skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure you know, but (based on discussions that took place at the time of the announcement back in 2020) I know a lot of people who leapt directly to the assumption that the removal of the reserve requirement was so that banks could "create even more money out of thin air than they were previously allowed to do".

I hope you don't mind me clearing that misconception up, even if it's not for your benefit!
Early F-104 Starfighters had a downward-firing ejection seat [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-104_Starfighter#Eje...
I wonder how many people spend significant amount of their early working life doing low-wage jobs whilst trying to "make it big" as an influencer.

And I wonder what percentage of Starbucks managers started out as Starbucks wage-slaves.
Its not just Italy. Did anyone catch this story:

Nigeria blocks 73 million mobile phones in security

clampdownhttps://news.trust.org/item/20220420123542-btwyo/

"She later realised her SIM card was one of about 73 million - more than a third of the 198 million in Nigeria - which have been barred from making outgoing calls because they have not been registered in the national digital identity database."

"Nigeria is among dozens of African countries including Ghana, Egypt and Kenya with SIM registration laws that authorities say are necessary for security purposes, but digital rights experts say increase surveillance and hurts privacy.

Nigeria has been rolling out 11-digit electronic national identity cards for almost a decade, which record an individual's personal and biometric data, including fingerprints and photo.

The National Identity Number (NIN) is required to open a bank account, apply for a driver's license, vote, get health insurance, and file tax returns."
I am willing to bet that if those places had well paid jobs easily available, people would start to move in.

For all the cultural likes and dislikes, mass of people is generally moving when they have pragmatic reason to do so.
Few months ago I rage quit Netflix because their shows would start autoplaying and nothing I did could disable that. I couldn't read one synopsis distraction free or browse without having to constantly click my GTV remote just to stop the friggin thing from playing. WTF! I'd like to think there were more like me who voted by cancelling their subscriptions. I hope PMs at Netflix who forced this onto their users lost their jobs.
I went into an experience living in Wisconsin with exactly this viewpoint and was sorely disappointed at the shear amount of selfish, entitled, prejudiced behavior that exists only in these lands of strip malls and spoiled nature. I’m saying this so the next person reading your post isn’t swayed. And to those people: many of these towns are dead. They died long ago with the small farms and factories. The Houses are priced to sell.
I think it makes sense. Women go back to the kitchen and men get paid more since there are fewer candidates for the same jobs. On the other side since the mother stays at home, kids are raised well.
Yup, being sarcastic, you got me there.

Like, a variable font size such that a letter can be just one pixel high and wide? Yeah, that's a GUI. But I rather prefer GPU accelerated GUIs ;-)
I live in a region of the United States that is significantly less populated than Rwanda (larger, a few hundred thousand residents) and don't see what the opportunity would be in health care.

I guess you could discard less perishable products if they were moved around for use.
Fascinating. This may give us a way of empirically comparing the processing power of biological vs digital neural networks. Just make them play pong against each other and see who wins!
I lost this week on FOYER without repeated letters, there are plenty of words with ER endings and O as a second letter.
—-
VOICE
LONER
TOWER
JOKER
POSER
HOMER
——-

The last two were unlikely to be the word, but I try to finish in only a few minutes and those popped to my head before foyer. But I could have guessed BOXER or DOPER or some other words I’m sure. When I’ve lost it’s usually because I have 3 letters and guessing only 2 new letters at a time doesn’t let you eliminate the other options fast enough.
Why do you think you need to uniquely identify all your visitors?

Is that truly worth ruining your website and annoy your users to start?

There are very few things in life that are truly as black and white as this.
The cost of a house has spiked to over 7x median income in the US, in a very short time. That's put buying a house out of reach for many people. Hopefully the bubble will burst -- but who knows? It could drag on for a very long time.

Historically, the cost of a house has hovered around 4.5 to 5.5x annual median income. It's currently at the highest level it's ever been, at least according to this graph:

https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-inco....
"Heroin" is very widely adulterated with fentanyl, carfentanyl, and who knows what. If you could still buy Bayer heroin Many of the deaths in recent years would probably not have happened.
How did European countries originally create the capital to invest?
The reality is actually significantly worse than what parent comment posits. Money gets created out of thin air frequently in banking, it's quite the scheme / sham.

Learning more about how the financial system works is usually upsetting, and in surprising ways. The entire business has a certain ring and scumbag scent to it.
we are doomed
There is a huge difference between investing in the productive capacity of a country, and dumping cheap/free goods.

If you look at countries that have successfully transitioned from 2nd/3rd world countries to 1st world economies, despite what "free market" boosters would have you think, nearly all of the started out with a huge amount of protectionism, so that domestic producers could improve their capacity without getting decimated by (initially) more advanced foreign competitors. South Korea is a great example of this, and of course China - while China is famous for its exports, China makes it notoriously difficult for foreign firms to compete in the country, often putting out the tantalizing notion of a huge market, but then stealing trade secrets and putting their thumb heavily on the scale in favor of domestic companies.
Would you ever say that someone focuses on technical details due to a lack of design knowledge? Or does that street only run in the one direction?
Good point. Example showing the two contrasting meanings of the word "oversight" in modern English:

At m.d.s.policy it was our view that Symantec management had inadequate oversight of Symantec's Certificate Authority and as a result on several occasions over an extended period an important oversight relating to the name validation procedures at CrossCert, a Korean business authorised by Symtanec to issue on their behalf - occurred without being detected by Symantec. This definitely resulted in undetected misissuance.

As a result of our efforts to fix this problem Symantec sold their entire CA business to DigiCert, and CrossCert became merely a reseller of DigiCert's products (including "Symantec" branded certificates)

This meant that now DigiCert's trustworthy management exercised oversight over all issuance of certificates from the new CA hierarchy even when the certificates had "Symantec" branding - while an oversight by CrossCert, such as failing to verify the identity of a customer, would no longer cause misissuance because DigiCert would independently use the Ten Blessed Methods.
Fortunately we moved off Fedora some time ago, for exactly this sort of reason - when you're working with industrial stuff where minimum timescale is a decade and reliability is a must, low-tech FB interfaces are de rigeur.

Once upon a time, breaking userspace was a no-no [0].

[0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75
Sorry, I've edited it again (I tend to do that a lot, it's easier than typing everything out only to discover I've used up my post quota for the day.) Liberals are definitely not in the same bucket as leftists, they're arguably just another kind of libertarian.

Democracy is another extreme you don't want. Many people have written about how destructive it can be and should definitely be balanced with something slower (in the past this was an aristocracy/monarchy, in the US and Canada you have the Senate.) I really don't think maximizing democracy should be an objective.

To respond to your edit: This categorization is a pretty old one that comes from the french revolution. I think it makes empathy easier which makes political ideas much easier to communicate and reason about. Precise definitions and catagories (as long as they're consistent) are not oppression, they're necessary for communication.
I don’t understand the connection you’re making. This was a civilian who happened to work in the defense industry; we have no indication that he was otherwise familiar with the mechanical workings of the fighter jet he was put in. For all we know, he was the night janitor at a warehouse.
Meanwhile, in Soviet Russia:

"For improved pilot survivability the Ka-50 is fitted with a NPP Zvezda K-37-800 ejection seat, which is a rare feature for a helicopter."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamov_Ka-50

Yes, ok, it has explosives to blow away the rotors. But how many different ways could that go wrong...
I guess maybe they could be made at more reasonable pricing in volume?

But you're right. I've needed to have small 100 BGA sockets before and typical pricing of non-standard parts was $2k for 4 with a $1k setup fee.
I had a different source, but Wikipedia says that you are correct.
He can comeback in 2032, he will be 54yo.
Another advantage of DC over AC is that DC doesn't have to be synchronized wrt frequency, phase, or power-factor.
Nope it's not like that.

Poland is currently ruled by a right-wing party of really strong lunatics.

They introduce laws at night, cheat, steal on a massive scale, they destroyed the tripartite government. They send inconvenient judges to the other side of the country, they divide the nation, and so on.

They violate the constitution, they have turned public radio and television into propaganda outlets on a level you wouldn't believe.

The plane with the government delegation crashed. They tried to land in fog, well below the permitted minimums. They shouldn't have done it at all, but they did, and everyone died. Simple ball.

As I mentioned earlier they are lunatics. One of the ways they stay in power is through this disaster.
They go on and on and on about some bulls, they spend billions on research - I'll give you an example of what - they blew up a greenhouse... They did some experiments with ...sausages. Totally absurd. They talk s about artificial fog, mysterious explosions, it's just absurd.

The worst thing is that they use ...bodies of people who died there. For the umpteenth time they dig bodies out of graves, publish their photos... Nightmare.

Now they are once again showing their bastardry - they are using the war in Ukraine to revive the topic. You know - evil Putin blew up a plane. They are so absurd that e.g. the moment the information about the use of thermobaric weapons in Ukraine appeared, immediately this pseudo-commission started talking about a thermobaric bomb in the plane.

So don't believe in this article.
What would a (much more complicated) LGA 1200 socket cost if it wasn’t already a high-volume part? I can buy one for $85 and they’ll throw it in a retail box with a whole motherboard, multiple PCIe, DRAM, DisplayPort/HDMI/VGA connectors, Ethernet and USB controllers, as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument

> The nothing to hide argument states that individuals have no reason to fear or oppose surveillance programs, unless they are afraid it will uncover their own illicit activities. An individual using this argument may claim that an average person should not worry about government surveillance, as they would have "nothing to hide".

> Edward Snowden remarked "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say." He considered claiming nothing to hide as giving up the right of privacy which the government has to protect.
The extremes go far beyond your examples, in both directions. For extremes in the "authoritarian deconstruction" direction, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China, or the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, would be well-known examples. On the "authoritarian reconstruction" side, we have many cases from fascist regimes to religious theocracies and many other examples. Even a "communist" ideology like North-Korean Juche has many elements involving authoritarian construction of a rather structured culture.
Cutting Boards of Plastic and Wood Contaminated Experimentally with Bacteria (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31113021/)

"Bacteria inoculated onto Plastic blocks were readily recovered for minutes to hours and would multiply if held overnight. Recoveries from wooden blocks were generally less than those from plastic blocks, regardless of new or used status; differences increased with holding time."

So plastic gives you more bacteria, and plastic shavings. Stick to wood.
EU governments rampantly spy on their own citizens and domestically held data in ways that would make US agencies blush. This is exposed over and over again but no one cares because everyone is fixated on the US.
> and they were powerless to change that.

Don't use the service.

> they no longer can be forced to be "the product" without their consent.

Don't use the service.

> when B is unnecessary for performing A.

Technically unnecessary, the same way that the existence of goods in a shop is not dependent on whether or not I pay for them. But it sure has hell is necessary for the shop to keep functioning.

The overwhelming majority of people are happy to sell their data for free services. How many Facebook movies need to be made before people are convinced that 1) the average person knows they are being tracked and 2) they would still rather be tracked than pay.

I mean ffs, Netflix is about to roll out an ad supported plan. The average person does not value their privacy nearly as much as the outraged HN'er would believe.

Bring on the downvotes.
Still dont get it. Obviously a dom implementation that is tied to a garbage collected script language has to be tied to the garbage collection in some way to free connected resources, this fact only shows that it is not a trivial task which is obvious. i still do not see how this is an argument why a garbage collected language is a bad idea for that usecase.
From the OP:

> Just give us a web filesystem already. Stop with these shitty infantilized GUIs ... That actually worked ffs. ...

I responded by saying:

> Your level of angst makes me think ...

I suppose I could be wrong about the OP expressing angst, but I think it's reasonable inference.

Also, you wrote:

> Because it's a paid service.

I see two problems here:

(1) I was asking the OP (@titzer) what their reasons were, not yours.

(2) Only some people pay for Google Drive. One reason that I wrote:

> Your level of angst makes me think you believe someone out there is obligated to do this for you.

>

> If you believe that, I'm curious why.

was that if the @titzer was paying for Google Drive, I could see him having a stronger reason for expecting Google to make the product useful to him. But I didn't want to assume, which is why I asked.
This is true for me. But it wasn't always the case.

It used to be a release from the grip of boredom and permit my brain to dance about joyfully.

Now it flips my anxiety switch and I get stuck in a self conscious loop. Almost the opposite. Wish I could go back.
I don't think so.

You can try out Snap Search:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cybersky.snaps...
Ezra Dyer is such a great car writer. I loved the Car & Drivers of yore, especially pre-2010ish. Ezra’s pieces are the only ones left that remind me of why I was so obsessed with hoarding and re-reading these mags as a kid. Even so, I miss how clever & irreverent the old C&D was.
Block-level encryption in SAN is pretty common.
Fascinating!

While my mind is VERY visual, I have horrible music recall and music doesn't come naturally to me at all.
More like an athlete wanting to become a coach, which is very common.
Hey Cesare, fancy seeing you here ;)

As the other comment notes, I’m not sure if MAME can actually properly emulate any music hardware. There’s a skeleton Elektron Machinedrum/Monomachine in there for example but it can’t really do anything interesting (although this thread talks a bit about how some hackers used it to help reverse engineer and ultimately create their own firmware for the Machinedrum, see my other comment for more details: https://github.com/jmamma/MIDICtrl20_MegaCommand/issues/88)

Another project which may be of interest is this emulation of the Motorola DSP536xx DSP, which was used in a lot of classic late 90s hardware synths: https://dsp56300.wordpress.com. It can actually run Access Virus ROMs pretty much perfectly and apparently on an M1 the performance is pretty good, it’s usable but crackly on my i9 Mac. They’re hoping to be able to emulate many more synths which used the same DSP but for now the Virus is the focus.
Basically, the TTY driver keeps track of the foreground process group id, but only in a passive way. A user process can affect the behavior of any TTY device by manipulating the corresponding device file under /dev. For example, a user process can send a signal to the TTY driver, which will then suspend the process. TTY driver keeps track of the size of the connected terminal, but this information has to be updated explicitly, by the terminal emulator or even by the user. The TTY driver is a passive object.
We can't easily do empirical studies on the effects of family structures besides the nuclear family, because the nuclear family is the norm in Western society right now (and especially America).

That means that a) there will be very few such families to study (and where you do find larger populations that have non-nuclear family structures, there are likely to be other confounding factors, as they are likely to belong to some particular subculture). This reduces your sample sizes and makes it hard to draw rigorous conclusions based on the data you are able to collect.

But also b) any such families you find will be necessarily marginalized to some extent, because, again, the nuclear family is the norm, and that fundamentally means that those who eschew it will find themselves underrepresented and frequently discriminated against, both overtly and subtly.

That means that outcomes for such families in the real world, today, will be almost guaranteed to be worse than they could be otherwise, because of the exact thing BLM is trying to change (the nuclear-family norm).
The thing about this article is it seems to make the implicit assumption that hostility to novelty is a bad thing. I don't think that's justified. Obviously, allow no new ideas into a field and it will die but allow too many new ideas into a field and you have a recipe for the field becoming a pseudo-science.

Before you propose changes to allow more ideas in, it would be appropriate to have some measure of whether a field is too tight or too in the amount of ideas it allow now.
There used to be some documentation that explicitly mentioned it by name, but it has since been removed: https://archive.ph/20140226185421/https://git.kernel.org/cgi...
> he majority just don't want to be a "good employee" for 40 years just increasing the number every quarter for shareholders.

The way to feel better about this is to also be one of the shareholders.
>Yes - hence the problem with income inequality in the numbers.

Immaterial. You're just announcing to the world that you don't know how "per capita", census tracts, or quantiles work.

>The "upper quartile" is so low, it includes people making 60k a year.

Because that's the facts for the median income of the census tract.

During 2009–2013, Beverly Hills had a median household income of $86,141 as an example.

Pacific Heights has a median household income of $125,550 per year.

>More granularity in your numbers would show that actually wealthy people don't sign up.

It would show the complete opposite, as it shows with the quintiles now.

>It looks like you're using statistics to lie.

No. I'm using statistical FACTS to tell the truth. It's an inconvenient truth that shatters the narrative and the fake news the left has been spewing on this topic for decades, but it's still the truth.

The fact that you just can't handle the truth shows how bad you've been subverted.

>It's pretty clear that "wealthy people are overrepresented"

Of course it's clear, that is reality.

>only true if you do things like, define "rich" starting at 60k.

The upper quintile for census tract median income starts there. You want to deny statistical fact because it goes against the narrative.

The statistics show clearly that the lower classes (lowest quintile) are underrepresented. Poor people do not serve as much as the upper classes (top quintile) do. QED.
Any advice on the sitter? I don't have the perfect friend available, not sure there's an option here except to do it alone or not at all
> immediately hit countermeasures without thinking

Out of curiosity, if this is the doctrine, why doesn't the plane just fire countermeasures automatically?
The big question is what's the origin of these laws, given that people add little value themselves, as expressed by their own choices, to privacy and conservative data management?

I wonder if the EU citizens have special needs virtually every other citizen in the world doesn't have?

Or is the EU trying to establish a power position versus american companies?

I wish we asked the citizens, who do you want to trust your data to, Google, or the government?

Q: "Do you wish to exercise your right to be forgotten, in your relation with the government?"

A: "Yes, I don't want the government to know who I am"
"When it's springtime in Alaska, it's forty below". That's all I have managed to memorize about temperature conversion so far in my life.
That doesn't seem like a big issue. Have browsers refuse all cookies by default, and let the server send headers that say "please allow these cookies, they're actually necessary". Browsers can either trust that list, or present it to the user and let them decide.
Precisely. I wanted to avoid painting a cartoonish and emotional picture though.
Using the "same words every time" (i.e., a fixed set of initial guesses) has been studied before [1,2,3]. It is one of the few remaining open questions about Wordle. Interestingly, it can be done in 6+1 guesses [4] (COMBO FATTY GRRRL SPUDS VENGE WHILK, then the possibilities are always narrowed down to a singleton). However, it is unknown whether it is possible within 5+1 guesses, which would make Wordle 100% solvable even with such a constrained approach!

It is unfortunate that 3Blue1Brown's excellent video has been so often misquoted as providing "optimal" guesses for Wordle. Of course, one can legitimately argue that using maths takes the fun out of the game... but if we *are* going to use maths, then the information entropy approach is simply not the one most suited to this specific game (because the dictionary is fully known).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30094398

[2] https://www.poirrier.ca/notes/wordle-optimal/#fixed-guesses

[3] https://github.com/alexandres/magicwordschallenge

[4] https://github.com/alexandres/magicwordschallenge/issues/2
There was a time in this very country where factory jobs were quite aspirational, that people would move across the country to Detroit for a chance to make Mr Ford a bit richer.

Because it promised a good life for their family; and they'd end up having pride in the work they did.