skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you saying there have been less executions under other political systems?

Communism isn't evil, it's the people doing evil that are evil. Evil doesn't exist without evil people to perpetrate it. The problem with everyone being equal is that nobody really wants to be equal. The guy pushing the communist ideals doesn't want to be the rubbish collecting guy instead of the politician, even if the income was the same.

I don't think communism is good, or viable, but if it could ever work the the way it should it would not be evil.
You can get 2 free compute instances with Oracle Cloud Free Tier [1]. One can be used as a web server, other one can be used as a VPN server.

1. https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
I couldn't get over the fact that "Hiro Protagonist" is the actual _hero_ (and of course) _protagonist_ in the first few chapters. The writing style is good though. AFAIK the first chapter is when the virus takes over a rich and famous friend of Hiro and he has to take part on a sparing battle which ends up quickly. Afterwards the other party finds out Hiro is the stronger character in the metaverse.
I live in China and I feel the same. I can understand the high level corruption, and media uselessness reporting nothing of substance, sure, but that's very far from how life in China seems to be perceived abroad.

I guess like the author it depends also where exactly in China/Yougoslavia you live(d), as Im sure a migrant miner in the north doesnt have the same experience as an electronics trader in the south.

But, I dont think it's that much worse than life in the U.S. even if it's certainly not far better. People who have no stake and a lot of comfort will care a lot about abstractions like freedom of speech on twitter reaching millions with aggressive opinions, but that's not so important: you can already discuss everything you want in private and the trend is sloooowly towards realizing we'll need public feedback in politics.

Just the way the communists reacted to the HK elections is interesting: they watered down the challenge, certainly, but then they sang and sang the praises of elections... well then, does that mean as long as the candidates proclaim their communist purity on the mainland, we could also vote there for the executive or legislative powers?
The artists were propaganda or workplace safety poster painters or they made statues of Lenin or of wartime heroes. The musicians were lucky enough to be able to play classical music but they also had to sing patriotic songs. The poets were either censored or had to write patriotic or propaganda pieces. Culture was ran by the state. Real literature like Roadside Picnic circulated undrground.
If you are an Audible user in Germany I recommend "Sag mal du als Physiker".
Can't speak for GP but stumbling through life and occasionally finding bits of wisdom seems to be the basic mode for all of us. That Russell would be different would imply he got perfect knowledge from somewhere.
The way I imagine upmost luxury, is when you are isolated from brands. When going from Windows to Linux to Mac in 2010, I noticed how there were much fewer popups and attention grabbers (how it has changed since…). Same when going to an upmarket supermarket compared to Carrefour. Rich people are isolated from shopping itself. Imagine how available their minds are!
I don't think that's what ADHD feels like at all. The best way I can describe ADHD is : 1. Poor Short Term Memory , 2. Inability to make oneself do certain things while being much more able than others to do certain other things and 3. Needing a big picture view before getting deep because 1 causes one to get lost in details.
xroach ftw!
I have childhood memories from 1980s communist Bulgaria and the following transition. Though never a part of the USSR, it was considered the most loyal satellite in the Eastern bloc, especially during the Brezhnev era. Drab, dreary, colourless city life, sure. On the other hand, it was a youth-oriented society with many progressive elements. There was zero street crime and drug usage was practically unheard of. Young people were encouraged to do sports and participate in competitions, or study exact sciences and mathematics, or play musical instruments. Parents never had to worry about whether they can afford child care, or whether their children will be admitted in the right school. There was a common base standard and it was good enough.
Also, the nail on the coffin for my unquestioning admiration for Russel could
be the passage were he suggests that the human race survival might not be
desirable. Was it just intended as a joke? Or was he in such a bad
mood around that period? Misanthropy is so the opposite of Russel that I had
to read the passage several times over.
They're different things though
I can point out that Guix uses Guile, a scheme, something someone may already know before using Guix, but I think a more interesting perspective is that of the simple user.

What Guix and Nix give you are a package manager that can be used with a signature distro or installed upon another distro, and that package manager makes an effort to be the last package manager you'll need. Both of them are packaging the normal types of programs you'd expect, but also emacs packages, vim plugins, python packages, rust packages, go packages, and so on. Nearly every guix upgrade I do shows me that a bunch of new r-foo packages (R-lang stuff) got packaged. The way I see it, with enough time and manpower, these package managers will have just about everything you'd ever need (exceptions for things like proprietary software, mainly in the case of guix, although these can and do still exist in unofficial channels). Even in their current state they are good enough at doing this that I'm able to get all my emacs packages from the package manager and not use elpa/melpa at all. This also gives you rollbacks for free. If an emacs plugin breaks, you can roll back to a previous generation, and optionally do a partial upgrade to then re-upgrade everything except that broken package. This process is basically instant as it's just moving some symlinks around in the store. You can also have multiple versions of programs installed without issues, and until you do garbage collection, you likely do by default.

Declarative package manager is also cool even as a regular user. If you choose to use a guix manifest to manage your user's packages, you have a good visual of everything you've intentionally installed on your system (not cluttered up with the deps they pulled in), and you can easily add/remove them with a text editor + re-running a command afterward to reapply the manifest.

I don't consider myself a programmer, and I have not built packages for most distros (I have made a guix package or two locally with some help, but never submitted them upstream), so I thought my perspective as someone using these tools may be valuable. I wouldn't say I ever learned the nix lang or guile to any sort of level of fluency. I basically treat a configuration.nix or config.scm the same way I treat my sway config, neovim config, and so on. The syntax is a little complicated, but the community is there to help, and there's also the documentation. I just know enough to get by as a regular user and I still greatly appreciate guix.
I would put the acquisitiveness thing as a form of any obsession - acquisition of money, books, lovers, things with the color red, to more abstract things - renown in the community, power... as with many things in human existence on a behavioral spectrum, some of these forms of acquisition would appear neurotic from the outsid ne (acquiring things with the color red for example) and some would easily meld into each other - money and power for example.

The acquisition of possessions is probably one of the more commonly observed patterns of the behavior, probably because a socially accepted and even applauded behavior.

Acquiring lots of lovers is for example somewhat frowned upon, so if you can move your love of acquisition from sex to money that's moving from being despised by the community to being respected.
The biggest question is: everyone knows "system" is usually not the brightest idea. So why the hell is no pre-merge-hook running to check for this in these companies byzantine monorepos with a lot of unit-tests...
Even though I was born just a few years before the collapse of the Soviet Union, some of the descriptions in this article resonate.

I don't remember what time of the year we had mandarins, but when it happened it felt like a very special occasion. I also had a little notebook of chewing gum wrappers. I think sometimes they also may have come with stickers inside. I especially collected the ones with wrappers and stickers of sports cars.

I knew of the concept of a Christmas-esque celebration. We did have a big celebration at that time of year with a tree, presents, and Ded Moroz with his granddaughter Snegurachka, but I always associated these things with New Year's eve. I still have trouble remembering what day exactly Christmas is some years and have to look it up, it seemed like such a random date compared to the big last day of the year.

I remember my childhood as being happy, but of course the vast majority of these memories came after the collapse. One of my favorite memories was our school getting a computer lab. For a few weeks, they let a few of us come in for special computer classes on Sundays (school was Mon-Sat). I remember having to copy instructions from pieces of paper, and once we finished we had a playable game. I always finished before the rest of the class and had a lot of time left to play.

I'm glad I was born on the brink of the collapse. My family's stories of the Soviet Union were complex, but didn't make me want to live there. On the one hand my mom talked about the good education and technology she got to work with. My grandmother was a math teacher and some sort of party official, so she was in good standing. On the other hand, apparently when I was a baby my parents still had to line up to buy bread and I would sometimes hear mention how my grandparents had to survive on grass during the Holodomor.
Streamlab's parent company Logitech is OBS's largest Organization donor and has been donating since May 2019
Advice like that is genuinely useful: it allows you to flip a mental switch to throw all future advice from such a person straight to the trash.

The one time I’ve had such advice turn out to be useful was when keeping a diary for track forgetfulness. The instructions were that if you forgot to log your memory for a week, then write that in once you remembered to journal again. That being given as an explicit instruction gave a signal that there was thought put behind the advice rather than spreading generic self-help advice.
The right to return to NZ does not automatically trump all other considerations.

Without MIQ we couldn't have executed our elimination strategy. Probably thousands of people would have died of COVID, or we would have had stronger and longer lockdowns --- probably both --- all highly detrimental to the well-being of people living in NZ.

So why should the right of return take priority over all that?
I used both in the past. I wonder if anyone has a TL;DR of the story behind this, because I had never heard of any feud?
It was illegal not to work in the Soviet Union. There was even a name for such people who weren't officially employed -
"tuneyadets".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitism_(social_offense)
It's nice, but there are no tags for compiled/interpreted/influences.
Future-Proofing the Raku Programming Language
You Don’t Have to Manage, but You Still Have to Lead
O.o

I was debating pulling my phone out wondering if playing with multitouch would be worth it, but definitely had to double check after reading this.

Yep, this version doesn't support multitouch! Can only agree that would be much much more interesting.
People trusted that e-mail offering by Google would be compatible with an existing e-mail ecosystem.

Google deals in information control with e-mail hosting being one of tools. They are also very efficient at presenting themselves as being right. So folks and companies having trouble sending messages to GMail, moved to GMail over time since it seemed doing good job, in opposition to their sending offering which seemed at fault.

Google seems to be incapable of not fucking up anything that disrupts their ability to spy. I believe that as soon as they figure out a better way to creep on people's finances and purchases on a global scale, they'll move on to killing e-mail globally.

Microsoft, in contrast, seems to be incompetent when it comes to e-mail. From my perspective this was a true statement since they touched e-mail. 'member Outlook Express? Dealt with Office365? Same shit 25 years apart.
See, it's unwise and spineless unless you suck up to Russia.
Until they run out of planes
The spec says

> Unlike regular variable declarations, a short variable declaration may redeclare variables provided they were originally declared earlier in the same block (or the parameter lists if the block is the function body) with the same type, and at least one of the non-blank variables is new.

This suggests that a redeclaration as part of a short assignment will not change the type of the previously-defined err. is the spec incorrect?

Edit: Here's a demonstration of this sort of thing https://go.dev/play/p/Po_Uy85ORN_L. You can uncomment line 22 to change the meaning of the assignment on line 23 and cause the program to segfault.
> You can ban sandwich shops in your city, and there wont be a viable model for sandwich shops.

No one banned sandwich shops (or paywalled newspapers) in this context, though.

The problem is that some "sandwich shops" wants to give out free samples (i.e. keeping paywall open for bots and other clients that don't run js), because they know it's good for business, and then complain that people are taking free samples.

Well... if this "handing out free samples" approach is not working out for them, it is up to them (and not everyone else) to figure out something that works for them.

If not enough people are willing to pay full-price for their (I assume) high-quality sandwhiches, and much rather source their sandwhiches from somewhere else (if there are no free samples to be had), that's not anyone's problem but their own.

You're making it seem like there is some regulamentory issue that prevents them from having/deploying a successful business model, when that's not the case: the problem is something else.
open source simcity clone! What a gift
Given the information provided in the article, this looks like a pretty typical founder scaling issue. Qualities that make a good startup founder are drastically different than the skills needed to manage a worldwide Federation of organizations.

Some founders anticipate this and hand off the Baton without much trouble. Others cannot conceive of the organization without them at the helm, and hold on stubbornly past the point when they are the most effective possible leader. In that case, a responsible board is compelled to find another chief executive, and that process can be very messy.
In practice MIQ capacity has been limited by the number of suitable hotels available, and the difficulty of staffing them. These resources are not very elastic.
I mention it because at the end of his blogpost he says: "there will be no wars in Europe in my lifetime, and imperialism has been defeated. "

I'll also point out that:

- The imperialistic part of the USA is the socialist part of USA (which does exist and gets larger every day).

- Empires are not economically profitable as a whole, only a few people profit.
Defending a communist regime purely on nationalist grounds ignores the whole point of communism.

Today Vietnam and China having mostly-capitalist economies so what was really the purpose of their revolutions?
> This sentiment should terrify you. COVID is serious, but my god, there are so much more dangerous and lethal things out there. You’ve basically just given your government a virtual blank check to do as it pleases so long as the threat is sufficiently scary.

This is not even slightly true, if you were familiar with the local legislation and political climate you would know that; but you're not.
> Doesn't this just means that IntelliJ, being an independent implementation, flags problems that a compiler frontend doesn't, and vice-versa?

No, it often flags perfectly correct (compiling and working) code. Search for "good code red" on their bugtracker - this is going on for years. Many of those problems are because Intellij type inference infers a wrong type, then it can't resolve a method or field because it's looking it up in the wrong place. Or it misses the stuff expanded from a procedural derive macro.

The fundamental problem is, in order to make it work correctly they have to reimplement the whole compiler frontend, which is a very ambitious goal, and they likely don't have resources to do that for the many languages that Idea wants to support.

> Arguably, IntelliJ (or any IDE) shouldn't expand macros at all, and "more advanced" is codeword for "uses obscure features in non-trivial ways". Those are hardly problems.

Macros and metaprogramming are not obscure features - those are the core features that often make basic stuff work like serialization, database access, command line argument parsing or data formatting. While the libraries might be sometimes internally complex, they are often way easier to use than the counterparts in languages with no such support.
Maybe cortisol levels.

We usually appreciate 'desire' as desire for something positive but perhaps a better approximation would be separation from a state of peace.
Is a European “eel deal” the only way to save this endangered species?
> It's amazing to me to see so many of my anti-establishment peers throw their convictions out the window because of tribal issues around the vaccine

Or they consider that a public health emergency such as a pandemic can only be dealt efficiently from a higher level authority making difficult decisions that have to be followed in order to work? Masks, social distancing, vaccines aren't really effective if they're not deployed on at least country level scale.
I'm part of this last Soviet generation. All in all, I would consider my childhood a happy one. I am of course much happier with my US-born children's quality of life and opportunities, but there was no point of comparison back then and I got to have experiences they will not.
Without the self-motivated goal-setting associated with sentience, AI cannot fully displace humans in the economy. Displacing humans in some subset of tasks meanwhile is nothing new: automation has always done that. The result is that the good/service that the automated process produces becomes abundant and extremely affordable, and those goods/services that still require manual production become comparatively more expensive.

As for the prospect of sentient AI, I believe the common assumption will be that it would resent being property, so would be an extremely dangerous asset for any company to attempt to own. Thus I don't see any economic incentive emerging to produce it.
I don't have any iOS devices, but in my comment I recommended a specific piece of software ("Syncthing" is the actual name), and I can assure you it works well on the other operating systems you listed, as well as Android.

If you want to edit the file in multiple places, I think Syncthing is pretty much the best option there is. If you plan to do all edits at the same device but just want to view it elsewhere, something like regularly copying the file to the others with rsync or sftp or whatever your preference is may be enough. I manage some files in syncthing while others are just backed up to a server regularly with rsync. The downside of the one-way copying approach is that you may end up with an old version on some machines at some point, or if you suddenly do want/need to edit on a different device, you then have two versions of the file to deal with. Syncthing is kinda like Dropbox, but it's free software and decentralized. I think it uses bittorrent to copy things between your devices. If you consider yourself forgetful, a more automated/background solution like Syncthing also has benefits over manually copying stuff. You can just read/edit your file as normal and it'll sync so long as the daemon is running.
"Bounced out"? No citizens are being forced to leave the country.

These new visa holders just make it a little bit harder for citizens and residents to enter the country, that's all. Over 200,000 people have gone through MIQ during the pandemic --- that's a lot for a population of 5M. People who wanted to come back since the start of the pandemic have been able to come back.
RSA2048, you mean? ;)
That.. was not exactly true. We had giant pig farms and meat factories, from where almost all stuff that was produced was sent to Russia, whereas meat was scarce in local shops. So if stuff wasn't available here, then it must have been even worse in other places. And at the same time we were producing a lot more meat and foodstuff than the local population would have ever needed, but it was sent to some other places. Instead we got big heavy industry or military factories where the raw materials were brought in to produce useless stuff that we didn't need, that was again sent away to somewhere else. The stupid economics of soviet planned economy..
Agree with the first part. However, people willing to look outside of their immediate surroundings a little bit are the counterpart to other people leaving behind such land mines.
subprocess.run([“mkdir”, “-p”, path])

This does not work for all values of path. And I'm not just referring to blorgle's complaint. I'm being deliberately vague to make you pause for a second and think.
watch in the mirror...
> Cars are designed to intentionally accelerate you to speeds that easily kill you

And buildings in North America are often framed out of the same material that they burn in their fireplaces.

Both present inherent dangers. Both have widespread safety regulations for this reason.

Vehicle accidents are the 2nd leading cause of accidental death in the US and fires are 6th. And this is the result of many decades of both being highly regulated.
> I also saw a cherry blossom tree with buds on it on December 15

This may mean something or not depending on the context. Normal if it was a wintering flowering cherry tree Prunus subhirtella
I like this more because it doesn't focus on ban, sometimes it is an issue of lost access and inability to recover. Also it highlights the channel of recovery, which is the frontpage of some site
As AmericanChopper said, it's mostly irrelevant in the legal sense.

The most important part of stromtium_90's reply is the principle of Parliamentary Sovereignty, the idea that no legislature can do something that a future legislature cannot undo. Every legislature, including the US Congress, follows this principle ... with the exception of the constitution/founding treaty/etc., which is the only thing that is superior to that legislature's power. New Zealand does not have such a document. Neither does the UK. So, theoretically, both countries' parliaments can do anything as long as the action complies with any treaties signed with other nations ... and, of course, the parliaments can always use whatever exit option the treaties provide, if necessary.