skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you think governments fund themselves? Though taxes on consumption and income, as well as other things.

All immigration is GDP positive and incrementally increases tax income. On the other hand they increase the costs of providing services and infrastructure, but that is not connected to immigration per se, but economic and population growth. Unsurprisingly if the government makes money it also incurs expenses.

If you don't like immigration, say so, but don't try to blame them for government finances. Locals having children has the exact same effect, but it's even more expensive for the government. But in wealth countries people aren't having enough children, so immigration policies are used to maintain growth. You could do without them, but your economy would tend to shrink or stagnate along with the level of population over time.
PLA - poly(lactic acid) - is biocompatible to the point that it is used in medical implants. It breaks down into lactic acid, which the body produces itself during exercise and can safely metabolize.

Breathing smoke and dust from PLA is bad, because breathing any type of smoke or dust is bad. Wildfire smoke is bad, but wood is not a harmful chemical.

We actually do understand the chemistry of plastics. And to a very large extent they are very safe, primarily because they are incredibly stable and non-degradable.

Even the studies of e.g. BPA health issues point to very weak effects. You need to do meta-analysis on tens of thousands of individuals to have statistically significant effects, and even then they are weak and it's not easy to say whether you have successfully eliminated confounding factors.

And "BPA-free" plastics just use BPF instead, with very similar chemistry. The consumer-facing BPA fuss is primarily driven by companies that want to sell products; health agencies are primarily concerned with occupational exposure, which is 4-5 orders of magnitude larger in terms of dose per body weight. BPA is metabolized in the kidneys to the benign BPA-G and excreted in urine; a dose 250 000 times the EU dose limit is cleared by the body in 24 hours.

PFAS is a similar story. Over long timescales with stupid disregard for basic PPE, like cross country ski waxing trailers where people were breathing C8-dust without masks for a thousand hours per year, there has been clear health concerns identified. So people are saying "there is no safe lower dose limit" and companies are switching to chemicals that haven't been used in the same context so there is little to no data on exposure safety, and saying "this will be safer".
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Unfortunately fighting back in the UK could go either way, it's not like the American school bully in films, kids over here are getting increasingly groomed into criminal gangs and carrying knives etc. Depends where abouts the OP lives, but in some inner city schools especially, it could just escalate massively, sadly
Proton launches its password manager Proton Pass
What, you can't just say that and not link to the issue!
Most new construction in the last 10 years is all PVC and PEX, not copper.
One way to find high-quality mobile games is by checking user reviews and ratings on app stores. You can also explore gaming communities, online forums, or social media groups to get recommendations and insights from fellow gamers. Happy gaming!
I don't need to believe in UFOs to believe the government would spend tons of money trying to retrieve one.
Or use https://dezoomify.ophir.dev/
Maybe the site needs a quick explainer of what Elo ranking is. Perhaps people should have to pass a multiple choice question about it before they can start ranking.

Conflating Elo ranking with goodness is shockingly dimwitted - I'd think it much below Hacker News commentators, but apparently that's not the case. Of course Hitler would have a high Elo ranking; he's objectively one of the most powerful and influential humans of all time.
Peter Thiel's Founders Fund is getting into video
For (a) a mandatory deposit which you pay when purchasing the device, and get back when recycling it could work. It works pretty well for plastic bottles at least.
YouTube welcomes election misinformation again
Note: Only applies to PAST elections, according to this: https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/us-election-misinformati...
Ask HN: Where do you go for thoughtful, good faith discourse?
It seems as if everywhere I turn, online discourse has devolved into antagonistic, snarky, lowest-common-denominator noise. People have become so deeply entrenched in and have identified with their opinions leaving no space for an earnest, good faith investigation of differing perspectives.

HN is not immune to it either. So often the top comment is a joke, an extreme interpretation, or a tangential complaint that derails any meaningful discussion of the core message.

Where do you go for good discussion? Are there in-person spaces you’ve participated in?
I don't really think I got it until I saw one in person.

It was only a faily small piece but the guy really gobbed so much paint on there that it looked like the flowers on it were real and sticking out of the painting. It was really quite impressive and I don't think I've seen anything quite like it since.

I think you could probably label the whole field of post-impressionism as just being smudgy or whatever, and it is a really easy style to copy (People have been doing it for like 100+ years now) so I can see where the idea that it's amateurish comes from. But you have to understand it came from a time where people would really deride your work if it didn't fit along established lines and that people like him really pushed the boundaries of what was considered acceptable to call "art" in their contemporary time.
Yes an internal CA is better than a self-signed-cert. However, I've come across, quite often, where an internal CA causes problems that are only at that enterprise. Using the established public CAs is generally more resilient, and there's _no reason to not_.
If you’re already in the US and eventually want a GC (typical Us graduate), both of those are not very good option and H1-B is better bc of its dual intent.
Tbh, the video was better explained than my college computer architecture lessons
Yeah man that torture scene, really, wtf. Since it happens off-screen my kids probably didn't really get it, but it's just... crazy. Imagine this conversation:

- What's happening dad?

* Oh, they are forcing this car to keep driving until, until ... yeah until he confesses something.

- Why?

* Well, if they make that car uncomfortable enough, like, when he almost dies, he will confess to anything.

- So it's useless?

* Yeah torture is useless, barbaric, something I hope you will just never come across in any shape or form in your life. It's a thing done by genuinely evil or very mislead people.

- Jeez, that's quite something dad.

* Yup, enjoy the rest of the movie matey. Let's hope they won't rape Sally next.

- Wut?

* Never mind bud.
Can this Rust CDC library scale out and distribute the workload? (~like Kafka Connect...)
If only you applied the same logic to americans
>consultants

Who?

I see people constantly talking about those "consultants", yet what they are?

Just dev that has single-person company?
Hopefully Freddie is becoming less obsessed with "wokeness" and "cancel culture". It's still subtext in this critique of Pixar.
> Saving face takes priority in their culture

To an outsider it looks like saving face, but it really isn't - it's self preservation.

Asian business culture doesn't have the concept of "Blameless Post-mortems".

If a batch was mismanufactered, the GM at the plant would have heads roll because margins are so low.
On one hand, this is a technological marvel and props to the person who made it.

That being said, the name sounds extremely artificially inserted, placing the video in the uncanny valley. At first I thought it was just because you were using non-English names which the model wasn't trained on sufficiently, but then it was even awkward saying "James".

When I see my name clearly copy pasted into an email trying to be fake personalized, it makes me hate the sales email. Whenever I see those emails I just read it as "I don't actually care what your name is, but I think you're stupid, so I can probably trick you into thinking this is personalized".
Yeah, but they do all those things in your second paragraph because they work!

The sites who don't do those things don't get the sale, whether that sale is email addresses, new products or more engagement.

It's a sad state of affairs.
How substantial? I don't think most people really understand the economics of being Canadian right now compared to the US.

Right off the top you're earning CAD instead of USD, so with the current exchange rate that's a ~25% reduction in purchasing power.

On top of that, it's a smaller country, with fewer large and wealthy industries. Salaries are not only CAD but also the actual dollar numbers tend to be smaller. EG I've seen listings for roles in the States offering 200k USD, but similar roles in Canada offer 120k CAD, which is less than 100k USD. That's a "pretty substantial" pay cut if you want it. It's also not like they make up for lower salaries with other perks like super high vacation time or anything either.

Then you're living in a country where we have some of the most expensive real estate in the world in Toronto and Vancouver, which has effects in other markets as well.

Also everything is just more expensive here, with the exception of Health Care I suppose. Groceries are absurdly expensive right now, but even when they were cheaper they weren't anywhere near as cheap as my friends pay in the US. The cheapest pound of butter you can find is $6.50 CAD right now. Same with Gas for your car, insurance, etc. All of the tech we buy is more expensive too, and not just "cost of exchange rate", it's always just higher.

Don't get me wrong, I am happy here and in a lot of ways I am glad I chose to stay rather than chasing higher salaries in the States. I'm just trying to illustrate that there are definitely struggles here too and it will very likely be a very substantial pay cut to move here and get a job here. More substantial than you probably think.

tl;dr: It's very expensive to live here in a lot of ways, our salaries don't really compete in a numerical way even before factoring in exchange rate.
Another Open Relay Scan (Sip/VoIP)
My dad still has a 2001 era Inspiron that he keeps because of Microsoft Works. I am shocked that it still boots! Won’t connect to the internet for some reason, but it did connect to the LAN and WS_FTP helped me move old files to my laptop.
IMO, Toy Story 3 was a perfect movie for the people who saw Toy Story 1 as a child and were now young adults, having recently left home and moved away. The heart of that movie is in the parents having to let Andy go. They tell the story through the Toys, but flip it over to the parents in a few small scenes.

I've never been so compelled to call my parents than after watching Toy Story 3.
+1 on soul ... especially if, like me, you're an ageing musician with a day job
…Said the horny rat in an overcrowded cage

…Said the Easter Island native

…Said the XX century boomers

Would you elaborate on your thought? Why questioning the demography is “enemy of mankind”? Is there other subjects/sciences we should avoid completely to be friends with mankind?
Stomach Virus Spreads Through Cruise Ships at Fastest Pace in Years
To my mind, the issue is that a substantial portion of lifetime constraints reflect implementation details and not actual domain-level constraints that the programmer specifically wished to enforce. The same thing can of course happen with static type constraints generally, but I think not usually to the same extent.

>Go doesn't have function level generics

Not sure what you mean by this. Go functions can take generic parameters that satisfy a given interface (at compile time). E.g.

func firstName[T AsBytes](name T) T

(You'd have to define the AsBytes interface yourself.)

>in Java you cannot add a new interface implementation to a builtin type

Yes ok, fair point.
Plus, bonus nature environment, it's not as touristy as Amsterdam. I mean it's a tourist area for sure, but without the bustle of Amsterdam.

I went there once right after new year's, the museum and restaurant were closed but it was so quiet elsewhere, it was great.
> kids might die because the drug batch was bad.

You need to trade that off with 'kids might die because the drug batch was thrown out.'

In any supply and demand market, any supplier chucking out product means some buyer somewhere is priced out of the goods they would have bought.

If the faulty drugs were even 50% as effective as good drugs, then more lives were probably saved by shipping them. The problem is that there is no way to find those people who would have been priced out and offer them the maybe-50%-effective-maybe-deadly drugs.
What I want to know is which countries allow parents to immigrate with the main applicant. Lots of countries don't allow it for the fear that they have to bear the health care costs; even when the main applicant is willing to give an undertaking to bear the costs. This excludes a section who have parents dependent on them. Singapore is one notable exception I know that grants a long term pass to the parents that folks can renew every 1-3 years, depending on the expiry - the sponsor needs to bear the healthcare costs but at least it provides an option to keep one's parents with them.
If the visa does not require sponsorship from a company (like the current H1-B does), does that help reduce the 'indentured servants' part and lessen the appeal of it for certain types of companies?
That is patently false. Plenty of skilled engineers come from around the world on H1B visas.
Is it "casual racism" to notice that someone looks different and to be curious about it? The author says there was nothing negative about it and the people are friendly. She also complains that "they recognize me here" as opposed to her preferred "being invisible" in San Francisco. Uhm... what did you expect?
You don’t mention quality controls. What should FDA do if upon said random testing there are concerns? How can they and/or the manufacturer trace the causes without documentation?
As opposed to what?

I don't know about you, but for me on a personal level ChatGPT is a SERIOUS paradigm shift. I work on OSX, I use an app (MacGPT) that is always a keyboard shortcut away, and more often than not the responses are several times better than what Google will give me.

I know there are a lot of areas with high friction, but those will go away eventually and compared to what I was doing before, the friction is much much less.

Not to mention that it is a tool _I didn't have before_ and for me in some cases - specially those tasks that are unavoidable, you have to generally start from zero, and are a burden - my productivity has increased 3X

I'll take an unnatural interface any day if that's the end result.
Mediocre citizen checking in - I would never live in the US.
No. The problem is overall resource consumption. Which is a product: people * consumption/person. Since consumption per person has a lower limit, there has to be an upper limit for the sustainable number of people on the planet. Since standard of living should be at least equal to that of your ancestors, resource consumption per person will also be above the bare necessary minimum. And since the normal mode of population growth is exponential, any change in consumption per person is meaningless anyways, the overall resource consumption would be exponential nonetheless. So yes, we are always on the verge of overpopulation, followed by catastrophic collapse. We only avoided collapse in the past because technology (industrialization, green revolution) enabled exponential growth in resource production. But that might be a one-time thing.
So to check if there's anything sitting on stdin without reading it I've been using

`if read -r -t0; then` # returns true if there is data but times out instantly so it doesn't consume any

Is `[ -t 0 ]` more idiomatic? Apparently it fails on this case: function < file

`read -r -t0` is Bash-only though and not POSIX, but it will work regardless of what type of data is on stdin
In physics, relativists usually count from 0. Furthermore on the numerical side, C is at least as popular as Fortran.

Julia lets you switch the index base too.

Finally a special mention for Mathematica, which appears to be 1-based, but in fact is a thinly disguised 0-based lisp, {a,b} is just List[a,b] is really just (List a b) so of course if you want b you ask for element 2, element 0 is the head and is just List.
This kind of stuff puts me off from wanting to work at FB. If I got really good at working with these tools (or fell in love with this tooling), I wouldn't really be able to go back to working "in the real world"
Hmm curious but wouldn’t they also suppress wage growth for local Canadians as well?
If you have a surplus of workers and a deficit of housing, it would seem like a chance to re-skill the workforce into construction, wouldn't it? Instead of the blue-collar workers learning to code, maybe the tech workers can learn to weld? Or am I being ridiculous?
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I've built a small MutatingAdmissionWebhook controller [0] that handles this, via a pod annotation whose value is a secret with `ca.crt` inside, and it uses the (mostly) de facto standard openssl variables to configure the libraries, so that it works across pretty much everything I've tried it with off the shelf.

I build a bundle (though I may just move to trust-manager [1]) and replicate it into all namespaces with kubernetes-replicator [2], and then I can annotate any pod with

[0] https://github.com/microcumulus/ca-injector

[1] https://github.com/cert-manager/trust-manager

[2] https://github.com/mittwald/kubernetes-replicator
I have heard these types of claims many times. The people making them seem more credible at first glance this time, but I am firmly in the camp of being deeply skeptical until I see concrete proof presented.

That being said, I don’t completely discount the possibility. One answer to the Fermi paradox is that there isn’t one, and I can think of many reasons multiple governments would try to keep stuff like this secret.
Citizens have, by definition, a right to enter and reside in their country of citizenship.

I see a difference in kind between denying someone a right and failing to grant someone else a privilege.

(You are the only one calling them sub-standard, by the way.)
Soul isn't on the same level of Coco. Coco is a clear and heartfelt message with a (mostly) beautiful backdrop. Soul is a consistently ugly meandering story with all sorts of strange crypto Gnostic and pro life themes that just confuses.
Your source is Tesla. Do you really think they are going to release a report that says anything else?
I'll have to check that out. Languages I use don't have that type of tooling that I'm aware of :)

Have used Haskell before, but... far from extensively!
A fun fact, ripgrep used docopt for arg parsing in its original release: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/b1c52b52d6eed5b24...

I switched to Clap pretty quickly after the initial release though. Like a couple months: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/pull/233

I do currently have loose plans to move away from Clap to lexopt. But I don't know when or if that happens.
The endgame is that we will be spending 99% of our time restarting IDEs and clearing caches to get rid of nonsensical errors, but since we will be 1000x as productive in the remaining 1%, it will still be worth it economically.
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> We are already pushing 420 PPM CO2. The last time we had this much carbon in the atmosphere was about 50 million years ago, and the global temperature was about 8C higher than it is now.

That's should tell you something; that climate can't be reduced down to just CO2 levels.

> That is not survivable for modern technological civilization.

According to whom?
this is absolutely not something a union should be taking a stance on. fear of a union getting bloated and losing focus on improving working conditions and pay is one of the biggest reasons tech workers i talk to aren't too jazzed about unions in the first place.

we don't even have one and already it's supposed to be opposed to some totally irrelevant legislation. i can see why people are hesitant to unionize
I think the advice you've got here to try to slow down and give yourself a bit of time to recover is good. It feels at 17 like you have to charge into the future and not wait a second or opportunities will disappear, but it's not really like that at all. Independent adult life is so impossibly big that you can't hope to experience even a tiny fraction of it; what you miss out on will be replaced by things even better.

If you're in a position to hold off a year at school - delay your A levels medically - that might be good. You can keep up with some of the math and programming you enjoy, but don't make it a struggle. In the best case, neuroplasticity will come to the rescue and you'll find you're able to function at something close to your prior level. And if not, some time spent to grieve for the You that had Oxbridge and GCHQ dreams will be immensely worthwhile. You will find that your brain will either adapt and recover, or adapt and make you feel okay about who you are now - today you're fighting against that, and something will break.

The other thought I had is, is there anything that you feel now comes easily to you? Programming no, you mention your poor working memory. But are there other pursuits which feel less like you're pushing up hill? If you do take some time off you may want to start investigating other possible futures for you - things that don't rely on working memory or deep abstract thought.
> It's a small place, so after the first few weeks, people started to recognize me. I found this creepy.

You don't look like the locals who have lived there forever and know each other. Oh, and in an area with a long history of being invaded. Yeah, they are going to notice and pay attention to people who don't look like them. The author even says they weren't mean about it. What a pampered princess: just be a good neighbor, learn how to interact with other local human beings, and live your amazing life in an even more amazing location.
What kind of devices do you have that are unencrypted? Both Android and iOS have been encrypted by default for what must be a decade by now?
I wonder how remote works factors into this. I know a few Canadians with US jobs that stayed here because the corporate policy now allows them to work remotely.
Quality control has limits, if you only test some samples you are likely to miss issues. Especially as there is a wide variety of potential problems, and you can't easily test for all of them. That is why the processes themselves are regulated, and not just the products.

And the issues here are not just onerous paperwork. This is the company shredding documentation that would otherwise show that they had data that indicated potential issues, but which they ignored.
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Just ban privacy, because some criminals benefit from it ...
That's how the FDA operates.

That's why the filing above was created by the FDA.

You'll have some level of surprise inspections in India, and another set when the batch is imported to the US or EU.