skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that they are so angry at these truckers they are willing to give up due process in a court of law and think it is such a good thing the government can swoop in and freeze someone’s money. I think it is very dangerous and worry some unhinged person will lose it and go from protesting to attacking. I didn’t donate to these truckers and I never participated in any protests so suppose I don’t have to worry this time. I also like to point out that yes the truckers were breaking the law. This angers people so much. I always like to remind them breaking the law is actually an unsung right we have as Canadians. Yes we can go to jail but we are not put in a chair and tortured or killed or have our family rounded up and executed. And this is a good thing. It was only in the 1970s that Canada last locked up a man for life after his third offence for being gay. So thankfully people fought those laws and protested in the streets openly gay which was illegal. So personally I don’t know if I support these truckers but if they are willing to break the law and be arrested for what they believe in by defying an order to leave then I think it is great. I do not condone violence however and the few fringe protesters doing dumb things should be arrested and charged. But standing in the street refusing to leave that’s something we should be thankful we can do.
This looks great, but I'm getting very sick of software with recurring monthly fees. I get that it's more profitable for companies, and maybe I'm being a curmudgeon, but what happened to software you could actually buy once and then use forever?
Government to launch study on economic benefits of reintroducing Imperial units
Interesting; too bad. I like Windows so I keep hoping things will change. At this point all I can hope is that Windows 12 will reverse most of this.
> When the company makes money they pay you cash as a dividend (for tax reasons this most often comes in the form of a stock buy back [...])

Often?

"Nearly 75% of the stocks in the S&P 500 pay a dividend, and the dividend for most of them exceeds the yield on U.S. 10-year Treasury bonds (currently around 2%)"[0]

[0] https://cabotwealth.com/daily/dividend-stocks/highest-paying...
It is a shame. It's a game that's trivially optimisable but requires you to avoid doing so to have fun. It's a game that already existed, so must have become popular for another reason: because they came up for a way for people to brag about their intelligence in a socially acceptable way.

Ironically, it's disappointing to see how poor the vocabulary of some English-first-language speakers is & how readily they blame the game for using quite common words that they don't know.
The 10k claims assets of $466bn : https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/713676/00007...

Minus liabilities of $412bn gives you $54bn of free equity, which is a decent enough reserve ratio (capacity to absorb losses) for a bank.
I also need the ELI25, however I think that the paper might be indicating that following the same procedure for spontaneous scalarization to vector fields may yield unphysical results. That being said, I can't tell if the belief is that a ghost instability is inherently a mathematical object - or something that may be physical but we simply do not know.

> Lastly, we stress that our results are relevant for most
known extensions of spontaneous scalarization to other
fields, not just the vectors, and our study can be considered
as a first step to obtain a no-go theorem for extending
spontaneous scalarization to other fields. For vector fields,
Garcia-Saenz et al. [51] has identified the presence of ghost
and gradient instabilities in the background of compact
objects in a broad class of generalized Proca theories
[84,85]. Similar concerns were also raised in the context
of cosmology in Ref. [86]. Going beyond vector fields, all
known formulations of nonminimally coupled spin-2 fields
that could spontaneously grow are known to lead to ghost
instabilities as well [75]. Likewise, p-form fields also have
the same constraint structure we discussed in Sec. V, hence
they suffer from similar divergent terms [87]. Spontaneous
growth of spinor fields as it was introduced in Ref. [88] also
contains divergent terms.
I also use window tiling, everything goes where I want it to be and quickly. I almost never have to putz with placement unless I'm doing something new.
No, they are lower, and on top of that, they are taxed more.
In the US (I realize the article is about EU), salary information for a given individual is not public* and employers typically will not share it (when queried by a prospective employer, they will only confirm employment history - "yes, Bob worked here for 5 years as a developer").

Several states have implemented similar rules (CO and CA, IIRC). A job listing would typically list either a minimum salary or range for a position. "Senior Developer, $120,000-$150,000" or whatever.

Two upsides to this approach... First, an employee is not limited by their current salary - they can negotiate on their value. Second, it's widely accepted that women and minorities tend to be less aggressive salary negotiators. Those two things together, applied over a career, can make a massive reduction in lifetime earnings for employees.

* Government jobs are the big exception - you can search for most university salaries because most receive government funding. Same for local government offices.
> I used to think this (as a euro), then I met an American and he explained that he ended up better off in Europe on a "lower" salary because he hadn't considered the hidden costs of living in the USA.

This is going to be very situation dependent, but usually the math works out in favor of the US. The EU will generally, but not always, have higher taxes, lower salaries, and a lower total cost of living. However, the difference depends a lot on which region you're looking at. Of course, there are also going to be varying quality of life differences that can't be easily quantified, which is where many parts of the EU come out better.

> He claimed (though I'm certainly no expert) that you have to do your own taxes and set aside money for that; he also claimed that "sales tax" had local, state and federal taxes applied, so while it varies from state to state and city to city; it generally ends up being about 18-20%, which is in-line with VAT in most Euro countries.

He was likely self-employed. Income taxes in the US are almost always withheld by the employer. Sales tax does vary depending on the state and local government, but it looks like the maximum sales tax at the moment is a little over 10%.

> Though he said he couldn't imagine living without a car in the US, as it turns you "back into a child".

This is true in most areas. It's possible to live without a car in some of the larger cities, such as NYC and DC. However even then it's preferable to have one (which is also true from experience in Europe as well).
> It's public in many countries anyway

That doesn't mean it's good and it is not public in all countries. I don't consider this a valid argument.
>First Amendment is one of America's finest and most resilient memes.

But it's only valid for US citizens. Other countries have rights that are valid for every human being.

"Human dignity is inviolable"

Didn't find that in the US constitution.
It'd be nice to have more import options, from a local directory or git repository
I was literally thinking earlier today, that I need this.
Mosh to Yanni.

http://www.angelfire.com/ct/moshtoyanni/
Aphorism Considered Harmful
Would be nice though if this would ask for confirmation before starting to download 11mb. While not a lot. Some data plans are capped
Ideally the people writing the policy could provide the sources that we could scrutinize. I just keep hearing politicians and advocacy groups saying 77% for literally decades now. I'm willing to accept there is a gap. I'm not willing to accept that this number hasn't moved for years.

Here is one saying women (25-34) earn 93% -- apparently not controlling for the actual job at all.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/05/25/gender-pay-...

Time after time it seems "pay gap between men and women" is conflated with "pay gap between men and women in the same job". Then there are the made up numbers that are the talking points.
We don't get to live the counterfactual though - we don't know how much of what feels like immunity as a result of "people coming to their senses" is actually the result of a successful de-platforming effort.
Just 1.0.0
https://www.kickscondor.com/
Wow to that video. I have thing about aggrandizing law enforcement and seeing over the top propaganda so I was forced to stop watching at the 30 second mark but that there exists a law enforcement agency for whom it is legal to even plan on producing such a thing is a problem in and of itself. Thinking about the supply of voters who absorb this sort of thing hook line and sinker is devastatingly depressing.

And where is the hub. All I can find is /investigation/DigitalAssets but that can't be it. Usually when law enforcement does something their actions at least result in an accidentally positive side effect, like a crime getting solved. Here I would have expected that side effect to be a some sort of an informational website the public could access.
What is the current recommended web server these days?

Is it still nginx?

I know caddy gets a lot of attention but always assumed it was for smaller/less-trafficked sites (maybe I'm wrong).
You end up in a "war on drugs" scenario. You could argue whether it is "possible" or "impossible" to ban drugs, given their continued availability, but they certainly have been criminalized.
We’re Killing Ourselves with Work
I make a lot of pastry, actually. I've even gone to school for it, though I don't do it professionally now. Variable moisture content of flour is a bigger variable. I can't think of a case where someone would be using sticks of butter and 100 grams is not close enough.
It was scariest to me because it was personal - I have friends who live currently adjacent to the building in question. Had they succeeded in their goal it's possible many people would have died and at that point it would have largely been irrelevant if they were members of the convoy or just opportunistic arsonists.

You'll also note I was careful in my wording ("nearby to the convoy") because that part is unclear. It's coincidental timing if it wasn't people participating convoy people. I already addressed this part though. I also provided a plethora of other examples.

I also didn't suggest that alone was "proof of violence committed by the convoy" -- Why have you avoided comment on the other links I provided?
I've done this periodically, I highly recommend it. I hadn't been looking at any news this year (other than pure tech news/game sites), but broke that streak this week to watch and see if Russia starts WW3.
If you really need statistical evidence for that

> wisdom, < certainty
Scraper and adder for Telegram supporting multiple accounts at the same time. Adds via Telegram API and only by username. For adding via ID and not needing Telegram API contact me.
>Society needs it’s members to believe that they can improve it,

There are a lot of assumptions about the role of government in society in your comment.

There's a heck of a lot of people out there who think society can be improved by refining, restricting or reducing government's role in specific areas or generally.
https://www.lingscars.com/

Absolutely legendary.
Very happy using Vultr for an OpenBSD based mail stack. They unlock port 25 on demand if you have a valid use case.
Personally, I use a monitor with a 60hz refresh rate but can still tell the difference between VSCode (an Electron app) and Sublime Text for example. It's very subtle, and I overall I believe VSCode to be usable, but after enough time using a native text editor, Electron-based editors feel sluggish in comparison and it takes me a little while until I'm used to them again.
They are already effectively outlawed in most of the EU. E.g. in Germany, you must be paid at least 50% of your current salary while the clause is active, for a maximum of two years and "unreasonably broad" clauses are invalid.
Cats. Lots and lots of cats.
Carbide Alpha – Buggy but Live
At first I thought this would be a service which takes your Twitter profile and turns it into a website with a CMS backend, which sounds like a great idea for anyone who wants to escape Twitter but doesn't have the tech savvy to set up a website and migrate all their old content on their own.

I guess it's not exactly that though, it... creates a profile on typefully.com that mirrors your Twitter account?
Alternator does not charge your car battery the way you think it does
They died much earlier and more painfully and their life was full of stress.
I just like https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt better.

We are all standing on the shoulders of giants. Do not forget.
No. I meant the exact opposite of what you somehow inferred.

I don't feel like I'm good enough to even label these feelings as impostor syndrome, which I'd be able to reassure myself are just irrational. I just think I genuinely am not good enough or knowledgeable enough.
What do you mean public tax returns? Public to who?
You can improve this guess by calculating the letter frequency for the 5-letter words only. With the dictionary that I use, the optimal word to start with is AROSE.
> I think the financial incentives are already there to consider computational resources precious.

I'd argue we ARE already working with computational resources as precious commodities. If you are in an area where it matters, you consider the logistics of acquiring, retaining, and utilizing all of your CPU and memory. It's precisely this that fed the rise of AWS.

So, do we need a new economy putting pricing on these resources? No! We already have it. We're just shocked at how cheap it is. But why shouldn't it be? You're messing with virtual realities where it's possible to teleport objects from one side of the universe to the other at almost no cost. Compare that with the friction of moving a real world object to the other side of your house.

Thermodynamics apply. I'm pretty tired of navel gazing about the efficiency of computing when it was invented as a mechanism to increase the efficiency of the CRITICALLY inefficient systems.

Your smartphone and its code are not the bottleneck in the world system. Stop optimizing the wrong parts.
Nice writeup. Have you looked at qdrant [1] for your comparison? I found it better than Milvus.

[1] https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant
Are we not mistaking fashion for people? Memes are the fashionable aspect of a given movement and a movement's success isn't the quality or even quantity of its memes but whether it resonates with a target market and that target market has the numbers. Whether it represents a need or belief of the people.

The reason that the GME meme worked is because there are more than ever available small-time investors called the "WFH COVID crowd". Furthermore there are countless people that believe the market is rigged in one way or another so the story was appealing. Added to that, there's a crowd of millennials that have fond memories of Gamestop and browse reddit and all of that combines into a powerful movement with a lot of energy behind it. The memes (to the moon, diamond hands) are just the gaseous by-product of that activity.
Machina – MIDI Sequencer Based on Finite State Automata
The President of the United States claimed the election was fraudulent and directed the Vice President to throw out electoral votes and hand him the Presidency. Fake elector certificates were signed. The President called up state officials telling them to "find more votes", and refused to start the transfer of power. Election officials were threatened. The President's supporters attacked the Capital and (for a few hours) stopped the votes from being counted. That list doesn't even cover everything, how is that not a serious attempt? What exactly would they need to do for you to be concerned beyond them actually being successful in overturning the election?

Again, your barometer for concern is way too far off. The issue is that such attempts only needs to work one time for the game to be over. If you're always unconcerned about attempts being made because they failed then eventually one will be successful and you won't be able to do anything about it.
Which is what I said. And I still don't see how most code that potentially returns errors would be on a hot path. Code that is really on a hot path should probably not call into generic code anyway, and/or that called code should be inlined.

I don't know, as a C programmer, somehow I rarely run into these situations where I have to check error return values. I think the reason is that I work hard to avoid wrappers around wrappers around wrappers. Mostly error checking is required when interacting with the OS - i.e. for I/O, which is not critical paths.

A simple example would be memory allocation. A good C programmer allocates memory upfront. A bad C++ programmer could go, "eh, if it's so convenient I'll simply declare this std::vector locally, and if allocation fails it'll throw an exception and RAII and exceptions will solve the error handling issue magically without me having to type a single keystroke". Of course allocating each time is a lot slower than allocating only a single time upfront; no matter how much faster or convenient and individual allocation and error checking would be. This example shows how the perception of speed can often be warped because we're measuring the wrong thing entirely.

What is bad code is often not clear cut, and neither is how to improve it.
ReliaQuest Expands GreyMatter Platform
Hilariously, crypto has reinvented fractional reserve banking. "Staking" is just traditional fixed-duration lending, but with some weird caveats and liquidation rules borrowed from margin trading that you need to read carefully.
That hasn't been true for many years.

USDT creators originally claimed that every Tether was backed with USD, but then switched away from that years ago (if my memory serves me correctly). They now mention that they are backed by reserves, assets, etc.

USDT creators have for a long time said that they are not obliged to honor every redeption and will instead only selectively allow redemption. (The implicit understanding is that they will honor Tethers that exchanges require exchanged, but not from users directly).

Banks by design hold a fraction of what their clients deposit with them. This is one of the key mechanisms by which the economy expands... so a comparison against some "ideal" USDT is apples to oranges, but ends up being closer than expected when you use the actual USDT operating model.
This application will be able to:

See accounts you follow, mute, and block.
Follow and unfollow accounts for you.
Update your profile and account settings.
Post and delete Tweets for you
Create, manage, and delete Lists and collections for you.
Mute, block, and report accounts for you.
See your email address.

Why?
America is a cultural empire more than a physical one. And memes like civil rights, human rights, technology, and conspiracies spread like wildfire, burning through the whole world.

“Me Too,” the Freedom Convoy, Joe Rogan, Woke stuff like BLM, Obama and Trump (both being like the embodiments of powerful memes), etc… this inspires movements all throughout the world. See the Hong Kong protestors using Pepe the Frog as a mascot. See protestors in Southeast Asia using the Hunger Games salute.

As some comedian (can’t remember who) pointed out, we are the country that landed on the moon and also the country that made up the idea that it was a hoax. We don’t let self-interest get in the way of a really good meme.

A country might typically be lucky to invent a meme like Marxism or Maoism or whatever once a decade or century. America generates these things every month or even week, and it burns through the entire world in that time.
If this web server was running on AWS EC2 with attached EBS volumes then zeroing out a new partition was actually AWS' recommended practice to initialize the disk for performance reasons. EBS no longer requires this.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-init...
The reality is that not everyone brings equal value to an org. Some are rockstars and others are meh. It’s natural, and you should be incentivized to improve.
"just storing markdown files"

Ironically you could do the same with your replies.
State of JavaScript Survey 2021 Results
Yeah, I wonder what kind of back pain is that. On a dutchie your weight goes right onto your lower back (just like when sitting down), and it's the lower back what you use for your pedal strokes. Not great for extended periods of time.

On a trekking bike your weight is more distributed, since your torso is sort of laying down.
quite a lot actually.
Especially that kind
>> Documentation is hard enough for software projects. Why would we expect documentation quality of construction to be better?

> Because it is, by it's very nature and purpose. Practically all of the engineering deliverables are written documents. These documents held engineers liable to any defect. In engineering, documents matter the most.

Also, while you can make changes, you can’t really refactor a building or migrate it to a different service.
What do you mean by freedom of choice here? I don't see how that relates to the topic at hand.
No, but given that the spread of these things through social networks resembles infectious disease we can take an educated guess. I'd propose that deplatforming probably stretched out the curve.

I suppose an argument could still be made from that. Maybe without stretching out the curve we would have seen significant loss of life on January 6th from many more thousands of Q people marching on the capital and eventually being hurt or killed in confrontations with capital police and the national guard. That would not have been good, though it would have in the long term perhaps more deeply discredited the movement.

We can never live the counterfactual with history.
The original Prey was delisted a long time before Bethesda repurposed the name.
They protested against vaccination mandates and the store closure was due to government policy. To be honest, this sound very peaceful for a protest all in all.

Feeling unsafe is often invoked lately to restrict the rights of others. I don't believe this is sufficient in a larger context.
https://acko.net

Clicking on the header launches a (simple) WebGL music video
Textile was the driving markup behind Textpattern (https://textpattern.com/), one of the better publishing/CMS tools out there on PHP. It had a nice object oriented approach that was less painful than Wordpress, and gave great flexibility to design aspects in ways that were easier to work with than Wordpress... but Wordpress won the popular marketshare, and TP was relegated to some diehards. Those diehards still pump out fixes and features, and it's worth a look at https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern/ if you want to see something a bit different.
Pretty ironic how this post would also be hidden by this script