skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is ahistorical to a fault: the UK introduced postwar social reforms that were already present in continental European nations. Britain's industrial decline can be traced to long before the Marshall Plan, and even the war: it's tied inextricably to the UK's "colonial prestige" politics, including the desire to run a massive and expensive empire long after its extractive value had been maximized.

> Have any communist countries achieved such success? Any socialist ones?

I don't know why you're fixated on this. Again: nobody in this thread has made this claim. The only thing under discussion is whether it's reasonable to naively treat postwar Europe's recovery as a triumph of capitalism, which it isn't.
It looks like they based it on the arithmetic mean of log-returns, which is equivalent to taking the geometric mean.
I am somewhat surprised by the fact that so many people express doubt about the idea that the USSR could be embarrassed by "too many cars in a Western movie about poverty".

Absolutely. From the point of view of someone who grew up behind the Iron Curtain, Communism's obvious inability to supply its populations with consumer goods was a major sore spot. It went against the Marxist-Leninist theory which postulated that Communism is more efficient in producing useful goods for people, not less.

And cars especially were a highly coveted status symbol. In order to buy one, you had to go to a waiting list and wait for several years, plus spend a relatively extreme amount of money, even a shitty model of Trabant or Škoda would set you back about 50 average monthly wages. There were massive shortages of spare parts too and people would demont their wipers off before leaving their car on the street overnight, because otherwise someone would steal them. Now I am describing the reality of my growing up in the 1980s Central Europe, not in Stalin's USSR, which was remarkably worse in all aspects; at least we didn't lack shoes.

Reactions of the regimes varied, of course. In Czechoslovakia, there was no denying that the Westerners have more stuff at their disposal, because the country wasn't tightly closed off and there was a lot of trade especially with Austria and Western Germany, which necessitated some mutual movement of people over the border. So the regime's reaction was, basically, sour indignity. But Stalin's USSR was so tightly isolated that normal people never met Westerners; there, the propaganda was able to keep the illusion of Communism's material superiority much more credible.

To a random Soviet person, the idea that a person could have a car and still be poor didn't compute. I would compare it to the idea that a person could have a yacht and be poor; such combinations just don't happen in your world if a (car, yacht) are obviously luxuries.

There is a reason why Russian soldiers of 2023, who mostly come from underdeveloped parts of Russia, still plunder WCs. The more to the East you get, the more severe the material deprivation.
Apple’s “home” app allows for a bit of that. You can control music on homepods/apple tv from any device. I don’t think you can control a Mac like a speaker, though. And I actually find it buggy as heck when trying to control a speaker from multiple devices - requests are constantly timing out, the UI doesn’t update properly with the current state, etc. In practice I always just use AirPlay and control it from a single device.
I mean "the societal structure under The Party" as referred to by wildrhythms above.
No NA mx5 :( But some fairly obscure cars in other brands lol.
Seems like one of those n+1 problems in practice.
The Norwegian state does it for me: helsenorge.no
No system is perfect. You're making a trade off by self-hosting but at least when something goes wrong you know who to blame and what to improve. When something goes wrong in someone else's environment you're lucky to even know what went wrong, and you have no one to hold accountable.

So it's not IF something goes wrong, it's WHEN something goes wrong. Going around thinking IF something goes wrong is delusional, even if you end up being lucky and right.
She’s already potentially facing US extradition from Switzerland for unrelated computers crimes. No idea why she would publicize this exploit.
Popular as it is, stack overflow is a very low volume website by modern standards. In fact it is very successful by introducing rules to throttle user input( thus exposing more filtered info to the visitors).
Enshittification is a great term. Great piece by Cory too. I wrote something similar about 'UX Erosion' a few years ago about the same dynamic on social apps:

>UX Erosion, n; 1. shiny new service & concept appears with great UX that attracts creators, followed by a slow undermining of that UX, transitioning from delight-oriented to lock-in, habit, and apathy.

https://nickpunt.com/blog/ux-erosion/
> My sincere hope for my family and I in a mid-grade to all-out nuclear exchange is that we perish immediately

Amen to that. With a family with small kids, I can only hope that we don't even realise what is happening and die instantly.

When COVID was new and we were deep in lockdown and there was no vaccine in sight, there was a definite feeling of "will the world ever be like it was again? Is everything we knew irreversibly changed forever?". It was a worrying feeling. I can only imagine how depressing and frankly terrifying it must feel to know that life as you knew it was over (and it will never "go back to normal"), and you and your kids are now going to live in some sort of hellscape and probably die of some "trivial" injury or accident, if you don't starve or get murdered first.
They have eliminated reserve requirement, but there still are capital requirements.
Gen Z and millennials are leading ‘the big quit’ in 2023
I don’t think spotify does this particularly well.. I moved over last month and this isn’t the main feature I am missing.

The feature I miss most is the weekly playlist followed closely by the multiple daily’s.
As a product manager, you’re responsible for making decisions that will have a significant impact on the product roadmap and the company as a whole. One of the most important skills you need to master is how to prioritize problems and features effectively.

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Value vs. Complexity Quadrant
The Kano Model
The RICE framework
ICE Scoring Model
The MoSCoW method
Weighted Scoring Prioritization
TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maia_arson_crimew

> In March 2021, crimew was indicted by a grand jury in the United States on criminal charges related to her alleged hacking activity between 2019 and 2021. The charges were unrelated to the hack of Verkada. Her home and her parents' home were raided by the Swiss police at the request of United States authorities, and her electronic devices were seized. People used the hashtag "#freetillie" to express support for her in the aftermath of the raid, and the Swiss magazine Republik compared her to Jeremy Hammond and Aaron Swartz.
US-based telecommunication service T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach that affected 37 million postpaid and prepaid accounts.
> acetaminophen

Wow, never read about this before. I see that it equates to Paracetamol. You mean that we would run out of that medicine? And if so, why is that? Happy if you could provide an explanation (I have no medical background, mind you).
I was recently playing with the GPT-2 and GPT-J models. Results are often non-sensical for any practical purposes, but I think can be used for making something fun - similar to your IRC bot idea.

If you are interested in running these models yourself without having a beefy GPU, you can try my custom inference implementation. It's in pure C/C++ without any 3rd party dependencies, runs straight on the CPU and builds very easily. I think it is relatively well optimised. For example, on a MacBook M1 Pro I can run GPT-2 XL (1.5B params) at 42ms/token and GPT-J / GPT-JT (6B params) at 125ms/token.

Here are a couple of generated examples using GPT-J:

https://github.com/ggerganov/ggml/tree/master/examples/gpt-j

These are examples using zero-shot prompt where the model auto-completes a text given a starting prompt. You can try to make a conversation bot with a few-shot prompt, but it's not great. Probably the model needs some fine-tuning for that to become feasible.
FIRE! (Financial Independence Early Retirement) All the way!
> Some people in Hiroshima had to have surgery later in life to remove other people's teeth from their bodies.

This is one of the scariest and ugliest thing I've ever read about Hiroshima.
Hah shodan, the title made me think this was about starting a dummy airline and getting the nofly list from the government.
How Fugu is my browser?
> How much of this is the language vs the vast amount of passably accurate domain knowledge?

LLMs don’t have domain knowledge, its all language.
Low floor, low ceiling: microlending can set someone up to put their children through school, but it can't turn subsistence farmers into lawmakers and engineers (at least not overnight).
I feel bad for everyone being laid off.

But the garbage furniture that company sells makes me surprised they were able to hire as many employees as they have in the first place.
It works when it works but when it doesn't it is a pain.

I recently was looking at doing some backup software in Powershell for Windows 10 and 11. My chosen method was to use a VHDX file (Windows backup does this). Now in powershell there are commands to create a VHD or VHDX file but they are tied to the Hyper-V package in Windows being installed. In Windows 11 this package has been totally removed and can no longer be downloaded or installed.

So next I tried to find another way to use VHDX files in Windows 11 from Powershell. So I discovered that the diskpart command line utility can create/attach/partition etc VHDX files. Diskpart however is not integrated into powershell. In order to use it you need to create a text file with the commands to run. Execute diskpart with that text file. Then you have to search the text output for the results.

At this point I felt like I should have been using a Unix shell anyway.
I was shocked to see my 124 Spider listed

But the NB is pretty similar dimensionally to the NA, only the NC is entirely missing
Ask HN: Is there a low-tech way to build a mini-magazine like webpage?
Hey guys, we have a physical print booklet (7-8 pages) which is basically a kind of mini-magazine - read a cover page, some articles, some snippets, some images and that is it. Like a mini newspaper if you will.

We are trying to create a corresponding digital version of it which can be available on web for free.

Is there a low-code way to create such an online booklet - ideally one-page, responsive, with perhaps a sidebar hosting the index? We also need support for custom fonts, so as it give it a more familiar look when compared to its print version. Print version has an identity and we want to retain it.

WRT coding, I am mostly fine with a bit of a learning curve and am comfortable with html, css, and not so much with JS currently.

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
How does this work with data protection laws? Is there a way for me to object to a company doing this, i.e. an automated background check on my email address with stolen personal data?

I guess I cannot effectively object to my email being included in data leaks…
As a graphics programmer, my suggestion would be encoding the font into an SDF (signed distance field) texture atlas (there are a lot of tools out there to do this for atlasing text, but it's useful for effects too), then draw both words as SDF and blend between them, and render the words from that. You can use different blend functions and SDFs give you a lot of control and possibilities, and you can do stuff like bias the SDF (add a small positive number) to give it a more blobbly, softer appearance.

here's an example of animating some SDF shapes (the white line is what you'd render as the glyph outline)
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/WtVyRt

feel free to email me if you get stuck, i might be able to make a shadertoy example or something
Are the Swiss using their extra profits from meat to deal with the externalities you mention?
I would be curious to hear your 2 cents on what you think the chance of a nuclear war are, for any given year.

I would say perhaps 1%, which in a sense is very little, and really a lot.

Also, if you think 1% is way too high, consider that in 1983 a nuclear war was averted by the decision of a single individual [0]. I'm pretty sure the chance that year would have been more than 20%.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
This was to avoid paying google
So wait, how much did this game make?
I think this sort of retrospective is more about informing people of the possible range of outcomes under various market conditions, rather than claiming to know exact probabilities of specific outcomes.
The correct way to do it is always pretty much the same.

Clean architecture / ports & adapters

You are supposed to put your database details behind interfaces
Ask HN: Does anyone use xonsh shell?
https://xon.sh/

Looks pretty cool. I like that you can do basic arithmetic in the shell, feels like something every shell should be able to do out of the box.

Anybody using it as their daily driver? Any gotchas?
That would require code to do that.

I'd guess that by the time they got that implemented and tested, they'd no longer need it.
Hmm, I wouldn't describe that as knowing oneself though, it's very external, very much like looking at any other person (with a slight bit of additional knowledge of internal state)..

I mean, I can certainly say some things about how I react in certain situations, based on past observations, and I can also point out where those behaviours conflict with my own ideals, and how I will try to recognize and change that.

But I can't tell how I react in radically different and new situations, I can base it off of old observations and mix in some wishful thinking about how I would WANT to react based on my values, but in reality, I don't _KNOW_, I don't know it the way I know math or the way I know how a piece of code will execute, even without executing. There are unknown variables and just too many variables in total.

You know the phrase "you think you know people", it's the response to someone acting outside of your expectations, because we certainly also can't know other people, only their past behaviours and the pieces of their situations that we can observe or infer.
Hard to know today whether it's true or not, but I know for sure that the book was not banned and printed widely.
He was born in British India, though his family moved to England when he was one year old, which is where he grew up. His mother grew up in Burma.

In his 20s he lived and worked in Burma for 5 1/2 years as an Imperial police officer. He was fluent in Burmese.

That doesn't change your conclusion, as 1920s British India wasn't a car-oriented culture either. Rather, I wish to point out that his life in Burma were a big influence on his views, in a way I think would have been harder for someone living only in England, or staying in the British ex-pat bubble as most his countrymen did.
Good. But single now by choice (and not dating). So no need for this CRM.
This project is a good initiative. But I was also expecting Markdown to make a cameo appearance somewhere. "Compilable Markup for Linear Algebra" would be pretty clear to me.
I mean, I used to say that I'd never be able to run for public office because <thing that a lot of people do, but that I should be mildly circumspect about>. These days, have you seen the people in public office?!? If you can be elected President after some of the shit that last guy is on the record as having done, I think blackmailing me is probably hard.

The counter-example I'll mention is that if someone framed you for CSAM and could convince people you actually were doing that, blackmail might be effective. Not only is it fully beyond the pale, but just going to prison would be a death sentence.
Ok, we've changed to that title above. Thanks!

(Submitted title was "Compilable Markdown for Linear Algebra")
>It turned into a disaster the moment people decided it was also a good place to discuss news and politics.

Nail on head right here.

I was never big on social media, got into StatusNet (later ActivityPub) back in 2017 because it seemed cool technically.

So for years it was a very nice place where people mostly discussed very niche topics like computers and art.

Then Elon decided to stir the pot by trying to buy twitter and two huge waves of twitter users came over in 2022.

Now it's toxic, and I honestly believe it's because of the political and news discussions. Well they go hand in hand because people link to the news about what's going on in politics, and this is the catalyst.
Other than audio devices and some classes of storage devices, most hardware is unsound.
> Hell the thing you're blackmailing doesn't even have to be true, they can just find an ex lover and blackmail that person to say you raped them or whatever, and well even if you beat the charges your kids get tossed into DCS/foster care your life is ruined etc etc.

Someone being falsely accused like this would most likely immediately report it to their boss in the government asking for help. It would be very unlikely that the person would hide it and become an intelligence asset for the blackmailer.
Apple isn't even able or willing to sync notification status on their apps between my iOS devices.

You get a few mails? All lockscreens will show the popups until i manually remove them from every single device, ridiculous.
I think you are right, but this means the 230 haters will be super disappointed.

Section 230 is absolutely clear that the social media companies are allowed to censor as much as they want. It's the express purpose of the section to allow "censorship" without incurring liability for those things you fail to censor.

The idea that by recommending or curating content the website owner loses the right to censor (that 230 explicitly provides) feels like a huge stretch to me.

So the case becomes pretty narrow: Whether a) the action of YouTube promoting content is protected by 230 or b) promoting content is only protected by normal free speech rules including the 1st Amendment.
no restrictions, meanwhile I found the answer :) (I put my original question into a pastebin) But thank you.
Really sweet of the man. I imagine this kind of thing isn't particularly rare or anything like that, though. It's only gauche to actually mention it.

I don't have a monthly $100 commitment but I think I probably end up with more than that effective. The last time was when my car was towed and the chap at the next counter over simply had no money to pay to get his car, which he was living out of, clear of the lot. They discounted it quite a bit more than mine so it didn't feel that bad to just toss on the extra couple hundred. Made a poor chap's life better.

But listen, I have the social awareness to not tell that story because it is considered impolite to mention these things. Good things must be done in secret. If told, they must be told like this pseudonymously.

Consequently, I'd bet that there's a lot of people doing shit like this. Presumably they just keep the secret till the end.

The other part, though, is that I realized I am easily parted from my money in these circumstances and afterwards I don't feel good at all. I am using post-tax dollars incredibly inefficiently to bring happiness and perpetuating exploitative systems. I am setting back all my life goals because I'm a sucker for visible sadness and the only way I know to make the discomfort go away is to heal it with money.

This man had the right of it to not do anything till old age. At that point all you can contribute is your knowledge given freely and your money given away. So now I just stay far away from anything that will trigger these impulses in me since I am aware of this vulnerability.
> This microcontroller-focused operating system is the continuation of RetroBSD, a 2.11BSD-based OS targeting only the MIPS-based PIC32MX7. DiscoBSD is multi-platform, as it also supports Arm Cortex-M4 STM32F4 devices.

So is RetroBSD inactive, or is this an extension/fork to add more hardware targets?
There's a difference, though, between

> This person is female and I'm not comfortable referring to her as 'it' because females are 'she'

and

> This person is a human being, and 'it' is used to refer to objects. It's demeaning to call a human being 'it' and makes me uncomfortable

The later is, at least imo, much more defensible.
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That is true for AirPlay, but AirPlay 2 works differently: It controls playback on a device (say, a HomePod) and all devices on the network see what is playing on that device and can control playback.

Still, this does not seem to be what OOP wants.
Considering the massive shareholder value creation post covid, if everybody’s salary doubled tomorrow across the board the shareholders will hardly notice anything. Stop being brainwashed.

As of 2023 if you’re experienced you shouldn’t even entertain an interview call without salary range upfront. Luckily as per my last 2 months experience (in Canada) companies are very upfront these days compared to 3-4 years back.
Spotify have one job. Razor focus
And some not working at all.
There's this, which I haven't tried: https://github.com/ChrisS85/FastFileSearch

SwiftSearch is excellent and uses the same tech: https://sourceforge.net/projects/swiftsearch/
This reminds me of the photos of cars lined up at food banks early in the pandemic.

One of the more famous photos was taken at the food bank where I live, in San Antonio: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/17/837141457/thousands-of-cars-l...

I don't have a much larger point to make, but I felt great sadness when seeing those photos and donated to the local food bank. I don't think everyone who has a car in America is rich.