skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problematic part about these discussions is defining what 'democracy' and 'populism' really is.

Democracy is essentially shared, representative decision making based on a set of shared values and rules which every participant subscribes to.

It's perfectly valid to promote your ideas and policies to your constituency with respect to the governing framework which is democracy. The mechanics may seem 'populist' e.g. campaigning, advertising, interviews,... but the fundamentals aren't challenged.

Populism, however, does challenge those fundamentals. And it does so by using the governing rules and values within a democratic framework to challenge that framework itself. Examples of that is relentlessly attacking press and journalism itself, or antagonizing political adversaries, rather then challenging ideas and policies in a respectful public debate. The really insidious part are leveraging tactics that veil these as paramount to the sustainability of democracy.

In that regard, democracy is innately flawed. It doesn't nor can't stop the rise of populists who push democracy out of the door. Ultimately, it's a social construct which people actually have to subscribe to. And if environmental circumstances change - e.g. economic recessions, social inequalities, existential threats,... - a critical mass within a population can grow which no longer is willing to subscribe to that construct.

Or, worse, assumes that the alternative they subscribe to is democratic by nature when it is anything but democratic. History has an abundance of autocratic states who use 'democratic' or 'people' in their own naming e.g. the German Democratic Republic.

Democracy is always at odds with the social-economic dynamics and the formation of cultural and economic elites which hold de facto power and have plenty incentives to leverage political power in order to retain a status quo. Democracy doesn't overcome that, and never will.

However, what democracy does have going for itself is that it enshrines and protects an important set of fundamental freedoms and rights which apply to everyone regardless of their position in society.
Yes, our github.com/google/highway does that for SSE4/AVX2/AVX-512. It targets at the level of instruction sets, though, not specific microarchitectures.
Please don't ignore, I'm curious how I will not stand a chance at %30 but it's fine at %15.

I want to know if this is your gut feeling or do you know something concrete.

Thanks.
Please explain why, because I'd intuitively expect the comparison between kgCO2 of bitcoin transactions to gCO2 of car driving to be valid, assuming underlying numbers are true and not off by many magnitudes which I cannot judge (as stated).
I don't have kids but I don't see any difference in how you can teach yourself now from in previous years.

I was just given a BASIC manual around 1977 and started writing software, been doing it ever since.

I would have loved an FPGA dev board as a child, plugging TTL chips into a solderless breadboard was fun but there is a limit to the size of circuit that you can build.
TBH, sustainability is a byproduct rather than the goal.

Plus, the tractor is definitely an occasional use tool. Now I think about it, I suspect a modern new tractor would take a very long time to pay off its embedded energy with the level of use it would see here.

And my old tractor cost €3k. A new one would cost €30-60k. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Quakers? Repressive? The exact opposite. Pennsylvania and Philadelphia had religious freedom; it was a haven of non-repression.
It is astonishing that these supplements are that successful. In absence of any
metabolic disorder, you can be pretty sure you have no nutritional deficits in any developed nation. Vitamin D might be an exception, although you can get small amounts by nutrition too. Instead of ordering supplements in front of your PC, why not spend a few minutes outside?

And people taking zinc supplements against Covid? Why not just eat some bananas or some fish... Some even got kidney stones from taking to much Vitamin C supplements. Nothing of that seems particularly healthy.
I've commented this before so I'll be brief:

-Engineering degree at 28
-Job jumped engineering jobs from 28 - 35
-Night classes to become a paramedic
-Firefighter / paramedic at 35 (department crossed trained me to be a firefighter)
-Started Master's degree in CS at 40, finished at 45
-Left fire department at 50 (June 2020 height of 1st covid wave) 14+ years as a FF/PM (best job ever)
-Working as a software developer from home

NO YOU ARE NOT TOO OLD
How was Glassdoor killed?
I was worried. It hasn't been a problem yet. I put some CCTV cameras up though.
The Norwegian groceries delivery company Oda, in their app you can sort each category (e.g. hard cheeses) view for price per item, or price per kg.
Analysis of Attack Against National Games of China Systems
> $5 gift card

This makes it.
Unfortunately code that did that would probably not pass the App Store review process.
I don’t think we understand how the brain implements computation well enough yet.

We won’t solve how the mind
works untill then.
Stablecoins have the worst of both worlds. You have the stablecoin issuers printing like crazy and you have the no chargebacks part of crypto.
> But last year, citing privacy concerns, Apple turned off IDFA by default and forced apps to ask people if they want to be tracked. It seems most do not: a study in December by AppsFlyer, an ad-tech company, suggested that 54% of Apple users who saw the prompt opted out.

Hard to believe that nearly half of all people is ok with being tracked...
Bah. We know it won't work: https://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimiz...

It's just crazy people threatening our existence to satisfy their egoes.

Edit: My take on world ruled by tech: https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/QmeVYAP75GAvY8Q8iSfMoWMGgT...
Yeah but even if they are off by a magnitude and it would only be the equivalent of a 200km car drive it would be way to much.
> My general opinion is that the UK did the right measures[0], but consistently with the wrong timing.

Absolutely this.

The reason is Boris Johnson. I mean, quite literally. There is a cycle of him lurching between different Churchillian aspects -- freedom-and-damn-them-all-to-hell to fight-them-on-the-beaches and back. And he only ever changed to the latter position after the evidence was unavoidable, because he's psychologically incapable of thinking about anyone but himself and how history would perceive him personally.

He is absolutely the fundamental reason why this country can only act out of expedience and urgency.
"Lies, damned lies, and statistics"

Anything new? :P
> we don't experience reality directly

That muddies the water, IMO. We do experience reality directly: our nerve endings do. The next step is processing, which is somewhat mediated by low-level expectations. This takes place at sub-conscious levels. Conscious perception comes much later, and is obviously more filtered. To call it a hallucination is word play.
Tests can form a normal part of the development process in some languages. You don’t need to go full TDD, but when you language’s tooling and IDE are designed for testing it can speed up your feedback loop.

For example when writing in go in vscode, tests often sit in the same category of tooling as storybook and js hot reloadeder do.

Being able to update a function and then run it with a set of inputs already defined automatically is really great.

It also lets you workshop the API design (of a library) while your developing it.

In some other languages I’ve found the tooling so painful to setup, that it’s rarely worth the effort.
I bet you they also bought all the same make, model, and batch/vintage drives.

If you are building a storage array, do not do this. Ensure that you are using a variety of drive types (obviously same size and interface technology). Doing so guards against the danger of too many drives going wrong at the same time (within the same time window) causing a failure from which it is impossible to recover.
The Apple II was not what I got at the time, and its graphics and sound were really sub-par compared to cheaper competition, but it was a really nice combination of things that are hard to match:

1) It had very fast storage for the time

2) It had excellent documentation in the box

3) The BASIC interpreters were better than what shipped with the Atari and Commodore machines

4) Apple LOGO was particularly well executed for something on an 8-bit machine

5) I had the impression it was easier at the time to get pirated copies of more sophisticated software like macro assemblers, Apple Pascal, etc for the Apple; Commodore and Atari circles were about the games

6) It had a built-in debugger ("monitor") with mini assembler

7) It had card slots that were straightforward to interface to - building real hardware for it was possible for a hobbyist. Also, it was affordable and practical to have an 80-column display

8) As you've noted the educational software for younger kids was exceptional

I just don't see anything remotely like that today but a used Apple II, and even then you're not going to have the ferment of early-mid-eighties home computer culture.

The counterargument is that today we have an embarassment of riches - the paradox of choice - and if you carefully select hardware and software and books for your kids (Scratch or Snap, paint programs, robotics kits, whatever takes with their interests) there's a much bigger world for them to explore.
Is it really nuts though? This should be a completely unsurprising move, given this is exactly what Play Store did in South Korea [0]. That's three months old, has anyone heard of a followup suggesting their solution is being treated non-compliant by the regulators? This solution also seems to be in line with what the US courts found in the Epic vs. Apple case.

> Imagine if in the past Apple would have had to pay 30% of their gross to Microsoft in order to be allowed to run their software on Windows.

Anyone making software for the Xbox has to pay Microsoft. Why is this different?

[0] https://developers-kr.googleblog.com/2021/11/enabling-altern...

Edit: Good grief, people. I am not pro-App Store. But jacquesm is literally claiming that Apple is nuts and that their solution will never fly. But everything we've seen so far in analogous cases suggests it will.
"Corporate rebels", wow. What exactly are they rebelling against? The fact that the companies' ROI could still be higher?
Ironically if there's one thing utterly useless as a way of conveying information it would be a singular button.
Completely agree with this.

Customers always seemed to want to pay me fixed amounts for jobs and be absolutely no good at estimating them. I got paid 28 days contract fees for a job that took 3 hours once. They paid up and asked me to not come in for the last 3 weeks so their other employees didn’t catch on to what had happened…
I develop. No, 30% doesn't break my business majorly because my business model is not around app sales but I agree with your point that for most 15 and 30 won't break the business. But you are presenting a false dichotomy. Why are we assuming if apple doesn't offer these services, a third party won't as well? And I am not proposing that apple stop offering its payment and other distribution services but rather that third parties be allowed to do the same.
No, I was commenting that deflecting from the banning of Maus to "b-b-but the press is biased!" is an obvious and pathetic diversion.
-$10bn is not enough. They are still able to read my brain somehow
Not for nothing, but is it possible technocratic rule isn't completely flawed? Does anyone else think it's kind of amazing that the US gov't under Biden is the first in history to literally start calling out false flags before they happen (made up or not) - to the level of detail where they explain videos that haven't been made yet, which they think Russia will try to use as a casus belli next week, all in an effort to short-circuit and circumvent a repeat of WWII?

[edit] Just in case anyone thinks I'm criticizing this, I'm not. I actually think it's the smartest thing an American President has done since Reagan said "tear down this wall". Also, I think it's the first time the US gov't has used the term "false flag" or even acknowledged that such a thing exists, outside the limited case of apportioning blame to the nazis for the Reichstag fire. So I'm proud of our Biden government at the moment; Putin appears spooked.

This is balls by technocracy, and I'm impressed. We're now actually acting as if we can jolt the average Russian's mind the way they've jolted ours.
Likewise, Fauci and his "masks don't work" / "we don't have enough" / "you have to wear a mask" / "cloth masks don't work" ... all were perfectly rational. You have to understand, government is about you. It's just not about YOU.
I wrote a REST API / boilerplate reducing codegen tool for this exact reason for the Go Fiber framework. Maybe might help.

https://github.com/tompston/gomakeme
The global "helpers" folder is a sigh of bad code smell for me. Doing this essentially means "I just don't want to think where to put it, so I'll just pile it here".

Code can and should be aligned to the business (sub)domain(s). It is much harder to do on a frontend, but possible nonetheless.
Of course it does, when you get big by visiting my school and knowing this before.

It is just absolutely ludicrous to get big on the back of a giant and then to start complaining. Just get big without it that is what you wish.

Re tax evasion: EVERY mid-sized company in Europe that I have worked for has elaborate tax evasions schemes in place, mainly by having other entities in countries like Luxembourg.

It's the fact that the EU tolerates places like Luxembourg an Ireland that this happens. No one talks about it because it's just better for headline to go for the big Californian names.
I just look at what other payment service providers charge, they are between 1 and 5% based on volume, risk, transaction size.

There is plenty of competition in the payment processing space.

When you take the card companies' cut into account the fees are even lower for the transaction processing.
A manager can keep track of job performance by looking at how many tasks are being completed.

If someones LOC is very low, but they complete all their tasks on time, not only is there no problem, it is even beneficial as the work is being done without creating too much burden for future development. If someone commits a large amount of code without completing any tasks, that's clearly not useful.

If you think LOC is a useful metric, I would disagree that someone calling this "bad management" is attacking you. A hospital manager that measures staff performance by incisions per day is clearly misguided.
A more general explanation of the new law can be found here:

https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/euro...
It's such a shame that funding and publication bias do not seem to be a concern for many and is even treated as taboo. Scientism is an organized religion at this point.
We should explicitly separate "science" as an institution and science as "
personal mode of inquiry about natural world" (both commenters done that properly but implicitly). Clearly science as institution is on trial here (deservedly so).

Any ideas how to go from here and in which direction, and who should make/implement that decision?
It's less Linux and more weather or not you have a database/NAS centric distribution I think.

The problem with by default installing a cron job when installing ZFS is that for a general purpose OS there a good default for when and how often to run it. And running it on the wrong time might even be a major problem.

Through then tbh. having a bad default is probably still better then no default in this case.

> lose data before noticing

Is a bit of an overstatement as they didn't look for quite a while,
they also did not only fail to do scrubbing, they also failed to setup
automated health checks and reporting.

Turning a non NAS focused Linux distribution into a well working and tuned NAS isn't easy (compared to using a good NAS OS/distribution), but making it somewhat work is easy. Which makes this a pretty common mistake for non-specialized people (i.e. like in their case).
Yes, “location” based localization is the worst when in a different country. The browser sends the preferred locale, they should use that instead.
Well sexual pleasure is best when done with someone. Could it childhood trauma as well. Earlier in my life it was enough being validated but later on I started wanting more the action than the precursor.

>Not that it's completely ruled out here personally, but it's like sitting on the fence - and being happy either way.

Could be apathy or fear of rejection. It's painful to be rejected and even more painful to be with someone and see the relationship go down. Some think we avoid the entire ordeal by staying single but do we really. It's debatable.
Top cat: why the puma is a leading influencer in the animal kingdom
It's not the number of Apple users that matter. There are many more Android users world wide. It's the fact that Apple users spend more, and more often than users on other platforms.
I believe that most people live relatively uneventful lives, and truly believe that they have nothing to hide from anyone, and resultantly do not value their own privacy whatsoever. The loss of privacy from surveillance capitalism does not bother them at all, and practically it is all upside, because they lost nothing of value to themselves.

It does not enter their minds that mass abandonment of privacy means that it renders privacy harder and harder, or even impossible, for the tiny minority of society that needs it to operate: human rights advocates, investigative journalists, labor organizers, political upstarts, et c.
99% of Apple consumers don’t care about this drama.

At the moment there's no point in caring. You don't have a choice, so why worry about it?

You have to remember that you, as someone who doesn't care about alternative stores and wouldn't switch, aren't the market for an alternative store. This is about other people and their freedom to choose. Arguing that the Apple iOS store works for you and therefore it should work for everyone else is not how free markets work.
Socratic Dialogue about Software Maintenance
>Postman said that the contemporary world was better reflected by Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, whose public was oppressed by their addiction to amusement, rather than by Orwell's work, where they were oppressed by state control.

In the covid era, we get both!
How do you pay your taxes in UK, Turkey, Poland, USA, Japan, China, Australia and the rest of the 175 countries? How do you handle the regulatory requirements in each country and how do you navigate through the trade agreements?
>the “science” was so captured that health agencies literally changed the definition of herd immunity to pretend that natural immunity was not a contributor despite overwhelming data not only that it was (as it always has been) but that it was far more effective than vaccines. the failure of vaccines to stop spread has been total. they almost certainly made it worse. it’s not at all clear they even help with severity. it does not look that way in the societal data and the studies are so riddled with methodological slanting to shift outcomes that their output is literal bayseian datacrime.

Both the article and the author are coocoo. But that won't stop a bunch of commenters who haven't read it! Fear the ones who did read this drivel and agree with it.
It's very hardware-specific so it's impossible to generalize, but usually stuff will either work out of the box or not work at all on free systems (Linux, BSD). The exception is if your distro refuses to ship with proprietary software (good!) in which case you need to install extra drivers (eg. firmware-linux) for stuff to work.

Something to consider is how old the hardware is. Typically, drivers will land in Linux kernel 1-2 years after hardware is released, so you need to use slightly older hardware and/or a distro which keeps up to date on a rolling-release basis. For example, good luck finding 802.11ax hardware supported by free systems right now: 802.11ac on the other hand (spec from 2013) works perfectly for 90% of chipsets.

To be clear if you're not familiar with driver development: this is 100% the fault of crappy hardware manufacturers who are doing everything except their job. Their job is to produce hardware and publish datasheets for them: problem is due to corporate/copyright culture and abuse of dominant position from Microsoft since 90s (see IBM/Microsoft scandals and the threats to dismantle Microsoft), they stopped to publish datasheets and instead publish a crappy windows driver that's full of bugs and will stop working with new releases.

We should not be supporting these vampires with our money but hey the problem is the hardware vendors who do distribute their datasheets can be counted on our fingers and their hardware doesn't have the raw power of your latest NVINTELDIARM.

Excellent usenix talk on this topic: https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi21/presentation/fri-ke...

Previous HN discussion on this topic, about Lenovo more precisely: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28977175
> but isn't it a lot of code and testing to implement the personalization UI?

Most of the stuff cited as example come from additional features changing an existing behavior. Allowing to disable it would be overhead, but really not much I think.

Another example: Youtube started to automatically translate “foreign” video titles. Having a “never translate anything ever” toggle in settings would smallish, there is no other UI impact, and they must already have that kind of setting internally for testing or legacy purpose.
There that should make things easier, but it's up to you, I kind oif think maybe this girl captured your eye and you might think that you should be the one to "Fix" the problem?

As far as this story goes I find the "Daughter" that lives with or "Off" her mom incredibly arrogant. Children often feel they are smarter than their parents and sometimes they are, but to actually speak to a media source and air the family's dirty laundry makes me wonder what the daughter's motives truly are.

I also have to question the ethics of a news outlet to allow such things to be reported about a person, even by their own daughter and not reach out for comment from them.

And the underlying negative tone regarding Evangelical Christians being weak minded and prone to conspiracy is not best journalism practice either.
I was just about to post this. Arithmetic starts going to the moon once you're dealing with larger than 64-bit numbers. Stuff like Karatsuba's algorithm or you can read all the fourier transform convolution hacks libraries like mpdecimal use. Arithmetic is also very dominant in any sort of low-level programming. It's just that it isn't the same kind of arithmetic that math is used to dealing with, or even likes dealing with, since it's usually over a field that mixes boolean logic with arithmetic. It actually ended up being a security issue because malware authors would find ways to obfuscate their programs using types of math that haven't traditionally been studied, so math tools would be completely powerless to make sense of them. So definitely not a solved problem.
It’s hard to explain now, but in the old days it mattered. Sometimes software was written by employees just because they wanted to, because they thought it was a good idea, and it wasn’t planned and organized and ticketed and budgeted and scheduled.

And sometimes it saved the company.
Average iPhone users may be more valuable to the average advertiser when compared to the average Andoid user, but there are plenty of markets where I'd say there are plenty of advertisers who'd benefit from targetting the lower end of the income spectrum.