skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, where i live they sure can’t do that, but they can get subsidized for paying rent. Not have only that, but they can sub rent, and still receive tax payer money.

There was a recent case of a fire in a T2 apartment. 12 immigrant were living in that single apartment. Similar situations are being reported in every city in this small country.

This means you can rent apartment you have, and there’s always immigrants looking for it, that can share/subrent with an absurd amount of people, each get their check and so your apartment rent is fully paid paid by social security.

More factors, deportations almost don’t happen, government is facilitating immigration.

This all adds up when you notice that the government figureheads were all previously mayors, and traditionally corruption at the mayor level was paid with real estate. So they are just using social security funds to charge absurd rents, and keep pressure on raising price.

Guess what happens when rent is high? House prices are also high.

But don’t worry, government is helping everyone with their payments by sending checks to everyone paying rent or house loan.
Education majors in college have some of the lowest IQs.

See https://thetab.com/us/2017/04/10/which-major-has-highest-iq-...
I would guess that it’s because the current approach is no longer working as well as it should as the gap between the political class and citizens grows larger and the narrative appears less and less believable or comes off as nonsensical. This sort of narrative spinning is driven by the political class and is an essential element to keeping a grip on power or affecting change.
I don't think needing workers is why immigrants were brought to Europe. That seems like an excuse government gives but it's contradictory that immigrants from other cultures were brought in by the government to work but then also have higher unemployment and use more welfare, citation in here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_France I guess the government could have just got it badly wrong. In theory, worker shortages would lead to higher wages and government efforts to stabilize birth rates like what Japan is trying to do.

I think the actual reason is something like a vast western empire promoting diversity as a good thing for your country. The 2015 immigrant surge into Europe was not because EU countries needed workers. Similarly, countries that have tried to block immigration like Poland and Hungary are accused of being far right fascists and uncooperative and NGOs from the US come after you. The general belief seems to be that too many white people is a bad thing and backwards.
> Maybe a critical mass is finally forming against bullshit.

Oh, this is surely not it.

The previous mass media has been reacting to the new distributed propaganda machines for a while already, in self-preservation mode. This article is just them trying not to be too confrontational for a change, because it backfired very badly.

I keep hoping that some anti-bullshit memes spread, but when that happens, you won't see them on the mass media for a while.

(And yes, I keep having to remind myself that protections against mass media appeared only after a pandemics of crimes against humanity it helped creating from the WWII to the 80's, and in only very few formats mostly useless against most problems. It's not a given that anti-bullshit memes can spread at all. The future is a dangerous place.)
Medicine, biology, and even quantum physics could be argued to not be science by your standard because they often aren't explicitly deterministic. The authors are using the scientific method to evaluate population differences. How else would one undertake this analysis?
I think you're basically right; to a substantial degree, people are what they eat. All the media people consume effects the people that consume it, nobody is left untouched by what they watch, read, play, etc. This is true of all video games, all books, all movies, all hobbies and recreations, all school lessons and life experiences.. everything that people experience has an impact on them. The dogmatic insistence that video games cannot effect kids is a sort of internet meme that formed in reaction to people like Jack Thompson and Hillary Clinton trying to regulate video games in a way that a lot of people, particularly young people on the internet, didn't agree with. That's an understandable reaction and I also think those would-be censors were going too far, but the counter-reaction meme of video games having no effect on players has also been going too far. Human minds are not inviolable bastions of individuality, we're all constantly being changed by what we experience.

Regardless, Macron blaming these riots on video games is farcical. It's obvious that isn't what's going on here but Macron isn't going to say the quiet part outloud, so he'll latch onto any other excuse no matter how inane.
"Stories are powerful and can be used to effectively cage us ..."

Stories are one rhetorical device that a service like boringreport.org can shield us from. But that certainly does makes content more boring, which leads to consuming less news. For me the opportunity cost of news is mostly too high anyway.
> PC gamers, the ones who buy ssds, gaming gpus, want 4k 60fps, you're telling me they want to use mobile games in a vm or wrapper or whatever?

This isn’t for that kind of PC gamers, its for Android gamers that happen to have a PC (which is probably a much larger market, in terms of people.)

> There is no way one of these execs is a serious gamer, like the ones they're courting.

They aren’t courting serious gamers, they are courting people who already play mobile games.
Yeah, I do and have done creative things and enjoy the creative output of others immensely. But given the choice, I'd rather ride my bikes, ski, sea kayak, etc. Fortunately creators have created some amazing machines and prosthetics to enable such pursuits.
The key distinction here is these laws limit gender affirming care for minors.
I think assembly is probably the one language family you'd find most success learning from a reference sheet.
I live on the west coast of the US. When we say 'change the locks' we don't really mean changing out the physical locks for new ones. We mean having them re-keyed. It's not very expensive, and contrary to your anecdote, there are locksmiths everywhere here. A lot of them have no storefront, they are entirely mobile (and a fair bit of the time, unmarked vans). Storefronts still exist, but much of the regular interaction consumers have with keys these days is easily handled at the local home improvement stores.
I did get it, and I would argue this book made me a better engineer. People learn different ways and retain knowledge differently. Some folks do really well with technical manuals and minimal but factual informational, and some folks respond better to more novel approaches. _why's guide was definitely the latter, and a vocal group of people seemed to agree. While _why's version was definitely on the far side of novel, the approach itself was used in a whole series[0] of books. It's all good that it wasn't your thing, and you're not an idiot, it just wasn't your style.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_First_(book_series)
> There's a long list of construction startups who thought the industry was low-tech simply because everyone in it was dumb, and that they would be the smartest guys in the room who'd revolutionize everything. Those startups are pretty much all roadkill.

Slightly OT, but I feel like this is a general trend and definitely not limited to construction. There are many companies and founders aiming to 'disrupt' an industry, and a starting out with what only can be defined as arrogance. Seeing some of the startup companies in the sector i'm familiar with trying to explain how the world works to some of the most experienced and established players has been hilarious and infuriating at the same time. At this point, I finally understood where the derogatory meaning of 'techbro' comes from.

The main thing that concerns me is that people still believe technology (primarily software) is the solution to any problem we encounter. Yes, technology solved many problems in the past, but it also created a lot and failed in spectacular ways. If you need a solution to an acute problem, waiting for a technology to hopefully be developed isn't the right call. However, more and more people, governments and companies are buying into that idea. I can't fail to notice many people who where technology skeptic years ago now turned towards a "I don't want to change my behavior, technology will find a problem that solves the issues I cause with it". Autonomous cars are my prime topic that comes to mind, but many other things also come to mind.
What you're talking about is a kind of willpower, which funnily enough has a biological basis also. Genetics seems to play a role, as do many medications. The marshmallow test seems to show willpower largely stays the same over 4 decades. Ozempic also seems to show you can artificially induce it. It's not mind over matter, it's having a mind primed to do it in the first place. It won't be as easily taught to someone who grabs the marshmallow instantly as a preschooler. We also seem to be able to induce it these days with ozempic, which is fascinating.
https://www.crowdsupply.com/soldered/inkplate-10#products
You don't need a loss leader, just make the full drivers open source and I'll pay a premium
I can't speak to the Apache documentation, but I once had the task of extracting plain text from many different document formats: Word, spreadsheets, PDFs, the EXIF information in JPEGs, and so on for a long list. I had written code with calls to extractor libraries for several of these formats, when I can across tika. Out when my if..then..elif..elif..elif.. code, to be replaced with a single (Python) call to tika.

I can't answer your question about pandas, though.
They could override the veto but it requires a two thirds majority which is unlikely.

A bit disappointed lawmakers haven't taken a principled stand to state "protection of the integrity of our democratic power is more important than the particular issue <x> at hand".
While reading that reply my mind had already filled in "Zuckerberg" before I got to "NY Post"...
The “houses getting torn down all the time” practice is getting less and less true. It’s becoming fairly common to just do a bunch of renovations since the old houses now are also from the modern mass production era (whereas in the past your old house was likely to be a much bigger pain in butt to improve). Though I do not believe that we have entered a full speculative era from this.
Yes. It's in line with the social media industry: the top ~0.1% gets ridiculous amounts of money from sponsors and ads, while everyone else can barely scrape by.
The concept is this: people come, and they assimilate.

The french culture remains irresistible, but social issues keep rising, immigrants are simply more impacted by those issues and the media makes sure to call out people's religion or ethnical "background"

Macron isn't Christian enough but France tolerates all religions, for good reasons. I would be OK for him to stay longer, but cutting off social media, and invading privacy is a blasphemy that should grant deporting him to Dubai, or any city state where he would fit in.
Going Rogue
>homeowners vote more than non homeowners

Specifically, when do they vote and on what do they vote?
If you dig into this you eventually end up with the premise of the article.

In a past life I wanted to build dense housing. i.e. more units per square meter.
I went to buy land, and at the same time started going through the bureaucratic process of getting things approved by the government so that I could start building.

I have the necessary know-how to build what I wanted with my own resources, I was willing to apply for all permits necessary. However, I got turned down flat by the government. The only thing I was allowed to build on this land was ONE house. The land could have fit 15+ houses or an apartment building with dozens of units, but no, the city zoning board had decreed that this land was zoned ONLY to single family housing. So the only thing that could be built on this site was one single family house. Guess who the members of the zoning board were that turned me down? Local homeowners, who did not want to see the character of their neighborhood change.

This is the root of the problem. The free market is not allowed to function, because of this process.

And the thing is: this same process exists in every metro area in the US. Zoning boards populated by local homeowners with no desire to change anything.

The economic incentives already exist for denser, more affordable, housing; but developers are not allowed to build anything other than what the land has been zoned for. The people in charge of that zoning have the opposite incentive, they want their beautiful, low-density, neighborhood to never change.
Including you?
Thanks for the interest - I created some groups and uploaded a demo to the repository (https://github.com/gkinsman/GeeVee/blob/main/README.md).

Unfortunately environment scopes are only available on premium so I can't demonstrate that, but it solves one of the major issues with the existing UI in that it doesn't give you an environment-centric variable view.

Also, it looks like it's only possible to view inherited variables when viewing the vars for a project. Group's don't show the inherited variables for their parents.

I also much prefer the project tree view to clicking around the gitlab UI so much, and when you're configuring a pipeline its quite tedious.
There's a book called "Tika in action" which I found useful.
> So, by that logic, users who opt out of telemetry are aware of why they are doing it.

Ambiguous: they're aware of why who is doing it? I opt out of telemetry because I don't know why they're doing it - the data collectors. I mean, I know why they say they're doing it, but I don't know if it's true.

I also don't want my computing resources and network bandwidth used to further a goal that I might not support. Even if the only reason for collecting data really is to "improve the product", perhaps that'll result in them making the product dependent on systemd, which from my POV would be an adverse outcome.
> A cop shot an unarmed teenager in the face point blank

Make sure to give the full story, please.

[The victim] was "known to the police, particularly for resisting arrest", and had been charged with resisting the previous weekend and five times since 2021. His judicial file included 15 recorded incidents, including use of false license plates, driving without insurance, and for the sale and consumption of drugs.

He was driving a Mercedes-Benz A Class AMG with a Polish license plate at high speed in a bus lane (a car he did not own). When asked to stop at a red light; he started moving and ran the red light. The following chase endangered at least two people and he was forced to stop by traffic.

The cops pointed their gun at him and approached. The shooting happened when he refused to stop ignition and instead started to re-accelerate; trying to go for round #2. Just after the shooting, the two passengers tried to flee the scene (one was arrested; the other succeeded in escaping). The cop who shot immediately provided first aid and called for medical attention. The victim did not survive.

The social contract in this context is "do not resist arrest; and if you are stopped by the police after a car chase and they are pointing guns at you; do not try to flee a second time".

It's not about being "rightless"; it's about not having 15 recorded incidents in your judicial file at the age of 17 and then renting cars to endanger other human beings and then trying to flee when there is a gun pointed at you.

Did he deserve do die ? No. Did he do the bare minimum to avoid getting shot ? Also no. This situation is the consequence of 100 bad decision; the cop took 1 of those; he took the other 99.
What I don't get about this whole COVID conspiracy thing: If there's no Graphene Oxide in there, why don't some anti-conspiracy people just grab a camera while testing the blood of various volunteer vaxxed/non-vaxxed people, compare it under a microscope and show the results? Because that's what the conspiracy people are doing and they're all finding traces of what looks like graphene oxide based on existing papers about GO.

If the vaccines are fine, they won't find anything. If there was just one conspiracy person showing what looks like graphene oxide that even reacts to electromagnetic currents under the microscope I'd say they're obviously just looking to cause confusion but I've seen so many videos from different people and doctors showing similar effects in the blood of vaxxed people that I find it irritating that no one is even attempting to debunk them.
I didn't expect to see Germany as an example of lightweight regulation in constructions :)
I think it's probably fine. It adds options for those who would rather die fighting. The exact placement of the line the FDA draws for approval doesn't align perfectly with everyone's values and situation, so there should be a little wiggle room.
What AI can sometimes add is automatic feature extraction. Rather than having a to have a human explicitly think "I bet we can identify people via $x" and writing bespoke code to do it. E.g. this has been the big deal with AI in medical diagnostics, that it can look at the same data a very skilled human doctor sees, and still manage to discover something that the human couldn't, due to unnoticed features
That's because most companies operate their customer support at extremely basic level and hope that those with complex needs will simply give up in frustration.

A lawyer letterhead short-circuits that because companies fear that someone who is actually willing to pay upfront for a lawyer is also going to follow through with a lawsuit or, worse, a complaint to the regulatory agency so they'll kiss asses beyond belief just to prevent a case from ever reaching public record and a resulting bad image in the eyes of the regulator who can actually impose pretty expensive fines.
Once you've been told what a register, a stack, and an addressing mode is (among other details), sure. But then you do know the paradigms already.

But of the languages I mentioned, assembly is certainly the one where the required concepts can be explained quickest, probably by far...
The problem being that inevitably the 'improvement' gets measured through the same telemetry figures which are being optimised, so of course it's percieved by developers has helping them improve things.
Centuries of data show: travel faster, means: travel more.

And also a daily commute of: 30 minutes to one hour is very acceptable, be it walking, by car, by horse back, train, boat or helicopter.

The primary reason aviation isn't green is because it only makes sense for bigger distances. So even if it were relatively "green per mile", it still isn't "green per minute".

Wanna save the planet? Travel less, go slow. Personally, I stay in one continent and fly once every 5 years.
Ouch. I know the feeling. Is your thinking: If they can program in Bash, they have learned how to program in many other languages, and Bash is their glue to make stuff "schedulable" via crontab, (dreaded) AutoSys, k8s, etc.? For me, learning how to program /OK/ in Bash has been a very difficult journey -- as difficult as Perl and Python, due to insanely weak typing. You are always fighting unknowns when you receive some function parameters.

Related: When I search for help on a Python foundation library or built-in funciton, my Google search results are overwhelmed by "learn-to-program"-type of websites. I guess it makes sense: During the gold rush, don't dig for gold, rather sell shovels!
Customers don't want crappy chat bots.
I find moving away from GA to be really cringe.

It's not like Google can't get all the data it wants from the people using Chrome.

All GA really does is ensure the non-Chrome users get captured by Google.

And -- more importantly -- give you insight into what Google sees on your site.

So if you turn off GA... sure you sort of hinder Google... in that Google gets maybe 10% less usage data from your users (at most 10%).

But you take away your ability to see what they see about you.

Google is still 90%+ of search traffic. So moving away from GA just feels like putting your head in the sand.

So I don't know, I mean I get that you don't want to be tracked, and have your data shared, but that's not what moving away from GA solves.

I don't know what moving away from GA solves.
2000ui/day is quite a lot. Most supplements are 10ug / 400iu. Especially as it's a 5 year study.

With 4000ui per day being the safe limit for someone who's not monitoring levels. (Too much vitamin D is pretty grim because of the effects on calcium levels).

Once you get into checking levels you lose all benefits of a simple intervention.
New Hardware Revision for the Steam Deck Spotted
They are also addicts. They’re addicted to the dopamine rush of their stock prices ticking higher and moving up the wealth ladder.
> I got to a pretty good technical competence with my trumpet but at the end of the day I could only play what was on the sheets.

This is pretty much how music is taught to all students learning 'classical' and was my experience as well. Most never really learn anything about music at a fundamental level, and can even have an entire career in the classical world not really knowing anything about what's going on in the music. Random story, but one night here in NYC I got asked by someone to bring out a visiting musician from Spain to hear some music, who had been playing in a major symphony there since the 80s (can't remember if it was Barcelona Symphony or Spanish National Orchestra). Brought him to Smalls in the West Village to catch whoever was playing that night. He was really impressed, kept on leaning over asking "how is that piano player doing that with no sheet music???". It's just not part of a regular classical musician's training, unless they're working to be a composer as well.

But back to your point, I felt the same way with music in my schools growing up. No one ever taught you how to actually play music, they just gave you sheet music and said "play this". It wasn't until much later that I started working with a jazz teacher privately that I got introduced to all the chords, scales/modes, and theories that'd you need to improvise or play music with others. Honestly, I probably would have been better off in high school if someone had told me to drop music classes altogether, handed me a bass or guitar or synth, and said go have fun with a few friends in a garage.
> But without immigration they don’t have enough workers.

They have lived beyond their means for a long time. The solution is they have to either boost productivity generally with a mostly stagnated population, have fewer people at present levels equivalent of output, or accept a lower quality of life.

You can see the fact that they're living beyond their means even in supposedly well-off countries like Denmark / Norway / Finland / Sweden / Netherlands, where the household debt to income figures have been shockingly high for 10-15 years now. They're the most indebted people in world history, pretending it's sustainable (maybe for Norway, thanks to their extreme per capita pollution output via fossil fuels).

https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-debt.htm

The Baltics and some parts of Eastern Europe, are the best positioned going forward.
Wait... I think I might know the exact place you are talking about haha. Did Amazon move in in the past couple years?
That's what I was going to suggest; the SUSE people do good work. If Fedora becomes something I want to leave... that's where I'm going.

I don't really need or want this pressure on Fedora -- 'the premiere desktop... blah, barf'. This is how we got Canonical and their brazen licensing

I'm happy enough with it basically being RHEL-next. Package the misc things (GNOME, KDE, Sway, etc) with the appropriate SELinux policies and bam, a decent desktop OS.