skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neoliberalism: Free trade and globalization is good, state ownership and state economic investment bad.

Germany was certainly less damaged by neoliberalism (which is an ideology, actual practice might be different) than the US and UK, who were the major proponents of neoliberalism. I think the reason was that Germany has tripartism, which makes union-industry negotiations less antagonistic.

But, the Eurozone was built according to neoliberal principles (and associated austerity policies), and the results were catastrophic for the EU. That's why we (I am Czech) need to snap out of it.

Ha-Joon Chang and George Stiglitz describe the problems of neoliberalism as a strategy of economic development in their books.
They profited offshoring now they will charge you to bring it back so they can profit some more. The wheel will continue to spin and nothing will come from it. Just enjoy the ride.
I like the idea of Gemini, but having just a subset of the web's functionality is not enough.

While it might not be a perfect analogy, many prefer using the terminal/shell/TUIs is because it is more powerful and efficient than the alternatives.

And even though I appreciate Gemini, I wouldn't say that it is more powerful and efficient. Granted, that's not its goal either.
There is a detailed PDF manual that explains every feature concisely, you just can't google for the answers.
> WhatsApp end-to-end encryption or even better

so they claim… not that fb has ever given us a reason to trust them.
"If this was a human doing this to you every time you went to accomplish a task, at what point would you consider it assault past harassment?"

Google needs to really think like this. It really feels like assault at this point to be constantly pushed and forced to "log in with Google" when I don't want to.
"lazily toss a package on the porch and walk away"

I tried to help an Amazon driver by taking the package from him at the edge of my driveway. He stopped me, told me he had to take a photo of it sitting on my property first. He was very serious about this. I doubt this behavior is from these contracted drivers unless the photo requirement is new and your experience is not.
Where did the apparent baseline hypothesis that breakfast skipping was bad originate from? They even use it as a keyword.

Why is breakfast so holy?
So if we criticize China we should do nothing? It’s not clear how you can be sympathetic that something should be done and against the obvious thing that should be done.
Nice, I like an electric piano sound from my computer, luckily there are a lot of good options in that regard. But I’ll try that out.
The saddest part for me is that the RoP could have done something very similar to what they did, while still staying true to the canon 2nd Age, and arguably telling a much better story. Instead we got sometinf that felt more like ham-handed generic 80s fantasy, coaplaying as Middle-earth.

From the moment it opened with elf-children acting like orcs, it was clear not only that she showrunners had missed the mark, but they lacked enough of Socrates "beginning of wisdom" that they couldn't even understand how they were missing it
You are addressing a very real painpoint for Splitwise users!
I think the issue is, it wasn’t designed for mobile devices. The images are so tiny on my phone that I didn’t even see a colored border around them until someone mentioned them and I went back and looked again. I could just barely make out the border if I squinted.
> I really don't get all these people who insist on usingrebase instead of merge.

I prefer not to squash before committing. I like having smaller commits in my history.

And if you don't squash, then using merge to fix conflicts with main/master before merging looks a lot more confusing.

> Who wants to spend time resolving meaningless conflicts?! Every time I try it, I instantly regret it.

Typically it doesn't take a lot of time unless you do something weird. Although to be fair to you, it does take more time than using merge.
Do you have plan for offering regional pricing? After finding the pricing deep inside the knowledge base, I'm shocked at the monthly price which costs 20% of the minimum monthly pay in my area.
Nail polish works great.
>Reminds me of fast food employee who simply hands your meal out the window, no greeting, no thank you, no smile...

They aren't even putting on a little dance for each customer, to celebrate the wonderful minimum-wage soul-crushing git they got!
I have the Sony, but the previous gen. Also had the Bose 25 and 35.

I prefer the Sony personally I feel like their ANC is a bit better.
I think Hurd is fixable from a functionality standpoint, but I think it is a dead end from a sociocultural standpoint. It’s old, boring, and has never worked well in its entire history, why would anybody think they could be the one that makes the difference? Nobody cares about it anymore, it’s the kernel that almost tanked the GNU ecosystem before it was saved by Linux.

Out of all of the microkernels out there, the one I like the most is SEL4, but the security model is so different from most OS kernels that you essentially have to program for it from the ground up. And it seems like there isn’t any momentum there either. QNX is already very mature and performant though, and it has gotten a huge boost from IoT and electric car development, and IMO all it needs is an open source license and it will eventually creep its way into general purpose OS usage.
> Honest and direct question: how much drug trafficking adds to the GDP of a country

$0. The underground economy isn't included in GDP calculations. This was a major reason why China and India both tried to force cashless transactions so as to tamp down on the more egregious forms of tax evasion.
We all will finally get to :wq life and I'm glad he left such a lasting legacy before he did.
Are you arguing for the sake of it? I am so confused. What does CIS controls have to do with it(and I feel for you with all that box checking).

> As part of C2 communication, attackers have tried to mimic SolarWinds communication method by using JSON format for the HTTP communication. Following is the code for creating JSON format

The threat actors used their own C2 infra, they merely mimicked solarwinds' traffic!

> and if you tell me that this would have gotten by a regular pull request review on any project that uses a protected main branch, I am laughing

Why would I tell you that, what does this have to do with cloud vs self hosting. Is that a random comment?

> Log4Shell would most likely not have been possible if the project receives actual funding...

I agree but again I ask, why are you talking about the root cause for it? How does that help your self-hosting argument?

> no but when my government pais for its development, they should use open source projects

Who cares? Hoe is being opensource relevant?

> So yeah my original point still stands. If they would have used an open solution to this, which does not require a centralised control server itself, this would not have happened

Ok, I think I see the problem, in your opinion, anything not opensource is cloud???

Just for context, I use/support opensource in a corporate environment, it is hell. Begging opensource devs when your livelihood depends on their cooperation is very unpleasant. Commercial orgs demand reliability, hiring skilled people to support opensource (especially given crappy gov salaries) isn't viable and opensource devs nearly always refuse to provide paid support and SLA.
I would like to see you backup your argument by comparing the number of abandoned opensource projects vs companies abandoning their products. I am currently spending time I don't have supporting opensource sofware abandoned by its creators. Nothing says you don't know the state of foss security more than claiming it is more secure simply by being opensource.

> This would have been found by any tool using static code analysis for security simply because its encoded. At least flagged.

Maybe, that's a big maybe, I see encoded content in .net code all the time. And someone needs to actually review what is flagged. Simply reviewing commits would have caught it too. But what's your point? This thread is not RCA analysis. You are distracting with that to avoid the fact that it was self hosted!

> self hosted does not mean you install it. otherwise slack is self hosted. or that facebook is self hosted just because i install the app on my phone

It means you manage and operate infra it is hosted on. You don't run slack infra but you run solarwinds infra.

> There was no reason for the firewall to even allow this in the first place unless they were using a service outside of their control.

You realize you contradicted your own claims there right? The fact that the self-hosted firewall on random companies needed to block the traffic is why it is called self-hosted, exactly as your wikipedia quote is telling you.

I fear you have picked this hill to die on though.
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice they are (usually) not.

And there are lots of theories, often incompatible.

It’s nice when one of them actually pans out and has positive benefits, as it helps show a potentially useful direction to continue in.
Yep and it's infuriating.
What comes after Zoom? (2020)
That's not what assets and liabilities are ...

Your bag of trash would still be listed on the Assets side but expenses on trash removal would be on the liabilities side.
> People with a very high BMI are all obese or morbidly obese.

That is tautological - obesity is defined in terms of BMI. BMI over 30 is obese.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is 6'2" and weighed 235lbs at contest (30.2 BMI) and 260lbs in the off season (33.4 BMI). So much for your "all" claim.
I think that's too simplistic. First, you can have more than one vector. More than one model even. The limitations here are cost, performance, memory and bandwidth. Second, search is of course subjective to some extent but that doesn't mean there's no right and wrong at all. A lot of that stuff boils down to context and having enough data in your context to come up with a good query.

And of course getting systematic about evaluating your search ranking performance. A lot of companies don't do that at all. A product manager checking things manually isn't quite good enough here. If you are just winging it like that, vector search isn't magically going to make it better.

And of course a text field is not a great source of any amount of meaning unless the user types a lot. Especially on mobile phones where typing is both tedious and error prone this is actually a huge problem. And the solution isn't better keyboards or training users to type better/more. If your users have to type a full sentence on a mobile phone before you return results, you've already failed them hard.

But what can you show them after they've typed merely two letters? Mostly vector search is more effective in recommendations or more like this style querying. Textual searches tend to be all over the place. The shorter the queries, the less useful vector search becomes. What's the meaning of "ba"? There isn't any other than that it's the beginning of something that may or may not start with those letters or have some of those letters in them and maybe even in that order.

The classic view of search is a text field and a list of a results is not the best mental model for this. Mostly Social Networks, Google (and others) try to pre-empt you having to search for anything by just magically showing you what you didn't know you were looking for. And when you search for stuff, they show you that other stuff anyway. Using Tik Tok is basically using search without using a text field. It just feeds on your behavior. Your behavior is all it needs to know as a context. It's not wrong as long as you keep on looking at stuff. The more you use it, the smarter it gets.
Yup. And this has always been a problem in software. Too many people treat a team sport as a bunch of individuals running around on the field doing their own thing. But I think it's going to get worse because of the way LLMs differentially amplify the least competent.
Just another day UPS was supposed to deliver an item with signature. I needed the item. I was waiting for driver, but even if I wasn't, my whole family was at home. Looked outside, bam! UPS label "sorry we missed you" on the door.
>Gosh, whenever you find the world you want to live in, please let me know because I don't want to live there.

Yes. Yay for hypocrisy and forced smiles for the customer-king.
Given the issues tsmc had already had with Arizona, I personally doubt much will come of this. But who knows?
I literally meant fundamentalists. God is a Christian nation. Gays are the devil. Jews are evil. The sanctity of life. Leading to abortion bans, book bans, education and laws modeled on religious laws. That’s the core of the american right. And it’s being exploited by capitalists.

That said capitalism is a near religion in the US and “runs things” for both the left and right in the government.

As for your comment—I think you’re conflating tribalism especially as enabled on social media with actual religion.
Surprisingly few people engage with the main points of the article. It is pointed out how much money are spent, but the article is about how profitable those fabs will be. The author is conservative in judgments, but they ask a few questions worth considering, mainly: are the fabs big and efficient enough to offset the slower build, which is also more expensive, for lower volumes of production.
Just got our August one in the mail yesterday. The kids love it! Highly recommended.
While I'd prefer something completely community-driven and open source, the fact that this app is on the OSM wiki suggests the project is generally OK with it.

I was just wishing for a Waze alternative last night, and here it is. It's proprietary and commercial, but it's not from FAANG or a company subject to the Chinese or Russian governments. I'll take that as an improvement.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Magic_Earth
Why? It's less readable. I like how JetBrains in recent releases renders ">=" as a single glyph. I mean maybe for typing, I see that as a benefit, but I'd hope my IDE would replace them with the proper Unicode character.
I'm not a legal scholar and this isn't my area of expertise, but the final note has links out to a TechCrunch article about LinkedIn vs hiQ Labs Inc, which alludes to web scraping being legal, but the case wasn't decided for a few more months, and the court sided with Linkedin. What's the final verdict on web scraping vs creating fake accounts to get user information (which the case focused on)
What I said is that if we don't annihilate companies that are consistently doing unethical things (hiding studies about the effect of socials on teens, stealing data, selling data, etc. Can we agree these are unethical? Or we need a committee to decide? Is there anything that is definitely unethical, or Meta is getting fined because judges are drunk?)

So yeah let's say judges are not day drinkers and they are continuously fining meta for reasons, is it being once per month fined? Is it consistently unethical?

So it keeps a power spot, it retains users thanks to dark patterns, and unethical algorithms, it holds a dominant position, what I think is that a better company CAN or CANNOT exist, but if Meta is allowed to keep being unethical and holding a dominant position then we would never know

What I say is that we should not annihilate companies who make mistakes.

We should annihilate companies that are consistently unethical (Or day drinking judges, I guess at this point)

And without any cult of holding morality, I don't hold it, I don't want , I don't want to be a dictator, but there are laws, and according to courts Meta is breaking those laws over and over, I am not a messiah, but at a certain point we have to trust the entities whose jobs is to know the law when they say Meta is doing unethical stuff and so are fining it
Rawstory aint a source, bub.

It is humorous my post is now flagged. Makes my point in my opening post abundantly clear.
They've also announced solar shingles and a self-driving vehicle. Tesla's "plans" are worth less than the electrons storing them.
I found a lot to think about in Ostadan's take on RoP:
https://www.theonering.net/torwp/2022/09/26/115304-from-the-...
The subtitle of the article says:

> The series has allegedly threatened to block sightlines to the track for businesses that don’t pay a hefty licensing fee".

It elaborates in the article:

> Fail to pay up, and the series will obstruct sightlines to the circuit, by way of barricades, stands, or other means.

It also says:

> Sources [...] indicated that lights could be shined towards businesses that don't pay up, in order to dazzle anyone trying to sneak a peek for free.

Aside from the shining lights toward the business, it is all perfectly legal. And it is perfectly legal for the businesses to not pay and see if it is worth it to the race organizers to actually build barricades or stands in places to block the businesses.

The light thing might not be legal, but might be the kind of thing where there isn't much penalty. Often the penalty for building something that disturbs another property is that you have to stop doing that and enforcement might be slow enough that by the time the race is ordered to take down the lights the race will be over.
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Huge thread last week with lots of tributes and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37011324
how terrible. I wonder what this means for the future of vim, especially in light of the popularity of neovim.
America's basic socioeconomic structual model is highly flawed and any company wanting to do manufacturing here will see obvious disadvantages compared to Europe or Asia.

1) Employers are responsible for employee health coverage, inflating employee costs by a significant degree. The rationale for this model among the investor class is that it makes employees dependent on their employer and limits the power of unions, but for example in Germany, there's free state-supplied health care (paid for by higher taxes on individual and corporate profits).

2) Four decades of neoliberal trade policy and corporate profit maximization have created a situation of fragile global supply chain dependence and a lack of skilled experienced labor in many manufacturing sectors. High-skill manufacturing jobs have been replaced with low-skill service jobs and the brain drain into the financial sector has left the industrial sector in second place.

3) Construction and operation of new manufacturing facilities relies on a robust domestic infrastructure system, but American infrastructure (railroads, electricity grids, ports, etc.) is woefully decrepit in many areas and lags behind China and Europe. Again the reason is nobody wants to pay for it, and the issue is not 'overregulation' it's that it would require higher taxes and corrupt government contractors divert government funds into their own pockets instead of into the projects, resulting in constant cost overruns and low-quality outputs (reminscent with what went on with Iraq and Afghanistan reconstruction contracts).

It turns out worshipping at the feet of Milton Friedman & Co. wasn't such a good idea after all.
Will you explain what “emulate every move they’ve made ten/twenty years later” means? I don’t understand this comment.
Amazon didn't name their e-reader "Kindle" randomly.
I've been doing some pretty dumb tricks for reducing token usage and piping to LLMs which have worked really well.

I have a strip-tags CLI tool which I can pipe HTML through on its way to an LLM, described here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/18/cli-tools-for-llms/

I also do things like this:

shot-scraper javascript news.ycombinator.com 'document.body.innerText' -r \
| llm -s 'General themes, illustrated by emoji'

Output here: https://gist.github.com/simonw/3fbfa44f83e12f9451b58b5954514...

That's using https://shot-scraper.datasette.io/ to get just the document.body.innerText as a raw string, then piping that to gpt-3.5-turbo with a system prompt.

In terms of retaining context, I added a feature to my strip-tags tool where you can ask it to NOT strip specific tags - e.g.:

curl -s https://www.theguardian.com/us | \
strip-tags -m -t h1 -t h2 -t h3

That strips all HTML tags except for h1, h2 and h3 - output here: https://gist.github.com/simonw/fefb92c6aba79f247dd4f8d5ecd88...

Full documentation here: https://github.com/simonw/strip-tags/blob/main/README.md
There are a lot of casinos. You could have a shuttle that serves some subset of hotels. Maybe that even exists today. (There are actually a couple of limited trains today along the Strip.) But people by and large don't love that sort of thing because shuttle buses with a dozen or so stops can take a long time. Rail wouldn't be a lot faster.
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Would add that to my resume, "Authored textbook available in these languages..."
A message you can only replace if you have more followers than the previous user
Why do HN commentators assume Mexico is a 3rd world shithole?

It's kind of surprising how a country that China has only just caught up to in GDP per Capita [3] and HDI [4] is assumed to be a shitshow of an economy.

Hell, the household income in China [0] (~$4,000) is still 30-50% of Mexico's [1] (~$12,000)

Mexico has it's problems, but most of that stems from the Peso Crisis in the 1990s, which was similar to the recession China is faced during COVID.

[0] - http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/PressRelease/202201/t2022011...

[1] - https://www.economia.gob.mx/datamexico/es/profile/geo/mexico

[2] - https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD

[3] - https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/country-insights#/ranks