skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on your definition of "free market". If you mean libre non-profit exchange between consenting peers, i'm all for free market. If you mean a profit-based economy where the people who "own" everything dictate life conditions for the rest of us, i'm pretty much against it.

> Is it to much to ask that the opinions are supported by evidence?

Economy is not a field i'm familiar with so i can't unfortunately provide evidence, but it always appeared to me that with some notable exceptions, regulations protecting consumers from corporations had great effects: lower prices, better quality, better customer service...

Half the articles i read about the USA seem to be about medication prices rising twofold every few years despite being well-studied/produced for decades (like insulin), or ISPs injecting their own advertisement or blocking services from competitors or making lawsuits against municipal ISPs, or people raising debt just for having a lawyer or receiving an education, etc.

There's a lot i hate about France (where i reside), but i'm certainly glad we have "medicare for all" through a national insurance (sécurité sociale), net-neutrality regulations, and free legal defense and education. Although as some would point out, the french governments of the past 30 years or so have been hard at work to dismantle all that.

Competition does not advance humanity. Cooperation is what brought humanity so far (see also: Kropotkin, Graeber, etc). Competition does not reduce costs, except occasionally when a mogul wants to capture the market (like free.fr did when they offered 30€/mo unmetered xDSL back in the early 2000's, which they don't do anymore now that they've become big enough to assert their position).

Don't get me wrong, i'm not advertising for State monopoly. On the contrary, i laud autonomous projects and infrastructure and i'm very critical that in France it's illegal to even build your own house for private usage (unless you follow very strict regulations) or to produce your own electricity (unless you sell it back to EDF). I just don't think that what most people refer to as a deregulated "free market" (based on money and private property) has better outcomes except for the 1% who own everything.

Famous anecdote in french FLOSS circles: when the telecoms regulator (ARCEP) began the process to "open competition" for the ISP market, there were hundreds of ISPs across France and the dozens of representatives couldn't fit in a room at ARCEP offices. A few years later than that, there were only 5-10 represented operators left. Now you can count them on one hand, and the ARCEP people seem happy/relieved about that, as if they'd done their job implementing "competition" by reducing the number of competitors.
I see mainly propagandists that call themselves "journalists" all in a extremely sad feedback loop of ever recursive propaganda cycle...

All using each other as a "source" to create a false picture of reality
This is simply laughable. I reject such propaganda from the ecology-humanitarian point of view. Military's job is well known and that has nothing to do with being green (its not a strategic, tactical or any other goal, except when it cuts costs AND at the same time increases action/operation/effectivity/ability of the said unit(S)). At the current level of technology, such opportunities are few and most are without any doubt unspeakably counterproductive to the living environment. Why the PR dept.of US miliary allowed this thing out is beyond me.
I think you have a point. But it sounds to me like your example was more similar to repetitive traveling for work than a unique travel experience each time. I don't know much about touring, but how different could've your daily routine really have been?
It is proven beyond doubt that whatever Element fetches from their own servers and decodes on application launch are not messages encrypted using e2ee protocols. It is also completely clear that it does reduce the privacy of user messages. I don't know what else to argue about here.
i guess 3D animation costs 1 million per minute, while 2d animation costs about 15k a minute.

could AI help reduce the costs in the future ? imagine making a movie in a short time and also x0.1-0.001% costs

here's a good read too: http://web.archive.org/web/20201121143218/https://arr.am/202...
Semantics…
The odds of a company making it that big are so low though, you're chasing lottery tickets with that outlook, which I suppose is still useful information.
I use type subsetting and only serve about 50kb worth of fonts (4 variants in total). 300kb seems excessive.
You want to punch someone with a genuine curiosity about a disorder they were diagnosed for?

Didn’t expect HackerNews to be this hostile.
Thanks for posting these, I'd only seen Normalisation of Deviance mentioned in these two youtube videos by Mike Mullane and never thought to look any further:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljzj9Msli5o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWxk5t4hFAg

and the uploader references some further links:

https://www.fireengineering.com/leadership/firefighter-safet...

https://www.flightsafetyaustralia.com/2017/05/safety-in-mind...

and references this book (about the Challenger Disaster):

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B011DAS53Y/

which has an overview here:

http://web.mit.edu/esd.83/www/notebook/The%20Challenger%20La...

including these two excerpts I found interesting in this context:
"Chapter nine she explains how conformity to the rules, and the work culture, led to the disaster, and not the violation of any rules, as thought by many of the investigators. She concludes her book with a chapter on lessons learned."

"She mainly emphasizes on the long-term impact of institutionalization of the political pressure and economic factors, that results in a “culture of production”."
‘Amazon for real estate’: how the StreetEasy app took over New York
The geekwire article confirms it is disabling the backup camera and gps nav. You can only listen to npr while it boot-loops.
The most worrying thing about the political situation in the UK is that it is years ahead of other countries. I can see similar madness happen in the future in some EU countries, the script already exists. I think a country like NL can be a target. I think it's really worth the effort to analyse what happen in the UK over recent years and how we can learn from it
I once got asked this question by a technical recruiter in a phone call. I said I don't think there is a difference. She started explaining how Software Developer is someone who just codes and that's it, and Software Engineer is someone who understands business requirements and different constraints to come up with the best solution, and how their company is looking for Software Engineers like this. I almost wanted to hang up on the call. I understand the importance of going beyond "just coding", but titles vary by company.

Right now my title is "Software Development Engineer" so I basically have both. My previous contracts stated "Software Developer" or "Software Engineer" in the past, and it was the same job.
All messages are encrypted with one key. Break one key, and all messages will be accessible to an attacker. Proper encryption protocols rotate encryption keys and compromising one message will not compromise the rest.
A type system can refuse to turn a `bytes` into a `utf8str` until it's been appropriately parsed.

(It doesn't even need to be a very good or strongly-enforced type system - Go makes it dangerously easy to convert between `[]byte` and `string` by other-type-system standards, and yet everything works pretty well. It's enough to hitch your thinking and make you realize you need another step.)
"Instantly" as in you get a stream of characters and with UTF-8 you always know as soon as you have received a full character. With your encoding it is always possible that you have not received the full character yet and need to wait until the start of the next character (or a timeout).
I don’t care for porn as the motivator, but social media should be absolutely unavailable to children.
> Browser not supported. We currently don't support Safari for the visual editor. We support Chrome, Edge and Firefox.
There is a similar docker image that does this for DigitalOcean.
Even if it is, no one suggested that local hunters sleep every night in the forest. If they happen to sleep under the tree once in a year, it won't increase their risk of death significantly.

There could be another reason why sleeping in the forest was dangerous – e.g., poisonous snakes or dangerous animals etc. Also if the temperature drops at night and they didn't have enough clothing, they could get hypothermia and so on.
Sage looks neat. Is it similar to Mathematica ?
Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy
Seems to be a common theme with all the "big" hosting providers. Especially if they offer cheap services. They have an abuse problem so they set up automation to deal with it and they don't care about collateral damage; you're just a number, and not worth their time. Actual proper support costs more than race to the bottom allows for. Same deal as with Google et al, one day you might just get fucked.

Turns out finding a good, reliable hosting provider who isn't a tyrant and gives you the benefit of the doubt & treats you like a human when something's up is really really hard. And probably not very cheap. It's kinda sad that one could host all kinds of interesting things on a $5 device like raspberry pi zero, but then you have to pay out of your nose -- twice, and every month -- to get proper internet access.
> ... I was just thrown by the quote boxes at first.

That's interesting ... the "style" with the quote boxes was, indeed, the result of various implementation pressures when the site was first implemented. They've stuck, and my regular readers now consider it part of the "site style".

It's all well overdue a complete redesign, but whenever I've explained to people how it works, and what it does, they've recoiled in horror, then gone very thoughtful, then never come back again.

Addendum: You may be interested in this:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/HowTheFarragoWorks.html?vb09h...
Please read the article before you write a comment.

I explicitly said in it that LEGO is successful because of the combination of instructions and plastic.

I further argue that you could unlock value by unbundle the two. If you have salary data on LEGO designers please share. In the meantime I assume a good model designer would make more in the described platform model. (Comparable to a newspaper journalist going solo with Substack.)
Developer is easier to pronounce and to spell than engineer for me. I guess life is well done.
Becoming hardcore pornography addicts is normal sexual development?
HN did that because the page claims that's the right URL. The header of the page you linked contains

<link rel="canonical" href="https://topstartups.io">

Which basically says "https://topstartups.io contains the same content and should be the preferred URL for this".
Thank you. This is precisely my concern. A lot of medications that were given away like candies for depression are now turning out be harmful over the long term. So, I am not sure why HN is being so hostile to a sincere question I asked
I disagree quite alot with the article, mostly because it asumes that it is necesary to hate your everyday routine and it can't be altered in any way. Living everyday life can be as creative as anything else, end a vacation in this case could just be one of the goals or rewards you aim towards and not just live for it.

here i must add, that a very big realization for me was, how important traveling or vacations (taking a break etc) actually is. It is absolutely necesary to have time off, and because of it brains will have the time to reflect on its own life, determine new goals or plans for the future. It gives you a place without everyday distractions and stimuluses. I always come back with new ideas, new goals and new energy for the future. And I look forward towards this future of everyday life.

edit: I started reading comments and noticed that a lot of people wrote the same thing. I might add that travelling doesn't necessary mean going somewhere exotic. It can also be a weekend roadtrip or a train journey to the countryside, which i believe is something everyone can afford.
From the article

> In the last financial year the most used cryptocurrency was Bitcoin. We have never held cryptocurrency, and spot-convert donations daily into fiat currency (USD), which doesn’t have a significant environmental impact.

Every Proof-of-Work system consumes energy, whether you make transactions on them or not (a graveyard of barely used POW blockchain systems that are all still being mined prove this).

So really, this is just symbolism politics...
The nginx proxy cache can also handle this pretty well. However it might be a bit difficult to set up cache purging.
At my high school, the textbooks were given to us and then we returned it at the end of the year for the next cohort (we'd right our names on list in the back with the current condition to keep track). I'm not sure if this is how other US high schools did it.
True, but that it happens on both sides is not really an argument that will make people more at ease with foreign social media apps, I suppose.
If it was just a "scam" it would be easier to resolve this. Alas it is a complex and evolving mix of all sorts of factors:

* new software architectures based on cryptography and additional communication patterns (aka consensus) which may or may not have long term utility, but are "real"

* a loose "anti-systemic" ideology that is in part deserved but also part half-baked / / misinformed / delusional. In any case it creates lots of talking points in societies that are mismanaged and "angry"

* buy-in and (partial) legitimization from frustrated parties (eg NGO's) that want to "solve the world's problems" and think blockchain might be the tool to fix humanity's faults

* defensive engagement by systemic parties (the same people that have brought society to its knees) that want to embrace and extinguish (just in case it might actually work)

* opportunistic engagement by intermediaries that could not care less what "asset" they make a market in, provided they get a cut

* opportunistic engagement by marketeers that could not care less what channel they use, provided it generates some exposure for their clients (NFT)

* greedy techies that feel left out from the tech oligopolies and found an alternative exploitative path to riches (print your own money)

* a younger generation that is 1) flush with cash, 2) has never had experienced fleecing by smooth operators so has no behavioral immunity 3) thinks this is all very "tech-savvy" and modern and thus kosher

* actual scammers, that ride on all the above
Tesla recalls 26,681 U.S. vehicles over windshield defrosting software
The DFEH’s Misguided Lawsuit
Oxford's JET lab smashes nuclear fusion energy output record
"Trust noone" cannot work. Humanity is built on trust. The question is what level of trust you place on different operators.

From a quick look StorJ and fuelcoin both appear to be classic crypto-scams where the entire tech stack is controlled by a single company... talk about "zero trust" :-)

If you're really interested about low trust tech for file storage, i recommend you check out TAHOE-LAFS. It's pretty cool tech and there's no money to be made out of it, nor is there a company dictating who can join what pool and how much you have to pay for what kind of storage. It's an actually decentralized system, unlike most blockchains.
If you think government push ended with 8088, I fear you don't have any idea of history. Even in early 1990s, some companies pushing the edge only had customers because DARPA bankrolled it pretty much directly, a lot of success for many foundational tech in modern devices happened thanks to not just government grants for research, but grants for things like MOSIS.

Took some serious decades and big money to switch from government having outsized impact on demand.
The UK and Australia take it in turns. One will introduce a bill, get it slapped down, then the other country uses those learnings to tweak the bill until its within the Overton window... and then it's law.
None. Do not use font as icons, it's not what they (fonts) are for.

Use `SVG`.
"Recall" carries the strong connotation that the vehicle must be driven to an authorized dealership/garage for fixing.

There should be a better word for software issues fixed over the air.
Interesting. I don't code in C for a living, and I wasn't familiar with strict aliasing -- thanks for sharing your thoughts.

> Can't do that either I'm afraid for much the same reason, need to memcpy over the memory and trust the compiler to elide said copy

Would this apply even to mmap-ed memory? Especially for the bit you're quoting, I guess it can be fixed with a union (or even by using the same struct for both purposes). But since the TAlloc_malloc function returns a pointer to void *, to a location in memory that hasn't been used for any other purposes, perhaps this isn't a violation?

On another note, I was playing around a bit with strict aliasing rules, and oddly enough, the compiler that ships with Monterey (ARM mac) shows no warnings even for code that violates the rules blatantly. Same code threw a warning with GCC (I used an online compiler).

The memory allocator I wrote doesn't throw any warnings using GCC either, but I guess that doesn't mean much.
Really? I've worked in small and large local and multinational companies in the UK - many people have an architect job title without any qualifications and it's never been a problem. It's not just "architect" on its own, there's usually some prefix like software/cloud/data/infrastructure/solutions architect.
Maybe they meant "heavy, metal particles", as in that are both metal and "heavy" relative to other materials (so somewhat redundant adjectives); as opposed to, "heavy-metal particles".
> I'm pretty sure that it was the leader of the opposition who was photographed drinking beers with his colleagues during lockdown, and everyone seems to have bought the claim that was work related and therefore legal.

Both were photographed with beer.

This is the photo of Keir Starmer: https://metro.co.uk/2022/02/07/keir-starmer-cleared-of-lockd...

The photo of Johnson is not AFAIK in public circulation; the police have it as part of the evidence they are currently investigating, in particular that this was part of his unlawful birthday celebration with his coworkers.

The picture in this article is not, I think, of this incident: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/04/police-have...
This resonates with me. I return from vacations with a bunch of new ideas, habits and recipes.

But like you say, everyday life at home also matters. Travelling is a bonus, not the only thing that keeps the lid on.
*and they’re not trying to make a video service for Kids
Cubetto from https://www.primotoys.com/ was really good for us because there’s no screen.
I made a WordPress site for a friend through Ionos's managed offering. After a couple of months of the site being up, they decided to detach the database for literally no reason. I had to go through support to get it back up. I'm guessing it got erroneously flagged as over its quota, but they couldn't explain why it happened. Just my experience.
>Substack is Y Combinator

wait till you find out about hacker news
About a month ago we started hearing about Olympic teams confiscating athletes' mobile devices, due to "security concerns." In reality, I think this was just a cover to avoid offending a very fragile host.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29909573
Schools shut in Indian state as protests grow over headscarf ban – India
If this accidental implosion worked so well, why not use it purposely?

Also, it seems like a great scifi premise to stir up the kraken/cthulu/hydra.
Frozen, dried, powder forms of yellow mealworm added to EU authorised novel food
In Rolling Stone? Wow. Did not know that.
> The Wikimedia Foundation currently accepts cryptocurrency donations in currencies including Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Ethereum, as explained on the "Other ways to give" page. I propose that we stop accepting cryptocurrency donations.

Here we go again with Bitcoin, PoW === All cryptocurrencies.

So all cryptocurrencies are Proof-of-Work and non-Proof-of-Work cryptocurrencies don't exist today? Perhaps XRP, Nano, Stellar, Solana, Algorand, and Hedera are all destroying the environment and are slow for payments?

I mean I don't even like the hype around cryptocurrencies, but the main reasons presented by this RFC for not using them are quite weak and completely outdated. Yawn.
The problem with that logic is that it’s not paid across
50 months. It’s a sign up lump sum to pay for the antenna rather than a fixed monthly cost added to your contract duration.

Also your post doesn’t take into account the life span of the antennae, that could be less than 5 years. It doesn’t take into account any competing services that you might want to switch to (eg some internet contracts in the U.K. typically run for 2 years and you’re encouraged to shop around at that point). Nor does it take into account any other personal circumstances that might lead one to cancel Starlink.
Scan to Go – Document and PDF Scanner App
How to escape from the rear of a Tesla in the event of a power failure (2021)
> Firefox user here. Right click on image -> Open image in new tab. Then kill the connection and could "Save Image as" just fine.

That doesn't work for me.. Firefox just starts a new download for the image and it never finishes. Sometimes it seems to flush about 32KB to the disk, giving you half of the image, but the rest must still be waiting in buffers.
Great resource, thanks for sharing. As someone who wants to "re-learn" some college level math, this is invaluable.
I think I can unironically offer Dwight's advice:

'Don't be an idiot; changed my life'

It sounds like surface level humor, but it is a surprisingly good advice.
EU plans to spend €43 ($49) billion over 10 years. Meanwhile, TSMC plans to spend $44 billion in 2022 alone. This gap in funding makes me wonder if this will actually have any impact? It feels like trying to start a fission reaction but not committing enough to have critical mass
I'm in Canada so the distinction does matter. I'm not allowed to call myself an engineer because I didn't do an engineering degree.

When interviewing candidates, I treat these as interchangeable.
Serving static HTTP GETs is easy. The moment you start trying to make money off the generated traffic its no longer a read only affair. Your system is not stateless anymore and tracking costs spiral up quickly.
Then you get a motorcycle
I guess also pedantic but say 50.4 rounding to 50 is a 2% change hence it can be a rounding error.
Wait in line to pay to check my bag and then wait after I get off the plane at the baggage carousel. Easily 30 minutes and sometimes well over an hour combined.

…or have a slower boarding experience.

I think Delta doesn’t understand why people carry their bags.
I commented elsewhere already, but I have a blog post where I go through some examples of applications of the Kelly Criterion, including two that are related to insurance: https://blog.paulhankin.net/kellycriterion/
Easy solution … give up Facebook and TikTok and all the other social media addictions like a sane and healthy person. Social media is essentially the tobacco of today; a toxic, destructive, addictive force.
I don’t think you are wrong about Engineer in Germany but it just doesn’t apply to software. If you go into classical engineering there are rules. For example you couldn’t call yourself a civil engineer (‘Bauingenieur’) in Germany. If you are outside of classical engineering fields nobody gives a shit. You could call your self a “culinary engineer” and nobody would care. Computer sience is usualy grouped with mathematics so it too falls outside of classical engineering. We as a group just LIKE to see what we are doing as engineering to differentiate us from those that "just code".