skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those pension reforms were not "needed", unless you can argue it with a proper source. There was no present or foreseeable deficit for decades ; you say 2050 yourself

https://www.cor-retraites.fr/node/595 (research organisation composed of employers and unions). Again, their optimistic projections, which count on economic growth which isn't a given, project a bleak situation by 2050; that doesn't mean in 2040 it will be perfect. Even 2050 is merely 27 years away, and as was seen, a pension reform isn't easy nor fast to do.

Regarding blue collar manual labour, that's why there's adjustments for such work (it counts more enabling faster retirement). And that's where the real discussions should have been had, IMO, on adjusting for a better scenario for blue collar and similar work, instead of unions and populist political parties flat out rejecting a reform and calling for bringing down the age of retirement. It made compromise impossible.

> Since the 19th century, human productivity has increased a hundred-fold. Scientists and politicians across the spectrum back then predicted we would soon have a 4-hour working day. ?

And in the 19th century they couldn't even dream of the things we have today. The amount and quality of labour that goes into providing all needs and amenities of modern life is much higher than before.

> How can you humanely justify taking all this productivity increase and giving all the benefits to the already-rich, even taking away some of the few scraps poor people have

Where am I doing that, and what does a pension reform have to do with that? France is already one of the countries with the highest tax burdens for the well-off.
And that's why normies investors shouldn't be actively investing (I.e. picking individual stocks).

Dump your money into an all-market index fund and forget about it for 25 years. This requires zero "savvy" and not a lot of time. It does require a bit of research to develop some essential financial knowledge, but that's something everyone can benefit from.

If you can't do that much and you're in Canada, look at Wealthsimple, which is a robo-advisors that does this all for you. If you're not Canadian, there maybe be similar robo-advisors that automate passive investing that might be worth looking at.

One size may not fit all, but it absolutely fits most, and my bet is, no offense, you're actually not that special (I know I'm not).
On the opposite, I find that sharing code across full stack is becoming overrated. The reason I'm saying this is because that often leads to some very messy dependencies, and maintaining that codebase can become really difficult if you're not very careful.

Additionally, I found that in some teams, people would use some backend code on the frontend, resulting in some security vulnerabilities (server-side logic running on FE instead of BE). Instead, now that we have backend (Go) & frontend (TS) teams at my work, both teams consider the best practices for each environment with more focus. You could say that the same people do that with the same stack, but in my experience, if you allow people to put more focus on the one component they're building, they'll just build it better than when they have a plethora of other dependencies to consider.

The main problem could be talent, as if you have specialised people, you always have to hire for both of these positions (or train your people in either direction internally). But I honestly never experienced a shortage of people. It's more of a problem if you have a shortage of money, at which point, you should just use whatever you can build with the quickest to keep your business afloat.
I had a fruit fly (or some kind of fly) issue a while back. Couldn't figure out where they were coming from or why. For some reason, I pulled the rubber ring out from my kitchen sink's garbage disposal. It was the nastiest thing, covered in goop. Cleaning that and the area in the disposal it sat in solved the problem.
Hey catapart, wow thank you so much for the detailed feedback! I've fixed the link bug.

Re video, it's a great question/observation. I had considered it, but ultimately I decided that running/streaming videos will be prohibitively expensive, so I'll only investigate and invest in video if/when the platform can sustain itself.

Thank you so much for suggesting a guide tour feature - this will be the very next thing I build.

Totally agree with the minor things you've noticed. A lot of it are already on my backlog to fix/improve, so thanks for taking notice!

And thanks for the words of encouragement, it means a lot! Hopefully it won't be too long til I improved all the things raised here by yourself and others.
It should be possible to adjust the prompt asking the ai to include a reason for inclusion/rejection too.
I knew about MSX-DOS but never realized it was CP/M compatible at the binary API level.
Does Bun have a built-in DOM Parser? In Nodejs it's horrendously slow using JSDOM and Linkedom is a great effort but still about 20x slower than a browser. Keep up the good work Jarred.
The insight is that mathematics is not complete — which is the property that a system can prove every true theorem.

Consistency is there as a technical detail: an inconsistent system can prove every true theorem, by virtue of being able to prove every theorem.
Also in this regard USA is not a developed country but offers its citizens the same service as under-developed countries
I think the top of the crop wikis are the ones for Runescape, OldSchool Runescape and Guild Wars 1 & 2. Wowhead is kind of in a league of its own though.
That makes you great at sending resumes to other companies
No, there are two: https://www.amazon.com/Design-Implementation-FreeBSD-Operati...
Tom Clancy was indeed such a terrible writer. While his books were very interesting when it comes to the tech and the strategic realism (this guy freaking knew his stuff there is no denying that), his style was awful, character development was childish, and the pacing was always a bit odd.

I would say the main difference with Brown is, as u said, Clancy knew his stuff. He would probably spend more time doing the research for his books than writing them. I can find respect for a writer that puts in the work like this.
> the fact that a second hand GPU might be a good deal if honestly sold

which is why they are doing the scam in the first place - a card that is a good deal (for the buyer) is by definition a bad deal for the seller.
Multiple times I've seen companies be the originator. Quite simply, it's insurance fraud. They demand an air gap, you say you have one.

You can certainly argue that, at a general level, air gaps don't work for the same reason teen abstinence doesn't work. They don't happen. But in specifics, particularly for infosec professionals, it should be your job to call out dishonesty. Not to not along sagely and say "air gaps don't always work". If your airgapped machine is breached, there better be a USB lying around, or a physical configuration change.

JFC, my Xbox is not airgapped.

(actually it currently is. But you get the point.)
Translation: if things aren't going your way get on with workarounds and damage control / recovery instead of butting your head against a wall.
If it’s talking about x86, then yes the eax register is 32 bits wide. The low 16 bits of the same register are called “ax”.
Good. I actually have no issue with these surveillance powers but more scrutiny is better.
Thats a natural consequence of a large federal government. You said Western but I dont see a counterpoint outside the west. Maybe in tiny countries? But in the Us look to your local government and you’ll (hopefully )see a very responsive government that actually represents constituents.

Its not necessarily even the federal government’s fault. The distance between the federal government and its constituents is far by nature. They are making laws that apply to both Texas and California - there is not much that both will want.
We just use custom fields. So we have a backend, frontend and QA field. Assigned is always the one who needs to do something.
> Not in France, where retirement fund is a nation-wide socialized entity, which was the core of this debate. Private pension funds are close to non-existent here ; i personally cannot name a single person doing that because the public model worked so well for decades.

It's not that extreme. There are a lot of "assurances-vie" which are quite literally meant to be private pension funds (with lots of tax incentives...). That being said no-one actually relies on it, and the core of pensions are definitely the nation-wide entities. (Yes plural, we wouldn't be french if there weren't dozens of competing institutions doing the same thing, with of course people getting sucked dry but that administrative complexity)

> The first is the landlord mafia keeping apartments empty on purpose for speculation. Because if the entire supply was put on market, the prices would collapse, and people could actually afford housing. We could design a law to tax empty housing proportionally to the owner's wealth, and see how fast we get housing for everyone.

I don't agree on the "proportionally to the owner's wealth", simply on the empty apartments' value. But yes, we need to tax empty housing. And we're getting there. There has been a lot of changes with regards to housing taxes that are largely going towards taxing (relatively) more empty housing, with this year being the first year you need to properly declare for every housing you own what its use. And I feel like it's just the start, and we're going to keep those taxes evolving towards taxing empty apartments while taxing less family housing.
Why do people call things Jira alternatives that contain about 1/500th of the features? It's just a simple project management tool with a kanban board...
Nyxt is not close sourced :-)
Haven't used it extensively, but there is XWiki: https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
Doesn't everything need to rebuild its database on every reboot? Was a minor annoyance the last time i remember using it.
PureTwitter-Automatically blocks explicit tweets and Twitter accounts
As a heavy Twitter user, I was increasingly disturbed by explicit content that seemed unavoidable on the platform. This inspired me to develop a solution myself - a Chrome extension that identifies and blocks explicit tweets and accounts. With features for automatic tagging and one-click blocking, it's a tool born out of personal necessity, aiming to create a safer Twitter environment for everyone.
When will the AI hype bubble burst? 2023 thoughts and predictions
Or alternately get charged carbon taxes if they don’t.
If you find yourself wondering this, the answers are in an undergraduate economics course. Please learn the basics ;)
Redditors prank AI-powered news mill with “Glorbo” in World of Warcraft
So what is it? How is it made?

If it's the same as this biotumen [1], then it's "a fraction extracted from pyrolysis oils", specifically "the lignitic fraction".

I had never heard of fast pyrolysis before, have no idea what pyrolysis oils are, and still don't know what's actually in it!

[1] https://task34.ieabioenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2...
Because that’s that most people see Jira as. It’s easy to only use Jiras surface level features, like a Trello with a little more functionality, and not the more advanced ones.
This is the ai written article, it's quite funny: https://web.archive.org/web/20230720233444/https://www.zleag...
The closest thing we have builtin is HTMLRewriter, which is more of a tool for transforming HTML than for traversing.

I have looked a bunch of times at how hard it’d be to import the DOM APIs from WebKit/Safari and would really love to if it didn’t also mean pulling in most of a web browser

I think happy-dom is good for DOM-like testing though.

https://bun.sh/docs/test/dom
TurtleTraders of Richard Dennis – “The Prince of Pit”
+1, former and trained journalist here. I would say all the best journalists I know in person (many of them among the very best ones in my country) have almost exclusively had journalism as their primary choice of career.

What separates top level and (as a cynical metaphor or stereotype) "screwed up former musician, now a critic and journo, lost in life" level journalists is that the former ones really-really understand the ethics of journalism. They make well-grounded, extremely careful ethical decisions, and they are able to make them fast.

As a side note, in my country, I'd say ethical reasoning in journalism has reached a higher level during the post-pandemic years (and, now, the war in Ukraine). I think journalists' grasp of science (scientific reasoning) has improved quite a bit as well during this same period.

Obviously, everything can always be better (also, 90% of everything is not-so-good), but todays' best journalism is actually pretty decent, isn't it.
The Exploration/Exploitation trade-off
Is someone has a history of doing something, and there is not punishment or corrective action, the most rational assumption is that they are still doing it.
There's plocate too, which is a bit faster still according to the authors.
For anyone looking to find out more about how computers work at a very basic level, I really recommend the book "Code" by Charles Petzold. Goes from first principles all the way up.
> Does that seem fair?

No, though it is not about fairness. Your slave owner takes part of the fruits of your labor. Why do you allow that?
I understand the desire for subscribers, but I just wish it was further down the page. They make it so early into the reading experience that it feels very aggressive.
I should have clarified - COVID positive samples collected at the time and place of origin
I feel this. I have been burned over and over again as well. I desire to trust deeply and build real intimacy with friends and colleagues and lovers, and for many years I was very naive. I trusted anyone who told me they were trustworthy.

For me personally, it turned out I have autism (which I didn't realize until age 33), and understanding this helped me understand perhaps why I was being deceived so often.

Generally, I appreciated this article by Malcolm Ocean about his idea of a "Non-Naive Trust Dance". https://malcolmocean.com/2021/09/non-naive-trust-dance-why-t... He suggests that the optimal strategy for trust building is a slow building over time that acknowledges the distrust inherent to both parties rather than naively accepting people at face value.
You switched accounts :)
I hope it isn't only seen as anti-green. A big worry I have concerning climate change is that often I see discussions about climate policy ignore why our consumption is so high. It's not really the billionaires or greedy corporations. It's us. We're the ones consuming the bulk of these resources. And these policies will affect the poorest the most.

On the other hand, I also worry about the impact of climate change. I think as long as things remain within current predictions we will be able to manage, but what if they don't? What if some process ends up accelerating things faster than expected?
> It's not a solution if it's still a project

Fine, take the Finnish repository as an example then.
Amazon forcing 'voluntary resignation' on employees failing to relocate
I don't accuse them of living on gov handouts - I am just pointing to that fact to set the correct expectations. This funding is particularly necessary as the research is too fundamental for commercial parties.
I would love to see the image but the site is extremely hostile to mobile users
It has that in common with essentially all other open source license. And it only extends to the version given to you under the license. The copyright holder(s) retain the right to change their mind. Which is a reason AGPL v3 is popular with companies that are looking to sell commercial licenses for their software. There are quite a few startups out there that attempted to keep control whose primary business model is providing a way out from the many restrictions the AGPL v3 imposes on users by offering a commercial license.

In this case, it looks like Plane is not requiring copyright transfers. So that cuts off the practicality of them ever re-licensing their software (commercially or otherwise). That's a good thing as it means it is indeed not likely the license will ever change. The bad thing is that it would be hard to build a company around this project. The AGPLv3 is just very strict about having to open source any and all bundled features and imposes a lot of restrictions and requirements.
I'm a bit confused by the fact that all code samples in the docs are missing PHP tags.

I assume they're still required since leaving them out would probably mess up all editor and tooling support.

Despite the great improvements PHP has seen lately it will always be a template language for me as long as you have to write your code between those tags.
The analogy with Chess does not work: I can go on YouTube to watch how a pro player beats a specific boss, then use that to massively shorten how long I need to beat that boss.

Watching a lot of grandmasters play Chess will minimally help me beat a Chess AI that was better than me (excluding the beginner level).

I think that someone could have fun playing a Diablo-like RPG because they enjoy feeling powerful while they mow down a lot of enemies. And someone someone could enjoy a Soulslike game for the precision they need to apply to beat a boss.

Maybe it is somewhat similar to the difference between an arcade/fun racing game and a professional track racing game.

I wouldn't consider one to be "better" than the other. They simply have different objectives.
This happens all over the software world. The same goes for the JavaScript ecosystem, and even though it's slightly less bad in Java land, it happens there too. I personally think that there are both social and technological reasons for this.

Java developers, for example, tend to be slightly older, and therefore have had more painful experiences upgrading stuff, but they also tend to work in large enterprises where breaking stuff has an associated cost, that you do not experience when you are hacking on your own. Not breaking stuff requires an insane amount of energy and discipline.

For the technological argument, I like to think back to the 1990s, when I experimented with Common Lisp, and was amazed at how long one could work on one piece of software, without having to restart any of it. Oftentimes, the runtime state and the source code on disk would get terribly out of sync. It was even a best practice to simply store the memory image to disk, and restart from that later. I envisioned a future in which these problems would be solved, and instead of writing new programs, we would merely polish and improve running software, keeping the data alive for eternity.

Unfortunately, it's now 30 years later, and the only movement in that direction I see is that data remains somewhat active while being shared by multiple services. Unfortunately, the services themselves are still blobs that must be restarted over and over again, losing all intermediate state.

I think we could do better, for example by having a programming language that takes immutability to the next level, i.e. by not allowing a restart, or by requiring upgrade functions to go from old data formats to newer ones. Perhaps something may have come out of the field of reversible programming languages?
Most fly 's jump if they see something.

Clapping above the fly makes me catch them 95% of the times.

It works for me.
I've wondering if something like a Discourse instance could be used to replace Teams, Jira, and email.
This is from 2003. Might want to add (2003) to the headline.
A Drug Maker Profited by Slow-Walking a Promising HIV Therapy
PCIe 4.0 looks promising for completely eliminating the large bottleneck with eGPUs.
Sandy, Pearl, SpongeBob mom, the mermaid girl is all I can think of
Are you being serious?

I know we are supposed to assume good faith, but your statement is so ridiculous that it's not really easy to tell if it's sarcasm or not.
If you read the manpages you linked to you'll see that in the C API, readdir cannot be called with a path but needs a directory handle returned by opendir. Node.js is probably doing this in the background when you call readdir.
I happen to personally know the author, and I'm not really surprised he pulled this off. Using him as a baseline of who is a real developer his extremely unhealthy. Please don't :)
Yes frozen can be found (in french speaking regions - myrtilles sauvages) and they are the right kind, meaning same as forest kind. But the ones I can get are quite sour.

If you think this is the worst offender, compare real tiny forest strawberries with that bland stuff from grocery stores. 5% of the volume, 300% of the taste. Even good ripe homegrown ones pale in comparison. Had a hike last weekend and hit the right spot of altitude and their ripeness, got stuck for an hour just nibbling on them along forest roads.
Many European countries already have something like that: excise taxes on gasoline. Gasoline in Europe is almost twice the price of gas in the US, even in countries where people earn half of what Americans do. It's not particularly new either - they've been around for decades now.

This teaches us a valuable lesson though - money from carbon taxes must not go into the government budget. It should instead be distributed to something automatically (eg equal payments to everyone or the poorest). If it becomes part of the budget then governments might try to maximize revenue rather than deal with the problem.
Because jira's advanced features kinda suck. They have a market lock because they have been able to own the space with first mover advantage and buy their competitors.
Hi nonameiguess, good questions!

> Are these sign up links solely for writers?

No not really, anyone could (and should) sign up because I do believe that everyone is unique and has their "personas" to show for, whether it's their natural talent, or skills, knowledge, anecdotes, etc.

> Has anyone actually signed up yet?

I've only just soft launched it, mostly to gather feedback before I start doing the marketing side of things, so no not really, yet.

> I can't find any links to read or listen to anything. How do consumers use this?

My hope is that once I improved the product based on the feedback, it'll start attracting people who simply want to blog and don't want to (or don't have the skills to) set up their own blog. This way the content will be gradually built up.

> Does it require a login?

Absolutely not. This is actually one of my pet peeves for certain existing platforms. I hate login walls, I believe good content should be publicly visible to everyone.

> Do you have to subscribe to read?

Nope, it's entirely optional.

> Are all users treated the same with the assumption that anyone signing up wants to both publish and consume?

In short yes. The plan is to offer value-added functionalities such as the AI voice, as premium features so the platform can have a sustainable way of existing.

> the entire concept of "content creation" has become epistemically bankrupt and harmful to the world

You know what, I agree with your observation. And this is actually the primary driver behind creating Persumi. For that reason, I never positioned Persumi to be a competitor to the status quo social media platforms. I think the whole "content creation" space needs a bit of shake up.

> the content creators themselves have bad incentives

I agree with this part of the statement.

> regardless of how the platform funds itself

But not necessarily this part. If a platform isn't pressured into selling more ads, or introducing more user-hostle features, and instead focused more on the users and content, the vibe would be quite different, and I would hope that then it will attract content creators who either would naturally gravitate towards such platform, or would adjust their behaviours/content accordingly to serve their audience.

At this stage nobody knows how to solve this problem (otherwise it would've been solved already), but hey I'm still naive enough to give it a shot. :P