skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The reason is more forceful management of the economy – the Spanish government took quicker, more concerted action than ours did. Spain capped energy prices by more than the UK, lowered the cost of public transport, taxed excess profits and put in place limits on how much landlords can raise rents. While also coming with costs, this kept inflation from spreading more widely and more persistently than elsewhere.

Policies that limit the price increases for the necessities of life works! A good experimental case study in direct action (Spain: policies targeting problems of inflation) vs. indirect action (UK: central bank raising interest rates and hoping that downstream actors behave a certain way). In my mind, this is also a good data point against the entire idea of indirect policy as a whole -- like it's more well-known cousin, "trickle down economics," time and again we see that society gets better outcomes when governments address problems directly. We get worse outcomes when government makes policies that allow for uncoordinated actions that can take resources away from problem-solving.
If I were to yell my name at the wind and you happened to be near and were to write it down, you'd still be in violation of privacy regulations.
If scaffolding is generating more than an SMS worth of code per file, it will drive you crazy because you still want to keep it in sync.
There's also history of claiming that you can turn plastic into UltraConductors[1] that are 1,000,000 more conductive than silver.

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US5777292A/en
I call it Twatter.
"And now... more of the same!"
> meat is a vital, and necessary food

Not true at all.

Plant-based diets were protective against cancers of the digestive system, with no significant differences between different types of cancer, a meta-analysis based on 3,059,009 subjects

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/04/meat-tax-would-boost-health...

Meat tax would boost health and cut healthcare spending: research

https://www.foodingredientsfirst.com/news/over-17000-doctors...

Over 17,000 doctors call on White House to shape nutrition policy on plant-based diets

"It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes." - American Dietetic Association

"A vegetarian or vegan diet can be suitable for everyone, regardless of their age." - NHS UK

"[I]t is possible to follow a well-planned, plant-based, vegan friendly diet that supports healthy living in people of all ages, and during pregnancy and breastfeeding." - British Dietetic Association.

"For adults, protein from two or more plant groups daily is like to be adequate. " - World Health Organisation

> Most of the world grazes meat animals, no crop feeding, and do so on land utterly unusable for crops

Yep, on deforested lands. 50+% of those pastures used to be forests. That's why we have droughts and climate change ... removing carbon sinks and destroying biodiversity just to have steaks on the table.

No crop feeding? 80% of grown soy is fed to animals. Half of the grains. 35-40% of corn (rest is biofuel, another stupidity). What about alfalfa, the reason why Colorado goes dry?
There used to be a couple pain points when working with Phoenix on Windows. The bcrypt library wouldn't build, something needed to be run in Administrator mode to establish their symlink workaround, and PostgreSQL is a little more irritable on Windows. SASS (some node dependency in the Javascript asset managing stuff) also flat out didn't work on windows, but there was a drop-in replacement.

I know the SASS issue was solved (as a side effect of eliminating the node dependency), and I believe the bcrypt issue was, too.
They are though, at least on Windows, I’ve moved them before. The whole Lib/ tree was independent of the venv’s path, it’s only the “activate” script that hard-codes a full path.

Since venvs on Linux symlink to the system’s Python executable, they should also work after moving.
Are you willing to share more information about this? What does the report look like or include? Curious to learn more.
They do, but:

> Zone custom nameservers are available for zones on Business or Enterprise plans.
My rules is never copy paste. If it's worth repeating, it's worth typing.
The word "monopoly" implies one dominant company ("mono-" meaning one), but industries with 2 or 3 companies are still unhealthy for a few reasons.

First, it's pretty easy for 2 or 3 companies to price fix, which is against anti-trust laws.

Second, a healthy market requires that it be easy for new companies to enter the market and compete, and if there's only a few dominant companies, then clearly new competitors are not succeeding.

We need more anti-trust enforcement.
Yeah - this is a good shout
That’s what I meant. Demand for time is how I experience the labor shortage, so it seemed more suitable :)
Hope is dangerous, for it's itself very hard to resist.
An enjoyable old movie on this topic - https://www.inverse.com/culture/hollywood-sag-strike-ai-the-...
It's almost exactly a good thing though.

>"It's cheaper to live there" yeah, I wonder why that might be.

It's incoherent reply - if a job does not require high qualifications, besides language knowledge, going for cheapest place is the obvious thing.

>The numerous unbelievably wealthy global companies all doing this in the same very specific areas surely have the area's best interests at heart, and want to raise its standard of living, so it must be something else.

They are all paying more than local alternatives, thereby increasing local wages.

> "No education required" because they don't have enough to fund education

3 dollars per hour is more than Polish minimum wage 10 years ago, and we funded education with much, much less. But I guess no foreign company should invest here? It would leave us in a way better place for sure.

>And it also provides leverage for suppressing wages elsewhere, because companies can always just offshore work that their peons are demanding fair wages for.

Once the same propaganda you're spewing was playing for Asia. It turned out globalization really made them comparatively rich. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/...

Now it's time for Africa. The same argument is now even more incoherent - where's the cheaper place?

>And, yes, it also brings a lot of outside wealth into those areas. At high human cost, but still.

At the cost of... work.
In a "normal" environment, it doesn't make sense to me that wealth begets more wealth passively without doing anything:

A) If your wealth is in cash in the bank, you are providing the bank with deposits. The bank can now make cheaper loans which helps others. But if these loans default, your bank fails and you get bailed-in. Assuming no government intervention comes to save you.

B) If your wealth is in stocks or corporate bonds, you're helping to finance companies that are making stuff / providing services that people might need. But markets can go down, companies fail, and as long as there's no bail-outs, you should be able to lose it all.

C) If your wealth is in government bonds, you're obviously financing the government. But if there's no buyer-of-last-resort (central bank) for your bonds, then one dodgy policy decision by the government, a large bout of deficit spending, or a failed bond auction will wreck the value of your bonds.

D) If your wealth is only in stuff, land etc. then your wealth shouldn't grow - in fact it should fall as these deteriorate in quality, and you're taking a big hit in the form of opportunity cost by not doing anything productive with the land/stuff. If you're having to maintain this 'stuff' then you're losing money, think cost of ownership, replacing capital etc.

E) If your wealth comes from rent, then you're taking a risk, and expect costly demands from tenants and to have to keep up with a competitive market. This I accept is something of a grey area because uncompetitive markets / monopolies can exist.

F) If you're wealth is in patents, copyrights fees, royalties etc... then there may be an argument here. This is up to the government to change, similar to E but without as much risk.

The trouble with the above A-E is the inherently inflationary system we have now where markets are never allowed to go down and deflation, bank failures, and default is prevented with stimulus. It props up stocks, bonds, means assets and stuff gets more expensive nominally without doing anything, it keeps banks afloat and means bail-ins of depositors are unlikely. Rich people who acquire assets are on to a guaranteed win like you say.

The solution is not to take away the incentive to produce more wealth by a punitive income tax, but to take away the asset inflation that makes asset holders rich by doing nothing, which also makes cash holders poorer and punished for being prudent with their meagre savings.
What's the chicken and what's the egg?

Did apple go for web apps before or after the app store?

Note: PWA's were after the app store fyi and I mostly use the web, not apps.

In comparison, there aren't many SAAS with apps, eg. Azure, AWS Portal, ...
I wonder how many of the 1.3T daily requests are made by misconfigured cloud servers with no local DNS cache, hitting popular endpoints like <service>.<region>.amazonaws.com or fcm.googleapis.com over and over again.

Consumer devices generally don't have this problem because 1) they respect the TTL, and 2) so do most ISP resolvers.

Ubuntu ships systemd-resolved by default these days, which is bare-bones compared to dnsmasq but still helps reduce unnecessary DNS traffic -- not to mention precious round-trip time. You might still hit the rate limit if your app connects to more than a dozen different FQDNs within a second of starting up, but that's not a very common situation.
> The mistake there was that they were unaware that they had to make the unit conversion, not that they did it wrong.

I think the root cause here was continued use of medieval units, instead of just standardizing on the metric system as it's already done around nearly the entire world.
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No, because I don’t trust them, and honestly don’t care much if I did as I disagree with the idea that being in an office is necessary (for most jobs).

I read the title as something akin to “[people you’re supposed to think are smart] know this so it must be true”.

With that reading, Musk seems like a particularly bad choice.
I'd look into democratic schooling or private schools with alternative pedagogy. My criticism is not of all forms of school and learning, just the conservative, orthodox pedagogy found in public schools and most private schools
Pegasus Mail and Linux / Open Source

https://www.pmail.com/sundry/pmlinux.htm

David Harris
Owner/Author, Pegasus Mail and Mercury Systems,
April 20th 2005.
Has enough time passed so that we can talk freely about Sex Education?
It's a topic that often makes people uncomfortable, but it's super important for all of us. Afterall there are 8,051,527,714 (8+ billion) people on Earth. And yet for some reason talking about Sex is a taboo in many culture including countries like India, England, Africa etc.
I was similarly confused, I recall seeing this in the UI -- looking again, it seems I need to upgrade to the business plan.

That's disheartening. Pay more for us to do less.

The document you've provided extends my confusion.

Both the 'Primary (Full setup)' and 'Secondary DNS' pages it calls out... seem to indicate that CloudFlare has to stay in the mix. Either the authoritative nameserver (defeating the point), or as a child receiving transfers.

This feels deliberately obtuse.

Edit: The peer comment from V99 helped me understand. This is their vanity solution - still CF. Reportedly cannot place the SOA elsewhere
Ah thanks for reporting!
I think this makes sense. I've seen many situations of large software projects where some bug is just open for months or even years and actually very easy to fix. In hindsight then, it was then a lot of missed value if the bug just lingered around for no good reason. If there was some tool that could just run in the background and randomly pop up a PR from time to time, then that would be cool.

Good luck!
Well if we're being anal about the metaphor, in construction and renovation, the scaffolding eventually goes away. Scaffolded code rarely disappears entirely; some of it usually sticks around.
(2016)

Posted a few times recently

Here's some more discussion 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25657311
I guess sometimes it takes a bit of knowledge about the author to read through their reading without cringing. In this case, I think it's on purpose, to give the author's (fictional) tone to the text. If you try watching one of the later talks, you'll see what style the text is trying to emulate.
Is it a true federated twitter:
- "favorite" or rss instead of "follow
- quote/link like any other dynamic page on the internet instead of retweets
- no timeline unless somebody wants to expose their blog this way
- no replies (comments are federated too)
etc
This is correct. Food companies cannot hike prices just because, especially when they are monopolies. If suddenly eggs cost $20/dozen, customers will ask why and if there are no good explanations, there will be a lot of noise. And politicians and regulators who are otherwise not willing to act on monopolies, do not like noise because it threatens their jobs. They will act, and that will not be great for the food companies.
Can still take contract jobs focusing on something you know very well, doesn't pose that much of a burden -- no learning involved, less stress.
That was a good read, well done. I've been using Elixir for about a year now and I just smile when I'm coding. I'm still a little unsure about it's place and where it'll go, but I have loved exploring and learning BEAM with a little nicer syntax. Jose is great and watching the introduction of a type system is interesting too
The illustration in the article looks a bit like a turnspit dog too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnspit_dog
Think a spoke/hub type thing would be a lot easier. Just convert inputs to SI, then from SI to the output.
Wouldn't the most sensible option just be too have the SI units at the center and everything else heaving a conversion edge to that? While intriguing, there is probably no need to make that graph any denser.
Redesigning Chrome downloads, to keep you productive and safe online
Afraid it's only a web app at the moment, so you can use it in your browser on mobile. There will be a native app soon, however
Honestly the one I use the most often is frequently a PITA to get to.

I often am enabling or disabling cellular data access to applications. Unfortunately this setting lives in 2 places and is difficult to reach.

There is a list of all apps in the cellular settings that allows changing this but the list has 100s of apps, has no search/filter and cannot be sorted alphabetically.

You can also go the app specific settings in the settings app but this also sucks to get to because spotlight search sucks and the actual list is again, not in alphabetical order. (Apples own built in 50+ apps are strewn about in a haphazard order).
I think it's a simple typo... "hence IP addresses" makes more sense.
Because an AI is an affordance.
As many others have mentioned, Safari is worse. It restricted content blocking to not support uBlock Origin many years ago, and it has already deployed remote attestation. On top of that, it is behind on support for APIs that people want, and those that it has implemented are often riddled with bugs, which are fixed slowly if ever. Firefox is a reasonable alternative.
I'm glad the well of peer to peer projects hasn't been irrecoverably poisoned by the most recent rise and fall of cryptocurrency in recent years. Can't wait for more practical and interesting things to come from the concept.
This seems pretty clear.
It’s not possible to buy stolen property. The ownership reverts to the lawful owner.

It’s pretty clear too that the buyer did nothing wrong so it’s unlikely that they’ll be forced to restore the lot.

This is a case where good attorneys would advise their clients to settle. The untouched lot is never coming back. The $350k lost to a scammer is never coming back because US law enforcement is worthless. There’s $1.4M tied up in this. You want nothing or you want something? If you go to court everyone loses. If you settle everyone gets something, but not everything they want.

And if you really want justice done put a hundred grand into tracking down the scammer and unwinding his life’s work. It’d be far better to take everything from him and send him to prison than for the two victims of the crime to squabble over it.
Well, another comment in the thread said it's probably because funding sources are drying up and this is an attempt to make up for it, and that sounds likeliest to me now.

Re: housekeeping, in that specific case (and this applies to many other service occupations too), my money is without hesitation on a much sadder cause, i.e. COVID killing people or giving them long-term disabilities, which strongly shrank the workforce.
I appreciate the idea, but I assure you that the vast majority of media that people hold on to are tossed when they die.

To that end, I'm very much in favor of enabling and strengthening libraries.

Note that I'm also not against letting people build up these collections. I don't share in the romanticizing of building up giant collections of media that you still don't own. Yes, you can sell the media to someone else. No, you don't have any real ownership of the story or contents. And with how hard preserving digital media actually is, few are doing a good job preserving those.
For sure, I completely agree. Reviewing code can be really annoying, especially if it's not well written/broken. We realized this last month, so we've moved closer to providing tested pull requests.

Also as a dev, writing code is energizing and I love spending my day building a new feature. But when you get into maintenance mode, it's not that fun anymore. There's a good amount of code in the intersection of "easy to review" + "annoying to write", so Sweep is aiming to address that first.

Overall, it's not so much about not writing any more code and more about writing more interesting code. Similarly for junior devs, even in the space of "grunt work", there's more and less interesting options.
He mentions some solutions in the linked articles - and basically it involves pooling risk.

In concrete terms I guess that means such things as
re-distributive taxes ( either on death or through life ) - pooled pension funds, insurance, family and friends etc etc.
I'm not the OP, but I'm in the same boat.

On some servers, I can use a local caching resolver. However, on others, I'm forced to configure the caching resolver to forward queries to an upstream public DNS server like 1.1.1.1 (via DNS-over-TLS) because of network issues. These can arise from DNS (or perhaps UDP?) rate limiting by the server hosting provider itself, at the network level.

In another instance, I noticed that the hosting provider outright drops all fragmented IP packets. I'm concerned this could lead to DNS query failures, especially if the authoritative DNS server is not available over TCP. When contacted, they told me they do this for security reasons and would not be able to disable this filter for me.

Like the OP, on these systems I often encounter the 1.1.1.1 rate limit. This is particularly the case since I have DNSSEC verification enabled, so I'm considering switching over to 8.8.8.8.
Huh, I had no idea they were originally a hunting dog.

From this very bias source, but has a decent amount of information:
https://www.dachshundstation.com/hunting-dachshunds/
We don't need those grazing lands for growing food (some nuts forests would be cool, though). We should afforest/rewild it to store maximum carbon in those lands, repair water cycle, enable biodiversity to return (70% of species is lost in the last 50 years or so), and use land for animal feed crops to feed humans instead.

If we'd switch to plant based diets, we'd free an area the size of Africa to return back to nature, storing enough carbon to return to 280ppm, stop biodiversity loss, while feeding comfortably 10+ billion people.

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

If the world adopted a plant-based diet we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26231772/

Biodiversity conservation: The key is reducing meat consumption

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/917471

Feeding 10 billion people by 2050 within planetary limits may be achievable

A global shift towards healthy and more plant-based diets, halving food loss and waste, and improving farming practices and technologies are required to feed 10 billion people sustainably by 2050, a new study finds.
I would have liked to see the article address this. I think it is pretty easy for an osteologist to tell if a mammal is mature based on the fusion of the long bones, but I'd be interested to hear more.
American Big Tech companies laying off highly paid specialized tech workers doesn't say much about the rest of the economy. We already knew that most of the Big Tech companies are houses of cards built around one core profitable business like Google's Ad business.

The rest of society has no problem finding jobs. The problem is that almost no jobs pay enough to buy housing in places millennials and Gen Z consider desirable.
i guess neither..

this is probably machines that handle special hardware.. like MRI, ECG, or monitor for vitals like pulse, blood pressure, blood oxygenation or other stuff like that..

Those machines need to be certified as a whole package and this include the computer that will control it.. and once you certify you cannot make changes to the package without having to certify again..

So you certify the machine with that software on it.. that specific kernel version, that specific libc version and so on.. if you change anything you need to get a new certification..

and now those machines are no longer air gapped because hospitals want to be able to remote monitor the patients vitals from a central nurse station..
Those methods didn't kill the open web because they could be bypassed, and that's precisely why WEI was proposed.
If both database have same schema and data migrating reporting tools to new tool should not be a big challenge.

Also, I would put other DB in keep the lights on (KTLO) and not provide any support or patches. You need to make your problem thier problem.
Exactly. Wish more sites and other bits of software followed this website's philosophy. Once you have that which is sufficient, anything more is waste.
Ask HN: What is your side/indie project that makes more than $1/month?
Also, it better only happen once.

Some games completely throw away their shader cache every time there is an update. Some don't save the cache at all!
Eh I have the means to move.

During Covid I had neighbors who refused to wear masks and spewed nonsense. One of them now can’t go outside because their lungs got rekt, another had to take a LOA for a few months to recover. I wore a mask and never got Covid.
Ask HN: What's the best iOS offline/non-streaming music player?
Does that mean CS6 on Wine will then work as if it was a hiDPI application? That would be amazing.

I should also mention CS6 runs fast as hell on Wine. It was so good that when I tried using Linux as my daily driver (before I gave up) I would change my display resolution to use it instead of CC2018.