skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And there you have the press release of today:

"Questions and Answers –New rules to fight child sexual abuse"
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_...

Exactly as predicted in this thread it's a "think of the children"
and at the same time also as mentioned by others in this thread, mandated obligations but preparing for the excuse of "we never actually asked for this way of doing it"

"Does the proposal cover encrypted material?"

"The proposed obligations on service providers as regards the detection of child sexual abuse material are technologically neutral, meaning they do not prescribe which technology should be used for detection. It is an obligation of result not of means, leaving to the provider the choice of technology to be operated, subject to its compliance with strict safeguards."

"This includes the use of encryption technology. Encryption is an important tool for the protection of cybersecurity and confidentiality of communications. At the same time, its use as a secure channel could be abused of by criminals to hide their actions, thereby impeding efforts to bring perpetrators of child sexual abuse to justice."

"A large portion of reports of child sexual abuse, which are instrumental to starting investigations and rescuing children, come from services that are already encrypted or may become encrypted in the future. If such services were to be exempt from requirements to protect children and to take action against the circulation of child sexual abuse images and videos via their services, the consequences would be severe for children"

It will be probably 6 to 12 months before this is extended to "Terrorism" and another 6 months to be extended to subversive talk on "Vaccine Risk".
For the same reasons that any collapsing domestic currency matters.
> (except for the other meaning of "special", and that has a lot of truth to it).

Haha, I appreciate the candor, and earnest response!

> Anyways, the demand for software engineers increased extremely significantly (multiples of open positions, rates doubled) when Covid started and all remaining companies hopped on the digital transformation trend; and that continues to today.

I agree, it's why I came back to tech actually; I wasn't satisfied with where the fintech Industry was heading in the 'blockchain' craze and decided that while the pay was good, the most I had ever been offered actually in any job, I'd be dedicating my life to something I knew was a farce and we couldn't deliver because of abject greed to cash-in on the flavor of the month.

> Your characterization of the programmers market seems totally out of loop.

I never said the demand didn't exist, I said that their is a deluded sense of self-worth that is so out of touch with reality from the comments I quoted that it's astonishing to hear people make so much and still be like 'well that guys has more, so I should too.'

That level of greed is what puts me off so much from this Industry because it resembles banking, its also a red signal that we have entered what is likely a bubble in programmer salaries which for me as a person just getting back in to tech after a 5 year absence to study AI and ML (arguably the most frothy of all programming roles) makes me step and re-evaluate things.
> In fact, Mittelstands will probably perform even better if they can figure out how to attract the kinds of talent well-funded startups do. And from there, it'll be a virtuous cycle.

Perform better towards what end?
I just checked and the programs in /bin on OpenBSD are in fact statically linked. The ones in /usr/sbin are not.
I'm quite pleased with my Sony NW-A45. I miss the ability to rate songs, but I understand it is much better than the Android based alternatives.
It's nice to be able to still run on a crippled system without access to dynamically linked executables, so you can recover. But in practice, wouldn't just about anyone simply boot to a more capable recovery system (via another partition, USB drive, netboot, etc...)?
Stop it, WHO issued best practices for naming new human infectious diseases four years prior - in 2015.

https://www.who.int/news/item/08-05-2015-who-issues-best-pra...

>Terms that should be avoided in disease names include geographic locations (e.g. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, Spanish Flu, Rift Valley fever), people’s names (e.g. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Chagas disease), species of animal or food (e.g. swine flu, bird flu, monkey pox), cultural, population, industry or occupational references (e.g. legionnaires), and terms that incite undue fear (e.g. unknown, fatal, epidemic).

>WHO developed the best practices for naming new human infectious diseases in close collaboration with the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and in consultation with experts leading the International Classification of Diseases (ICD).
Neoliberalism calls for elimination of social services? I know it as the exact opposite! Who defines these terms? Who defines what is canonical?
What does that have to do with anything? El Salvadorans are entitled to run their country according to their own culture and beliefs. It’s called self determination and it’s a recognized right of free peoples. Last I checked women in El Salvador can vote and could change the rule if that’s what they wanted, but they don’t.

The El Salvadoran Constitution recognizes a right to life beginning at conception. Technically, Germany’s Basic Law enshrines the same right according to the interpretation of its high court, although Germany takes a different view of how that right should be balanced against other values of the basic law like individual self determination: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1525/ctx.2002.1.2.27. People being able to make these sorts of trade offs between different values is the core of democracy.
>Bad/illogical/outdated directory structure is one of the most annoying things I've encountered while using Linux

Every OS I've ever used has had these kinds of quirks, save simple ones that just dump everything in the root folder or equivalent. Its really hard to move files once you ship software and doubly so do an OS. Users expect files to be where they were last version.
I bought bitcoin and when I tried to sell it on coinbase I realized
coinbase is a big fat scam. There fees are are a robbery and you are the victim.
"/sbin, /usr/sbin is for binaries that need root"

No, they're for statically linked executables.
> Imagine if you could take a house worth, say, $100,000, then "lock" it in a "trust" controlled by a token (NFT, we used these back in 2017 when no one knew about them), and you can use up to a safe % of the house value as collateral for a stable coin (say 20%, or $20,000). The NFT acts as a "key" to the property.

... you've reinvented the mortgage? Except with significant overhead for the trust, which requires a bit of conveyancing in the real world.

Also governments are becoming wise to the risks in allowing property to be owned through blind trusts, requiring registration of the beneficial owner, e.g.: https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-...
When you suggest that reducing taxes and eliminating regulations might hurt the most vulnerable, they have two responses: 1) no way, it would only help them because the market is perfect!, 2) who cares? the poor need to get a job!

People like neoliberalism for the same reason they like fascism: people want to believe in a utopia that mirrors their values. Belief is a hell of a drug.
Liberalism and neoliberalism have always been about the rights of the individual above everything else. But the concept of "liberal" has been perverted in America.
Social/political scientists who actually have intentions of ensuring they communicate in clear terms with each other. I'd go with their definitions, they're a lot more reliable than politicians and their double-speak when it comes to these topics.
Ideally for the double whammy of also buying the carbon rights for the reforestation that will surely ensue a decade or two later.
A really good in depth take on how the U.S. immigration system works for a highly skilled technology worker (Intel,Google,Amazon,Startup) from the point of view of that person.
We Improved Table Performance in AppSignal – Back-End Changes
It sounds like you're describing the walkthroughs from Ilograph: https://app.ilograph.com/demo.ilograph.Ilograph/Request

(click 'Start walkthrough' in the top-right)

In the same diagram (but in different perspectives) there are walkthroughs of individual scenarios e.g. https://app.ilograph.com/demo.ilograph.Ilograph/Update%2520d...
You are probably the only one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
Yet another revolutionary new battery. Graphene batteries, liquid salt batteries, etc etc.

My dad has a popular mechanics do it yourself encyclopedia from the 1950s and it has several articles of new battery technologies in the works that will be available in a few months, just you wait and see.

For my entire life, new batteries have been just around the corner to replace lithium ion, every 12 to 18 months, one of these articles come out.

At this point, I will believe them when I see them on store shelves and not one second before.
The article you linked to says abortion. Is this what you meant by the word "miscarriage"? I got curious, because doctors usually mean by this term spontaneous termination of pregnancy, which would remove any intent from the picture; and can there be a crime without an intent?
What this has in common with the megaflashes is that both are flashes between the clouds, which don't necessarily hit the ground:

> Megaflashes crawl through the clouds but can produce or induce ground connections at various points.

I have seen a few thunderstorms like you describe (although probably less powerful) at night where I live. Lots of very frequent flashes, but only between the clouds and with almost no thunder.
"that's what made getting into Linux/Unix really hard. You have all these folders and files and no README.md to explain what is what"

In the old days, I read books for that.
Conventionally, neoliberalism is described as a doctrine that commodities and commercialises everything it can. It is the growth of markets into areas traditionally without them, the belief that choice is more important than standards, and so on. That's the basics, anyway.

What you might be thinking of is the tendency for American liberals to advocate for things like the welfare state, universal healthcare etc. That isn't neoliberalism, it is an ideology rather than a process.
Linux-Libre
Interesting, yet terrifying, as is all C++ wizardry to me.
> Institutions can promote well-being and solidarity, or they can encourage competition, individualism, and hierarchy.

Why is this presented as an either / or?
I searched for Clojure as a tech stack and none of the top dozen companies mention Clojure anywhere in their jobs listings.
On macos its less of a problem because the OS tries to hide your home folder and shows Documents Desktop and downloads in the Finder. Still much prefer .local and .config to a pile of dotfiles.
“Neoliberalism” generally refers to the policy shifts under Reagan, Thatcher, etc. the “liberal” part of the word coming from the original sense of it and not the modern American version just meaning “left”.
Anything that has anything to do with the cellular network is irredeemably broken and should be avoided.
Sanpuru is simply the Japanese rendering of "sample", and by itself means the same as in English.

Kappabashi-dori is definitely worth a visit though: in addition to fake food, they have epic selections of Japanese ceramics and all sorts of kitchenware. It was originally mostly for wholesale quantities, but has become increasingly retail/tourist-friendly.
People throw around that word "Neoliberalism" as if its meaning is self-evidently clear. The author cites three elements of it, only one of which (free market capitalism) I've seen consistently used, but that isn't even something that began in the era most commonly ascribed to the ascendency of this doctrine. Just what preceded "Neoliberalism" so that we can distinguish its full defining feature set?
To be fair: this type of problem is present in most countries where religion is a major part of society and government. I can list a dozen other countries with strong religious backdrops where abortion laws are oppressive in the eyes of most humanists.

America, with their recent Roe vs Wade discussion is close to getting on that list.
"As of right now I don’t know what the answer is and wouldn’t want to hazard a guess, though I will say that $0.91 is much closer to $1 than it is to $0."

I think what the UST situation is showing is that for a stablecoin 0.90$ is a lot closer to 0$ than to 1.00$. There is probably an interesting mathematical structure to the 0 and 1$ attractors.
Lower taxes is not a utopia, it's perfectly feasible, unless you think that you owe something to the poor just for existing.
EU proposes regulation that may mandate scanning of encrypted messages for CSAM
As an artist who does digital abstract art, I've always loved Monet's (and Van Gogh's in a different style) ability to create a mood with from close up what appear to be random brush strokes and dabs. It's a magical ability I could never even vaguely approach. The ability to paint outdoors and capture fleeting lighting effects a camera would have trouble with (since a photo is only an instant) is also amazing. If I had $10M to spend and had an option for a Monet or Van Gogh, or a Bored Ape, how is that even a decision? 100 years from now people will still love the former, and the latter will be remembered alongside Pet Rocks if at all.
Practical Vim is great.
interesting background on Rand, thank you. From your descriptions, if you're right in your assertions, it seems as if her fiction has been hijacked by dismal extreme libertarians taking characters as if they are paragons of virtue, rather than problematic examples.
The Wikipedia page addresses the meaning shift https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
Most people don't really think about the world they live in. They listen to the radio, watch TV and don't see any hidden agenda. They just simply learn to parrot what they hear.

Then ask them, framing the question in a familiar way, and they just parrot back.

LOL. Sounds like GPT. :-)
following the link would have shown you the intent of his post clearly.
exactly.

Best practice is to not click on any link in an sms/whatsapp. I don't recall any useful link sent by SMS. Whenever it is important it is always a warning telling you to connect yourself via the offical app/website eventually using the token/parcel code/identifier sent on the actual sms.
> Neoliberalism holds that a society’s political and economic institutions should be robustly liberal and capitalist, but supplemented by a constitutionally limited democracy and a modest welfare state. Neoliberals endorse liberal rights and the free-market economy to protect freedom and promote economic prosperity. Neoliberals are broadly democratic, but stress the limitations of democracy as much as its necessity. And while neoliberals typically think government should provide social insurance and public goods, they are skeptical of the regulatory state, extensive government spending, and government-led countercyclical policy.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/neoliberalism/index.html
The question on the survey was

"We need larger income differences as incentives for individual effort" vs “Incomes should be made more equal.”

But the ridiculously biased title pretends that people who picked the first option just want income inequality for no good reason, and are somehow brainwashed by neoliberal institutions.
How Curiosity's radioisotope power system works (2018)
Before that was Classical Liberalism. At least in US and Western Europe. In Eastern Europe it was something officially called "Unimplemented Communism/Developed Socialism".
That's a ~20 year old case(that was misrepresented anyway) and ultimately has nothing to do with the current administration and its Btc experiment/gamble. The current political party in power didn't exist then and neither of the two incumbent parties campaigned on changing abortion laws so it's unlikely to have changed. Let he whose country has not spent a century sponsoring arbitrary regime change cast the first stone.
I'm a big fan of Scheme, which is just about as old as UNIX, and which is based on the even older LISP (which is even older than UNIX, going back to the 50's).

I'd infinitely prefer to use either than Rust.
I am hoping this also opens up more opportunity to leverage Lisp's symbolic powers. I had great fun with Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (SICM), and recently a paper on analyzing music using symbolic regression [0], and another on symbolic regression with Lisp [1]. Julia and CL seem perfect for this with Mathematica as another option for quickly playing with ideas.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286905402_Symbolic_...

[1] https://towardsdatascience.com/symbolic-regression-the-forgo...
All Possible Plots by Major Authors
It's amazing how such a large proportion of our society becomes incapable of thinking critically about policy and incentives when the policy in question is the product of a legislature.

Regulations just stupid rules made up by stupid humans. They're not special. They're no more likely to be a net good or bad for the groups they apply to than some random policy that comes down from corporate.

Every regulation that removes a rung from the ladder and increases inequality sails under the flag of some noble goal. And useful idiots take that shit hook line and sinker.

If prosperity was as simple as playing regulatory whack-a-mole on every bad thing we see we'd be a hell of a lot more prosperous.
Liberalism means freedom in all spheres (including economically and socially), no need to add the neo- prefix. When you have freedom in a global economy there will be massive income inequality (think about Lebron James or Elon Musk vs the average person) but everyone is better off. Technology allows the best athletes to entertain millions, and the best entrepreneurs to serve billions.
How do you reconcile solidarity, aka consensus with individuality?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Consensus

The 10 rules of the washington consensus essentially define the feature set of neoliberalism.

Theres a little fuzziness on some items but it's crystal clear on 95%. E.g. Q: would a neoliberal advocate privatization of state enterprises? A: yes.
Western Union [0] charges $8 to send $200-600 from the US.

So if you’re sending the minimum amount that’s 4%, but that goes down to 1.5% if you send $600.

So it’s not very expensive and in many situations the transaction fee is less than Bitcoin.

[0] https://www.westernunion.com/us/en/send-money-to-latin-ameri...
Especially in North America, classical liberalism, liberalism, and neoliberalism are different things. Reading something like the Economist, which is British, can cause some confusion.

The short story is that freedom can mean you should be free from the strictures of the state, or it can mean the state gives you more freedom by supplying certain things to you. The long story is really long.
I don't think I owe the poor anything for existing, I think they should be taken care of as fellow humans. We live in a society, we should take care of each other.
What is the main difference between classical liberalism and neoliberalism?
> their dictator was tweeting about

Sounds like a line from Snow Crash but its... real...
"Inferring" is not the same as knowing and is as good as useless, propaganda-wise. You cannot overtly ignore/censor the position of 'the other side', while demanding that your subsequent inference about their intentions is canonical.

Either you know what the other side is thinking, because they told you - or you simply don't.

You've come to a conclusion that supports the propaganda you've been fed - but it could as easily be stated that Russias' move towards Kiev was a feint (not unheard of in Russian military doctrine) while it built up the resources needed to keep the battles going in the East.

Which is what happened.
It reads to me that the true intent is more in restriction competition and individualism more than it is promoting well-being and solidarity. I’m no fan of what they’re criticizing but you do have to consider what the alternative would be and who would be implementing it, and given the current political power structure that doesn’t seem like an attractive option either.
I get it from (this blog)[https://alexanderell.is/posts/numbers-game/], Thanks very much still!
Yes. But that was one that was not well done.

A few people involved in the industry called out a lot of things they said in that report.

The stock price was insane, but most of the criticism they made of the tech doesn't hold much water. You can find a good video about the report on youtube. See TheLimitingFactor detailed video on the report.
Counter point. Tech stack for my company is fairly accurate. At least accurate enough for any potential applicants to know what they are getting into.
The idea of a "political compass" helps. The left has two groups: authoritarians who want to replace culture with something secular and have strong social services and government regulation, and the liberals who want to reject culture and let people do what they want. The right also has two groups: the conservatives who want the government to enforce our culture and the libertarians who want to be left alone.

For the past ~100 years we've found consensus between the liberals and libertarians but everyone is radicalizing away from that. So we still think of liberals as being the leftward movement and libertarians as being the rightward one.
Using Podman and Docker Compose (2021)
"Neoliberalism" is a specific term for the conceptual forms of capitalism the west has been under since the 70-80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
So you're a #2 :)
The vulnerabilities allegedly exploited in the article (in SS7) have nothing to do with encryption being backdoored.

It’s a bit of a weird conclusion to make…

Maybe they are saying that if the PSTN ran with strong encryption and authentication and that encryption wasn’t backdoored, this thing that is alleged to have happened wouldn’t have happened ?
Because they are mutually exclusive. Competition, individualism and hierarchy will make sure that the ruthless will end up on top of the hierarchy, caring only about their individual needs, squashing attempts at solidarity and squandering opportunities to have any kind of well-being for others.
I couldn't find anything for Nola, but for "Nolo press", I found this book: https://store.nolo.com/products/patent-it-yourself-pat.html

Is that what you meant?
I've seen a number of toxic/plagiaristic submissions from brighterside show up. Would be nice to add them to the list of spam/blocked domains.
Who likes fascism?!

Fascism must be the least popular extremist ideology in 2022. I have never heard anyone in my life talk about how it might be a good idea, or how "real fascism hasn't been tried yet". Hell I have barely even seen it on the internet.

As far as I can tell it exists today only as an epithet, but happy to be proved wrong.
The first point is exactly what I donated to for a few years based on an EA recommendation 10 years ago!
I notice that your comments often include trigger words/phrases like "devs on their fancy Macbook Pro". Then I realized that I do the same thing. You spot it, you got it. Maybe I'll start a 12-step group for snark addicts.
Interesting, freedom to do what?
Haha, sometimes I’m too British for this site

I’d be over the moon with that 50k job, never mind the 300k one. Even with currency conversion I’d be up 10k/y

America, fancy outsourcing to the UK?