skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not much a smart move IMVHO: discussing on a hyper-surveilled platform is not good at all and in any cases they can't download food so...

IMVHO they best move is just talking with their neighbors, in a day or two, offline, there will be a sufficient mass of people ready to descend to the street, and others will joint. At that point there is not much room for a new Tian'anmen: they are too much to be repressed.

On the other side: it's a lesson almost no one would like to learn that we need to produce enough food to nourish residents, witch means that any relatively small area (like a region) should allow at maximum the number of residents who can be nourished at a minimum level with locally produced foods, of course commerce would be still there and improve life, but for basic surviving local one must be there. And that's an enormous issue for China.

They need a younger population to remain in a growing state they need to counter the USA, they need to counter USA/UK because they are already too much and so they have to source food from south America, Africa etc witch means they need a dominance of "nearby" sees and USA can't accept that but a younger population means more children, so even more mouth to be nourished.

In Europe we have a less profound but not that different issue and in the north America I suspect that's the same.
You need to re-read the stats on Trump voters. They are not all unemployed, uneducated, steel-mill hicks. Not by a looong shot. Your use of stereotypes is a poor strategy.
Singleton became the 'enemy' during the 'Dependency Injection' craze, spawned in the Java enterprise environment.

Singletons are a tool, that at some point you just can't avoid. We can discuss the way to create or access them, but saying they are just all bad is a diservice to younger engineers that are learning proper paterns.
Why add entropy to the situation? We know people mid-understand satire and sarcasm.

I do kind of feel much satire is deliberately harmful - people use it to say things and then hide behind ‘but I was just joking’ having already pushed the message out.
Came here to write this. In .NET it’s easier to just follow the normal DI pattern and inject your desired singleton with AddSingleton<>
Your email is public on your GitHub profile: https://github.com/fouric

And it's the same one in one of the commits: https://github.com/fouric/lightning-cd/commit/db619ad363227e...

Anyway, do you have a problem with people reaching out to you via email that you leave in the commit, or specifically automated scraping of email from commits? I think the former is fine and by design.
Shooting Yourself in the Foot with GenServers
This is neat. I actually built a static site generator[0] that uses Clojure for the templating language, and that enables me to do some things like build my own RSS feed [1] or a custom archive front page [2]. Pretty happy with this over Handlebars or the like to be honest.

[0]: https://github.com/askonomm/bruno (documentation pending, check out example site at https://github.com/askonomm/bien.ee)

[1]: https://github.com/askonomm/bien.ee/blob/master/src/feed.xml...

[2]: https://github.com/askonomm/bien.ee/blob/master/src/index.ht...
I appreciate that there are more clients for matrix being developed, but I really wish there was more effort put into making a better server. Dendrite and Conduit are making progress, but it's excruciatingly slow. Synapse works but feels extremely clunky to set up and maintain, and that's not even counting the resource usage (which is admittedly getting better, but still harsh).
I love the minimalist UI and the fact that I can set up tasks for specific dates in the future. Nice work.
> current Republican efforts to reduce the effectiveness of the ADA

Would you mind providing a link for this one as you did for the others? This one particularly interests me. Granted, maybe the fact that I'm asking means I just don't follow the news enough.
Huh! Thanks for the correction.

That makes a lot of sense -- I have some more reading to do...
> the reinfection protection of past infection seems to be sub-20% from Omicron

So then what? Lockdowns forever? Vaccines are even worse than natural immunity.

But the truth is your numbers aren't accurate. Someone who had covid and is reinfected is unlikely to go to the hospital - and that's the only thing that matters.

Yes, they will get Omicron, but that doesn't matter. Vaccine or natural immunity (and get both if you can, in that order) prevent hospitalizations and death.
>When engineers build things, out of an intrinsic interest in building stuff, they gain status as the company becomes more successful.

If engineers build things with no business value, then that company will fail. When every engineer is building their own passion project, then the company fail.

The position is a leadership role, one that should ideally ensure the team is united on one goal and is able to exert pressure outside the team in defense of that goal. However with any leadership role, the best people for that role aren't always the people who seek the role.
I mean are you suggesting no more jokes, parodies, or satire lest a journalist take it seriously? That would practically require a complete self censor on all fiction. I could just easily tweet a blurb from a Sci-fi novel and risk someone, somewhere, misinterpreting it. Also a prank has the intent to mislead which the poster didn’t. Don’t mean to sound inflammatory but the humorless world that would be sounds a lot more miserable than living in the mess it seeks to remedy.
They are absolutely a thing, and are the current law, but I can and do disagree with them from first principles.

A group of individual persons, associated for a specific purpose, are not equivalent to an individual person in matters of fundamentally-owed rights.
Did you try getting them off APKMirror? They're pretty good.
Think what we're all learning here is that you have neither a sense of humour nor a sense of perspective. What actual bad thing happened here? It's just a fun whimsical incident. I actually think it says more about your self esteem than anything else that you read this as self-congratulatory
Do you keep track of who is being recognised? Presumably the “props” aren’t evenly distributed, which is natural. I wonder whether certain people are under recognised.
Is following all law and regulation preparation for authoritarianism? What about driving on the proper side of the road and stopping at red lights? Not defecating in the streets? Waiting in line? Requiring a license to practice medicine? Etc.
You might think today, "I only need one cache", but that assumption might not hold in the future. The problem with Singletons is that you are deciding for everyone who is ever using your code that there will be only one instance of that class. The original article is right. That's not the concern of the class you're writing. That's a concern of the context that is using the class. Dependency injection is better for this sort of issue.
What do you use as terminal emulator? I Switches from iterm2 to kitty and omz to starship. It is for sure faster now to start the terminal, even running commands has different response time, visible to the eyes.

Could I ask How does fisher come into play if you have something like starship already?
I cant remember when it was released, I had access to TestFlight for a good while for being the supporter. But honestly, its great. I was amazed that plugins just sync between desktop and mobile.
If you can hit the force in germany/uk/france you can also hit the value there.

And a second strike is kind of by definition counter value.

Leaked Soviet era nuclear war with NATO plan:

> Vienna was to be hit by two 500-kiloton bombs, while Vicenza, Verona, Padua, and several bases in Italy were to be hit by single 500-kiloton bombs

> Stuttgart, Munich, and Nuremberg in West Germany were to be destroyed by nuclear weapons and then captured by the Czechoslovaks and Hungarians.

> In Denmark, the first nuclear targets were Roskilde and Esbjerg. Roskilde, while having no military significance, is the second-largest city on Zealand and located close to the Danish capital Copenhagen (the distance from central Copenhagen to Roskilde is only 35 km or 22 mi). It would also be targeted for its cultural and historical significance to break the morale of the Danish population and army.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_to_the_River_Rhine
If two process are modifying the same file.... that file is a 'single object'. So, the Parent's point stays.
A process can create its own copy, and do things with it, but eventually it has to load and save it at one single place.
How can we get the layperson to run a "homeserver" to host all their data locally and have a strong pki infra.

30 years ago, people would've said the same things about routers, so I think it's possible with the right ui/incentives
> There are many such people spreading misinformation about chickens crossing roads.

Do these people explain why the chickens were crossing the roads?
Custom Alien-Inspired PC – Custom PC #225
Thanks! I haven't gotten my hands on those two yet, and in general haven't spent enough time with 6 GHz to say much more than I did in this review.
The Joy of Small Projects
I half-agree: many who lean libertarian like to contrast "positive rights" with "negative rights"; and while it's an interesting academic distinction, in my view a purely negative right is indistinguishable from not having a right at all. Perhaps the state cannot proactively ensure my survival with 100% certainty, but a "right to life" is meaningless without some kind of proactive deterrent against violence.

Where I disagree is the "legal" qualifier: while legal protections have an important role to play, so do civil institutions and social norms. Many forms of suppressing free expression are entirely compatible with the First Amendment (economic and social sanctions), and instead have to be defended in civil society, and the court of public opinion.
>nature has plenty of evidence that same-sex-sex btw, so appeal to nature in that case is a actually double fallacy

I said LGBT, not "gay" on purpose.

>Because I assume you can't mean that I should simply shut up?

I mean don't vote to ban research, much like many did for stem cell research which probably collectively set back all of humanity.
I think misreading something like this is a perfectly understandable thing. It's definitely a 'had me going there for a second' type of joke. The unusual thing about this one is its spread and the (seemingly ongoing!) insistence by some of the taken that it was diabolically difficult to tell it was a joke. I suppose the latter contributed to the former.
Who wrote that article? What is their expertise?
It’s interesting how “I support rights of private companies but only when they do something totalitarian” has become such a common position in the US.
> It doesn’t set a standard of organ donation being a good thing.

The donation part, outside of specific cases like kidneys where they can be donated by a living person, is never a "good thing" if you're looking at where it came from - usually someone dying in a car accident or worse.

And besides, harvesting organs from death row inmates isn't a donation, so it wouldn't really dilute that.

fwiw, I'm not defending taking organs from death row inmates, just replying to this specific concern. Hell, I'd much rather we took organs from any dead body we can - the idea of bodily integrity for a corpse being valued so much we'd rather let people die than violate it is IMO one of our biggest failures as a society.
Funnily enough, Airbnb also expressly stated that you were not allowed to scrape their listings early on and went to (moderate) lengths to make it difficult to do so, even when they were breaking, and/or empowering people, to break the laws in given areas.

Everyone wants to keep their data secret, but no one wants to respect others wishes.
A bit of strawman and moving the goal posts here

Instead of debating whether PG tolerates criticism for his views, now it's whether he likes it or not, and instead of whether he enjoys immunity from criticism or not, now it used to be the case in the past but not anymore.

In the spirit of good debate, I will concede on the latter and conclude with the advent of social media, this renders it a moot point but on the former we can attest that he got a thick skin and can take a lot of hits from critics, don't you agree?

Now to the strawman, his central thesis boils down to this; people shouldn't lose their jobs merely for expressing their views, and to show some leniency and consideration for people's personal circumstances and track record of past good deeds when found guilty by the vindictive justice championed by the online mob and not to throw the baby with the bathwater.

Is this really objectionable in your opinion?
No jokes are great when people are in on them. That's why the punchline doesn't come first.
I think the neat thing about this is that they're starting with a design that, even if something goes a bit screwy, is still safe. They're obviously doing their best to design it well, but also relying on actual tests to see how well it performs in practice, which is something that you can't really do with the nuclear regulatory environment in the USA, if I understand correctly.

And part of this document[1] says "if it breaks, send it back". The design allows for replacing a faulty "can" entirely rather than trying to repair it.

[1] https://thorconpower.com/docs/domsr20180119.pdf
... on an article about heretical thought, in response to someone asking what the heresies are. :shrug: I'm not moving the goalpost here :)
So poor countries must massively over-invest in renewables and when renewables are high they have absurdly to much energy they can't do anything with leading to negative prices.

And then the need to build storage to capture some of that energy and also peaker plants to cover that.

Given those countries are barley able to but up coal plants right now, and are massively lacking in the power infrastructure to wildly distribute wind/solar power that seems like an incredibly hard plan.

If you can just get 1 working nuclear reactor design (even if its an old PWR) to the point where you can build and run it. Over then next 10-30 years you can just build them as fast as you can next to every large city and provide reliable power.

> aluminium plants retooled to use excess energy.

The problem with that is that if you are an aluminium plant you want to run at high utility. You don't want to continuously! Not turn it on and off 3 times a day. Those kinds of installations are hard enough to run with reliable power.
I just took a very quick look at the subreddit (absolutely awful stuff BTW, who finds this crap funny?) and already found 2 instances of people sharing "real" stories in the comments to joke posts. Should both of these be taken as jokes? They are not presented as such.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/u0elnq/com...

> I completely forget the example problem we were doing, but back when I was learning C, we were given sample code to fix. Everything was perfectly formatted, and the program ran without issue like be 99% of the time, but every once in a while, it’d give a totally incorrect value, or throw an error, and it was to teach us all about concurrency and race conditions and how even when we know we have done everything right, there might be something wrong that takes a deeper understanding to idntify. My professor was awesome.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/u0ibli/com...

> In my old team, every line above 400 was considered an error. 2000 lines was a cause to put the development on hold until the end of refactoring.
Beer is one of the pleasures that make life worth living.
Not just working on it. We use Storj in production and it's dramatically cheaper than S3.
If you’re okay with everything I asked about, does whether gender is inherent matter?
What case would introduce a parsing error in an IDE that isn't the case in a compiler?
But potential difference exists when there's no current drawn too. That's just more confusion.

One aspect I'd noticed is that EMF doesn't necessarily have a corresponding potential difference. Eg. a generator with the output short-circuited still has the same EMF as if it was open circuit but potential difference is zero or near-zero across any two points in its windings or circuit.
My friend said that when he lived in Brisbane, the police will actually come out with a volume meter and log the noise, talk to the dog owners, and ultimately take action if nothing is done.

https://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/community-and-safety/pets-an...
Ten years ago I would have agreed with you. These days I know that humans are too gullible to be able to understand obvious satire, and the consequences are deleterious for society. As someone who has long appreciated The Onion, I am now of the opinion that they should not legally be allowed to call themselves a news source, in the same way that someone cannot legally claim to be an expert in an accredited field. We don't need to censor The Onion, but we do need to establish norms regarding false advertising in journalism. I understand this won't be a popular opinion, because lots of people don't want to realize that the internet has killed the very concept of satire.
I don't think that's how joke forums work, really.
Agreed. I was just imagining people posting publicly on social media, but good to say that situational context/audience also matters a ton when understanding a given statement. There is often much unspoken nuance/implications.
Well… squirrels are just rodents with beautiful fluffy tails. We feed squirrels but we kill rodents. Maybe it’s the tail!
> These things have long been super typical of growing middle-income countries on their way to First-World country status

Except these things aren't even true, at least not in Poland. Corruption in the classical sense hasn't been a problem here for decades. Nepotism at the upper level of governance (especially in state-owned companies) – true, it's re-emerged. Mixing it up with supposed wealth-amassing, however, makes even less sense because the most egalitarian shift in Poland's economic policy – with empirical observable effects – has so far, for the last 7 years, precisely coincided with the EU-sceptic right-wing populism.
'Wandering stones' of Death Valley explained (2014)
One of the things I miss most in modern chat clients is the old MDI style interface where each channel could have its own sub window, allowing for tiling and repositioning of multiple chat contexts at once. I know weechat and some others have similar capabilities, but I'm thinking more like mIRC. This complaint extends to a lot of modern software, tbh.
> Do you feel responsible for generating misinformation?

This is a bizarre stance to take. Social media was always filled with false information. It's entirely on news outlets to verify what they decide to publish.
> Decentralized email [can be built on Locutus]

I don't understand this particular one.

I've hosted my own email for the last 20+ years, every single component of the stack is open-source, all you need is your favourite Linux distro, a bit of patience and a [virtual] server with a static IP.

Isn't email decentralized the moment you stop using Gmail or Office365 - or, $deity forbid, your ISP's webmail...?
> China has created a bourgeoisie class which is also the effective monarchy

I don’t think you understand the functional meanings of these terms.

People like the modern Russian “oligarchs” or their Chinese equivalents are, in function, nobility, whether they are granted any formal titles or not. You’re a noble in function if 1. you helped the current regime gain power; 2. you can use your ongoing necessity to the regime’s hold on power to coerce the current regime into granting you more semi-sovereign autonomous power; 3. this semi-sovereign autonomous power (the classical example being private armies; the modern example being control of state industries) could be used to topple the regime if enough of it were concentrated.

To be in the borgeoisie, on the other hand, is to be a capitalist — even a magnate — but to not have any individual semi-sovereign autonomous power over the state. Rather, the borgeoisie have such power as a block — they could, together, strangle the economy — but they are by definition not monopolists, and so none of them has any chance of starting or winning a coup on their own.

To put it another way: if Facebook was a private company with a single 100% owner, that owner would still be a member of the borgeoisie of America. However, if Boeing was a private company with a single 100% owner, that owner would be a functional noble — an “oligarch” — title or no.
> React started to move away from OOP and more towards FP

Please don't confuse what you see in React with FP! It is not FP. See:

https://mckoder.medium.com/why-react-is-not-functional-b1ed1...
Exactly. "Did this email originate at $server" is what DKIM and SPF are meant to solve and IME they work well. Setting them up is not particularly difficult and there is a wealth of open documentation about it.
> I've been noodling about the implementation of adding functionality to w3m and lynx so there is a separate fetch-page func but report a different User-Agent header (eg, "Mozilla"). I've encountered many pages that don't allow access until I change the "lynx-*" header (bastards).

Wouldn't this feature suffice? https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/doc/README.siteconf
sorry but every part of this is good? you can't go in someone's home if they don't want you to. you can't kick someone out of their home if they don't want to leave.

someone being this hostile about it is rare but it sometimes happening is a necessary consequence of these rights.

anyway though in most places our protections are not this extreme. you can refuse a specific visit but have to provide a time when they can come later.
Let's put it to a more nuanced vote:
All those that don't want to have black-box, closed source, easily manipulated, private algorithms entrench themselves as legitimate, trusted institutions who can cause you financial harm or worse without balanced scrutiny, lift a finger.
What rationale did the UK government use when approving Imagination being sold to a private equity firm controlled by the Chinese government?
I wonder why emails on commits was ever mandated, instead of just the username. At least they didn't demand a phone number and address, the dimwits.
Its intriguing that PG used the term “anti-vaxers”, in this article. Being interested in the truth about vaccines will get you fired and the term “anti-vaxers” is used by the aggressively conventional minded to shut down debate. So I wonder if there’s subtext and those parts are him not meaning what he’s saying on the surface?

Anyway, the truth is if you’ve had COVID-19 you are far more protected than someone who got one of these vaccines. It is heretical to say that, and I get called an “anti-vaxer”, but it’s true.
So it would seem. I did check just now and find no direct flights from New Orleans (MSY) to Mobile (MOB). The shortest flights (about four hours) appear to stop in either Houston or Atlanta. I have no idea what bus service there might be.
Why fuel the problem by seeding more false information?
IMVHO lockdowns have no sanitary reasons, they simply haven't enough prime matters and/or energy and/or food so they need to force a big stop without telling the real reason to a population used to grow year on year and work hard any day...

Witch is not much different than lowering down speed limits or asking to lower head/air-con usage in various EU countries.

Not much time ago VoxEU publish https://voxeu.org/article/trade-and-travel-time-epidemics a reasoning about how travels can be limited without hurting the economy and there are many other in the same line of thought. Honestly I see no other explanation.