skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
totalitarianism and authoritarianism should not be used interchangeably, they're opposites. Totalitarianism is mass mobilization and uninhibited violence, think Cultural Revolution, authoritarianism is, to quote Gibson given that we're in a thread about him, Singapore's 'Disneyland with the death penalty'. Radical depolitization.

People are more apathetic than hateful (today's 'riots' hardly deserve the label by historical standards) and there is more of an indifference than a pessimism. You're not told what to think (or compelled to action), but rather told what not to say (or how not to act), and otherwise left alone.
The stakes are lower with optional performance bonuses.
Language matters quite a bit to those considering contributing. It also provides some context for expectations about performance and reliability thanks to language idioms, features and culture.
https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/adjoint-distri...
Every action that I'm denied due to the inability to pay represents a curtailment of my freedom to take that action. I mean this in the most radical and all-encompassing way as possible.

A system is a function of its output. If the the enforcement of law represent the denial of physical access under threat of violence, markets represent the denial of economic access under threat of labor. In some ways this is more insidious, but less overtly violent and many parallel constructions hold. The simultaneous creation of race, and the theological justification for chattel slavery mirrors the creation of capital and the economic justification for wage slavery. The supporters of each alienate their involvement and perpetuation as "the natural order" when in fact it is a social system constantly recreated and socially reproduced.

You can start to see the same patterns play out in the digital space. Human agency is exported to computers in a way that builds systems that re-enforce this dynamic. "Computer says, 'No'"[1], is a perfect summation of this disavowment of human agency and human empaty from the systems we build.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFl6p4D59AA
Cheap wines are harvested by machines, which just pull up everything and grind it together. So you get some amount of stem, dirt, field mouse*, etc. in there.

I find when I drink a cheap wine I taste something distinctly like green plant matter, and I don't like it at all. But maybe I'm just fooling myself because I know it's cheap. Haven't tried it blind.

* Strictly FDA-approved quantities of field mouse, of course. Think of it like the radiation dose from eating a banana. Nothing to worry about, really!
Because it's trendy to praise brushes instead of paintings, vinyl pressing quality instead of music, and languages instead of software these days.

Jean Baudrillard would call it another level of simulation.
I’m curious to know if this has any similarities with fossil (https://fossil-scm.org/ ). If it does, it would be nice to see that in the documentation.
Construction workers at risk of exposing families to toxic metals
Pardon my poor English, it isn't my first language.

I've worked many years in the mining industry where I had to stay both in Fermont and inside workers camps on the mine itself (Mont-Wright). I went back during the summer of 2021 during my vacations to reminisce the good old days. Here is a video that shows older footages from inside "Le Mur", but it still looks the same to this day, minus the fact that most stores has since been closed.

This structure is hosting a lot of apartments, a grocery store, a school, a medical clinic that I believe is only accessible from outside (You sometimes see people wearing pajamas at the grocery store or inside "The Wall" itself), a small bar with erotic dancers (La Fer-Tek), an ice rink and much more. I'd return live there in a heartbeat if I had the opportunity.

Here are a video showing older footage followed by a video clip recorded in Fermont.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQWQqVp8v6w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI9R2H_KkQk
I’m going for C because programming language choice is a matter of personal preference in essence and Rust annoys me.
The Legotown “leaders”/“builders” that the teachers disempowered were authority figures because their knowledge of Legos was recognized and accepted by the other children. There wasn’t much conflict (just submissive acceptance of the builder’s governance by the non-builders, and animated discussions on what to build together between the builders) until the teachers intentionally synthesized some with their Lego “game” in order to engrain their own preconceived biases (“critical judgments about people who have wealth and financial ease”) into the kids.
I've written a few things at work in C/C++ and Rust. I can move much faster in Rust, personally, as long as the pieces of the ecosystem I need are there. Obviously I only speak for myself.

Part of that is because I'm working in code where security is constantly paramount, and trying to reason about a C or C++ codebase is incredibly difficult. Maybe I get lucky and things are using some kind of smart ptr, RAII and/or proper move semantics, but if they're not then I have to think about the entire call chain. In rust I can focus very locally on the logic and not have to try and keep the full codebase in my head
I didn't see BX11 in Hetzner's VPS offerings. After searching I realized it's a different "storage box" product. Looks like they support FTP, SCP, SFTP, rsync, WebDAV, HTTP, and more. I didn't realize anyone other than rsync.net offered SSH transfer for cloud storage. And this is about 1/10 the cost. Also rsync.net doesn't support anything HTTP-based by design[0]. This could be a nice alternative. @rsync do you know enough about Hetzner's offering to give us a breakdown of tradeoffs?

I'm feeling super jealous right now that these boxes aren't offered in the US currently. Anyone know if that's planned? Might be enough to get me off Backblaze/Wasabi. I'd love to have more options than S3 as protocol.

Also Hetzner's VPS bandwidth allowance (20TB/~$5/mo) is insanely good compared to the next best I'm aware of, which is DigitalOcean (1TB/~$5/mo), and that is offered in the US. This might be perfect for a tunneling service product I'm working on. Anyone have experience with how good the speeds are from their US East datacenter?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24501103
On the one hand, you've made a rebuttal, quoting the paper. That's good.

On the other hand, you've utterly failed to understand what I'm attempting to say. So that's less good.

> The data you're referencing is too small to be statistically significant.

I explicitly acknowledge this.

>> So on the one hand I completely agree with you on the necessity of having enough people to dodge the problem of random chance. "the law of large numbers" on Wikipedia is good.

That's the acknowledgement.

>> But that does kind of hint that there might be something there.

And here's where I'm saying "if you have these three metrics which are independently all non-significant but they're all trending in the same direction, there might be a 'there' there"

Maybe I didn't say it clearly enough to begin with. I'm not alleging that Ivermectin is COVID Jesus and we all just gotta believe in him in order to be saved. I'm just trying to point out that the data previously quoted should probably get a person's "huh, what's that about?" sense going.
This is the billion-dollar insight. Two programs, very similar areas of functionality, but one becomes Instagram, and the other dies.
so just for understanding: repeated `git add -p` followed by a `git commit` turns into repeated `jj split; jj squash`, since you create a commit each time?
If public blockchains are considered harmful, people might buy tech for private ones.
You have an appointment at 10:00am, it’s 20mins away by car, 30mins away by bus and 90 minutes long.

To take the bus you get ready and wait by 9am. Get to the place at 9:30am, wait until 10:00am for the appointment, and hopefully it doesn’t run late and let’s you take the 12:00pm bus to get home by 12:30. There goes 4 hours for a 90 minute appointment. With a car this same round trip could be done in 2.5hours ish, and you could make other stops along the way.

Granularity is important, and some places are coincidentally structured to be more difficult to survive in, the poorer you are.
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A common strategy for car insurance companies in at least the US too. If you (have time to) shop around every couple years, you'll get better rates.
My point is that,

like the "networking system that interoperates between all devices in the world", Ethereum is the next "agreed upon" frontier that can enable all of these things,

already is,

and that you may be lacking imagination as to what it could offer us to have that consensus.

A global, public, decentralized enough (not controlled by one nation-state or group, for better or for worse) settlement layer.

Why are MasterCard and Visa looking to settle on it if it's just me looking to solve the library room thing, like an egg looking for its chicken?
> It is possibly that you could get inconsistencies between systems, but you mitigate that with durable event streams (e.g. Kafka) and by ensuring that each data entity in your enterprise has a system of record that can be used to resolve conflicts.

The event stream layer isn't where the sync problems have arised in the systems I've worked on. It's the "commit transactionally both to your database and the event stream" part. Not a lot of systems are built to be ready to roll back the database change if the event publish fails. Or to be able to handle duplicate events if you error the other way.
Julia Evans. https://jvns.ca/
> But 200 years ago the idea of having a conversation with someone 1000 miles away seemed quite impossible

In 1822 the Chappe optical telegraph had been in use since the Revolution, and the electric telegraph was ~20 years away. You'd have had to be singularly unimaginative not to envision an eventual extension to instantaneous voice.
The Itanium C++ ABI, despite its name, is a cross-architecture ABI for C++ that's basically used by every C++ compiler except for MSVC [1], although the details in exception handling do vary a little bit more.

Historically, C++ compilers all did their own thing with C++ ABIs. When Intel was pushing Itanium hard, they wanted to avoid incompatibility issues, so they created a standardized ABI for all the C++ vendors on Itanium to agree on. Later, g++ needed to revise its internal ABI for various reasons, and given that it already supported the Itanium ABI for Itanium, they opted to extend the ABI definition to all architectures rather than create their own. Since then, all the major compilers [sans MSVC] have adopted the Itanium ABI for C++ cross-architecture, and it's still maintained today despite Itanium processors themselves no longer receiving that maintenance.

It's really at the point now that if you say "Itanium ABI," people will assume you're talking about the cross-architecture C++ ABI and not the Itanium-specific processor ABI for any OS.

[1] The MSVC ABI is not officially documented publicly, and given some of the bugs in MSVC found when Clang was attempting to reverse engineer it, I'm dubious that Microsoft itself has any internal documentation either. Note that g++ on Windows will use the Itanium C++ ABI instead of the MSVC ABI.
Seeing the horror stories of underpaid pilots, terrible or nonexistent food service on ultra long haul flights, and growing maintenance backlogs during their perpetual “vande bharat” thing has been unsettling. India to this day does not allow “scheduled international flights” originally due to Covid but now just to keep the airline in business for the sale to finalize
How much does swiping your MasterCard or Visa add to the cost of your daily purchases, on average, would you guess without looking it up?
But the info is right on the linked page. Somehow I don't think people who haven't even followed the submission link aren't the ones to worry about yet for "potential contributor".
Yeah the question is what level of performance you need I guess... was hoping you could clarify :)
Not only buddhism. The romans gave us "mens sana in corpore sano" - sound body, sound mind.

It seems like ancient peoples around the world associated healthy body with a healthy mind.
A simple c library:

https://github.com/projectNe10/Ne10

You have not yet shown an argument for why c is not a portable assembly.
Not incorrect but discouraged.

- If you want the package just for now and probably not later use `nix-shell -p`

- If you always need the package for a specific project add it to `shell.nix` (`flake.nix`) of that project.

- If you need the package globally use home-manager, nix-darwin, NixOS
They also have a REST interface [1] and a command line tool [2] to do those operations (and others) without having to use the website.

[1] https://docs.hetzner.cloud/
[2] https://github.com/hetznercloud/cli
I've never tried to go to Russia, but the process you describe is the way to go if you can spare an extra $100.

For example, it's much easier to get a Chinese visa by paying this company across the street from the Chinese consulate in SF than it is to go there. I think everyone that speaks Chinese knows how to work the system, but I don't speak it at all.

They turned me down for having a bent corner on my passport, lol, after taking my money. I just gave up and used the company across the street for my second try.
Well I'm glad you're intellectually consistent on that.

I don't really think that accepting that cultural trends influence behavior, including violent and/or criminal behavior, is racist. Culture is influenced by environment, and culture influences behavior. To pin all criminal behavior on culture though is incorrect IMO.
UPDATE: Somebody mentioned they're using "Seafile" in the comments and it seems to support Android and network drives - https://www.seafile.com/en/features/ . For tagging and categorization, try digiKam.

I don't know if there's an all-in-one solution.

Perhaps use NextCloud (self-hosted or managed) for sharing.

digiKam can detect and tag faces, and connect to NextCloud or network-mounted drives.

But digiKam's a desktop app without an Android port AFAIK.
Optimal quitting
Yeah, thats what he is saying as well, the long parenthesis makes it kinda hard to parse, but you are saying the same thing.
I've long wondered what I might be able to keep an eye out for during onboarding/transfer that would help me tell overstuffed kitchens apart from optimally-calibrated engineering caves from a distance.

I'm also admittedly extremely curious what (broadly) had 1000 (and 500) engineers dedicated to it, when arguably only 50 were needed. Abstractly speaking that sounds a lot like coordinational/planning micromanagement, where the manglement had final say on how much effort needed to be expended where instead of allowing engineering to own the resource allocation process :/

(Am I describing the patently impossible? Not yet had experience in these types of environments)
You make really good points, thanks.

I think the apathy is because we've been bombarded with evil for so many years, and the rise of the quiet minority (30+%), who have very different values than what we saw every day on TV and in newspapers. Those people previously had little to no voice, but because of Twitter, Facebook, Fox News, etc, etc, they were able to band together and elect a criminal and start to take control of local and state elections, to remake the progressive world that we all thought we lived in.

Btw, even back 20 years I was ringing the alarm bells of authoritarianism and surveillance, to my friends (most of whom are way smarter than I am) and not a single one of them gave any shits. I really don't understand it.
Fair point, it's a good question if they have an obligation to not use the customer information they gather or not.
This seems really nice.

git got the data model really right, and the user space really wrong. The data model is more important than the user space.

This is the first project I've seen which appears to understand and respect /how/ and /why/ the git data model is so elegant.
There a couple of open source C compilers TCC, SDCC, tendra, chibicc, ACK, LCC, PCC, etc. and also many commercial ones.

It is true that GCC is not written in C anymore, but it is easy to see that the code is still relatively close. I am also myself writing a C compiler in C at the moment and there is no problem at all.
The poster means the top 1% of income tax payers. Also: you pay income tax on income whether you work for it or not. Try leaving your 1099-DIVs out of your income tax return and see how that works out.
I sort-of get what you're saying here, I think, but I'm not sure you're right.

As an inquisitive young person, you are, quite likely, at some point confronted with something that seems like magic.

If you're truly (or perhaps excessively?) inquisitive, you try to dissect that magic. Sometimes that leads to true understanding, sometimes just to confusion, or at best the understanding that you don't understand.

The "home computers" of the 1980s were still simple enough to allow "true understanding". But only up to some point: I could find my way around a ZX Spectrum memory map just fine, but could I have built such a machine from scratch? No way!

In hindsight, I only understood a very small portion of the technology I was working with, even though that understanding was absolutely mindblowing at the time. Today, that portion would very likely have been "higher up the stack": let's say, I would be an absolute master of the DOM using Javascript, instead of a master of the ZX Spectrum ROM using Z80 assembly.

But would that portion be less "worthy" or less useful? I'm not so sure...
> but you can't force other countries to change their language.

You are a bit late, because Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine already doing this.[0,1,2]

On Twitter 'MFA_Ukraine' and 'CorrectUA' already posted successful cases.[3]

[0] https://mfa.gov.ua/news/67521-correctua-mzs-ukrajini-zvertaj...

[1] https://poland.mfa.gov.ua/pl/news/67529-correctua-mzs-ukraji...

[2] https://kenya.mfa.gov.ua/news/6885-whats-in-a-name-the-switc...

[3] https://twitter.com/search?f=live&q=%23KyivNotKiev+from%3AMF...
2-3 seconds on GrapheneOS, stock camera.
Also recommend this to learn a new code base which will log every function call:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@phenomnomnominal/debug
It's odd that the article depicts poverty as an inescapable trap, when this is empirically false. There are countless examples of people who have transcended poverty to either achieve tremendous success, or more realistically, middle-class status. People who have a great deal in common, and took specific steps motivated by specific ways of thinking, which led to their success. Why would you not want to share these recipes with others who could benefit from them? If you're a school teacher, why on earth would you not want to tell your students to study hard so they can go to University or trade school and build a good life for themselves?

I agree with the author that children living in poverty deserve a better social safety net, lower crime, and better public schooling. We need to improve our system to better serve those in need. But this doesn't mean we can't also teach kids the existing demonstrable pathways that can lead them to success.
Neither hashes nor file sizes are how copyright works—I don't make a work free by adding a space to it. So it would be a bit weird if Google implemented it that way. Rolling hashes—maybe.

It's a pity that we don't get to see the supposed ‘copyright holder’ like on YouTube—it would add nicely to the bureaucratic surrealism.

I wonder if the Docs team saw how great and flawlessly YouTube's ‘Content ID’ works, and implemented about the same. And now they match files against some clerk's entire disk that was uploaded into the system.
Something that’s backend compatible with Git but uses some of Mercurial’s sensibilities?

Sign me up!
> "Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sell me them if you don't want to WebUSB install Graphene on them.
You can still use self-assessments, manager and peer reports on the work done, e.g. each quarter. Just explicitly don't use them for promotion. If they are used only for "whether this person brings more to the company than company spends on them", then it unlikely to become a metric to game around.
> You have to be a special kind of naive to not have such infrastructure behind airgap.

Most of it is not behind air gap.
And unless things get a lot worse it wont be.

Proper air gaping is hard, expensive and pain in the ass, on the ongoing basis.

That's why almost none does it. Not even most military systems are air gaped.
>this experience firmly solidified my view that the wine business is 90% marketing, 10% everything else

I'm not sure if you're supporting the idea that all wines are the same, or just that tastes differ and price doesn't correlate to something that tastes good.

Do your friends ever react to any wine by saying "this is awful, it tastes like..."?
I totally agree. Back when I used Subversion it felt to me like there obviously must be a better way to version control and that the tool got in my way all the time. Git on the other hand almost always can solve my problems and while some things could be improved (confusing UX, a bit too complex, plus bad handling of conflicts) it is much closer to the right tool for VCS than Subversion ever was.
Besides this vs Jitsi, I wonder if there is a tldr about how Zoom managed to capture so much of this space.
Why on earth would you want a private blockchain? Just use Cassandra and be done with it.
Jobs are either:

1. Rising in impact, so employers simply have to rank candidates mercilessly, ...

Think: Creatives, White Color Workers, Executives, ...

2. ... Or becoming homogenized in order to be easily scalable and easily replaceable, so employers have no incentive not to weed mercilessly

Think: Driver, Warehouse Worker, Restaurant/Retail Chain Employees of all Kinds, Low Level Managers, ...

This is natural trend for LOCAL-OPTIMIZED action in an economic system continually optimizing for efficiency. Trust is a huge efficiency.

But while I am a fan of ever rising standards, GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION of the economy requires rising standards to be coupled with on-ramps and advancement support. So people can also efficiently rise to those higher standards.

Easily identifiable on-ramps, and self-advancement opportunities are important for those with lack of experience, and overlooked talents, but also victims of inequitable or self-inflicted history.

Acceptance of dead ends for people creates immediate local problems (unemployment, family stress), but also metastasizes into global societal problems (political instability, tribalism, crime, less capable work force, less wealthy consumer class, retirement problems, social support oversubscription, etc).
Dubai is not perfect. But it's not _that_ bad. And I think they're trying to be more welcoming to foreigners and everybody else and ironing out other issues. But it'll take time, and won't happen overnight.

Is the situation in Dubai getting worse over time, or is it getting better?

(btw, I'm just talking about Dubai and UAE in general. For other countries in the region all bets are off; I have no idea what goes on in places like Yemen, for instance).

I guess your perspective on UAE would depend on where you come from.

If you're from developed countries like, for example, Norway, Finland, and perhaps even USA, Dubai is going to look worse off.

But plenty of people in Dubai are from countries even worse. So for them, Dubai is definitely an upgrade.
The biggest issue here is that this image parsing was done by such a high-privileged process. What happened to all the sandboxes and stuff?