skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
70% of the tax burden is carried by people making $120k/year or more. The argument that the poor pay more taxes than the rich is mental gymnastics with back injury. Similar to how some believe the rich get richer taking something the poor didn't have in the first place. It is all just class warfare used to divide and conquer.
Umm, haven’t you just been promoted to bakery manager?
Opel Ampera was the answer a decade ago (series petrol hybrid with 50km EV range and 400km petrol range) but they didn't sell well and this architecture was all but abandoned.
The problem with the typical CT isn't that they call out bad things. The problem is that they tend to use the rumours of bad stuff and build complex narratives around it that ends up much further than the original events would ever warrant.

It starts off with something like "CIA was behind the coup in country X". Which might have been true, but lacking concrete evidence it opens the door for other things without concrete evidence. Next claim will be something like media is intentionally not reporting about this. Then this is explained by "globalists" controlling the media and working with the CIA. Then it's "the Jews" are actually the ones working with the globalists here. Or it's the globalists trying to push vaccines even though they are apparently unsafe. Why, because they make mind control easier? Or maybe it's a way to reduce population.

This kind path into insanity is sadly not that rare. And while there's certainly people at the top of the funnel that has some reasonable skepticism while reporting somewhat unsubstantiated facts. There are also plenty who will start off relatively reasonable, but then take their followers through a journey down into conspiracy land.

A notable harm this had was indeed the covid vaccines. Some influencers in the health space, used to light weight CT content like, "the sugar industry is behind todays health recommendations" and "big pharma tries to push dangerous blood pressure medicine even though it doesn't help". So when vaccines came, they were primed towards looking for stuff like that and decided that vaccines were bad and presented this idea using biased statistics and CT ideas.

A lot of people are dead or were unnecessary Covid complications due to this movement. And arguably, the CT culture was a big contributor to this.

It's important to call out the actual bad stuff that's being done in various contexts, wether it's in the name of national security, medicine or even just industry causing pollution. It's also natural that people build up a sense of distrust and skepticism against unsubstantiated claims in this area given the potentially severe consequences downstream.
Currently the worldwide fossil fuel consumption is keeping more or less steady, not increasing. That is not good enough of course, but shows what could be done with more aggressive fixes and changes.
I once heard that some one liners in SO are not enough to be copyrightable.

Is that correct?
Since most photos of cuneiform will be professionally taken it's going to be a bit easier. There are terabytes of images, and apparently lots of tagged data to be used [1] so not an impossible project.

Just now I learned that standard is to take photos with lighting from the top left corner to be able to read these [2], that said reading physical clay tablets is a bit harder than just reading a paper. I have often been surprised that 3D objects are so hard to interpret correctly from just photos.

[1] https://github.com/oi-deepscribe/deepscribe
[2] https://youtu.be/dwGmyy2Aabg?t=690
I do remember the code I've worked on over the past 7 years I've been a professional programmer, but I don't have total recall or anything even close to it. Now that I think of it, it's strange how well I can recall those lines of code from various programming languages I've used on various projects.
Money is just numbers on a screen.

He spent $30B on his personal worldwide megaphone. Less than 20% of his savings. That's like a normal rich person buying an expensive house during a real estate bubble.
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It could be as simple as someone got infected in the lab and went to the market.
Physical security predates computer security by millennia
Essentially no, but the difference is enough that you would use HDDs in any situations where you can afford to deal with the shortcomings of HDDs.
And they honor manufacturer coupons which are honestly better than store coupons anyway.
Nonsense. The inner city being a concrete hellscape isn't being helped by nicer parts on the outskirts.

How would you improve density if you aren't shrinking the space people live in?
I think NL is just too small to be picky about languages. You either are willing to adapt or you'll be in trouble. In Germany you can get away with it.
With context then the quote is

> Sometimes versions of the game are also intentionally shipped with debug symbols to generate better error reports. However, sometimes programmers forget to remove the debug symbols from the final binaries of the game. Programmers are humans, and humans make mistakes.

It looks like the author is saying shipping final binaries with debug symbols is a mistake, and that's what @ho_schi is criticising.
Final Fantasy 14 had raw SQL queries in it's UI, so handing in a quest basically made you send an UPDATE statement straight to the DB to update your character with the rewards.
A key part here is "democracies". Between dictatorships, mutual spying to establish trust can be a reasonable policy. But a democracy has to factor in the opinion of their citizens. People tend to dislike foreign countries spying on them, and will create incentives for their government to distance themselves from such countries.

Even if you try to keep it on the down-low, it makes it really easy for a third country to drive a wedge in the relationship.
Until it turns into an action RPG, then an RTS, then a Civ-like. Which all sounds cool on paper, but usually games that stack on systems and genres like that end up cleanly integrating them with each other. Spore treats them more like they're a minigame collection, it never feels like a cohesive game.

The building tools are great though.
Do you intend to eat the bagel before or after you return from the airport (assuming you go back to your current location)?

BTW, do you write somewhere outside of HN? You have an interesting style.
The speed with which Java has been evolving.. I'm not sure even Kotlin can survive let alone Scala.

Unless you already have a team with expertise in Scala, I don't seen the point.
Taxes are not subsidies. Good Lord
It is there on his Wikipedia page:

> In 1956, Bulger served his first term in federal prison at Atlanta Penitentiary for armed robbery and truck hijacking. He later told mobster Kevin Weeks that while there, he was used as a human subject in the CIA-sponsored MK-ULTRA program. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_Bulger#Prison
Never heard it, but must admit that I am not a native English speaker. Thanks for pointing out the term. I learnt something new today.
It may be the case, but you don't know me, and by your own admission have never lived in Germany, so you cannot possibly reasonably ply your cod psychoanalysis on me. I can only speak of my own experiences and describe to you what it is like. It's up to you if you want to simply discard everything I say, blame everything on me and completely absolve German society or not. That would be a very German thing to do, after all ;)

I could talk at further length about it, but I guess I am not predisposed to do so, because it's clear you've already made your mind up, and it's not so enjoyable to discuss German society with someone who has no idea about German society and yet clearly has very strong opinions on it!
How many self-serving bureaucrats, corporate executives, politicians, and union leaders, from how many different countries, would likely get in the way of actual improvements?

How tiny a percent of airline flight outcomes would be substantially improved by any sounds-good change to the Black Boxes?

Sticking with the status quo sounds pretty optimal to me.

(After several cool-sounding stories of crashes, the article comes to a similar conclusion.)
Are you referring to the man who successful ignored the law for 76 years, got filthy rich in the process, whose name becoming a colloquial term for extreme luxury living, and might face consequences by age 80?
A few years ago we had a car fire in a multi story car park that spread and destroyed 20+ cars which caused severe structural damage resulting in the whole structure being out of use for over a year. There has been commentary about the concern with EV weight in multi storey car parks but I can't help wondering what happens with an inevitable EV lithium fire in a confined space. There is a lot edge cases I don't think have been considered yet with the rush to EVs.
AWS and GC don't turn them off because they know they will eventually get paid. No reason to stop Twitter from continuing to rack up charges.

Years ago I wrote software for a big cell service provider, and (in my young naiveté haha) wondered why we didn't shut people off who didn't pay their bill (this was before pre-paid). The answer was the same, keep them racking up charges. If it got to a certain threshold, get them to pay a minimum, but do everything we could to never shut them off.
Maintainer here, thanks for posting!

Latest is 1.3.0, since 1.1.0 we added experimental support for SQLite, among other things.

In the coming versions FerretDB will enable you to run MongoDB workloads using FerretDB+SQLite.
When you’ve written over one thousand event loops, and debug another thousand edge cases and logic bombs like reading a blocking socket before it’s ready, partial read, or mac vs Linux vs windows peculiarities in your homemade hundreds-lines long event loop, you will begin to appreciate letting go of it all, and letting python manage your event loop for you.
Not only that, the US is missing 6 nuclear weapons.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/us-military-missing...

To add to your point, regardless of safeguards and protocols, accidents happen.
The ecological disaster was always going to be the cathode, not lithium.

That thing is mixed with some advanced polymers and the metal (be that manganese or cobalt) is hard to extract from this.
The process to recycle them is going to be extremely dirty and solvent laden.

And you do have to mine the cathode materials...
What about industries where it is difficult or impossible to crack without a large investment? In that case, new competitors might arise from established companies expanding vertically, but very few can come from brand new companies.

Might be the kind of thing where more nuanced legislation helps, e.g. allowing vertical expansion if there are few existing competitors but disallowing it for healthy markets.
Regardless of the details here: Thank you so much for taking the time to come here and explain your decisions, without getting offended or overly defensive.
"That's really the problem, how did industry managed to make people think recycling and EV is ecology? "

Because it can be ecology, if done right.

Garbage has to be moved anyway. So if you move all the cans (alluminium) to one place and resmelt it, than this is definitely less ressource intense, than mining new alluminium and shipping it.
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I don't know that it is previously posted on HN.

Also I have posted article different from platformer.news article.

Also Reuters and other news website have written posts like mine one and posted on HN.

Then why my post was flagged by HN.
A hypothetical scenario where one country is persistently dumping harmful chemical or radiological waste in a waterway on which another country relies on for drinking water seems like a pretty solid casus belli to me.

I think we can all agree that Kaczynski's bombing campaign is completely and unambiguously unjustified, but I don't see the need for pearl clutching over the quoted statement.
On an individual level you can choose whether to use contraception but you can't compel people to use contraception.
How many fatalities have the aforementioned car systems had? Also European trains seem to run much, much safer than American ones (the derailments I was talking about were in the US), so doesn't seem like the best comparison either.
> I would rather focus our efforts on improved density

We can and should do both. When density increases smaller electrical vehicles, some entirely charged by solar on their roof, become practical. They are much lighter, use a lot less resources than a standard car, travel somewhat slower and generally ameliorate car problems, while being just as practical: usable in all weather, having cargo carrying capacity. Bikes and walking will always have these sorts of limitations.
Google and Amazon could buy Twitter for couch cushion change, and probably run it profitably. They aren't a powerless overworked freelancer.
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I have written this article different from platformer.news article.

Also Reuters and other news website have written posts like mine one and posted on HN.

Then why my post was flagged by HN.
Maybe there are osbcures cases where you would not use GPL licensed software for obscure reasons, but in general that seems very weird. Distributing it is another story.
> I suspect a lot of this can be projection.

I suspect the GP is very well able to describe their situation accurately and to draw meaningful conclusions from it. In English speaking countries immigrants are treated so much more gracefully compared to Germany (or France, for that matter). You either are perfectly fluent or you may as well not bother whereas in English speaking countries people will be happy to adapt.
Sounds good to me. No more Jira, leet code interviews, and traffic.
It's behind a paywall, so I didn't read it, but I guess twitter wants to renegotiate their pricing and they feel like this is the only way to attract google's attention? I don't see anything particularly unusual in this tactic.
It also takes forever to restore them. The issue with ever increasing HDD speeds is they don't get any faster. It takes literal days to get all the data off them, and if you try to resilver your array when a drive fails, it's more likely another will fail too. Some of these big drives have fairly low endurance ratings, so they might fail earlier than you think [1]

1. https://www.servethehome.com/discussing-low-wd-red-pro-nas-h...
We can do both, of course. But making a sufficiently global change to our ecological dystopian future involves some sociologically hard problems:

Human population, the sociology of capitalism, industrialised consumerism, the unscalability of communities problem (both established structural debt and newer dysfunctional debt) and the consumerist voting fallacy ("I will vote with my money").

If there were fewer people, if there were less industrial-scale consumerism, if communities were scalable, if consumers were in fact globally engaged as purchasers and voting citizens...

I have heard an environmental scientist say that the order of responsible choices from worst to best is:

= buy an ICE vehicle

= buy a zero-emission EV

= DO NOT buy a vehicle

Of all the difficult sociological challenges that could certainly bring change, it seems that those likeliest to change are the human population (fewer) and zero-emission vehicles (more).
The reality is that neither Python nor Elixir is performant enough to do the actual work of ML, that is all going to be wrapped libraries in C, C++ ... Rust?

And while Elixir may be as well suited as Python to being the interface/scripting language for ML tasks, Python has a pretty unassailable lead here with an overwhelmingly dominant ecosystem.

Elixir could be used to build and manage pipelines (like a roll-your-own Jenkins) in this area, and in this regard (concurrency, reliability, async) it is probably a significantly better language than Python, but the actual tasks on the pipeline will need to be defined in Python, just because it's use is so entrenched.

Also, the "reinvent something another language can already do" pitch is going to become a much harder sell in today's funding market as the silly money dries up.
I know more than one person who made more than $500,000 as a new grad, so it's not completely unreasonable. Most of that will be RSUs/cash bonus though, so not counted as part of H1B salary data as I understand it.
It is interesting that whenever I try to comment on past Assange items here, I get "cookies login expired". Maybe yet another example of the western free speech?
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No one is required to pay a debt. This is a free country.

But also no one is required to provide services for a deadbeat with no future payment prospects.
By complexity, i meant the hardware it self. Not even the architecture or the instructions set. For example you can design a virtual machine in days. But making a real one is at the core of the geopolitical issues we have today
Odoo.
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Did you really just write "It's plausible that some three letter agency is operating programs to compel citizens to commit mass killings, but let's talking about My Thing because it's more important"?
> What about industries where it is difficult or impossible to crack without a large investment? In that case, new competitors might arise from established companies expanding vertically, but very few can come from brand new companies.

Established companies are always free to create a new company which is structured in a way that it is not vertically integrated. And so what if a large investment is required? If established companies cannot integrate vertically, the field is open for investments by people who cannot subsidize their prices to beat the competition.
Well, California leads the pack on mass school shootings with the toughest gun laws around, and it is the 28th lowest in rank in mental health ranking in 2022 per this reference which weighs 15 factors:

https://mhanational.org/issues/2022/ranking-states

Interestingly, a small percentage of violent crime is directly attributed to mental health issues. Most self harm.

The definition of "mass shooting" leads to discrepancies like 20 vs. 600 for 2020 depending on which agencies definition is used. By number it looks bad for the US even if per capita compared to other countries. But more than half of all gun deaths in the US are suicides, and mass shootings are less than 0.5 or 0.2 percent of all homicides depending on which span of years you use.

I am a less of a gun control advocate than one for mental health access and prophylactic measures. Gun control is a red herring. The genie is out of the bottle. Bad people will procure guns or make them from parts or scratch. Not that hard really given the demand and money available to do it by drug cartels and other criminal organizations. Politicians keep saying "Guns are the number one killer of kids in the US". Based on a NEJM study that defines "kids" as 1 to 19 years of age. 18 and 19-year-olds are adults. Most deaths involving guns occur in the 17 to 19-year-old span are typically gang related. It also includes suicides ("In 2021, 54% of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. were suicides (26,328), while 43% were murders (20,958), according to the CDC.") and citizens defending themselves with guns and being successful at it along with the police shootings in self defense.

Suicides still occur in relatively large numbers in countries with few guns in the hands of their citizens. They just use another method.

As the PSA from the 70s stated, "Matches don't start forest fires. People do." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNEW4Ha040w)

And I would add "Guns don't kill people. People do."
The Reddit API will still have a free tier after the changes on July 1st which can be used and Shreddit uses the Reddit API too so it will have the same problem.
There are some remains of this, but they have been pretty successful drawing it all down dramatically. A couple of sources:

https://archive.is/YpsVv (NY Times)

https://couponsinthenews.com/2022/08/01/there-are-now-fewer-...
Price orientation for those of you who don't regularly use German trains: the impulse buy price for me for this route today, a BahnCard 50 holder, is 35.50 EUR, while it would be 71.00 EUR without the annual discount card, which is expensive enough that it only makes sense for people who live here and use long-distance trains a fair bit.
He is probably American. This means "mildly interesting" in their dialect.
The parent you replied to was talking about NJ and people in NJ who own cars being accommodated by NY. Your comment was about how people choosing to drive in don’t consider the cost of buying a car. I’m saying no one buys a car to drive in. They already have one because having a car is awesome if you live in NJ.

90% is just about everyone. There are poor people that can’t afford cars and also NJ has cities like Hoboken and Jersey City that are more like being in NYC.
I'm honestly a bit surprised that they haven't really been pushing "using Tor for piracy" to create additional cover traffic.

Email has many problems but may be better than most, but you need to use something like gmail which everyone is using, and even that may be noticeable.

Once they suspect you, you're pretty much done for unless you find out that you're on the list and you stop communicating outbound. It's much harder to track one-way broadcast communications (many still think that there are/were communications to spies hidden in BBC shortwave broadcasts, and numbers stations are still a thing).
I tried to listen BTB a couple of times, and while the topic and overall worldview they try to project is very interesting to me, the hosts of the podcast and the style of it makes it really hard and unpleasant to listen, and when after finishing a 4-hour long series on some person I ask myself: "So, what have I learned?" I often find that I really don't have anything to say in response. Except for 5-minute worth of basic biography facts from wikipedia (which I usually have to check anyways, to get a clearer picture) the rest mostly is hosts exchanging remarks like "geez, man, get a life! haha… what an asshole!" while the hosts being in fact the most disgusting assholes I ever heard, distastefully trying to make fun of most mundane, sensible life facts and decisions.

I really wish there was something like BTB, but from… you know, better people.
If the goal of regulation is to prevent vertical integration, it is not really helpful to say "oh, but doing this will prevent vertical integration!". Yes, of course it will, that's what we said it should do.

You might think this is a bad idea, but it's not a downside of the regulation.
Wow, so Musk is like a chemical factory refusing to pay the toxic waste cleanup bills, and daring the world to stop cleaning up after him.
I used to think the inevitable "but the tire pollution!" commenter was just run of the mill hn pedantry, but it's been so consistent over so many years... I hope the pay is good, at least.
That is indeed the funniest (and slightly horrifying) thing. Even if you understand "glitch tokens"[1] (which is BTW the best way I've seen to explain to nontechnicals (hi, Dad!!) and also some subset of technicals (hi various friends of mine!! +_+...) that LLM applied statistics models aren't anything like sentient AGI)...

...regardless, ChatGPT and its ilk nevertheless do often already outperform "random human being coworker or uncle" at recommending just about anything... which is like Ted Chiang said[2], “That’s more a statement about how much bullshit we are required to generate and deal with in our daily lives.”

Although he was not referring to inputs from your (dumbass) coworkers/uncles, it still holds true.

[1]: https://youtu.be/WO2X3oZEJOA

[2]: https://archive.is/2023.06.04-050658/https://www.ft.com/cont...
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