skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It strikes me as a tax on gold mining. I can't think of any principled reason why they shouldn't do that, to raise money for their government.

Indeed, having a better engineered money system is one of the things that make rich countries richer.
also a great choice!
Automation is okay if it is about taxi drivers or warehouse workers. But when it targets artists some people turn Luddite.

My brother is an artist by the way who does a lot of work with AI, 3D printing and internet. Art will always survive and adapt.
If memory serves it took decades before photography was socially accepted among the art world.
Lenovo isn't close. I have several generations of X1 Carbons, and they all do terrible things like:

- Scratch their own screens when lids are closed
- Have failing LCD connectors (especially true with my 4k variant).
- Flex terribly.

I bought an M2 Air recently, and it's a far better machine.
Aside, curious what this bit of the post refers to:

> Pros for Swift are focus on secure programming outside of just obsessing over memory safety like Rust.

I've never used Swift at all but would enjoy learning what it brings to the "secure programming" table that I might be missing from the summary at https://www.swift.org/about/#safety

Another aside, the author gets some points for looking at Pony.
Vitalik wrote a bit about ways blockchains can help with identity systems here: https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/06/12/nonfin.html
> I'm of the position that art needs an artist.

As a historical note, this argument is over 50 years old. In 1965, an engineer at Bell Labs generated pseudo-random artworks inspired by famous artist Piet Mondrian. He found that a) people couldn't tell if the artwork was generated by Mondrian or the computer, and b) people generally liked the computer's art better.

https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=4437
> do you think Tesla engineers will follow an insane directive knowing it would put peoples lives at risk and not push back

Have you seen what remains of Twitters engineers? All of them are fanboys that think Musk can do no wrong. Of course they’d do whatever the man says.

I have to imagine the same is true for Tesla.
Programming languages shouldn't even consider whitespace (except perhaps new lines) syntactically important at all, so the whole discussion is silly. Once you've decided whitespace is important you might as well make emoji part of the syntax.
Japan is safe in part because theyre culturally homogenous. That culture drills in a sense of obligation to the point of being oppressive. Obligation of the children to the parents, the parents to the company and even the company to society at large. It creates stability, but often at the expense of flexibility. Then there's the sense of shame when you fail to live up to that obligation.
Good lord, who shit in your Cheerios? This is not the kind of thing someone weighing societal costs says, this is resentment and it runs deep.

You do not have to stoic. Feeling emotions is good for your mental health and is not a sign of weakness.

You are allowed to want attention. You are even allowed to ask for it. It is a normal part of being a social creature. You deserve to be loved, cared for, and have your needs attended to.

When you are deprived of the attention you need it is normal to feel resentment towards people who get it and come up with reasons they must be undeserving. It’s a defense mechanism. Because if they are getting attention because they deserve it then your brain tells you that because you’re not getting attention it must mean you’re not deserving. Pushing past this is a sign of emotional maturity.

Different responses pto emotion get different reactions from people. If your response is something visible but non-threatening like tears, curling up, shaking people will be sympathetic and help you. This is healthy. This is good. It’s not an act it’s a release and a signal to others of your needs. You are allowed to ask for help.

You are allowed to be vulnerable, and being vulnerable around people can establish trust and mutual respect. Someone who you see as gaining status probably did so because they opened up, shared their feelings, and asked for what they needed. That kind thing makes you more
human and naturally makes people like you.

You are allowed to set boundaries for yourself. Saying you can’t do violence when picking a movie to watch is a boundary not control. It’s your responsibility to try to not cause others harm or distress and in turn it is others’ responsibility do the same to you.

Nobody is forcing you to add trigger warnings. No one will beat down your door and string you up for not adding them, but then you have to read the room which might be harder. Asking “hey I know suicide is a sensitive topic, is everyone good to talk about it?” is a good way to not accidentally bring up sore topics around people whose lives you don’t know.
The difference is there can be 100s of twitters, and they require voluntary usage. There's only one government, and you are required to abide by their rules, so restrictions need to be placed on the government.

If twitter and the government work together (e.g. twitter banning people that disagree with the government to get favors or avoid punishments) then that should be treated in a similar lense as government action.
The biggest problem with these stack rankings is that the variation isn't evenly distributed. Across the entirety of Google engineering half are below average, but they might all be in single division/group/team and you may be destroying extremely productive teams by forcing them to cut bottom performers.
You have good points but you are missing mine: Google doesn't owe anyone the service of removing malicious results. If it is in their own best interest to do so, that is their business. You can't demand they remove this content, the only people who can are their actual customers of google search: advertisers!

The people responsible for the malware removal have abuse contacts and if they don't you kinda have to follow SOP with legal and law enforcement avenues. Just how it works. Even the FBI let's you report internet crime, you can scream at google but law enforcement and webhosts/ISPs(transit providers) are more likely to respond and do something. Vlc doesn't have a fat wallet so your point about the cours is true, but if a lawyer will do pro-bono for them, it's an easy open-and-shut case.

Yes, google owns VT but you won't even see long standing malicious site verdicts in VT make it to safebrowsing, if they won't even do that, do you think people screaming on twitter is something they listen to? I hope so, but unlikely and a waste of time other than for rage scrollers.
Govt/traditional big corp related IT jobs are crappy. Generally competent IT professionals aren't happy to work for it.
And how exactly is that "fascist", can you explain? The word has no meaning now.
The lax zoning laws (at least compared to the US) allow mixed use so you have more things within walking distance. This was a fascinating video on it: https://youtu.be/wfm2xCKOCNk
I think the axis here to look at is not individualism vs collectivism but empathy and willingness to cooperate.

> It seems that societies grow greatly and then settle into a period of stagnation, constantly talking about golden years while actively stifling them in the present - moribund European economies, the erstwhile innovation cities of America.

I feel like more often it's not "it was great but now it is worse" but the fact people forget the bad stuff and remember the good times.

Sure, buying a home is more expensive than ever but in general standards of living in most places are steadily growing and we're not getting poisoned by lead in petrol or have lead &asbestos in walls.
Other than being owned by Paypal, it's fine. The APIs work and are well-documented. A company I worked for used them for ~7 years and never had any significant problems that I recall.
I find this implausible after just having visited Japan. The Japanese and Japanese culture are a lot of great things but I would never ever describe it as individualistic.
> As someone who is rather distrustful of the real motives of the security in general

Do you mind elaborating on that?
FYI, they don't list prices here and have incorrect photos for at least some items (Apple Watch 8 shows an image of an AWU).
Hi, I run http://synapticpaint.com/ and using AI image generation for graphic novels/comics is one of the directions I'm exploring. If you're interested in collaborating to make your graphic novel a reality (I'll provide the tooling in return for product feedback), please email me at the email address in my profile! (I poked around on your site but couldn't find an email address.) Thanks!
I absolutely agree. The breathability of goretex is extremely poor to the point that I consider it a scam. If it's not raining you'll be way more comfortable with plain fabric, especially wool. If it is raining, you'll be just as comfortable in a plastic raincoat (especially polyurethane) with pit zips, and you will stay dry a lot longer in a heavy pour.

Gore-tex shells don't breath at all unless you keep up the DWR layer on the outside such that the rain beads off. However, if you do regularly maintain the DWR layer, the garment is waterproof anyways without Gore-tex, and more breathable. Moreover, the membranes don't really last a long time, a few year old gore-tex jacket will have a broken membrane, but the nylon outside shell will still look new. I'd guess that about 95% of Gore-tex shells in actual use are no longer waterproof or breathable due to the combo of a split membrane, and worn out DWR coating.

I agree that extreme mountaineering is the one use case where it makes sense. Also, usually with a new top quality outer layer for every trip or every few trips... Even then, there is probably better tech out there, like Columbia OutDry, which puts the membrane on the outside avoiding the need for PFAS based DWR.
I believe making a phone would be extremely easy for Elon Musk since he landed a rocket on a boat.
I suspect it may be because your definition of "free speech" is too narrow. You operate from the perspective that free speech only exists in the form that is protected by the US constitution, and therefore anything not covered by that text cannot possibly be an instance of censorship.

The error is assuming that everybody else agrees with your definition.
The X1s have great build quality compared to other non-Apple laptops, but mine didn't last but about 1.5 years of daily work use before the case itself started failing (case metal chipping and bending + keys failing, battery issues, ports failing, etc etc). On the other hand, my 2014 macbook air still looks almost new even after almost 7 years of daily use.

I think it's as close as it gets, but it's still nowhere near Apple. I'd love to see a premium non-Apple manufacturer.
I embedded a Linux Kernel In a Tweet By Disguising It As A Video
Frankly, I also think it's not right to put load on archive.org's servers when not necessary.

Also, if people use archive.org explicitly to avoid paywalls, sites are just going to block archive.org, and then we won't have an Archive (to check whether the article gets updated, for instance).
Reader macros/literals allow for explicitly differentiating between built-in data types, and provide semantic meaning to otherwise indistinguishable forms. For example, defining a function:

In Racket, you write `(define (foo arg1 arg2) (+ arg1 arg2))`. Why isn’t `(foo arg1 arg2)` evaluated as a function? It’s a list and it isn’t quoted, so it should be evaluated. However, `define` is a macro (I think, might be a special form), so that list isn’t evaluated and doesn’t have to be quoted. That violates the basic tenant of “unquoted forms wrapped in a list are evaluated as fiction calls.”

In Clojure, you write `(defn foo [arg1 arg1] (+ arg1 arg2))`. The [] is a reader macro, a vector literal. It communicates that it’s not a function call but simply data (in this case, a vector containing two symbols).

Maybe I’m just used to it but I find this stuff really helpful.
> Stocks are different because there’s actually an underlying business beyond “waiting for the next guy”.

I agree but this doesn't change the fact that many people don't care about the underlying business and often the stock price and underlying business are disconnected. They just gamble whatever is "hot" or if they think they are smarter they trade the chart. In this way it's no different than crypo "investing". Both can make you rich or get you bankrupt, fast.
The benefit is, what if I don't like four spaces as indentation? What if I like two? Why do other get to force their aesthetic preferences on me when there already exists the tab character, whose apparent width is configurable?
What makes you think people don’t want the current version of Twitter? DAUs at an ATH, it’s in the news cycle non stop, and there’s actual hype/momentum for the first time in years.

Is it because you see a few stunning and brave celebrities make the stunning and brave decision to announce they’re “leaving Twitter.”
SDL got a pretty decent Wayland support in its last releases, so: yes, there are.
From the OP:

"I wanted to see how difficult it would be to build a web app using a sub-$300 android smartphone"

I guess a fun challenge of sorts.
Because you've given me no indication in this conversation that you're worth my time to talk to. :)

I don't mean that quite as rudely as it sounds, but it certainly is the case that your writing here doesn't make it sound like you'll say interesting things if I call you.
> And if you want data, look no further than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_United_States_in... for why your take is absolutely bonkers.

This doesn't refute the OP's claims, and I think could support them. OP is saying (to paraphrase) that Japan's tough on crime stance is a deterrent, and so there is less crime, and so fewer people incarcerated.

Also, I don't think a reasonable person is worried about getting arrested or shot going to the US. I'm sure I might be possible to make it happen, but as a Canadian, I have never been worried about either of those things going to the US.
We've been having the same problem getting GPU instances on us-east. Multiple week-long delays to escalate and talk to yet the next person up who can make a decision. It's a mess.
Completely agree.

Safe streets allow for so many great things in a city. Unsafe streets mean everything had to also factor in security which completely destroys lots of potential business options from being offered most easily.

A minor example of this would be the vending machines everywhere including in out of sight places which we all know would be destroyed/robbed in many Western cities.
Ha. I knew something like this would happen eventually. Isn't limitless scalability one of the biggest selling points of using "the cloud"? If you have to buy your own computers anyway why even use the cloud? You could try using different clouds providers but eventually the clouds run out.

Which brings me to another important point. If we run out of computers meaning supply can't keep up with demand, then who are the winners? The people who own the computers. Cloud providers and self hosters. Because of the high demand cloud providers can raise their prices and that's directly converted to profit since expenses remain the same, i.e. price gouging. Good job all you cloud loyalists who use the cloud for everything.
I will buy your car in kasey_junk bucks to explain my point if you want.
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I came here to say the same thing.

They're a bunch of lists of exactly what the search term was looking for. And I've found these kinds of lists to be great jumping-off points in terms of getting an overview, whether I'm looking for remote work practices or humidifiers or types of mindfulness.

If you want long, in-depth articles those usually come up when your search terms become more specific. For example, the first link includes a bullet point "One-on-ones and check-ins" for remote work... throw that into Google and it's a bunch of useful articles (not lists), the fourth one is from Harvard Business Review.

As far as I can tell, Google's doing a great job in terms of organic results, and then it's adding ads on top and bottom because obviously it's got to pay the bills. I don't get the complaints at all.
> 3. Class signals 1

This is good point. Rakuten style design is friendly in general.
It’s certainly true I run into these things with AWS as well, but it’s generally limited to a specific instance type/availability zone combination. I’ve never had all instance types unavailable.

If anything, I’m surprised we can just spin up a few hundred instances out of nowhere and not run into capacity issues.
> But then it nearly passed

I'm a complete outsider, and I just looked the Scottish referendum up on wikipedia. It says that more than 55% voted against independence and less than 45% for. This is an absolute landslide. What exactly do you mean by "nearly passed" ?
"No one grows up wanting to steal deoderant from Walgreens"

You should mix with different people. When you mix poverty and a lack of education with genetic stupidity you get some pretty obnoxious personal motivations over the population, and those motivations aren't fixed by lifting people out of poverty or trying to educate them. Some people are simply lost causes that society would be better off without, period. Pretending otherwise is naive.
Great comment. Thank you!
One of the most important things that distinguishes great artists is that they have a distinctive, recognizable style. And it takes a lot of hard work to achieve this.

I think what makes me uneasy about these AI art generators is that they can trivially assimilate a new style like this and commoditize it. That's why so many of the most successful prompts are "X in the style of ${artist}".
Due to my experience with C on Unix, I once did a contract to program in C on IBM/370 systems. It was extremely painful. Especially editing C code on 3270 terminal. C on 370 was driven by marketing to entice the porting of Unix hosted software to mainframe. AFAIK it didn't gain traction.
>The Wayland architecture does not give me a choice in my screenshot, video recording, and remote desktop tool

Yes it does. Use the screenshot, screencast and remote desktop XDG portals for that. It's understandable you're confused because the X11 way was to try to jam everything into X extensions whether it made sense or not. The overall trend lately is to move APIs into other components (XDG portals, pipewire, DBus, systemd, etc.)
> because the Russian currency has, through a series of impressive self owns, become completely useless.

Huh. Checks forex rates. Not worthless, USD/RUB went from 100 to 60. It's worth 167% what it was before Feb 2022. How do you explain that?

So many people forget that the value of a currency derives from considerations of supply and demand. When Russia said it demands to be paid in Rubles for some commodities, then this created a demand for Rubles. You may not like the demand, but it is a real demand.

A net exporting nation is not going to have a worthless currency, rather it will be able to control the value of its currency by either insisting that a portion of its exports be bought with its own currency, or -- equivalently -- allowing its exports to be bought with a tradeable currency and then selling that for rubles.

So the strength or weakness of the currency is going to be decided by the net export situation, and as Russia's trade surplus is much higher in 2022 than in 2021, earning roughly $330B in energy exports in 2022, a roughly ~40% increase from last year, it's currency is going to appreciate unless Russia takes steps to devalue it. And that's just energy. Russia is also a major global supplier of fertilizer, wheat, diamonds, gold, titanium, etc. That's what makes the ruble valuable, not what you think of Russia's geopolitical strategy. Currency markets don't reflect the moral value of a nation, they don't reflect their foreign policy, they reflect the net supply and demand for the nation's production. The world is hungry for oil, gas, coal, wheat, fertilizer, wood, titanium, potassium, gold, and diamonds. It is the value of these commodities that gives the Ruble its value.

In terms of China, Russia runs large trade surpluses against China because it is a major energy and food supplier to China. It has therefore accumulated a large amount of CNY reserves, just as the record of all those surpluses. It makes sense that it would use some of these reserves to purchase output from CNY or other countries willing to be paid in CNY. That use of foreign reserves does not mean that the Ruble is worthless, it means that Russia is spending some of its foreign reserves. Nothing particularly special going on here - China is more than eager to sell goods to Russia to reduce its trade deficit with that country.
BLAS is pretty old, with a first release in 1979. Even though modern computers likely don't use any of the old BLAS code, they still have implementations that respect the original API.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Linear_Algebra_Subprog...
Neither? It's two words, Gore-Tex.
The Impossible Port: MacOS
Roe v. Wade is a ruling that people have a right to abortions. Removing it removes the right. It doesn’t retroactively remove the right.

A new law that is passed doesn’t have retroactive power

A court ruling that the thing you’ve been doing for a year has been breaking an existing law can absolutely punish you for it. But it’s unlikely to punish random individuals doing things on a non noteworthy scale when a clear understanding of the law in a new context has not been established.
They’re not showing it to you. They keep it private but it’s still there. (that’s called “honne and tatemae”)

You’re welcome to look through used fashion/music stores in Tokyo if you want to see how good their soft power is.

Meanwhile the stereotypical suburban American thinks every nearby city is a hub of crime and won’t let their children walk anywhere until they’re 25. Vs: https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1596322167222063104
I've seen too much over the years. I've seen indentations be a lie. I've seen indentations get mangled because someone's editor is set to use tabs instead of spaces, or vice versa. I can only halfway trust the indentation, but the curlies don't lie.
Yes.

In Canada, any discussion that isn’t direct affirmation is considered similar to “conversation therapy” and could lead to me losing my daughter.

Conversations starting with: “Hmm. That’s a big decision with many consequences; perhaps it would be best to wait and see how it feels to be a woman before you decide, wouldn’t it?” are now an offense punishable by the loss of your child, if reported.

You won’t believe this, of course, because it sounds insane.