral. By definition.

Besides you don't get to wipe 1B people off the planet (which way back then represented 35% of the global population), and have as only consequence the fact that you "won" the prisoner's dilemma.

Such "victories" emerge as such after centuries when scientists would be studying the DNA remains and see who survived and who perished. But such great filter doesn't produce anything good for those living through it. Even the "winners"

There was no quality of life to be gained by the US and USSR in nuking each other, still there isn't today between US and Russia.Russia and the US can only be baited into nuking each other. And that's the danger we must be really careful about.

Thank god "normal" people like JFK and Kruschev who enjoyed the pleasures of life like cigars, alcohol and women were at the helm and not some guy who was paranoid about "winning" a game.

As far as predictive capabilities on this matter...Tom Clancy > John Von Neumann
He's much more than a brilliant scientist! Some people think he's the greatest mathematicians of the 20th Century, in addition to his seminal applied contributions to game theory, computing, economics etc.

So it's not about "rehabilitating" or "hagiography". The discussion isn't about his political views or his personality or any of that. This person is an, perhaps the, outstanding genius of human history.

In mathematics and theoretical science, the major breakthroughs have often been the work of one person. I'm sure you know this. In general your comment is going wrong by discussing Von Neumann as if he were an applied scientist: he was a theoretician.
Sounds like a bug then. Is there a bug-report for this?
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They both make NAS software and have similar monetization strategies. Business to one is lost to the other.
Nvidia acquisition of Arm now under scrutiny by FTC
I had a conversation with a friend of mine online last week. We got onto the subject of what I do for work. I told him I'm a software developer for a customer relationship management platform that's focused on real estate. He said "wow, not gonna lie, that sounds booooooring! I'd hate doing that."

Funnily enough, my current job has been one of my favorites. There are always creative and interesting problems to solve. The feedback from my team and from the customers is also rewarding.

I certainly have some itches that I need to scratch in terms of personal projects, but generally, I'm satisfied with just how involved and exciting my "boring" job is.

Don't get discouraged if you're not seeing what you want right away. Consider cutting your teeth with some not-so-appealing companies. It may turn out that it's not so boring to you. And also, you'll get some additional experience for when those jobs turn up later.
"I'm more of the opinion that if you're sharing something, especially in a blog, then you should never add a comment section."

I have developed something I call an "Iceberg Article"[1] which is "... a single page of writing which links to a larger collection of supporting documents, resources and services."

One of those supporting resources could be a discussion thread - or even a forum.

I don't think every "Iceberg Article" needs to have a discussion - and none of mine do, as of yet. I think it can have its place, however.

[1] https://john.kozubik.com/pub/IcebergArticle/tip.html
That checks #4, "Don't live in big cities"