skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A huge problem with western democracy is that even if the leader is replaced the political party remains. This breeds corruption and entitlement ("we are the only proper ruling party!")

A few examples of political parties over a hundred years old

US

Democratic 1828
Republican 1854

Fought each other in the civil war, still at war.

Sweden

Socialdemokraterna 1889
Moderaterna 1904
Centerpartiet 1913
Vänsterpartiet 1917

And of course the two big ruling parties in Sweden are Socialdemokraterna and Moderaterna, the oldest ones. Centerpartiet used to be a ruling party.

Denmark

Venstre 1870
Socialdemokraterne 1871
Radikale Venstre 1905
Det Konservative Folkeparti 1915

Guess which are the two ruling parties?

Norway

Høyre 1884
Venstre 1884
Arbeiderpartiet 1887
Senterpartiet 1920

Norwegians correct me, my understanding is that Venstre used to be part of the ruling parties up until the war and then after that faded. Høyre and Arbeiderpartiet are still.

UK

Conservative 1834
Labour 1900

The two ruling parties obviously.

Interesting is that France is somewhat the exception where younger political parties are quite common.
> Provigil solves the sleep issue.

Drug your employees so they appear to be working the desired hours. I can see ethical problems with that idea. The employer should at least be dispensing the drugs for free as a "benefit".
The Reith Lectures in 2019 were titled: Law and the Decline of Politics [1].

Obviously, only one viewpoint but quite interesting.

[1]: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00057m9/episodes/player
But OP is not blaming inclusivity or social issues for the state of the OS. They're simply questioning why inclusivity seems to get more space than e.g. efforts to try and bring more maintainers to Debian, or make the tooling and processes involved easier and less clunky.
same thing with the Floating Action Button, i think they are the worst
Particle detectors probably?
What does "HAND" mean here?
> 40 kilocyles

First time I hear that term. It hurts to hear it...
> ~ Claude Shannon

I misattributed that quote. It's from a conversation between Shannon and Von Neumann; Shannon attributed the quote to Von Neumann.

I thought of calling it "information", but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it "uncertainty". [...] Von Neumann told me, "You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, nobody knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy#Entropy_of_a_system

Sorry.
We feel like the most important part required from a low latency DB, Redis "Vanilla" and Redis Enterprise already cover.
Now, we can leverage this amazing platform to provide a real low latency multi model DB on top of it.
mShots
US has dedicated planes for the sole purpose of mobile investigations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_WC-135_Constant_Phoen...
I've been looking at their other services but for now I'm happy using NextCloud, which provides more than just calendar and file storage. I also have phone tracking (so I can send my real time location to my relatives when driving and visualize the places I've been) and an RSS aggregator. Additionally, I'm not locking myself into another service provider. I'm still open to the idea of moving to another e-mail provider some day even though I'm happy with ProtonMail's service so far.
It’s Scary How Dominant Apple Has Become. But How Scary?
Tesla FSD isn’t what we’re talking about here, that’s a level 2 system. Robotaxis would have to be level 5, or at least level 4.
Makes me almost wonder what management is actually good for, besides a high level filtering system...

I like continous pair programming, but not because I actually continuously pair - if someone wants to watch me work, or is too green to go it alone quite yet, its fine. But usually we only pair when it makes sense to, i.e. we are at the beginning of something and figuring out what to split up.

If management tried to force real continuous pairing down everyone's throat all the time....yeah no. That management should be fired, they don't understand how people work.
Modern society does a pretty good job of that already. How many prescriptions for antidepressants do we issue in the western world? tl;dr, I consider them lower risk than horse riding, or working in a startup.
It is much cheaper to make a prototype than making something at scale (although publishing the circuit diagrams and so forth might have been interesting. The biggest problem in this would be having a battery that would power a Roomba to do vacuuming without looking for an outlet every five minutes. Roombas also have edge detection so it doesn't fall down the stairs. But, all of the mother of all demo's technology took forty years to implement also.
KTool[0] is fairly new so I can't claim it "outperform" Amazon's solution. However if you read the recent reviews from their Chrome Extension page[1], the majority of complaints was that the article never arrived.

I just tried sending this article[2] and 10 minutes later it still hasn't delivered yet. This article contains a lot of images, so I understand it's not going to be quick, but with KTool, it does deliver within 2 minutes.

But that is not the only reason why I build KTool. I don't want the articles to include links when reading on my Kindle because it's bad UX (easy to mis-tap), distracting and reduce comprehension (see here[3] and here[4]). Instead, I push all these links to the bottom of the article, which make it still accessible yet improve the reading experience.

[0]: https://ktool.io

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/send-to-kindle-for...

[2]: https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html

[3]: https://www.wired.com/2010/05/ff-nicholas-carr/

[4]: https://www.roughtype.com/?p=1378
They might, but they don't have many dutch people working for them, and they certainly can't handle dutch directness.
It is a flaw exactly because, while Ariane 4 should not produce such an acceleration, if it ever did, momentarily and otherwise non-destructively, the spurious trap code would have automatically destroyed the vehicle by dumping garbage to the gimbal.

The Ariane 5 disaster was implicit in the design. Without that built-in flaw, the Ariane 4 inertial platform would have worked correctly as-was, and the first Ariane 5 would have delivered its $half-billion payload successfully, instead of obliterating it.

There is no circumstance where dumping debug tracebacks down a control channel not prepared for that is ever correct. Period. Anyone suggesting otherwise is displaying their blinders.
I didn’t get that from this at all. His complaint seemed to be when the organization wouldn’t address a problem, period.

In his shoes, I’d be thrilled if the response was “you’re right, we’re going to coach this other person to improve, because they’re valuable in a lot of ways, but need improvement there so we can succeed.”
Chrome Tab Maker
Are you talking about type assertions? It's right there in the Go Tour. But that's a different thing than a type conversion.
Space Conference Censors Name of First Human in Space Because He Was Russian
Passing the individual tests is only part of passing the complete test. Animations must be smooth and everything must be rendered pixel perfect to the sample image. All Chromium based browsers, I tried Chrome Chromium, Edge and Vivaldi appear to fail the test even if they get a 100/100 score. They all display a thin red line near the upper right of the white box. This line doesn't appear on the sample image.
Why is Britain so in thrall to the wrecking ball?
Most of the time i feel i watch and learn new things, try to work with them, fail on some point, cause the new shiny things are not so shiny and easy as it seems. "The devil is in the details".

Read article about how great these tools and libs are, how "easy", how they save so much time. Thinking about what i am doing wrong. Illusion. Self-deception.

Try 1000 other libs and tools and frameworks and and and, repeat in an endless loop.

My real productiv code is absolutly tiny compared to the huge amount of work i have and how much a permanently learn and educate myself.
Have a nice day.

One cannot bemoan hyper-partisanship and take a swipe at a specific figure in the same sentence and expect to be taken seriously.
Was this written by a machine?
I do not, though memorization comes naturally through repetition.

There are too many dsl SDK frameworks out there to memorize.

A good editor with autocompletion and help goes a long way to do the memorization for you.
While there's some truth here, you're underestimating the amount of great open source software that's easy to use. You just don't think of it, and it's likely heavily used by commercial companies.

Also, terrible obtuse quirks are certainly not unique to FOSS products. Go ask someone who deals with, I don't know, the software used to run hospitals and healthcare systems (electronic health records, or EHR's) as but one example.
There's no way to know for sure because these are all secret charges (Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said she would not give "specifics of whose accounts are being frozen." -- https://www.newsweek.com/banks-have-begun-freezing-accounts-... ).

But there are some example of people who have come forth: https://www.visiontimes.com/2022/02/21/canadians-frozen-bank...
I don't think it's any more under the radar than Redox or Tock listed in the article.
MCP (as in the Burroughs OS) stood for Master Control Program. The villain in Tron was named for the OS. The technical consultant for Tron was none other than Alan Kay — himself a huge Burroughs fan.
I think the GP is from Australia, where a lot of that stuff is handled by government departments and labour laws. We have lots of labour protection laws that as an employee you can action through the Ombudsman, a federal department. The "401k" is called super anuation and is handled as a standardized legal requirement by the federal government, which simplifies it a lot. Because the ombudsman has teeth, they are pretty good at compelling businesses to comply with labour laws. Health care and so on are also all handled by the government or privately by the individual, rather than being tied to your company.
> Authoritarian governments can push their agenda without distraction, while most politicians in democracies are fighting a popularity contest.

Correct. But i personally would argue if we had actual democracies in the global north, such dictatorships could not last. If we had power to the people, and everyone was housed, fed and healthcared (as we claim in our neocolonial propaganda), the West would appear like a suitable model for many people around the planet and everyone would rise for freedom. The truth is many people living under those dictatorships despise the USA and France (and others) for what they truly are: neocolonial oligarchies abusing people and destroying the environment. There is no freedom or equality here, we just have a different brand of authoritarianism than they do.
The person you are responding to is specifically talking about looking for exploits that are hidden behind compiler bugs or obfuscated by language features. So you're missing the point, I guess.
Same for C++, I find the C&A (clothing retailer in the Netherlands) recommended
https://spring.io/blog/2022/03/31/spring-framework-rce-early...

"[11:59 BST] Spring Framework versions 5.3.18 and 5.2.20, which address the vulnerability, are now available on Maven Central. The release process for Spring Boot is in progress, but applications can already upgrade their Spring Framework version independently in order to be protected."
Why even be sorry
For e-mail, definitely check out https://mailbox.org. I've been a happy user of their service for more than a year now. Clean, secure, and effective. I'm not associated with them, but here is a decent review of it[1].

If you're comfortable with email clients, you can even use mailbox.org as a dumb mail-drop location and fetch everything locally via tools such as `mbsync`. Then you can use a mail client your choice (Thunderbird, Mutt, etc) to read/respond.

[1] https://proprivacy.com/email/review/mailboxorg
The Tardis Monad
Makes me wonder if there is a crowdsourced third party that offers actual status of systems that is reasonably reliable. Companies have proven time and time again that these pages are essentially worthless because they want to maintain all of their 9’s.
> Gabuev added, Putin never had to do what a normal leader in a democracy would: go to his national-security establishment and say, “‘Hey guys, I want to invade Ukraine, so let’s start thinking through the scenarios and debate the economic costs.’

Didn't we do exactly that with the Iraq War? In particular, Colin Powell's notorious UN speech that contradicted the State Department's INR reports on Iraq's weapons capabilities [1].

As others have stated, the problem is deviance from Constitutional checks-and-balances. The Executive branch is far too powerful, wantonly exercising judicial and legislative powers.

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/18/colin-powell...
Ask HN: Mac OS app that can be opened from anywhere
Hello!

Some apps like Numi (https://numi.app/) can be opened from anywhere on Mac OS (including while having another app in fullscreen mode).
Do you know other apps that functionnality? More precisely, I'm looking for an app that would allow me to write text in Markdown just as quickly as Numi.
> I chose to not do what they asked.

I'm shocked this manager didn't have you fired. I would never tolerate someone doing what they want instead of what I instructed them to do. When the leader says follow, you don't choose a different path, even if the leader is wrong. Eventually, if they genuinely are incorrect, they'll be dismissed due to poor decisions and performance.

I tell you this as an older person because you won't be able to push out everyone. You'll make this mistake with someone, somewhere, in another company, and they'll fuck you six ways from Sunday for it. I had to learn this lesson the hard way. I lost one of most enjoyable jobs I ever had by doing not only what I wanted to do, but what I knew was correct. I was even proven correct, but I ignored my boss and in doing so sealed my fate.

You're definitely correct to have put "won" in quotes, because what actually happened was you got lucky.
Tips for Creating a Component Library
Yeah, in this case was a single manager abusing his power, who doubled down whenever we aired our grievances, to the point of forbidding talking about it. The CEO however was more sympathetic to our pleas.

The 8h shift looking at a shared screen was absolute terror. No privacy, a lot of machismo with people claiming "I don't need to look at the documentation", terrible productivity when pairing with certain employees that didn't really took the work seriously.

Mandatory pairing simply doesn't work, period. It's like they say about therapy, wanting to do it is a pre-requisite for it working...
When democracy regresses to essentially a 2-party system, then accountability is pretty limited. Essentially an omerta is established between the two main parties. Then, the ruling party knows that they can rule however they want, and they're pretty much guaranteed to bounce back in power eventually.

That could be even worse than the accountability of a strongman/autocratic leader. An autocrat may be harder to dispose of, but at least you know they're not very likely to bounce back.
> Apple-made hard- and software.

Not sure why are a singling out Apple here. Windows is worse as are many (most?) hardware vendors; there is a reason everyone REALLY should fresh install vanilla Windows over the vendors OEM version.
Do you have any evidence this is what’s happening?

Why should I trust your declarations?
But a prime minister is not remotely as powerful as a president. A prime minister has no independent power as he was not elected by the people but by the party or coalition he/she leads. That party/coalition can in principle remove the prime minister any time they want. You cannot remove a president. Look at the attempts at removal of Trump. It requires an impeachment which proved near impossible.

A vote of no-confidence is contrast is a very simple procedure.
> The privacy implications of this are dubious.

Really? Apple can essentially be asked by Law Enforcement for answers to questions like "Give me all the IMEIs of people in location X, radius 10 miles, that appear to have pictures of cats"
Java already compiles to bytecode, which executes on the JVM. But this is too slow for most practical applications. JIT compilation to native code is crucial for execution of Java programs with competitive speed.

It would be possible to compile everything to machine code ahead of time (pretty much what GraalVM does), but that would compile everything even if it would never end up being executed*. Without JIT compiler, it would not be possible to recompile code to take advantage of tracing information gathered at runtime. Also, newly loaded Java code would not be able to be optimized at all.

There are workarounds for all of these. For example, the JIT compiler could generate a new executable with the optimized code and migrate execution state to a new process. But it seems very clunky.

*: Not really an issue with microservices and stripped-down binaries. A huge deal for IDEs and environments with plugin architecture though.
Can't recall a particular one at the moment but pretty obvious searches return results that aren't really relevant enough, maybe I just need to change my query language though, but exact matches really should just work
Debugging C is usually done in assembly so I guess they know.
> I'm not exactly sure why Debian supports alternatives

Debian has hurd and freebsd ports for which systemd is not available.
Interesting! I was not aware that this was so common.
Same with R
I really think you should stop buying Apple products, you are clearly really upset about it.
> Run it yourself!

I get where you're coming from. But, most people just simply don't have the appetite to run their own mail. What we need are: paid services that are reasonably reliable, secure, respect your privacy, and provide human-based customer support.

PS: I myself use Hetzner (for non-email stuff), and a hosted NextCloud service - both are great :)
It's not that racism disappeared, it's more that from European point of view, skin colour is like "Baby's first racism". We have long history on hating on much more detailed differences that appear to have disappeared from public perception in USA due to its special relationship with slavery and effective apartheid.

So ultimately hating by skin colour is both more recognised and bad, and has less targets, so we keep our "good old" prejudices that go into sometimes minor things and occasionally get hilarious when people interact all nice because they aren't aware of the other person being from hated group
https://web.archive.org/web/20210903214920/https://www.apple...

(linked from the above-linked wikipedia article as citation for the clientside scanning feature documentation on wikipedia)

https://web.archive.org/web/20210903214920/https://www.apple...

Apple said they were doing it.

Apple never subsequently said they were not doing it. (They did say some things that implied that they MIGHT not do it, designed to make you stop being mad at them ("Based on feedback from customers, advocacy groups, researchers, and others, we have decided to take additional time over the coming months to collect input and make improvements before releasing these critically important child safety features.").)

They did, however, reiterate that this was going to be released.

What more evidence do you want than the vendor's direct affirmative statements?

When people plainly tell you who they are: believe them.
> The fundamental issue is himan nature. Power, Money, Pleasure are the drivers of human behaviour when it comes to administration.

I strongly disagree with this assessment, despite agreeing with your analysis of what's wrong in the current system. Power and money are products of a specific culture and not natural traits. Some human communities have existed without either, and some exist to this day.

We need a strong cultural shift to abolish power and money in order to build a more fair society.
I love this book and also the fantastic TiKHAL.

Anyone interested to know more is strongly advised to watch the documentary Dirty Pictures [0] so-called for Sasha's structural formulas of compounds.

[0] https://imdb.com/title/tt1592855/
I'm skeptical that a PCB is less strong than a breadboard. Have you tested this? If you use an SMT button you can always add a reinforcing layer of plastic under the PCB. If anything, surely it would be more comfortable to sit on a low profile button? Or some kind of strain sensor pad.
> Even people who donated to the truckers before the crackdown got targeted in the bank account freezes.

[citation needed]

The Emergencies Act,[1] explicitly written to be compatible with the Charter, does not allow for retroactive actions [2]. There was a lot of initial confusion, and so whatever story you may have heard (and is stuck in your head), you may wish to go back and double-check to see if there were any corrections.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergencies_Act

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law#Canada
Corruption Has Shaped History. Why Do We Still Ignore It?
> But the PM in your country doesn't have unilateral authority to commit to military action, which is not the case in the big powers.

They actually do:

"Constitutional convention requires that the declaration of war or commitment of British armed forces is authorised by the Prime Minister on behalf of the Crown. Parliament has no official constitutional role in the process.[7] However, ministers are still accountable to Parliament for the actions they take.[8]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_parliamentary_approval_for_...

In practice they may not remain Prime Minister for long if they tried to use those powers in a manner that parliament wasn't happy with (unlike in the US, the UK prime minister can be deposed by parliament at any time), but in the first instance that power does lie with the PM.
Why ‘tiny forests’ are popping up in big cities
in austria we have https://devjobs.at/

the job postings are augmented with the dev-stacks (from servers, databases, languages, infra, thirdparties), the job headlines de-b#ll-ified using ML, and the users can apply fast via github / linked or direct via the jobposting on the companies website, every job posting has some salery range. it carved out it's niche in the austrian dev community.
Infrastructure for trains is unfortunately very expensive. It's easier to spread the costs over thousands of trucks than to muster the political will to spend a couple of billions for a rail track.
It was quite a roller coaster to move to alternative services, and also giving up on all social media. But after a while you get used to things and find handy alternatives (like MagicEarth for maps, this app is great!). It feels liberating and I'm more at peace knowing I'm in control of my data. I keep reading these anxiety inducing Google account terminations for years, they also motivated my move (in addition to the privacy benefits). Sure, this could happen to me to with the service providers I use, but at least they have human point of contacts and all my data is backed up and ready to move to another services.

I'm definitely up to share my experience and write a full article about this. Hopefully in the coming month when I find some time :-)
Se also: https://tech-blog.capital-match.com/posts/5-the-reverse-stat...
That's true. But Covid tracking in Germany is done by the Gesundheitsamt (health office), which is the government institution (like everything ending with -amt).