skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Average Americans most definitely benefited from US military shenanigans but that kinda besides the point here I think. The main point is that "just overthrow your government, bro" is not a thing people can go out and just do and these comments make it seem that they're negligent if they don't start doing it right now. "Just do it, bro. It's so easy"
But fewer of them. Shrinking demand is good.
Negative tests are still tests!
Nvidia Should Acquire SUSE
just like sometimes we prefer to reason on limits rather than on concrete values, I believe some straw mans are "useful limits" to reason about some concepts
Naturalised citizens in the USA can donate too, can't they?

The point is these guys have visas, residency etc., they aren't a criminal class, in the UK.

It's funny how until the Ukraine crisis, every time I mentioned how serious a problem this was, people told me I was exaggerating. Even in the first week of the war, that happened here on HN.

The London Laundromat is a significant corrosive influence.
Correct. But the point was that if you're getting financing from an institution, there is no such thing as secured, before they evalute the house and the offer.
> It would significantly expand taxes

How exactly? Do you have any examples? Also, have you ever seen the price of car infrastructure? I would be willing to bet that denser walkable urban infrastructure projects are waaaaay cheaper than building and maintaining sprawling road, sewage, and power transmission networks. Sprawl is seriously draining the finances of many small cities and towns in the US. There's a whole book about it: https://www.google.com/search?q=strong+towns

You could also just watch this smug video https://youtu.be/7IsMeKl-Sv0
If you honestly believe being a landlord is such a slam dunk you should take out a mortgage, buy a property somewhere in United States (there are places as cheap as $50K) and rake in the cash.

There are landlords who absolutely take care of all of the maintenance - and of course there are landlords who are absentee landlords as well.

To say a landlord inherently doesn't do anything is the most ridiculous thing I've read today. Thanks for the laugh. As for your situation, stop doing work the landlord should be doing.
I had trouble switching to DuckDuck Go search previously.

It changed when I installed DucDuckGo browser on my phone. It has really good internet decrapifying features and it uses ddg search by default and so far I didn't have a single reason to change that default.

I hope ddg will relese similar browser for desktop. Maybe I'll be able to switch to it then.
The baby stroller's a classic - the number of people I know who've suddenly gained an appreciation for the ADA after having kids...
idk if you know this but kagi has a "discussion" filter (among other filters)
There probably were relatively few people who responded with those exact figures.

My guess is someone who said 30% of the country lived in CA is unlikely to say 30% of the country lives in Texas. Probably there are outliers for each far above 30% that average out in each category. Would love to see a deeper analysis on how the responses break down across questions.
'Putin hails Crimea Annexation and War with lessons on heroism' : BBC-News - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60793319

> At the Stadium - By Will Vernon, BBC News Moscow

I spoke to dozens of people queueing to enter the venue for the pro-Kremlin rally.

Many told the BBC they worked in the public sector, and that they had been pressured into attending by their employers.

One man who works in the Moscow metro, told us that he and other employees had been forced to attend the rally.

"I'll be here for a while and then I'll leave… I think most people here don't support the war. I don't," he said.
Tufte's article probably answers your question better than a once sentence answer here can.
Here, google didn't approache freedom of speech. They merely restricted the services of their product in a particular area
I treasure my copies of all of Alexander's books, but most especially A Pattern Language. It's beautifully printed and bound and it's a joy to come back to again and again. I'm not an architect or urban planner; it's just that the ideas are so compelling and beautiful.
I think it's pretty rich to link to that poem given the context. It's a poem about the rise of authoritarianism, a poem Putin could have mistaken for a blueprint rather than a warning. Today as people speak out in Russia they are arrested, and that insulates Putin to believe he has the power and right to invade foreign countries. To use this poem as an argument against measures taken to nonviolently stem the tide of authoritarianism is particularly perverse, especially when what we're talking about here is no more abhorrent than seizing luxury assets like yachts and apartments from billionaires.
Maybe you mean visionaries started those projects. Did any remain relevant without significant user and designer input?

Standing up an idea well enough to change how people see a need is an incredible accomplishment but it's entirely different from single-handedly knowing how to make it work best for people who use it. Or for anybody other than you, really.

But underestimating the importance of, or even disdain for deliberate usability work is pervasive in FOSS. Most developers see interfaces as a place to expose the user-facing functionality so people can interact with your software. To a user, the interface is the software. In their estimation, bad interface=bad software.

When projects ignore that, they end up making Gimp.

You'll have a hard time selecting a sample of serious photo editors where fewer than 80% have tried Gimp— yet maybe %5 use it. Fewer will have heard of the younger commercial Affinity, but more will use it. (edit: obviously pulling those numbers out of my ass but I've been editing photos on computers since the early 90s and do so professionally to this day.)

However, in the adjacent and oft-overlapping world of vector art, the FOSS project Inkscape is very, very popular— even among professionals. They aren't hostile to usability changes, actively seek outside interface design perspectives and have a usable application because of it.

Inkscape does more good for a broad swath of vector artists because of their good design habits. Gimp has a product enjoyed by open source enthusiasts with light photo editing needs.

Free + great enough to generate word of mouth will trump expensive + great + advertising in almost every case.
There is an impedance mismatch between the Indian yogic tradition and the West's ability to assimilate it. Theirs is a world onto itself and for us to get something out of it takes willpower. How this might ultimately manifest itself in the West could be demonstrated by e.g. the proposition of neuroenchantment.
In addition to taking out their predators, we have also fragmented ecosystems.

Certain species like deer thrive in the boundaries between two different ecosystem types because they get different resources from both ecosystems.

Humans do not only reduce forest size, but also change the geometry of forests: fragmentation makes the edges more pronounced (increases the perimeter:area ratio)

This harms some animals like large solitary predators who require vast ranges, but helps other species like deer who prefer the edges.
Almost everyone's sympathies are with Ukraine now, and Russia under its current regime is rightly being sanctioned by measures that are intended to hurt. Sanctions that aren't felt are meaningless.

When it comes to open source licensing, though, the problem with these kinds of exceptions tends to be that there are a lot of causes that would, at one time or another or from one perspective or another, seem to warrant similar exceptions.

There are other wars going on, with more or less clear aggressors. Should we build a list, somewhat akin to the U.S. export restrictions, that forbade using the software by the aggressive states? How would we make sure that the lists aren't influenced by political leanings or cultural preconceptions? (Hint: you can't.)

It would be objectively easy to argue that people who eat meat should be sanctioned to give them a "clear signal" that they shouldn't. It would be emotionally easy to argue that perhaps we should exclude people who violate human rights from using our software -- although what exactly constitutes such a violation would be pretty hard to delineate. In a different culture, objectively or not, entirely different acts might be considered morally contemptible or even unforgivable.

Allowing exceptions to open source terms based on individual reasons would lead to a jungle of rules that would end up ruining open source, even if each exception by itself can be easy to argue for. You could no longer build a Linux distribution or any kind of a large collection of software, or even an open source application that relied on lots of open source libraries for its functionality.

That is, unless you decided not to include any software that had licenses with any such exceptions. That's exactly what drawing the line for the meaning of "open source" is. If you only take one of those exceptions and not the others, that's no longer an objective choice, and others are going to have different exceptions; if you take them all, you create an untenable mess, or at least a walled garden with really tight walls.

At any given time it may feel like this is the one exception we should make, and it feels right at that moment. It just can't be done with any consistency without massive collateral damage in the big picture.

By all means, let's cause trouble to Russia (under its current regime) as long as it restricts their ability to wage war. Let's do that even if it costs us. But let's not do it in such a way that it creates a massive moral or legal conundrum in the long run. Even if it feels right at the moment.

- Another European, living less than 200 km from Russia
Why not? Putin has a profile with ordinary Russian people, too -- and yet he has someone murdered, defenestrated, poisoned, discredited, ruined, or jailed without reason literally every single day.

Why would he think he should act differently abroad? Remember: he's a psychopath.

--

Edit: a flagged comment replying to this called this hysterical hyperbole because I used the words "literally" and "psychopath".

In the latter case I understand this to be the assessment of more or less every foreign intelligence service on earth. The flagged comment suggested "sociopath" is better; I do not see evidence of Putin's ability to feel remorse or of his conscience generally. Also, psychopaths are not unusual; up to 3% of the human population could be psychopaths, and the point was not to stress his personal violence, but his remorseless consistency.

In the former case: OK, let's go with "very nearly literally" -- there may be some days where Putin's regime, if not Putin quite directly, does not have someone at least jailed, threatened or ruined for opposing him, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say there are very few days like this. He runs a regime that threatens every single citizen who opposes him, and he could stop it if he chose. He chooses not to.
Salisbury cathedral houses the Magna Carta, and that is why tourists go there. Literally nobody cares about the height of its spire.

The “tallest church” explanation is kind of like of someone saying they buy playboy magazine for the articles. It’s transparently false to the point of absurdity.
> Citizens United wanted to release and promote an independent, short, anti-Hillary Clinton documentary film, and the decision was that this was protected free speech.

This is what Citizens United wanted, but it's not the outcome of the Supreme Court case.

The outcome of the case was the gutting of BCRA 2002[1], which previously prevented unlimited corporate and union spending in political campaigns. The rest (anonymized funding, "super" PACs) are logical consequences of the overturning of that law and American corporate structure.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipartisan_Campaign_Reform_Act
I guess I think you're underestimating the scale of the problem of independently living in space? In theory we already know how to just live in space -- people live on the ISS, and before that on Mir, for decently long amounts of time.

But if we kill earth before we've fully worked out how to terraform somewhere for permanent living without restocking from a living planet, of which we know of only one for sure, that might extend human living for like.. 50 years or something but certainly not a million.

I think we're realistically a long long long way away from that, and most of the ways in which we might "kill the earth" will have a negative impact on our ability to achieve it to begin with.

And again, the odds of a planet-killing asteroid hitting the earth haven't changed materially in probably like a few million years. We're no less vulnerable to that than we were 20k years ago. So I don't see why you think we're less vulnerable now just because we've managed to throw some tin cans in orbit.
Sounds like you should look for a new job that has more of what you like to do. However so much of reliable software product development is confligs, logging, documentation, unit tests...
Russia Is a Potemkin Superpower
Yeah it's not suddenly going to make hosting more affordable sadly. It would be great if investors would be banned from the housing market though. Houses should be bought to live in, not as investments. It used to be like that but due to this practice it's almost impossible for our generation to buy a house now :(
and your point? he literally said doesn't care if other people want to be on site.
I've heard from other people who run engines (Right Dao, Gigablast) that this is a major problem; Common Crawl does look helpful, but it's not continuously updated. FWIW, Right Dao uses Wikipedia as a starting point for crawling. Kiwix makes pre-indexed dumps of Wikipedia, StackExchange, and other sites available.

Some sort of partnership between crawlers could go a long way. Have you considered contributing content back towards the Common Crawl?
I do the same, it is fantastic. I have my work laptop, personal laptop and desktop using a nearly identical configuration (a tiny bit of extra software for work) and it is really a breeze. It felt amazing to install the new work laptop in well under and hour and having everything just work. No more slowly realizing that X hasn't been set up and Y hasn't been installed for the next month or two.

I documented my steps to install a new machine publicly if anyone is interested. It isn't fully automated but a fairly small number of steps to get everything set up. https://kevincox.ca/2021/05/06/workstation-install-with-nixo...
Yeah that's totally true. They often get huge equity packages so they behave more like the owners and less like employees. I think this underscores the situational incentive differences between owners and normal employees. As a rank-and-file employee, if I put in 2x to work, I don't see to the profit. That extra profit or efficiency goes to the major equity holders and owners.
'ip a' works too
Good. Human spaceflight is mostly symbolic anyway, and there are plenty other launch vehicles for the satellites that do the actual science.
> There are no emotions involved here

Of course there are. This is typical.

> I consider the MPEG family as objectively better on the technical merit of GPU/VPU hardware decoding being available everywhere

Then there will never be any codec development. It's a silly position to take.
Putin’s paranoid-world as he purges Aides and explodes at Staff
as far as I know, there's nothing wrong with creating 1,000,000 corporations and having each donate $1,000 for each election.

But it's easier to create a super pac, accept unlimited money, and then pay out in whatever way is effective.
Property in (certain parts of) london is just an asset class.
This has a what seems to be a positive effect in my life though. I use the library much more than I used to. Instead of finding blogs using Google like the first part of my career, I find books at the local library.
Hey, OP here. You're completely right.

This is what Kelsey Hightower is hinting at when he says Kubernetes is a platform for building distributed systems.

What enables that is the declarative/autonomic nature.

Declarative/autonomic systems aren't a fit for everything (e.g. for observability and monitoring the edge changes absolutely matter) but they're certainly a good fit for many things.

IMO there are a lot of parallels with functional programming.

In any event, strongly agree with everything you wrote. It's a good topic for another blog post!
Dubai is currently the go-to destination of shady money. It’s the next Monaco/Swizerland. The local rulers have de facto control over government, jurisdictional and businesses. Any money is welcome as long as the right parties get their share - the rule of the law does not apply as long as you hire the right lawyer and advisors. It’s still the US ally in Middle East and so far, Dubai/UAE has had a blind eye on their lax money-laundering practice.

Here is a good article from The Economist on the situation. I apologise for the low quality of photo of the page.

https://twitter.com/moo9000/status/1504425086073413639
Even if this is coming from a good place, this ain't it.
Because there is effectively no alternative. Bing and engines that are different frontends for Bing results aren't alternatives, don't kid yourself; it only exists still because Microsoft is another company like Google that shoves their subpar product onto people (by making it the default search on their subpar OS that took over the world) and hopes they never seek out alternatives. Most people are too dumb and lazy to seek out better alternatives, so they stick with the default search engines for Edge or Chrome. For everyone else, there is no real alternative, so while Google's search results are getting objectively worse, it doesn't matter because it's at least a lesser of two evils. They don't need to worry about becoming more mediocre when they've made sure to put themselves in a position where they basically have no competition.
You’re in a position now where people come to you. This won’t be true in the new company, don’t make this mistake.
I am well aware of that, but it's so ludicrous that it reflects badly on the publication. The presence of that picture shows that no one knowledgeable looked over the article before it was published. What else could have slipped by the editors?
How common do you think that is? There seem to be several videos, but perhaps there's a lot of CCTV on school buses.

I can't remember ever seeing pictures of a city bus (as opposed to a long distance bus) overturned in an accident in Europe. City bus-type vehicles are used for public bus service and school bus service ("school bus" is a usage, not a type of vehicle) but searching for things like "bus crash England" shows very, very few cases where a bus has overturned, even when it's come off the road and slid down a slope.

If [1] is anything to go by, the bus needs to hit a similarly heavy vehicle to overturn. Could the American school bus design be susceptible to climbing up/rolling over a car, then tipping, compared to the typical European low-floor lower-centre-of-gravity bus?

(No doubt there are other factors that influence the American school bus design.)

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/dec/16/bus-toppled-colli...
An inertial frame is a frame which respects Newton's first law: an object moves with constant velocity iff it experiences zero net force.

We can say the sun is at rest. Here the satellite accelerates towards the sun; we say that is due to a force called gravity. This is nice and simple.

We can instead say the satellite is at rest. In this frame there is no net force on the satellite. But now the sun accelerates, as do the distant stars; why? And how to explain second-order gravitational effects like tides? It's awkward to work in and leads to bad intuition.

To extend it to your freefall elevator example: everything inside the elevator obeys Newton's First Law so we are justified in treating it as inertial. Extend the frame to the surface of the earth and we have a problem: we either have to explain what force causes the earth to accelerate towards the elevator, or admit we have a non-inertial frame. Simplest to just say the earth is at rest and the elevator is accelerating due to gravity.

However centrifugal force is not all bad, it has a really cool interpretation which yields a powerful insight. Consider a satellite in an elliptical orbit. As it reduces its radial distance to the sun, it must pump energy into its tangential velocity, to conserve angular momentum. So its tangential kinetic energy is a function of its position. Hey, that sounds like a potential!

You can just add this "tangential kinetic potential" to the gravitational potential, yielding a bathtub shaped "effective potential." Now we're in 1D, since we're identifying angular effects with gravity. When the radial distance is large, the satellite will accelerate towards the sun (radial velocity decreasing), as it falls down the gravitational potential well. Eventually it begins to climb the "tangential kinetic potential" hill, and starts accelerating away from the sun (radial velocity increasing). In this 1D world, the sun is attractive at long range and repulsive at short range; the turning points are the apahelion and perihelion of the orbit.

What's so cool about this is that we've reduced a 2D kinematics problem to a 1D problem (radial distance varying over time) by absorbing the tangential kinetic energy into the gravitational potential energy. This connects planetary orbits to more familiar problems like the 1D harmonic oscillator. The cost of doing so was the appearance of this "tangential kinetic potential;" the derivative of a potential is a force and that's centrifugal force.
With Mac OS you explicitly open the file, do a write, and close it.

You don't declaratively specify your intent that it should have certain contents.
To be clear, I was responding to a comment which specifically said:

>" This would be legal in the United States as well. They would just first form a corporation and then donate it from there."

These statements were factually incorrect. You are making different claims.
I'd like companies to break apart teams then build new teams based on who wants to work remote and who wants to be in the office.
Just when the patent trolls were starting to be contained, yet another fine way our government makes sure to get more lawyers wealthy.
Mike DelPrete has done several:

- https://www.mikedp.com/articles/2021/12/16/opendoor-vs-zillo...

- https://www.mikedp.com/articles/2021/11/3/zillow-exits-ibuyi...
What stopped them is that the entire rational for Zillow's approach is that human appraisal isn't needed. An algorithm, they think, should be able to do a good enough job. Any individual person who, when presented with this scenario, thought they should have brought in a human to look at the house does has been selected out of working for Zillow.
And now you moved your "thread model" to a repo controlled by hundreds of random contributors around the world using exotics languages as Jinja?