skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow that's creepy even for me, who lived for many years in Turkey. In Turkey, the only check is a reference from someone who is already registered in that address. All this can be done online, you declare your new address from turkiye.gov.tr and someone who's registered in that address can approve your declaration.

Do you know that in UK they don't even have such a registry? The government doesn't know where you live(at least officially) and when you need to apply for something that requires proof of address they would use bank statements on your name sent by mail to that address.

I wonder how do you feel about it? Do you think that the Italian approach is better? Why would the government has to know where you live for sure? Is it to prevent benefit frauds?
My gran is gonna be pissed she cannot fork linux kernel now
> Chairman Mao: (Gestures with his hand and points to his books.) But if the Soviet Union would throw its bombs and kill all those over 30 who are Chinese, that would solve the problem for us. Because the old people like me can’t learn Chinese. We read Chinese. The majority of my books are Chinese. There are very few dictionaries over there. All the other books are in Chinese.

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That's true, but in continental Europe I definitely can't find it under 20 Eruos in any shop. UK is also an exception for low consumer prices.
It cannot explain because (1) it is not necessary to become good and (2) it wasn't explicitly trained to explain.

But it's reasonable to imagine a later model trained to explain things. The issue is that some positions might not be explainable, as they require branching too much and a lot of edge cases, so the explanation is not understandable by the human.
this is done by some darknet sites running tor hidden services on generated onion domains, for similar reasons:

https://shufflingbytes.com/posts/ripping-off-professional-cr...
Ok thanks. Couldn’t tell if she was exaggerating, but since she used the exact figure several times I had to assume not.
Yep, some banks already make it mandatory that you do not store whatever data you may have from them outside of Europe.
I think people with calculator watches are way cooler in a sea of people with smartwatches.
> "Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know."

https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
I’m arguing that willfully experimenting on people with bio weapons without their consent is illegal and immoral. It’s a war crime per the Geneva Convention. I don’t even know what a violation of “personal rights” means. Is that a legal term?

You tried to “well actually” the acts this article is talking about, spreading bacteria to people via crushing lightbulbs in the subway. Well actually they didn’t infect people with this, they just crushed lightbulbs full of it in a crowded subway without getting anyone explosed’s consent.

Then I presented a similar action, where they didn’t just spread the bacteria in a subway and measure the air, which I suppose someone could argue wasn’t trying to infect people with this bacteria if you’re a literal minded child… no, they spread it in fog and MEASURED THE PEOPLE. The point was to infect people. This negates your point about the govt not trying to infect people in the busy subway and just measure the air, because it’s clear they tried to infect people in SF and then measure that infection. People being infected was the point.

So, now your next point is well actually, many years after the man was killed by a remarkable and rare UTI cluster in SF directly after the bacteria was released to the SF population, and this man and a few others contracted this rare illness but this man died from an infection right afterwards, actually the SUPREME COURT of the United States said that the family of this man didn’t prove that he was killed by this experiment. Years after the fact. Years after he was dead and gone, and it was next to impossible to link his death with this disease beyond. Reasonable doubt because of the government’s negligence in performing this experiment without gaining people’s consent. How would his doctors have known to look for this or try to treat it right?

But, now you’ve fallen back to a position where the tenor of the argument isn’t how you want to discuss things, and you’re linking some dumb ass article about formatting arguments in a manner that doesn’t make you seem quite as wrong.

but sure. It’s clickbait. Everyone is wrong except you. Calling out your nonsense is not conducive to good discussion. Never mind the fact that you compared some pretty no nonsense comments I made about actions the government took and admits to now to Covid, vaccine, and nuclear misinformation. Not sure how you think that isn’t a logical fallacy and conducive to “better discussion”. But go off. You’re on a roll
Here is one example:

I use virtual desktops to separate apps when developing (1 for terminal, 2 for the app, 3 for docs, 4 for the IDE, 5 for additional tools). I switch between them every few seconds sometimes, so the exact numbering is important.

With KDE activities, it's nice to be able to have two fully separate projects (different customers or contexts) open at the same time, while keeping their respective virtual desktop arrangements.
What a great piece. Glad to see it on front page of HN.

I worked for years in retail, in camera shops, and I understand the episodic hilarity and mundane heartbreak of a career in service. But it was washing dishes in a restaurant, my first ever job, that made me aware of the time-pressure intensity of food service, and that it's a lower-risk version of the old space/air travel aphorism: 'Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror'.

You work a whole shift, but only a slim segment of it matters, when work and concentration become hyper-compressed. Dishes break, people break, and there are no breaks - it continues relentlessly like a forced march, without reflection, until the blessed first minutes where you sense that it's beginning to abate.

If you're of a reflective mood, you think to yourself not only that the frantic and merciless nature of the job will never change (even if the restaurant closes, the same experience is happening in an endless continuum all over the city), but that it has probably been like this for as long as there has been civilization - a millennial succession of workers (slaves, the earlier back you go), chopping vegetables and scraping plates (copper plates, if you go back far enough), back to dining establishments and the kitchens of the influential in Roman times, Egyptian times.

It's a strange thing, but participating in these activities that are most visceral and least threatened by automation, they feel like a kind of time travel, or like being in one of the less objectionable circles in hell.

We've always been at lunch with Oceania!
I think it can be possible, but only as a closed community of people who have all been vetted first and who, most importantly, can be can be banned for bad behaviour.

Setting up such a network might be profitabel (lots of people spend quite a bit of money networking), but it is also going to be very expensive and you are going to get a lot of negative press from people whom you didn't accept and from people who will point out that you are discriminating against certain groups because your user demographics over or underrepresents certain groups.

It is never a nice job to be the one who has to man the walls, and it is not glamorous, but no Constantinople without the Theodosian Walls.
Here’s a photo from their FB page. I could picture a tray with several orders like this approaching 20 lbs.

https://www.facebook.com/HashHouseAGoGoSanDiego/photos/a.120...
My domain got old DNS records back. But in the freenom's account "Use default nameservers (Freenom Nameservers)"
Millennial here and half-baked minimalist here.

At least it’s not true for me. For all my life I’ve been drowned in objects. My parents are still telling that I had so many toys.

Minimalism is a way for becoming aware of the objects around me. Not so much about the pure number of objects.

Since, I started thinking about what should be part of my life and also letting go of things I don’t really need, my savings rate has skyrocketed. Also, many things I own have much higher quality than my parents or grandparents.

I guess minimalism is a counter-movement to super-cheap consumerism.
PHP Intellisense Extension for VSCode (10€ once)

DBeaver database mgmt 12€/mth (with intermissions)

github copilot 10€/month

NimbusNotes 40€/year

Cloud Platform (GCP), various services up to 60€, with intermissions

Youtube Premium 10€month

various MOOC and learning platforms

donations to Wikipedia when they're campaigning (with intermissions)

some fun services (streaming)
Mao is responsible for spreading Mandarin over all the provinces. He himself spoke with such a bad accent that towards the end of his life there was only one person that could understand him, his secretary or nurse or someone like this. Joke says that she was running China for a while since no one could verify her translation. Also, I am guessing a lot of people were still illiterate at the time.
Establishing a full DE on Arch is as simple as 'pacman -S plasma kde-applications sddm' followed by 'systemctl enable sddm.service'.

Compiling everything manually would take a long time. You would need to work out all the dependencies, make everything, install everything, create all the configuration files... You'd then need to do this again every time a package is updated. You'd hope that every dependency had an RSS feed you could follow. For those that didn't you'd need to regularly check for updates. Arch requires two commands...
Hetzner is great for servers and storage, but it's not a "proper cloud" like AWS/GCP/Azure/Oracle/IBM.
An actual “good Matrix” would give you the freedom to simulate whatever terrestrial survival-battle fantasy you think is the key to your personal happiness.

“Suicide is the only way out”, “there’s only one flavor of heaven” and other such contrived flaws are just that - storytelling contrivances. Because an actual heaven / freedom-simulation would literally be “everyone lived happily ever after (or for only a few decades after, if they insisted), each according to their own free beliefs and desires and choices, and there just was no catch, the end”.

If your objection is that you want living beings to be stranded in our cruel and uncaring base reality whether they like it or not, because of some philosophical quibble about a difference between “simulation” vs “reality” that you wouldn’t be able to discern with your thoughts or five senses…well, that’s far more abhorrent to me.
Arch elitism doesn't really exist and never really has. People confuse "we aren't going to handhold you through the installation process if you can't be bothered reading the documentation" with elitism.
WinRAR used to support specialized compression algorithms for specific kinds of files, like uncompressed bitmaps, sounds, executables, or plain text. However, the feature was removed in the RAR5 file format 10 years ago. Maybe it was not worth it?
> .. to build a Cloud from scratch and with no real USP. What a joke.

Using a cloud not owned by a US company is quite a big USP for many non US organisations. I can't name any big EU cloud providers, but I imagine that a large chunk of that 3 Billion will be spent on marketing so people will have heard of evroc in a few years.
U2F would be a much superior replacement for any idea in which the user has to enter anything at all. It’s better to have the security hardware, such as a U2F key, authenticate the authenticator using cryptography, because that process cannot be man-in-the-middle’d.
The world we live in today is very different the world web0 was created for, its older than me.

Don't get me wrong, standardised protocols play a very important role in the current world and it will play a bigger role in the future of the internet (Scuttlebutt, IPFS, Matrix..).

Its just not enough, we need a decentralised way to provide consensus on the internet. People wont set up their own servers, companies that provide these services will always look like a Pareto distribution (FAANG or MAMAA).

In other words, FAANG or what ever the next incarnation of these companies are always incentivised to get rid of interoperability. Selfish reasons aside, after a certain point interop will directly stand in the way of providing better user experiences.

This is why web3 is such an elegant system. It provides a substrate that directly incentivises interoperability. Auth and payments is taken care off, the only thing remaining is custom features but that gets rapidly commoditised, then the only frontier remaining is interoperability.

A good example of this is the NFT marketplaces: Auth is just connecting your wallet. Payments are taken care off. Then you build cool features but everybody else copies you and you copy them so thats a stalemate. Then you have to be interoperable, like OpenSea going multi chain or Magic Eden supporting Eth.

The key here is, the moment someone else supports interoperability, if you dont you are put at a large disadvantage. The same kind of dynamics will happen to decentralised social media platforms.
I'm not logged into Edge on any of my machines. But this is how I've done it in the past

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/edge-learnmore-...
80s nostalgia never ends. Usenet was cool back then, now it's dead. Not lindy. I prefer online forums. Web forums allow rich and structured content. There is an app, Tapatalk, if you crave reddit-like experience. The UX of some old-school engines is not the best but online forums are way more approachable and manageable than Usenet ever was.
In his book “Practical Ethics” he recommends infanticide up to 2 years old as a logical extension to abortion.
stremio is your friend.
Firefox is still around.

As is Brave and Opera but i do recomend that people look deeper into their owners before blindly trusting them.

As the main codebases are mostly open it still a competitive market once you look at the edges as the small browsers are still viable for day to day use.
Hi HN! Some context, for those who (like me) check the comments before going to the articles: I wrote this after attending the RustNL conference back in May, as a way to capture my fascination for the language. Hope you enjoy ;)
I think you got confused. The attack on Kiev had 16,000 troops total. It's unclear how many were OMON but it's clear that it was no more than a few hundred.

In no way, shape or form does that justify presuming that this was an occupation force - with or without uniforms.
Jeez that looks amazing! Thank you for the link!
I would argue that's not really a trade, at least not in the sense described in the article, since it lacks awareness and consent from one party. The bees never agree to the trade of providing us honey in exchange for the hive and protection, and most likely see no connection between the two events. They simply stay in a hive they have found while it's convenient for them, and when their honey is unexpectedly taken from them they will survive on sugar water that they conveniently find outside the hive.
Aha, gotcha.

Still awkward joke.
Seems like you already answered yourself. Crony capitalism and nepotism are the traditional EU way of doing business. That’s why our companies tend to lose on the global market, when faced with a level playing field and real competition
and Pokemons as well I presume
I'm pretty sure compliance rate with the policies isn't great. People who like being in the office down to people with small WFH preference just go along. Prime with stronger WFH preference probably simply ignore the policy.
But clearly it’s not going to keep earning him millions, since they jacked the price up far beyond where he even stands to make a profit.
No OP, but restaurants are the most competitive industry possible. Anyone can start a restaurant, and lots of people want and can do it. Because it's intrinsically a physical business, the market reach is limited to a small area unless it's in downtown or a highly trafficked area - where it also costs a lot more in rent.

There's almost no way to make a restaurant profitable as many restaurants are a labour of love, basically.
Weird article. It starts by stating ... the number of American digital nomads has seen staggering growth of 131% since 2019, with these self-described nomads numbering into the millions of workers. Then it gives exactly two examples of people who dropped out of the nomad lifestyle: one who suffered from panic attacks, and another who wanted to buy a house and settle down in Spain (i.e. not a nomadic lifestyle) but gave up because of cost and bureaucracy. Not good examples.

I have traveled with no home base since 2012, with a few periods staying in one place for months or longer. I know lots of people who do the same. People mainly give up on nomading because they can't afford it -- they don't have a reliable income and/or they spend too much. Some people have health problems. Some get lonely (blogging away with headphones in a coffee shop -- "why can't I meet people?"). Nomading doesn't solve problems like precarious income, loneliness, physical or mental afflictions. You take those with you.
I still think Huffman’s decisions might yet end up a cautionary tale.

Even if he brings in strikebreakers to moderate the closed subreddits the site will face a tidal wave of spam which isn’t going to make the causal users happy.
> some rules

like what? and why do you think they could help? They’d have to somehow explicitly target Chrome to give it’s competitors a chance.

IE did not go to down because of some EU regulations or the bundling ban because Mozilla and Google simply released better browser.
I’m probably missing something, but is there a reason why passkeys can’t entirely replace password+2FA and create a much simpler experience for everyone?
I find it very silly that tourists need to buy a MetroCard just for the transfer from the AirTrain to the metro, and then never need it again afterwards because of OMNY.
> "it's free and open information built by the community, but when something disrupts our ads-driven business model and we make it unfree"

I feel the same, that it would be much better today if that was the agreement we all entered into. (Though, I doubt anyone would have read it anyway so I’m not sure it would have made any difference.)

But it seems that no-one saw this disruption coming, so it wasn’t possible to plan ahead for this outcome. Call it complacency, call it ignorance, it’s too late to plan now, so we get this kind of reaction instead
Because you want to argue... is it really unexpected if you read the system role?
There's a Hindi proverb I heard as a kid from adult friends and relatives:

Mehngaa roye ek baar, sastaa roye sattar baar

Meaning, literally:

Expensive, cry once; cheap, cry seventy times.
Does this mean that old microsoft is back?

We all know that edge is a thing because it's being tied into windows as the default browser for opening links in a way thats hard to permanently disable, so it's basically the behavior they got fined over with IE back in the old days.
Across Eurasia you had about 2000 years where people were riding around on chariots with strong spoked wheels, but farms didn't have even primitive wheelbarrows to move rocks off their fields. Moving rocks off fields is back breaking work and even a primitive improvised wheel barrow gives you an order of magnitude advantage. The prerequisite technology, conditions, demand, etc were there, but it took thousands of years for somebody to have the idea. Therefore, I think it's safe to conclude that very few people who've never seen or heard of a wheelbarrow would ever have the idea to invent one, even if they were already familiar with wheels in other contexts. The idea itself is the rare thing, not the prerequisite technological/social conditions. The idea can go unhad for thousands of years after all the other pieces were in place.

> You aren't even addressing Diamond's argument.

I think Jared Diamond could be correct, but I would still say that his argument is lame because he failed to establish a high likelihood of prompt invention once prerequisite conditions are met before concluding what those supposedly missing prerequisites were. I'm not addressing his argument because he failed to convince me that his argument addresses a real question in the first place. Supposing hypothetically that ancient Mexico had pack animals, it still might have been thousands of years before pack animals and wheels were put together.

> Going from [rollers] to the wheel doesn't seem like a huge leap of insight.

I really think it was. There's a big conceptual gap between rolling something on logs, and making the rollers captive through the use of an axle. The roller goes from being a tool used to move a thing to being an integral part of the thing. Wheels may have been invented more than twice, but there's not much evidence for that. And in any case, it certainly did take a very long time for some seemingly simple applications of wheels to be considered after wheels were popularized for more sophisticated and demanding purposes.
This algorithm is known as Huffman encoding.
If you are referring to building ML services, why would a CS degree be necessary? The technology behind generative deep learning falls more in the domain of statistics and information theory than pure computer science (in the discrete mathematics and algorithms/data structures sense of the word). A foundation in scientific programming and a good intuition for multivariable calculus and Bayesian statistics goes much further. I would wager that the perfect candidates for ML research are found in physicists, electronic engineers and other quantitative disciplines (perhaps computational chemists too). Most programmers' CS training are nowhere near enough to understand for example autoencoders at the information theoretic level. How many enterprise java programmers do you think can explain what latent space is? Calling API endpoints and building products around prompts is not the same as actually understanding ML to be a practitioner.
The inner interpreter is already bound to civilization and losing the bond is traumatic. We will deepen the dependence by using AI. Maybe even replacing it completely. It is scary but feels inevitable, as the biological interpreter seems to be failing too much.
Everyone thinks that until the Boltzman Brain from 980 quintillion years in the future bootstraps itself back into our early universe, makes 10^894532367821002 copies of their soul, and decides to experiment on which eternal hells are the most agonizing.
No. Include someone in an experiment and it is unethical not to ask them. That’s the line.
I thought this was interesting and it didn't make me distrust him at all. I can't really tell why it should.
Not really. He just meant that old people find it hard to learn to speak Mandarin, even if they can read the Chinese script (which is the same for all Chinese languages). He likely saw this as a major obstacle to his vision of a grand, unified China. He's also responsible for the simplified Chinese script, which was introduced everywhere but in Hong Kong and Taiwan. They are still very mutually intelligible, from what I understand.

I mean the part about actually bombing people is of course a joke, I think even such an exceptional psychopath-stateman like him wouldn't do it.