skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found that article weird.

> The invisible hand promotes the good of society by leading entrepreneurs to invest at home rather than abroad.

IIRC "the invisible hand" was only mentioned once through out the whole Wealth of Nations, and I found it was a passing remark. I'm not sure why everyone focuses on that one sentence like it was a literature device.

And about "investing at home rather than abroad", "protectionism is appropriate", and "Smith was concerned with a third category: mercantilism" from the article, I would say that mercantilism was less of an issue in Wealth of Nations compared to protectionism. In fact, I think Adam Smith was hinting that at the macro scale, protectionism is the opposite of the most important idea of the whole book - the Division of Labor!

The best example he made to show how absurd protectionism was (i.e the Division of Labor at the macro scale):

> The natural advantages which one country has over another, in producing particular commodities, are sometimes so great, that it is acknowledged by all the world to be in vain to struggle with them. By means of glasses, hot-beds, and hot-walls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine, too, can be made of them, at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought from foreign countries.
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As long as the one country has those advantages, and the other wants them, it will always be more advantageous for the latter rather to buy of the former than to make. It is an acquired advantage only, which one artificer has over his neighbour, who exercises another trade; and yet they both find it more advantageous to buy of one another, than to make what does not belong to their particular trades.
> Re configurable TLS: TLS 1.3 allows services to perfectly pin certs and reject your custom root CA. It breaks the flow you are talking about that has worked up to 1.2. The answer is to not build a myopic protocol/technology that only cares about 1 dimension of usage.

No it doesn't. I have no idea what technology you think this is (maybe HPKP?), but installing a local root CA absolutely continues to work in all browsers with TLS 1.3.
It’s actually illegal in some areas. Tall grass is considered by some to be a public health issue, as it’s more likely to be home to rodents and snakes.
When the labor market turns, 100% of employees will be doing 100% of what the CEO demands. Right now, labor has the upper hand.
The "The role of government" paragraph is more balanced (though IMO still skewed - well, I should admit that I have only skimmed WoN), but the first paragraph is really not.
rms is on the board of directors: https://www.fsf.org/about/staff-and-board/
Yes not only the city but if you have an HOA in your neighborhood you will/could get in trouble. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeowner_association

Another fun read of you are not familiar

https://www.yellowstonelandscape.com/blog/most-common-hoa-la...
> Sure I get it. Arguments against my "bad things will happen" is "don't worry they are already happening" :)

Fair summary :)

> That doesn't lessen the case that we can and should work on resilient money systems that protect the interests of ordinary people.
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> When the boot is on the other foot, maybe in 10 years when China is "turning-off the dollar", we'll all be glad we built robust and democratically controlled means of exchange.

I believe that I understand your point.

However, my gut feeling is that "protecting the interests of ordinary people" is what rich oligarchs (from whichever nationality) will eventually tell ordinary people to sell us on the idea of a trans-national, untraceable, currency, but that such a beast will be much more in their interest (tax fraud? money laundering? milking clients with online casinos? good ideas!) than in anybody else's (pay for a X that I'll be buying from a black-market salesperson without attracting the state's attention? not something I do every day, but probably good idea in a dictatorship? – on the other hand, exposing myself to frauds without any recourse because of anonymity? not something I want to deal with on a daily basis).

That's in addition to the issues with PoW (looks like we already agree on this point) and the practical issues with actual decentralization, anonymity, stealth and resilience.
"Where do you store it? How do you organize it there? How do you keep track of your inventory?"

I am sorry but these questions come across as extremely silly - this is not rocket science, even manufacturers of beer have to figure out these things, if you can't manage a warehouse, you would not be able to be any kind of serious manufacturer in the first place.
TBF one of the issues with long grass is they also favour ticks: ticks need a relatively wet environment, short grass prevent moisture retention which is an issue for all sorts of good critters... but also for ticks.
There's a social media trick where you make some really obvious mistake (eg pronounce "Mario" as "mah-RYE-oh" in a video) and then rely on people's "well akshully" in the comments causing you to go viral. Regardless if it's intentional or not, it's probably working since this already has 18 comments after only being posted a half hour ago hahah
I don’t know where OP lives, but inside of the town where I live (the Borough) there is an ordinance about grass height. You get 1 warning per season, with 7 days to rectify it. After that any violations become a $50 per day fine. (With no additional warnings)
> Mobile UK says that due to Private Relay, "providers will be unable to use the traffic data to develop their own competing mobile browsers in the future”

Thanks but I like my carriers to be dumb pipes
My essential Firefox fixes in 2022
I’m going to be the devil’s advocate here and vouch for no-code.

The HN crowd is not the target, so do not expect to understand it. in fact, you should expect to NOT understand it.

I’d say that no-code tools are made with the same mindset as spreadsheets: to put into the hands of non-engineer specialists (accountants, marketers…) a subset of what engineers can already do without said tools.

it’s democratizing a (small?) part of the engineering mindset. As such, it is not a threat to engineers at all, as most of the difficult tasks of engineering are still unavailable (or hardly available) within the reach of these no-code tools.

I do not care that this or that tool is Turing-complete. Actually, I find it a vanity feature and it makes me smile at best.

Some no-code tools may very well succeed someday in some non-software engineering communities, and I wouldn’t feel threatened.

When you think about it, the music production tools have had such tools for ages and no engineer was hurt in the process.
The denoising in Google Meet is fantastic, btw.
User Interface Algorithms: Part 1
This sort of imprecise, reductive othering illustrates what's problematic about the "ethnic foods" aisle (and "ethnic tensions").
I consider clover to be a weed and go to great lengths to eradicate it. People underestimate how many people just want lawns of perfect, green, undifferentiated grass.
Or affect change to not need it. My advice is to not have a lawn, and instead culture semi-wild patches of flowers by only weeding what is unattractive. No mowing for me, and no high maintenance manicured flower beds, and lots of bees.
> Specifically I am talking about seizing of private property by fiat for no crime.

Has any property been seized? I thought that it was only locked down pending investigations?

That's already borderline (possibly illegal? ianal) but very different.
Hybrid cloud is bad comparison.

The best comparison, IMHO, is that Kubernetes is continuation of ideas espoused perhaps most visibly by IBM JES3 (and before that, ASP)
> The number of students I have that actively presume I am trying to trick them is truly astonishing.

Because we all have experience of you guys doing just that.

I once had a question on an exam for high voltage power “why do high voltage transmission lines have 3 wires”. The answer I put seemed obvious, that each wire is for one of the 3 phases of electricity. This is the standard config for HV lines in the US.

The answer was wrong, because the professor was talking about INSIDE the cable and wanted an answer relating to how the electromagnetic field rotates around the wire so they bunch wires inside each line to improve efficiency.

Professors, especially elite ones, have seemingly perfected the art of being vague. As a student you have zero recourse against them for their terrible communication skills, your only hope is to dodge the whacky ones by befriending upperclassmen/being in a frat.
then people take it too far and get turf lawns which look terrible IMO. its the uncanny too-much-plastic-surgery of lawns.
I disagree. Using container directly on something like RHEL still provides quite a few benefits with very minimal overhead.
Tell me about it. I missed the cutoff of embarrassment protection...
The link to the contribution guide is a 404? Was intrigued...
couldn't they do it in the open and just ignore everybody?

edit: it seems they're doing that indeed. kudos
Not noisy or polluting if you use an electric mower. Useless, kind of, although I appreciate not having a literal million insects floating into my house when I open the door (I live in FL) so it keeps those populations in check. Most of the macro bugs know the mower is coming and hop out of the way.
What kind of coefficients of performance are there in Finland, for heat pumps? And what kind of heat pumps are there? Are air-sourced pumps any use in the Finnish climate?
I have a Bergere chair and ottoman in my library. I usually work from that chair because the chair and library are very comfortable and conducive to ideation.

A Bergere chair isn't enormous, but it's not tiny either.
If there is an IC advancement track then the titles don't matter. All the discussion around titles is specifically to have an IC advancement track, which very few companies have.
Nice for the inhabitants! And have you heard of non-damaging spectroscopy?
> But why do you need to force your ideals on other customers?!

Because we all share the same limited ecosystem.
My homeowners association requires it even if I didn’t want it.
Agree on the nice historical summary. The end of the final paragraph struck me in particular:

“My photos are a collaboration between me and the algorithm designers and camera manufacturers, and they reflect a combination of aesthetic decisions made by each of us.”

The one downside of taking pictures with such a strongly opinionated technology is that your pictures are going to look like everyone else’s (or increasingly just weird). Ansel Adams developed his darkroom technique over decades - and as the author mentions, applying them took hours of meticulous labor. So his output really did look different from most other peoples’.

You can still differentiate your photographs on the basis on their subject matter, of course. But if everyone is shooting out of the same algorithmic pipeline, making your pictures look better technically is going to be increasingly hard. (And given current limitations, someone knowledgeable in the field today can still usually tell the difference between photographs taken with good lenses carefully deployed and cell phone output. But it’s unclear how long that will be true.)
One possible reason for wanting GS employees back in-person: it's much easier to avoid putting things in writing when you can just walk down the hall. There's probably a lot of stuff they don't want on email/Slack/etc.
There are “tech users”, like myself, who buy a quality product and run it until it becomes unsupported. I keep iPhones about five years, which requires a battery replacement.

I’ve replaced several iPhone batteries myself - I have the necessary tools, including the opening tool. Outside of it being a fiddly job involving miniature connectors, I find that the replacement batteries don’t last as long as the OEM ones, even when bought from iFixit.

Also, the battery is glued to the back shell, and the release tapes usually break, because the hot rice bag isn’t as hot as the heated vacuum stage that Apple uses. Then you have to work a monofilament under the battery, which is an annoying three hand job, if you don’t have the stage.

Apple gets $69 to replace the battery. Given the above, that’s reasonable. But, the nearest service is an hour away. The real decision is the personal time and delay to get to and from the service place (twice, or wait around for a couple of hours) vs spend an hour to do it myself.

If the battery was OEM and came out easily, I’d do it myself, every time.
> I read the other day (but failed to really verify) that COBOL is so verbose in part because it was designed as a "no code" language that at least could be understood, and possibly written by "business people".

So was ADA, allegedly. I don't find it more readable than C or C++, just more verbose.

The issue is that, syntax doesn't matter when one still has to understand concepts BEHIND that syntax.

Visual programming may help learning though. I learned OOP via Flash, learned SQL via some SQL editor, and learned basic ASP classic via Dreamweaver. But it's just a step, like ridding a bike with training wheels.
Whilst the EU's war on waste and reparability legislation may be looked at through rose tinted glasses I think it has a number of negative side effects.

1) cost: The reason goods are cheap is that companies can rely on you needing to replace them ever [3] years. If you start to make it such that they only need to be replaced every [9] years then a manufacturer may only be able to rely on one third of the revenue. This has two effects - less money to go around for innovation / development (resulting in less good technology), and higher cost of goods (impacting the poorest the most).

2) livelihoods: The higher level thing going on here is that consumption of goods has raised living standards for many people around the world. On the other side of every good purchased are the livelihoods of people working in whole supply chains to produce that good. Reducing consumption will mean that those making all the things we consume will have less take home income for themselves (again, probably impacting the poor the most). It is a bit of a sad fact that the best way we have of organising society where people may gain a sense of dignity and meaning in their lives is through pushing consumption.

3) cost of business: all these rules and regulations are expensive to comply with. The EU will legislate itself to a bureaucratic death.

My view in general of regulation is that it is designed to protect the interests of the wealthy, or those most willing to make a cost versus quality of life / fuzzy feel goods trade off. If replacing the battery was really that big a deal to consumers then people would buy a phone that had a hot-swappable battery - i.e. no need for regulation!

Having said all that, I find the EU legislation mandating vampire power drain from not-in-use chargers is probably something i'd be on board with. This has the somewhat unique property that literally no one cares about something costs 0.1EUR a year, but it adds up at a country scale. I'm not entirely sure why i'm on board with this though.
Fake Valorant cheats on YouTube infect you with RedLine stealer
Why stop at thousands?

If simple and small enough, railgun grains-of-rice sized probes at every "near" object in the visible galaxy and create a million node network to relay and repeat back to earth.

Get the cost down to $100 each.

Time the launching to say once a day so they travel behind each other as repeaters.

Then they only need small transmitters/receivers with small power sources.
Sure, that's the thing that was going to revolutionise transport and is now used to to play polo at corporate team-building days, right?

Not sure what you're getting at here. Is it your contention that Kamen talked about it too soon, or too late?
Shenzhen Goes into Full Lockdown
Great,

Now could you please do the same with the chargers, should be easier. In The last five years Ive bought maybe 5 different electric trimmers/shavers from Philips and they all have different charger-connectors. Even the two small green blade ONE are only two years appart and I specifically asked in the store if it was the same charger but it's not. They make ever so small changes in the plastic and voltages to make every new trimmer charger incompatible with another model. So if you the charger brakes or you loose it somehow you might as well buy a new. Terrible!
If code is your biggest problem at your company, I envy you.
Some smart TVs display ads, others are "upgraded" into displaying ads later on even if they didn't do so originally, but most importantly, a lot of them spy on what you're watching.

Dumb TVs are difficult to come by, what you now need is professional displays.

They come in different ranges and the prices & features vary a lot. Digital signage ones which might be a poor fit for a TV as they're very expensive, have different reliability requirements (24/7 operation) and may lack some features such as 4K, HDR or HDCP which are desirable if you want to use it as a TV. The ones designed/marketed for meeting room use would be my suggestion - are usually based on the same hardware as the consumer version which means you get all the features you'd expect from a consumer-grade TV (the tuner is the only part missing) and cost-wise are reasonable compared to digital signage displays.

I've had good luck with Sony's professional display range: https://pro.sony/en_GB/products/pro-displays - they are reasonably priced (in my case the markup was around 1/3 more than an equivalent consumer-grade version) and give you what seems like a consumer-grade TV with all the normal TV features but a cleaned-up firmware (bare Android TV with no BS, though the Play Store is there if you want, and you can install APKs such as Kodi directly).
It's not pointless. It's nice for myself and my dog to be able to use my yard without catching ticks. Seeing where I step when I walk is a nice perk. Also I like to minimize the places that rodents and other animals can live around my house, to minimize on the damage they cause to my house. My mower was down for the better part of the year last year and it was not pleasant for me or my dog.
Also, yes. Roman armies were more builders, farmers, hunters than soldiers in the classical sense: they made roads, they move goods, and they hunt while slowly moving around the earth, mostly by feet, war at that time were not modern wars, borders at that time were not borders like today. Many think that the gladio was not only a short sword but a multi-usage tool for various purpose just as an examples.

Insula's in Rome were just houses for the people serving the wealthy, for commerce etc again they were not apartments, they might appear that to us, but they were just places where people rest upstairs and work downstairs, animals were common in internal courts.

And that's was just a very small fraction of the population, most do not live in cities at that time. A classic sign of how they live is considered the fact that even poor houses around the territory do have roofs with shingles while after the Empire most poor roofs is believed they were straw and similar materials. People often forget that Rome is damn ancient not "just a bit more than the '700 or '600". Society have changed much since then.
My aunt has been working at a huge company for over 30 years, remote for like 20. The company recently decided everyone had to come back no exceptions, even her. So she’s retiring.
I’ve tried to imagine buying a house with an attached HOA. I already have three layers of government, what does adding a fourth layer get me beside more busybodies telling me what (not) to do?
Why isn't Zig done yet then? Or Rust?
MI6 concerns about Boris Johnson’s friend Evgeny Lebedev
And no one is talking about how to prevent this from happening again in the future.

Chinese wet-markets are still open.

SARS-CoV-1 virus and SARS outbreak 2002-2004
SARS-CoV-2 virus and COVID-19 pandemic 2019-2022
SARS-CoV-3 virus 203?-20??
The entire EU should join NATO now while they still can. Don’t wait until the tanks cross your borders.
The problem with these tools is that they invariably have solutions to their own design problems that conflict with the system you need to build.

One of my old customers went with Tibco as a replacement for an internally developed system and have had no end of troubles with it. They were over 2 years late in their roll-out and the unforeseen limitations/lack of understanding of their tool have basically made them re-create their old C# application in Tibco in its entirety, thereby reducing Tibco to a second-rate cluster manager. I'm sure they did a number of things wrong in that effort, but that's an expensive lesson that they relearn every year when their gigantic Tibco invoice arrives.

I'm also in the process in migrating a system from the Versata business rules engine/ORM application that is hands-down the worst system I've ever seen in over 30 years of writing software. This is another client with their own set of problems, but I have literally been able to replace thousands of lines of bizarro-world copypasta a single SQL query running on top of a normalized database.

That's not to say that Tibco or these new cloud-centric tools aren't impressive and useful, but I haven't seen any of these tools that I would ever recommend for anything other than the absolute simplest glue code service. Additionally, I probably replace that service with something boring as soon as it gives me any backtalk at all.
There's no good evidence that Dvorak is better for either speed or RSI.
Plants clover instead of grass and you can still use your yard perfectly fine
All 22 Studio Ghibli Movies
Only reason I mow is because it reduces the chance of the neighbors cat shitting in my yard. Otherwise I would have a beautiful Meadow.
It seems to me there must be some kind of error in color calibration of most cameras. They make shadows much darker than they are, and bright areas much brighter than they are. It's not from a lack of dynamic range.
Counterpoint: I know someone who has a 1000+ friends and they've always maintained contact with basically EVERYONE. I always took note of this because I am very selective, but I honestly see her interacting with hundreds of people daily on social media, so I know she probably literally does have 1000+ people who would consider her a friend. I also know people who went to schools in Los Angeles and have literally hundreds of friends, but again not all super close. I think your friend network is more of a function of how many people you are introduced to and in close proximity with and how outgoing you are.
The holocaust wasn’t an ethnic cleansing it was a genocide.

“Ethnic Cleansing” is when you force the ethnic Germans out of Kaliningrad (née Königsberg) and replace them with ethnic Russians. Genocide is when you round up the undesirables and systematically murder them.

My sincere advice is go learn a thing or two before commenting on topics like this again.
I clicked through to the list of projects written in the language & was immediately taken back to 25 years ago, having an internet-facing public_html directory sitting at ~username on a web server. :)
Please no more ads. We're building such an inhuman ad-centric hellscape. The madness has to stop.
Often times it is required by law or HOA. For example the FL fire code has a mandate that buildings be set back from the road a certain (insane) distance, ostensibly for fire safety reasons, and then people don’t really want to see huge dirt fields everywhere, so the HOAs require lawns.
Getting Started with SQRL
No doubt part of problem but it looks more organized to me. There has to be a lot of money involved. Organized wasteful behaviours are often about money, since nothing else would make sense.
What he probably likes is the tingling sensation on his tongue. Hard to mimic.