skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I surmise that there must be at least a couple of countries where a marriage certificate is nothing more than a plain sheet of copy paper with something along the lines of "I hereby declare that X and Y are married" in their local legalese.

Aside from using something other than “copy paper” and added ornamentation, this could describe all of my US legal documents including my marriage and birth certificates.
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

I’m not sure how your reply has anything to do with what I said.

“Better than the US” is not some hurdle that makes a problem “solved”.

Canada is likely better at snow removal but that doesn’t make it a “solved problem”.
Well, pardon me for pointing out, but he really should be talking to the people who aren't available to him to meet. The workers, slaves, people in jails. I'm sure they would have a slightly different opinion.

Availability bias at its most obvious.
...and you will show your users stale data, which is a non-starter for a chat app. You will then need to implement some custom push/invalidate mechanism, based on a custom interpretation of the DB event log.

The entire point of the Fire* style of database is that these trade-offs are not worth it in the long run, that few development teams have the skill and time to implement this themselves, and that databases can and should solve this for you.

I have little love for Cloud Firestore, it's a trash fire riddled with poor decisions, but if you don't even understand what the problem is with that SQL query, you don't understand the expectations users have nowadays of front-end applications.
As there's no such thing as "life partners" in sharia law.
Indeed, regulation in the anti-thesis of crypto, and what crypto enthusiasts detest - but if crypto has any plans of going mainstream, regulations will have to be in place.

I think that regulations would come in the form of how so-called stablecoins and their owner companies can operate, how other companies (exchanges, etc.) can operate, and so on.

Take stablecoins - one might regulate these with hard requirements of how many % of their backing are in extremely liquid assets. Take tether - the idea is that it should be backed 1-to-1 with USD. Of course, that is not the case, at all. The owners have said that it's not backed at such ratio.

With extremely opaque stablecoins, you really have no idea what they're backed by. Imagine if stablecoin xyz said "We're 99.99% backed by [some currency]!" but then it turns out that they're backed 5% by said currency, and the rest has been put on the stock market - because the owners figured they could get filthy rich by betting all that money on low-risk stocks. Works until it doesn't work, and then people do a run on the coin.

So, regular audits, full transparency, hard regulations around what they can or can't do. That alone will probably flush out the majority of fly-by-night scams.

I think it is understood that most people are in it for huge and quick gains. Some crytpo fundamentalists will say that they're in it "for the tech", but I would be very, very surprised if that was the case for majority of crypto holders. So you are right - a regulated crypto space will probably drive out many of the speculators and gamblers, but I think that's OK. In the end there's a need for cheap and efficient cross-boarder payments, without having massive companies as middle-men. But to achieve true mainstream adaption, that will come at costs. The wild-west days are closing up.
Yeah, some people are so used to "my rights" that they forget there are places where you don't have any.
Technically yes - what makes your opinion on how life should be more correct than their opinion?
Actually, it is the same in Norway. Though less enforced and lighter punishment.
> barbaric

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barbaric

"possessing or characteristic of a cultural level more complex than primitive culture but less sophisticated than advanced civilization"

This is barbaric: Flogging -> "Flogging is employed as a punishment for alcohol consumption or illicit sexual relations"

stoning -> "As of 2014, certain provisions of the Qatari Criminal Code allows punishments such as flogging and stoning to be imposed as criminal sanctions."

> US

They are (were?) friends: "In 2003, Qatar served as the US Central Command headquarters and one of the main launching sites of the invasion of Iraq."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar
I'm not particularly interested in debating what exactly independence means in the abstract. But to my untrained political eye, it seems that countries are free to choose political and economic unions and those unions tend to come with benefits and obligations.

Are members of the UN or WTO independent?

If a body consisting of representatives elected only by "Scottish citizens" can decide which unions to associate with, and which to leave, we'll have independence in my book.
I agree that the actual "setting up traps" is work, but so is choosing investments (even if that is usually shunted off to an index fund these days).

My gist was more that in both investing and trapping there is a point where the positions are set up and there just isn't anything that you can do to make the process go faster. Not being able to make it go faster by putting in additional work seems to be psychologically difficult to cope with for many people.
Interesting, I wasn't aware of that.

Checking manually, I found many of the low-numbered RFCs are present, though there are some higher in range which turn up 404.

E.g., RFC 1 is online: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1

But here's a list of missing HTML pages from the first 1024 RFCs:

8, 9, 14, 26, 51, 92, 159, 201, 220, 244, 248, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 272, 275, 277, 279, 284, 337, 341, 358, 375, 380, 383, 397, 418, 424, 427, 428, 444, 465, 481, 484, 502, 507, 517, 530, 536, 540, 541, 554, 558, 564, 572, 575, 583, 598, 605, 639, 641, 646, 648, 649, 650, 664, 665, 668, 670, 673, 676, 682, 693, 709, 710, 711, 715, 723, and 853.

For anyone who wants to verify:

wget --spider --force-html $(
for i in {1..1024};
do
echo "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc${i}";
done ) 2>&1 |
egrep '(https.*rfc|awaiting response)' |
grep -B1 '404 Not Found' |
grep -v '404 Not Found'

Above RFC-2000 or so, the pattern of omissions starts to look more deliberate, suggesting reserved values:

8, 9, 14, 26, 51, 92, 159, 201, 220, 244, 248, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 272, 275, 277, 279, 284, 337, 341, 358, 375, 380, 383, 397, 418, 424, 427, 428, 444, 465, 481, 484, 502, 507, 517, 530, 536, 540, 541, 554, 558, 564, 572, 575, 583, 598, 605, 639, 641, 646, 648, 649, 650, 664, 665, 668, 670, 673, 676, 682, 693, 709, 710, 711, 715, 723, 853, 1061, 1182, 1260, 1839, 1840, 3100, 3200, 3223, 3328, 3333, 3350, 3399, 3400, 3500, 3699, 3799, 3800, 3889, 3899, 3900, 3907, 3908, 3999, 4000, 4099, 4100, 4199, 4200, 4232, 4299, 4300, 4399, 4400, 4499, 4500, 4599, 4600, 4637, 4658, and 4699.
> The selling point of Go is readability, feature minimalism and code that might be boring to write but gets you readability in return.

That is one selling point. Another is that it's a GC'd language that compiles to native on all major platforms, and is more popular than the alternatives, like OCaml, Haskell, D, Common Lisp. Just like Java was used as a platform on which to build languages, like Groovy, Scala, Clojure and Kotlin t otake only the most popular.
It is not about the Kafala system, since even the West has similar systems. It is that they treat migrant workers that are not highly skilled specially from specific backgrounds bad.
Truth is only within the range of the cannon
> Firefox is responsible for such a low percentage it's sad (the stats I have for the sites I work on it's usually on the 1-2% range). I think it's mainly because of the horrible leadership at Mozilla. I want to use Firefox and promote it but every time I think they've changed Mozilla does something new that boils my blood.

This is repeated ad nauseum on this site and needs to be called out. The Mozilla management may be rather self serving but Firefox is a fine browser and more than viable alternative to Chrome. The reason they're losing market share is because Chrome is bundled everywhere as default, not just Android, but often as part of desktop Windows too, by OEM. And now Edge, which is Chromium under the skin, is the default on MS Windows. So Firefox is used only by those who specifically seek it out, which means just a small portion of the tech community.
What kind of difficult to support advanced features do you have in mind?
Sure they do - these protocols define digital assets that can be owned in a non-custodial manner, and exchanged and escrowed via peer-to-peer mechanisms without fear of double-spend. These are the goals of the protocols, and both BTC and ETH have succeeded wildly at doing this specific task, facilitating billions of dollars worth of transfers for several years without any notable record of a double-spend or network downtime.

This says nothing about their USD spot trading price, or the practicality of securing large amounts of wealth with a 24-word private key, or the expectation that these technologies should somehow replace all corners of the world's financial transactions.
UAE had the most vaccinated people. Except they only counted citizens, foreign workers didn't count. I suspect Qutar did something similar.
It seems from the website that InSpace is a proximity based chat app too so this aspect might be similar. I don't really see a demo there so hard for me to assess the exact differences!

I'm experimenting with the revenue model right now, would be happy to hear any input on the current pricing I set out.

As per the servers cost - it's directly correlated to the usage. It runs audio, video and physics on the backend so high CPU instances are needed to run it smoothly. It's quite optimised for now though and a couple droplets are enough.
Low interest rates combined with a massive shortfall in house building and add in help to buy and those rates were low for a massively inflated initial asset.

Plenty of people who are middle class got furloughed or let go during Covid. Pretty much everyone I knew who were contractors were let go.

Brexit had an impact before the vote and immediately after the vote because inbound investments were paused, some HQ's were moved to different locations and the pound dropped in value. I'm not taking into account post actual leaving the EU because it's too complex to disconnect the impact from everything else going on.

Now we have a tidal wave heading towards us. Most working and middle class people just don't understand how bad it will get for some of them. Those that worked during covid, saved up and then didn't spend it all post lockdown will probably be ok. The others? Not so much once share prices crash and the boards of directors start making layoffs to get the share prices to rise and to make sure their portfolios are ok.

I'm expecting riots like Brixton, Handsworth etc. again in the UK.
My favourite ancient example are the vitrified forts found in Scotland and a few other places - large amounts of stone walls partially melted - nobody knows how this was done or indeed whether it was intentional:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitrified_fort
What makes this "modern" specifically?
Qatar is Sunni, they do not do temporary marriages, which is a Shia thing.
Any info on benchmarks ?
Purely for curiosity sake ? "Back in my day" - server-overloads were a common thing, and the connection counts were in the low thousands ?

Would love to know the modern day connection-numbers with something like Go+Channels
Or in BBSes: The WELL.
For the Pinephone, the Quectel firmware supports AT commands for creating a TCP connection through the modem, after which the modem sends wakeups on the bus when it receives data on that socket. So that can be used to implement push notifications without any lag from having to periodically wake up to check.

The problem is that:

a) ... this requires teaching ModemManager about this API since MM is the only thing that talks to the modem.

b) ... this requires teaching clients to talk to MM for a TCP connection, likely using some new dbus-based API to match MM's existing API, instead of just socket() + connect() + read() + write(). So existing TCP-socket using programs will not work without modification. (LD_PRELOAD trickery can work, though ideally only sockets used for push notifications would be routed through MM and the rest use socket(), which can be hard for an LD_PRELOAD'd library to do.)

c) ... one should really be running the OSS firmware instead of Quectel's, and the OSS firmware does not implement those commands.

This was discussed a few months ago in #pinephone. AFAIK no one is working on it.
These sound like Apple problems not IRC problems.
Someone even developed a complete SOHO router in Go: Router7 [1].

[1] https://router7.org/
I have, and it was producing impressive results. However, I was trying to learn Rust and to do so I needed to do the hard yards myself. Moreover, in my brief time using it, it was switching me to a code reviewing frame of mind rather than thinking through the problem.

I thought it might be more useful to me for a language I’m already good at, or one I’m not trying to master but just need to get a task done for.
Personally, I think Google already does whatever it wants similar to what Microsoft did. They do offer standards for discussion but it will implemented and expect other vendors to follow suit.
Obesity is the most prevalent causal factor for obstructive sleep apnea and in weight loss is the most effective treatment for obstructive sleep apnea in overweight patients. Weight loss can be (but is not always) an effective cure.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/weight-loss-breathing-de...
It's also the case that if a couple isn't married then they need to stay in separate accomodation while in the country.
You can absolutely use keyboard and mouse. Some things will be harder[1] but you can still learn a lot of flying with just mouse and keyboard: landing, navigation, energy management, radio, emergency procedures, checklists, flight planning, etc.

[1]: Some examples:

- you'll have to smash the throttle up key very quickly to throttle up for a late go-around,

- you won't have meaningful rudder controls so you'll have to rely on auto-rudder, and

- trim is a bit more difficult to get a sense for without sensing the deflection of your pitch control.
That's a good point, I didn't think to consider the alternative of drinking stagnant water
Singapore uses public caning. This stuff seems common in city-states.
They are setup to defend against it, Several countries have reacted against the blatant corruption and Fifa will instantly suspend them for political interference.
I think it can be argued that school shootings are culturally accepted. Many Americans seem to view them as a necessary price to pay for, and unavoidable consequence of, their Second Amendment freedoms, something I've seen argued numerous times. The gun culture ethos of "the only answer to a bad man with a gun is a good man with a gun" implicitly normalizes the latter to justify the former. And then there's the fact that school shootings basically act as advertisements for the guns used, such that there's always a spike in guns sales after such an event.
Generative encyclopedia of imaginary sea creatures
Qatar can remain a backward country with medieval culture for all I care.

But FIFA should not host a World Cup in such a place, hence our protests. Of course Qatar is more than welcome to play in our stadiums, I have nothing against the sport nor the players themselves, the only thing that matters on the pitch is the rule book.
Liberalism may even make you forget local laws that respect the cultural practices of others? Arrogant speech is no good. If someone like you reaches the top of politics, I think the world war will come soon, and you are more likely to be a fascist than others.
The US mass shootings definitely don't make Quatar treatment of slaves less barbaric. Try maybe another argument.
There’s other ways to be bought than money. Very few athletes have risked their careers to take a stand or do the right thing. Their sincerity is really undercut by never taking a risk. Unless they’re just part of the bread and circuses…

“Xxx is bad, unless it hurts me” isn’t a defensible moral position. Better they drop the sermonizing if it’s just feel good.
My country was incredibly barbaric just 80 years ago. We changed our norms and are much better now, but still lots of room for improvement.

Countries can change. I see no reason for not calling them out for their (apparent) barbarisms as long as I am willing to be called out myself. This is the only way that we can improve this world for all of us.
My seven year old changes the oil (I loosen the oil filter and remove the drain plug after he's told me to), works with (real) hammer and nails, and traverses overgrown hills without slowing down his infantry-serving father's pace. Is he a man at seven?

Or for that matter, my neighbor's six year old herds the sheep all day in the sun, unattended. He is responsible to bring his own food and water, and tend to the sheeps' needs such as food and water, and actively herding them. Is that six year old a man?

How is a 22 year old person who crosses an ocean and gains admittance to one of the most secluded nations on earth, by way of other nations, considered a boy?
So, how should I feel as a blind user who uses Firefox? :)
"Just doing my job" hasn't been a valid excuse for accepting crimes against humanity ever since 1945. Sometimes doing the right thing comes with a cost, and sometimes, that cost is non-negotiable.
Not having alternatives is really bad. Chromium-only web would suck.
I’ve never been interested in football, I’ve never watched it, and this basically ensures I never will.

Basically it means that if I and my girlfriend went there we’d be considered criminals if we had sex? This is absolutely absurd. I understand that this is all about money and that FIFA is probably one of the most corrupt organisations in the world, but how on Earth did they come to think that westerners worldwide would be OK with this?
Because it has oil.
il is a pronoun[0] in French.

I haven't learned French since high school, but here's how I would translate the examples:

il la viola
"He raped her"

il viola la loi
"He broke the law"

[0](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/il#French)
Yes.

In two words, Google programmers are, as a rule, vastly overrated. They can maybe rope in 100,000 cores on one query, but nothing in their recruiting selects for good coding habits.

Anybody coding C++ in this day'n'age and getting use-after faults needs to go to the back of the line. They will certainly succeed in writing new Rust code that is as bad as their old C++ code. (Note: deadlocks are officially "safe".)

Recently Google made a big push to change the std::string constructor from a null char* to yield the empty string, instead of honestly segfaulting. That failed. They had a half-baked (and hellish, for users) async/await design they tried to put up as worth delaying the whole feature into 2023. That failed.
We have local name fabs in Europe but they are not this cutting edge.

Yeah, Europe will again fall behind in tech, especially sine we're currently busy withering a war on our borders, rampant inflation, and an energy crysis.

We have some local companies that are suppliers to the semi industry like Zeiss, Asml, Trumpf.
Probably we have to start again with something different in the same way as the web replaced all the other protocols (gopher, usenet etc). I’m not what that looks like but it should be cleaner, simpler, open and blockchain-free.
mrob explains it well - potatoes aren’t the cheapest carb, but there’s also the cost of milk and butter in the quantities needed. I worked it out at over £4 a day, and you can eat the regular and varied protein, carbs and veg diet on that.
Homeless people dying on the streets shooting up drugs would be a good place for human rights to start, but NIMBY's cultural norms are very inclusive of this for some reason.

Also male genital mutilation at birth is such a nice cultural norm.
We’ll have “amazing” technologies like ActiveX and JScript except this time from Google!
https://www.roche.com/about/philanthropy/science-education/b...
TV's taking a terrestrial signal using a HDMI cable to a set top box which is connected to the internet is just another attack vector. Satellite signals are harder but any SDR can be used on a TV using terrestrial signals.
If you see sex as a perishable intimate resource, then it’s not conservative to move slower. If you see sex as one step up from dancing, then it’s likely to still be playful in any quantity (when practiced safely and consensually)
Tarsnap does not actually look bad. But any client-to-server protocol that is not TLS1.3 will make cryptographers twitch, and (as noted in the documentation pages) compression is bound to offer a side-channel attack (if only an impractical one, with hundreds of queries per recovered byte).
I think it stems simply from a (possibly willful) misinterpretation in pop culture. Instead of reporting that "we don't know how they made this amazing (for its time) material" they reported that "we don't know how to make it" and it gives rise to further fantastical hypotheses, culminating with ancient aliens or something along those lines.
It depends what you mean by “think twice”. It could be that you’re saying that you should not be reckless - to be extra sure you both have the same expectations from the encounter, that you both consent, that neither one of you is beyond the point of being able to properly give that consent (ie you and partner aren’t completely intoxicated), that nobody else’s feelings are going to be hurt and a few other things, that you use protection etc …

But if you mean that people shouldn’t ever be having one night stands, yeah I think that is a little more conservative than the average person.

In this context though, the Daily Star means that this is something people might not even consider is illegal, having not grown up or otherwise lived in a strictly religious state
One night stands are the least concern for british football fans travelling there. I doubt they're going to be storming foreign hotel rooms. The biggest threat to the fans is their actions celebrating (or venting) on the streets in broad daylight. We're not exactly known for having a quiet one when the footballs on.
Outside the U.S., I paid exactly nothing for a night in a sleep clinic. I had the option of a take home kit, but I happen to live within walking distance of the hospital where the clinic was located, so I chose to sleep there.

It wasn't the worst night of sleep of my life, but it definitely wasn't the best. The beds were cheap and simple, all the wires and electrodes were annoying, and the rain on the metal prefab clinic building was loud.

To be honest, I went because my partner complained about my snoring. If it meant a $3-4k bill, I would not have gone.
Let's not pretend that Russia got kicked out due to their less than ideal stance on gay rights, freedom of the press or straight up murders of dissidents in foreign countries. Mounting a full on invasion of a neighboring country is not the same.
Small area means less space to put large prisons on it - which means punishment moves to more corporeal and less incarceration. Especially with "morality" laws, where there is no real reason to protect society from a "criminal", that may be a good way to handle things. I'd guess many folks sitting in prison in the US for smoking weed would much rather have a few whips with a cane than losing years and years doing nothing productive.
Young man sounds okay to me. But boy? For a 22 year old? That's downright manipulative.