skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A better metric is deaths per unit of distance travelled. I don't have the numbers, though.
> Most americans are happy with their employee health plan. Why would they go on strike?

I'm not sure if your claim about most Americans being happy with their healthcare is right or wrong, but that doesn't mean it can't be significantly improved nor that it compares that well internationally:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2071992/

Personally I'd choose the Swedish system over the American system any day. The US healthcare system is probably one of the main things giving me pause about moving back to the US actually.

edit: Americans perception of their healthcare is kind of interesting actually:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/327686/americans-satisfaction-h...

The US has long spent much more per capita than the rest of the world and has had worse outcomes than most (all?) comparable nations. Americans are good at rationalizing away this sort of thing ("we can't have better healthcare because we're fat"), but that's always just seemed to me a psychological defense mechanism more than a rational argument.

But yeah I guess you're right that Americans probably won't go on strike because they're happy enough. I can't really understand why they're happy enough, but I guess they are.
I would guess slightly higher than the general population but still not a huge number.
> if an algorithm amplifies local activities to everyone around, then the wrong kind of people will find out.

Who are the wrong kind of people?
And what do you do if someone disagrees with the crowd? How do you force him without coercieon? (hint those two words are synonyms).
Peanuts. Just one wasted war less, and it is there.
There are some negatives too. The design pattern doesn't work well for some specialist websites that get jammed into the gov.uk mould. Overall though, it's better than the mish-mash of styles and the duplication of effort across many different departments and levels of government.
The fleet is in much better shape(especially refurbished, compartmentless carriages - these are great at limiting antisocial behaviour), but the infrastructure is disappearing in favour of car traffic.

Some cities, like Łomża, lost access to rail entirely (although IIRC it's going to be restored after an over six year hiatus).

I still drive between Wrocław and Warsaw, even though I would rather travel by train, but there's no dedicated track between these cities, so it has to take a long detour, ultimately making the trip take 6h vs 4h point-to-point by train and car respectively.
These sensationalist videos are a plague for me. It only takes watching two or three regular videos on a specific topic for YouTube to hone in on it and start populating my feed with them. I find it very disappointing that they exist in every area that I am interested in, including relatively niche ones like functional programming and mechanical keyboards. Although, I have yet to come across a sensationalist video about prolog ;)
https://txtify.it/www.wired.com/story/the-incredible-journey...
Gnome tweaks has a setting to enable Emacs keyboard for GTK apps. It's pretty good and supports things like M-f and M-p better than mac (which uses Option for special characters). But it does confuse some programs that don't expect it. Like Gedit doesn't seem to have a functioning Find shortcut in this mode. (It uses C-s for save so C-s for search doesn't work)
How on earth?

> The answer is perhaps surprising - SVG files can contain JavaScript, CSS and load external content

There you are
It's mostly visible on TikTok, which has very heavy censoring with voice matching, just like YouTube. At least on YouTube you only need to self censor of you want to play nice with advertisement money, but TikTok will heavily black-hole your videos of you mention anything "controversial", like suicide, or COVID or anything sexuality related. Not sure if this is due to Chinese taboo culture bleeding over to the western counterpart, or if it's just advertising money just like YouTube, but the effect on TikTok is much harsher since you don't just risk demonetization, but even your video being visible at all to your close peers.
I think it's important to distinguish between what the university is actually asking academics to do, and what politically charged commentators are then adding to it and getting themselves (and some commenters here) outraged by. I think it's important to have a bit of intelligence about how you actually engage with this topic because what we have here is an article written by someone who clearly has an agenda and links out basically to his own other writing on the topic (as well as a culture war piece in a right wing newspaper), but doesn't link out to relevant things - such as the actual guidance the university is giving.

I actually think this article does a great job of demonstrating how culture war topics are stoked completely detatched from the reality of what is happening. It takes together a few choice quotes about "whiteness" and "color-blindness" but if you want to actually what the people who said those things mean you get linked to another article on the same site taking even more things out of context and never actually linking back to what the person meant. And if you do finally get out of the self-referential hell hole you bounce over to some article in the Telegraph which does exactly the same job of pulling out a load of out of context quotes designed to enrage their audience, since that's the job of British newspapers.

So let's trace that claim - Durham university decolonizing curriculum - link to the Telegraph and The College Fix. The College Fix appears to basically be a far right US site of very questionable quality and this article in particular doesn't have a byline. I'm a bit confused why a far right US site is reporting on British universities in the first place but ok. What does it say? It just quotes the telegraph.

Great, so the Telegraph article, it references a decolonization campaign - with a link! Let's follow the link.... Oh it's another article from the telegraph, but this time about how Jane Austen got dropped in favour of Toni Morrison at Stirling University. But it provides a link! Let's follow the link to finally get to the source of this! Oh look it's the Telgraph again, but this time it's not even journalism! It's an opinion piece!

So Durham University decolonizing maths is actually Stirling University decolonizing English, and it's not even Stirling University decolonizing English, it's actually an opinion peice in the telegraph.

But maybe I got the wrong link, let's look at the next link in the Telegraph article. Oh! It's not about Durham at all, but now it's about Oxford "decolonizing" by dropping imperial measurement units from the curriculum.

It is very telling that there is no path way from these culture war articles to the actual guidance from Durham university.

I think there's a discussion to be had about the impact of colonization and race on academia, but the basis of that conversation isn't going to start from this article.
It's impossible to overlook that single character because your code won't compile otherwise. Unlike Go, you cannot accidentally ignore an error condition in Rust. There is no way to discard the error without explicitly doing so, and even then you still have to decide on a non-error return value to return (because Rust functions that fail provide an error or a value and not both, unlike fallible golang functions).

People who believe Golang is explicit and hard to ignore errors but think that Rust is implicit and easy to ignore errors have never used both languages, full stop.

I challenge you to provide me with an example of Rust code that ignores an error without explicitly and obviously doing so.
Interestingly checking the implementation of this[0], it uses two temporary variables rather the commonly one.

[0]:https://stackoverflow.com/a/62038590/1308965
Without saying how much you asked for, this is a non-story.
That actually sounds like a true philosophical situation, where you both questioned some deeply held beliefs. This can have epistemologically and existential repercussions for the individual, especially if you are emotionally invested (and we always are at some level)
Obviously a lot of sites do format credit card numbers, but keep in mind that does add an additional level of complexity because you have to verify the type of card and what formatting to perform. American Express uses 15 digit numbers grouped in 4-6-5 format, so if you accept AMEX, you have to take that into account.
Who remembers the Hague Invasion Act?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pr...
https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-be...
> Never thought I'd see it mentioned here.

Same!
Totally agree. Thinking social media is the cause of the current divide is naive. It's certainly a mean to make it evident. Perhaps a catalist. But it's certainly not the cause.
If anything, enforcing identification would be very damaging to these companies. Their user numbers are absurdly inflated by bots and fakes, and most of their engagement is also likely not coming from human activity. The author is not proposing a solution for people in oppressive regimes - those are already restrained in their access to internet and social media -, but for America.
What's your favourite ESP32 board? (Best, good, cheap, quality, reliable)
I see. Makes perfect sense — I appreciate the cultural context.
Radiant heating is very old technology. It’s more expensive and harder to maintain, but as people have gotten weather it’s become more popular.
> Keep your domain models separate from infra implementation stuff

this is a corollary of the S in SOLID -- domain models and infra implementations will have different reasons to change at different times, so they should be decoupled

> Architect your applications in sensible layers
> Decouple stuff that doesn't strictly belong together

Agreed, but this isn't prescriptive enough, if you put 5 opinionated stakeholders in a room, they may argue over 25 different incompatible ideas of "sensible". Parnas suggests arranging things into modules so that changes or difficult decisions are isolated to single modules. Basically the same idea as S in SOLID. The D in SOLID suggests a concrete way to decouple things (interfaces!).

> This stuff should not need lists of XML config to get right

agreed. the key idea is to think about the dependency graph between modules. XML config & dependency injection & so on are some techniques for managing dependencies, but it is less important that figuring out a clean module design and module dependency structure that decouples the application.

Many possible candidate dependencies between pairs of modules should be banned as they would erode the architecture and add unnecessary coupling between things that need to change in response to different forces. With some extra knowledge about the purpose of each module, it should be possible to write a small validation tool that can inspect module dependencies and automatically fail the build if someone proposes to add a bad dependency.

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

http://sunnyday.mit.edu/16.355/parnas-criteria.html
Ceephax is awesome, check some of his live videos on YouTube, he puts a great a show!
One failing, which I think it's significant, is that pages which are written as authoritative do not specify where they derive their authority from. Specifically, what I'm thinking of is finding information that says something is obligatory or forbidden but doesn't say what laws/rules/customs/departments make this the case. More links to legislation.gov.uk would improve the democratic status of the website.
They will grab my uber ride while they are looking for a more favorable trip with the lyft app or vis versa probably.
-version still works:

$ java -version
openjdk version "18" 2022-03-22
OpenJDK Runtime Environment Temurin-18+36 (build 18+36)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Temurin-18+36 (build 18+36, mixed mode, sharing)
We had a similar thing in Australia - the Australian Government Design System: https://designsystem.gov.au/

It is in use across a huge number of Australian government websites - the Australian Cyber Security Centre, Services Australia, Department of Health, Department of Veterans' Affairs to name just a few.

The agency that owned it had a huge amount of funding cut from its budget, and now it's being supported by an (admirable!) open source effort: https://designsystemau.org/

It's wonderful that there is this level of community support, but so disappointing that the government couldn't recognise the importance and usefulness of continued funding.
Are any credit cards issued with numbers beginning zero?

I would bet this sort of pragmatic workaround is taking place.
My take: It depends on the line / company. But generally I think the UK is sub standard and extremely expensive compared to continental Europe (expensive, even compared to Switzerland).

Good experience: Virgin first class from London to Manchester. That said, it would have been prohibitively expensive if we hadn't booked the tickets well in advance. Pre-booked and restricted to a specific train they were around 50 quid each. If we would have bought the tickets before boarding the train they weould have been well over 200£ each.

Bad experience: The company that makes my blood boil even thinking about them is Northern. Whenever I have to use them I seriously consider travelling by couch. They are just such an appalling experience and a real sorry excuse for a train company.

Overall I don't think privatization of the railways were a good idea. Not when specific lines are dished out to specific companies and don't allow competition on them.
I looked through some of your comments and I agree with the sentiments expressed in many of them. I had actually already +1'd a small handful of them. I do have to wonder what you actually believe though since, in your pragmatism you have already stated a maxim to sacrifice truth/honesty for power. Regardless of which side(s) you are actually on, you are playing yourself if you are going to live by this model of reality and doubly so if you then go on to openly espouse it. In my absolutist mentality, it is better to be 100% honest, for the sake of the truth, because in it you can prove your trustworthiness to somebody and have a real connection at least with them, even if the whole rest of the world totally sucks. Even if your enemies do cut you down one day through grimy means, you still at least lived some of your life in truth. That's a life worth living. A life spent consciously engaging in dirty tactics is not.

You have said you don't care what I think, but I have little certitude to believe you really mean that, so I will say it; I think you are totally lost until you back up and reconsider this line of reasoning.
I only feel bad that life is a lottery and our global and local economies are rigged to improve the lives of winners whilst grinding the life out of losers.
I'm single, but how does employer provided health insurance work if both partners are provided it by their workplaces?
> e.g. with "up" and "down" arrows

I never used those except for testing to see what they do. They are always useless to me.
No, not a USA-ism, we'd likely pronounce it the same way, although I can't think of any highway numbers that are that high. An example would be I-440 in North Carolina, it gets pronounced "eye four forty", or I-195 would be "eye one ninty-five".
The title has a very "make America great again" vibe. When exactly and in what way was the past better?

> One result is that young people educated in the post-Babel era are less likely to arrive at a coherent story of who we are as a people, and less likely to share any such story with those who attended different schools or who were educated in a different decade.

A consistent set of lies told to our children while they are impressionable? I'm not sure I'm willing to mourn that without some extraordinary evidence that it's causing harm. I don't really see the connection to social media, and the decades long battle over teaching evolution suggests it's not new.
This line of reasoning is stupid. Are you saying that because Google killer unused consumer product X, they are going to shoot their cloud business in the head? Why? Do you not understand the difference between b2b and b2c?
Yes. At its core, the issue with social media is that it amplifies "engagement" at the cost of anything else. It is impossible to breed socially productive ideas, in the allegory you describe, if your only focus is infectiousness. What you are left with are literal mental viruses that take up our collective mind space, leaving nothing in return.
Some languages distinguish between these two types of numbers, like French "numéro" vs. "nombre". I don't know what a suitable English term would be, maybe "digit sequence" vs. "number"?
Approximately 0% of code bases do this in golang practice. I would be floored if someone provided an example of a large project that does.
EU is building an $11B tunnel connecting Scandinavia to Italy
Verbose and explicit are two separate things.

This is explicit and verbose. Explicit does not need to be verbose.
C compilers should really refuse to compile code that does blatant type punning like this. Is there a book out there that is teaching people this is okay? Everything I’ve ever learned about C/C++ has explicitly warned against type punning.
Aren't there countries that have decriminalized drug use? Have those policies resulted in a higher amount of drug abuse? They haven't.
I've been keeping the taskbar at the top, and in Win11 some apps when they open they automatically move behind the taskbar so I cannot drag them away. I have to resize a corner, so it recognises it's behind another object and stutters down.
There are so many ways to ask for help about that:

- https://pijul.zulipchat.com

- https://discourse.pijul.org

- https://nest.pijul.com/pijul/pijul/discussions/new if the failure is in Pijul itself and not in one of its dependencies.

And even on Twitter (@pijul_org)!
All the while SOME people use the browsers' implementation, and the browsers become an ever-increasing spaghetti of complexity and security holes that everyone is mandated to use.
Completely agree I went from we should be two nations to federal govt should much less powerful one way to get started is remove federal tax and instead have states collect all taxes then pass it to federal government
> This stuff should not need lists of XML config to get right

I'm "doing" DDD in "hexagonal monoliths" for years now. And have never touched a line of XML.

The XML is caused by Java (more specific its Maven build system). You'll hardly touch any XML when you build your projects in Go, Ruby (not rails!), Rust or many other languages or platforms.
> I often hear about the great battery life of the Pebble watch, and that there is no smart watch with a comparable one.

My Fitbit Versa 3 has a week long battery life, can do Google/
Alexa Assistant, Google Maps, Spotify, GPS, health montoring, voice response to text messages although it does use its own Pay system. I think what they mean is that Samsung and Apple don't have watches with comparable battery life.

I would still switch back to my Pebble if they made it again.
> $840K mortgage with 20% down for a $1.05M offer. House not appraised yet, but almost certainly above offer price since all comps from the realtor are $1.2M.

https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1513685250655760384
>so you are "forced" to always be insured

This sounds more like a hypothecated tax.
But are these people going to jail?
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> I think it is not uncommon for Windows folk to find the windowing experience on macs rather painful, at least at first. However, after a while, it sort of "made sense" to me, if that makes any sense at all.

I always feel like Apple optimises UX very heavily for laptops (small screens, fullscreen-first makes a lot of sense), where Microsoft optimises more for desktops (large screens, multiple apps sharing the screen makes more sense). I find windows really clumsy on small laptop screens, even though it works great on my desktop :/
This is legitimately the kind of thing I'd expect to see out of ISIS, not the world's ostensibly 3rd strongest military.

[edit] It's pretty embarrassing, and I think tells a bigger story.

I strongly suspect that part of the reason the Ukraine invasion was so bungled is that the military procurement folks were getting cheap knock-off equipment and pocketing the difference. Leadership was told stories of cutting-edge tech while reality on the ground was very different. I suspect the whole army looks either like this - mixed in with whatever was left over after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

I do agree that the PJSC United Aircraft Corporation [2] (a merger of Ilyushin, Irkut, Mikoyan, Sukhoi, Tupolev and Yakovlev design bureaus) has some decent, modern designs but I'd argue a lot of that is carry-over from the cold war too. Their F-35 competitor (Su-35S/Su-27M) are improved variants of the Su-27 which debuted in 1977. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-35

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Aircraft_Corporation
Why not switching to Amazon Handmade program?
> if the goal is persuasion then good-faith arguments don't scale

That phrase helps crystalize the concept very nicely.
This is old, cute, but simply slow and a really bad idea on modern hardware.
Q: Do you offer certificates from a pure ECC based certificate chain?

A: Not at this time.

I see what you did there.
Unfortunately only if they still work. I went through 3 of them that failed due to the screen corrupting.
The actual tunnel is actually "only" from Austria to Italy.
It was a 'tilting' train(leaning into the curve). Some part of that mechanism was constructed in wrong ways (too thin), which led to partial cracks, which led to partial derailing, trailing sparks. Which led to investigations of all of them, showing more cracks in development. So they have been "grounded" for a while, conventional trains taking over. Then it was deemed safe to operate them in non-tilting, conventional modes, which led to delays. So Deutsche Bahn wanted their money back, and got it. But no tilting diesel-trains.