skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "...as a Muslim, this is the best place to live. Muslims want the Sharia law and all the other Islamic stuffs including hijab, prayers and what not."

Afghanistan also has all the Islamic stuff. Is it a good place for a Muslim to live?

If not, what's the difference? Is it just the oil money that allows a class of people to live in luxury while exerting Sharia law on the others?
$1k/yr? Maybe you could get that rate two decades ago, or for an extraordinarily simple business.
(Or if you want a bargain-bin accountant, which experience teaches will cost you more in hassle over the long term).

Even 7 years ago 77% of small businesses surveyed by SCORE reported spending more[1] (and it presumably doesn't include the day to day bookkeeping they do in-house).

People on the losing end of tax reform would stand to lose thousands

A lot more than that. I suspect those who benefit most from today's complex and loophole-ridden system are not the "ordinary joes" you alluded to in the first part of your reply.

If you're gaining a "few thousand" from the existing complexities, but in the new world could file a return without the need for professional services, then it's a wash. I suppose accountants would lose out, but it turns out they're the loudest voices consistently calling for tax simplification
(eg. see CGA Canada reports from 2011 through 2019).

Those who are disorganized and/or worry over and internalize financial tasks as you describe tend to do so regardless of the complexity.

Not sure if you're trying to insinuate that I'm disorganized, but I'm not going to bite.

There's always winners and losers when you embark on tax reform. I simply feel society as a whole would experience a net benefit from efficiencies gained out of a substantially leaner tax code, and I wouldn't mind even if I personally landed on the slightly-losing side.

[1] https://www.patriotsoftware.com/blog/accounting/how-much-sho...
> but as a Muslim, this is the best place to live. Muslims want the Sharia law and all the other Islamic stuffs including hijab, prayers and what not.

Very insightful, surprised to hear people like it there, I'm glad.

I think the problem with Sharia law and such is when people come from say Saudi Arabia or similar middle eastern countries and expect to bring their backwards ass laws with them to EU countries.
OP is talking TO people reading comments before the article - not saying s/he did so. Seems you fell into the same confusion hole as OP.
Digital Detritus
I recently started using nim for some little side projects and I am having so much fun. Somehow they’ve managed to combine the strengths of high level languages such as python with those of low level, systems languages like C with few (if any) of the drawbacks. It’s pretty amazing to be honest.

Programming in nim feels a lot like programming in a statically typed Python, except that you get small, fast, single file executables out of the box.

Compared to C++ you don’t need to worry about memory allocations too much except when you really want to, and when you do it is much simpler than in C or C++. It is also much easier to control mutability and the type system is much better. Also you can use most of the language at compile time in a much more elegant way than in modern C++.

Another surprising thing is that while the ecosystem is obviously much smaller than on more popular languages, the fact that it has a built-in package manager gives you access to it much more easily than in C++. There are a lot of high quality packages (such as datamancer, arraymancer and ggplotnim) which makes nim very productive in a lot of domains.

That’s not even including advanced things such as nim’s excellent macro system which I personally don’t use (but which enable some of the best nim libraries).

Oh, and I _love_ nim’s uniform function call syntax. Every other language should copy that feature.

I almost forgot to list the drawbacks. The main one of course is that it is not the most popular language (but the ecosystem is big enough that I didn’t find it is a big problem for my use case in practice). Other than that the editing and debugging experience could be improved. There is a decent VS Code plug-in (look for the one made by “saem”) but it is just OK, not great. There is some integration with gdb but it is a bit rough. I usually end up adding logs when I need to debug something.
His (elementary) books on differential equations and on classical mechanics are the pinnacle of mathematical exposition. I cannot fathom the idea that the person who wrote these was not an excellent teacher.
The Fed has a huge influence of course, since they are the largest issuer and politically close to the authority that determines what a dollar is. But Dollars are also created by other banks on their balance sheets, many of them outside the US.
Here you go: https://htmx.org/
You dont actually need Android for anything. We could return to 2005, when everybody had "phone-friendly" versions of their web page, instead of bloody apps.
Many of us are programmers. Some of us are also trying to be writers. Trust me: writing is like programming. Reading code is very useful to become a better programmer, but you learn programming mostly by writing code. Similarly you mostly learn how to write prose by writing prose, tons of it. Reading is especially useful if you identify certain books that are very high in style (for me one of such books was "Vite di uomini non illustri" by Giuseppe Pontiggia), for your taste at least, for what you beleive the best writing is. You read these books many times, to understand what's going on, what are the patterns, how to do the same magic. As a casual reader you can read 200 books every year and yet remain a terrible writer.

EDIT: more about that on my blog if you care -> http://antirez.com/news/136
Um.. no?

> "Mecca is the holiest city in Islam where the pilgrimage or Hajj to Mecca is celebrated. This destination is only for Muslim tourists. At the entrance, there are several checkpoints where they will check that the visitor is a Muslim, and non-Muslims will be redirected to a highway that surrounds the city. Pilgrims must prove they are Muslim and women must be accompanied by a Mahram, also known as a male guardian."

A non-Muslim can visit Medina but the main mosque is off limits.
Mobile browsers and cloud gaming: responses to consultation by the CMA
Do you delete the tracks from your servers after the playlist is generated? :)

Thanks, this works great!
I don’t know who the first was but the digital artist Refik Anadol has pieces in a current exhibit at MoMA: https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/658

The model was trained on pieces from MoMA’s collection.
Some of them have migrated. I imagine others are taking more of a "wait-and-see" approach.

For what it's worth, Codeberg is quite a major contributor to Gitea as well as the biggest public instance, and they are supporting the fork and will be switching over after the first stable release.
I built something similar but it wasn't intended as a clipboard. Mostly for anonymous chat but I personally ended up using it as a clip board. The difference. We don't persist anything on the server side, it's totally in memory and you can create new streams that have shorter ttls.

Website: https://malten.xyz

Source code: https://github.com/asim/malten
Isn't GitHub Actions now open source? You can self-host runners now https://github.com/actions/runner or am I missing something?
Axiom:
Human rights + Oil price = 0
Has a phone app been developed?
Ask HN: What is your favorite Mastodon server?
There are so many mastodon servers available, which one do you prefer and why?
Real World intuition is a habit one needs to abstain from to be able to be creative in the field of higher level mathematics.
I have a bad feeling that also modern physics who has been pretty much stale since the early twentieth century is not due to lack of intuition but due to lack of mathematical models.

As for Heaviside he was self taught, an engineer in spirit rather than a mathematician. In a more modern mathematical perspective, not derived by intuition, Maxwell equations are just one very simple equation in Clifford algebric spaces. This formulation will not prevail since the engineering (intutitive + sleigh of hands) approach has dominated instant gratification higher educational level curricula.

I am not saying that what I am doing is different, I am from an engineer background also.

But having had that mindset, I eventually met mathematical minds and was humbled by their vastly different approach. This approach is not for everybody though, the yellow books are difficult to parse. Having said that I find that the mathematical mathematics approach is applicable in all of engineering whereas the engineering mathematics approach is not applicable in all of math.
If they plan large scale as soon as next year, then some physical specimens should be available already. Are they anywhere?
Excellent film. Very memorable.
That's Zen.
I’ve been playing with Act but I find it’s slower to run locally on my M1 MacBook than it is to just push things up to github to run.

Edit: also, why does it run things as root instead of with a use set up the same way as actions?
That's not a problem if the server owners don't have any power over users.
To facilitate writing, 'pages' have to be ubiquitous. There is always something to write about, and ubiquity of pages facilitates the ink on paper, the pixels on screen.

Writing is a medium, and an excellent one at that. I'd agree that writing is a unique medium in generating a special kind of thoughts that are deeply introspective and concept-revealing. But I find that you can view writing not as one medium, but as a host of various submedia.

Typing on a keyboard is very different from writing on a whiteboard. The kinds of thoughts you can host to different 'pages' vary. Even electronic writing can vary depending on the psychological and technological context. Writing on Twitter on mobile varies from writing encrypted notes on your personal machine.

Is one thing better than the other? I don't think we can easily claim such. Use whiteboards when whiteboards are good, use paper when paper is good, use iPads when iPads are good. But access to various hosts for just the right occasion surely nurtures ideas faster in the right medium of growth.
You equate abstractness with uninspiringness and lack of excitement but that's just how you feel about it, not an absolute.

The abstract nature of maths is what I find appealing about it. I prefer explanations that explicitly treat the abstract nature of what is being taught to ones that try to bootstrap it from examples. I like baby Rudin. I find pure maths easier and more enjoyable than applied.

There are different kinds of people in the world.
In one generation their oil will be worth far, far less than now and all countries which have their economies based on nothing else will collapse. SA’s exports are more than 75% hydrocarbons and derivatives. 57% is crude oil, unrefined[1]. Given that Saudis do little productive work now, mostly working in government sinecures or set asides in companies where foreigners do the actual work there’s little reason to believe they could deal with a massive drop in export value.

https://oec.world/en/profile/country/sau?subnationalFlowSele...
This is dope. I'm interested to do that in Go and I know there is a Go implementation of Processing... That's a great motivation to try it
Audio and video. Wikipedia has a terse but comprehensive overview. It's comparable to Matroska (MKV).

It's nearly identical to apple's QuickTime format: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Qu...
> Typist and the Rest of the Mob

>We adopted the terminology from Code with the Wisdom of the Crowd by Mark Pearl:

>One person controls the keyboard, this is the typist. The rest of the mob discusses the problem, agrees on the solution, and instructs the typist. The typist follows their instructions, puts them into code, and may ask clarifying questions to understand the solution. The rest of the mob guides the typist as needed.

>We value the typist as they allow the rest of the mob to focus on solving the problem.

>The typist must not code on their own. This balances the participation of all team members and it reduces the dominance of strong characters.

That sounds horrible!
And usefully it also has `-e` (`--edit`), so you can create an alias of

amend = commit —-amend —-no-edit

and if you need to edit the commit message alongside merging new changes in HEAD,

> git amend -e
Doesn’t work for windows.
Installing tooling is also pain.
SQL is simple English? lol people just need to learn the damn language, tools like this are just a crutch that do more harm than good.
Muslims want the Sharia law and all the other Islamic stuffs including hijab, prayers and what not

No normal, rational human being would want to cover their face. If they do, then it means they’re raised that way and brainwashed. Or they’re straight up lying, for fear of prosecution.
> It's either on my harddrive and backup DRM free or I don't actually own it.

It's quiet confusing that some people don't understand that, considering that's literally the name of it: digital rights management.

You only ever get a temporary permission to play a media with DRM. It's literally the reason for it's inception.
I never used to have to think about all this extra stuff… And what is my benefit?
data:text/html, <html><textarea autofocus style="width:99vw;height:98vh">

Text area preserves newlines when copy and pasting
You can connect via https, but your browser will ask you to trust a Yahoo Store certificate since it has no clue how Yahoo Store might relate to paulgraham.com
Unpopular* opinion: actually theocracy sucks

* Not
In France it's the same in tight markets, but in small, declining towns you can get public housing in less than a year.
To avoid editing the commit message you can use:

-C <commit>, --reuse-message=<commit>
Take an existing commit object, and reuse the log message and the authorship information (including the timestamp) when creating the commit.

In the above example, commit can simply be "HEAD", when doing the amend commit:

git commit -C HEAD --amend
> No normal, rational human being would want to cover their face

We’re raised to cover our bodies in clothes. You accept that as normal but draw the line at covering your face?

Edit: Updated the quote I was replying to.
I'm sure Nazi Germany was great for some Germans too, if they willfully ignored all the bad stuff going on.
How many people working at SpaceX have to say good things about Elon to make you believe?
On a related note the Museum of Berkshire Aviation [1], about 30 miles west of London, has a Chevaline[2] reentry module. This includes a dummy warhead along with gyroscopes, decoy 'flares', and all the hydrazine pipes and steering systems.

It's fascinating to see close up, especially the quality of workmanship on it all.

They also have things like a Miles M.52 (1943 supersonic project) and a Fairey Jet Gyrodyne (jet exhaust from the rotor tips). It's a great little museum if you're ever in the area.

I've just uploaded some pictures from my visit [3]

[1] https://museumofberkshireaviation.co.uk/

[2] https://museumofberkshireaviation.co.uk/html/exhibits/cheval...

[3] https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevecargill/52524425464/in/al...
I have come to appreciate the mathematical approach of definition first then examples after. I used to prefer examples first, but examples can cloud the concept and conflate their importance. Definitions (what you call abstractions) get at the heart of the matter, and staring at it for a while is actually the fast route. Baby Rudin, for instance, is entirely unapologetic and thus is one of my favorite math books. The book is mathematical in the way it treats mathematics.
They made some changes to their kafala system last year that makes it a possibility without needing employer's consent, but under very specific circumstances that don't apply to majority of workers.

For example one of those rules is a full year of employment, but non-skilled workers rarely stay that long to begin with.

Perfect example of doing something that counts as "progress" while not actually changing anything.
> The middle east used to be much more peaceful before the Islamic fanatics took power in Iran.

Certain Western influences have been more detrimental. Islamic is but a political tool. Just like *checks notes* other dominant religions anywhere else.
Why do so many young Saudis change clothes literally at the airport bathroom (witnessed this multiple times) party and act western every chance they get away from such supervision?
I'd draw some parallels to the rise of advertising as well. For most people, the culture industry as entered at "post-scarcity" phase, and the consumption of mass-art is now gated more by eyeballs and less by actual production. The only (reasonable) way to increase eyeballs is through advertisement, paying 3rd parties to force consumers to see (part of) your art.
Sounds nice, are you male?
I know, I forgot there's a time limit on editing comments.
This Mars Documentary Required Many Sols
Report finds misogyny, racism and bullying at London fire brigade
It’s abstract for the very reason that mathematics can be applied everywhere. You can’t get to lhopital without understanding limits.

Mathematics usually always incorporates application. Rates of change is an example where you are applying the concepts of calculus along with geometry to solve real world problems.
That's only the "agent", the coordination between github and the actions happens on github's side (proprietary).
https://archive.ph/GuuMV
> The content of way back then was negligible to content that exists now

But enough to fill a single person's lifetime regardless? So whether you take Shakespeare or Murakami, their individual perspectives are not that different since either of them could have filled their lifetimes with reading.

> The content of way back then was negligible to content that exists now

The burden of proof remains on you. You need to find us an example of an outstanding writer who didn't read much. This doesn't even hold for the classics (eg, Marcus Aurelius or Plato) as far as I can tell.

> your messiah PG

This is low-level, disrespectful, intellectually dishonest and a phallacy. GP said nothing about Graham and you are pulling this out of nowhere.
It's one of the craziest self defeating decision that the US and to a lesser extinct Europe decided to pick a side between the two horrible oil financed theocracies - Iran and Saudi Arabia - instead of simply playing one against the other depending on our self interests. That makes us complicit for no good reason in things like the Yemen war.
I can see it now.. Your honor, it wasn't my fault that I broke a handful of laws. I was tricked by conservatives who encouraged me and preyed on my susceptibilities who convinced me that I would be pardoned when Trump was elected and make all the activities I did legal.
listed them for sale for $750

Regardless how you feel about AI-generated art, I feel like this piece will be worth a heck of a lot more than that soon, given the controversy / infamy it's generating!
Same here. It obscures the notion of code is data, data is code.
The UK has the plastic packaging tax already in force and the extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging coming into force on 01 January.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/plastic-packaging-...

[2] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/how-to-collect-your-packaging-da...
Is this any different than what Muammar Gaddafi tried to do at one point?
> I felt so safe living there, going out to the beach with my family at 2 am is no worry at all.

That sounds normal for me. Why you would worry about going out during night?
Just pretend to be a teapot. It'll fool everybody.
What? I used to wear western clothes. Occasionally I would wear Saudi dresses, e.g. at a funeral.
This is unsurprising to hear. But the problem I have with middle-eastern countries is not how they treat straight male muslims.

This happens in many other cultures as well. E.g. Christians are super nice people. But if you reveal you're gay, then suddenly about half of them start treating you like crap.
Hard drives are still about 150MB/s.

SATA SSDs are limited to 550MB/s.

PCI-E 3.0 SSDs more like 3500 MB/s.

PCI-E 4.0 SSDs are 7000MB/s.

All of these are at consumer level pricing, you can get 2TB of PCI-E 4 from Western Digital for £130 at the moment, usually about £180. The issue is sustained writes more than reads for consumer verses enterprise drives where the speed drops off due to a lack of SLC caching and lack of cooling and TLC/QLC which is slower for sustained writing.

The example given is very much a consumer level device and not a particularly quick one by today's standards. You can also expect much faster reads cached than that on a DDR5 system I suspect.
This basically happens in my mind when looking at Lisp code. Parens are just handles that allow me to manipulate the expressions for structural editing.
I have very similar experience, to the point where I believe the only place where I would be really happy can only be place which I own (currently out of my reach). So since I can't be in my perfect place I had to make concious step to admit that I'm contracted software engineer and that I have to find ways to get along with people, which means taking compromises, learning to be more humble and finding ways to stay motivated.. Sure, there are days I'm not at my best but instead of despearing and feeling depressed about it I make myself to move out of that emotional state by applying some tricks I gathered along the way. I can't be 100% productive all the time, I try to be 70%-80% productive most of the time. And when I feel it's the time to move I do it without looking back, my mental wellbeing is more important than building the picture of super stable engineer. 5 years is already long in terms of current standards.
Where is the file stored, I looked at the security-design page and it says hat it's uploaded to Backblaze and there's some reference to torrent creation, I'm not sure I get it
During the day, you can use the sun position as a reference (like it's done using a sextan). You only need an accurate clock, and can determine the sun's location through the clouds.

I suppose you can also do it with the moon. On a dark, cloudy night though? You could risk using the sonar since the launch is going to make a ruckus anyway. Compare measures against seafloor maps.
I wonder if there is a use case for this instead of fixed point math which is more precise than floating point math
Saudi Arabia and most of the Gulf nations are a geopolitical extension of the US. So it is always funny to me when Americans criticize these countries and consider them to be the worst. I mean that is absolutely true but if you want to change things you need to tell your leaders to stop supporting those countries. Not to mention that Europe is also making bank selling them weapons. So yeah, the people criticize but the leaders support so it's all pointless in my view.
The MAGA phone was already a thing about a year ago. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/the-maga-targeted-fr...

If Elmo wants to create a phone for "nothing matters" shitposting "libertarians", then I am all for - have at it.