skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You sense incorrectly. I have no qualm with democratic institutions of power. (For some reason I have to explain to people on HN that a username with 'commie' in it does not mean I'm a communist)

As long as they're actually democratic. My qualm is with oligarchies and plutocracies. A capitalist system should allow for the wealthy and it is inevitable that wealth can be used to acquire power. But political systems need to be firewalled from this MUCH more than they are in society today.

The thread is about free speech, and my comment was solely focused on speech. I'm not a free speech absolutist in way that you or Paul Graham might be, because I don't believe words and speech is like physical violence. A bullet is egalitarian. It doesn't care who fires the gun or who it's hitting, it will still do the same damage whether it's fired by a billionaire at a homeless person, or the other way around. Words are not. Words need a medium. The medium's control is asymmetrical.

But regardless of what we think about asymmetrical implications of free speech, ultimately my point was that those who's free speech we are talking about protecting shifted 180 over the last century. Pretending that is irrelevant is naive. Is there a difference between a Russian Soldier killing a Ukrainian Soldier outside of Mariupol this week, and a Ukrainian soldier killing a Russian one? Of course there is. And so there is a difference between restricting the speech of a person to criticize the government, vs restricting the speech of a government to criticize a person.

P.S. Using "SJW" as a pejorative falls in the same category as using "woke" in that way. Mike Godwin himself (of Godwin's law) has the right take on it: https://twitter.com/sfmnemonic/status/1504687870006620163
My employer recently switched from on-prem to cloud. The cloud service is insanely slow, or maybe it's my aging Macbook, but every single component on the page seems to have to load separately. (It's a newer UI versus what we had on-prem).

Thankfully we haven't been impacted by this outage.
Not so. The whole point of trains is that expenses are largely one-off. Building the infrastructure is expensive. Recurring costs are much lower than other modes of land transport, ceteris paribus.
Spend it to make your life more energy efficient.
That works if you have thousands of dollars available to cover the bills until you get reimbursed.
Well, Finland was basically Sweden's shield, and Finland was yielding to Kremlin, so there was very little risk of conflict.

Now Russia has more or less proclaimed it's "back to the empire" agenda which implies subjugation of all of the former states of the russian empire.

Which includes Finland.

The weird thing is, even though Russians lie constantly, when they declare foreign policy targets, they are surprisingly honest and consistent about that.

This implies
1) Finland needs to join NATO asap.

2) After that sweden would be the only weak target left. Gotland is an obvious, concrete military goal that would be feasible target for a RU invasion from Kaliningrad.
Glad to see Apple make progress diversifying away from China.

China is just not reliable enough to be your sole supplier anymore. Fifteen years ago with the first iPhone it was low risk. Unfortunately governance has gotten more incompetent and more repressive over the last 10 years of the Xi era. There is also the small but real risk of a complete trade stoppage if China invades Taiwan.

I'm not sure how the party lost control enough to let Xi walk in as dictator, but as with Russia, Chinese politics is controlled by the whim of one man.
As long as the data is deleted within a month there should not be any GDPR concerns.

> The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning him or her without undue delay

> “Undue delay” is considered to be about a month

https://gdpr.eu/right-to-be-forgotten/
Yes, via Netdata.

https://github.com/netdata/netdata

https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/agent/collectors/go.d.plugi...
Diversify slowly for the next time around. Or go all in on Alibaba
alcohol has many effects that affect/interact with mood and mood disorders.

TL;DR alcohol is not helpful and can be very disruptive for some.

it doesn't https://health.usnews.com/conditions/mental-health/depressio...
But that’s a misunderstanding. Stable orbits are free fall.

There is no such thing as a stable orbit “at sufficient distance to not be influenced by” gravity.

There’s no such thing as a sufficient distance.
Is he naming enemies?
my short answer would be: bad at punctuality. Frequent delays bigger than 10min.

France for example is better at punctuality IMO. But granted: smaller population density, therefore less stops needed in rural areas. And lower population density made it also a lot easier to build many complete own tracks for fast trains (TGV). Also more centralized way of thinking, so if you are around Paris: good, if you live far away of big cities, not so lucky.
>That said, you're breaking the site guidelines

>>usually a little higher than the “middle school”

You too.
It is strange that there are no pictures of this device. However, with the (brilliant) name, I can easily guess what it looks like.

There have always been adapters and multi-adapters because of hand-held video recorders, various entertainment units, and even overhead displays. Even HDMI comes in Standard, Dual, Mini, Micro and a specialized Automotive connectors.
That stockphoto on the front page of armory.io manages to trigger al kinds of spammy website triggers for me.
In general the idea of removing somebody's citizenship for any reason is highly problematic, as it leads to the possibility of a get-out clause around the inalienable rights that citizens are supposed to have.
No, I meant all the way back to the birth of agriculture. See Against the Grain by James C. Scott.
The solar system is huge, and earth is really really tiny. For this to have happened means that it is likely to happen again, which suggests that there is a large amount of crap out there blazing through interstellar space, any sufficiently large piece of which could be a civilization-ending projectile.

We need better detection and defenses. And another planet. ASAP.
But Thomann doesn’t stock what I want, and the stores that carried it died, so now I am no better off.
There are two kinds of costs with health insurance for companies. The funding to pay claims and the administration of said funding to pay claims. The administration part is the money maker, and while ACA attempted to curtail what they can charge for this/profit from it, they do creative things like "outsource" IT or HR to a separate company (with the executives as ovepaid board members). It's kind of like tax evasion only instead of taxes it's reducing your premiums.
Non-paywall link? Must read whatever PT has to say.
Those poor companies can't be expected to be responsible with their power, they only make several billion dollars off their users every year and putting conditions on their ability to remove content they find suspicious is comparable to me dealing with a thief in my house.
I've found that 95% of the words on any given webpage are completely unnecessary, especially when researching or learning software topics. I also found that graphics and code examples are 1b% underrated and useful.
Rail replacement buses are what the rail companies lay on when they can't run their trains because of some failure. It isn't an investment in the way you interpreted it.
As long as they go into it fully informed, that is the best one could hope for.
They're using him to scapegoat their incompetencies. Everyone with an ounce of critical thinking was able to see that money printing will cause this. "Transitory inflation" yeah right.
Interest rates need to return to 5% (perhaps more temporarily). Of course this will trigger an asset price collapse. Fiscal policy should then be used to ensure that it is the rich who carry the burden, to result in a society with a fairer distribution of wealth.
Yes, I'd say centralization of attention/discovery is an inevitable force of the internet.

For digital products, say "content", it has been there since the early beginnings. When people had their "independent" blog, already then they had blog rolls linking to other bloggers and over time a class of top bloggers emerged. A handful getting all traffic, the other 99.99% gets nothing.

Before search engines, we had directories. Lists of links. But there's only so much space, so a few sites get all traffic, the rest none.

We democratized it with things like Digg, but in reality 3 people decided what gets on the homepage.

So yes, it seems to me that centralization of attention is built-in. Or rather, it's a human condition. A centralized service offers more convenience and people tend to do the most convenient thing. Creators do the exact same thing.

...and then we blame the platform. My point is that WE did it. WE created the situation, not the platform.

As for physical goods, I consider that to be somewhat of a separate topic. The internet in itself does not magically produce and ship ultra cheap goods. Such a thing is only possible due to very specific international trade circumstances.
Most of the intercity trains in Ireland are powered by diesel.

I believe there's a long term electrification plan for the greater Dublin area, but I don't see a change from using DMU's for a while.
> The entire design of macOS feels like the Gnome desktop: you use what they give you, how they give it to you, using their workflows, barely customizing anything.

The user just started to use the OS: of course they have little knowledge of customization plus they are using a computer subject to corporate policies. Not a fair criticism.

However, the critique of the window snapping mechanics is correct. Very frustrating to have the window go full screen when removing one half of the previously split screen.
> Patients with depression are warned not to take psilocybin on their own.

I understand this is a standard disclaimer, but I thought I'd throw in that the drug depressed persons should really avoid taking alone is alcohol, especially in large quantities
Mostly false. These trillion dollar spending bills have caused this.
I agree with your statements here, and certainly what I do mostly is not what I do all the time. Especially if it was like health info I'd dig deeper for example. I think part of my method is also what threads I click or don't click - so the experience is going to vary with that selection biases as well.

when people mention mac only (big thanks to those who do this!) - I tend to just believe and move on.

with some projects I open tabs for the article and all the alternatives people mention bookmark to dig into later.

So my methods are not always this or that - but as a general 'way of HN' for me, these methods are what makes HN a great time saver in general, but not always.
In Germany, health insurance is also tied to your employer. If you're a freelancer in Germany you pay out of your own pocket every month (around 500 bucks).

It's a very similar system, the real difference is that it's illegal to not have insurance, so you are "forced" to always be insured, and unemployment support is more generous.
RTO is so hard to state properly even with regular testing. If someone blows away a critical database, sure you can meet your published RTO. What if we lose 300 of our databases and need to copy snapshots from another region. AWS limits you to 20 concurrent snapshot copies cross region. Which of those databases should you do first? Do you know your entire dependency graph for all 1000 of your services to make the right call? Meanwhile tick-tock your "6 hours" is slipping away. And what if someone nukes our entire AWS account with all of our prod resources? Databases, load balancers, S3 (no such thing as snapshotting there), EC2 instances, etc, etc

Those last two are examples are very unlikely but no company is going to say RTO = "probably 6 hours but it could be three weeks if we get ransomwared"
There's something humorous when better uptime is cited as a reason to use cloud software instead of on-prem in a thread about a major cloud outage.
Deutsche Bahn is a weird construct.

It's been separated into many subsidiaries in preparation for a privatisation. It never happened and while subsidiaries like Schenker work quite well and drive profits, others like those responsible for network or train maintenance create only costs and have been neglected. This results in delays in your daily experience with DB. DB's "punctuality" or the lack of it is actually a running gag here in Germany.

tl;nr: mismanagement.
A bit skeptical since he wrote Seeing Like A State but I'll put it on my list.
I can give a different perspective. It is not because of politicization IMO - at least not in the hard sciences. The problem comes from way up, from Congress because the immediate impact of science is not obvious. Especially, for basic sciences the impact takes decades to be really felt.

But then how do you do promotions? How do you judge output? Worse still, how does US Congress justify spending taxpayer dollars. Rather than acknowledging that any short term measurement of the quality of science is a fool's errand, we have doubled down on meaningless metrics like impact factors and h-indices. And this is what we have as a result.
Oh wow. I looked at it probably a dozen times and read it that way every time, until I read your post and tried again just now.
Can assets and stocks go back up please?
If you're any good at your chosen specialty you get a "feel" for the bullshit. I know this doesn't help the public. My experience is in medical research, crystallography, and computer science. Here's an example for detecting "bullshit" in cardiology: call up the MD PI from the published paper and ask to review anonymized charts from patients targeted with the procedure. Are there any? Then, the research is probably good; are there none? It's probably because it'd kill the patient. Similarly, in Programming Language Theory: we'd just ask which popular compilers added the pass. Is it on in -O3 in LLVM? Serious fucking result; is it in some dodgy branch in GHC? Not useful.
Grunge, it was called back in the day.
> It may be useful for users of large external monitors, allowing to make better use of the screen real estate

OP here. This is exactly why I want snapping (I'm using a 27" 1440p monitor)
That's one possibility but I'm pretty sure that's not it. If it were, then if you dropped a cat in a stiff breeze it would land sideways.
They do. On Windows it's msi, and Mac it's pkg. But, for whatever reason folks have preferred to build their own package solution instead of learning the OS native approach. I'm guessing because building your own makes for an easier end user CLI experience.
> I don't see any other explanation except that allowing NATO rockets in Ukraine is suicidal for Russia

Are there any nuclear weapons in previous Warsaw pact countries? From everything I can read it seems like there are not.
I made some emulators in Rust as a learning project during the start of the pandemic, and ran into the exact same issue when I wanted to make a wasm version to run in a browser. Eventually, I was able to figure out how to do it, although I do use the 'wasm-pack' Cargo package to assist with it (I think you can get away without it if you're really motivated, you just need to set up the targets and other elements yourself). Basically you define some Rust API to expose whatever you need from your project, then that and the project get compiled into one .wasm binary and some (surprisingly readable) JavaScript "glue" gets generated which allows for easy inclusion into a web page. It works well for code in the std, but I've had issues with 3rd party packages.

It's focused on emulation development, but I wrote a document that describes the process I followed: https://github.com/aquova/chip8-book/blob/master/src/wasm.md
I’m an American who recently took a train in Europe from Paris to Brussels.

Some brief thoughts:

- It was so fast! Under 90 minutes for a journey which would have taken a few hours by car. Clearly much faster than a plane on this particular route, due to extra waiting and security in airports.

- It was also a very comfortable mode. If you’re traveling with friends, it’d be very easy to socialize around a table. Quieter than a car or plane as well.

- Love being able to hop on/hop off without a huge ordeal or waiting in a long line.

- Too expensive for the route. I would have to book much further in advance to think it was worth it. I think maybe 6x the cost of driving, if I compared to a similar route in the US.

- Obviously this is a high speed route. That doesn’t exist between all cities.

- Looking at other tickets, connecting between two routes can be tricky. For example, if I wanted to go from Amsterdam to London, I’d might transfer to a different train in Paris. That adds a huge amount of time.

I mean, compared to the US, it’s a delight! For a similar city-to-city distance (Portland to Seattle), I’d love a 90min transit mode, especially if it was relatively cheap.

Obviously there are still some route and cost drawbacks, but there just isn’t much comparable in the US. It’s a much better system, obviously, even if it’s not perfect. At least they have high speed rail!
Series I savings bonds are designed to track inflation. https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/ibonds... . I only recently became aware of them and I am not qualified to give financial advice, so I have no idea if they actually accomplish this well.
I think he ultimately suffered mental illness, and it is reflected in both the fact that he murdered and the ideas in his manifesto. It's hard to separate them.

There may be similar ideas expressed by those who don't share his pathology, but his version of it is extreme and fringe.
I found this not behind a paywall.

https://reporterwings.com/finance/peter-thiel-leads-bitcoin-...
Buy iBonds which are currently paying 7.12% and will likely be paying that much or higher at the rate reset in May. Only problem is you can only buy $10K/year. If you have a spouse they can buy another $10k. We maxed out our ibond buying last year and this year.
Culturally we generally consider Europe to mean continental Europe i.e. Europe without the islands. Thus the U.K. being an island nation isn’t part of Europe.

But the definition of Europe will change depending on who you’re talking to and what your talking about.
Oh boy. Were you offered, and did you take the job? It's always so disheartening to see such ignorance coming from an interviewer, isn't it?
I can't wrap my head around how expensive Amtrak is, given that it's so heavily subsidized by the government.
this is my concern; I've saved my entire life and I'm not seeing corresponding interest rate increases. The only thing I see is a sucker in the mirror who's getting screwed by what started as "quantitive easing" and is now all-out "finance the present and let the kids figure out the solution".
The not so long ago completed Alp transit Gotthard Basistunnel was primarily dug for cargo, yes passengers also go through it but the idea is for fast, clean cargo transit all the way from Amsterdam to Italy through the Swiss alps.
> But none of them are particularly important

Nowhere was the argument made that somehow Netflix was more influential than Twitter/Uber/AirBnB, but your counter-argument that somehow it's less influential because you haven't heard of/used some projects directly holds no ground.
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There are libertarians (even then popular ones like Milton Friedman), that have explicitly argued for open borders and free trade on the basis of the welfare of non citizens. They (at least used to) have considerable purchase among conservatives.

As a category I think it’s also generally correct to say they’d argue for not yielding such power to any sort of decision makers, corporate or government, at all. Instead attempting to coordinate empowered individuals through coercive but distinctly non human forces like markets.

Whether the libertarians are correct or not is one thing, but I don’t think they’ve been hypocritical or inconsistent in their motivations.
Underrated comment lmao
Mesmerizing. Clearly right to repair was honored at the time :)
Delayed vestibulo-cerebellar effects of Tokyo Subway Sarin Poisoning (1998)
I am not sure about that. I would definitely expect allies to keep tabs on each other for several reasons. I would not expect them to sell spying capabilities that could be used against their allies to any dictator who comes asking, however. Or really compromise their infrastructure.

Remember that the US did spy on several European heads of states a couple of years ago, including bugging their phones (or attempting to).
A short answer for Germany would be: the system is operating at its absolute limits. The results are employee burnout and bad reliability.

An example: a few years ago, they introduced a new way to reduce delays caused by trains arriving so late at their destination that they cannot make their scheduled return trip. This is the so-called "Pofalla-Turn", named after the manager who supported it: if a train has a delay of over 30 minutes, the train will often just stop at some station and the passengers are told "the train ends here". They then have to figure out their journey using alternative trains.

Just imagine this happening on a flight. I often witness completely helpless tourists lost at my local rail station who don't speak the language and cannot understand why the train they have an expensive ticket and reservation for just stopped, drove back, and left them stranded here.

If you are meeting/visiting someone in a city more than 200 km away, and if you tell them that you plan to take the train, the usual response is: "Oh, good luck".
What we really need are hybrid/electric SUVs and 4wds.

Obviously for electric the range would be pretty limited (afaik) with the current tech, but I'm sure even that would have a market.