skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US printing is not the same as everyone else printing. Almost all trade deals worldwide are done in USD. Everyone except the US must export goods and services (i.e. actually work) to acquire the dollars which will finance their imports; US can just print.

Goods and services that are traded internationally are priced in USD. Other currencies do not end up directly representing goods and services; they are relative to the USD. Therefore, the demand for dollars is always very high, and it will be as long as the dollar keeps the reserve currency status.
(Ugh, FTR, I just realized it was a GLA, not A Class.)
I believe it already started, SAS posted couple of messages [1] that they retired their boeings. I believe they currently only have couple of boeing lefts for some medical emergencies.

[1]: https://www.sasgroup.net/about-sas/the-fleet/ (instagram post section)
The idea that a debugger can be used instead of DEBUG log messages is somewhat laughable. Even in js client-side situations, a bunch of console.log calls can be a lot more informative than triggering the debugger.
It's not only Germany but also Austria and France (until 2004?). The Germany Wegzugsbesteuerung is meant to prevent cases where Germans leave the country for more than seven (or twelve upon request) years, e.g. to Switzerland, sell their Germany company stock and profit from paying a much lower tax or none like in Switzerland. Steuerflucht, tax evasion is prevented with this and there are certainly many who'd other move abroad, sell without taxation and move back again. There a plenty of exceptions though with countries Germany has a Doppelbesteuerungsabkommen (double taxation treaty) with to prevent cases where the individual would have to pay taxes in both countries.

Personally I never heard of this tax before, despite being a German living in Austria, but then: The tax targets wealthy individuals with company holdings trying to evade taxation.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wegzugsbesteuerung
"Free will" and "consciousness" are poorly defined, as each means different things to different people.

I can't remember if it was Frederick Nitzsche or Alistair Crowley who said there's only one thing you can do which is truly your own will; that definition seems to me inherently deterministic in a way which violates other people's ideas of free will.

I've seen (and been confused by) a Young Earth creationist fundamentalist Baptist, who cleaned not to believe in evolution "because [he] believed in free will".

"Consciousness" apparently has around 40 definitions.
This is accurate. HR doesn't want protesters on staff, and HR often googles candidates, checks social media, etc.

They may find sympathy at some businesses, but the larger the company, likely the less of that.
Mystery 'Gpt2-Chatbot' Fuels Speculation over OpenAI's Next Gen ChatGPT
There's some pretty interesting detail on how this works. Addressing the supply-side instead of demand sounds sensible to me. It sounds so simple, I wonder how they've made it work and others can't. Is it political; is it a case of needing to just be bit heavy handed and somehow force this prpoach through to try it out; or have other location got unique challenges where this approach couldn't work regardless of any push-back being overcome?

>Vienna’s affordable housing system is supported by a 1% tax on all salaries which provides a permanent funding stream for new construction...The housing tax currently generates about $250m annually and the city gets a further $200m in rental income and loan repayments.

>Since the 1990s, most new developments are built by limited-profit housing associations, which benefit from 1% government loans.

>Most of it goes into subsidising construction, whereas in the US it mostly goes to directly subsidising residents through vouchers and housing benefit schemes.

And how they handle NIMBYism:

>the urban planner Kurt Hoftstetter explained that they had held up to 20 meetings in the nearby villages before they began construction. “We did this to inform residents of our plans and ask them how we could make it more acceptable to them. But we did not ask their permission.”
What would be the solution? More frequent elections are welcome to me, every 2 years or I'll take 3. That should hopefully lower the delaying strategy and easily sniff bribes since they don't have much time.
They were already doing it on Skylab: https://youtu.be/qiMq-fdRhLo
What is the fascination with Figma? Maybe my expectations are just wrong, but as long that it cannot generate reusable HTML templates and CSS from the mock-ups it's just a fancy Microsoft Publisher which doesn't make life easier for anyone but designers. If anything it only serves to move designers further away from the developers doing the implementation.

Am I just holding it wrong?
OpenJDK isn’t mentioned once in the apps description, and it is GPL which means this entire application may have to be GPL (IANAL)
Chatbot Arena has banned Gpt2-Chatbot by now. It's not entirely clear, the notice says:

gpt2-chatbot is currently unavailable. See our model evaluation policy here.

It's not clear to me though, which part of the policy they violated though.
Artificial light at night suppresses the day-night cardiovascular variability
Recent Toyotas (Yaris, CH-R, RAV4) were listed among the most buggy cars in Europe... Mitsubishi is now openly selling rebadged Renaults that aren't known for their longevity either. Even luxury European brands are becoming cheapened - Mercedes is now selling cars with Dacia/Renault engines.
Lab mice might be doing their own experiments could have way better outcomes compared to the current big pharma self funded research programs.

Maybe they could also do some independent peer reviews of big pharma's research too.

I love mice.
In the iPadOS app, it’s under Settings then Data Controls; I presume it’d be similar for other interfaces.
100% agree. Taking a paycheck is the worst way to make money in America. That said, it makes me even more sympathetic to the post you replied to. Basically no one working a 9-5 is making enough to owe the IRS $48 million, including this guy. If you make $240 million, pay your damn tax and be happy.
Why do you say that google would rather not deal with them personally?
... mention it on a UK forum, European forum or any forum?
The visual quality is really good.

I'm not entirely convinced of making this responsive, in the particular area of Jazz leadsheets. I've found myself preferring line breaks at regular intervals (mostly every 4 bars, with exceptions for pickups and alternate endings), rather than trying to cram as many bars as possible onto each line.
please, for the love of god, don't regress to manual hosts curation ...
Because US citizens have an IRS filing requirement even when living abroad. It is a very uncommon requirement among countries.
Many of us work, or have worked (for me, thankfully, past tense) at the companies turning phones and tablets into exploitation devices. The data is clear. And here, so is the personal experience.

If you want something that can "call for help," there are many options other than smartphones.
Concurring that Inkscape today is awesome, while it definitely was not a decade ago (how the time flies... and decade ago it was already... ten years old or so!).

Disclaimer: I'm an engineer not a UX/UI designer, and I use Inkscape mostly for graphic designs and the odd super-simple CAD stuff where I don't think starting qcad is worth it. Still, I'm immensely happy that I can just get stuff done in Inkscape and that everything inside makes sense and is generally discoverable "solely by logic".
And that's far from the only thing Excel does quietly. It also changes comma's to semi-colons based on system locale. It's braindead.
Was Tesla ever a car you wanted if you wanted quality, that is good fit and finish. Consistent gaps on panels. Suspension not breaking in regular use... You know absolute basics I get for fraction of the price from Koreans for example.
Very short sighted thinking. If they beheaded Sam bankman fried there will be a clear message to not commit financial crime, and the aspiration and motivation would almost zero.

The gesture of the freeing these two brave whistleblowers is much more important than you think. Noam Chomsky calls this censorship flak of his five filters.

> If you want to challenge power, you’ll be pushed to the margins. When the media – journalists, whistleblowers, sources – stray away from the consensus, they get ‘flak’. This is the fourth filter. When the story is inconvenient for the powers that be, you’ll see the flak machine in action discrediting sources, trashing stories and diverting the conversation.
Yeah dogs are cute when they are dreaming. You can see them run in green grassy fields.

The last thing you would do is to interrupt this moment of happiness.

(Off topic : dogs are so good)
Is this a plug for kagi? People who don't use kagi can't see the results. Just link to the extensions.
I feel the same
Pretty much every airline wikipedia article mentions the fleet size and what planes they have. I checked previously. American Airlins and Delta have 50/50 Airbus and Boeing planes at 700-800 total each company. Most American ones are 50/50 Airbus / Boeing planes in general.
I'm not saying that all violent resistance is wrong. In fact the analogy of the PLO fits here perfectly. In the 70's PLO terrorists invaded the north of Israel and killed children. They were brutal. Yet Israel came to terms with them, some of which hold to this day.

The split between the two sides is also a good analogy. The Irish here are a bit in the middle between Israelis and Palestinians. I think this is one of the main reasons Palestinians keep loosing and Israel keeps winning.

During the resistance years to the British occupation of Israel/Palestine, both Palestinian and Jews had groups. Palestinians remained divided to familial groups which is a division that holds to this day. They are rivals and never truly unified under compromise of a single ruler.

OTOH the more extreme Jews were led by Begin, they conducted terror attacks (which are moderate by today's standard) but still extreme. This led to several attacks from the moderate side led by Ben Gurion. This included turning in the extremists to the British (effectively betraying their own people) and even shooting at one of their ships.

Here Begin showed his greatness. He surrendered. He understood that if he continues there will be a civil war. The country unified around Ben Gurion and Begin was cast into opposition for 30 years. This willingness to sacrifice his ideology in favor of unity and compromise is one of the most important reasons Israel is unified to this day. Palestinians don't have figures like that. Never have.

Arafat was fantastically rich. Abu Mahazen is famously corrupt. The leaders of Hamas are living off in Qatar in a lavish style with millions they stole from their own people (they used to charge a heavy fee to smuggle through their tunnels).

The problem is that the structure of Palestinian society makes it very difficult to anyone who isn't corrupt to rise to the top and hold power. The right wing in Israel usually say's that there's no partner for peace. I think that's a terrible excuse but they do have a point.

> since (unlike Hamas) they actually didn’t want to cede Belfast

Hamas won't cede any part of Israel so the IRA seems far more moderate. I'd say the analogy would be like the IRA demanding the entire UK.
The President is the chief executive of both agencies. He didn't need to have one agency recommend it to the other for consideration over a multi-year timescale. It could have been executed within a few weeks to a few months. The office of the President knowingly chose a prolonged approach.

I feel it is misleading to call it an "effort", as if the President was struggling against the very agencies that he was elected to lead, decisively. Congress is supposed to be the slow-moving deliberative rule-making body.

If he really did struggle, it would say a lot about the growth of the administrative state and would highlight a constitutional health issue.
Looks like apple thinks so too

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/30/safari-ai-features-comi...
ESBuild, one of my favourite Go projects, uses panics to handle try/catch exceptions.

The syscall/js package [0] throws panics if something goes wrong, rather than returning errors.

Go already has try/catch exceptions. We just don't use them most of the time because they're a really bad way of handling errors.

[0] https://pkg.go.dev/syscall/js
justwatch.com lets you check different countries as well.
First time I hear this. Given how you are being down voted, I'm probably not the only one.
A quick google indicates that it was made default in debian 8 in 2015, which is 9 years ago, not 12.

Perhaps it was available prior to then, but so were daemontools, upstart, and probably a variety of other alternatives.
This is a truly unhinged comment and I can’t work out if it’s an art project or not. Love it.
If given choice to invest in a US company or an EU company, all things being equal, I'd pick US any day of the week. 10% to 20% premium seems kinda low in fact.
You'd need to be root already, so hard.
Why do they have to be widespread?
Switzerland didn't land a man on the moon
Every Leatherman I’ve ever had has broken in short order.
SOTA = state of the art
They're somewhat unrelated, because while there's more dollars, the domestic demand for those dollars is also higher now, for lots of reasons. Inflation, the high amount of American debt (which must be paid in dollars), the looming threat of a recession, which entices Americans to save (and they'd prefer to save in dollars and not some other currency).

It says a lot more about the preferences of Americans that it does about any of the other countries.
I just realised I've used Linux on the desktop for 30 years this year.
I remember getting the cisco compatible switch optics from Memory dealers. Heaps cheaper than Cisco- $5 an optic compared to $1000.
Spaces are great in combination with profiles. I have a space/profile for work and personal, since my work requires a few different extensions, Google login, etc
They make great trucks. The powerstroke in superduties is legendary
> Tesla’s current valuation is pretty much thanks to him.

And nobody has a larger interest in Tesla's valuation them Musk himself, the largest shareholder.

He can't walk and any threats to that effect are theatrics. Shareholders would be idiots to re-approve the $55bn.
If we had a magical (fast) oracle for grading responses, have people done search/expert iteration for LLMs?

Specifically for codegen, i am playing with an iterative interpreter that can quickly (re)evaluate a tree of similar responses
An interview with a former Soviet soldier who survived the Battle of Stalingrad
If this is the only bug, then this is easily solvable: create the pty in the daemon.
This is one of those instances where technical language is misleading. The US dollar is indeed "strong", but it still buys less stuff than it did last year. The gold price is not impressed by this sort of strength. The news is interesting more as commentary on relative policy positions of central banks around monetary supply and how much of that is leaking into international trade.

On that topic; I've been watching the US Treasury's "Major Foreign Holders of Treasury Securities" [0] with some interest. There are some very big strategic changes afoot; China doesn't seem particularly willing to take US debt any more. They'd going to be 3rd largest holder soon and now hold less than 10% of the outstanding US treasury debt.

[0] https://ticdata.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-cent...
Most clean power purchasing strategies do little to cut emissions
You can't think of ways this could break things? I would find this a useful feature, but I'm also aware of how this works, and the issues it could cause.
> Except for libz, they are only linked indirectly though libsystemd.

Ah, that invalidates my point re. obscure test data. Sloppy use of ldd. (I'm guessing it would be much harder making such an attack on a crypto library.)

Thanks.
I have a similar concern as an American living in Europe for the last ten years. It was OK-ish when I could work remote and price myself in USD but given the softness in the software job market and the very weak Euro (combined with very low pay in Europe in general) it does make it harder to consider ever being able to move back.
Not containers, but cgroups, and that is how HPC clusters work today. You still need multiple users though.
Linode exclusively for 10 + years. Brilliant Service. Even still decent when acquired by Akamai
Go the same route as Docker and Nextcloud perhaps? Offer professional services (hosting, personal support, advanced org-centered functions) at a fee to fund the open source part. You could split the software up into a "community" and a "professional" part with different licenses.
You have to be pretty smart and evil to assasinate your whistle blower in broad daylight with the entire world watching just before he's being heard AND GET AWAY WITH IT.

Nothing "idiot" about that. Evil is the right word.
As an American Mechancal product design engineer I can say this is exactly true. Oftentimes cost is decided before many other features of a product.

We have been hollowing out this for profit for years.
Great idea. e/acc.
Indeed, that is primarily where it excels. Your layered source files are SVG and you can export to SVG (and you can import in SVG obviously). The bitmap selection/exporting is also excellent as such you can have these massive vector canvases (with any number of bitmaps and vector shapes/graphics mixed in) and quickly export any slice or selection you make without having to resize the canvas or copy/paste somewhere - and it will remember the export path when you click on the object or layer again later (aside from a bug with symlinks on Linux); ideal for iterative work/exporting revisions to clients or colleagues.
Japan monetary policy is a ponzi scheme waiting to crash

been that way for decades
Would it be really silly to just get rid of US citizenship as soon as possible?

You can live and work in US without citizenship, right?

Which citizenship would be good to get instead of US?
The beauty of the system is that a flex box rule of flex: 1 1 25%; will give you 4 bars per line (each averaging 25% of the width). The system is flexible.
Super cool, I would love to use this!
As an experienced Go dev, this is literally not a problem.

Golang code has a rhythm: you do the thing, you check the error, you do the thing, you check the error. After a while it becomes automatic and easy to read, like any other syntax/formatting. You notice if the error isn't checked.

Yes, at first it's jarring. But to be honest, the jarring thing is because Go code checks the error every time it does something, not because of the actual "if err != nil" syntax.
Yep, but for that example, sed has a -i too.

Also I recommend adding a backup for inplace edits.

man perlrun recommends -spi.orig
https://archive.is/mfi5v
Gambling is actually illegal trough, no? AFAIK porn is the only proper example
> Toyotas (Yaris, CH-R, RAV4) were listed among the most buggy cars in Europe

Where are you getting that from? Toyotas are famously some of the most reliable cars you can buy.
That's really great, a nice example of a good blog post!
It is a bit different though, because the German exit tax applies to companies and people holding more than a 1% share in a company. So no exit tax if you hold bitcoins as part of your private assets...

Agreed that there is some tension with EU principles, but it is difficult to get it right. Building a company in country A for 20 years, then moving to country B for 184 days to sell it completely without paying taxes also does not seem like a fair system.
It depends on whether sudo was compiled with --disable-env-reset or not, it's on by default[1].

Also some variables are inherited regardless (e.g. DISPLAY, TERM), and some useful ones (e.g. HOME) are initialized by sudo, but I can't tell where that's done.

[1]: https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/blob/ef52db46f9b375d7ff...
Even if the labor components of fabrication were identical, his preferred streetlight has a lot more metal in it. Going by the catalogs, the ornamental ones are up to 5x costlier than the basic model. Even if it were only slightly more expensive, a city has to maintain thousands of them.
But why not both?
As an European consumer I became wary of US products. Very often you will find that what is delivered doesn't quite live up to what was advertised, sometimes it is just the more expensive version of the exact same thing you would find on Aliexpress. Sometimes it is a bit like getting a McDonalds burger and comparing it to their product picture.

And even if it is a genuine design I always wonder if customer satisfaction or the shareholder value is more important when push comes to shove. As I had expensive things that should last a lifetime fail only to find out that it was just a metal case around the same plastic crap you'd find in a product one magnitude cheaper.

Not to say that this affects all areas, certain specialized equipment from the US is still top notch, e.g. SoundDevices with their audio recorders or similar equipment.

Not to say that this isn't also a trend found in products from elsewhere. The way I see it "Made in $X" doesn't mean a lot anymore. E.g. it could mean that top engineers from $X designed a product that is manufactured with the tightest tolerances on the best machines in a way that it lasts forever, or it could mean that a underpaid engineer was pressed by beancounters to replace the last metal piece with a plastic one and it has been injection molded by a subcontractor that does that as a high-volume, low-margin filler job they only take to fill the gaps in their production schedule.

Made in the US or Made in Germany doesn't mean anything at all, because bean counters extracted the value connected to that trust over the past decades. Now there is no trust left to extract.
People starting to put abstractions over it means a) there's a chance people will start asking for a given abstraction rather than Kubernetes, and not care if that abstraction eventually subsumes or replaces Kubernetes, b) at least some people think Kubernetes is enough of a nuisance to deal with to be looking for alternatives.

Whether that means Kubernetes is dying, I'm not so sure. But Kubernetes is extremely complex for a lot of workloads that it's total overkill for, so I'm not surprised people are looking for options.
If people moan about something as basic as AEB, how would you implement automatic speed limit enforcing in cars.
Cool this is great thank you. Gonna give it a good read later.

I think that’s a fantastic explanation. You should do more of this! I understood everything you said :)
You are not wrong. Designer-developer handoff isn't smooth. Use of hard-coded pixel values throughout is difficult to get around. They even made the Dev mode a paid feature last I remember.
Does US do that?
God, that's cursed. I love it. Thank you for that wonderful journey to a place no man was meant to go.
You should read "the global minotaur" by yanis varoufakis. It explains exactly why this is the case. This is true only for the US and it is because other countries buy dollars in bulk to keep the dollar high because:
1) not keeping the dollar high will devalue their dollar reserves.
2) they need large reserves of dollars to be able to facilitate trade in dollar denominated resources like oil.
3) they buy us treasury bonds because this will raise the value of their dollars and because it ks historically a safe investment.