skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, because we're a wealthy and productive society and the fruits of human progress in the past 300 years have allowed us to build a civilization where nearly everyone can afford to use a multi-ton machine of nearly incomprehensible complexity and sophistication to carry them around, instead of pushing a cart like a peasant 5,000 years ago did.
Recently I found that in a few of the more touristic areas in Ireland (which I rarely visit, being from here, was showing friends some places), a lot of pubs will offer a foreign exchange service of dubious legitimacy with debatably fair rates.

Same thing in the border counties up north - you can often spend or exchange Sterling and Euro currency, but the rates will suck.

In the 1990’s where I grew up, one of the two shops in the village was basically a room off one of the pubs. The other, larger shop was also the post office, hardware store, etc.
Also

- 90% of emissions come from off road vehicles (agriculture, mining, etc), not in road vehicles.

- Most of the electricity for EV charging stations is not green.

EVs are a way to shift blame for pollution to the public so that corporations can continue doing business as usual. Want to fix pollution? blame yourself while I continue to make money.
Could EU force hardware manufacturers to make working drivers for Linux?
Yes, the goal was that for anyone with Grafana dashboards or queries elsewhere, they wouldn't have to rewrite them. Just point at v3 and pretend that it's a v1 database (use the v1 API).

But there are a few things that aren't there. Continuous queries, SELECT INTO, and anything that modifies data isn't there.
>they like moving fast

They are always… in flux * sun glasses on*
>> more than
In my country it's possible to simply write "no junk mail, please" on the mailbox ... and (almost) none will be delivered.
IIRC there is a push in some areas to switch to e-bikes; while they carry less, you also don’t need a CDL to ride a bicycle and there is a chronic shortage of CDL drivers.
If you are using Postgres, I think you can create a view for each table and put all the views in a schema, then you switch the app all at once by using `SET search_path TO`.
My understanding is that Ukraine never really had a choice.

The matter of Soviet nukes being stationed in Ukraine was so existential for Russia that a refusal to give up the nukes eventually would have led to a full-on invasion by Russia.

Ukraine had only been independent for a couple of years at that point, so they did not have the necessary military structures to defend themselves like they are doing this time around. The US would not have engaged in full-on war with Russia just to let Ukraine keep the nukes – at the time, nobody knew how Ukraine was going to develop, so the West preferred Ukraine giving up their nukes to avoid the scenario of a rogue post-Soviet country with nuclear weapons.

You have to remember, at the time, Ukraine was not yet seen in the West as this brave independent anti-Russia that it is perceived as today.

Finally, the Ukrainians could not have used those nuclear weapons in the hypothetical invasion. The nuclear command & control was headquartered in Russia, so the Ukrainians didn't have access to the launch codes. Even if they had somehow managed to circumvent that and actually used the nuclear weapons, that definitely would have united Russia and the West against Ukraine.
Do Slack huddles still require Chrome? That was the most recent one I recall bumping into
I agree that the word "System Programming" is really bad.

C# and Java modern ahead of time compilation, tree shaking and linking should make it similar to Go at that sense (as in single file, no runtime, etc). There is still a lot to do but they are reaching that playing field. Not motivated by the servers but by apps and cloud startup times I guess.
This is absolutely true - in the current information environment.

Slowly boil the frog by removing internet freedom for 50 years, and close down independent media outlets, prevent growth of organic networks? Sure.

There's no guarantee that our freedoms continue unabated. Look at Jan 6th and how dangerously close we came to authoritarians seizing power. There was a false elector scheme!

Or a "backdoor" where as soon as the authoritarians grab power, they flip a switch and the only networks you have are ham radio enthusiasts. Not good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_data
This is good advice that has also stood me well over the years.

If you are doing custom development you can also use this at a finer level of granularity: charge a lot for parts of the project you’d rather not do (even possibly pay a bonus for the poor person on the team who draws the short straw and has to do that part, and maintain it) and charge less for the parts the customer might be on the fence about but you know will either make them happy (though they don’t realize it yet) and/or help you get future business elsewhere.
Yeah it’s definitely bad advice to try on your partner, or even your boss /colleagues
Oh, we absolutely still had discrimination, particularly against Travellers, but also there was very strong though largely unacknowledged classism. And then of course there were _women_; after a good start (Ireland was one of the first countries to grant equal universal suffrage), we spent the next few decades barely acknowledging that women were people.

However, in 1970, people here just weren’t all that ‘banked’; when I was a kid in the late 80s/early 90s, it was still fairly common for people to not have bank accounts, and certainly in 1970 postal savings accounts would have been more common than bank accounts. Today they’re ~universal (very few employers would consider paying by any means other than bank transfer) but it was a different story 50 years ago.
Google has more revenue and it engaged in aggressive anticompetitive practices, like breaking compatibility with competing browsers on its own popular web properties. I assume there is some relationship between Google and the US security machine that gives this situation a pass.
Transit systems are designed around cars because people want to use cars. This idea that it was some kind of a massive conspiracy from the auto manufacturers is just bullshit.

Yes, cars are expensive. We can afford cars today. No one wants to get poorer and go back to walking.
I have a friend who also experienced something like that on "k2." It was (reportedly) really intense and scary.
How can they know what is defined behavior and what is undefined? How can it be proven? Rust has no spec and is therefore all undefined behavior.

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That's correct. The definition of trespassing would not apply.
Arguably the only reason it worked out fine (for some value of fine) in the 1970’s was because everything being a shitshow was the generally accepted state of affairs, and for a lot of normal working people being paid cash was still normal.
OK, rotating the DKIM keys allows someone to send an email and then later claim that the email was a forgery. But the fact that the DKIM keys are rotated is going to be generally known. So how could this possibly work?

Someone comes to you and claims that a particular email was forged. They have no evidence of this forgery and no evidence that someone was even motivated and capable of doing such a forgery. You check and see that DMIM rotation is being done. Wouldn't the fact that there was a system set up specifically to allow someone to send an email and then lie about it make you very suspicious that they had done exactly that?

Forwarding an the email to a third party entirely defeats this scheme, doesn't it?
Can you explain what we should see and understand from that picture?
> Gosh I love being mansplained on this site by people who obviously have no personal experience with this stuff. Really gets me going.

I say this in the hope that it's constructive. You should try not to sink to this level of rudeness and assumption of other people's motives/situation/perspectives. Not only is it a rude assumption about something that (to me) looks to be a good faith attempt at conversation that also clearly took some time to compose, but it's an emotional response that shows that you take it personally and emotionally when you're challenged. I'm not implying that GP is an idiot (I'm too ignorant on this subject to know), but I've been challenged in subjects where I'm well versed by idiots many times and I tend to react the same way that you did. It can be enraging (especially when surrounded by down votes and social/group reinforcement from other idiots), but you immediately lose any power of persusasion with other people when you stoop to that level rather than keeping on the high road and keeping it factual/scientific. IMHO you're rarely if ever going to convince the person you replied to, but the third party observers are often much more persuadable. They're the people I mainly try to write comments/replies for.
So it's cold matter, basically? Matter that's at or close to absolute zero temp?
That’s my point though. It doesn’t need to be close. Russia doesn’t need to be winning for the US to decide it’s not worth it.

Ukraine is suffering attrition at a rate of 1:2-5 in most areas based on stats I have seen (and I feel like trending 5+ lately fwiw). The US would certainly find that to be outrageous if it were US troops dying at that rate for something like the war in Ukraine.

I do think the US could perform with much better stats. But how much better do they need to be? I think not clear.

Russia’s proven to be a lot weaker mind you so they’re not the best example to have indexed on. Much of their capabilities could be annihilated if we just got the fuck on with ATACM and the cluster variety.
Indeed true. One of the unique and underrated strengths of C#. But "System Programming" is not exactly operating system or fundamental service writing but much more often your stock ticker broker or WhatsApp backend. The terminology is very misleading IMHO.
I think GP was talking about a database-level API specifically
Fair enough. I think it’s qualitatively different from SUSY, where I tend towards your conclusion of jobs programme masquerading as theory. (I’m much less convinced dark matter is a novel particle.)
This probably isn't what you want, but this summarizer tool can give you a written version of the video.

https://www.summarize.tech/www.youtube.com/watch?list=WL&v=5...
A few recent surveys that show a significant, increasing and undeniable reduction in religiosity in the United States, particularly among the young people you claim are being successfully indoctrinated...

"In U.S., Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace"
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decli...

"Religion and Congregations in a Time of Social and Political Upheaval"
https://www.prri.org/research/religion-and-congregations-in-...

"U.S. Church Membership Falls Below Majority for First Time"
https://news.gallup.com/poll/341963/church-membership-falls-...
Linking to that thread is super helpful, thanks!

This feels largely correct to me and I was in the same camp at the time re: Google sentiment. “Google kills products” has been a meme for so long that I had kinda forgotten.
> Years of creating artificial reefs from old tires are catching up.

People probably don't even realize that most tires are synthetic rubber and thus are also bad for the ocean.

Is there a program to map the locations of old synthetic tire reefs, and what is a suitable replacement for reef reconstruction and regrowth?
> we can’t falsify it. According to some HN-er, this must be unscientific

Apparently more than merely "can't falsify it": the maths is such that if it was different, there would never be any observation that could distinguish between them.

That extra step — that it genuinely makes no difference — would, I think, cause it to be unscientific.

At least, unscientific within relativity; given relativity can't be the whole picture (singularities popping out of maths that presumes spacetime is differentiable), we may well find another better model that would allow us to make the test, which in turn allows us to ask the question scientifically.

That said, after watching the Veritasium video ages ago, I was immediately asking myself: what about the CMB? Surely that would have a stonking big anisotropy if the speed of light wasn't close to the same in all directions? (It does have one which is assumed to be because of our motion relative to it, and I don't know enough to guess what to expect of a different-way-speed-of-light-anisotropy other than its existence, and therefore cannot compare and contrast with the observed one).
How did being a major empire work for the average Brit?
Targeted Killings
I'm 110% for renewables as a path forward, but the promise of nuclear power is still tempting. Small Modular Reactors seem to be the only way to make it work in an cost-effective manner.

There's enough players to give one hope this might come to pass: https://c3newsmag.com/five-of-the-worlds-leading-small-modul...

That said, there needs to be brutally transparent examination of operational safety and possible contingencies (e.g., terrorism, earthquakes, tidal waves, heat waves, etc).
I unfortunately had to ditch DigitalOcean because of a number of small problems like this (not taking permissions seriously is a symptom of a larger problem). Other issues included how you can't assign a floating IP to a load balancer, the managed kubernetes is embarassing (to resize nodes, you must destroy and recreate the whole cluster), paltry volumes IOPS, minimal support for DNS stuff, and more.
> This is contrary to the principle of presumed innocence.

No it isn't. It just means that some situation involving information from computers is "circumstantial evidence".

If programs have to be proved correct, that basically means data from computers could never be introduced as circumstantial evidence.

For instance, guns are normally assumed not to go off unless someone pulls the trigger. If a member of the Crips guns down a Bloods member across the street, he could claim that his gun accidentally went off the moment he was inadvertently pointing a gun in the direction of the enemy gang member. If he could prove that true, then it could be ruled an accidental death. If the defense lawyer does not make that argument, it will be assumed that there was nothing wrong with the gun, and thus someone pulled the trigger.
And how much of the British Empire wealth ends up working for the average Brit?
Winter ended on October 23 here in Brazil. Two days later, Belo Horizonte, the capital of the state of Minas Gerais, recorded the hottest day in history. 38.6oC, 101oF. The hottest day since 1910. It wasn't the hottest day of September or spring. It was the hottest day in recorded history. Hotter than the summer record.

I'm in the far south of Brazil. Known for its cold. Brazilians come here to feel the cold, to do cold weather tourism. This entire winter has been absolutely bonkers. Heat wave after heat wave.

https://www.vox.com/climate/23864998/heat-wave-south-america...

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/25/americas/extreme-heat-sou...

And it's not just the heat. It's the crazy swings.

There are people here who are hearing the word "cyclone" for the very first time. And dying in the process. While it was still winter. The town of Muçum is no more. Cyclones were thought to be impossible in the South Atlantic until recently.

https://www.todayonline.com/world/least-39-dead-cyclone-hits...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Atlantic_tropical_cyclon...

I know very little about the climate of the Amazon. I know that it's such a vast system that it has its own climate rules. We are only just beginning to understand how it works. But we have already discovered in recent years that the Amazon rainforest has a direct and gigantic impact on the climate and rainfall of the rest of Brazil.

And the lake where the dolphins died is deep in the heart of the Amazon. The entire state has declared a state of emergency because of the drought.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/3%C2%B019%2719.9%22S+64%C2...

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/09/29/b...

I'm worried about what kind of hell it's going to be like here in the summer.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/26/brazil-tempera...
I have friends living in French Guyana (both work for the space program), they told me the two seasons were rather 'wet' and 'very wet' there.
Love the story about the interplay between textbook chemistry and traditional food practices :-)
This is not once in a generation for either of those things.
I am implying nothing. I don't work in the field, and, as you say, have no idea what is or isn't being done. If, as you suggest, the kind of work being suggested by the author is being worked on, that probably would have been a more useful comment than the one you made, which didn't imply anything of the sort and seemed pretty defeatist and just "that's the way it is", which is what prompted my reply.
BeReal says it now has 25M daily users
This is one of the reasons why masks are so important and why they don't need to be 100% effective. Just reducing the amount of viral load could turn a serious infection into something you might barely notice.

edit: Imagine this being controversial. I didn't realize there were Covid deniers and skeptics here, because what I've stated is completely within established science.
I don't think that's what's meant by #2... About 12 years ago I worked at a place where all the crud operations were stored procs (calling tables/views/functions as needed). The application was only granted execute on the specific schemas. That meant no direct access for crud.

A number of Schema changes and query optimizations could be handled by updating the stored procs without having to recompile the application.
Commit to doing a good job, or at least a job that meets what you promise to the customer.

Back when I did support and custom dev, our minimum price was $100K/year (back when $100K was a lot of money). Most of those contracts were fabulously profitable. But once in a while a bug would be reported that took five or even ten person-months to fix, scrambling all our other plans in the process. So what: we didn’t charge extra and didn’t complain to the customer. Led to crazy levels of customer loyalty.
This is about the Republic of Ireland, where that wasn’t a huge factor (there was definitely some; comments in the newspapers from 1961 when Dublin got a Jewish mayor are eyebrow-raising, but it wouldn’t have been a huge issue for something like this). You’re thinking of Northern Ireland.

That said, as I’ve mentioned elsewhere, Ireland in 1970 certainly did have other forms of discrimination which would’ve been much more relevant here.
I met someone and stuck with them.

It was a long time ago...before online dating so make of it what you will.

But it never was an optimization problem.

With relationships, all the work is ahead or it's not a relationship.

The selection process feels like work, but it isn't because it is easier than the work of a relationship.

Easier than the work of making a relationship work.

Good luck.
Swimming in the river (with the dolphins!) is a very popular tourist attraction in the Amazon, actually. Just don't pee in the water![1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiru_(fish)#Modern_cases
Perhaps more AI on the wait time, '5 min wait'...from about an hour now.
Yeah, pro cyclists can put out 400W for an hour. The 20W it takes to charge a phone is less effort than walking, it's honestly the bare minimum a grandma puts into a bike to get it to roll down the road.
Not driving is not a solution.

The reason zoning in the US requires developments to take cars into account, is that people in the US want cars. And if someone builds a new residential or commercial development that doesn't recognize this reality, it creates problems for everyone as people have nowhere to put the cars that they definitely want to use.

Yes, there are some people who live in cities and are happy to have the entirety of their life limited to the region they can walk to, or the places where government-organized mass transportation can deliver them like cattle. But those people are the vast minority. Everyone else wants a car.
>excuse to use rust

Using rust for any other reason than its the best option technically, is just fad chasing.
> The same apartments are getting 10 year tax abatements, because they are "good for business" aka trickle-down.

This promotes new construction. Not as well as zoning reform, but it does. Which lowers the rent (or at least makes it go up less fast).

> And landlords are usually smaller, but again, they're another reason why housing is stupid priced: it's common to see a rental of a home priced at mortgage+30% .

Well of course they are. The landlord is taking on the maintenance of the property, insurance, the risk of a housing crash (look at housing prices FFS), the risk of a vacancy or destructive or non-paying tenant, legal expenses associated with operating a business etc. And on top of that, they have to pay the mortgage.

They do turn a profit, because of course they do, why else would they do it? And with that they slowly buy the property from the bank, at which point the interest on the value of the property goes to the landlord instead of the bank, the same as it would if they sold the property and invested the money in something else.

The problem with landlords is not that they turn a profit -- they always will or they'd sell the property instead.

It's that they lobby for zoning restrictions that limit the housing supply to increase rents. But homeowners do the same thing, to the detriment of both renters and prospective homeowners.
The early days of WSB were much different compared to what it is today. It used to have some really smart people doing quality research and putting their money where their mouth was with large bets. As it grew and more new traders came in, the new traders started pumping out half-baked ideas to make a name for themselves and the other new traders followed and lost their life savings. Honestly I think that the focus on memes is partially to blame.

All of the people that were originally in WSB left and went to a couple of smaller subreddits and/or a collection of small discord servers.
Reminds me of this Simpsons meme:
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fd...
So what’s gonna happen for v1 and v2 ? cause the number of features you’re offering in v3 is gonna be difficult to maintain compared to v1, v2
China just takes over areas they claim as their own.

They also don't let anyone disagree with them unpunished. That's not at all what the US does, you're talking about 20 years ago by now.

China has much more sensitive toes and issues coming up are every year.
Google today owns most of mobile with Android, most of email with Gmail, most of web browsing with Chrome, pretty much all of search with Google Search, Google News, Google Images, etc., most of maps with Google Maps, and most of office apps with Docs/Sheets/etc., and it also has most of schools with Chromebooks so they've got the next generation locked into all of the above.

The only way the Web gets better is by re-distributing all of that to smaller players, undoing the acquisitions that made all of that possible. The only way that happens is if you continue to vote for politicians with the fortitude to use anti-trust laws to target Google.

Want a better web, vote for it.
No, it heavily depends on their ability to enforce it.

This CEO can't enforce it and should thus shut his mouth and continue being the quiet little corporate parasite he is.
There were a lot of strikes in Ireland in the 1970’s, including a rent strike at one point.
Side question: I always thought it was spelled Virgil, has it been decided to spell his name differently?