skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've got to get there from here.

What's needed is a transition plan which ends up totally eliminating taxes from anyone that's not rich, while adjusting tax rates accordingly to make up the difference.

IOW moving steadily in that direction without fail, each year designating more and more non-rich citizens for total tax relief in a very predictable way, both socially and financially.

Rinse & repeat until there is a measurable effect on wealth inequality.

Then use that measure of effect to determine next steps.
OK, if you're talking about 1942 only, I could see it. And the quote I cited did say "in late 1942", so, OK, I should read more thoroughly.

> in attritional war, stocks are less important than flows.

Yeah. And a prolonged war turns into an attritional war. And the US isn't in a great place for that right now.

One good thing about the Ukraine war is that it pointed this out to the US, now, while we're not directly involved.
if you are going to stay, don't update to 8. Update to 9. Any 'significant' fixes you need fixed for 8 wont be possible in this stage of life and only 9 fits that requirement.
No, not “moreso than in other companies” — maximizing profits is something that effectively all companies do.

The difference is that smaller companies can get away with anticompetitive behaviour but there are regulations for market leaders.

What Apple was allowed to do when they were a disrupter is different from what they are allowed to do with a dominant postion in the ecosystem.

PS Saying all companies are greedy and would abuse a market position is not a moral defense of Apple’s behaviour, it’s a defense of antitrust regulations.
Is the problem ultimately to do with your configurations on your centos 7 boxes? Converting to rhel should be easy if you aren't doing anything that red hat wouldn't support in rhel.
We were mutuals on Twitter, alas
The for-profit web surfs the eternal wave of "now". Anything that happened in the past is disregarded by search indexes, social media, and people using them.
Honestly, we should be at least considering nationalizing Boeing. There's a strategic need for us to build planes, and the corporate leadership continues to show they will not emphasize engineering and safety.
What is this part supposed to represent?

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In hindsight I wish I'd told KB "No, don't do it" at the meeting prior to them joining. :/
Funny coincidence. A few days ago I was reading a blog post also about the Visitor pattern in Java, but in the context of recursion schemes (category theory):

http://logji.blogspot.com/2012/02/correcting-visitor-pattern...
> Iraq went from being a bulwark against Iran

Incidentally, the US knowingly and deliberately assisted Iraq in the use of chemical weapons against Iran during the Iran-Iraq War.
Japan in.1935 and Germany in 1939 also seemed none of our business.

Our world is too small and interconnected, and the US is too big and interconnected to the world, for anything to be "not our business", whether we want it or not. Especially a major war in Europe next to our miliray allies' borders.
Exactly, and groups of people behave differently from a single person in many important ways.
This is really unusual for QB Online to be down for so long, it has been over 2 hours so far. There are the obvious rumours about it being a hack in the back end. There are also whispers on Reddit about some big companies being unable to process CC payments today, and that its all linked somehow.

I guess we will soon see!
>The people looking for the support are busy doing something and looking to pay a company for the support

I mean, if they are using CentOS, apparently not.
https://www.americanambassadors.org/publications/ambassadors...

Classic example of "anything inadqeuately tested turns out not to work": the torpedoes were "too expensive" to test in realistic scenarios. So they weren't. That meant a cascade of problems - wrong depth, early magnetic detonation, failed impact detonation - all of which showed up in live fire as "miss", which could be blamed on individual commanders until the problem became too big to ignore.

There's a very high chance that something which is a critical fancy weapons system that has not been used in anger will turn out not to work in actual combat.
Only 5% of my work - I don't deal with them but a few times per year. I'm constantly confounded by how difficult they make relatively simple things, compared to other clients/projects I work with. But... this is dealing with state government. There are definitely sharp people that work in state govt - not dumping on all of them. But... this dept's incentives don't typically align with most others, and there's generally little that can be done about it. My eyes water when I see what my project is required to pay for this, relative to the 'support' we get.
That's a table being flipped. The whole thing is the table-flip eastern-style emoticon (kaomoji).
I've always wondered why it doesn't provide PowerShell support since it too is built atop .NET
Mint is actually great. I used to dismiss it because it seemed slow with its technical choices, but the flip side of that is that the experience is really refined. The support is great and it's very well suited for beginners and especially people who prefer GUI tools over the command line.
Are you some kind of spambot?
I use the top of the page to track where I am reading.

When a header is hidden on scrolldown, and shown on scrollup, that breaks a core feature that I was actively using.

To make matters worse, scroll direction is incredibly finicky on mobile, so I can't even consistently decide whether your ridiculous header is shown or not.
Anyone who can perform the arcane incantations and rituals required to uninstall, disable, defuse, and circumvent all the user hostile anti-features ( which are only increasing in number by the way ) will do just fine with Linux in my honest opinion.
Slashdotted. Here's a mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20240511095911/https://www.yoleg...
Running software written by game studios using Windows userland.
AI Designs Magnet Free of Rare-Earth Metals in Just 3 Months
Malicious compliance may work as a strategy in Common Law jurisdictions like the US, but not in the EU where Civil (Roman) Law means exactly what it says and judges apply it, as opposed to inventing excuses for not doing so like Robert Bork's gutting of both letter and spirit of antitrust law.
I do this too, and I like it a lot: https://www.jefftk.com/p/mastodon-replies-as-comments

> Using Mastodon to power our comments means that every time someone visits the blog post, the user’s browser makes a request to your Mastodon instance. ... I’d proxy these requests through my server, but it’s yaks all the way down.

I do proxy these, and it's not too much work [1]. A major reason to proxy is so you can cache: if a blog post gets HN'd it could easily get more traffic than your Mastodon instance would like to receive.

[1] https://github.com/jeffkaufman/webscripts/blob/master/commen...
If you want to get more technical, lean in to the Electrical Engineering department and find some courses there. You'll learn a lot about the underlying hardware and logic that your programming is interfacing with.

If you want to learn about applying your skills more successfully, look into an area where you think you'll be working. Most people don't graduate with a CS degree and start working on compilers. I worked at a network vendor where we made firewalls/routers, a lot of our programmers didn't have a clue how customers implemented our products in the real world. In that case, taking networking and security courses would be beneficial.
It's hard to tell if they use it. Most of SEO is just cargo-culting because of how difficult it is to experiment with it. Somebody once said it helped them to remove the date, and now everyone does it. Maybe google is using it, or was using it at some point. Maybe they use the date in structured data [1] because it's easier to get and potentially more reliable (telling content changes and theme changes apart isn't trivial), and people just noticed that if they turn off the date feature in their CMS their articles rank better.

1: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structu...
> According to the makers of MagNex, compared with conventional magnets, the material costs are 20 percent what they would otherwise be, and there's also a 70 percent reduction in material carbon emissions.

> "In the electric vehicle industry alone, the demand for rare-earth magnets is expected to be ten times the current level by 2030*
Last I checked, CentOS Stream is not FIPS certified, and CentOS 8 is already past EOL, which makes it not allowed for FedRAMP.

And IIRC CentOS8 FIPS certificate was taken out by Red Hat (wouldn't have had to implement our own FIPS handling on CentOS7 if not for that move).
... And we all know that rolling upgrades frequently introduce breaking changes that don't make sense for enterprise environments. To your (great) point: Customers pay companies like red hat for software stability, both in how it works and how their software interfaces to it.
Thanks for the detailed response and examples, really appreciate it!
You mean my Python 2 tutorial isn't evergreen content marketing? :(
You can play around with the language itself here

https://polarity-lang.github.io/oopsla24/#ChurchEncodingCoda...
>> Every apple that gets pulled from the bushel is rotten and there are a lot of apples left.

This is part of a larger degradation of rules-based order. Companies do not fear regulators and certainly have no moral or ethical qualms about violating established rules. Ignoring rules is now an expected part of business. It is rewarded. We champion "disrupter" leaders who openly defy authorities and tear apart established norms of behavior. That needs to change. Shareholders need to stop rewarding such activity.
Instead of sticky notes I love asides in between the content.
2% after 30 years is hardly an ever increasing audience.

Proton is not an escape when it is still Windows software, using Windows APIs, written by companies targeting Windows customers.
Imagine if Steam took 30% of all sales on their platform! Or if Nintendo or Sony or Microsoft charged developers 30% for online app sales! (Spoiler: they all do).

There are lots of things worth criticizing about Apple's model, but I'll never understand the fixation on the 30% rule. They provide a distribution platform that is every bit as robust and has a much larger reach than the video game consoles, and if they want to charge the same prices as the consoles I don't see why that's the hill to die on when there are so many other things that are more obviously rotten.
And even if you did it properly, you're basically guaranteed to be overweight on luxury 'consumer discretionary' sectors because you have the surplus cash to do this, making the 'consumer defensive' part an inherently modest portion of your budget and therefore portfolio.

And your mortgage probably makes you wildly over/under (but not correct) weight on residential real estate according to whether you consider it a payment you need to reflect in your portfolio or a part of your portfolio and therefore it's mising a justifying expenditure.

And you'd presumably have no exposure to industrial real estate, defense, anything b2b, ...

But it's a fun idea and I'll admit to similar irrational thinking when I was annoyed by Amex charging (and refusing to refund) me and my wife separately while I was in the middle of trying to talk to them about merging them/closing one. (Which reminds me, must do that soon before it happens again..)
In economics terms - a Veblen good

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
What breaking changes do those upgrades introduce? Is there any compatibility guide?
CentOS Stream has a 5-year lifecycle. Support ends when the full support (prior to maintenance support) period of the corresponding RHEL release ends.
Probably a tree set, with O(log(n)) lookups
Isn't DEI the opposite of racism?
The special feature is that EU laws are written in so many different languages that a textual interpretation is not only not preferred, but completely impossible.

US law places a moderate degree of emphasis on textualism in statutory interpretation, at least for a Common Law jurisdiction. Even the word “textualism” comes from the US. It’s somewhat common for courts in the US courts to pull out a copy of Webster’s dictionary in order to interpret a statue, that kind of thing rarely happens in English law.

There are definitely some jurisdictions within the EU that place a much higher degree of emphasis on the text of a law than the US does, in their domestic legal systems, e.g. Germany. So I don’t think it’s the case that US companies are unprepared to deal with a legal system that is based on intention compared to EU companies.
It's crazy how close that door blowout was to being just that kind of disaster. If it happens later/higher it's a much different outcome.
The trick is to effectively study subjects you’re burnt out on or no longer have that magnetic attraction to.
The TSS was always one of the most obnoxious aspects of the 80286 that stuck around much longer than it should have. On 386 or anything newer, using it was _slower_ than implementing it in software, yet you still needed them to implement task gates necessary for things like exceptions and interrupts.

If anyone actually has a serious need to use ancient 16 bit software, emulators like 86Box work very well. Software that old doesn’t really need performance faster than, say, a Pentium 90, which 86Box has no trouble achieving on my M1 (ARM) MacBook.

You can also use winevdm[1] on modern 64 bit Windows operating systems. I have this in production use for a niche case where someone can’t give up a particular 16 bit app, and I didn’t want to tangle with a VM for them.

The technical details of making sure a modern CPU still functions exactly like an 80386, which in turn made sure it functioned like an 80286, when you fire up a 16 bit task on, say, 32-bit Windows 10 (or 64-bit with something like winevdm[1]) sound like a nightmare for a microcode engineer or QA tester.

[1] https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
This suggestion revisits the classic "formal top-down" vs "informal bottom-up" approaches to building a semantic knowledge management system. Top-down has been tried extensively in the pre-big-data models and pre-probabilistic models era, but required extensive manual human curation while being starved for knowledge. The rise of big-data bode no cure for the curation problem. Because its curation can't be automated, larger scale just made the problem worse. AI's transition to probability (in the ~1990s) paved the way to the associative probabilistic models in vogue today, and there's no sign that a more-curated more-formal approach has any hope of outcompeting them.

How to extend LLMs to add mechanisms for reasoning, causality, etc (Type 2 thinking)? However that will eventually be done, the implementation must continue to be probabilistic, informal, and bottom-up. Manual human curation of logical and semantic relations into knowledge models has proven itself _not_ to be sufficiently scalable or anti-brittle to do what's needed.
>but we're talking about the dispatch of armed agents of the state who are permitted to use violence in the discharge of their duties.

You could say the same thing about a police officer being sent to direct traffic at a busy intersection, or going to a school for career day. Just because the police officer is an armed agent of the state permitted to use violence doesn't mean the police officer shouldn't do things that aren't very serious.
HDR is coming. The OLED steam deck supports it, for example.
I love Mint! I am a refugee. When I read about the requirement to have a Microsoft account I motivated to learn and finally make the switch. Mint does have its issues with modules, and package availability, but I am slowly learning its quirks.
Oracle also was the first to release updates last time I compared the three of them side by side, which was about a year ago. I installed Rocky, Alma and Oracle 9 on three VMs, pointed them as close to upstream repositories as possible (to avoid mirroring delays), and just started them every day to see who was the first to update. I also checked RPM metadata which includes build time. The experiment ran for (IIRC) about two months.

Oracle was consistently the first, lagging behind RHEL for a few hours (for important stuff) to a couple of days (for less important ones). Alma was a very close second. Rocky would spend days to weeks and was by far the slowest.

No, I don't buy the argument that it's good for you because they receive additional testing. If you really need that much stability that you can't take an update after RHEL has done so, introduce your own delays and test your shit on staging. I'd like my upstream to be as quick as practically possible. Oracle and Alma cover that nicely.

All this might have changed in the meantime.
To card issuing banks, absolutely not. Visa and Mastercard compete for their business.

To merchants, yes, since they can't reasonably only accept one but not the other, as that would turn away a large fraction of their customer base. This is why most regulatory action happens here.

> subject to constant regulatory scrutiny without adding laws to force new entrants

There are absolutely measures taken to encourage new market entrants or at least more competition among the existing ones. (Whether they are effective is a different question.)

As one example, in the US, every debit card issuer is obliged to add at least one other brand/network to their cards, so that merchants do in fact have some routing choice. In Europe, some countries also have a domestic competing debit scheme, such as CB in France, Girocard in Germany etc.

> I don't think that anything needs to be done about that more than is already done.

I think you underestimate how unstable the current equilibrium is. The interchange cap regulation is relatively new, and I doubt that the networks will fail to come up with other ways to grow their market share and/or revenue that will, at some point, require further regulatory scrutiny.
Moshe Safdie: My Steps and Gardens and Bees
But you'll build your business on software you get for free on the internet with absolutely no commitment behind it?
I’m here to communicate not be pedantic. I’m sure you could understand what I meant.
> Whether it be the rent-seekers at JetBrains

This is a gratuitously negative comment that is unfair and uses an incorrect metaphor. Rent-seeking is trying to charge for something without providing any new value, usually from something already established as free. I don't believe Rider was ever available for free, but even if it was, they certainly have improved it with loads of new value since then. You're welcome to your opinion (that I don't share) that their IDEs are not worth the cost, but you're also free to not buy them. That's not rent-seeking, it's the free market.

I personally am a big fan of Rider and the JetBrains Toolbox suite, and I get several times more value out of my subscription than it costs. YMMV.
Just to be contrary, I find things on the page updating as I scroll to be distracting. I consider that kind of thing to be like a modern <blink> tag. On sites I read frequently, I nuke those elements with uBlock Origin. I guess I'm sort of a HTML fundamentalist, though.
> MacOS is basically unusable without logging into an Apple account

It depends if you mean the OS + cloud services + app store, or just having an OS to run programs. The former definitely needs the Apple ID, but the latter doesn't. When I first switched back to macOS I refused any Apple ID linkage during OOBE and it never asked again. I just used Nextcloud, Firefox, LibreOffice and FOSS utilities, everything worked.

Later I did connect it after researching Apple's privacy policies, encryption methods and on-device processing - afaik I'm getting the cloud goodness without Apple selling my data, and that was enough to sway me.
Lots of great features here!

On the link preview feature, both Wikipedia's and Gwern's implementations put the preview on top of the main content. I think this is much nicer to put to the side, where its less intrusive: https://www.jefftk.com/p/preview-on-hover
A similar thing that really perplexes me is that GitHub uses relative dates. You try to find the date a certain change was made, and you end up scrolling through page after page of "six years ago."

It feels like the sort of thing that is only really sticking around because it was a design trend many years ago when some of these apps were written.
Companies like Boeing generally can trace every material they get back to the mine or recycling center it came from. They won't buy if a slave was in the mine. Sure there are 7 layers of company between the mine and the company, but you still trace all those layers. This ensures not only do they not use things like slave labor, but also that the correct environmental controls are in place all down the line, and other such things.

If Boeing isn't doing the above they are at fault for the mistakes. No pushing this off on a supplier the buck stops at Boeing who could have solved this. There are other companies that do this correctly for the things they care about.

Of course you will not that many things use slave labor or don't have environmental control. The key is what companies care about.
As someone who is starting to work on a defense product, I can tell you that defense products are also built on confidence a lot more than you think. You have to make a lot of claims that your users can't test, so they rely on things like being able to audit your code and testing processes and/or your reputation. You also have to be able to make promises that your products and support (or something compatible) are going to be around for 10+ years.

Boeing has already lost some of this trust with the issues in the consumer aviation sector, but the space and defense side of Boeing is still going strong. A bankruptcy could risk Boeing's space and defense lines.

One big fault here is with Boeing's board. Boards are supposed to control the short-term greed of executives and protect stock value. Boeing's board should do a prophylactic firing of the C-suite (replace the CEO with someone who will fire the rest), putting the engineers back in charge, but I doubt they will do that.
One site I like a lot is https://mriquestions.com/index.html

It has a really interesting navigation where there's an article, links to related articles, and references etc.

Part of what I really like about it is the format of having the main text and then an "Advanced Discussion" accordion at the bottom that can be folded out for more detail. It's not uniformly used across all pages but I do like the format a lot. It's sort of an alternative to sidenotes but less disjoint where it treats the first part of a page as the intro and then expands in detail directions. It lets the intro be a higher-level and then "corrected" below.

Example (just one I found, there are better ones but not all pages have them):

https://mriquestions.com/how-to-reduce-sar.html

Anyway just chiming in that it's a microfeature that I like vs say wikipedia which can just be... massively overwhelming on some pages.

I don't necessarily think this feature is fully realized at mriquestions, but the MRI field suffers from multiple audiences (radiologists, technologists, engineers, etc) and its really difficult to pull content together that foster communication between these groups. mriquestions is by a radiologist so its a bit lacking on the engineering details side but its still pretty good but higher-level technologists use it well to get beyond the lies we tell them. It doesn't really get too far into the lies we tell radiologists though but sometimes it gets close (by lies I mean oversimplifications) and usually the references are good for the technical details.
I came to the comments expecting more pushback but I'm surprised. What happened to the simplicity of reading articles without status indicators, link popups, notes, conversations, ...?

OK, table of contents, you're cool.