skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I read a nice(r) interpretation of the paradox a while ago - loosely the claim was made that it's not an ethical standard that you (your nation state, etc) have to apply to yourself in order to maintain a moral high-ground, but works better once you think of it as a social contract.

> That is, if someone / another nation state is not willing to follow the same basic rule, then they don't get the benefit of it.

I agree, but is a 3rd party interpretation even necessary in this context? The original text is minimal, as in literally a one-paragraph plain language footnote copied here in its entirety :

> "Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.—In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal. " -- The Open Society & Its Enemies
Yes, free as in freedom.

Unless you're freeloading off of public or open wifi networks, you are paying someone for the privilege to access the internet on their terms. The US government couldn't care less one way or another whether you have internet.

Internet access is not a right. It could be in another century or two like how the telephone turned out, but we aren't there yet and we shouldn't speak of it as such.
It's easy to make an argument that sticks for fossil fuels - the IEA doesn't make that case for nuclear.

They acknowledge that AGW is real and they push for an optimal path forward through energy transition .. and they don't see a downside to maintaining existing reactors and maintaining current share.

Thank you for your opinion none the less.
Their soundcloud is great:

https://soundcloud.com/scarfolk-council
In particular, I find the closure property of SQL very helpful and always think in terms of queries gettings tables and producing tables (derived most of the time). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure_(mathematics)
We’re still considering the ethical issue and are open for discussion. IT interviews often quiz you on facts irrelevant to daily tasks, while HR folks like to check how well you can memorize answers to their classical questions. We believe recruiters should be assessing thinking and problem-solving skills. Also, using AI assistants to get better productivity out of everything you do will be one key skills.
A little bug report would be super helpful: https://forms.gle/zH6t7Tw2DhbcKCCL6
> we're a liberal democracy.

Liberal democracy is not something you are, it is something you do.

It is the sum set of beliefs, actions, and understandings of the country that results in the state of its governance.

Freedom is not an inevitable result of "being" a democracy.

Freedom is an aggregate result of the way individuals act.

> China blocks the world-wide internet because it follows a totalitarian ideology.

What you might not have considered is that if a foreign power is able to influence your fellow citizens, those fellow citizens might be weaponized against you. Before America was a republic it was part of a monarchy and individual citizens became convinced it was worth fighting to change. That was a good change, but citizens might just as easily be convinced that maybe fast results and less bureaucracy and rules are what we need and it's worth putting a strongman into power for faster results: https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-strongman-fantasy

Freedom is also the freedom to be ignorant. What happens if too many people are ignorant?

Freedom is also the freedom to do the wrong thing. What happens if too many people do the wrong thing?

Freedom is not a pure concept synonymous with "good." Freedom can bend, but it can also break.
Not much of an achievement, but I once deleted a 45k line Jest snapshot test for a React component that basically asserted that a div is rendered.
Hackernews has been my main information source for a long time. I used to explore with web clients from https://hnpwa.com/ for modern reading experiences.

Cross-device bookmark is always a missing feature for those front end apps. So I decide to make it my own also as my personal project, which is a good chance for me to know about every aspects of launching an app, including UI design, test-driven development, OAuth, payments, marketing, etc.

By storing bookmarks in Notion, you own your data and it’s easy to manage and export your data with its built-in features like this: https://toonmaterial.notion.site/Example-ea2a6923455e4fb4854...

This is also a scenario where I finally have the chance to use the most loved web framework, Elixir Phoenix. The developer experience is quite efficient and satisfying. It seems like a perfect choice for a small team, although with a steep learning curve.

Of course there are still many tasks to complete, such as improving app accessibility and handling regulatory requirements. Nonetheless, I think the product is now usable enough to showcase. And feedback from real users is desirable in further development and improvement. Thank you.
The headline seems confusing after reading this paragraph:

> Furthermore, the now-approved AML package will apply after three years from its entry into force, according to Dillon Eustace.

So it’s not illegal “now”, but will be after three years or longer?
> because their iron fist is fragile

Authoritarians have been relentlessly strengthening their fists as technology (dogs) gets increasingly good at herding the masses (sheeps).
Duck duck go is now more effective than Google, and I've been using it instead of Google for 5 years. Now I mainly ask GPT4 questions, and eliminate the need for search altogether in most cases. I run ad blockers on YouTube. And they're not getting cash from me via Android.

You may be right that they can survive more readily than AOL did.. but I certainly won't help them with anything more than a kick in the pants! ;)
So people should ignore their expenses going way up, and not bother plotting them or whatever because...?
Parrot in a Matchbox – RSS feeds in Mastodon [video]
Yes, the printed money (whose value is "sucked" from the ones in your pocket) is given to those closest to the money printer, and they tend to be the very richest in society. It's called the Cantillon effect.
Popular apps already have this built in (WhatsApp / LinkedIn / other social media platforms).

My "killer" idea back then was simply putting a LinkedIn-qr-code on back of my business card. Whenever I handed it over to someone (at a conference, mostly), they found it brilliant, scanned it immediately and sent a request on LinkedIn. The good things about this procedure were that:

* I didn't need to keep random people's business card and forge who they were after a 3-5day busy conference, I just had to go to my LinkedIn, and could remember them by their face

* vice versa: they could associate my contact accept with a face. Not to mention that this opened a more direct communication channel with a lesser chance to "ghost" me.

I guess business cards are not really a thing anymore on the more popular conferences that target a younger (engineer) audience.
The article explains what you are explaining. Search for “harvest now, decrypt later” on the page.
You are fit.

But there's a difference between that and being at the very peak of human physical and mental endurance.

In many ways, it seems harder than climbing Mount Everest, due to the time limits.
I'm not saying we are gonna enslave you. Buuut...
Do you even know the tech behind crypto? Just because scammers and similar people use and promote it, doesn't make it a bad technology at all.
the digital nomad visa requires you to have a contract with a company outside greece. while you can establish your own local entity, that’s a different visa process. if you have your own domiciled outside GR and even spring for a “nominee director” you still trigger permanent establishment (the tax people aren’t the same as immigration people) and it’s still a very real risk.

now be a senior level IC having an opportunity at a global company that doesn’t have a GR office? yeah, the first year legal rep is gonna do a hard no.

and all the tax people need to do is stamp a memo…
Khazars
Secular deflation existed in the late 19th century during growth periods.

Deflation associated with debt deleveraging can be bad. But the problem is that we got into debt. Debt was not nearly as high in the 19th century. Debt addiction is relative modern.

Our inflationary 2%++ regime tends to encourage debt, and the Trumps of the world can leverage their lives to the hilt. Poor people have much more difficulty juggling debt and fail spectacularly. Debt growth increases economic instability.
1. Google lost the battle for LLMs, and cannot win that battle without putting a nail in the coffin of its own search monetization strategy

2. Google search is now no better than DDG, which it also cannot recover from without putting a nail in the coffin of its own search monetization strategy

If you want a randomly accuse me of living in a bubble that's fine. It won't bother me one bit. Me living in a bubble doesn't change the fact that Google is backed into a corner when it comes to search quality and competing with LLMs.
> YouTube and Instagram now offer everything needed.

Both Google and Meta are in cahoots (tacit compliance) with the Government after they were put through the ban hammer: https://www.zdnet.com/article/india-oks-censoring-facebook-g...

Same for Blackberry: https://theworld.org/dispatch/india/100831/blackberry-resear...

> Nothing like freedom of a speech, government oversight etc. etc. the article is trying to portray.

There's not much freedom of speech in India: Only to an extent you don't ruffle any features and/or aren't influential enough to effect any outcome. Besides, the society itself enforces a crude form of censorship on whatever is taboo or controversial or fringe.
I really hope somebody sues and I am really curious how this plays out in court. To me Crypto can be abstracted, to anything that has a value and can be exchanged. Gold comes to mind, also art, anything really. Where is the difference in holding Bitcoin in a self hosted wallet vs storing gold under the bed?
With a bold claim like that citations would be in order.
Clickbaity title. From the article:

> In a recent regulatory development, cryptocurrency payments of any size using unidentified self-custody crypto wallets are now illegal in the European Union (EU).

Payments are illegal (not wallets), and only if the sender/receivers are not identified (that is, you can ask for identification before transfers from those wallets are made).
This will be in the Google Graveyard https://killedbygoogle.com/ by mid-2026.
Just a naive thought, but wouldn't this cause the second order effects of cyber criminals/con artists having a database of targets?
Your msws64 did not seem to fail
We should use debt only as much as necessary. Normalization, promotion, even subsidy of debt leads people to make poorer choices and to think in the short term. It destabilizes the world, and sets up traps for the many naive people, traps that benefit lenders.
You were talking about people being detached; to be attached to the reality of life is to act, to reproduce. Our biology tells us that we ought to have children, but we don't see it very clearly because we have found ways to hijack our impulses.
I don't really get it. You can't buy the same stuff, so reorganize your business to produce the same value by doing less stuff? It seems like advice that you could follow to achieve massive cost savings even without involving clouds.
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35094407
Yes, for living arrangements.
Original post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35094407
Where do you live where you buy the engine separately from the car?
haters always gonna hate no matter what someone does
> Indians are tough audience to sway that way from my experience.

You underestimate the power of propoganda. The fact that you think the tiktok ban was in anyway related to the attack or even if was, it served as an commensurate retaliation for the attack just proves this.
I did and this looks like a library design issue, which is now impossible to solve without breaking the ABI. I argue though that a design that doesn't suffer from this issue exists because there is a way to serialize all these operations in a safe way.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39793842
Oh sure, I was talking in generalities and an imaginary archiver, what should an archiver have, not any particular existing actual one.

os and filesystem features differ all over the place, and there will be totally new filesystems and totally new metadata tomorrow. There is practically no common denominator, not even the basic ascii for the filename let alone any other metadata.

So there should just be metadata fields where about the only thing actually parrt of the spec is the structure of a metadata field, not any particular keys or values or number or order of fields. The writer might or might not even include a filed for say, creation time, and the reader might or might not care about that. If the reader doesn't recognize some strange new xattr field that only got invented yesterday, no problem, because it does know what a field is, and how to consume and discard fields it doesn't care about.

There would be a few fields that most readers and writers would all just recognize by convention, the usual basics like filename. Even the filename might not be technically a requirement but maybe an rfc documents a short list of standard fields just to give everyone a reference point.
But for instance it might be legal to have nothing but some uuids or something.

That's getting a bit weird but my main point was just that it's wrong to say an archiver shouldn't include timestamps or uids just because one use of archive files is to transfer files from a unix system to a windows system, or from a system with a "bob" user to a system with no "bob" user.
Basically yes. But as I understand it this is the reason why some border guard might ask you to boot up your machine to show him your system as a used and "lived in" installation.
You might want to avoid arousing suspicion by lugging around a piece of dead metal (a laptop with unusable bit noise on its discs) or by presenting a fresh and empty OS.
Chinese cars are already on European (Portugal) streets. The automaker war is lost imo. Once they are in the south of the EU (low purchasing power market) it will just spread from there.

I got rides in a couple of makers in a taxi. To be honest as a passenger the experience was good. Better than some French brands.
Ah took a moment to load the second time round but it got there. Regular iPhone user here, but based down under.
How so? If it wasn't for the green energy transition, someone would buold a gas power plant there.
The world’s largest MITM
The arguments for tar are --preserve-permissions and --touch (don't extract file modified time).

For unzip, -D skips restoration of timestamps.

For unrar, -ai ignores file attributes, -ts restores the modification time.

There are similar arguments for omitting these when creating the archive, they set the field to a default or specified value, or omit it entirely, depending on the format.
Different Instruments Shape the Music We Love
> Seriously this seemed to be the plan:

> Step 1: Release SD for free

> Step 2: ???

> Step 3: Profit

That’s not true. He was pretty open about the business plan. The plan was to have open foundational models and provide services to governments and corporations that wanted custom models trained on private data, tailored to their specific jurisdictions and problem domains.
It's not optimistic, it's not an ideal date, it's marketing fluff with no bases in reality. Maybe I'm the odd one out here but does that not bother you?
> Instead of a neat tool like this having to support dozens of languages, it can just support tree-sitter and automatically work with anything that tree-sitter supports.

Built on the shoulders of giants.
Install Doctor: provision fully-configured desktops automatically
Yea, sure, +15 rubles/
Called it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39280369
10kW laser for zapping gnats
More about the Cobweb Palace:
https://www.sanfranciscostory.com/the-cobweb-palace/amp/
A read of the data shows that, but it's not the only read nor the only data.

So we can say wages have increased to keep up with inflation, but left out is all the money lost during the time lag before wages caught up. And whose wages caught up? If you use average wages, then you can hide the details. You really need to look at different income levels, or at least the median wage and the inflation experienced for that median person, bare minimum.
Where is Github relevant here? We're talking about Codeberg vs SourceHut, no?
+15% is x1.15, +700% is x8. 1.15x8 is 9.2 so the number you want is +820%.
Agree fully. Yours isn't the case I'm talking about. I'm talking about the people that aren't hunting big bugs, aren't serving as advisors or architects, aren't deleting unused code, and aren't implementing a significant volume of features or functionality, but who instead trickle out a small amount of simple code month after month. I claim that when inspecting commit histories, a very low LOC or very low commit-frequency is something a manager should look into.
Not really. What’s the point of a wallet if payments can’t be made to it? Effectively this forces a wallet to be 1) identified, or 2) be effectively lost.
DeGourou (DeDRM and Libgourou)
The way C++ is going is no longer the language I felt in love as my next programming tool after Object Pascal (Turbo/Delphi).

C++26 is going to introduce erroneous behavior.

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2023/p27...
No, probably not. And most don't try. My point is that --with proper context and thoughtful analysis-- it is data that can be useful.
Majorization: Here, There and Everywhere
Though a fun thought experiment, this book isn't up to date with modern knowledge and isn't taken seriously by archaeologists. It also doesn't hold much water when the theories proposed are empirically tested. Grand narratives are legacy science.

https://phys.org/news/2024-02-eurasia-dominant-east-west-axi...

https://massivesci.com/articles/chaos-in-the-brickyard-comic...
Yes, but this is truly an exceptional case. Their workloads are basically scraping (crawling) at a massive scale. Just like Google does, it makes more sense to have cheap throw-away hardware for this use case.

There are no permission issues or ACLs.

There’s no need to auto scale and the traffic is very predictable.

There is no serious need to orchestrate deployments. I imagine it’s mostly just workers reading URLs from a queue and crawling a page. So very easy to deploy new servers.

This is just an edge case scenario specifically great for self hosting.
Sure. On the other hand, the China and Russia regimes have to invest a lot in firewalls to close of the masses to information.

And with all surveillance tech they still fear the masses. During the very rigid covid lockdowns in China people started to become more actively frustrated, prompting Xi to finally reverse his policies.

But the biggest threat to dictatorships is their own organization, as power transfer is often chaotic and violent. The workings of those states are best compared to maffia power dynamics.
Standup. Daily meetings where teams talk about their blockers and so forth.
This ignores the fact that the brand matters, though. If I fork postgres, nobody is going to just start using my fork over the official software, because the two aren't nearly the same. One has people behind it, the other doesn't.

Yes, it may end up that Redict has the backing of the community, and Redis falls behind, but we shouldn't act like all the mindshare isn't currently with Redis (the brand).
Why is this flagged? It seems like a reasonable post to me.
Never heard of the race before. Highly recommend reading about some of the quirks surrounding it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barkley_Marathons
As of a few days ago, i read some chinese car company was looking into producing their cars in one of the Stellantis plants in northern italy. It is quite ironic that european automakers first moved production in 3rd world countries to minimize the cost of production, and now some of the new automakers in similar countries come here to look for plants where to assembly their cars
We're not going to escape our biology.
Much thanks for this. I've been struggling to grasp what's happening down in the engine room beneath me as I operate a modern Linux environment and only knew that there have been different waves of evolutions over the decades. I instead only see today's pretty deck up top, outside.

I'm only ten pages in, but that's mostly because the format and approach of this book is quickly yielding me tons of conversation fodder for ChatGPT4, where I've been endlessly asking it to clarify or point out holes in my mental model of everything I'm doing in the terminal, and still working out things such as why Backspace, Ctrl+H, Ctrl+/, Ctrl+?, Ctrl+-, and Ctrl+_ all together seem to have some overlap or differences in what's happening, depending on terminal contexts. I always had working notions of raw versus cooked sessions, the line discipline, etc., but I'm finding ways to play with the machinery with silly exercises that I otherwise couldn't have come up with.

For example, I just opened up three terminal windows:

1) `man ascii`
2) `nc -lvp 9001 | xxd -c1`
3) `stty raw -echo; nc -nv 127.0.0.1 9001`

Then, reproducing the whole "Hex" column of the manpage, in order, using my keystrokes. And, observing the multi-byte payloads of some of the other keys. I feel like a kid again :)
And that's the force and the weakness of McKinsey (and other commercials guys): they sell something, from good things to craps. They sell it no matter what is the outcome.

When they sell a good thing, everything is good. When they sell a bad thing, it can put down a whole healthcare system (in my country, consulting companies admitted that hospitals are not industries and they did more harm than good with their plans), it can let survive a bad startup where millions of public money is invested, etc.
A good manager should look at everyone's code.

A good manager should recognize that if a developer does nothing but annotate code with comments, and that's not what they're expected to be doing, there's a problem.
Lol, I'm a bit slow ... some USA TLA runs Cloudflare, right?
The Gervais Principle is about just this topic.
In a much smaller scale, I'm working on a web crawler as well, and renting a dedicated server at Hetzner with unlimited traffic is cheaper than any VPS, or cloud offering.

8 cores, 32 GB RAM, 2x 500 GB SSD for ~€40/month — it's an older CPU but web crawlers don't spend too much time crunching numbers anyway.
Relating to me and my company, they weren't.
What you reproduce is not the same as what your ancestors reproduced.