skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should people in the West start calling things their names? Public sector corruption, not unlike at all what once plagued Eastern European countries. I see the problem as very similar in nature, despite dramatically different origins.

The difference I see though, is that much of Eastern Europe hardcore criminalized things which would not amount to a crime at all in Western legal systems, and not pass the extreme standards of proof.

1. Look for nepotism in appointments

2. Illogical high profile job competitions

3. Oversized, omnibus projects

4. Strange demands in procurement tenders, or one intentionally made noncompetitive

5. Income beyond known means of supervising officials

6. Strange project structuring, and legal acrobatics

7. Illogical financing arrangements

8. Long periods of doing nothing to extract more fees

9. Unreasonable fees of intermediaries and third parties
Countries in the [global] south don’t want to be told who to support, how to behave and how to conduct their sovereign affairs.

Other integration frameworks that exist globally have been blinded by the hegemonic vision put forward by the US government.

I don't think the above quoted reasoning applies only to countries that want to join the BRICS group but even US "allies" could feel the same way. For example, it's pretty clear the US seems to have control over NATO.[1] A number of recent events show that the US does not respect its allies in Europe and has hegemonic control over them. Another example is the privacy destruction and espionage slipped into Child Safety Bills that 'coincidentally' are proposed at the same time in the US, EU, and UK.[2][3][4]

[1]: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/joe-biden-blocked-ben-...

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/08/eu-lawyers-pla...

[3]: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/140...

[4]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/08/whatsapp-...
Have to disagree on that for non-english books. libgen / z-lib aren't always amazing for those, in my experience. The local library is the other way around, almost no english content, but plenty in my native tongue.

The library also has the current (clickbait-free) print versions of newspapers as e-papers, which the shadow libraries (at least those that I know) have not.

They synergize very well, though. :)
Enjoy:
https://archive.ph/GjqCK
In the US- yes, it's so annoying, like half of the drivers never switch to low beams. Or maybe nobody checks the alignment of headlights, idk...
Argon is a toolset for direct democracy on Solana
What do you usually automate? I had some before when I was working with a friend, but now I struggle to find stuff for myself.
Testimonials are as useful as Amazon five-star reviews, and the actual data on educational interventions/approaches takes decades to come back.
Doesn't everyone enjoy watching a daft alt-right white nationalist being punched in the face?
If I understand “total cookie protection” in Firefox correctly, this shouldn’t even be possible. When the website makes a request to Google, the user’s Google cookie is not included in the request, so Google does not know which user it is. All that Google can do is try to determine the user’s approximate location from their IP address.

edit: I asked Bard about this, and it told me that websites can get the approx. location of their visitors via the Google Geolocation API:

> To use the Google Geolocation API, a website must first obtain a Google Maps API key. Once they have a key, they can add the following code to their website:

<script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=YOUR_API_KEY"></script>
<script>
function getGeolocation() {
var location = navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition();
if (location) {
var lat = location.latitude;
var lng = location.longitude;
// Do something with the location information.
}
}
</script>
TypeScript 5.3 First Look
There are a number of RTOS’s out there now, both proprietary (e.g. VxWorks) and OSS (Zephyr) that support A-series chips with an MMU, and can operate with a single (kernel) context. They still provide bounded latencies compared to full-fat OS’s, but don’t have as much determinism as microcontrollers without page tables and caches. The cores themselves (maybe not the A35?) don’t generally work without the MMU enabled, because most ARM cores also disable the cache if the MMU is off.
And cards and QR codes require too much infrastructure out of your control. Once someone flips the switch, everyone's basicaly cashless.
A group of hypocrites I say! Their main goal is not aligning with major world powers but China and Russia are leading them. It's an anti-western thing.

History will look back at this era as the end of aid based diplomacy. The US should seriously reconsider all foreign aid programs to countries with regimes hostile to the US like this.

This group would not have existed if the US led west did not insist on its ways and democracy and "human rights" (quotes because of the hypocrisy and western lens applied to the definition of what a human right is) being a preconditon of doing business or friendly diplomatic relations. So in a way I can't blame them for ganging up like this but the nice guy approach of the west has clearly failed.

This is the ultimate flaw of the liberal world order, it's imposition of superior ways over supposed inferior colonies. Make no mistake, there is no such thing as neutrality, India is right to be concerned because the economic leverage they sought out from this bloc is turning out to be a politicial alliance. Brazil and SA should be very concerned as well. So long as China is in the mix, this will end up badly for the whole world.
It's linked to in the message, I don't know the context but my best guess is the image that was added is of a known celebrity or an underage person, but the context isn't clear from the thread to me, it could also just be that the person is topless (though nothing is visible) and the author has been proactive about making the program default to no nudity.

I'm also not sure the images there are the ones that the original author is upset about since it looks like a branch where images were hosted was deleted.
Testimonials are always positive.
How do you render the todo list? Does todoist provide an API?

(I am trying to sell an epaper smart screen as a commercial product. Right now it only has a calendar app and I am looking for apps that I can add.)
That's funny considering one of the comments in the README:

> TODO: Write more idiomatic Lisp

Perhaps it's readable because it's not idiomatic :D
This isn't how it works. The Google Maps API doesn't know where users are.

Instead, it's probably being used for an autocomplete widget to help users type in an address.
If building a new global payments network from scratch was that easy, why would Apple buy an obscure, tiny player rather than just building their own network from scratch?

The value of an incumbent payment network isn't the technology or the revenue it generates; it's the network itself (in this case, in the form of merchant acceptance).
No, just as a consumer, but developers are building products for sale, which means they need to target something near the lowest common denominator, which should lead them to a similar conclusion.
I had a problem where I wanted to rotate a high dimensional vector. This was ages ago, so I don't remember the exact terminology. What I ended up doing is writing out the geometric algebra equations by hand (with only the first order bivectors IIRC) and coding that up.

Having an option in the library to not have all the higher order bivectors if I don't need higher order operations would be nice.
It was literally the bust of a woman, no real nudity. Imagine an inch above cleavage upwards, I suspect the original guy who seemingly tries to please everyone if you check their replies on feedback [1] just wanted an excuse over time to discontinue for a while for numerous reasons (career, ethics & he was the face of it, 20k stars) [2]. (I also wouldn't necessarily want to be associated with something like this similar to the insightface guy due to the potential for abuse and it has probably grown a lot more than he expected [3]) and 90% of the new features were added by henry. The first version of roop was barely a derivation from the example code in insightface [4], it just added a gui.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36117013, https://twitter.com/s0md3v/status/1663604795524149248

[2] - https://twitter.com/emilyx64/status/1663603738395951106

[3] - https://github.com/deepinsight/insightface/issues/2315#issue...

[4] - https://github.com/deepinsight/insightface/blob/master/examp...
Who is flagging this?
That picture of workers lined up, boxes in hand, waiting to load the truck surely makes the case for efficiency.
One good thing about the rigid institutional environment, for better or worse, is that having exposure to that rigidity and institutional side of things can at least give kids some skills in the long run for navigating the anti-human organizations that form so much of our public and private sectors.
I'm just happy KDE is changing old behaviors that are counterintuitive in the modern age.

Now as for the macOS cmd-tab behavior...
Well the theory of ending low wage immigration was never tested. As the Economist article notes, low wage immigration is up.
Read the conclusion at the end of the paper, it’s a single paragraph.
European unions and American unions are very different. American unions tend to be far more adversarial and treat their relationship with firms as a zero-sum game.

But Europe also has a lot of problems that the US doesn't it's unemployment rate is nearly double that of the US, and its GDP per capital is about 70% of that of the US. I won't say that's all due to the higher union participation, but you can be sure that when firms discuss international expansion plans, the prevalence of unions in Europe gets brought up.
Why I Wrote PGP by Phil Zimmerman 1991 (updated 1999)
NSA/CSS POLICY 12-3 ANNEX C [pdf]
The profit model for credit cards is still the same though; if no one was over-extended, there would be no surplus on which to provide perks to those who aren't. This is just point of sale companies getting in on the game and decreasing the friction of buying things.
> Still I would recommended to anyone looking for a cheap and open source alternative for Zapier.

It’s not open source, it’s source available with commercial restrictions.
"Most of you all", addressing the HN audience, not the author.
Blackmirror episode: everyone has a brain implant which among other things makes anyone you look at, including yourself look ridiculously attractive, unless by law the implant is removed when you are convicted of a felony. The protagonist gets convicted only to find out he/she is really fat and ugly, only to find true beauty in another far and ugly person.
While I understand the general concern of keeping Android app on latest SDK to keep it secure and periodically check, if it still works on recent Android version, I really hate when new policies are introduced. Had to resort to using ChatGPT to generate long privacy policy written in "legalese" to pass. My app updates were blocked until then. Not to mention the fact that my app works fully offline and does not collect any user data. Now users will have a long privacy policy to read that says nothing, at least policy bots are happy. Another concern is possible upcoming requirement to display developers phone number. If that ever happens, that day I'm removing my app from Play Store.
This is a bad faith argument. Please review the hacker news discussion guide lines.
> It's how tons of Russians made a lot of money

Selling public/state assets and infrastructure on the cheap, far below objective market value, in the hands of well connected "private investors", is how many wealthy people got even richer in the west as well, it's not something Russian oligarchs invented.

Ask the Brits how the privatization of their national railways went, or the Germans how much better their telecom infrastructure is after privatization, or you probably know other examples closer to your home wherever you live.
I just don’t have the volume right now to get good prices from manufacturers on any bigger displays.

I’m looking into 10 inch displays right now, but they are already significantly more expensive.

At some point it just drives the price of the end product up too much.
That ship has sailed. Location data is vital to a lot of internet services now. GeoIP fencing is one thing but location fencing is a tech that is being used by every major government (despite them outcrying privacy concerns).

I wish it wasn’t like this but until the open web becomes the “transparent” web, the snooping, spying, logging, graph-identity-building, MarTech driven, web will continue to go towards walled gardens and deanonymizing the internet.
Isn't this an unavoidable curse of all maturing democratic/capitalistic countries and economies? As the society matures, and people's incomes and standard of living rises, and the apparatus for doing such projects grows, it gets more costly to build the infrastructure that powered the very same improvements to get there?

Factors:

People's labor is no longer so cheap to build stuff, they have more qualifications and alternatives to their labor and they want to be paid more.

Government contracting becomes influenced by political / additional considerations.

The projects get more and more complex and are no longer decided by just a few responsible people but dispersed among multiple agencies each with requirements.

Regulations and standards increase.

There are more people to insert their hands into the revenue streams and extract some value.

Property now is worth something and has to be bought off.

It goes on and on. I don't know if there are any good examples of where an advanced economy was able to avoid this increasing cost of basic infrastructure building, although of course, some countries manage to do it without the same levels of cost as the USA for example.
Hi demetrius, interesting to know that Gene Bunin used to be on tatoeba.org, small world :)

Flagging here works by people clicking on the "flag" button until an unknown threshold is reached and the post is marked as [flagged] and is hidden from everyone who doesn't have "showdead" enabled in their profile. People who disagree can click "vouch" to undo the flagging.

So in general it is not really possible to give a single reason why something was flagged, but in this case I suspect that people thought this post would result in a flamewar instead of an intelligent discussion and flagged it preemptively.
Cool! What are you displaying on it? I am always adding for new use cases to add as apps to my device.
I just don't understand how a country can rely on, or why it should rely on, a steady influx of some cheap-labor underclass. It just doesn't seem sustainable. Just seems like a huge red flag, that you can't function without some exploited underclass. It creates a lot of misaligned incentives. What happens when the underclasses of the world stop being underclasses? What will you do then?

Maybe the elephant in the room is that we can't function or have our modern comforts without an exploited underclass. We have slaves to this day, as the Romans did, they just go by another name.
That's a tiny screen
I was making a humorous reference to startup life. You don't normally say that in English, I was playing with the language. My son is actually awesome, and yes, he is an "addition" (sum of one total). =)

Thank you for learning English! As a speaker of (to some extent) 3 other languages, I for one appreciate anyone who has struggled to learn English as an (N+1)th language.
Required approvals aren't the same thing either. With required approvals someone else can come along and approve a PR that I have previously asked for changes on. Yes, that does indicate something went wrong in the human process, but that's what tooling is for: moving things out of the human process and into a space where you can't break the rules if you tried.

> of course, GitLab sales recognized that's what enterprise managers also highly value, so it's bucketed as a pay-to-play Premium/Ultimate feature.

And this is my number one complaint with GitLab. There's no way to pay $4/mo for the basics. If you want required approvals you have to pay for their whole CI system even if your org is already using Jenkins, and for their issue tracker even if you're using Jira. They're all or nothing, and most organizations don't want all.

This is why I say that the only people they're trying to appeal to are enterprise purchasers who like the idea of paying for an all-in-one "solution", not frontline developers who recognize that bundling isn't always better and just want to have a decent system for managing their code reviews. GitLab isn't that: not only is their code review system still missing features that people rely on in GitHub, the ones it does have are gated behind a subscription whose cheapest pricing manages to be more expensive than GitHub's most expensive tier.
Debian and Fedora have likewise both been pushing reproducible builds.
"fewer than one in seven arrivals last year were skilled workers (officially defined as those paid over £26,200"

For full time 37.5 hours a week 52 weeks a year that's only 28% above minimum wage.

Median weekly wages in the UK are £663, or £34,500 a year. It's depressing that "skilled labour" isn't even the median wage. Throw in the likelihood that most arrivals will be in cities which tend to have higher media

Of course the problem in the UK is that all productive gains go to land owners, so what's the point.
> And we need to de-personal-vehicle-ize. It's already killing us.

That's never going to happen. We've had personal transport ever since we tamed horses. And we can't really go back to horses.

We just need to prioritise small personal vehicles powered by pedals and/or batteries, particularly in urban environments. We need to make more roads safer for them, and solve the storage/theft problems.
I'm highly involved in the UK startup sector, especially for open source software that can help the UK NHS, patients, and caregivers. In the UK, caregivers earn about £9 per hour, and to the best of my knowledge caregivers are the #1 shortage of low-wage sector jobs.

UK NHS healthcare workers who have come from the EU and APAC are telling me in person that they intend to stop coming to the UK because of 1) poor NHS resources such as funding and hiring, 2) new UK Home Office visa difficulties having friends and relatives visit, 3) new UK problems for in-home caregivers, especially involving transport e.g. how to take the patient to a doctor, pharmacy, or hospital.

These are serious life-threatening problems. The #1 action item in my opinion is for the UK Home Office to offer fast-track visas for caregivers and medical helpers.
Third option (not mutually exclusive of the other two) is that they want to avoid any possibility of a narrative of having profited off of a war, especially one they object to.
Nerdfonts Source for Nvim Cmp
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Does it have HDMI support? I have a spare small 1080P monitor and was thinking about creating a dashboard. Or weather station, or photo frame...

A Raspberry Pi would be overkill, and their availability is still iffy.
I'm using "infrastructure" in the same sense that the author described:

> ... as infrastructure -- triage and fix bugs from the backlog, optimize performance, increase security and reliability, pay down tech debt, simplify and automate ongoing maintenance

And CI pipelines don't need to be particularly expensive, and they're pretty critical really if you're building "infrastructure" in that sense. Otherwise you're just shipping code off to your customers to be the CI pipeline.
It’s up because it didn’t work. The investment never happened so the harvest rotted in the fields and Christmas dinner was going to be cancelled so the government quietly reversed course.

It was utterly clueless to expect such big changes to happen overnight.
>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

I'd say that such a database puts this submission under the "unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon" exception. While Xinjang isn't completely new, a database of evidence is much more interesting than the average Xinjang article.
Technology was more interesting about 20 years ago. All different phone models, with constant feature improvements, different form factors, so many different things to choose from. Now we have a boring black rectangle running one of two mobile operating systems, not much to care about here.
This is an straightforward alternative to Make.com or Zapier vs Hugginn has AI agent stuff
Right, you can run it yourself or pay n8n to run it. For purists the language matters, realistically for users it does not. You’re not locked into the SaaS platform is the point.
Their model takes your query, then issues a web search, evals the result, considers follow up questions and compiles a prompt with the right context that is sent to GPT-4, you are then seeing the output of that.
Ehhhhhhhh. Are you talking full build or incremental? How long did it take?

Clean and rebuild of Unreal Engine on my 32-core Threadripper takes about 15 minutes. And incremental change to a CPP takes… varies but probably on the order of 30 seconds. Their live coding feature is super slick.

I just cloned, downloaded dependencies, and fully built Symbolicator in 3 minutes 15 seconds. A quick incremental change and build tool 45 seconds.

My impression is the Rust time was all spent linking. Some big company desperately needs to spend the time to port Mold linker to Windows. Supposedly Microsoft is working on a faster linker. But I think it’d be better to just port Mold.
> but simply a rich island off the coast of a very powerful trading bloc,

Not for long

https://news.sky.com/story/britains-economic-trajectory-will...
I do believe the first word in my previous comment was "sorry" for the mistake, and unfortunately I can't edit that comment anymore to correct the mistake.

Also, I have no reason to apologies to the commenter as he did not provide any evidence to support his claims that "e-ink is evil" in order for his integrity to be affected, to warrant an apology for my counter-arguments, nor do I think the original commenter is petty enough to be offended by my honest mistake, which I rectified later.
>In another they think that a new city built by some of our own members will devolve into a dystopia and give it no praise.

Because, as members of this community, we're typically up to speed with the history, thought processes, beliefs, actions, etc. of the people involved in these purchases, and it sounds like, based on that understanding, many people in here don't trust the goals, vision, and/or intentions of the people behind this. Just because one might think that "SF in particular [is] crumbling due to government mismanagement" doesn't mean they should blindly go, "Oh yay, an alternative!".

Edit: I'd love to entertain ideas around how we can get cities to function differently but, I'm sorry, I don't want to hear what Marc Andreesen has to say on the subject.
Not really relevant to my argument, but sure. I never asked to have it both ways - I don’t like the technology, but they are allowed to be operating. Civil disobedience is also an American tradition, so I don’t oppose it, nor would I oppose the police for enforcing the law.
What does your proposed CMS do that can't be done as a plugin for some existing CMS?
I have started working on more calendar integrations now.

If you write me a short mail at info@invisible-computers.com and tell me what integration you need, I will make sure to let you know once it is out.

In the meantime, there are often ways to sync other calendars (also iCalendar) with google calendar. It’s a bit of a detour but it might just work.