skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does anyone read books anymore?

No. Not a single person has read a paper book in the last 15 years. If you go into a book store right now and see someone buying a book with cash, then you can be sure they are a mule for a money laundering operation.

The people in public spaces that are "reading books", the pages are actually all blank. They are paid actors employed by Big Publishing to keep the facade up that they are legitimate businesses, and are not just fronts for laundering money for drug cartels and the like.

They are all in on it, and you better keep quiet, or they will be on to you.
It seems obvious to me that the goal was to take away the bargaining chip of the Gas and commit Ukraine to retaking every inch of lost territory.

My big worry is that a NATO country is responsible. I actually don’t know what happens if some NATO nations view these strikes as aggression and refuse to defend the responsible party.
The most logical explanation is Russia. As they are loosing the war, the annexation of territory with fake referendums, and the hint other pipelines could be next, would allow for a strong hand to negotiate a settlement and save face.
Psychological effects? The contestant volunteered for this, and was able to step out at any time (many times while still making a good amount of money).

How many people were kept locked in their - possibly smaller - homes during COVID with no option to exit and no end date in sight?
Don't forget stealing Europe's industrial base!

https://www.wsj.com/articles/high-natural-gas-prices-push-eu...

Honestly as evil as it is, for once the US foreign meddling seems to make sense from a purely strategic standpoint.

(By contrast, not sure what Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan etc gained us (unless you happened to be a military contractor or weapons manufacturer).)
I thought of bumfights when writing this, and decided that no, it's not ethical, because homeless people often suffer from mental illnesses which violates one of the assumptions that I laid out.
I believe this is confirmation that all 4 lines in Nordstream have been sabotaged and are out of commission for the near future.

Also confirmation that alleged attacks were in international waters.

The difference in magnitude of the explosions could be a clue to the method of sabotage. There was also a 17 hour delay between the 2 main explosions, that haappened 4.6km apart
> I personally can't think of any other logical explication than German politicians having been "bought by Russians" to explain that decision.

German here. Russian gas was absurdly cheap, I paid 5ct/kWh in 2015 and that included taxes. Large industry which was exempted from at least some of these paid even less. There simply was no economically viable alternative, even renewables today are more expensive than Russian gas was back then.

Yes, there may also have been corruption involved as well (just look at former Chancellor Schröder who started the entire NS1/2 mess, Merkel just ran along with it), but the primary motivation always has been price.

Hell even the primary motivation for NS1/2 was price, as there are no transit fees associated with it, unlike Drushba/Soyuz. The second motivation obviously was to reduce the leverage of Ukraine.

Side note: Assuming a household with 12.000 kWh/a thermal energy consumption, that was 600€ a year/50€ a month back then. At current gas prices, it's ten times that... which is the cause for widespread discontent and outright existential fear in society at the moment. When you only have 200-300€ left after rent and necessities, 50€ for heating is manageable - but 500€ certainly is not, and the new gas prices representing the current future market prices that will hit in next year aren't even priced in.

> I definitely saw this kind of stuff coming like 10+ years ago as they went full steam ahead with energiewende.

Lol what? Energiewende? You mean Mr. Altmaier and his conservative friends sabotaging the wind and solar industry wherever they could, leading to well over 100k lost jobs [1]? Fuck that shit.

[1] https://www.iwr.de/news/erneuerbare-energien-beschaeftigen-u...
Want to add, cloud vendors' proposition is not about the capability; it's a basic requirement and no longer an USP for something to 'work with the cloud'. It's about security. It's about outsourcing the liability so that the manager has less responsibility.
Misses the whole social aspect of the concert experience
Unfortunately yes. I ran a workshop with a group of students learning about digital electronics. They all installed the IDE and it was pretty much unusable except for on the faster laptops. The RP2040 was particularly bad, but the Mega*8 was a bit better. The problem seemed to be continual project indexing and no caching. It was also very difficult to see progress so often you'd hit upload and wait for tens of seconds before figuring out if anything had compiled or uploaded.

This is absolutely an Arduino problem. avr-gcc for a small program often compiles faster than the time it takes to upload with avrdude. And the IDE uses both underneath. Or compared to Atmel Studio, which is surprisingly not bad.
Between OpenMP (older computers), CUDA (Nvidia), HIP (AMD), now SYCL (Intel), not to mention more interesting architectures, DOE is probably plently busy and has plenty of very fast computers that are hard enough to keep their codes working on. Aurora being delayed has damaged Intel's reputation and gets chuckled about, but I'm not sure how big of an effect it's really had on the ground.
*watch YT without ads and paying
"It sounds like sci-fi" isn't a valid reason to think something is impossible. Many things in the modern world would have sounded like sci-fi 50 or 100 years ago. This type of reasoning has a name: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_the_stone
it means that
From my experience about 7 years ago, it was 10-100x faster under Linux (minutes compared to seconds), even though the Windows machine was way more powerful. Maybe file accesses are slowed down by something like an antivirus?
OP said:

> I write functions using ‘static’ all the time. I prefer that a function be static.

This, however, does not mean that all the functions should be static. IMHO, the more static stuff you can extract from your instance methods while keeping parameters count to max 3 (magic number that works for me), the better.
Why no one pushing this ? this is so much simpler than hugo, jekyll, etc.
They're the ones sending us videos free of charge. They're doing it assuming we're gonna look at all this noise. Unfortunately for them, their assumptions aren't gonna hold. We're just gonna delete the parts we don't want. Just like we can rip out the ad pages on a magazine and throw them away.

Where's the YouTube plan where Google doesn't track me, where I get zero ads, where YouTube itself blocks hardcoded sponsor segments in videos, where YouTube allows me to download videos DRM-free? Because we already have all that without paying them a cent. You want us to pay them to have less freedom and power than we already have? Nope.
Nim 1.6.8
It shouldn't be because then people can use their disgust response to moralize about other people's behavior, and that's historically done a lot of real-world harm. There needs to be an actual moral justification instead of ad hoc assertions. But I get that there's a lot of scope for different views under the banner of meta-ethics.
Latex followed by markdown, depending on the use case.
How often do Super GMs achieve 100% engine correlation?
I worked at one of these banks, in a technical not a trading role, for a while and it was constantly drummed into us that we should not use external communications software for work of any kind. The tech organisation was adamant about it and penalties for violating it were severe, and the tech org has no incentive to turn a blind eye. These aren't hive minds, they're big unwieldy organisations and one part of the org can be doing things that would horrify and be stamped on hard by another part if they found out. It's absolutely right that the regulators are taking this seriously, and the banks too as people are being fired over it.

Having said that, there's no allegation or evidence given that these side channels were used particularly or mainly to hide illegal activity. Using official communications systems can be clunky and inconvenient, and it's also possible this was done more to hide activity from potential rivals within the organisation than from regulators, although I'm sure that happened too. We don't really know.
Using a Docker registry as a distributed layer cache for CI
Somehow I'd completely missed this feature existed and it's a really nice way of speeding a build up
And I am sure they know who did it, as the ocean floor is rumored to be filled with special audio and other type of sensors.
You’re right that it’s not a functional language, but its type system and developer experience has proved very attractive to a lot of people who normally are drawn to Haskell.
Celebratory Gunfire
What steerpike is trying to say is that you don't really need a major PR campaign for this. The people who work at those media outlets probably have a close attachment to Kate's previous works, so they'll gladly cover a new release without much prodding.
> This blogger is acting like traditional network television has never mentally tortured people for our viewing pleasure. Have they never seen an episode of Hell's Kitchen, Dr Phil, I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here or Big Brother? Basically the entire reality TV genre is based on that premise.

There's also this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasubi#Denpa_Sh%C5%8Dnen_teki_...

Although I guess Japan has always sort of been in a league on its own when it comes to questionable TV show premises.
IP can change multiple times when switching between mobile stations and wifi hotspots. Plus IP may change for each new TCP request if your operator uses CGNAT
I only take L Theanine at night as a sleep supplement. It works well for that!
SEC Charges Hydrogen Technology and Former CEO for Crypto Market Manipulation
This would be like amputating both of your legs to avoid a military draft, it makes no sense. They're already fucked 10 times over, paying a fine is the least of their problem.

They're illegally invading a country and committing warcrimes, why would a fine be the red line, if they went ahead with the invasion I'm pretty sure they can say "no" to a western fine
I was without internet for awhile.

If you have a TexLive installation you have many thousands of pages of excellent manuals in PDF form.
Are you thinking the old sparc Niagara?
I feel slightly sad that I numbered the questions and you blew past that but then it seems you've not attempted to answer the actual questions.

> Inherited capital in every startup I've worked at. And enough of it that they got several runs at success. It wasn't risky at all.

In the event this was an attempt to answer, I have to say, feels like a non-answer. You do say "worked at" though, which makes me think not as a founder but as an employee, thus the capital risk wasn't yours so much.

> Too vague a generalisation to have any value. What matters is who does the work and the social value of that work.

It is vague, sure, a doctor probably has more value than someone who employs a cleaner to clean their home. So I suppose, a better question would be:

6. Which brings more value to a community, a person who works in an office doing menial admin work for 5 years, or a person who spends 5 years founding a new company that provides medical services to the community, employs 100 people, and produces tax receipts (direct and indirect) of 1000x the person who works in an office doing menial admin work?

If you're thinking "how can I possibly answer that question?" then you're right. You can't. The obvious answer is that the founder ultimately produces more value, and that's okay. You don't have to hate or dislike people for creating value — creating jobs and providing services is crucial to the economies around the world.

There seems to be a knee-jerk reaction to such a question of "well the office worker has value too", yes, nobody is saying people are value-less, but there is an objective reality that some people produce more value than others.

Ultimately, my purposefully crafted questions lead up to one thing: some people deserve to be paid more than others.
> ISPs provided users with some megabytes of hosting accessible with simple FTP.

I learned a few weeks ago that my ISP still does this. It’s a bit hidden in the depths of the customer portal, but it is there!
The way to make it readable is to plug it into threadreaderapp:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1575233618170982400.html
It's probably not this. Part of the issue here is that markets do believe this will boost demand in the UK economy. It's just that this isn't good right now with inflation so hot. If anything you want to be increasing tax to lower demand.

As an investor you always want your investments to yield more than the rate of inflation and when government policy increases inflationary pressures by fuelling growth the market will demand higher interest rates. Of course there is also uncertainty about how the government will pay for the debt which is increasing the risk premium.

It's just dumb fiscal policy to boost growth at a time when central bankers are trying to do the opposite. It would probably work great during a deflationary period. Its just that's not where we are right now.
On many levels I agree with you. But, you can also look at this thru the paradigm of the "hero's journey". A normal person, plucked from the masses is given a harrowing mission. If they survive, there is glory ($$$), if not, then there is failure (Internet ridicule).

Granted, Mr. Beast is not giving us the story of Luke Skywalker, but I can understand the rational of the person taking the challenge.

For most people watching, it's just torture porn, but content providers have to give the people what they want to make a buck....
I am the same. When it comes to a tech reference book, I want something that I can search, and copy+paste text from. But if I am reading for entertainment, an e-book is the worst experience I can imagine.
This was probably posted because Matt Levine discussed it yesterday (https://archive.ph/nYHax). The regulation requiring brokers to keep records of all written communication goes back to 1948, when writing something down was fairly significant, and most discussions were face to face. Now all of these firms are being fined because their employees discussed work over WhatsApp.

> As technology changes, lots of forms of written electronic communication become substitutes not for memoranda, but for face-to-face conversation. So the SEC’s requirements constantly become broader. If you just talk to your colleagues in person, the SEC does not expect you to preserve that. Once you move that chat to WhatsApp, it does.
not having a youtube account seems to help. i watch different types of videos in different firefox containers and my kids watch on a different laptop. they see mr beast all the time, but i never notice him showing up for me.
I think losing ISP-provided hosting (by default) really marked the transition of netizens from active participants to pure consumers.
This is used as a model for "reverse auctions" [1], which also then charges a fee for participation which essentially makes the whole thing a cross between a lottery and a scam.

There were loads advertised on TV with misleading claims about people winning ipods for 37p, etc, which while technically might be true for the winner ignores the overall cost.

I've not seen many advertised lately so either the practice itself or the advertising of it was cracked down on.

[1] https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-and-players/gui...
Does this benefit Russia? No.. but does it throw a wrench in any plans that a potential successor could rapproche the west? Yes.

I would consider the motivations of all actors and not just in the interest of the nation states.
The show "Alone" is pretty much a starving contest. In recent years contestants have started packing on weight prior to filming so they can rely more on fat stores when their food supply dwindles. Typically one or two contestants a season get pulled for medical reasons due to excessive weight loss.
After 14 years, Lehman Brothers' brokerage ends liquidation
Indeed this angle I think is the right direction. It's a bit like Cortez burning the boats. Removing me from power won't mean that you get to go back to business as usual and sell gas to Europe.

Also the aspect that it reminds the whole of NATO how fragile their infrastruture is for the upcoming winter. It doesn't matter how big your navy is I can get 4x deep dive special forces in a recreational boat and freeze everyone to death. I think the first explosions were actually when they opened the Poland-Norway gas line.

Same goes for intercontinental undersea communication cables. You would probably take out most of the world's finance/trading systems for weeks/months by destroying a handful of transcontinental cables.

It's a power display for fear abroad and for getting all the potential dissidents back in line.

I am very curious if this keeps escalating at what point is a NATO member gonna claim that article 5 has been breached.
Err, if there’s something about attending these World Cup games that bothers you, just don’t go. Coverage of the games will be excellent, and you can tailor your environment as you wish. It’s not like punters are in a “lots of disposable income” time of their lives…
Most IDE's and static analysis tools will actually provide a warning when an instance method could have been declared static.
Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1
“Do not recommend channel” is an option hidden in a three dot menu on the video thumbnail. Without it youtube is unusable. You do not have to consume the shit it forces into your eyeholes.
> as soon as they need a second file, import a dependency or use additional helper methods, they get to face all of it anyway.

The problem isn't the set of things students will need to learn, but the order in which they encounter them. Students write a one-file program before they write a two-file one, but because Java is optimised for large programs, today they encounter things like accessibility rules -- which exist to serve large programs -- before they even get to write a very small one. That's the idea of the "on-ramp" in the title -- you end up int the same place, but with a smoother ride.

Both students and teachers who prefer Python to Java as a first language mentioned this "on-ramp" problem as one of the reasons. There are others, and they will be addressed by other enhancements.

BTW, importing other packages and using helper methods does not require knowing about accessibility rules.

> Like it happens with all guest languages that target the JVM pretending to be Java, and one gets a confusing stack trace only understandable by those with proper Java background.

But this is not a "guest language" and we'll need to ensure that stack traces -- which we also control -- will not be confusing.
The members weren’t allowed to choose Badenoch, she was eliminated at an early stage by the MP vote, probably because she was too radical and lacked ministerial experience.

Rishi Sunak was claiming to be resident in the US while Chancellor of the Exchequer, while his wife was claiming non dom status to avoid paying tax. He was also hated by the supporters of the previous PM because he wielded the knife.

It’s not a shock that elections are not won on competence.
The Empty Shelves
What the world really needs right now is the dial-in sound of a 56k modem.
So are there Figma clones? If not, how many teams are starting on one right now? :)
> By contrast, not sure what Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan etc gained us (unless you happened to be a military contractor or weapons manufacturer

Pretty sure it's a big point, gotta keep the war machine running
Yes, it pretty much depends on what and how you're trying to compile. Incremental complication helps a lot, as does keeping sbt shell open and not restarting sbt each time.

In other news: now, there's scala-cli for smaller projects — https://scala-cli.virtuslab.org/docs/guides/scala-js
If in a big company, "follow the money". There must be an account manager from MS side who talks to somebody in your company. You can exert some pressure in that channel, in my experience. (but sometimes that does not help either)
From 2021. In 2022 the missing cables were found and it looks like the cable was caught up in the trawl from a trawl boat: https://www.nrk.no/nordland/mysteriet-pa-havbunnen-_-na-er-s... (in Norwegian).
Anyone interested in this might enjoy reading the book Commodore, A Company on the Edge. It chronicles much of the history told here as well as the creation of the KIM-1, Commodore PET and Commodore's acquisition of MOS Technology.
Is it generally feasible to increase the capacity of surviving links dramatically "simply" by upgrading the equipment on land to the newest/most expensive stuff? Or would you need to upgrade all the repeaters in the sea as well?
It's a huge problem for poor people. Liz Truss and Kwasi's friends hold most of their wealth in property and those are the people that matter to these soulless lizards.
https://lgads.tv/
UK to Slash Taxes for the Rich
Just amazing. I wonder how he got that concrete mixed up for the lion's head, how he did all of this without once mentioning it to anyone.
Portable shortwave radio is a good idea and doesn't really need to be crank-powered. These things sip power and can last a couple weeks of moderate daily usage on a single set of batteries. A box of double-A batteries (which you should have anyway) can last you months.

A good receiver with a bit of antenna can easily give you access to radio stations thousands of kilometers away, as well as amateur radio operators.
> There simply was no economically viable alternative,

nucl... ah no that's bad
Hard to say, if they get filled with ice plugs could be out of commission permanently.
> one can note a phenomenon of "people who simply cannot read, unless the message and its form are the simplest"

This is not the problem here.

> - this, out of experience. This is extremely worrisome, in the social context. One can also note that some seem to be embracing an idea according to which, "if they don't understand, the problem must be in the message" - which is differently but equally worrisome. These are signals that should call for the highest concern.

The highest concern for everyone reading this thread has been your pompous writing style (think in SNR terms if the word "pompous" is too loaded/offensive)

But feel free to believe everyone is lying and only you know the truth.
Succinctly? You must be a Java programmer. This essay is at least 3-4x longer than I’d like.

As a (mostly) python and C++ programmer, Java feels like someone is afraid they’re speaking to an imbecile, so they constantly repeat themselves and over-explain every point.
> Specialized silicon will always beat general purpose silicon.

The whole history of PCs is repeatedly proving otherwise. The NES had hardware sprites. Then Carmack & Romero showed up and proved you can have smooth side scrolling in software, on an underpowered CPU. The whole concept of a PPU was thus rendered obsolete. Repeat for discrete FPUs, discrete sound cards, RAID cards (ZFS), and so on.

Specialised silicon will beat general purpose silicon at the given task, until general purpose silicon + software catches up. You need to keep pouring in proportional R&D effort for the specialised silicon to stay ahead.

What keeps GPUs relevant is that they're in fact much more general than what the "G" originally stood for.
Destroying the pipeline made perfect sense since otherwise Russian Gasprom would be required to pay a heavy fine for not delivering the minimal amount of gas stated in the contract. Sabotage that cannot be proved cancels that.