skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I recall being in a Clubhouse session with Paris Hilton and another with Anthony Scaramucci and thought "wow, there are some interesting people on this platform"

Funny, that would give me the exact opposite response.
Take a look at Chania, Crete Greece. You can setup a corporation in Greece and work as a contractor for local and foreign companies. That will get you 22% tax. Assuming you make more than 80k / year (after taxes) you'll be on the high-end. Housing is expensive for Greek standards but I'm pretty sure that you will be able to afford it. It is an island but pretty big. Has hospitals, universities, etc. Chania is a small town but 6 months a year is flooded with tourists so appears to be much larger and always vibrant. The sea and scenery in Crete is outstanding. Especially the canyons.

Cons: Infrastructure in Greece is poor. Internet services are considerably more expensive and public transport is not good compared to central Europe. Streets are poorly maintained as well.

Pros: The food is amazing, best you've had. Any kind of crops will grow there and will be tasty. You'll be living next to the sea, you'll be the most "popular" member of your extended family... Everybody will want to "pay a visit" as often as possible. People are pretty friendly, crazy at the same time but really open. The gov is actively trying to destroy the healthcare system but it is still average.
The Canary Islands do have many nice places, it’s surprising how many different ecosystems one can find there, even within a single island.

Be aware though, that there is an increasing number of unassimilated immigrants. It’s a good idea to research the different areas in advance when picking where to live.

Also taxes in Spain are bad and getting worse, but from my limited experience (Spaniard living in Germany) it ends up being roughly a draw compared to Germany. It might well be that at the higher income brackets it’s an advantage, will be glad to hear about your experience if you end up moving there because going back to Spain is something I think about frequently.
Live streamed opinion panels are a popular thing on Youtube and can work really well if the topic works and the people know how to work the format.
Alternative solution: get rid of the programmers so you can have leap years
> Its the same reason why C++ hasn't been adopted.

Among the reasons C++ hasn't been adopted for Linux:

* Nobody actually did the hard work. The Rust for Linux people have spent a lot of time actually making this possible. C++ proponents tend to just drive past "Ha, you should use C++" which they presumably think makes them seem clever but it doesn't.

* C++ doesn't have a coherent "freestanding" subset. In theory (and according to the ISO document) there's freestanding C++ but in practice you quickly find you need lots of custom runtime stuff, it's not really part of the C++ standard at all.

* Linus is trying not to be an asshole and that's not going to be helped by introducing a C++ culture where you'll routinely see sentiments like "This has a Code of Conduct so it's for fucking snowflakes".

* C++ loves implicit allocation and Linus hates implicit allocation, especially infallible allocation. Now, you could sort of fix this if you rewrote a lot of stuff, and indeed in the Rust for Linux implementation of alloc (Rust's allocation library) there are a lot of places where it does fallible allocation and doesn't offer implicit allocation.

The example of the latter which won't affect most kernel programmers but I think is easiest for a typical programmer to understand is this: In C++ or Rust, if I have a string called adjective (maybe it's "Fast") and a string called noun (maybe "Cheese", and I write phrase = adjective + noun; then we're going to get the resulting word from concatenating the two strings ("FastCheese"), right? Is this abuse of the + operator? Maybe. But it works. In Rust for Linux that won't compile. Because it's an implied, infallible allocation. To put that concatenated string somewhere there's an allocation, which could fail, and how could the + operator "fail" ? Where does the error go if this happens?
I'm more worried about, "how do we illustrate the clear need for a change without pouring gasoline directly onto the anti-intellectual bonfires that already exist?"

Every one of these little scandals points us to opportunities to improve, but also is confirmation bias for people who think science is just one system of superstitions amongst a field of viable contenders.
Sure, of course, I would guess that basically everyone agrees with your entirely non-controversial opinion that you don't like seeing advertisements... but why can't they say "climate change"?

You note "Maybe it isn't even about the topics presented, but about the politicians and political campaigns in general.", which could hypothetically be true in another instance... but in this specific instance they approved the same ad by the same politician after the phrase "climate change" was replaced with "democracy".

They specifically, explicitly, wanted the phrase "climate change" removed. In this instance, it is clearly not about the politician or political campaigns in general - it is about the specific phrase.

https://archive.ph/VNGYQ
He didn't get that, I guess.
What would u use for a floating scaffolding or buoy that you want to last in sea water?

(Yes, we can tow it to shore for inspections, but would rather not)
This.

I spent several years in sales and then dabbled in marketing.

It is entirely possibly, even superior, to have a completely ethical sales process (at least in a technical market).

In marketing, psychological manipulation is part and parcel of the task. You can’t get to step 2 before you want to take a shower to wash the ick off.
The parts lying in oil paper were probably also covered in oil or more likely grease. Oil paper by itself does little to prevent rust. There are costs associated with covering parts with grease. You have to apply it everywhere, for many applications, you have to remove it before actually using the part, etc.

The product I linked automatically emits a chemical which clings to the metal and creates a microscopic protective barrier. The layer is so thin it does not affect the mechanical properties of the metal so it does not have to be removed. Although it will go away by itself several hours after the part is taken out of the special packaging.

Anyways, I am not trying to sell the stuff, just letting people know what is available out there.
Chernobyl hid the fact that the reactor was highly unsafe, because it was too expensive to fix it. So yeah, it was about money. Socialism is not immune to having things require a positive return on investment, and is hardly immune from forces that cause them to hide costs and risks.

As for the benefits of capitalism, it's the only system that has managed to lift millions of poor people into the middle class and beyond.
I was working for a company collecting readings from IoT sensors of all sorts (anything between temperature/humidity to weirdest things like weight of poultry). One issue we had was that we had to manually group related readings, this was specifically painful for data collected from bigger data sources with flat structure, like one sensor box with many wires connected into it and at the end of each wire there were multiple sensors collecting data - those sensors were then represented in the flat structure and only correct naming was allowing us to figure out what sensors were related to each other. I don't know if it is possible to group related streams of data purely based on values, I would be very interested to learn what is possible here. Generally data interoperability is the big problem in this field, manufacturers (and engineers) naming their things differently. One sensor manufacturer is calling temperature `Temp`, the other manufacturer is calling it `temperature`, or just `T1`... And I don't know if this problem is big enough, we were simply figuring this out each time we had new player introduced to us.
Doesn't seem like the person you're responding to is talking about vehicles "hauling crops" - rather, the lifted "rolling coal" vehicles that have been an integral part of rural masculine culture for some time now.

https://www.google.com/search?q=rolling+coal&tbm=isch
> https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2021/11/15/...

> …Public investment in U.S. infrastructure as a share of GDP has fallen by more than 40 percent since the 1960s. The World Economic Forum now ranks the United States 13th when it comes to the overall quality of infrastructure...
The one entity that is not going to invest in new plant is an entity that has an existing plant.

For instance if there is a phone company with a copper plant that can charge $60 a month for DSL it is obviously unaffordable for them to upgrade to fiber so they can charge $70 a month.

Some other entity might find the new plant is worth investing in but it still fights against the old plant. For instance the phone company is making crazy profits on $60 a month DSL and can probably still make profits on $40 a month DSL. This puts a downward pressure on pricing for a fiber service and also means the fiber plant is going to bypass many possible subscribers because there are plenty of people who will put up with a 100x drop in performance to save a few dollars.

This book

https://www.commentary.org/articles/leslie-lenkowsky/the-zer...

works an interesting case study that was fundamental to the Democratic party becoming advocates for free trade. In particular, the steel industry in the US in the 1970s still depended on open hearth furnaces that were obsolete in every way to the basic oxygen furnaces used in Germany and Japan.

From a marxist perspective, capital is the "master class", maybe even the capital itself (as opposed to the capitalist), embodied in those furnaces. Instead of replacing the furnaces, the US steel industry pursued protectionism which was harmful to the competitiveness of other sectors of the economy: inferior and expensive steel is an ingredient for inferior and expensive cars, buildings, etc.

To analogize, however, the problem is that the copper phone network exists. So long as it exists there are strong incentives to keep using it. It might not be a problem of encouraging investment in fiber as much as forcing disinvestment in copper.
So these fines represent 0.3% of the original funding...

Does that mean the other 99.7% of the work has been completed to a satisfactory standard?
They typically make rust and corrosion WORSE, not better. They remove factory lee plugs to spray their anti-corrosion goo in, then often fail to reinstall them or do it poorly. Their goop can clog the engineered drainage paths and cause water to accumulate and sit. Some places even drill additional holes thru virgin metal to access hidden areas, which damages the finish and exposes unprotected areas.
It doesn't matter how good the product is if I'm not getting paid enough to be able to afford it. It's easy for John Carmack to see "incredible value all around"; he's a multimillionaire.
I'm with you with a big European recession. But I'm not sure about a big enough crash of the housing market, I think they will do whatever to keep the price up
Not brevity, it seems.
I seem to remember an astronomer mentioning that it is possible to interfere the light from gravitationally lensed double images. Lacking appropriate intuition, this would be amazing for me as I’d think the photons would lose coherence over the course of their multi billion light year journeys (but maybe not?). Does anyone know about this?
I lived on the Canarias for 3 years way back in the 90s. Loved it, but I guess it is totally different today. Nevertheless, especially Gran Canaria is on top of our list right now. It's still Europe, moving there is super easy. Weather is fine. International school should be there and a flight to Germany is a little more than 4 hours. So far sounds like an option.
A couple of things off the cuff, but economies of scale affect infrastructure costs, so centralized areas take far less money per person to operate. For example, a dozen busses provide much better return on investment in an urban area than suburban or rural because they can each complete a single route quickly and service more people per mile and thus you have service every 10-15 minutes. When you spread those same busses out over a larger, less dense, area you have much longer between stops and far fewer people to use them for the same cost.
Water, sewer, electrical, communications all scale better with more dense living as well. Bigger pipes are far cheaper than much longer runs.
Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31961508

Crime and violence rates similarly don't match up with what we might expect, though it's a complex topic.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-06-07/is-new...

I don't have anything for socialization, but access to more diverse population gives you far more options to interact with people of shared interests. For example, if you're the only person in your small town who likes Sci-fi, you aren't going to get to discuss it with anyone. In a more dense/diverse area you'd likely have options of dozens of book groups and meetups. The same holds true for any number of interests.
I think they're referring to the nukes
It is true. As someone who has spent over a decade in marketing, only a small percentage really have any idea what they are doing. Most just parrot what people who know what they are talking about—it will sound good at first, but then you realize they don’t understand what they are saying beyond the surface-level detail.

This is especially problematic when you are not a marketer and hope to hire a marketer or marketing agency. The good ones, bad ones, and nefarious ones will all sound pretty much the same.

The best advice I can give if you are looking for marketing help is to find a trusted advisor. The second best is to trust the one who tells you hard truths. You will hate it when they say your product won’t sell at the volume you want in the current form, but most marketers develop a sixth sense for what will and won’t sell and often have some ways to estimate demand for a particular niche or industry.

Most agencies won’t tell you that your product won’t sell because no one likes to hear that. It actually shows a lot of honesty and directness to tell a client that it won’t work.
I think there's a fundamental misunderstanding of most of those concepts, like 'karma' and 'zen' etc.

Westerners (especially Americans) tend to interpret them through a very narrow Abrahamic lens that severely impacts their understanding.
It was complicated. It was a constitutional monarchy at the time, and killing the king was at least one sub-revolution away. Seriously, there were many, many ways he could have avoided being executed. The Revolutions podcast has a decent summary of all of it, including Louis XVI’s many mis-calculations and stupid PR mistakes. If you can call “a summary” 20 hours worth of podcast.

They were at war with half of Europe though, and directly threatened by the Austrian army, amongst others.
Stellantis really is a European company, which was the point. I felt the need to choose a country so I chose where they’re headquartered. Regardless, most people would identify those brands as “American” cars, which was the overarching point.
> that you want to last in sea water?

How long?

Under what kind of load?
Does Germany not have any concept of promissory estoppel?
If we didn't da anything about Microsoft ca 2000, we absolutely can't do anything about what Stoller writes about.

Do we even know what Stoller's funding is? Propa... Material like this appeared around 1996 and continued to surface all through the Microsoft trial
Ask HN: What to do about Google Fonts repo ignoring pull requests
I and several associates want to improve some Google Fonts fonts. But our PRs are being ignored, for months or even years in some cases. What should we do? Any recommendations?
Bars were open. Whatever impact school would have on transmission was dwarfed by bars.
> To hide implementation details from class users.

Yes, that's what private does. My question was more why you should do that.

> the interface can stay the same even though you could completely re-do the guts.

So is the reason to use private that it's a way to tell programmers to not use something in too many places because that will make it hard to change in all those places if you need to change the private member?
Why _would_ you expect anything different to happen at a massive company?

It's not like the team who write the drivers are likely to know of the team working on optimizing compilers, profilers, or anything at all really.

My experience has been that especially in companies working in diverse disciplines across disparate codebases, very little is shared. A team of 8 in a tiny company is just as likely to make the same mistakes as the team of 8 in a bigger company. At large companies with more unified codebases and disciplines, maybe one person or team has added some process which helps identify egregious performance issues at some point in the past. But such shared process or tooling would be really hard at a company like Intel where one team makes open-source Linux drivers while another makes highly specialized RTL design software, for example.
Should I try to brainstorm other names then for my product, and remove the "zen" from it?
Fratelli d'Italia (the party that is going to win the election and lead the next government) propose in his program to exit from EU, even if not explictly.
Our 7 person standup takes about 30 seconds if nobody is blocked or has any questions. Most days it takes longer because most days at least 2-3 developers want to say something.

If your team lead (or god forbid somehow a PO is present) is lecturing or questioning individuals to report about specifics during standup, I'm sorry you have a shitty boss.
It's the same in my province for rural areas. I recall fiber optic lines being run in the mid 1990s but then nothing. Politicians promising just basic Internet connectivity at first then "high speed" (the famous up to) for the last 25 years.

Here in south-eastern Canada we were some of the first to be in the Starlink coverage area. From what I hear it's doing well not fantastic but better than up to x speed which always seems to end up being less than 1MBps. Luckily I am in a town with lots of options but still the cost is high $100/month for 350Mbps.

Setting aside Musk's abrasive personality, any typical satellite Internet issues, orbital clutter, escalating costs, it's at least something. Internet access is more than just for entertainment these days.
China's house market is also affected by different cultural forces. It is almost impossible to marry without owning a house/condo. This forces a ton of young people to buy property who may otherwise rent. Also you are seeing the break up of multigenerational living situations into individual family units as you move from rural to urban living scenarios.

Land and real estate are also a huge income shelters for Chinese elites. They cannot appear too wealthy, so they buy real estate to hide their wealth. Only recently, last 5 years, has China instituted a national real estate registry. I wonder how much of the market disruption of the last few years is due to large players trying to divest themselves.
This.

It's possible to show front-page for any given date since HN launched, or with a bit more work, to use Algolia to search to top submissions for a given date range. My sense is that quality's held up admirably.

Keep in mind that Usenet's peak was about a decade (~1985 -- ~1995), and HN's running at about 1.5x longer with far less degradation.
Sure, but after market kits for LED lights are pretty common and often are installed by the end user.
> That's not a concern considering OP is European, he can move wherever he wants inside the union.

What's happened if an Italexit will happens?
Kind of, but the crypto crowd can't do micropayments. Blockchains are too expensive to run to process payments in the penny range.
Lots of US cities such as Milwaukee still have lead water service lines. Depending on many factors, this lead can get into the water you drink and use to water plants. The chemical techniques to prevent pipe corrosion aren't super appetizing either.

https://city.milwaukee.gov/water/WaterQuality/LeadandWater
Howard Waldrop. We stopped about half way through because it's pretty boring for a 12 year-old. Switched to Avram Davidson's "The Golem" instead, which he liked much better.
Just the other day, an Intel graphics-related driver (dwm or something) was using 13GB of my laptop’s memory.
makes no sense. violence makes people do what you want. The only counter is more violence. nukes aren't used because its irrational not because of a treaty.

ai will be used everywhere it makes sense. war is a very basic application
Presumably the path lengths are probably not identical... That means we might be able to see the same galaxy twice at different points in time?

That should be a really good way to check our models are accurate!
What worse stuff could have been said at the time, though? His "followers" thought of him as a noble leader free of any moral ambiguity. The direct opposite is a cold-blooded murderer who murders out of greed.
If the CIA tried to discredit the image his followers had of him, I think this write-up would be a good way to do it.
Keto is not a simple diet change. It is very difficult to stick to and comes with a lot of prohibitions. Adherence is low and side effects do happen.
Just look at a graph of global military spending interlaced with time-periods of relative global peace. You will find a remarkable—but ultimately unsurprising—correlation. You will find for example that after the Napoleonic wars in the early 19th century, global conflicts reduced dramatically along with less military spending.

Pre-industrialization, governments used to spend upwards to 90% GDP on their military, and tiny countries existed back then as they do today. Today there are quite a few smaller countries (and a handful of medium sized ones) that don’t even have military at all. I think your narrative of smaller countries being snapped up by bigger ones is not a historic pattern at all.
These two things taken together:

> People's expectations are relative to their environment. [...] Similarly, the vast majority of HN users are extremely high-percentile for global wealth and income

> Having high standards is a _good_ thing. It's the hallmark of society's progress.

seem to suggest you subscribe to the "trickle-down" ideology. I don't. No, having pockets of "extremely high-percentile" people who are entitled to complain about "unfairness of 10% of their work not being appreciated" is not a hallmark of society progress. It's closer to systemic exploitation. It's a pattern we should know very well from history lessons. No bread? Let them eat cake! Sure. Just brace for the impact when the bubble bursts - there's a sharp blade at the end of this road.

> it's nothing to be ashamed of unless your self-esteem is so low that you think you don't deserve to be treated well.

Because having 100% of someone's work accepted as useful when it's not - for whatever reason - is a basic human right that everyone deserves. That's called "being treated well". I didn't know; I thought not getting 100% sunny days in a year is called "just life", but now I know it's a violation of my rights. How could I be so wrong for so long?

I'm being sarcastic, but you have to accept this comment in its entirety and tell me how happy you are that I wrote it for you. I put work into writing it. I deserve being praised for it, no matter how much you like what I wrote. Right? Please, do treat me well.

How's that for a reductio ad absurdum?
Source code for Rust-based info-stealer released on hacker forums