skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haiti has an extremely long history, continuing to this very day, of being completely and totally railed by the 'First World'. This is a very long, comedic, and yes fairly politically biased, overview of that history (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saljZXoexhc)

TLDR; Haiti is a victim of the first world's evil.

TLDRBIWRS(but i will read some);

the second that Haiti won their independence and grew a black democracy (the first nation to ban slavery), the empires of the world turned them into a pariah and destroyed them systematically through means such as being literally held at gunpoint by Charles X to join a massive and incredibly predatory loan. One that took 130 years to pay off(1825-1947!!!). They were economically isolated by the Thomas Jefferson immediately. The US financial vice in 1910, in response to German investment, provoked a dictatorship in Haiti, then the US occupied. Eventually FDR pulled out, but the financial vice stayed in place until 1947, post revolution. That chaos churned for 20 years, and JFK pulled all aid in 1961. Haiti was forced into another ridiculous 100 year contract, this time by U.S. Dupont.

The CIA dug deep and control the haitain intelligence agency in the 1980s. drugs, guns, assassinations, normal CIA stuff for the 80s. The first true positive action from outside the country took place in 1994, when Clinton and Carter brought an exiled leader back and lead to a proper democracy. But, the second they asked for reasonable concessions from the US in 2000(which failed due to the US rotten congress and its self preservation), the EU and US cut aid significantly. Again.

Chaos leads to a 2004 coup, one where the US meddled and has still not provided counter evidence to circumstances that appear to show the US forcing out Aristide, the leader Carter and Clinton had brought back. Devastating earthquake and rebuild/restructure towards tourism through the 2010s. 2017, a new leader 'elected' with a heavy hand from the US who oversaw this election. This leader attempts a coup, and is assassinated in 2021. Another devastating earthquake. Gang violence in 2022.
There are endless ways to pass information. Notice the sibling comment about "active ethics." It's the game sort of saying "there's really no fool-proof way to keep you from cheating, so please just be a good person. Even to the point that if you're put into a situation where you could accidentally cheat, you should intentionally play non-optimally."
Why not design things to eliminate chores altogether?
You could also install Koreader on your Kobos and connect to your Calibre server via ODPS
But if the penalty for malfeasance is 75% of the profits gained thereby, malfeasance is still profitable. Even if the fine were 100% of the profits, it'd still remain a profitable strategy unless the odds of being caught were 100%.
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Jello Biafra says it's a [Life Sentence](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni4d7TD-hNo)
Question is who should provide data? That depends on your assumption about defaults. For most of the leadership, they have thrived and raised in an office environment. So mandating RTO is return to normalcy from their POV. If you think remote is awesome, it is on you to provide data that remote works.
I love this. I wish it supported something self-hosted like Jaeger though.
>Sounds like a cool way to wash $123M of theft. I wish I could steal stuff, give back 2/3 of that, and walk away Scott free.

Settlements are often used when the case is complex and both parties aren't sure of the outcome. Rather than spend millions in legal fees fighting it out, they meet in the middle and settle for the expected value of the lawsuit. A toy example would be if the plaintiff thought the defendant owed them $100M worth of damages, but also thinks there's also a 50% chance of winning. Rather than spending millions on legal bills and possibly winning, they settle for $50M, which is better for everyone involved. Yes, it's not satisfying to think "bad guy got away with it and only paid 50%", but keep in mind that victory isn't assured, and it's very possible that the outcome if it went to trial was "bad guy got away with it and paid 0%".

The reason why this doesn't happen with thefts is that they're simple cases that don't require drawn out legal battles. A far better example that people would understand are car accidents. Someone rear-ends you and causes $10k worth of damage. The other driver therefore owes you $10k, right? But no, the other person alleges that you cut him off, and therefore you're partially at fault. Rather than battling it out in court racking up billable hours @ >$200/hr for both sides, you (or your insurance) meet in the middle and settle for $5k. Yet, nobody would characterize this as "Sounds like a cool way to wash $10k of damage. I wish I could wreck stuff, give back 1/2 of that, and walk away Scott free.".
And here we go with the autonomous killer drone swarms, what could possibly go wrong?
Nah it's a brand of synthesizer.
It seems unfair to say that public transport doesn't have a role in reducing deaths caused by drunk drivers just because the hugely flawed and half-assed public transport systems in our cities (which were designed to make public transport ineffective) haven't yet delivered on that promise. In places where cities and public transportation systems are well designed and useful people do use them and those places see far fewer deaths from drunk drivers than the US does as a result.

You argue that it would be very expensive to fix the problems we've made for ourselves in order to get useful public transportation and that's certainly true. It's also very expensive to invent self-driving cars and part that cost has already been paid with lives lost and human suffering, but that hasn't stopped us from developing those systems. We could decide to invest instead in improving our cities and infrastructure. We just choose to let obscenely rich people kill innocent Americans while they play with their profit generating spying car tech instead.
> keeping the decryption key and the whole process secure to avoid the possibility of decrypting the contents of.ipa files to share the contents of an app (perhaps paid for) in the wrong hands

> Technically speaking, if there were no protection measures, a person could copy the app installer1 and pass it on to any other person. Result? Loss of revenue on the part of Apple and the developer who published the application since the archive copy is free.

> How can we protect the information contained within the archive? It is clear that we must somehow hide the contents of the archive; by doing so, even if they were to extract the IPA archive from the iPhone, attackers would not be able to access the contents.

I don't like how positive all of that makes DRM sound.
Thanks for the detailed explanation.

> The software and hardware stack does itself need to be secure of course

Oh this is what I'm missing. It's a huge assumption that I wish that can be true!
>Does it matter if I know exactly how everything inside in the model works, if I can get it to work exactly to my specification without it?

Maybe not every single thing, but you should know what your lines of code that implement it do. You can't debug if you don't know why you wrote what you wrote.

>This is essentially how I started programming as well way back in time. I didn't know exactly what the Perl code I copy-pasted did, but if it solved the problem, it solved the problem. It brought me and my family out of poverty, and at that point, I couldn't care less about how the magic actually was done, just that it did work.

Ok. Great that it pulled you out of poverty. That's irrelevant to your argument, but Im glad for you. I guarantee you that the code sucked regardless. You might not care that you produced software that sucked, but it still guaranteed sucked. If you copy and paste code without knowing what it does, you are a bad programmer. Someone, somewhere, is going to have to clean up your mess. And they are cursing your name right now.
Still better than paying human to do the same with even more risks involved
Here’s the most egregious example of Google blowing it I’ve seen. I’ve been deploying some infra on Google cloud - turns out Bard can’t answer a single question, and half the time gives up with the “as a language model…” escape routine.

Meanwhile GPT is writing Python scripts to call the Google Cloud APIs for me and they work on the first try.

Like your entire business is supposed to be info retrieval and knowledge management and I need to use a competitor product to make sense of yours. JFC.
You kids and your high-speed 2400 baud modems. When I was dialing up, we had 300 baud AppleCats and we liked it.
It would be nice if this was packaged into R...if only I had time. I really dislike a lot of R color palettes.
> I'd bet you a lot of money that the C-suite (S-team) has a significant investment in commercial real estate.

This doesn't make any sense.

Amazon C-suite are paid largely in amazon stock, hold a large part of their wealth in amazon stock, and have stock price incentives that change their compensation. There is no way that they personally have anywhere near as much exposure to commercial real estate such that they'd look at stats that say "productivity will go down if we force RTO" and go through with it anyway because their commercial real estate investments depend on it.
a country with a massive population of nazis voted a jew to be their president? I mean. its doesn't make sense
It's crazy how consistent the Shutterstock logo is in the outpainted examples.
This hinges on this being either a VM or some hardware you've set up yourself.
Maybe people want a more rational basis for their beliefs and many religions are completely out of touch with the needs placed on people in modern societies?

(Haven't read the article yet)
Aside, I've noticed that the current technique of rendering a fixed number of asterisks independent of the password length is quite confusing to users -- "that's wrong, it's the wrong length", resulting in attempts to type in the "correct" password and this obviating the benefit of the stored password.

Not sure how to fix that. I recall a visible hash of some form being used in the past (eg take a 2-digit hash, pair of with a smiley; I must have entered it right, it's showing me ROFL smiley), but that would aid shoulder surfed password entries, at least.
No Man’s Sky also does seamless transitions from space down to the planets’ surfaces, though I’m not aware of there being any cities on any of the planets, just ancient ruins at best. It’s an infinite universe, but a deserted one (besides various animals and whatnot), and the main questline is about finding out why.
I’m apparently one of the few that use rust and C# as my language duo of choice; our company has gone all in on both. I think the more common combos are golang/rust, js/rust, or python/rust.

But proper support for discriminated unions (and perhaps something better than the emasculated match blocks known as switch expressions) cannot come soon enough for C# to enter the big leagues.
> Tucker Carlson was called to Washington because of a possible interview with Putin.

> Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said the US National Security Agency hacked into his Signal account and read correspondence about a planned interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

> According to the presenter, he received a call and was summoned to Washington to clarify the situation. When he arrived, the question was asked if he was planning a trip to meet with Putin.

> “How did you know, I didn’t tell anyone. Not at all. Not to my brother, not to my wife, not to anyone at all. How did you know? Because the NSA hacked into your correspondence with another person with whom you discussed this,” Carlson said.

> The day before, RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan said that Tucker Carlson wants to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin.

How so? I imagine this is just a side-channel attack against Signal, i.e the phone's OS got malware and then intercepted Signal messages, not an attack on the Signal protocol itself.
Laptops and other electronics are often the same between North America and europe, just with a different plug, thus the wide tolerance. For anything with a motor or coil this probably won't work
I've heard various claims about "the device that won WWII". Was it the code-breaking machines? Was it radar? Was it the T-34?

After all, the Soviets fought on the eastern front, without the magnetron. Quoting https://archive.org/details/ofarmsmen0000robe/page/286/mode/... :

> If weapons won the the war for the Soviet Union, it was tanks, most particularly the T-34, which epitomized this superiority. Designed in August 1939 by the Medium Tank Design Group, the T-34 was the culmination of nearly a decade of extensive research on a wide range of components. The product was a masterpiece of integration, incorporating for the first time a powerful and fireresistant diesel engine, a high-velocity 76-mm gun (German Panzer III and IV tanks mounted 37mm and 50-mm pieces), thick armor sloped to deflect shells, and advanced Christie suspension, combined with very wide tracks to provide exceptional mobility in snow and ice—all in a compact package weighing barely thirty tons.

I personally don't know how to judge which is accurate, or estimate what the result would have been without, say, the magnetron.
People at amazon are looking for FAANG salaries to match their current job though
Ask HN: Is front end a dead-end career track?
Seems that frontend is seen as second-tier engineering and isn't really respected. As a result it seems like there's a steep career ceiling in frontend, and rarely does a frontend engineer move beyond the senior level into VP Engineering / CTO. At every company I've worked at, the engineers in those top roles came from the backend, and I could always sense the elitism.

I made the mistake once of dabbling in frontend, and have been pigeonholed into frontend ever since. Because frontend experience is seen as a joke, it's tough to transition out of because nobody is impressed by anything you've done. Talk about scaling distributed systems, Kubernetes, and writing C and that's seen as legitimate, respectable work. Talk about the sleek and performant web applications you built that work on all devices, and not only is no one impressed - it almost seems like it's pitied like the engineering equivalent of working at McDonald's or building a website for your grandma.

At least in the past, getting a frontend role was relatively easy with minimal BS (no Leetcode hazing). Now as I interview around, I'm surprised to be getting rejected from these frontend roles (no feedback of course) despite completing all these elementary CRUD app coding challenges, and having used React since 2014. It almost feels like my work experience was for nothing. Few of my accomplishments sound impressive to anyone because building a web app is considered trivial and not "real" software engineering. But scaling a real-time distributed system to millions of requests per second? Now that's real engineering.

I'm sick of being seen as a second-tier engineer and not being respected for my work, so it seems the logical thing to do is to transition into backend roles - or at worst full-stack. There's no sense in investing in work that's not respected.

It seems like there's a serious problem with elitism in this industry, and I don't think it's at all warranted. But I'm sick of fighting it.

Thing is I never cared about frontend vs. backend, I just liked building things and solving problems. But the elitism in this industry and these absurd interview processes with these robotic multi-hour coding challenges and no feedback make me can't wait to leave this damn industry so I can build whatever the hell I want without having to worry if some elitist snob considers it "real engineering".

Please do let me know if I'm wrong in my analysis and conclusions, and would love to hear any advice on how to escape this frontend ceiling treadmill.
Radio waves are not made of electrons. They are waves not particles. You cannot put them on a shelf in the evidence room. They do not require matter to transmit through, which is why they still work in the vacuum of space.

But most relevantly, there is no practically feasible barrier you can use to keep them out of your country.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29163319
>Longtime listeners of our podcast will know that we didn’t want to go fully into the world of venture-funded startups, since we believed that would create incentives that might steer us away from these ideals and core mission.

I don't listen to the podcast, but it sounds like they did end up taking the VC money, and that crashed the business?

You can pretend you only have "one foot in" all you want, but once you take money you are no longer bootstrapped, and no longer in charge. Unfortunately.
Some do. It's become a popular addition to a middle class kitchen. All offices have them.

As to why Asian households have it and we don't, I think it's simply that we have been boiling water in kettles since the stoves ran on coal, and the electric kettle is just an upgrade of that same old system

Not to mention the age of our housing stock. The Asian households you refer to, when were their homes built? I'm guessing much more recently, comparatively speaking.
> In that time our team has built a one-of-a-kind thinking tool and the world’s first large-scale local-first sync system.

I wonder if building "the world’s first large-scale local-first sync system" was a distraction from the core mission.

This is one of those things that developers love doing. There are a ton of cool algorithms to explore and CRDTs are really amazing algorithmically.

However, I would guess that most users, especially the users who will pay for this, really don't care about "local first". They care about working sync, and as a bonus, it would be nice if it works offline. Even enterprises probably want central on-premise sync, more so than local first.
This is kind of an open problem, especially in the Internet age. Any retraction that’s published will have far less reach than the original incendiary claim. And it’s simply not viable to follow that hundred-chain length sourcing tree for everything used in an analysis. Not sure that there’s a solution that’s actually implementable.
The C# tooling is second to none. (I keep hearing rumors of native Visual Studio support for rust, but they never seem to pan out.)
Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/8zaa3
> it's important to note layoffs tend to push stock prices down

citation needed. Not my experience at all. Anecdotal example: META.
If words have meaning, no.
I'm glad to read this and I think these advantages have their place, but...

Startups rarely die because of server bill specifically. More often it's lack of PMF, slow iteration, expensive labor. $2M is pocket change for Pinterest, they probably spend more on office snacks, so even if you grow to that scale, the savings in this example are not exactly life-or-death.

What is life-or-death, however, is how easy it is to hire for, how many quality libraries (implementation speed) and how many library maintainers work on any given stack. If it's easier to hire for Python or even Java, I'll use one of those. For stability, we used Elixir's Oban library to schedule jobs for financial transactions, and a bug in Oban regularly crippled our card authorizer, leading to our customers unable to use their cards and million-dollar losses. Oban, with all due respect, has probably 10x fewer maintainers than comparable solutions/libraries in other stacks. Maybe if we had a "true Elixir guru" on our team, we could have fixed it or even rewritten it from scratch, but we live in the real world, so we ripped it out, replaced it with a more boring solution and are much happier for it, much fewer after-hours pager duty panic attacks. Is it hitting the servers harder? Maybe, I don't care, it just works and the cost difference is likely negligible.
I’m 100% on board with this if this means people will be able to actually save for a sabbatical. The reasons why pensions existed to begin with is that workers were pretty poor savers. Then the biggest pension generation voted that it’s pensions for me but not for thee and changed everything to 401k/IRA/Big Mattress and turned it back on the worker to figure out. All while keeping wages down as the world costs increase. One of the best things you can do is live debt free. Even if that means living in an RV or on a boat or tiny house or grandmas basement. Live debt free. Don’t become entangled in needing to work to survive. Living paycheck to paycheck because Bank of Pain needs their flesh.
Thank You. I had not seen that. It was incredible.
In theory you could use one of those Leviton British-style receptacles designed for US-style boxes on a dedicated 240V circuit.

In practice, NEC code likely prohibits you from doing this.
At least it's not ostrogothgenic

it could always be worse
Others have made the comment about lower current requirements at high voltage, but from a maintenance perspective, that $20 capacitor is a common failure part. Calling an HVAC repair company to diagnosis, parts, and labor it costs around $200 for anyone not electrically minded. Over the life of an AC unit, starter/run caps might have to replaced twice.

Even if an extra conductor in the line was a few hundred dollars, I’d rather have one less common failure point. In AZ AC is effectively required in the summer. AC outages are similar to winter furnace outages in northern areas. I have extra caps ready to deploy (we lose a cap about every 3 years across multiple units) but have never needed to unexpectedly replace copper.
At one point the potential liability was for more than the US GDP, for a product the military still uses and says works…
If it was that easy to get an alternative introduced it would have been suggested already and all of these radical "green" governments would have hopped on the train immediately. This idea that we're just killing people with microplastics because we like it is insane.

CFC's coming out of your hairspray is WAY different than removing the plastic keeping your food fresh.

Stop with the black and white thinking. There is NO alternative that is free of some negative consequence. You're already seeing this with EV's. Every single "green" replacement introduces new problems that are often worse than what they've replaced.
> At least with EU induction stoves, so 230V.

US induction cooktops/stoves are almost always 240V, unless you get a little countertop burner.

> I'm kind of surprised by this.

As am I. The first time I put a small pot of water on my induction cooktop and turned it on maximum power, I laughed out loud. If I'm only doing enough for a cup of coffee or tea, it starts boiling so fast you don't want to step away.
sorry i meant (low powered*) typo
What do you mean devolve? That's literally what it means, no devolution necessary. First you disagree, then whether you get your way or not you shut up and code.
RA doesn't protect you from kernel exploits.