skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> for most us who have the means

That's a difficult personal choice to push on people when the super rich are traveling by private jets, fuel for international air travel isn't taxed (because bought in duty free zone technically), etc...

People want legislation for all, not just fake moral that only applies to the middle class and lower. I believe the fact that this law will affect private jet trips is a reflection that politicians are aware of this and starting to feel the pressure.
https://two-wrongs.com/
Japan’s just a fascinating place. There’s no place quite like it in the world and as cultures exchange and evolve and become more connected, it’s unlikely there ever will be.
Yes I agree and interestingly if you stick to basic algorithms with integers it can compute better. It’s almost like it doesn’t have true floating point capabilities but has somehow built itself integer operations correctly.
Thank you Eatonphil for writing this.

I agree that I would love to see more of this kind and quality this kind of article of technical subjects.

https://blog.jcoglan.com/2017/02/12/the-myers-diff-algorithm...
https://keleshev.com/abstract-syntax-tree-an-example-in-c/

I don't want to add more work to people who are already working more than everyone else. But when you write software or code that is truly good, I want people to write lots of examples and descriptions of their mental model and how to think of the software.

I'm still trying to understand what the difference between a poller and an awaiter in Rust async.

I use Flask because I find Flask easier to understand than Django. There's even a simple example on the Flask homepage. But Django has a very large tutorial which still doesn't really explain how each component fits together. I don't understand the mental model behind Django but I do with Flask.

For example, I'm still trying to understand C++ coroutines. And I have some code that kind of works and some code someone provided on Stackoverflow I cannot get to work with GCC. There's not large amounts of documentation on C++ coroutines.

I see people post fascinating awesome GitHub projects and have sparse README.md and no screenshots

The code doesnt speak for itself. You can write the perfect code at a company and that code never flourishes because nobody wrote about it. Or you can write the perfect code at home but it doesn't get used.

I would rather read your documentation of the inner workings of your software than your code itself. Code is harder to read and understand.

This article essentially explains how to write a extremely fast query engine for columnular data, row data and exact match search:

https://rockset.com/blog/converged-indexing-the-secret-sauce...

I prefer a whitepaper + code than just code or just whitepaper. I learned from whitepapers and Wikipedia descriptions of algorithms more than I read people's code. I find it easier to understand people's descriptions of things and mental model.

I hope people shall stop saying code IS the documentation and start documenting their software.
I think there will be immense social dislocation as all white collar workers simultaneously get 100x more productive virtually overnight without a corresponding increase in work to do.

At the same time more people will be able to build on their ideas than ever. A few things that seem obvious to me would be:

- Private AI tutors that can go at a student's pace will revolutionise schooling (say goodbye to a teacher shortage anywhere)

- Helpdesk work will vanish

- Art will explode like nothing we've seen before. I'm already experimenting with writing stories in collaboration with AI and this is only the beginning.

- Numerous improvements in a huge number of machines and data analysis in particular will likely get much better.

- Due to widespread white collar work unemployment almost certain to be UBI's springing up all over the developed world.

- Far more workers will end up back in physical jobs of various types. Environmental clean up, farm work, construction, etc.

- Vastly more software will be built as the effective price of building will go way down.

- Robots is another area I'm interested in seeing what happens. My understanding is that building robot hardware that is useful is much easier than the software. So if this allows for much more rapid software development we couod see an explosion on robotics too.

I'm more certain of some of these than others but those are the ones off the top of my head. Out atm but you could also ask the Chatbot haha.
>What motivation should a government like Iran's have to listen, if any concession it does give is seen in the West as a great opportunity to show that it is weak, on its last legs etc. to try and overthrow it?

The motivation may be unrelated to how it is seen in the West. We might just be overestimating our own role and importance in Iranian affairs.

Also, certain regimes will always portray its domestic opponents as puppets of foreign interests, regardless of what anyone says or does.
Yup, if it's >10k lines, MUST be a Spring application. Unfortunate they didn't write it in Rust that promises 100% correct programs (within Rust-accepted definition of "Correct" and "bug-free") solving any problem but always under 10k lines, that's the Rust guarantee.
For context I’m an American born to a British expat who has family from Birmingham down to London, Exeter, Reading and Cornwall. I have been to the UK 30-40 times and spent considerable time (spans of weeks) in England outside London both in other cities as well as countryside over the last 40+ years.

I’d tell tourists to start with and stay in London unless they’re on an unusually long trip. It’s the second greatest city in world history and all, the rest of the country is pretty drab by comparison.

Assuming we are talking about England. Scotland and Ireland are another story.
> The only winning move is not to play.

That's not a winning move for those that sought the right of voluntary euthanasia (that to which the subject consents).

As for your argument we can see it in action expressed via the number of firefighters that start fires to keep themselves employed and I take your point that the only defence is to eliminate fire departments.
I would agree that would have been the case years ago. Nowadays with the equivalent of babelfish on our phones, language barriers have come close to being almost non existent.
High-speed railway infrastructure is expensive, and so is a modern high-speed train, which is not technologically less sophisticated than an airliner.
zfs isn't really an option, sadly, because of its license. Even if it was we have to deal with what existing cloud providers support for disk image formats.
> Overall this data collection was being done in a privacy respecting way

and yet, I read

> Luzzi had claimed the devices were secure and the data encrypted, but Privacy Institute students learned they were relatively insecure and unencrypted

...

> Which is illegal since it isn't their property.

and yet, I read

> deployed without IRB approval even though human subjects were at the center of the so-called study

For me, this is was perhaps the most important message,

> many members of the computer science department were also in a union, and thus networked together for a quick mass response.
I'm just not greatly affected by a snarky and oblique tweet from years ago. Sorry. Greenwald published the intercept for years, it's not a conservative outlet. He published Snowden.

I don't think libsoftiktok would self-identify as a "hate account" and I'm positive taibbi and Greenwald wouldn't self-identify as conservative.

Maybe none of us are good enough for you and you'll have to be content with green party candidates
Emacs already is a great operating system i just wish it had a good Editor
You can buy a great fountain pen for much less than that. Lamy Safari costs around $30 and is pleasant to write with. I got 2 with different nibs and played with them for a while till the novelty wore off.
I mean, it didn't really do well on day2, right? At least no fully automatic solution, since first star was after 1:49. Possibly not as many people tried doing it then though. But the statement was also more complicated (and a bit strange - giving you points both for winning and for the move you did).
Immediately conjured images of humans crafting more and more elaborate offerings to a man who lives in the sky, and felt oddly, familiar.
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Germans Have Seen the Future, and It’s a Heat Pump
"slightly more expensive"

Reminds me of Caroline Lucas, when asked about her air travel, saying there should be a focus on taxing aviation fuel.

What this all amounts to is travel should be restricted to the wealthy.
https://archive.ph/k5zmQ
It is a huge reason why 10+ years of zero interest rates and capital being worthless is a terrible idea. It creates such massive dislocation and waste.

Capital is no longer worthless. The entire complex system is rewiring but it will be a long process. So many self interested sticky wires to break.
It still remains a mystery to me, why markdown is hyped, and asciidoc seems to be nearly unknown.
That doesn't solve the problem of knowing if the other end is who they say they are. That's why we have CAs, but those are an extra entity you need to trust.
This is hilarious; snippets from interview with former FTX CEO
The GOP really suffered in recent Alaskan elections after they adopted Ranked Choice voting. So expect them to very loudly and strongly oppose it being adopted anywhere, with a lot of bad-faith arguments implying it's a form of electoral corruption/manipulation and holding it up as an example of Democrat trickery.
I'm temporarily sleeping in the room with my MacBook Pro, and it wakes up (and turns on a glowing peripheral too) half a dozen times during the night, to the point I unplug that peripheral before I go to sleep.

My previous, older Mac wouldn't sleep at all for more than a few seconds unless I unplugged the external monitor.
These are factions, do you know what a faction is?
> at the very least it isn't a modal editor which is a really outdated paradigm which also doesn't make any sense when most of what you do with a text editor is typing in text

Hum... As an emacs user, I'm quite comfortable to disagree here.

When in an editor, you want to both type text and run code. Vi only messes up on the emphasis for both cases (due to the legacy of descending from ed), but even emacs has a "run code" mode.
For once the headline is underselling the scope of the issue.

"some of the compromised keys: Samsung, LG, and Mediatek are the heavy hitters on the list of leaked keys, along with some smaller OEMs like Revoview and Szroco, which makes Walmart's Onn tablets."
Games also don’t treat physics like physics… they are games.
If you think the solution to a disabled veteran's difficulty getting up stairs is to kill her, then it follows that the solution to mosquito bites is to let folk die from malaria.

It seems like you're attacking a straw man. Some people can make chair lifts and other people can make mosquito nets. We can and do have both. I also doubt that significantly increasing global mosquito net manufacturing capacity would make much of a difference. In this case, it's better for Canada to spend their tax money on chair lifts for their disabled veterans than on mosquito nets.

Just doing a quick Google search on the subject, it seems like mosquito nets are generally available in places where they're useful. Many people either choose not to use them, use them improperly, or repurpose free ones for other things.
I'd argue that not pricing in the negative externalities of flying amounts to a subsidy.
Western governments may not want a regime collapse in Iran. Westerners by and large do want a regime collapse and side with the people who are demonstrating for an end to the Islamic Republic regime. Spy agencies, defense ministries, and foreign affairs advisors my not want a regime change though.

One thing to consider is that the grand theft of state monies by the IRGC largely goes to Western banks.
Agree, in France train is usually way more convenient. There are still issues though, for example Rennes-Toulouse is 1h30 by plane, and 7 (!) hours by train. I really hope this gets fixed, until then train is just not an option in this case.
It is all about creating the industrial base with people going through university specializing in it. This is from last time I googled the topic:

In 2017 this angle was up in the news in the UK. Take the responses as you like.

> The government is using the “extremely expensive” Hinkley Point C nuclear power station to cross-subsidise Britain’s nuclear weapon arsenal, according to senior scientists.

> In evidence submitted to the influential public accounts committee (PAC), which is currently investigating the nuclear plant deal, scientists from Sussex University state that the costs of the Trident programme [1] could be “unsupportable” without “an effective subsidy from electricity consumers to military nuclear infrastructure”.

> [...]

> This week, the Green MP Caroline Lucas asked the government about the Ministry of Defence and the business department discussing the “relevance of UK civil nuclear industry skills and supply chains to the maintaining of UK nuclear submarine and wider nuclear weapons capabilities”.

> Harriett Baldwin, the defence procurement minister, answered that “it is fully understood that civil and defence sectors must work together to make sure resource is prioritised appropriately for the protection and prosperity of the United Kingdom”.

> [...]

> At the PAC hearing, the Labour MP Meg Hillier asked whether “Hinkley is a great opportunity to maintain our nuclear skills base”.

> Lovegrove answered: “We are completing the build of the nuclear submarines which carry conventional weaponry. So somehow there is very definitely an opportunity here for the nation to grasp in terms of building up its nuclear skills. I don’t think that’s going to happen by accident. It is going to require concerted government action to make that happen.”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/oct/12/electricity-...

> Andrew Stirling believes that there was a crucial, largely unspoken, reason for the government’s rediscovered passion for nuclear: without a civil nuclear industry, a nation cannot sustain military nuclear capabilities. In other words, no new nuclear power plants would spell the end of Trident. “The only countries in the world that are currently looking at large-scale civil power newbuild programmes are countries that have nuclear submarines, or have an expressed aim of acquiring them,” Stirling told me.

> Building nuclear submarines is a ferociously complicated business. It requires the kind of institutional memory and technical expertise that can easily disappear without practice. This, in theory, is where the civil nuclear industry comes in. If new nuclear power plants are being built, then the skills and capacity required by the military will be maintained. “It looks to be the case that the government is knowingly engineering an environment in which electricity consumers cross-subsidise this branch of military security,” Stirling told me.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/21/hinkley-point-c...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_(UK_nuclear_programme)
"Paradox" of tolerance is a narrow notion. Being intolerant of people who are intolerant only is the solution, the question is only of degree.

Now what you're talking about is tolerance of use of violence, which is related to but not the same as intolerance. One can be perfectly tolerant yet willing to use force to defend their interests - perhaps even disproportional force.

Tolerance is also not maximization of freedom. It's the bare minimum of allowing some people to live or not suffer odious consequences for being who they are, for what they believe and sometimes what they do.

Now the thing about laws, if the authority enforcing or decreeing them is considered to be illegitimate...
> France is also cracking down

This is a soundbite designed to calm people down. If there was a "crackdown", they would have listed steps taken to ensure the transport is "fairer".

When government is saying they are "cracking down" - using quite emotionally loaded word - is precisely to cover up the fact they do nothing.

If they really wanted to make transport fairer, they would have banned short private jet trips too. There is no excuse to not do that. None.
so is faking the orgasm during penetration which is widespread practice even without a camera rolling.

Point being there was some selective pressure for the trait of being able to act, put up a show and perform sexually.

Women who did that got to reproduce at a higher rate than those who didn’t.

Porn and sex work in general provides a special selection elevating those who inherited that trait in a very strong way
Fair, the ones that let you run containers directly like Cloud Run etc are fairly reasonable and approximate the k8s experience.

I think by going non-k8s you miss out on some of the key benefits though like standardized API and more portability of the surrounding infrastructure like networking and storage that is otherwise proprietary or not available on "simplifed" PaaS platforms.

I guess my argument boils down to cost of using managed k8s is low, low enough it's not worth using non-standard services instead.

Though I would like to address a point in your earlier comment though that is that it implied "k8s is about scale".

K8s has absolutely nothing to do with scale, the fact it can scale horizontally is a side effect of enforcing good separation of concerns and API design in the orchestration layer. You use k8s because the APIs make your applications better, even with they are small. This is the true innovation behind k8s. There were other platforms that made containers accessible (I worked on one called Flynn, Deis, Heroku to an extent, etc) but none of them pushed a better paradigm around orchestration which is why they didn't lead to the same level of success k8s has.
thats 250 years ago damn it!
The extreme position being banning a small sliver of air travel (itself a small sliver of the overall pie)?
I spent 4 years stationed at Camp Hansen, Okinawa and I'm not sure that represents the majority of Okinawans. Anecdotally, the rare protest was extremely tiny, like less than 20 people, and I've never had a negative interaction. I often yearn to return because the place was so lovely and friendly.
Half of politics is about creating narratives and driving media stories. The Hunter Biden Laptop story was an attempt by Republicans to manufacture an “October surprise” - a surprising revelation that occurs just weeks before the election which might cause the public to reorient their choice for.

This particular “Surprise” was actually just a rehash of a conspiracy theory that Republicans were trying to manufacture evidence for. Trump was impeached the first time for extorting a bribe from Ukraine’s Zelenskyy which would allege wrongdoing by Biden.

What he had hoped for was an official announcement of an investigation into Biden from Zelenskyy. But Trump failed to actually corrupt Zelenskyy, so he had nothing to go on come election time.

Cue the October Surprise. This laptop magically appears which appears contain evidence to support the conspiracy theory about Biden. It’s a GOP miracle! But the laptop’s provenance is shady as fuck and the contents still can’t be fully authenticated. So no one really trusts this thing except the most hardcore conservatives. Everyone else can see right through this thing for what it was.

This includes Twitter and the media, many in the media, who had been used by Conservatives in 2016 to distribute hacked materials from the DNC, and didn’t want to be used again in a similar way, so they didn’t play along like clueless idiots this time.

Conservatives were pissed off royally, and decided then to go on a holy war against Twitter, which had been brewing for a while as violent and hateful conservative voices were being pushed off the platform. But the laptop issue was the final straw it seems. Maybe Trump’s ban was the final final straw. These events happened in quick succession so it’s hard to tell.

That brings us to today. Since the laptop itself is a political dud that no one except GOP faithful trusts, Conservatives have decided to reframe the narrative as one of Democrats and Biden having untoward control over social media with the ability to oppress free speech through Twitter, which is not true.

So now we see more manufactured outrage. It turns out that despite what Conservatives say, Democrats don’t actually control Twitter. Quite the opposite is true now actually. But even with a conservative like Musk owning all of the evidence, he can’t prove anything close to the allegation that Democrats suppressed free speech on Twitter, so they pushed out these “Twitter Files” filled with cherry picked quotes and misleading statistics. Obviously this will help Musk to make further inroads with Conservatives since it’s clear he’s given up all pretext of being a neutral steward of Twitter who protects free speech.

This whole thing is a very twisted, so if you take it at face value, you’re really just buying into the narrative being sold by Conservatives. It doesn’t matter that nothing was actually blocked or censored or suppressed. The fact is the laptop is the GOP’s only strategy for winning in 2024, so whatever it is they need. their voters to be very very mad over it.
How does it work in Italy?
I would be careful with his advise on money. If you came to Japan in the past 3 months with no cash and a Visa card, you would be in deep shit. Visa cards are just not working here and it seems nobody cares to fix it.

Japan is very safe so it's probably fine to just bring your budget in cash. Also outside of the beaten path like he advise people to go it's still very cash heavy society.

Your taxi driver will not be happy when you pay 1200 yen trip with 10000 yen. So please keep some change with you.
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Dude needs to go to jail. This is EXACTLY the story of Nick Leeson blowing up Barons Bank.

Hopefully this asshole gets more than 4 years though but I doubt it.

Leeson didn't have the political connections to get all this fluff swirling about him. He just had to go on the lam.
I spoke to a senior Rackspace engineer about a year ago. He said that rackspace were looking to leave hosted exchange market and push all of their customers to Microsoft O365 ASAP.

Looks like this outage will have helped them out a lot with that challenge.