skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One possible future is that the increasing pressure to have data out of reach of the US under the Patriot Act will lead to powerful competitors outside the US, starting from domestic market and then expanding internationally.

It's already well under way in China, where US big tech isn't as prevalent and one big example of this is Aliexpress, which is known outside of China borders.
Russia is known for having local competitors as well.

The biggest push though is currently the GDPR, which makes it illegal to handle EU citizens data in a way that allows the US to access it.
While enforcement is super slow and non-compliance very very high, it's slowly having an impact, where EU businesses now try harder to choose EU providers to avoid that non-compliance.

While I don't know of a specific success-story to point out right now, I think there are good odds there will be some in the long term.

Note that I only talk about GDPR because I'm European, but there are similar initiatives in other countries around the world. I heard about Brazil LGPD for example.
Is UPI one of the rare times when a government organization has created an innovative technology that works for a scale of 100 Million+ users?
I'm curious as to how you're using these stats for monitoring. What kind of insights are you gaining with this, and in what context is it used?
Java has the same dependency issues. But, from the article, it seems like there might be something cultural within the Scala community that contributes to the problem. Most Java libraries, in my experience, are relatively flat. The article gives an example of HikariCP, which depends on a random JDBC library from Akka. Obviously, that situation is going to end terribly given the popularity of Akka. As soon as Akka updates their library version, HikariCP has to as well or the two dependencies will get hopelessly out of sync. I don't know what `akka-persistence-jdbc ` does, but it can't be so important that it justifies the crazy dependency structure.
I think you might have been browsing an alternate-reality Reddit. The one I read was constantly bemoaning that no one in America was taking it seriously, "why aren't we locking down like China and New Zealand", etc.
[from the article]

>I suspect in part because many gatekeepers of knowledge – journalists, scientists, teachers, the Encyclopedia Britannica – simply don’t like the idea that anonymous amateurs are competing on their domain.

Similar comment, and additional recent discussion, here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32793755
I was once tasked with extracting valuable IP from a legacy codebase where the developers had named all types after animals. So there was a SealService, a WalrusFactory, etc. etc. It was horrible and infuriating. They thought they were being cute, instead they just made everyone who ever looked at their code hate them with a passion.
For a lot of code, what the code is supposed to do changes over time, so no matter how correctly you write it the first time, someone will have to read it.
I mean, the city I live in spent an absurd amount of money installing the latest and greatest solar powered, WiFi enabled, somewhat compacting garbage cans.

So there's clearly a market for smart bins.
I wouldn't call this "fixed". It's more like the worse-is-better people won another round.
Nothing in modern computing compares to the audible and kinesthetic satisfaction of the ka-chunk of a 3.5 inch floppy being inserted into a drive.
The Economist, who has been predicting the crash of Chinese economy EVERY YEAR for the last FIFTEEN YEARS.

And China's real estate market is a ponzi scheme. Despite they heavily regulate it. Not the Western real estate market, less its financial markets, which crashed the entire world economy by basically scamming water-vapor backed derivatives.

The Economist does its job well.
> That probably will never compile especially quickly.

Can you link the code? Proc macros are not inherently slow to compile, but most proc macros pull in the `syn` and `quote` crates for convenience, which are fairly heavyweight (and then most people experience proc macros most commonly via Serde, which is doing a ton of work on its own). In simple cases you can forego most of that work, and some libraries like https://github.com/Manishearth/absolution exist as lightweight alternatives in these cases. Depending on what the Asahi driver needs it could also benefit from something like this (although without seeing the code I'm not sure why it would need proc macros when it sounds like conditional compilation via `cfg` would suffice there).
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Over a million people, in the U.S. alone, died in under two years after being infected with this virus.

Even granting the unlikely possibility that this mouse model is reflective of the immune response in humans, whatever other microorganisms people were encountering were demonstrably less dangerous than SARS-CoV-2.

Unless you know of some other highly infectious microorganism that rapidly spread to hundreds of millions of people and killed 1-2% of those it infected?
UPI's penetration in (urban and semi-urban anyway) India is honestly incredible. I worked with/on the tech when it was very nascent in 2016 and in 2022, on visiting India after a long time I was stunned to see _everyone_ has a little PayTM QR code card. Vegetable vendors, taxi drivers, roadside hawkers, small business owners. It's brilliant because the system is banking the traditionally unbanked, and generating tremendous amounts of data that can hopefully be put to good use by economists, honestly unlike any other system in the world. Even MPesa in Africa has stupidly high withdrawal and transaction fees, which UPI doesn't need at all.
How does prescriptivism interact with wikipedia? Since wikipedia can (in the ideal at least) be edited by anyone, I'd expect it to match common usage more closely than a normal encyclopedia.
True, grammar as a source of ambiguity makes sense.
> CSS variable approach like Open Props or Pollen is, in my experience, better if you're not using a component-based system

I see it the opposite way, Tailwind is for when you don't care about design system and would like the freedom of ad-hoc styles, that is conveniently already written.

When you do need to IMPLEMENT a design/component based system, you'd prefer css (for less indirection) and have the interface of the system be something like react props where it's more restricted, as opposed to classes like in Tailwind.
This is the 27th straight month of inflation. It was labeled transitory, and people who rang the alarm were ridiculed. They expected a .1% drop and instead we got an .1% increase. But people are celebrating, it was only a .1% raise. The contortions...

They'd better fix this now before the elections real quick. Handing out candy (ala student debt forgiveness) surely will prolong our diabetes. Instead allow students to declare bankruptcy on student debt.
You mean like a Pfizer press release?

I'm being sarcastic but I don't think downvoting because of "source" is a good habit for HNers to have - there are far more diverse views and interesting points being made outside of the mainstream narrative, and if the goal is to have discussion with an intelligent community, "source" is a pretty weak reason to not have that discussion.
Thanks for your comments. The funny thing is, the services are exactly what I wanted to focus on, just felt like you needed to start with community/communication e.g forum/message board first, then start to offer things like task management, reminders, etc.
>The reality is, way more people would have died without the vaccine

You can't and couldn't possibly know that. Nobody could. What we do know today is that the un-vaccinated aren't dying like was originally claimed they would, in fact they seem to be faring better for those under 60 or so.
I've actually been "playing"/"reading" a lot of them from https://www.choiceofgames.com/.
They also offer a scripting language called "ChoiceScript" that allow anyone to make their own games.
I'm sure it's not super popular, but they have their niche audience.
Thanks for sharing the link and your advices. I've never thought about squads as they are explained in the website.
Yeah, it's hard to talk about French New Wave as a cohesive set, since it was so reactionary - I still see influences from earlier italian neorealism in Godard, in the street view slice of life shots and focus on regular people throughout Breathless
This is just my anecdotal evidence. I can not feel good at that times when I do not work in the office (my non-office job is welding which is sometimes better to perform not in building to prevent breathing with chemicals). I tried a lot of really strange things like consume more than 1kg of sugar per day or to drink a sunflower oil to get rid of hunger quickly, but nothing can replace meat for me, especially in cold part of year, which in my home has already started. Either I eat meat at least 2 times per day or I feel hungry and perform a poor quantity of results.
If you translate it so that it does exactly the same, the resulting code has a modern language but is even more horrible than the original COBOL code.

If you translate it so that is does effectively the same, the resulting code is nice.

Unfortunately only the former can be automated. Also, you need to understand the code to do the latter. But reading it is hard and the ones who wrote it are dead/pensioned.
Have you forgotten the silent remote code execution vulnerabilities in iMessage, also one of the most hardened and scrutinized applications made by one of the biggest and richest companies in the world.
I suspect he's genuinely interested in the topics at least for a while. I can relate to a certain degree: when I am learning something new I deep-dive on a topic and talk to people who know things about it, I just don't have access to people to interview like Rogan does. In my case, once I exhaust my learning on a topic I usually never care about it again (eg: is a 56V cordless drill inherently superior to one that operates at 18V) and just move on to other interests though while I'm learning it's like a fever that I cannot shake until I get to the bottom of the inquest.
I disagree. Obviously, this is all just subjective preference and opinion, so parent should not take this as me saying they're wrong.

I hate Kotlin's "middle ground" approach.

Scala has persistent data structures for collections, which means that non-destructive updates and copies are cheap. This is great for an immutable-first approach. Kotlin uses Java's mutable collections, so all of the standard APIs in Kotlin make full copies. Sometimes it might even be surprising where copies are made. For example: `listOf(1, 2, 3).toList()` makes a copy of the list instead of just returning it. To understand why this is necessary, see my next point.

Scala's mutable collections are NOT sub-types of its immutable collections. In Kotlin, there is no such thing as an immutable collection interface. You have MutableList and List, but despite the confusing naming, List is NOT immutable because MutableList is a sub-type of List. So any time you write a function that takes a List parameter, you can't assume that it's not actually being mutated from another thread while your function is running. That means that you technically can't even assume a List is non-empty after you check `if (l.isNotEmpty()) { useElement(l[0]) /* this might crash */ }`.

So Kotlin's middle ground approach means that it's inefficient to use the pseudo-functional APIs and its collection types are not concurrency-safe.

Then, there's no error handling mechanism in the language. Well, there's throwing unchecked exceptions. But the Kotlin team tells you not to do that. They tell you not to do that, but that's actually the only thing that is done in the standard library, the kotlinx.libraries, and every single thing that IntelliJ actually publishes. So, it's very "do as I say" with no examples. At least in Scala we have Try, Either, and "for-comprehensions" (a.k.a. monad comprehension, do-notation, etc). Kotlin "recommends" we use sum types to express failures, but without monad comprehensions, it's extremely awkward and verbose, so I've literally never encountered a Kotlin library in the wild that does anything but throw exceptions for business logic failures. I strongly believe that it was precisely to avoid scaring off Java devs that they didn't do do-notation and monadic error handling.

I don't mind colored functions. I do absolutely HATE that Kotlin coroutines use exceptions for control flow and business logic. It's so hard to correctly handle sub-jobs in coroutines in any non-trivial case with cancellations, etc.

They also decided to not do type-classes, so we get half-baked, ad-hoc, cherry-picked type-class-like features such as extension functions and multi-receivers. I especially dislike extension functions because the receiver is resolved statically (it has to because of how it works under the hood), which is NOT the way regular method calls work, which adds yet another inconsistency to the language that's impossible to catch at compile time.

Ugh. And I'm working on Kotlin code today, so now I've got myself all upset about it. lol.
Loom also comes with something called structured concurrency and many other improvements to make taming lightweight threads easier.

Nonetheless, Java is a very “pure” ecosystem in that basically 99.9% of the ecosystem is written in Java itself — so besides the tiny amount of FFI, every method you might call is ready to be magically unblocking.
NSA's software supply chain security recommendations need some refinement
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What does the full URL looks like?
Reminds me of the poem by Matsu Basho: Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sort.
Something close to the truth is the best we will ever know.
It surprised me because I'd always assumed a lot of people in a newsroom were extremely similar, despite their different beats.

In my mind it's interchangable whether that report on Ukraine counts as world news, war, current affairs, or politics. I assumed this was the 'journalist' skill set in action.

But perhaps being fashion editor is no better a current affairs reporter than the crossword setter or cartoonist would be.
> If the US can invade the middle east and not be called an authoritarian regime...

First, I wouldn't call this authoritarian[1] but imperialistic[2].

But semantics aside, I don't really get that line of argument. Do you think the US invading parts of the middle east was justified? If you do not, how can this comparison be used to justify Russia's invasion of Ukraine?

I do condemn both invasions!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism
You seem to want to focus on the damage being done to Russia instead of the damage being done to Europe.

Instead of Europeans focusing on resolving Russians concerns about US interference in Europe's defence policies via NATO, they have decided to acquiesce to the US.

The future will help them decide where their interests and concerns should lie.

BTW what are the services you are talking about,and what are the non-European countries providing such services whose supply of said services has been reduced by the war in Ukraine?
I remember everyone thought it was crazy for the iMac to not have a floppy drive. But also that there were a lot of Bondi blue USB floppy drives around for the next few years.
Genetics is science. GMOS are products. Being Anti-GMO does not make anyone 'anti-science'.

You Americans need to lose that 'either-or' mentality in which you polarize to extreme end of EVERY single thing.

> They also ignore massive scientific evidence backing the safety

There was massive evidence that backed the safety of a large host of technologies and products until they were proven lethal. Majority of the evidence backing those came from privately-funded US think thanks and research institutions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funding_bias
I'd say practicing non-dualism à la Zen Buddhism helps a lot. In short it helps see through preconceived (or any form of) notions, such that one doesn't become attached, including to the notion of becoming unattached itself.

It points outs that the separation of our individual self from others can be seen as illusory, that we're all deeply connected. Sure my left arm is weaker than my right, but that doesn't make it "less important", and in fact thinking in such a way is preposterous. But might be useful in another context such as left/right balance for fitness.
Easier than rebuilding a city block though.
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Hibernation slows epigenetic ageing in yellow-bellied marmots
Norway and the Netherlands are the largest provider of pipeline gas to Germany at the moment, for example.
you can find them nowadays as video games, some with just text, some with higher production values. And I've also taken part in forum-based CYOAs, where one poster writes the adventure and the other posters vote on which option to choose, which can be quite fun and can be more reactive, as sometime the players will think of solutions the author didn't think of.
Google it. Sheeshh...
I sincerely hope Scala.js isn't "dead". Though I know use by academics isn't the use case you imagined, Scala.js has very much been the right choice for me publishing interactive Open Educational Resources that can include all sorts of little simulations, models, and programmable games. It's not the sort of thing I'd have time to do in any other language, but via Scala.js (and a front end framework I wrote) I can put together something that (though it's scrappy because I rarely get time to add the polish) works well enough very fast.
1. Heresay.

2. Nobody's going to want to invest in someone who blurts private emails out in public. Good luck.

3. He's probably right, tbh.
I know people who got it without the vaccine and have since gotten it multiple times (one up to 4 times!).

Rather than use anecdotes and spread misinformation, we can Google (multiple sources!) and find some studies comparing the outcomes of vaccinated and unvaccinated people.

It has been known for some time that there is slightly weaker long term immunity for 2 shots when compared to getting it without. This gets better 3 shots, and getting 3 shots and having gotten covid is actually the most durable response of all 'options'.
Yeah, this kind of thing is not exactly uncommon in the retrocomputing scene, though it's often an SD card rather than a USB drive.
Had those mice been immunized against influenza? That's not what I read, but I might have miss it. What I read is that they used the vector without any payload, and it turned out that influenza is an example of something nominally unrelated where resistance was slightly increased while candida albicans (no idea what that is, not a native speaker) are an example for slightly lessened resistance.

Lines up well with my mental model of how the immune system deals with the unknown: a million monkeys not on typewriters but on text editors with copy/paste. Who fire new code, aimlessly mashed up from their library of previous experience, at a test fixture. Any change to unrelated previous experience can increase or decrease their chance of finding something that sticks.
edit : added year
Awesome. Can you give a lightning talk on that? Me and lots of others would be interested.
> Biden was willing to talk to Russia about legit security concerns

Jeffrey Sachs claimed on Democracy Now that USA refused the diplomatic talks with Russia in November 2021. France, Germany and NATO tried, but apparently Putin felt that US is a key player. Whether true or not, it was wrong for the US to act as if it's just Ukraine's (and Europe's) problem, because it isn't - US has been providing Ukraine with some military support.
11 years old me was afraid about putting some liquid paper on a floppy disk label to write my name could damage the computer.
No. Macros are compile-time.

Lisp implementations typically give running programs access to the compiler, but that has nothing to do with macros, and then again, other languages do as well.
What headwinds? The Western world is a consumption driven society (with the US being an extreme version I would say), so I don't think advertising/PR spending will be reduced, just transferred from one focus to another. The businesses that are driven by ad revenues will pivot to wherever the ad dollars go.
This is antidotal but my wife mother is a anti-vaxxer and has gotten covid at least twice that we know of, once during the initial surge here in the US and now just a few weeks ago.
But the thing is we ran a massive experiment on this called "The covid-19 pandemic".

What we saw was no serious increase in mortality for the immunized, and a significant increase in mortality for the non-immunized.

Seems like the data from that experiment should be taken into consideration when deciding if the tradeoff is worthwhile, right?
> They have the added advantage that they don't have a huge amount of bass, though what they do have is impressive for their size to be fair.

Yeah, this is why I got them really. I have a pair of Event 2020 BAS v3 but our new apartment is much quieter than the old one and I'd feel self conscious blasting them out, so was looking for something which still sounded good but worked well at low volume. I'm pretty impressed with the bass to be fair. I also tried the smaller model (iLoud Micro) but for the sort of music I like for which bass is reasonably important (techno etc.), they weren't quite there. Still impressive though
I think rather than focusing on "not comparing myself" to others in general I make sure I don't obsess over it when I do... it's kind of inevitable and not something I can perfectly stop doing, but I can certainly control not letting those thoughts overrun everything else I have going on.
I am wrong about that then, but I was talking more about influence on American films - I haven't seen any Sciuscia so I don't know if that went on to influence american films in the same way that godard did later.
This submission definitely needs “in mice” appended to the title…
I live just down the street from a 'memory care' center for seniors with dementia, etc. There are about 120 'guests'. In two weeks they lost 45 elderly patients, and one nurse due to COVID. And today people are still arguing about the vaccinese. there are literally more than a billion people vaccinated for right near 2 years now. Still no serious data about problems, but people feel like it was dangerous to encourage their use. I wonder what their threshold is for when its finally okay?
We're pretty much done with the culture war side of the COVID vaccine debate, so perhaps we can now discuss whether there were unknowns that warranted investigation without the vitriol. I myself had no hesitation taking the vaccine, but had the same response as OP to this study. I don't regret getting vaccinated, but in hindsight, I should have been a bit more charitable towards those expressing concern.
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Half the comments are removed lol
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According to Forbes, 9 out of 10 start-ups fail and close in the first year. Today we talk to Farid - the founder of Getscreen.me, whose team managed to create a start-up that has survived and become successful.
My view is that we are human and comparison is a subconscious activity like you said. I feel one can become aware of when one is comparing and walk back from it. Being pleased for others people success is helpful here.