skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general it's far better society than in 1957, but selecting a single highly specific scenario from 1957 and comparing it to 2022 to draw conclusions about America at large is pretty ... selective reasoning. A better example would be the lack of white vs non-white drinking fountains.

But plenty of signals point to regressions also, including the resegregation of schools and neighborhoods, and the turning back of voting rights protections.
I am having difficulty correlating the click-baity title with the content of the article.

For example, the article says "death records are not categorised by occupation or place of work, it is likely many workers who have died were employed on these World Cup infrastructure projects" .... i.e. the article is making an inference ("it is likely") from data that does not exist.

The article also goes on to say "There have been 37 deaths among workers directly linked to construction of World Cup stadiums, of which 34 are classified as “non-work related” by the event’s organising committee." .... 37 is quite a long way off 6,500.

I'm not necessarily seeking to defend Qatar, I've got no dogs in that fight, so I will stay neutral on that particular commentary.

I'm just saying if you're going to be posting headlines like that, then there should really be some substance to it ... at the moment the linked article raises more questions than it answers.
U.S. stops Russian bond payments, raising risk of default
Have you thought about being a (local) politician? From a voter‘s perspective, this sounds like someone I would like to be my town’s mayor. You can grasp a large variety of things, you can meaningfully talk to experts in many fields and then bring their different ideas together in your policy.

Of course politics is a field with its own very special rules that may not have much to do with actual understanding of the subjects at hand. But I’m not talking POTUS or senator and maybe not even mayor. Even in smaller towns there are a couple of positions to fill. (I’m from Germany but this is true for many countries; maybe it’s true for yours. I’m presuming you’re from the US and I just noticed that I would rather not presume that, but I guess I do most of the time on HN.)
I'm not seeing them as sidenotes with a maximised browser window on either my landscape (2560x1440, no scaling, which I'd consider wide) or portrait (1080x1920 – though that being thin I'd not expect width sensitive things to be present there) screens. Just foot-notes and pop-overs when interacted with.
Yeah, I was going to say; any construction deaths are frontpage news here. 6500 for a country the size of a shoe is insane, directly related to the the worldcup or not.
You're perpetuating the mistake in the title.

As I understand the GP, the point is that during the construction of the any sporting facilities, some workers will have died but it won't have been directly related to the work they did.

In Qatar, that number is >6500. In the UK, we don't know the number.
> Each king wanted more, for sure, but not the peasants, who didn't have much nor expected to have much ever.

This is a projection. Revolts are as old as power and inequalities. For the most well-known/well-studied of those, see this wikipedia page:

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

(it's important to understand that most revolts are silently crushed and never documented, and that even for those that were documented in their time we did not necessarily keep good track of those documents over the centuries)
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It only works on Pixels as well.
Are Israel and Morocco in the EU?
Ask HN: Is anyone working on a true alternative to Windows?
I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that I'm truly fed up with windows. It feels like recently everything Microsoft has done with it has been a step backwards, from trying to force me to create a Microsoft account when I first log in, to trying to sell me One Drive at every turn, to just plain bad UI design & implementation.

That being said I don't want to buy a mac, I like having the power to control what hardware is in my PC. I like being able to choose between hundreds of different laptops to find the right price point to hardware power.

Is anyone working on a new premium operating system that could be a serious competitor to Windows?
It doesn't seem too difficult to support; what are the edge cases?

Who owns a file in a path that includes a 'well known symlink dir'?

So maintain a list of well known symlink dirs. When checking a file path against the database, the normalization step should check if the known symlink dir is any point of the path; if it is the redirect should be resolved to the well known target instead.

E.G. owns('/bin/bash') ... the path mutates to '/usr/bin/bash' because the location '/bin/' is already known to really be '/usr/bin/'.
He started Amazon's first union. He's now heard from workers at 50 warehouses
Writing Redux Reducers in Rust
Because you're requesting a resource from them, and they consider that resource to be deleted?
Democracy is pretty decent, but comes with some big flaws: tyranny of the minority

Did you invent this? Because it's freaking brilliant!
Actual title:

6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar since World Cup awarded

Not "constructing stadia in Qatar for the world cup".
Exactly. It is sad when people think that a moral high ground justifies being sloppy with the facts, not checking them, or just making things up by following stereotypes and clichés instead of researching their subject well.
But stadia is the plural of stadium. I don't understand.
Even 74 in Sochi sounds mind blowing.

I can't imagine that many people dying on an engineering project anywhere else in Europe, unless perhaps there was a major incident like a tunnel collapse. But that would be headline news around the world.
I agree - there is probably a story here, but the writer didn't do a very good job connecting the dots, correlation is not causation, lazy journalism at its worst.

How is this for a headline?

"5,333 US workers died in the 12 months following Qatar withdrawing from OPEC"

or

"5,333 US Workers died in the 12 months following Austria legalizing same sex marriage"

source:
https://www.onthisday.com/events/date/2019/january
https://www.osha.gov/data/commonstats
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> Second of all the human race does not have some over-arching goals we need to meet like a business. It is or should be like a club run for the benefit of the members: let's create good conditions for people. We can tolerate a bit of complexity and diversity.

Individuals and groups (including businesses) do have goals though, and it seems natural that some of them feel that they're being thwarted in their pursuit of those goals by expectations that they accommodate every little minority (including the one to which I belong). The backlash against legislation requiring accessibility, for example, is real, as seen in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30726471
Do you have any example queries? The only spam I normally see are the sites scraping Stack Overflow but they are never above the actual Stack Overflow page.
> Regarding the first part, I'm pretty sure that Steam had an offline mode from the start. Perhaps it required an initial connection to set up an account, though.

It did but it still had problems. You did indeed have to be online initially to "activate" the game but the main problem is whenever it detected there were updates available you were forced to wait for them to completely download before you could play. This led to me being very careful about when I would allow Steam to have internet access. If you weren't careful you could go online and then not be allowed to play HL2 until you spent hours downloading an update (which you couldn't always do until night time because of tying up the phone line). It was incredibly frustrating.
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I thought this had been debunked and that actually the death rate included all deaths of migrants for any reason (cancer, accidents at home etc). I also thought that the death rate was lower than if these migrants had stayed in their own countries. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33019838 is from 2015 but I thought I read something more recently.
I 100% agree with you.
I will keep Warp on my radar, but without proper tmux support it's no-go for me.

All my friends, which are using terminals, are also using tmux. It's still small sample, but probably we don't represent such a tiny minority here.
> Engineers with 5 YOE are making $500k+ a year at these companies because they are generating much more than that in revenues and profits for the companies.

AirBnb lost billions of dollars last year, and it has rarely made positive quarterly earnings. Based on your example, the engineers are highly overpaid as there efforts rarely generate a profit. They are being paid by funds from speculators (stockholders and venture capital) that are betting on huge profits in the future.

In reality, these engineers are being paid due to labor market forces and extremely focused recruiting policies (eg only hiring those with degrees from top engineering schools or poaching workers from other companies that have similar policies).
You understand, actually.
Nah, people staying home on polling day doesn't stop them from being part of the majority opinion. If an option gets 60% of the vote, and there are no shenanigans going on, then that option is almost certainly the choice of the majority.
These aren't construction deaths. Nor are they deaths related to the world cup. This number includes every migrant worker death in Qatar since the World Cup was awarded, there are over 2 million migrant workers in Qatar.
I do believe that fact-checking and identifying clickbait is important, but in this case I think you are nitpicking with no cause and adding no substance to the discussion.

The article mentions a sum of 6,751 deaths not including several countries (Philippines and Kenya), so "at least 6,500" is correct. The article also says "While death records are not categorised by occupation or place of work, it is likely many workers who have died were employed on these World Cup infrastructure projects", so the "constructing stadia for the World Cup", although a bit loosely, is also true.

I don't get what you were trying to open our eyes to with your comment. Even if only 1,000 workers were confirmed to be deaths directly related to building stadia it is just as horrible and needs to be known.
> rankly, it's really frustrating to watch them posture like this when pretty much every use-case that isn't content consumption or light content-creation is out the window.

They advertise a lot of real, specific use cases. And lots of people do actually use these devices to do work.

> Okay, what's the development experience like on it?

Oh you meant your use case.

> Any platform with this many "gotchas" probably doesn't qualify as a computer any more than a LeapPad or a feature phone does.

It’s 2022, literally toasters are internet connected. “Computer” is a pretty vague term already. Plenty of people can actually do their work on an iPad. I’d call it a computer, but I’m not tied to it. Who cares if it’s a “computer”? It does what most people need and I’m guessing you were never going to consider an apple product anyways.
The problem with taxes and capital and incorporation is that usually fixing it beforehand is easy while after you start to make money, you are perhaps too late. We went for London because not as litigious, light on paperwork, cheap to incorporate and there is a lot of money slushing around. Not America sized investments but close enough. And easy ramp to the US if you wish. Taxes are quite high once money starts poring in but it is startup and investor friendly pre money.
These aren't construction deaths. This number includes all causes of death for all 2+ million immigrant workers in Qatar.
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> Early on, according to Gouthro, a company lawyer told him that the previous head of security at the Gigafactory, Andrew Ceroni, had left after a bitter dispute. The lawyer said Ceroni had spied on a union meeting on Musk’s orders and then threatened to tell the world about it when he left the company.

Jesus, what a megalomaniac.
Reminds me of: https://www.h-farm.com/en which attempted that in the past.
That's a fair call regarding the title I used. I didn't intend it to be misleading - I was being sloppy as I found the number absolutely shocking. Perhaps something like "At least 6,500 construction deaths in Qatar since winning the bid to host the World Cup" would be fairer.
I don't understand, why all these applications don't adopt TeX layout algorithm, but better. TeX breaks paragraph to lines globally optimal, but breaks set of lines into pages locally optimal due to memory constrains of first implementation, as far as I understand.

Why there is no Visual Page Layout tool, which allows to layout empty boxes to page template visually and then "pour" stream of text to these boxes which will be break to lines & pages (boxes) with TeX algorithm? It looks like perfect combination of visual layout (which is much easier than TeX/LaTeX tools if you need magazine-style irregular layout) and TeX perfect typography.

I've tried Scribus when I was in charge of technical part of one samyzdat magazine, and it was good in layout and absolute nightmare in putting text in this layout. To be honest, it was something like 15 years ago. On the other hand, news on this site says about new text layout engine in branch 1.5 (year 2016!) and stable branch is still 1.4 (latest release in 2019). As far as I remember, I've tried version 1.3.x. Many-many years ago :-(
the difference for teens is caused by korea gaming laws, if i'm not wrong games have to limit the play time for 3 hours a day
Also (2021)
When I lived in Abu Dhabi, I’d often see migrant workers - mainly from Kerala - out tending to the roadside plants in ~50 celsius temperatures in the summer. That was pretty representative of their treatment on the whole. Disgusting disregard for human life.
My guess would be something related to financial / accounting / reporting, if it was a critical blocker for IPO.
I have also done both and I'm pretty certain higher maths is harder. Its not just motivation. Most people are frightened of leetcode style interviews, which require just an undergraduate level understanding of algorithms. There's plenty of motivation to learn it but most people can't. Higher maths or physics requires way more intellectual horsepower than that.
It's just a stereotype, come on!
Just in case anyone is wondering why we had (or used to have) /bin and /sbin directories as well as /usr/bin /usr/sbin here is my understanding of it.

It is because on old Unix systems there frequently wasn't enough space to store /usr on the root disk. Therefore /usr was a separate disk which might not be available during boot. This meant that you needed to put all the binaries you needed for boot in /bin and /sbin because /usr/bin and /usr/sbin might not be mounted yet.

This no longer makes sense in the days of large disks which fit /usr just fine and initrds which can mount all the disks before kicking off the things which might need those binaries. In fact I think the initrd has taken the place of /bin and /sbin on a modern system containing copies of all the binaries needed to mount the disks (like mount and fsck).
> If you want to use system fonts you should have a look at Lua(La)TeX (or Xe(La)TeX but I think focus shifted completely to the LuaTeX engine).

Luatex seems the more promising technology from the point of view of continued evolution of the Tex ecosystem, but there's been talk of Luatex being the successor to Pdftex for over ten years and it was held up by the fact that Luatex is not superconservative in the way it changes Tex layout and is less so than Xetex.

I've not really followed the discussion about succession to pdftex in Texlive in recent years, but it'd definitely be a change to their risk-averse ways if they did simply change 'latex' to mean 'lualatex'.
Bad the chemicals couldn’t be brought under appropriate emission limits… but oh dear is an 80% disappearance of market supply of an important feedstock going to hurt the already suffering supply chains of the semiconductor industry
What happens when the REST server accepts your POST to /api and starts processing it but then, before the response can be sent, the connection drops? This code would see an error from the POST to /api due to a connection failure / timeout, and the transaction rolls back.

Now you've got the /api invoked, but no DB write.
These are not construction deaths. The article does not claim that these were construction deaths. That's something you invented in your head.

This number represents all-cause mortality.
> For example, if I wanted to delete all empty files in a line, instead of remembering the exact incantation of sed to accomplish this, I could search "delete empty files".

(I'm assuming you meant "delete all empty lines in a file", since "delete all empty files in a line" doesn't make sense)

You don't need "the exact incantation of sed"; it can be done in 6 bytes: `grep .` if you know a bit of basic coreutils-fu. And if you want to do it with sed, which also allows you to do it in-place, it's not an "incantation" either. `sed -i /^$/d`. I didn't know that command ahead of time, I just worked it out using my problem solving skills and basic knowledge of sed. If you think it's an unintelligible incantation that you have to remember and can't reconstruct yourself, then you're not much of a developer.

Why would a developer want to search for "delete empty lines" in their terminal? If you don't know how to do it, you'd Google it and copy-paste from StackOverflow. If you do know how to do it, you'd just do it without needing to search for anything. It's not a complicated task.

And if it is a more complicated or at least a less general task, then a developer is gonna be able to write a program to do it.

Maybe your point is that someone else has already done that, but in which case, again, there's Google, or company documentation, or you can ask your colleague, or look in the `project/tools/` for the name of the script that does it already.

I just cannot see the purpose of this.
The danger is illusory. Natural gas is more actually dangerous - see periodic fires from using it to hear things. And the amount of nyckear waste produced in the whole world is so small is doesn’t even register on any kind of “future problem” scale
Similar rules exist in New York as well.

I'd expect they exist in most places in the US.
As a German having gone through the experience, I feel I am reasonably qualified to give a perspective:
The US setup is a breeze administratively, but fairly costly. You definitely need a tax accountant onshore ($3-5k per year at least, more if the setup is more complex) but that will take care of a good share of the minutiae. You probably also eventually need somebody helping you in Germany to take care of employment, taxes, VAT, etc. even though that may not yet be the case. When I've done it a few years ago I found it easier to have a German subsidiary of the C Corp doing that eventually.

If you want a more nearshore solution you may want to contemplate the Netherlands or Ireland which both have fairly well developed support systems in case you ever need help.
My first experience with someone in your position was Geordi LaForge. I found it so inspiring how he overcame - though technology - his blindness and how his innovation became central to fulfilling his craft's mission and often securing the safety of its crew. I often wondered what would have become of him had he been born in an earlier age, without the technology to provide him with an alternative high-bandwidth, low-latency sense.

I am blessed that I have all my senses and so do my children, but I absolutely believe that the 9999 other traits that you have to share should not be lost just because of a single non-optimal trait.
The failure began when, in the name of "compatibility" or whatever, there could no longer be improvements to the standard. When you enshrine the rot you assure its spread.
> So what went wrong? My gut feeling is that I am boring.

A lot of pain seems to come from a poor vocabulary about feelings.
What is boring? It's a weak and flattened word like the feelings it's
used about.

Do you mean avolition, acedia, irascibility, dissatisfaction,
insensibility, repression, discouragement, ambivalence, anxiety? The
Psychology of the Emotions by Neal Burton is a fair place to continue
the introspective journey you've started [1].

> I lost my creativity and the sense of wonder I used to have in
childhood. I am no longer curious because I am settled for the world
as it is. I accept things the way they are instead of imagining how
they could be.

Comfortably Numb. There's a dose of it going around. Don't worry it's
an acute condition. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
You need to stop being reasonable. Take a good look at the world, and
notice there's still plenty to be really, healthily angry about, and
so much to be joyously in love with. Just don't give in to
ambivalence or settle for the illusion of comfort and safety life
seems to be showing you. Take a risk on it.

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201601...
“The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”

– Mary Ann Evans, aka, George Eliot
Don't know if it qualifies as a "video game", but I wrote checkerboard-programming[0], a series of puzzles that require you to write js to match checkerboard patterns.

[0] https://www.checkerboardprogramming.com/
I get it, but - what's the solution? At least the flags, while being offensive to some, are generally understood as a "signal for language".
I just looked through mine and I built a PC in 2006 with a 2GiB DDR2 kit. I later upgraded it with another of the same kit in 2008. If you go to late 2008 in the archive all of a sudden almost 40% of people are in the "2Gb[sic] and above" category.
Yep, works well.
Anything to back this up or is it just some randoms claims without proofs?
With enough thrust pigs will fly - sure, you can work around Jenkins' deficiencies, but in general it's optimized for shooting yourself in the foot. Everything it does can be done with a small shell script, which will be easier to understand, maintain, and fix if it ever goes wrong.

And if you use Jenkins in a maintainable way, you're writing scripts anyway - except you have to use a made-up language instead of something standard.