skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism, from Goering's alleged statement ("When I hear talk of culture I reach for my gun") to the frequent use of such expressions as "degenerate intellectuals," "eggheads," "effete snobs," "universities are a nest of reds." The official Fascist intellectuals were mainly engaged in attacking modern culture and the liberal intelligentsia for having betrayed traditional values.

* https://www.pegc.us/archive/Articles/eco_ur-fascism.pdf

* https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/

* https://archive.ph/BKXAX

> "The cult of action for action's sake", which dictates that action is of value in itself and should be taken without intellectual reflection. This, says Eco, is connected with anti-intellectualism and irrationalism, and often manifests in attacks on modern culture and science.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism#Umberto...

As I understand it (AIUI), don't bother thinking of the consequences or long-term effects, just get shit done. If one thinks Trump was an Ur-Fascist, it would be him ordering the border wall built—which turned out to be fairly useless.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_wall
I can't find a point in history where the extreme left produced anything else than doom.

As someone who grew up in a poor Eastern European country, I felt both envy and admiration for the US. I thought the Americans had best of everything. US seemed like an ideal in many senses.

20 or 30 years later, I feel grateful we still have families, traditions, respect for ourselves and a way of life which can lead to moments of happiness. All of these are under pressure from self appointed far left elites trying to "civilize" and "westernized" us. I hope they won't succeed and that the West is starting to come back to it's lost senses. A civilization built in thousands of years shouldn't be destroyed in few tens of years by madmen and lunatics.

I will happily accept all downvotes, but I rather get downvotes then not say what I feel.
Having come from a large family, I never realized that people didn't understand just how much work kids are. It's relentless. My wife is regularly astonished. I'm lucky to have been able to stop at one. I would have preferred married but childless but I'll take married to her over any other option, so I compromised. At with just one, we aren't spread so thin.
I'm using Nextcloud already and that has an officially supported RSS daemon app[1]. I mainly use it with this really good Android client[2] (that's on F-Droid) that supports connecting to it (and Miniflux it appears, which I noticed a bunch of mentions in this thread of).

Probably worth mentioning too since this is HN, of the really nice hnrss[3], which I use for comment notifications in RSS.

[1] https://github.com/nextcloud/news

[2] https://github.com/bubelov/news

[3] https://hnrss.github.io
I've always found it interesting that Americans who could literally see Canadian flags across the St. Lawrence River or live in border states such as Minnesota or Michigan, have such bizarre views on the quality of Canadian health care and other social services.
> "Don't say gay" and other anti LGBQT+ laws are being passed.

The law could be described as “baring presentations about sex (straight or otherwise) to a classroom of 5-10 year olds”

After the age of 10 discussions in the classroom can occur. And at any age (5-10), children can ask about sex, but the teachers cannot say “don’t tell your parents”. Which was happening...

Anyway, it has support from all sides. It’s actually a great point about how far the political window has moved. A large segment of the population believes we shouldn’t be discussing anything related to sex, religion or politics in the classroom at any age.
> but female suicide rates dropped by 20%

...hmm, male suicide rates are going up...
FTR I've migrated from Google Apps to Migadu and I'm pretty happy with them but I must say the "acceptable use" clause also raised my suspicion. I guess they don't scan your email automatically but when someone brings to their attention that you're using the service for "unacceptable things" they will trigger the termination. Which, to be honest, happens with other providers even if that's not in the ToS (see Cloudflare case).
Sales people tend to be on commission a lot.

So if you hook a big client, you can go and order that Tesla :)
It's not merely expectations but intergenerational poverty. I get that you think that you came from a less privileged background than your in-laws and in some respects that's true, but even being able to immigrate to the US indicates a degree of social mobility that simply isn't available to the intergenerationally poor in rural America. These are people who grew up in places without anything to do, no training for higher-paid professions available, and who pay first-world expenses simply to exist.

How does one get ahead with 4 children and maybe $2000 of household income per month when rents eat half of that.

This isn't simply a problem of moral failing on the individual level but of failings at the societal level to provide a means for these people to escape poverty.
> "Securing Britain's energy supply by diversifying from EU interconnectors"

Honestly, the EU27 have their own home-grown grid problems to deal with[0], helping third countries transit power through the EU territories must be right at the bottom of the list!

Austria and Germany had a single electricity price zone ... until October 2018,
one of the reasons blamed for the split was "slow grid expansion"[1].

[0] https://www.euractiv.com/section/electricity/news/german-ele...

[1] https://www.apg.at/api/sitecore/projectmedia/download?id=24f...
This is typical enterprise stuff, Sitecore, SharePoint, SAP, LifeRay, AEM, ....

Out of the box they are always very generic and then it is expected that a team of consultants, certified from agencies with vendor partnership, drop in to perform the actual customization.
I don’t understand: are you talking about PPP GDP per capita? I agree that the US optimizes for that, but it doesn’t translate into higher quality of life by metrics like life expectancy, literacy, leisure time, malnutrition, proportion of “precariat” etc.
I have an old facebook account registered using the email address that no longer exists so it is impossible for me to log into it. Yet it still exists and appears in google search results.

I would've written to the support, but I can't find any way to contact facebook. Any suggestions?
Which is precisely why the UK is no longer in the EU. It no longer has to follow "majority law" and can do what is in its own best interests.
In English, the use of "the X scare" means something X that people were afraid would happen but didn't, often because it was never really going to happen. It can also mean being scared of something that people think has happened, but hasn't, such as Orson Welles' War of the World scare. It doesn't mean something that has happened and that scares people - nobody would call the invasion of Ukraine by Russia "a scare".
Standard Ebooks are great, typeset to a much higher standard than Project Gutenberg, though with a much smaller selection, which on the other side facilitates discoverability.

They have an RSS feed with new releases:

https://standardebooks.org/rss/new-releases

And discussed here before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20594802

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14570035
> Why do you think it's Haskells syntax that is the problem? The syntax is not so weird. I'd say the semantics are the hangup. 100% purity and lazy evaluation are a much harder pill to swallow then the syntax.

Could very well be - either way the language has been rejected. Boasting of Haskell characteristics[1] is, IMO, a great way to turn off prospective users.

[1] I don't really know if the Nix project actually does blog posts and reachouts where they boast of Haskell-ish similarities.
I deleted my Facebook account. Good decision. The username - my first name (very common in my country) - was then used by a guy who regularly posts sexist, religious hatred, general ultra right wing posts - he’s kinda high up in a state committee of the ruling party. I kinda feel bad about that. (Same guy got my Instagram handle as well - I think he was waiting for it)

Then I had to open a Facebook account anyway, because house hunting here became next to impossible without it. So that’s there.
I think too much attachment to humanity, in its historical incarnation, is misplaced. Those periods of coherent, functioning civilization may end up just being the gentler slope of the asymptote before things started going nuclear. The same underlying tendencies have always been present in us, they just weren't manifesting at the same scale.

"Coherent and functioning" sounds great, but in practice that coherence was usually bought on credit, by pushing negative social externalities somewhere out of sight. Those externalities are more easily ignorable when the boundaries of the world are smaller. Just push the trash into the river; just tie the witch up in the forest. Just shut up and marry, girl.
SPA frameworks manipulate the DOM through JS, which means they need to take a reference to DOM elements.

In a static website, once you navigate away from a page, the browser can deallocate all the DOM resources related to the old page, which can be quite heavy (images etc.).

In an SPA-driven website, the DOM is created by JS. Once you 'navigate' away (you tell the framework to render a different set of DOM components), the old ones still linger around in memory until the next GC cycle, meaning the browser has to wait for the GC to run before it can free them.

Even worse, GC's tend to be tuned for GC memory pressure, and if you have a ton of GC objects holding onto native resources, the GC has no way of telling it needs to run, because from its perspective, the GC heap is small and it has no idea about the native objects.
Pros and cons.

A big challenge with rigid social expectations is identifying the beneficial ones and removing the harmful ones. In practice, there tends to be little introspection about which traditional expectations help and which ones hurt. Instead, people appeal to tradition itself as evidence that an expectation is helpful. If we could more effectively iterate on these social expectations then we'd be able to more effectively optimize. But efforts to do this (e.g., discussion of topics like "toxic masculinity") are by-and-large rejected out of hand by traditionalists.

Another challenge is that social expectations may help on average but they may completely fail in individual cases. For example, having both parents raise a child will, on average, lead to improved outcomes. But if we codify this as a rigid rule, then people are unable to escape abusive relationships where the presence of both parents is a negative. Social expectations are necessarily generalizations and people need the freedom to identify when they are not helpful for their particular situation and adjust accordingly.
Could it make the whole court process of suing more efficient? Determinations prior to enforcement are very intensive.
> Who would want to be on the cleanup team when the glory goes to the path breakers?

This and the second system syndrome are both organizational issues. Why couldn't an organizational simply freeze the customer facing portion of the application (so no UX or added features) and tell a group of developers responsible for the refactoring that they will be judged on a set of achievable metrics, such as decreased infrastructure costs or better performance?

This would fall squarely within common managerial frameworks (it's basically Tuckman's group development model, or what you see at many startups that launch an MVP), except that the initial application development is handled by a different group of 'high performing' developers.
If you're going the mailinabox route, I recommend also looking at Mailcow. Mailinabox is a full Linux distribution, Mailcow puts a mail server in docker-compose. Both are fully featured, but last time I looked into it I found that Mailinabox is running on more outdated/near-EOL software than I'd like.

As an added bonus, you have can pay the Mailcow devs for a hosted server so you don't need to deal with updates and such, whereas mailinabox seems exclusively aimed at running your own (which is a perfectly valid position to have as an open source dev!)

Either way, you'll probably need to do some configuration on any self-hosted mail service because SMTPUTF support for mail addresses is surprisingly uncommon in default compilation settings on open source software. Notably, the Dovecot devs seem convinced that nobody needs UTF8 in their email addresses and sometimes even dismiss this feature as "silly". Sadly, most self-hosted email options use Dovecot in some way or another so you may be out of luck if you try to run this stuff yourself.
Out of curiosity: What is/was your motivation behind this and how does it correlate to elections?

My baseline assumption looking at this is that in all of these numbers, there are massive systematic, global - and hence exogenous to France or any single state - forces at play (like globalization, the Financial crisis and the following decade of inflationary money printing) which shape most of these indicators.

Showing election dates of French presidents looks like a classic and rather obvious case of correlation does not imply causation.

Might well be that I don't have the full picture though and I was not following French campaigns. Is there a public debate/ general public opinion in France that presidents had significant influence on these indicators shown?
You don't think it had anything to do with the whole of the EU being blamed for ever ill to befall the UK for the last 7 years? Or the negotiations in bad faith where international law was treated as "more like guidelines anyway"?
It doesn't have to make any sense, banking "consultants" have put blocking screenshots in their "security requirements" and now all of them block screenshots.

You wouldn't want to risk being non-compliance when a breach happens would you?
In any case it would be a symptom
What does "less fortunate women" mean specifically? Looks? Desirability? That assumption would mean that the group of "more fortunate" women don't really have problem with jerks, which I don't really see as being true.
Genuine question: what’s wrong with diversification? Isn’t that a good thing?
I deal with it, of course. I'm a heavy Youtube user. The net result is positive.

But it's extremely distasteful and I'm not willing to lower my standards because of this stupidity.
One interesting thing about the ease of marriage divorce in my mind is the incongruence of the entry/exit.

Want to get married? Pay a small fee at the courthouse and get a license in a day or so. Very easy, very low cost.

Want to get divorced? The process can take over a year, cost tens of thousands or more, involve court appearances, and dividing property.

Granted both of these actions are easier or less restrictive than they were in the past. Although the lawyer fees seem to be higher, at least when considering real wages have decreased since the 70s.

With the prevalence of divorce, you would think that prenups could be made a part of the marriage license so that lawyer costs, court costs, etc could be minimized. It might even cause some people to reconsider a bad marriage. You could go farther with premarital counseling if this is really a concern.

I don't know of those are really good ideas or not. Personally, I think the government should get out of the marriage business altogether. With the wide variety of living arrangements and expectations for what a marriage is, I think it might work better for people to enter into private marriage contracts.

On the social pressures and unwanted kids part, I wonder how mate selection plays into this. Sure, there was free love in the 70s, but I still imagine that premarital sex was not as common as it has become today. I wonder how women's expectations of men have changed during this time, especially for when to allow for sex. I also wonder how the expectations men (and society) have of women have changed, especially in terms of work/home/financial responsibilities and contraception/abortion options.
There is a very easy way for the UK to solve the Gibraltar issue. The same line of reasoning would also allow it to drastically improve its relationship with Argentina.
But previously, movie houses would just produce the exact same film again without women. It's not like women are the reason every goddamn movie is a remake of a good idea someone had 30 to 70 years ago.
So much of the elite wealthy class and their media sock puppets on both sides of the traditional left/right political divide are dedicated to pushing the identitarian culture war theme - because what they don't want to deal with is something like this:

"Creating an economy where men can attain dignity and social respect."
One thing to watch out for, is that on some platforms (those that are not doing correct email account ownership verification) account might get recreated either by accident or not, by a person using your email address. I think it is better just to remove as much personal data as possible, cleanup account and leave it with updated, more secure password.
I think that we don't meet many geniuses because they are off doing their own thing in research labs. Look at MRNA vaccines, just a few people toiling for decades have saved millions of lives. But fret not, innovation should only continue as more people are brought up and educated than we've ever been able to in the past. Incremental change will get more helpers. Plus we aren't stunting generations with lead poisoning by and large anymore, which certainly reduced the amount of minds that can handle super specialized endeavors.
I've used Migadu and MXRoute and found Migadu to be the easiest to use by a long shot. MXRoute's setup and configuration is full of friction and just odd ways of doing simple things like logging into your account or adding email addresses and the like.

It sounds more like you have philosophical differences with these 2 companies, as they are very opinionated right out the gate, as you noted. I think, since they're small teams, they're trying to scare off users who are going to require a lot of time and effort on the customer service side.

That said, my interactions with both companies has been pleasant and professional. But it really does sound like you're going to need to roll your own service based on your major complaints.
> I've heard that even more people believe that a man walked on water.

Presumably because there were eye witnesses? See also:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_Sun
UK is currently generating 30GW from all sources[1], so 10GW is a third of the national power requirement. Germany has just had a hard lesson in having significant energy dependency on Russia. Morocco is UK's 61st largest trading partner[2].

Morocco isn't Russia, but handing your life support to a distant and culturally different country in a less stable world region with limited history of partnership (European colonisation until the 1950s) seems daft. I mean, compared to building nuclear power inside UK territory and wind farms off shore of the UK. For national security reasons if not environmental ones.

[1] https://www.energydashboard.co.uk/live

[2] https://abmec.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2021-02-Moro...
Cool!

It's unfortunate that he wouldn't share what the goal was - what he wanted to patch and why.
Yeah that was weird, I actually shipped it to my friend I trust and he sent me the photo of the license code as it was much more practical for many purposes.

Good that they finally sell it online!
I know that's the story, and there's truth in it, but I also find it's an attempt to diminish the skill of the genuine fighter pilots they had.

If I had to risk an opinion, I think it's because it's a memory of a painful defeat for the US -- a militaristic nation with pride in its war history -- and so explanations are devised to diminish the skill of the Vietnamese and to explain away the defeat due to external reasons ("the politicians abandoned us", "the public didn't support us", "the Vietnamese were treacherous and didn't fight fair", "our leaders didn't let us use every weapon at our disposal", "the Vietnamese had help from China and the USSR").

That the Vietnamese fought genuinely better than the US isn't an acceptable explanation, which is why it's remarkable that upon study of the war, this is the fact that emerges.
> Also, divorce sucks when kids are involved, I don't think anyone on earth, left or right, would dispute that.

Tons of people dispute this. The thinking is that people staying married when they don’t want to stay married is worse for kids than people getting divorced and creating two separate households the kids float between. I don’t agree with this thinking, mostly because I’m the product of divorce that saw the aftermath and have seen the deep regret of what happened on both the parent of the previously married parents and the children. I suppose the good thing that came out of it is that neither I nor any of my siblings have gotten divorced, despite now all having been married longer than our parents ever were. Divorce is rarely the answer and does terrible things to children.
>>You're confusing authoritarian governments with limitations on capitalism.

I am not. Economists specifically cite the liberalization of the economy as a major contributor to the decline in poverty, through its positive impact on the rate of economic development.

>>In modern times unrestricted capitalism keeps doing the same: from sweatshops all over Asia

Before sweatshops, the quality of life in those countries was much worse.

>>Nestle literally dissuading mothers from breastfeeding in developing nations which led to widespread problems like, you know, children dying

That can be dealt with perfectly well within the rules of capitalism, which encourages prosecution of fraud, and impartial civil courts where bad actors can be sued.

This is also an anecdote, and says nothing about the broader impact on capitalism, which is captured by statistical evidence like the rate of poverty.
> The law could be described as “baring presentations about sex (straight or otherwise) to a classroom of 5-8 year olds”

One of the authors of the bill was asked if a math textbook that had a word problem saying "Jimmy and his dads go to the store..." would be in violation of this law. He responded that this was precisely the sort of thing the law was intending to prevent.

The law is very much not just about direct sex education prior to 3rd grade.
My problem with takes like this is that they are based off of a really sanitized historical worldview, and they don't take into account any materialist factors. To say that Trump is a canary of our social change ignores all of the equally debaucherous presidents we had throughout the 20th century. In my opinion, the biggest change has been the lack of financial reward for the average person. The bar for achieving financial stability is much higher than it was say 40 years ago. It was much easier to raise a family on a blue collar income.
There's probably a lot of public domain reprinted material in those "shadow libraries", that could be legally posted on PG. Unfortunately, the complexity involved means that few people bother to do this.