skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>but also one of social justice. Illegal employment, or what is called "sort arbejde" in Danish or Schwarzarbeit in German if want a compounded word, allows builders en masse to make a decent wage and is widespread, in Denmark at least.

Illegal employment also goes hand in hand with exploitation.

https://www.dw.com/en/spains-sea-of-plastic-where-europe-get...

>(2019) The greenhouses of Almeria grow much of Europe's fruits and vegetables. The region's dark secret: Tens of thousands of migrants are apparently taken advantage of to fill supermarket produce sections.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50200217

>'Exploited' workers propping up the [UK] building sector (2019)

(Maybe the construction industry in the UK is worse for this than Denmark/Germany?)

And modern slavery

https://www.unseenuk.org/modern-slavery-in-construction-is-o...

>In the EU, construction ranks second only to the sex industry as the sector most prone to modern slavery.

Even North Korea is in on it (2016)
https://www.dw.com/en/sent-from-north-korea-exploited-in-pol...

>Hundreds of North Korean workers are believed to be toiling in Poland under degrading conditions.

It's worth remembering that there are more people in slavery than there have ever been. I think we're "blind" to it much the same people must have been at the height of the transatlantic slave trade. It's normal.
People are more interested in cheaper products and not paying their tax.

On the other hand freedom can't exist without the possibility of crime.
The tell was "The lucky one got to program Visual Basic."
a weakness in community run stuff

But the community is not running it: all the infrastructure is in the hands of a for-profit corporation. Contrast this with the Freenode/Libera split: because not just moderation but also hosting was done by the community, they could continue operations fairly quickly when Freenode turned evil.

So I guess that's the lesson we should learn from it (again): the community doesn't own shit if it does not run the daily operations.
You can add tiny houses and van life to the list.
Why use ansible for configuration? It's an arbitrary DSL that doesn't scale beyond apt install xxx
Good to know there’s ample evidence now.
As time has gone on, more and more folks recommend disabling JavaScript as the default behavior and opting in on a per-site basis. This is easy to do with uBlock Origin. This isn’t a broken browser behavior but a conscious decision for the security and privacy of many users. Leaving one or two sentences isn’t much, and the “sales pitch” will help with SEO for web crawlers that don’t execute scripts.
Wrong. I had my own Netflix account which I was using alone, yet I cancelled my account due to this change.
Larry Wall must've been a MUMPS fan (at least when he was designing Perl syntax)
It's probably better to finetune a text-to-image model for that, at least they have a lot of knowledge about the visual world.
University of Manchester hit by cyber attack
Or men wearing heels, makeup and gasp wigs!
> ISPs are a common carrier

Back then yes. Today ISPs and Telcos are the literal definition of the word insidious.

So many examples of them selling user data to third parties without true consent.
I don’t know about the better moderation part. With the right reader one could subscribe to a moderator of choice. That’s an elegant feature I’ve never seen anywhere since.
If you think Python's significant whitespace is bad, MUMPS is far worse. Seriously, go look up how to write an indefinite MUMPS loop.
I'm a Latin American immigrant. When coming to the US, I decided to fully integrate myself in the culture: attain a high proficiency level in English, US history and culture, marry a native and raise my child in the local culture. I believe that if you are moving to a new country, you are deciding to an extent leave your old country behind and start a new journey helping build your adoptive country.

When looking at other Latin American immigrants, I tend to see a strong desire to do the same. Latin Americans often join the US armed forces, become patriotic and even conservative Americans. In particular with Cuban immigrants, there is hatred towards some of the original values (communist/revolutionary Cuba) and a strong embrace of the new world. While you can always find examples to the contrary, I believe that Latin American immigrants in the US have done a terrific job at integrating, perhaps because of our cultural and religious values being already somewhat compatible with the US.

This is not the same for all other immigrant cultures. I don't want to point fingers to not start flame wars. However, I've seen communities of different cultures refusing to mix with locals: they will not marry locals in general for religious and sometimes even racial reasons. For them, the US is just a convenient location with Costcos and Targets, but they often despise our cultural roots and don't even bother to learn the culture or language. Their children are of course better integrated, but their community still frowns upon departing their culture circle.

We Latin Americans still, of course, stay around our community and speak our native language with people sharing our cultural heritage. We still like "our" food. But when you talk to people in the community, they are complaining about how things are bad in Latin America and how much better they are in the US. In some other cultures, it's the opposite; they complain about how things are bad in the US, and how much better they were back home!
Scaleway is a French venture.
Parameterized Packages for GNU Guix
> I'll never set up a method that depends on me not losing a particular device

> Then store your github TOTP token on multiple devices

> The first option has the same problem I mentioned

Math it again.
Can't say I can speak for Ukraine and Taiwan as you do but I would imagine Taiwan wouldn't want a status qou with missiles striking Taipei on an almost daily basis.
> Baring breasts was common, and at times fashionable, until the 1800s

I can't really think about any of these, at least in Europe; do you have any particular example in mind?
I really don’t notice much difference between 4k and 1080 or even 720 as long as it’s minimally compressed data. High compression ratios is IMO is a huge driver for 4k because you can hide a multitude of artifacts once individual pixels aren’t as noticeable, but rarely do you compare identical bandwidth streams at 1080 and 4k.

That’s IMO what’s driving a lot of technological advancement. It’s not necessarily about needing progress as it is separating yourself from the profit maximization processes which makes most things worse over time. Tiny companies don’t have inherent advantages when it comes to say food, but they don’t have the expertise to perfectly maximize shelf life while keeping the food reasonably palatable.

That same maximization causes Windows and smart TV’s to include so much advertising because it’s maximizing their profits at the expense of the product. But you don’t see that in new categories like AR headsets.
My grandparents grew up during the depression. They buy everything on sale, including food. They have olive oil in their cabinets that’s from 2009 (it survived a move.) My grampa, in his own words, loves buying “junk” and “crap” and holding into it forever. They probably spend most of their money on gifts, dining out, cruises, and trading stocks. I love them so much. But I fear the day I have to accept their hand-me-downs. I’ll probably end up with the oil.
No idea, it's been like that since forever AFAIK. At least it solves a lot of problems (you just show your photo id) and basically everybody you have a contract with would know that information anyway, utilities, banks, etc.

Edit: there is a difference between the place you live and the place you are registered into. Example: a student is registered at parents' home and goes to study at a university in another city. He rents a room there. He has a contract there and the landlord must notify that the student lives there (since the terrorism laws in the 70s) but the student is still registered and votes at the city of his parents unless he registers at the other city.

This is common also for workers. Maybe they live for years in a city (and the state knows) but they are still registered on their home one.
Hey! It’s most likely thanks to one of them (or Sopra Steria, can’t tell) that we got this beauty:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180323092106/https://projectfa...

HN conversation at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16793884
That’s why I say the problem is not with the issues themselves, the problem is with woke killing the discussion by attempting to silence anyone who doesn’t agree.

If the points are valid, they don’t need the protection of cancel culture, they can stand up to criticism. But in reality the points really aren’t that clear cut and beyond debate.
Unfortunately, it looks like pools get taxed even if unused and empty.
It sounds like what you really want is to outsource your security to the government. Maybe you should just say that's what you want.
The actual download: https://download.pkd.icao.int/
There's the Sony Wena which is basically a smart watchband with NFC payment, which seems like the concept that you and GP wants.
Pentagram’s Visual Identity for Cohere
I'm not seeing how that applies to OP's false claim that "the rich pay a disproportionate share" of taxes.
UTF-21, a toy character encoding
How did you arrive at your conclusion that the pools mentioned in the article belong to middle-to-lower class people? Did you do your own analysis and cross-checked it with their income statements? Myself I would expect the pools to disproportionally belong to well-off people.

I don't quite get why you differentiate between classes, everybody has to pay taxes. I would prefer the tax agency to go after (illegally evaded) tax revenue where they get the most bang for their buck, this project paid itself back in less than a year so that seems to fit the bill.
DMCA requests are also as valid as some words written with crayon on toilet paper in the EU, unless they're explicitly sent as an ECD request.
Many of them were/are old people who were used to Windows XP or 7, rarely 8 and beyond, therefore I thought that moving to a XFCE desktop would have been less traumatic for them, and in the end it worked well. XFCE to me is the right balance of features and snappiness, that's the one I use on all my non CLI machines, although I prefer Debian on my main one, but Debian's XFCE defaults on ugly+impractical settings that would need too much work to repeat at each install. I also want to give them a rolling distro, which on Debian can be risky.
For those who did not no read the article : That sentence quoted in this this comment above is one of the theses the author of the artcicle is arguing against
> If you don't have a system to track swimming pools then don't tax swimming pools.

You’ll be happy to learn that France has moved in the direction to comply with your concern here.
A big part of the "AI" trend is

- be affraid of a big general AI that will destroy humanity like ChatGPT

- recognize pools in garden from sat images

Actually, if the title was only "French Tax service find 20k hidden taxable swimming pools in France, netting €10M", nobody would care... and it would be fair!!! There is no "Intelligence" in this...
We can agree that too many regular people don't know much about history, and what they do know comes from movies and story books.

I thought you meant to refer to historians or scholars, who should know better.
That is a risk in every business meeting I know, so I would totally expect it from an AI as well.
I never understood the value proposition of Xeon, Epyc-s and other 'enterprise-grade' hardware, considering the strong push towards horizontal scaling, failover reliablity, microservices, etc.
Are they more reliable, are they bigger? They are certainly are more pricey.

I have ratty-ass computers running at home with weeks worth of uptime. More is not really needed, ironically my home stuff usually has much longer uptimes than the prod infrastructure that I work on, that has constant restarts due to upgrades, configuration, etc.
> US foreign incursions have always needed the support of the population, and therefore been scattershot and bumbling.

I don’t know whether you are blaming the populace for these wars or saying that they sabotaged them enough so that they didn’t become worse.

But in any case the difference between a nominal democracy and an outright authoritarian state isn’t that. The difference is that while an authoritarian state can just say that they want the oil and the resources of another territory, a nominal democracy has to at least somewhat pretend to be different and somewhat noble. Exactly because it has a very limited form of democracy.

And so you get people who unironically, completely sincerely, present the narrative of the US as a bumbling but loveable, kind of amnesiac, tries its best to be good, Destroyer Of The Third Reich, good ally to the good guys native-killing settler-colonial Taiwanese (they make chips?), oh we tried our best in Iraq except scratch that that was just in jest because no serious person could deny that that was anything less than an aggressive and unjustified war, but all the dictators we helped actively was just because they were better than the alternatives, except Gaddafi he was a piece of shit so Libya being a shithole and objectively worse off is okay because we tried our best fuck those scimitar barbarians.

Because that kind of narrative actually matters in a (nominal) democracy.

> Consider the opposite... a US with a government and foreign policy unmoored from popular attitudes and free to prosecute any and all imperial wars without internal resistance or dissent or risk of power changing hands every 4 years.

Yeah, then Congress would probably increase the military budget for the fifteenth time in a row (unlike now). Then being at war and continuing to dig into wars would probably be a “bipartisan issue”, no matter whether the power changes hands to Pepsi or Coke every four years (unlike now). Then the US military would probably be larger than a lot of of other nations combined (unlike now). Then the US military would probably have tons of bases around the world (unlike now). Then there would not be consequences for politicians and public servants who commit war crimes (unlike now). Then Barack Obama saying “we tortured some folks” would probably just be a meme-gaffe of no consequence (unlike now). Then the laughably anti-International Community American Service-Members' Protection Act would probably become a thing (unlike now).[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pr...
Analysis of size-perplexity tradeoff for k-quantization
I'm glad to see this sentiment more vocally expressed lately. It's certainly nothing that hasn't been said before, but I think that reality hasn't caught up to the frustrations faced by knowledge workers. Imagine training as a musician, learning the fundamentals, and mastering your craft, only to be used as a glorified set of fingers for playing chords.

This discussion tends to get muddled whenever I bring it up with others because it's seen as an inability to be a team player, or that I'm just trying to daydream instead of "get things done", but my retort is always that you can't know what to get done until you have done the day-dreaming. We need it back.
Towards Reliable Memory Management for Python Native Extensions
The same is true in the world wide web and social networks.
It's surprising how common MUMPS is (or certainly was in the 1980s through 90s when I briefly used COSTAR). Basically if it's an old medical records database or system it could be MUMPS. Also, very weird language, it reminded me a lot of 80s-era BASIC, if accidentally altering a variable in BASIC could corrupt some medical records.

Also does anyone remember MQL ("Medical Query Language")? It was a way for doctors to write queries on the MUMPS database. As I recall it was totally imperative (unlike SQL) so basically any query started with an outer for loop over patient records. Any query even slightly complicated involved nested loops and the associated O(n^k) performance.

Edit: Found a paper describing MQL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2578357/pdf/pro...
which includes this example:

10 FOR EACH PATIENT ; WHEN PRIMARY MD IS SMITH
20 WHEN DATE AFTER TODAY-1 YEAR, DIVISION IS DX, CODE IS TUBERCULOSIS
30 LIST NAME, UNIT NUMBER, DATE, STATUS

(To be fair this is far more approachable than writing the equivalent in raw MUMPS)
I feel Linux is the answer to so many of these problems, its just not the one most people want to hear.
I'm building a tool using system, and one of the problems I had is that it would hallucinate the tool answers before actually sending the question to the tool. It really is just a system that completes documents, it doesn't care at all about the context that it is in beyond that text goes in and text goes out.
Isaac Asimov himself imagined a world wide library that anyone could access remotely, though I can't recall when he wrote about it.
> /kbin is an open source reddit-like content aggregator and microblogging platform for the fediverse.

Oh, never mind. I was looking for a Reddit competitor where I see interesting discussion, decide to interact, create a username and interact.

This isn’t that.
Anthropologist, historian, geography. Take your pick. There's ton's of specialties involved and he has received criticism from all angles.
I’m a fan of code aided design and really appreciate the effort and creativity in what you have done here. without an extensive background in geometry, I sometimes wonder how one could find neat concepts like the Lissajous curves that have a near direct applicability to graphic design ?
> but this is kind of a smelt-it/dealt-it observation right?

Yeah, I’ve had years in my life when I had poor sleeping habits and years when the habits were okay.

I usually deal with heavy revenge sleep procrastination when I’m crunching at work (games industry) and I try to reclaim some hours for myself at the cost of sleep.

Yeah, it’s a process and culture problem. Though individuals have some say in it. Even with crunch in the games industry, you get to set some personal boundaries. You can always put your health first. And our industry has been crunching less and less because people have started doing that. It used to be that when a company prescribed crunch (6 day a week, 16 hour a day schedules), almost everyone would do it. Now almost everyone quits. And that’s good, people have reasonable control over that. Besides, if someone flat out chooses not to adhere to crunch, they have options. Just not doing it is enough - there are rarely serious consequences.

With schools, it’s different. The question is not about reducing workloads, but about just moving them to a different time in the day. That, in my experience, is meaningless.
That's the dilemma with the CCP. They are a murderous regime but they also made China into a powerful centralised state that can meet as equals with any Western country.
They've always been the real nationalists.
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Why do I, a user, care about the energy type used?

In this world of capitalism, only the price matters. Pure green would be more expensive than the cheapest energy option at all times.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS

Since MUMPS interprets source code by context, there is no need for reserved words. You may use the names of language commands as variables, so the following is perfectly legal MUMPS code:

GREPTHIS()
NEW SET,NEW,THEN,IF,KILL,QUIT SET IF="KILL",SET="11",KILL="l1",QUIT="RETURN",THEN="KILL"
IF IF=THEN DO THEN
QUIT:$QUIT QUIT QUIT ; (quit)
THEN IF IF,SET&KILL SET SET=SET+KILL QUIT

MUMPS can be made more obfuscated by using the contracted operator syntax, as shown in this terse example derived from the example above:

GREPTHIS()
N S,N,T,I,K,Q S I="K",S="11",K="l1",Q="R",T="K"
I I=T D T
Q:$Q Q Q
T I I,S&K S S=S+K Q
>> persistent and excessive

>> intense and often irrational

There's nothing excessive or irrational in not wanting to die for your bunker rat's fever dreams.

And they are absolutely correct to point out that using the word 'russophobia' only highlights who you are.
I happen to live in europe, so I am quite aware of our situation. But europe is not the US, as far as I know.

And the US diplomatic stance towards EU inofficially was something like "fuck the EU".

I also know how "the west" moved further east step by step. Which is in general very fine by me, as I do prefer living by western standards (and I was born in the east).

So I certainly would not stand in the way, if Ukraine wants to go pro west. If I would not have little children I seriously would have considered going to the war as a volunteer. So much for context of "people like me"

But that doesn't change one thing how the US plays this geopolitics game.
Or our governments, sure. They are not better, just weaker.
It really is fascinating how similar it is to human thinking patterns. Going into an argumentative role doesn't actually fulfill the end goal of convincing someone.

It has a different social goal and we somehow delude ourselves into thinking that it accomplishes our stated goal.