skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of the populist far-right parties seem to lean on "whataboutism" as their main explanation for everything. "We did something bad? But what about that time the other side also did something bad? Surely that means we are innocent?" At no point do they simply acknowledge how very sad this is. Poland is one of the most beautiful countries in the world, and yet it's being sacrificed to satisfy the greed of a few corporations.

From the Wikipedia page:

"The Polish government said that the perpetrators would be severely punished, however also blamed uninvolved opposition politicians Donald Tusk, Rafał Trzaskowski and compared the situation to other previous unrelated events in Warsaw and Gdańsk, where the opposition Civic Platform hold power. Grzegorz Witkowski, a government minister, as well as repeating the unfounded government claims, also blamed ecologists and stated that the river is safe to enter."

Grzegorz Witkowski is trying to bring back a pre-Gorbachev style of Communist communication. "The problem isn't that the river was poisoned, the problem is that ecologists have told people the river is poisoned."
How does one 'prove' that other than by appealing to a list of 'human rights', upon which you and the other commenter surely disagree? There is no fundamental philosophical principle beneath human rights in which it will rigorously generate a list of rights. It's a null question, and I suspect you know that.

The stellman of 'housing is a human right' is 'everyone should have adequate shelter', and that's a far more productive starting point. The 'right' angle adds nothing.
Then privately message them. Public networks are not meant for that.
They were making the wrong decision for decades, moving away from nuclear while continuing to increase dependence on Russian gas (against the advice of 4-5 different US administrations). I agree that strategies shouldn't be made on knee jerk changes in public sentiment, but in this case the public is just starting to understand the correct answer that was always there.
When it comes to realtor prices, you're absolutely correct. It's ludicrous that that effective monopoly has been able to persist.

There are other costs and risk though. Many places that have transfer taxes, plus inspection costs, appraisal costs, title insurance costs, and loan origination costs.

You also have to accomodate the risk or some major issue in the 1-2 years you're living there. "Saving some money over rent" doesn't necessarily justify the risk of having to cover costs for HVAC/electrical/plumbing work that has to be done.

If you have a bunch of properties with no stable ownership, where the buck will just be passed to the next person every couple of years, properties will fall into disrepair (moreso than they do now), and temporary bandaid fixes will be (more) or the norm.

Ie, I don't believe short-term property ownership is good for the property long-term.
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Facebook's new AI chatbot will not stop owning Mark Zuckerberg
California proposes to extend life of last nuclear plant at cost of $1.4B
Everyone says there is a housing shortage, yet only the extremely poor live on the streets. So, there is no housing shortage: there are housing units available for almost everyone who has an income. Almost all the houses are just owned by landlords instead of by residents, where the owner uses the property as an investment rather than as a home.

The only shortage is in homes that are not investment properties
Dark Social – What it is, how it evolved, and what the future holds?
A discussion of what Dark Social is and how it has evolved. Its future prospects are also discussed.
What models are these?

I have a collection of about a hundred physical 4K BluRays that I would like to rip and upload to my Plex server.

I just hate using my physical BluRay player. The reproduction is good, super stable, but it's noisy and clunky. I've thought about buying a new player but good players are expensive and I'm not sure I want to keep investing money on physical media.

I live in Mexico and for some reason Amazon US has stopped shipping most BluRay discs here. The selection of titles available in Mexico is much more limited and the prices are so much higher.

4K HDR streaming is really good these days. I rarely feel like the compression is noticeably worse than when watching a BluRay.
Nice. I wish I could put this on my Kindle
There is an impeachment process.
Well I’m pretty sure Morocco becoming as wealthy as Saudi would make it stable enough, one way or another.
If people are offended by the supposed links of the Suckless to Neozism, please stop using the following products also:

- volkswagen beetle

- IBM computers

- Fanta and coca-cola

- helicopters

- jerrycans for petrol/water

- methadone

- Jägermeister

- clothes by hugo boss

- read content from The Associated Press ( by 1935 the AP office in Germany came entirely under the control of the Nazi government)

- kodak products

- Bayer pharmacuticals (no more aspirin for you)

- BMW

- Seimens

- Ford (Henry Ford was mentioned in Mein Kampf by Hitler)

- NASA most of the rocket scientists were Nazis

- General Electric

- Chase Bank

- Random House publishing

- puma and adidas

So if you feel offended, by Suckless then please don't be a hypocrite and stop using products and services from the above mentioned companies.

Otherwise shut up.
Every week my office restocks on bananas from Latin america

Every week at least a few end up in the trash, because they turned black and no one wants them anymore

So some dude, thousands of kilometers away, grew his bananas, put them in a boat, for a weeks long trip to Europe, followed by hundreds of kilometers in a truck, to end up in my office trash

This is a simple example

It's not about what was possible before, of course we've been shiping stuff world wide for a long time, it's about the scale and banality of it and the scale and banality of waste that comes with it. Nothing is measured with the "absurdity" scale, everything is measured with the "money" scale. A lot of what we now consider normal is complete madness
In Germany we had one well thought out decision regarding nuclear power. That was over turned twice due to "sentiment", maybe a third time now. And everytime that hapened it turned out, well, not perfect.
None of these compare to a presidential candidate who publicly muses about being a dictator and is elected anyway... and this was only foreshadowing what he orchestrated on Jan 6th.
I do if he’s going to make a generalization about an entire continent of people
General tech news adds no benefit. However, news specific to your industry segment can add benefit.

For example, knowing a gas pipeline is shut down leading to temporarily high gas prices is useful if you are in logistics. However knowing that Intel just made a faster chip is not so useful. Similarly, the political stage of Belize is only useful if you have work or family that is impacts by that.

Just knowing it otherwise is only useful for fun conversations.
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Not for Rust tho. VSCode+Rust Analyzer offers an amazing experience and I found it to be on-par if not better than IntelliJ/Clion with a much more responsive editing, startup times and task customization.
That is classic “evergreen” content, so it’s probably still airing.
OK, and here I was thinking that human rights were premised on a philosophical basis. Thank you for clarifying that they are merely a political matter.
So it will be more economical for me to convert my apartment building to a single family home? OK. Sounds like the ideal neolib hellscape, single family home suburbia as far as the eye can see.

It is already difficult to make money in real estate. Your proposal would reduce housing stock.
So are you saying that Germany should continue its multi-decadal course towards being dependent on Russia for its energy needs?

As Winston Churchill said, "Democracy is the worst form of government – except for all the others that have been tried." Yes, its shortcomings are obvious. But it is still worth accepting.
This is not correct, the ancient world and the ancient Mediterranean especially saw food get transported by sea. Rome.had to import much of it's food, for instance, as did Athens.
If there was real appetite to solve the climate problem, we would have a fleet of nuclear reactors coming online right now.
Context is so important. If the expected response to "what would it take to get this done twice/10x as quickly" is "We shall work twice/10x hours or add equivalent headcount", then you have a serious context problem.

The point of these questions should be to encourage really creative thinking to break out of "normal" operating modes (take on tech debt, etc) and if that's not well understood, or perceived to be an instruction to crunch, then you haven't set the context appropriately and will burn people out.
Can any Germans on HN explain why Germany finds it preferable to give up their energy independence in nuclear and instead buy it from their potential adversary in Russia?

What possible advantages are there to buying the resource that literally keeps the lights on from a country that you have conflicts with?
Not sure if your parents even feel comfortable?

It's never too late than never?
Being a programmer in Japan is somewhat low-status at the moment.
Instead of supposedly basing rental figures on median home values, which is highly non-objective, just make the public tax data more transparent. When people can see the relationship between taxes and prices, they can ask the right questions and make their own decisions– through policy changes in their locale if necessary.

What works in small town USA won't necessarily make sense in a Big 6, unless it affects huge national investors like Blackrock but not your small landlords or medium multi-family dwelling manager/owners.

Also, "tax them? might as well kill them!" is the type of nefariously silly exaggeration that is used to shut down discussions. Yours doesn't go quite that far, and I get the point of your example but don't find that limits of infinity are generally helpful.
I think there may be a disconnect here (and I apologize if there isn't; this is not my wheelhouse)...

1. Some people talk about "land tax" meaning a tax on the value of _only_ the land. So you pay a tax based on the land, but not anything built on it.

2. Some people talk about "land tax" meaning a tax on the value of the property if you were to sell it; including any construction on it. This is the common situation in the US, to the best of my knowledge.

The former, taxing _only_ the land, is what (I believe) a lot of people are talking about when they say it will promote more/better construction on the existing land. Because you're paying the same tax regardless of what is built on it, so build whatever it the most useful for you.
Show me where you will build it in Poland or even Germany?
Huh? This particular bug has everything to do with PHP. PHP is reasonably unique in the model of “treat everything like a standard webserver serving up files from the filesystem, except they’re PHP scripts/templates that get evaluated to produce content, vs a true static file.” But misconfigure your web server, and it’ll just serve up the source code instead. This wouldn’t happen in almost any other language.
We have had good science but the economics were not favorable until the last decade or so (there have been truly massive declines in solar and wind costs in that period--particularly solar).
A mail receiving service in the US is not expensive. I used Traveling Mailbox for years to maintain a Seattle address (Washington has no state income tax, so its a good state to establish residency in so you’re only paying Federal income taxes). You will need a real residential address to set that up, and banks require a real address to open an account, but you can then add a mailing address. You should set all that up before you start traveling. Once you have a mailing address in the US your employer/clients won’t know or care that it’s a service.

Mail receiving services scan your postal mail and you can see it online. You can decide to download it, trash it, or forward it to another address. They also receive packages and will forward them. Some will even deposit paper checks for you, though I found I could download check images, add my signature with a photo editing program, then deposit with my bank’s mobile app by photographing the check on my laptop screen (I had clients who paid with paper checks when I was traveling).
You could preserve the colors with some CSS, even :) I have the sudden urge to write a small tool/some CSS that can automatically convert bits of terminal output into ready-to-use fancy HTML+CSS.
Unless you are coherently doing something about it, or planning to, thinking about it is is self harm at worst, entertainment at best.
If we go by this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...

Then it has to be Windows Notepad. Android does not have a default text editor, if it did then I'd agree.
Yup! I once saw replay where match had different outcone from actuall game due to delay on human player inputs and none on AI player inputs. It was crazy.
The Media Creation Tool for Windows 10 (don't know about 11 at this point) is so annoying. Not only does it need admin rights, but the whole desktop session needs to be from a user in the Administrator group. So you can't just right click "Run as Administrator". Downloading and potentially burning a ISO shouldn't require admin rights at all.

It got actively programmed to be shitty. This is not an accident.
The existing paradigm creates extremes. We have Manhattan filled with 40-100 story skyscrapers, then we have the other boroughs with much less. We've got suburban NJ, CT, and NY. If those areas stopped their restrictive zoning policies, and allowed building more density, then the people who wanted to live in NYC could do so, and the people who wanted to live near NYC could do so.

When you take a look at Tokyo, who have had stable housing prices, and have a sane zoning system, what you see is that people can live where they want to live. Yes you have some skyscrapers. But you also have many places that aren't.
People trade under socialism and communism, too. Stone age tribes trade. Families trade. Communes trade. Everybody trades.
You can use the script(1) utility (from util-linux) to record a session and it will save the ANSI colors. This only works if you do it ahead of time, though. And if you're putting it in a pastebin, the color codes will get in the way.
1. Students didn’t upgrade every version. So the cost was amortized over many years.

2. The above point is moot because I, and every student I knew, used a school copy on a lab computer or… obtained a copy without paying
If (modern) dish soap washes your seasoning off, it wasn’t seasoning, it was just grease and grime stuck to your pan.

It is true that dish soap used to be much more aggressive, and those soaps can cause issues for pan seasoning (and also for your skin…), but those soaps haven’t been sold (in any meaningful quantity) in decades.
Teams is worse than zoom certainly, but it's better than Cisco WebEx.

Slack used to be good - especially for just a background chat, but then they hid the "start a call" option away and pushed "huddles", which are far worse.

There's a solid rule of thumb that most software that is good becomes worse. Product managers have to push new features in to justify their job, if the software was 75% good before, there's a 3:1 chance that the change will make it objectively worse, and even higher chance that it will break your workflow and cause you to take cognitive load away from important things to learn how to deal with it in a new way.
It comes down to our dominant, collective set of values as a humanity. And our dominant values centre on the accumulation and leverage of material/financial wealth. It is the playground of the already wealthy, the aspiration of the vanishing middle class and the dream of the so-called less fortunate, the catalyst of the VC world. (Yes, I'm using broad strokes, but it is dominant, not the only). You are classed by it, judged by it, pigeon-holed by it. Most if not all of our current challenges, be they environmental, climate, ecological, economic, cultural, social, governmental have, at their root, a pursuit of unconstrained material wealth (and unlimited growth and productivity). SO why wouldn't enterprising souls in pursuit of such things see real estate, not as a human right, not as a basic need, not even just a family- or community-centric place to thrive and flourish and be fulfilled in ways other than the accumulation of financial wealth, but simply another "investment" (no matter the external and extraneous accumulative costs) from which to prosper.

Until there is deep enlightenment, until our capitalist-centric values change, until we (the majority we) rise up and say enough and are willing to change our own worldview and our own values in support of "enough is enough", these behaviours will continue to be rewarded and idolized (though many of us believe a forced readjustment, possibly catastrophic, is on the immediate horizon).
I for one would love it if industry that produces real things collaborated to produce their own best of breed tooling rather than let SV aimlessly generate endless supply of half assed crap to capture worker agency as part of its game to control the economy.

Industrial designs from buildings to cars, heavy equipment, and manufacturing equipment, could chip in enough to effectively end Autodesk.

Movie studios could ruin Adobe.

My friends in chip business are giving me hope; more and more logic is being embedded in chips, requiring less and less software to cover up usability and bugs in hardware.

I look forward to the day pretentious cut-n-paste engineering (software) is relegated to an eccentric hobby.
Trade exists apart from capitalism, and is found in any number of alternative economic systems. Capitalism is about who has ownership of productive assets. Conflating capitalism with trade makes it seem like no alternative economic systems are possible.
There are some good podcasts on this, you can find one on Guardian Long Reads: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/02/germany-depend...

The tldr; is it started with a stated goal of <10% dependence, thinking that by creating the first pipeline they would open up trade and normalize relations. This is a good goal especially since Germany was split in half at the time.

Unfortunately through some combination of greed, complacency, and dumb nuclear strategy, dependency kept ratcheting up over the decades, slowly boiling the frog into the disaster soup we have today.
I've done this in the past for years and it ain't fun.

Eventually you will burn out working 18 hr workdays, without breaks, vacations, family time, exercise and if you don't see much financial success at the end you will suffer a total disappointment with yourself and your life. That is if you are lucky enough to not run into health and financial issues before all this.

Besides the idea that working too hard automatically means success is just plain wrong. Money is not a linear function of effort. And real life success even in regular jobs depends on luck and things like office politics for the most part.

If anything working too hard will make your boss envious of you, and will work against your best interest. YMMV.
I don't think anarchy is the negation of capitalism.
From the downloads page:

“We are currently preparing the packages for public release, and MoonRay will be available for download from Github soon. If you would like to be on a mailing list to receive release news and announcements about MoonRay, please sign up here.”

https://openmoonray.org/download
The headline is declaring that "self-taught" (digital) AI shows similarities to how the brain works and as a result misrepresents research in this field because this is not scientific fact. It's a metaphor, literally. Overstating results misrepresents the balance of opinion in a field and therefore the value of the metamers research. Metamers is treated fairly in its own right but these issues remain because the headline and most of the copy are promoting one narrative.
Not sure that’s the strongest take you could have made.

Some things cannot reasonably be produced domestically.

Some things are about attempting to shrink labour costs.

It’s cheaper for Britain to send its shellfish to China to be de-shelled by hand, then send it back than it is to pay some folks to do it in the UK (or mechanise the task).

This is an extreme example (and a real one) that highlights what the parent is talking about.

Even when accounting for the human, fuel, cooling and spoilage cost of shipping around the world it’s “cheaper”, but that doesn’t make sense to me because at the end of it there is much less fuel and much less fish than it would have otherwise been.

There’s also not a strong reason to buy shoes made in China except for economic reasons, and more recently supply chain ones.

We can weave fabrics and we have domestic cotton. However, the economics (pushed cheaper by dirt cheap freight) are emphasising a global supply chain where one isn’t needed in most cases.

I’m picking on China a bit but it applies to basically everything where the labour is cheaper and the supply chain bends itself in a more inefficient path (everything else being equal) to capitalise(heh) on the lower labour costs.
But this was still sustainable, what happened in the last century on the other hand....
How is interactive annotation handled? The zoom annotation let's amy meeting attendee annotate the presenters screen.
Oh ok, in (British) English I'd just call that a casserole. (Which per sibling comment from GGP I understand is not the same/more specific than a casserole in French.) So I suppose it's correct that it ends up at 'Dutch oven' (the predominantly American term for the same) on Wikipedia.

I'm afraid my French isn't up to reading a Wikipedia entry, which is why I asked (GGP linked the same article).
DreamWorks shut down Pacific Data Images in Redwood City, a predecessor company who was arguably the source of all their whiz-bang tech

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Data_Images
At least on Mac you can tell Zoom to use Mac notifications now, and to use "dual monitor mode" even if you don't have two monitors, which seems to help.

Of all the various meeting tools, Zoom is the best, but that's damning with faint praise.
Homeini fatwah is literally a speech, but it calls to violence.
Something like aha? (It's probably in your distro's repo)

https://github.com/theZiz/aha/
Randomized single-blind controlled trial of digital polytherapeutic for tinnitus
I recently used skype for a similar purpose and liked it. Its free, there is no time limit, and best of all we were able to record the whole session so that students were able to watch it again if they needed to revise the lesson. [1]

[1] https://www.skype.com/en/blogs/2018-09-call-recording/
Regarding my last statement: People like to invest into multi residentials now, but are those investments still profitable when the zoning changes?

How do you protect your investment when there is innovative pressure and housing units compete on price? Say you have a building and you try to monetize your investment over 20 years but after ten years, due to innovation, competing units can be built for half your costs. Then your tenants will move if you don't halve your rent which destroys your profits.

In a city with nimby's, that's never a problem because rent remains high, even if costs are reduced.

>All we need to do is force cities to zone land this way

This requires the vote of the nimby's which means that you need other options.
I've been downloading ISOs directly from Microsoft without login for several years.