skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: I ranked countries based on tourist congestion and safety
I've been traveling to lesser traveled countries for 10+ years and always tend to meet the kindest most genuine locals in the places that are not tourist hot spots by any means. Strangers crossing the road just to shake my hand and say "Welcome to Ethiopia", being invited over for Christmas eve celebrations in Colombia, or going to a traffic officer's home to meet his family in a village in the Philippines where he gifted me his son's local basketball jersey. All of these authentic experiences allowed me to culturally immerse myself rather than feel the divide between locals and tourists.

So I started to think what things these places might have in common, and one of the main theories I had was the quantity of tourists they have relative to their population, basically how much "tourist congestion" they have. The only locals I would randomly meet in places which have had so many tourists for many decades tended to be the scammers, and the normal locals were so desensitized to seeing tourists that at best they didn't care, and at worst they had a negative view or aversion towards tourists.

I only heard about the authentic lesser traveled places from word of mouth from other travelers, I only went to Colombia because a traveler in India told me I can avoid the frat-boy-drug tourism there and experience the local culture. So I recently created a list of different countries ranking them on tourist congestion, safety, and other insights from the UN, WHO etc to see if there is a systematic way of identifying these places based on data. I hope to grow this and add all countries, and later add filters by region, cost, language and create other lists like upcoming local cultural events in various regions of the world.

My vision is to create resources for people to pick places that allow them to culturally immerse themselves while being safe, instead of the typical state of tourism where people hang with their own nationalities separated from the locals. Please take a look and support this cause if you have the resources
You're not doing much of that once you're dead.
Even with advertising, Google Ads (then called AdSense) was a lot more generous with their revenue share than they are now. Lots of little blogs and forums thrived because the money coming in was enough to keep the proprietors interested in maintaining a community of commenters.

Then comment bot spam started growing out of control, webmasters ceded the comment platform to centralized services like Disqus, and finally Google slashed ad premiums, so websites either started disappearing or getting folded into the properties of 'blog networks' and lost their personality in search of pageviews.
I don't buy tickets from them. I'd like to go to shows, and I do go to some smaller shows where I can buy tickets directly from the venue. But I don't support Ticketmaster. So I go to less shows than I like.

...does that make me more morally qualified to complain than other people? Why?
Given that ticketmaster and live nation own venues all over the place, you should have somewhere for a sheriff to enforce a judgement.
I don’t believe that’s true. Lynch uses characters as abstractions — they represent a concept, which when you understand them add up to a ‘statement’:

* Twin Peaks is an meta commentary about the lack of balance on the small screen (our desire for sex and violence). Interestingly this ended up being a meta-meta-commentary when the network forced them to reveal the killer of Laura Palmer prematurely. Laura Palmer is balance, Dale Cooper is the audience, Bob is our desire for sex & violence, …

* Mulholland Drive is about the casting couch and the destruction of the Hollywood dream for women. Rita is the casting couch, the cowboy is Hollywood, …

* Lost Highway appears to be a comment about plagiarism (namely other directors plagiarising David Lynch). But it also has a similar theme to Twin Peaks as a meta commentary about film — the shots of the road are meant to look like film, the vehicles are meant to represent movies, …

etc.

He always talks about being “true to the idea” — so all abstractions and all surreal elements must be true to the underlying concept. It’s up to us to work out what the underlying theme is (that links all of the abstractions together).
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Prep time is a real concern, but a vastly more complicated one than comparing dollar amounts. Even if you manage to figure out a fixed dollar cost of prep time, most people aren't in a position to directly trade hours between food prep and making money.

Anyway, as long as we're throwing random cost factors into the air, fast food has much bigger labor, utilities, and real estate costs that their food prices have to cover. And individuals can do pretty well buying bulk if they put in the effort. But we talked about effort already. It's definitely not going to be simple if you want to fully quantify all the tradeoffs, but if you just count dollars, well, there's a pretty wide spread of effort levels where you can beat fast food.
yes, when the odds of winning are in my favor...

But I assume you know that so you must be asking, "Is there a situation where somebody can accurately understand the expected outcomes of any particular bet where the odds are against them winning and still come to the conclusion that taking the bet is rational?"

And one answer comes immediately to mind although I'm sure there are several: when I'm willing to lose for the entertainment value of having the chance to win and knowing that short term variance means I may in fact win.
Or the one that really pissed me off.

One day I accidentally, don't know how, hit the front page of reddit. On that page was a photo. Looking at the thumbnail, I recognised that it was a photo of an 'iron lung', a machine used half a century ago to help people breathe who couldn't by themselves.

So I threw a comment at the post saying "An iron lung! I haven't seen one of those for over 40 years." or something similar.

The next day I received a mail from one of the weird, never-heard-of subreddits. It said I was banned permanently from that never-heard-of-before sub-reddit because I was a commenter on a pro-Trump subreddit. Yes, that 'iron lung' comment of mine was on a pro-Trump subreddit.

When I complained about unnecessary censorship, my post complaining of that unnecessary censorship was "disappeared".

"Huh? Wha'?" was my reaction. Up till then I'd heard of Reddit censorship, but had never been a victim myself.

Reddit is not long for this world. It'll go the same way as Digg, Voat, MySpace and all those other social-media corpses.
How about C w/ Python? I think Python is better at high-level bits than C++ IMO, and you can use C or Cython modules that expose functionality that has to be fast.
Alef (Programming Language)
OT: > A few useful reference links:

> https://gist.github.com/CollinChaffin/24f6c9652efb3d6d5ef2f5...

> https://kagi.com/search?q=bwg-500+local+hostname+not+resolvi...

> https://kagi.com/search?q=att+fiber+local+hostname+not+resol...

> Google is apparently now useless for finding info on the Internet beyond very basic queries for stackoverflow or reddit, I had to use Kagi to discover anything useful on this topic.

I hadn't thought about this, but is surprisingly true for me. Google search quality has gotten so bad I could either do without and search SO, reddit, HN, Wikipedia directly or use any other search, and if that doesn't work get rich higher quality responses from an LLM. Entering search terms on Google is merely a convenience not necessity/quality.
I don't think the long scale actually has advantages compared to the short. One could argue euphony: the alternative repetition of million, milliard, billion, billiard, and so on, is pleasing in a way.

But really, each is just a quirk of languages. I don't expect 7 to sound like "seven" in other languages, why expect billion to sound like "billion" rather than "milliard" or "trillion"? When conveying information across languages, we use numerals, sometimes with the SI scales, which are universal.

Just another confusing faux amis to figure out when learning another language, really.
It’s likely strongly subject to Goodheart’s Law, however. In other words, there are probably many things you could do to improve the goal (e.g. figure out how to keep kids from seeing the violence) without improving outcomes for these kids (because they remain just as poor)
It does, but that is a highly subjective value that depends on the person in question. You can't just plug in the average wage for someone doing cooking for a living and assume it's meaningful. And you especially can't do that while running a clickbait headline that just straight up says fast food is cheaper without also explicitly and prominently explaining this caveat.
I pronounce it "tiv icks". Remember DIVX?
Geocities wasn't something you discovered via search. It was a directory you could explore, like walking through the streets of a city instead of cabbing it straight to a top-rated restaurant.
Yes it is much older, but wasn't early science done by elite amateurs? The Royal Society, etc.
The Dangers of Metadata in Messengers
Current ticketmaster tickets are electronic and often can be resold only on their system (depending on what the artist/venue has chosen as a restriction). Of course their system could limit the resale prices of the ticket, to the original price or a set percentage above it. They already take a bite of each resale I believe.

They have already built the electronic ticketing and transfer system that would allow them to prevent resale of tickets at a profit, the system is done. They just choose not to use it that way (and I'd guess artists/labels/venus are in on this too -- what the ticketmaster system does make possible is for them all to take a bite of the scalped ticket resale price!)
I live in Austin and I will say if you are a women I would say that most would not agree with 3 and 4
Actually, you typically don't use all the dexterity of a five-fingered hand for most tasks.

Opposing-digits gets you 90% of the way there, which is why when you finally start using fingers independently (say while playing the violin), a large amount of time is spent getting around the learnt 'synergies'.

Unclear why we actually evolved fingers in the first place (balance ?).
AI does not 'learn' like a human.
imo it doesn’t matter if the article is about 5G. This will come to home internet connections before you know it.
In every society, taxes and government are the lens used to focus collective social responsibility and direct actions that will benefit the society as a whole, and individually. Even in a collectivist society, some work is done to benefit a small group of individuals when it's deemed necessary by the society. And in an individualist society, effort is also undertaken to benefit the whole.

The questions you pose are good questions, but they can't be answered by this presentation. Even if you were to ask a much more "fundamental" or "simple" question, like "How much should we sacrifice for sanitation?", the answer is not clear, as it will vary by location and other criteria.

This presentation can't answer the questions, but it can cause us to ask them. Let's remember these questions and take them forward into our local communities, and try to focus more on local solutions, and less on one-size-fits-all.
> Respectfully - while that's no doubt useful for your visiting family, weighing that up vs the social costs of taking a house off the market when it could be used by a family, in the midst of what I think is the worst rental crisis in Aus history, in which many families are forced to live in vehicles, it doesn't really stack up in a utilitarian sense.

I don't disagree - I find it terrible that it's being kept off the market, especially as someone that is struggling with the housing crisis myself (my partner and I considered buying it, but my grandfather built it as a townhouse for him to live out retirement in and it's not really suitable for us with a young child).

There are complicating family factors for us but at the end of the day I would absolutely rather this house be on the market where someone could take advantage of it.

I think the reality is there are vastly more totally unused homes that are simply not being rented because they're just being sat on by (presumably mostly overseas investors).
10G serialisation delay is lower than 40G or 100G.

Most markets can disseminate their feeds on 10G effectively. This isn’t true of the major US exchanges.
Ars Technica got an interview with the level designer, including some photos of the original Arduino hardware. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/04/how-to-cheat-at-super...
https://youtu.be/aChiTXPHpCY?si=Y0dp431Kq96peLwl&t=3205

> Car talk is a production of Dewey Cheetah Howe and WBUR in Boston. And even though NPR staffers pass through the stages of denial anger depression and acceptance then go back to denial again whenever they hear us say it this is NPR.

https://youtu.be/1ExBaSRyXEM?si=mszTKyvWhrOU2Ezg&t=3180

> Car talk is a production of Dewey Cheetah Howe and WBUR in Boston. And even though hearing aid salesmen are consumed by guilt whenever they hear us say it this is NPR.

How much less NPR can it be when the hosts say at the end "This is NPR"?
I listen to public radio a lot. I am not exactly a liberal or progressive but I know exactly what I am getting into when I turn on public radio. None the less, I can still enjoy it the same way I enjoy an action movie or WWE so long as I am willing to suspend disbelief.
There's a user script version of that here as well for mobile browsers. You need to install Tapermonkey first or Userscript app for Macintosh.
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/439993-youtube-shorts-redi...
DOJ won against Paramount et al. in 1949. Consent decrees were in place for over 70 years.

https://www.justice.gov/atr/paramount-decree-review
I would recommend against using Tvix at this time, but if you are wondering why they wrote it, they wrote an article: https://tvl.fyi/blog/rewriting-nix

The goals they list are:

> Creating an alternative implementation of Nix that is fully compatible with nixpkgs.

No explanation needed.

> More efficient Nix language evaluation, leading to greatly increased performance.

The Nix language is evaluated whenever doing the Nix equivalent of installing a package, or rebuilding your configuration. Note that most of the time it's "fast enough" but the authors of Tvix are doing more with the Nix language (which leads into)

> No more strict separation of evaluation and build phases: Generating Nix data structures from build artefacts ("IFD") should be supported first-class and not incur significant performance cost.

and

> Well-defined interaction protocols for how the three different components (evaluator, builder, store) interact.

As it currently works, the Nix language is evaluated to something called a derivation, which is a specific format for defining how to build something (including a list of dependencies). The derivation is then used to actually build the artifact. This is about when you want the metaphorical snake to eat its tail and have the results of a derivation be more nix language to evaluate.

> A builder implementation using OCI instead of custom sandboxing code.

Hermetic builds require some sandboxing; Using OCI containers seems like an obvious choice, but didn't exist when Nix was first created.
Are you referring to something in particular?
It would be a bad policy... If the people of those western countries were having children. They aren't. They need those immigrants.

There is no nation without natalism.
Use Your Potions and Scrolls
Personal opinion --- the most important characteristics of a potential entrepreneur is someone who feels like they just don't fit into corporate society --- mostly made up of sociopaths and their fiefdom of lackeys and suck ups.

Unless you're a sociopath skilled at manipulating others and taking credit for their work, you're probably not going to get ahead --- assuming that "ahead" is worth the effort to get there.

Otherwise, being a lackey it is. And if you don't really have an affinity for sucking up, the sad fact is there may not be a really good role for you.

So out of sheer necessity and determination --- a potential entrepreneur is born.
XP. "Second-best Windows"

Best? Win 7.
Virtually every person I talk to who remembers will tell you that the 90s were the peak of just about everybody in the country getting along and feeling good about the future.

Then widespread internet and social media happened, which shortly led people into echo chambers while simultaneously gutting the institution of journalism.
It's not pure choice, though. Because people react stronger to outrage, news tend to focus on such stories, so you end up seeing disproportionally more of them in the feed by default. You have to actively seek out more balanced media if you want that.
Many Americans romanticize the idea of business interests and the economy failing. We are well past levels of wealth inequality that aught to cause bloodshed. The US will have its hands full with its own insurrections. A civil war would hamper power projection around the globe. Its good to see Japan released from its pacifist obligations.

Now the US can get onto the business of civil war 2. End slavery again.
AFAIK, he is not trolling. Right now, in Academia, there is a very strong movement towards hiring diversity candidates.

For example, some faculty openings are advertised as women or minorities only.

In EU, some have sued and successfully overturned this kind of bias, as it is in principle not legal to discriminate by sex or race.
We need to reinvent democracy for the long-term (2019)
Write once, run forever: The power of Bash scripts
They asked what labor you'd be doing to be compensated for upon donating an organ after death. Simply checking the box doesn't ensure that your organs are healthy enough to donate. The monetary compensation would be for keeping the organs in a healthy enough state to be actually donatable (rather than just potentially donatable, as is the case with just checking the box).
I vaguely recall in california you can opt-out of arbitration within 30 days of a contract. don't know if there are details or if that is still the case.
His other long form videos are also a great combination of research and comedy. Worth your time in my opinion.
Wildstrawberry/ComplexGaussian
So you would prefer the war in Ukraine to go nuclear? This isn't a hypothetical.
Thank you / obrigado! First time seeing something like this, and it underscores for me that people need different modes of learning a language.
What I learned from writing my own auth(OAuth as well) something, it's not worth the time and effort. Great learning opportunity, with way too many footguns.
To use DNS whatsoever you have to at least trust the DNS host, though. There is no such thing as perfect trust on the internet.
fix it!
(please)
Silly move.

It couldn't beat the US the last time. Why would it think it can beat China which at least 4 times the size of the US?
I can honestly say the Internet doesn't provide any additional utility compared to what I used it for 20 years ago: email, messageboards, P2P filesharing, Wikipedia, search and online shopping.

Sure we have Youtube and streaming now. But streaming today is just cable TV by another name. You could subscribe to them all and still not have the selection that a Blockbuster or torrent tracker would.
Thanks, it's fixed. That's what I get for quickly adding links.
From the Ars Technica link I posted:

dougg3 said his setup only successfully completed the level 1 to 5 percent of the time, an oddly low success rate for a system that's supposed to play with robotic precision.... "What I found is although the actual electrical pulses I'm sending to the controller are exactly the same length each time, verified on an oscilloscope, sometimes Mario doesn't jump," dougg3 said.
>Our current economic system has consistently lifted large numbers of people out of poverty historically, and is still doing it today.

Debatable.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2316730121

>We should at least give it a go for seven more generations.

Are you being sarcastic? Underclasses and the declining classes are both on the verge of revolt. Seven generations of status quo won’t occur. That’s a fantasy of someone who does not understand the problems severity.
What!? A function’s signature does not completely describe its behaviour. This doesn’t remotely address the problem. Have your preferences all you want, but this is blatantly a case of being blinded by some silly programming language culture war.
Yeah they absolutely do not use the pile.
I’ve been seeing more and more topics that are strictly politics on the front page, such as this, despite being flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40052403

If “political and ideological battle” is not allowed, then why not ban these topic entirely?
Given that exposure to `goto` is going to be minimal born most developers born after 1980's, the use of `goto` is likely to appear more convoluted.

At any rate, the greatest danger in this case lies in the code duplication. If performance is not an issue, stick it in a function. If performance may be an issue, start off by sticking it in a function and see if compiler optimizations take care of the issue. If performance is an issue, by all means force it to do what you want by using `goto`.

While there is nothing intrinsically evil about `goto`, most of the developments in programming languages were meant to overcome challenges of the past. We shouldn't dump those developments based upon exceptions to the rule. Rather, we should recognize exceptions to to rule as being extraordinary circumstances in which those developments were not useful.
I don't think folks that focus on race would actually disagree with your first point, it is the goal of every minority to have their minority status not be the dominating force in how they're perceived.

The long game has always been to take some contentious minority status and make it boring and commonplace. An example where you can see the success of the LGBT movement in real time is how "coming out" for gay folks is fading away because it's not some big deal most places anymore. Saying you like girls is trending towards the moral gravity of saying you prefer chocolate ice cream.

And how we got to this point is by making sexual orientation a lens on lots of different issues — gay marriage, sodomy laws, public indecency, access to prep, blood donations, aids treatments,... until people just start to consider their existence by default. You stop having to "advocate" for them.

And in an ironic twist of fate one of the largest contributing factors to lgbt acceptance happening so fast was huge amounts of marketing pushing pretty white people, specifically pretty white femme women as the least offensive gays to raise all ships with the tide. Once you see it you can't unsee it, the same playbook is happening with the trans folks with pretty white trans women and afab enbys.
To index the web, you generally do make a copy of it.

Google has a huge number of books scanned, too.
Los Alamos Pushes Memory Wall with "Venado" Supercomputer
WG21 (C++ Standard Committee) April 2024 Mailing
The kamikaze (Japanese: 神風, lit. 'divine wind') were two winds or storms that are said to have saved Japan from two Mongol fleets under Kublai Khan. These fleets attacked Japan in 1274 and again in 1281.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamikaze_(typhoon)
Screensharing might be more difficult or impossible in some contexts compared to pirated screensharing.

But at the least some providers are helping it with "watch together" offerings. Although at moment its pretty limited and not great experience. But it's not like they aren't making progress toward improving that (though glacier and painfully slow)