skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China isn't weak, but for now they still lack the airborne and amphibious lift capacity to invade Taiwan. This has nothing to do with patriotism, it's a simple matter of geography and weather. There are only a few months per year when sea conditions make an invasion possible, and only a few ports or beaches where an invasion force could potentially put ashore. Look at a map. Those points are relatively easy for a smaller force to defend. In a few years China might build up the necessary capabilities, but that situation doesn't obtain today.

China could absolutely wreck Taiwan's civilian infrastructure with air and missile strikes. But that doesn't mean they can invade and conquer the main island.
IJ does have the "search everywhere" that can be used like the command palette, but it's still far from abandoning the idea of trying to make everything available in menu trees and the like. Plugins add cute pictures to the toolbar like it's 1999. VS:C is far more radical, there's The Palette and that's it.
As part of a double negative?
But this directly contradicts the link given above - the "official" python packaging tutorial recommends Hatch, and barely mentions poetry...
> And are losing value on the property, which is the point of depreciation.

The house depreciates while the land appreciates. In the US for the last 50 years has been net appreciation for most homes.

> If it were so profitable, then tons of capital currently being spent on other uses (tech, medical, finance) would instead go into buying up more housing.

Hedge funds have been buying houses at scale since the great recession.

> Historically, housing has performed quite similar to the stock market for returns

Which increases faster than incomes. Hence the way each generation has a declining rate of home ownership.
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JetBrains explicitly condemned Russia on the day of invasion: https://twitter.com/jetbrains/status/1496786254494670851

And dissolved all their operations in Russia very quickly: https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/03/11/jetbrains-stateme...

Their conduct was exemplary. If you mean their place of birth / nationality, then I guess there's nothing they can do about that.
I love the look of the Punkt. I ordered one 3 years ago but because of delays, and then Covid, gave up on receiving it. They issued me a refund but I'd still like to get one - in a reasonable amount of time.

Anyone have one and like it? Or recommend a different dumb phone?
This is really cool! One suggestion - don't expose when 'identical form exists' on duplicate creator names. This can be de-anonymizing, because I can put some (fictitious) 'target's name into that box and see if they made a form using your service. Also it's not clear to me why it's necessary to have a creator name in the first place.
Or any system where owners of property could extract profit by employing non-owners of property. Much of the strife in the later Roman Empire was caused by large property owners exploiting slaves and depriving non land owners (including many legionaries) of a chance of making an income. Said legionaries and other plebeians supported politicians with a policy of land reforms.

Not to mention the poverty of the slaves themselves.
Interesting.

It seems like the main issue is proximity to work and the reasonable demand for a short commute.

If that need would be satisfied then i think the resulting effect of wanting to build more in already crowded cities wouldnt be there, thus nimby’ism wouldnt be an issue because either since locals wouldnt feel threatened.

When i moved to london uk i had the same opinion as your colleague. I wanted a place to live as close as possible to work so that i would spend as little time wasted on commute as possible.

But remote work gave me the option to live anywhere and as such i chose an area outside london. Having the option to leave crowded centres i took it because it satisfies my need for work and a short commute.

So i am wondering isnt the root of all evil the fact that high paying jobs are clustered around large urban centres? Shouldnt tech have solved this issue by now? Even if people prefer office work, cant this work be done in smaller urban areas? Or at the edge of large cities such that people can easily commute from surrounding areas? I get it that in the last blue collar work had to be done in city centres so everyone can access services. But why do software engineers need to be seated in expensive city centres? Or indeed accountants, or even lawyers.
Both cash and crypto have their downsides when it comes to money laundering. A non-tech savy person might not trust their crypto transactions to remain anonymous or their funds to be safe, because at the end of the day the only way you can be sure of that is if you read and understood the code. For that kind of person the weight of cash is the lesser issue. I've been told that decades ago my dad's uncle would go on trips to Switzerland with bags full of cash.
The amazing thing about Excel is that many (most?) people start using it without EVEN knowing how to make a simple formula.

They literally start using it as a way to lay out tables (usually of data).
Then they make graphs.
And add more tables.
And learn how to use it like a basic pocket calculator (half of the formula I see that should be sums are actually =B21+B22+B23+B24+B25…)
Then comes SUM. Then VLOOOKUP.
Perhaps some IFs or COUNTIFs.

This process can take years for someone to go from first use to anything even slightly programming-like, if you squint at it.

A tiny fraction of these people ever do anything complex enough it looks even much like low-code or no-code "development". Even less write macros.

But you know what? In the first half hour, when all they wanted was to email round a list of team members and their lunch preferences, they already achieved something with Excel that they found useful, and they felt productive ever since. Most Excel users spend almost NO time learning the tool compared to how much time they spend getting (what they see as, and what probably is) value out of it, even when we are sat in sheer terror as we witness the horror they have unleashed on the world.

That is the bar you have to clear to make a "better Excel".
I'm not sure I fully understand how XMR guarantees fungibility of its token, but I think a big part of it is the construction of ring signatures to prove transactions are zero sum, with a pool of participating signers that all have statistically valid plausible deniability. Start here maybe https://web.getmonero.org/resources/moneropedia/clsag.html?
Nice, really interesting usage of nixpkgs :). Almost a command line friendly version of docker build.

I like it.
This summer holidays I tried to mostly ignore the jet lag on an a trip to the Caribbean from Europe. It worked pretty well. I haven't woken up so early for such an extend time in like a decade.
Yeah I personally find Webpack a whole lot scarier than PostgreSQL / package managers, but that's down to my previous career experience.

Really the key thing here is that learning new things is hard, and anything that can be done to remove potential roadblocks is worthwhile. I've talked to so many people who were put off learning Python because they couldn't get to a working development environment on their own.
> openly and shamelessly stating, since around 2009, that the entire purpose of their "art" is to aid in laundering money and other crimes?

Becomes

> If they're smart, they wouldn't admit to it publicly.

Let me guess. Your favourite castle is motte and bailey?
Oh neat. We've been meaning to post this on HN!

We're the people behind nixpacks; happy to answer any questions just holler
That begs the question: if Clojure is so inefficient, that a program written in it needs 10 MB of some "cached heap" just to start as fast as a C program, and it does a lot of unnecessary work at startup, why use Clojure and this Jank (great name lol) in the first place? We have Rust, after all. I mean, creating an optimizing native compiler for any language is not an easy task, there must be some seriously powerful stuff in Clojure to warrant such an undertaking. Or just madness.
I just want pine to provide hardware that can run a linux kernel without any binary blobs and leave the distros to whoever feels like working on that stack
Honestly, seing printers like this over the years and everything getting worse and worse makes me feel good about having an old Brother laser printer.

It's monochrome, it's now 20 years old, but it's good enough for me.

It keeps running and running, and the toner is dirt-cheap on the market. No internet, no spyware and no IoT-secured (tm) app required.

Manufacturers like Epson and HP kind of force me into keeping this old thing alive when it eventually breaks down.

I'm so glad we got CUPS and SANE as libraries. Without them, I would have to buy a newer model with current Windows support.

The only thing that was missing in daily use is smartphone support, but an mDNS-SD service running on a little raspberry pi that shares the printer can fix that.
If two coins A and B are the same in every respect except that
A emits its capped supply of N coins evenly over 10 years, while B emits
its identical capped supply of N coins evenly over 20 years,
then B's emission rate is half that of A (twice as slow). After 10 years, when A's emission finishes,
A's marketcap will be much higher than that of B, maybe twice as much, since B has only emitted N/2 coins, and A's price should roughly at least that of B.

In other words, a coin's price is determined more by its total supply than by its current supply, to reflect future dilution.
There's an interesting argument in 'Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind' [1] that capitalism is primarily responsible for the Enlightenment period in Europe. By the same token it may also be associated with some of the worst aspects of (relatively) recent history, such as colonialism and the slave trade.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23692271-sapiens
"The sanctum is a place of growth of a valuable specie of flowers."

And there are a ton of options.
China holds US debt denominated in dollars, which is different from eg holding Sri Lankan debt denominated in dollars. In the US case, the government can issue more treasuries to cover payments or if things are dire they can just print more dollars. Sri Lanka can’t make new dollars so they need to get them through trade and if they have an imbalance there it can be very hard.

I think it isn’t really very relevant to think about China holding US government debt because it isn’t like they will call up the bailiffs or otherwise be able to exercise control over the US because of that debt. I think it would be basically equivalent to say that China holds US dollars which doesn’t feel particularly concerning to me.
Confirmed whole-egg-cooked got a score of 52 and Lucky-Charms got a 56; possible score is per food type, for example grain, protein, etc — but unclear.

Got the numbers from this document:

https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs430...
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With latest news, I was under the impression that they are adding a bunch more ads: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-08-14/apple-...
Even the idea of an "ideal death" just rings of denial to me. Yes, getting punched is getting better than stabbed, but I wouldn't exactly romanticize it.

The issue isn't the "dying", it's the endless trillions of years of experience we are deprived of in death.
The names of disk drive SMART attributes are kind of made up (sadly)
Because cost of life is high. Make cost of life lower and see what happens.
I actually think this is what will happen to oil and gas. It will become less and less of a feature of our lives over the long run. We will have to find alternatives (hopeful!) or cut back (painful!)
Sorry, by relative I meant basically what effects to an investment in healthcare (with regards to systemic change as was my point), not total spending which is obfuscated by recent COVID-19 response spending and Medicare's inability to negotiate prescription and treatment prices historically. For instance, American hospitals being overwhelmed/at capacity and rural areas turning to telehealth due to lack of healthcare services.
Would it be so bad to outsource the US government to say, Sweden, or one of those other Nordic countries? I feel like they know what they're doing.

Could we at least outsource the NYC MTA to them?
Ask HN: State of autonomous car tech in 2022?
We seem to be in trough of disillusionment, but anyone have insight as to what the state of full autonomous driving is like in 2022?
I think you're being unnecessarily harsh. I get your point about OP presenting problems, not solutions, but on the other hand, they are a programmer & they are clearly trying to automate the repetitive parts of the job. Isn't that basically the essence of programming: what good programmers should be doing is automating as much of their job as possible.
Nice, but I have moved to https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm and I'm not looking back
Just a random search on Mouser, but something like the BCM53134O[1] as four 1GbE ports, and one 2.5GbE port. A bit pricier you have the BCM53156XU[2] with eight 1GbE ports and a 10G port for fiber.

Not my field so could be other, better parts.

[1]: https://eu.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Broadcom-Avago/BCM53134O...

[2]: https://eu.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Broadcom-Avago/BCM53156X...
Agreed. Programs are not equations, they're recipes.
It's worse than that.

Something like your Bluetooth communication is dependent upon a C-based "communications stack" that demands to control the event loop and all the registers aren't even documented.

"Where is the LED?" is easy to work around. "How do I put my BLE system into low power advertising mode?" may not even be possible without accessing the C library.
>We need more "Excels." More and better tools that let "regular" people program.

The only reason why more people don't program is because Windows is antithetical to programming _anything_. The second you remove people from a windows environment is the moment they start coding, even by accident.
It’s what happens when there’s a problem and every department gets a memo asking how it can contribute.

Instead of sending resources toward what can actually solve the problem (e.g. taking money from your department to testing agricultural flocks), just create some senseless barriers that won’t help anyone at all and distract yourself from whatever your dept’s focus should be.

Win-win?
Read my shoe example in the other thread, it's the difference between something being an asset and an investment.
Wait: does c++ have a package manager like pip or npm or gem that I didn't know about?
still pork meat, not related to prion.

coppa di testa [1] is made with srcaps from pork head, it was never involved in the ban regarding the "mad cow" disease

[1] https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppa_di_testa
I agree with that wholeheartedly, but there is a solution: there is teavm which can compile byte code to js (and wasm), or google’s closure compiler.

There used to be also GWT and nowadays Vaadin I believe to do frontend completely, but I honestly think that a shared business lib with native frontend for each platform is the best way forward.
Transactions and storage of money. You could also argue that artists who sell their artworks for huge sums of money are associating themselves to money laundering.
performance has gotten much better since IntelliJ 11 iirc. that was when I swapped over from eclipse to intelliJ, the initial startup time was still longer but performance was pretty much the same after that. Prior to that I was still using eclipse cause of how slow IntelliJ was
> I think what matters is what the computer actually does. Whatever I, as a human, read and interpret has no meaning at all if the computer decides to "read and interpret" it differently. And the only limit with representing what the computer actually does should be your imagination.

Well, I understand this perspective, but I judge it to be backwards. The computer should be understood as secondary to the human. Mechanical sympathy is necessary for useful software but the goal of software must not be mechanical.
See my reply to kenned3.

I think the root of this issue is that we are forced to cluster in large cities for access to jobs. I think the way we approach blue collar work is wrong and tech should have solved it by now. There is no reason why we cant move most high end jobs to either small towns or in the proximity of large cities but in areas easily accessible from suburbs.

No need for a new manhattan. We need a totally new approach and it must be linked to how we work. I would be very happy to live in a small town, with narrow streets but well organised fast, cheap and reliable public transport, and work either remote or onsite but without the need to commute 2 hours a day total (24 hours of my life each 7 days).
Well, there is some substantial outsourcing of the army and intelligence services via private (military) contractors [0].
In a world of increasing PPP (Public-Private Partnerships) the line gets very blurry indeed.

One interesting line of thought (I don't share personally (yet) but find compelling as a dystopian possibility) is that the dirty business of censoring/filtering is outsourced by private companies (i.e. Big Tech with their unparalleled outreach: Twitter, Alphabet, Meta ... ) so that governments can wash their hands of it.

[0]https://medium.com/smartaim-tech/war-for-money-leading-priva...
Can you reference that? As a german I can see how "Uniklo" can mean that, but never heard that and I would rather assume it's a university toilet if someone would use it. From searching I can't find anything related to the term, i.e. duden.de doesn't know it.
I have seen so many good RISC-V SBCs get cancelled…. I want one for real!
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Raspbian's diff tree from Debian is getting smaller. We just linked our Debian infrastructure into Raspbian. It even performs faster.
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They are capitalism since private sector is allowed and encouraged. They are an authoritarian country as there is no democracy and there can be a single political party. Why is that so difficult to understand?

They call their country communist because they can't afford to undermine the legacy of the communist party by admitting that they made huge mistakes in the past.
Wow. Is the geopolitical hedge there with Texas or something?
True, but I could envision a scenario in which someone working for the government might interpret his actions as bypassing measures put in place to enforce a sanction. Regardless of how valid or invalid it was for his account to be blocked in the first place.
In theory practice and theory are the same. In practice they are not.
European homes tend to be much smaller than American homes and are very rarely stand alone single family homes. I get to the UK often and almost everything is connected and have small little “gardens”. This is fine and it makes for cheaper construction since there are far less materials and labor is shared across many homes. The hones are tiny by American standards too.

We don’t have this as much in the USA. People generally want single family homes that are 2000 square feet+ and 1/5 acre of land. This is a lot of roof, a lot of siding, a lot of timber, a lot of flooring, a foundation, etc. Easily 6-figures in materials and even more for labor, etc. Especially if you go with premium materials. Windows installed are $2k/window. My would cost $70k to install all new, premium windows for example.

Premium hardwood quarter-sawn flooring in a 3000 sq foot gone is another $30k, etc. You can start to see how this adds up from $100k+ in materials for trash to many hundred thousand for premium, quality materials.
Why would static types require you to create additional classes?
I fully understand how privacy coins like XMT audit their supply. They assume that Pedersen commitments r*G+v*H can only be openend in one way. Which is false if the discrete log of H w.r.t. G is known.
I said "I think" because there might by privacy coins not based on Pedersen commitments that I'm just not aware of.
Between electric bikes and work from home during bad weather, I don't see why that upper limit couldn't go much higher in most large cities. The benefits outside energy use are also great. Increased safety, decreased noise and tire pollution, etc.
A ton of the achievement has to do with Western investments. For example, Apple spent $275 billion in the late 2010s to build up Chinese tech manufacturing capabilities. That's one company doing a 5X larger investment than the "historic" CHIPs bill signed by Biden this year.
That's the ideal! We want to make it more trivial to build OCI compliant images without all the knowledge required to understand how Dockerfiles/Container Filesystem/BuildLayers/etc work

BuildKit makes this possible and we've got lots of stuff planned. Would love to hear anything you can think of that would make this more friendly!
I was trying to use my e-tron to change radio station this week. But it kept registering my press on the station as a small scroll. Probably due to the slight undulation of the suspension. Very frustrating and dangerous when travelling at speed on the motorway. I guess it's better just to not use it.
I really don't think you want to continue the discussion in the direction of "what's wrong crime A and crime B", that'll get off the rails very quickly.
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+1 for "It’s for stuff people want to be able to find later." Chat deprecates fast, too informal to describe the problem to be recognizable two years from now, different companies and customers are on different channels and platforms...

But I can still find that email from 2014 about a specific problem.
You will! Please note not all our APIs are present on OpenResty at the moment. However we'd be happy to see them be included. Most of our modules e.g. unix https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/third_party... only really depend on Lua and POSIX which is available everywhere. You can build our modules in different environments. Obviously only the Cosmopolitan Libc environment is going to let the code run on six operating systems. But since our Lua contributions are based on standardized interfaces and libraries, if you use a different platform to build our code, then it will work there.
This speaks to the myth of decentralized <things>. Because the Internet was hailed as a great invention, with its decentralization bringing us to a sort of knowledge sharing and connectedness eutopia. But now, the Internet and associated technologies are the single greatest medium of centralized control ever.

I always point to Adam Curtis' All Watched Over by Machines of Ever Loving Grace documentary.
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Ukraine’s #1 trading partner was Russia, and Russia’s #3 trading partner was Ukraine.

I remember reading the same argument in the 90s, and it seemed to have a lot of merit. But, experience shows us that it’s not correct.
Confirmed whole-chicken-egg-cooked got a score of 52 and Lucky-Charms (American kids sugar cereal) got a 56; possible score is per food type, for example grain, protein, etc — but unclear.

Got the numbers from this document:

https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs430...

Sorry, but regardless of author’s intent, that makes no sense to me without explanation.
It wasn't true though. The lives of enslaved people were obviously, measurably worse after enslavement and transportation. They had shorter lifespans, less freedom, literally enslavement, etc. The lives of people groups in African captured for slavery were also worse.
It’s a small world. Shoutout to Domen (https://www.cachix.org/) who introduced me to nixpacks.