skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US and its Cold War allies wanted to use West Germany as a strategic partner against the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union wanted to stripmine East Germany for reparations. Before the end of WW2, the Soviet Union had received large amounts of military aid from the Allies. After WW2 Europe continued to receive aid in the form of the Marshall Plan, which provided heavy discounts on US exports and loans that were mostly forgiven later on.

West Germany's economic boom was in part due to the German government expecting to have to pay the loans back in full and thus setting up a public fund that provided credit to businesses and the rebuilding effort rather than paying them out as direct subisidies to industry. When the loans were eventually forgiven this created a massive windfall. The successor program to the Marshall Plan was explicitly tied to "defeating communism" and focused on military development, which resulted in West Germany rearming despite earlier decisions that the country should be demilitarized. This change of plan was extremely controversial within West Germany and debates around the military involvement of Germany continues to this day.

In East Germany on the other hand, the rebuilding effort happened despite the Soviet Union not with the help of it. Reparations continued even after a lot of the industry had been dismantled and shipped to Eastern Europe while the isolation from Western Europe provided limited opportunities for export and the scarcity of resources meant a lot of early industry was built to provide for the population rather than trade.

Given the conditions, East Germany performed remarkably well, although of course it had a despotic government that would literally shoot its own citizens rather than allow them to leave for greener pastures. The US was also extremely hands-off on West German politics after the immediate occupation era. Presumably a major factor was that the US didn't have as much skin in the game as its European allies whereas e.g. France literally had been occupied by Germans during the war, resulting in much stronger resentment.

It's also worth noting that one of the plans for post-war Germany by the Western allies was full deindustrialization to a greater extent than what the Soviet Union ended up implementing with the explicit goal of turning Germany into an agrarian state incapable of forming a military for the forseeable future. This became less interesting as the divisions between the Soviet Union and the Western Allies became clearer but it wasn't entirely unlikely.
Yes and no. If you need to go from cities east to cities on the west you need to tunnel a lot and those choke points also make maintenance more tricky because you can't really re-route trains elsewhere without adding hours to the trip. Germany, as you said, it's mostly open ground and so you can go in any direction. Rerouting trains in this setting using viable alternatives for effective maintenance should be easier.

And those longer trips wouldn't even count as delays since they were hopefully announced weeks ahead of schedule and so passengers know it will take longer to get to their destination.
Given that this is for college students I think it's fair to be particular about the grammar of the title of this post. Either it should be 'second-brain tool' or, if you must, Second Brain tool; as it stands it reads like youre building a second brain, and it's a tool. Confusing.
But is the lingo really misleading? There's nothing incorrect about "all-wheel drive", "four-wheel drive", or "4x4". The engine is turning all four wheels.

The behavior of open differentials is somewhat counterintuitive, but that applies to 2WD cars too. People get one wheel buried or up in the air and can't comprehend why the car is not moving. Is that a failure of marketing or consumer education? Probably the latter.

For what it's worth, I've seen quite a few "real" 4WD cars with locking differentials getting stuck in silly ways, often because the driver simply had no idea how to lock the diff, or didn't turn off traction control, or just kept flooring it and making the situation worse.

To me, the only potential dishonesty isn't the naming, it's the imagery of SUVs traversing rugged terrains. But that's not strictly a lie, more of a missing footnote: "don't try anything more rugged than that".
It's a pretty generic µC, especially well suited for projects that require high-speed (GP)I/O. It can replace an FPGA in some cases.

DSP extensions and FPU support are also decent, so good for robotics, (limited) AI, audio, etc.

Also great for learning embedded systems. Very low barrier of entry, just need to download IDE and connect it with an USB cable.
and here I was just following a conversation the other day about how the Tools for Thought space was slowing down .....

https://x.com/codexeditor/status/1820757626910855656?t=zkP6H...
This is what I call the 'Malcolm Tucker Test'.

Malcolm Tucker is a character from the BBC TV series The Thick of It, which is a sitcom set in the British government. His role is the PM's Director of Communications, and is allegedly based on Alistair Campbell, the real-life Director of Communications to Tony Blair (who was PM at the time the programme was made). Tucker starts off the show as the 'all-seeing, all-swearing'[0][1] villain, but quickly becomes the hero by virtue of being the only competent character.

The Thick of It is notoriously true to life: numerous insiders from the last British government told journalists that the only difference between the programme and the reality of government is that in The Thick of It, no one ever says, 'This is just like The Thick of It.'

There's a scene (I forget the context) in which Tucker snarls into a phone, 'How much shit's on the menu, and what fucking flavour is it?' This is the Malcolm Tucker Test.

My favourite failure was the AWS Pricing page, which until recently had no prices on it.

Quadrants 2, 3 and 4 fail the test by telling us what the flavour is but not telling us what's been flavoured.

The slogans in Quadrants 2 and 4 aren't as bad as they're painted here, though. Those are big multinationals selling to other big multinationals; their customers aren't compelled by specific assertions of value because their customers' decision-makers don't understand that value in such specific detail.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjKHPv7b3fQ

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYfHB-b3jvA
I don’t write on the internet. But I write notes on my phone, and I code alot if that counts. I write about ideas, goals, programs, things I want to happen
I struggle to find the logic in Apple's fee structure. Imagine if say carmakers (Porsche, BWM, Volvo, etc) demand a cut of revenue from taxi companies?
This would be ridiculous, and yet Apple seems to believe it's OK.

On a personal note, in the last year (since the alt store story, Apple pretending to fail to understand the DMA and other directives, etc) I've completely lost the motivation to build for this platform.
Electron IOS apps are already a thing. I’m pretty sure Obsidian on IOS is electron.
Japan's PM cancels overseas trip after experts issue 'megaquake' warning
And it's bad for the users, they can't rely on the browsername and get different bug and features.

Its a mess, thanks apple.
It's also pretty weird for them to have integrated it so hard in the first place given the Microsoft monopoly case about Internet Explorer in the 90s.

I'm not even sure why they even bothered to create Safari — even though today it happens to be something I prefer over Chrome, there's also still Firefox — and unless I can answer that, I can't tell why they might care about this.
Process over outcomes; systems over goals; growth mindset over fixed mindset; satisficing over maximizing; professionalism over amateurism; boring fundamentals over flashy tricks; response over reaction; agency over passivity; presence over regret and worry.

Unlearning Perfectionism
https://arunkprasad.com/log/unlearning-perfectionism/
Age Values in Foods
It's true but I don't think this would apply for such a simple statement as in this case else how would you say "One is not none" in spanish ?
In the case of missing adults, people who care may not even know they are missing for quite some time.
>It's not like their bottom line or their stock price would notice it when they would just open up their OS a bit more.

Present day Apple is run by bean counters and lawyers and their job is to be paranoid about anything that threatens Apple's bottom line at all costs, and regulation that force them to allow alternate stores are their biggest threat right now since a lot of their income comes from the App store fees and without the lock in they have no moat since smartphones are a commodity now.
> Nor do they want a 3rd party browser phoning home with user data.

I don't own an iPhone. Could for example firefox on iPhone (that uses webkit?) not phone user data home?
Weird I would expect that iOS sandboxes apps in such a way that it doesn't have any impact on other parts of the phone even if the app is hacked.
Well, I've been considering murder because I don't think anyone would miss you . . . but you're a new friend, so let's just shoplift together!
I see only the 4th point as a real problem, which could be solved by fragmenting the network more, like connecting a server to it and not connecting the user directly (UI must reduce the visual noise of netsplits that should be a lot more frequent this way).

The other 3 are UX matters, 2nd point cracks me up because hexchat could split a message in batches of privmsg's eleven years ago, spam control is totally local (so being banned for spamming isn't a given), servers can nowadays buffer a lot of text and throttle messages, albeit bandwidth is mostly free.

Being them UX matters, they aren't worth much, thus IRC will remain broken because there are like two thousands IM competing software that dealt marvellously with those problems.
My experience as an in-house dev working together with freelancers and body shops (in Europe) is less positive.

A pattern I commonly see is that they are heavily technology focused and don't really care about the domain, because domain-specific skills are not transferable. They are snake-oil salesmen, every problem can be solved by adopting some hot new piece of technology which can be added to their CV and increase their market value. What's frustrating is that their contribution is in the end often negative rather than merely zero - adopting over-architected solutions looking good on CV will result in great costs. If you have a strong technical leadership, you can catch their bullshit, but in the op's situation, they would be pretty much relying on freelancers' good will and abilities without much of a chance to verify their claims.

To be fair, I've met also a number of very good freelancers, usually staying with the company for years.

This same danger exists also with the normal employees, but I think this "pad the CV, move on" is more common in freelancers since they generally operate on shorter timescales.
I thought I was the only one who thought this way.

The process of note taking is what really helps me learn things. I think I'm slicing and dicing what I'm reading and imposing on it a structure that helps me create connections and get a deeper understanding. After this, I review the notes almost daily and the way I've written it, positions on the page etc. all help me recollect the material. Over time, it becomes reflexive and I can use that as a foundation to build the next layer of knowledge.

I can see AI tools as a great way to index large amounts of rarely used reference matter. e.g. To solve the "Yeah... I remember reading about that but I'm not exactly sure where". Then retrieve it and everything comes back.

I also see it as useful to quiz me on things which I think I've studied. But outside of that, I think such tools will not help learning but will hold one back. However, this is very dependent on the method of learning one uses.
Allowing alternative app stores and browsers is likely to lead to more security issues, more users using tech support resources because a dodgy app downloaded from a 3rd party app store they installed broke their phone in odd ways and will likely increase expenses without increasing revenue.

Because let's be honest, most of the population does not even understand the idea of "app store" beyond THE app store the same way they don't understand the idea of "search engine" beyond Google Search. If Chrome only allowed you to use Google Search as the search engine, most people wouldn't complain. This is the same. As long as they can download their [insert Big Tech Company here] walled garden app, most will not complain. But if their phone starts misbehaving because of a rogue app from a dodgy app store or phones suddenly get more expensive to compensate for higher costs incurred by Apple for their development and support of third party app stores and browsers most will complain.

UPDATE: getting downvoted for pointing out the reality. Most people are not hackers. They don't want customisation options. They are happy with a default store or browser as long as it is good enough. If you want options, Android is there
> their tech support not being ready to face new problems.

One of the largest, most valuable companies on the planet which ships phones, computers, makes their own chips, operates their own cloud service, builds frontier tech devices, but their tech support can't handle some new problems? Does that really seem likely? Or a problem that they couldn't solve if they wanted to?
> Your description of North and South America being 'America' is the imposition of hispanic imperialism on Anglo-America and the natives. I don't find this acceptable as that is unjust.

This first sentence seems unintelligible. You had already agreed that the Anglosphere saw America as a single continent. Here's your quote:

> Only out of ignorance of where they landed, and what it was. As we learned more this evolved, at least it did in the Anglosphere.

What does hispanic-imperialism have to do with anything? Angloamericans adopted the term of their own accord, at least as far back as the American Revolution. The Spanish Empire no longer exists. I don't think any country that was subject to it want anything to do with empires.

> You do have strong views on Europe and Asia

I don't. You're the one that brought them up:

> There's a better argument that Eurasia is a single continent.

I've been pointing you on how you're willing to ignore your own argument:

> I don't impose my Anglo views on Eurasia [...]

You respect their own denomination, rightly so, but then you don't do the same for hispanoamericans. I can quote you on this, too. Here's the very first thing you said:

> This is not true, as there is no continent called ‘America’.

Then when shown that hispanoamericans continue to use the original meaning of "America":

> Consulting with people's opinions in the Spanish-speaking world really does not matter, because they're still wrong.

Whatever happened to "I don't impose my Anglo views"? That's what you've been doing from your first comment. At first, it was probably just ignorance, but from the above you really just give lower regard. I've pretty much lost hope of you being able to see your double-standard. This is my third attempt.

> I've only made strong statements about my own continent.

As have I. I don't find it acceptable nor just for you to say that my people's opinion on what our own continent is "does not matter".

> As they are not a part of the world that lives within their heads an era of peak hispanic imperialism such as 1492.

Right, we daydream to be recolonized. /s

Based on your language and attempt to give this a ridiculous imperialism spin, when it's just about respecting other peoples' demonyms, I don't continue to believe you're engaging this conversation in good faith.
Thank you, though AntennaPod is the one that I mentioned I'm trying to move away from.
Thnaks for sharing!
There's still app reviews? If Facebook really did ship as a browser, they could just reject it. Just like they reject everything else that goes against their (unwritten) rules.

The alt stores discussion is really <1% of users that'll use it and I don't think is an issue (but anyway, they are policing that too)
This disables JIT for JSC (JavaScriptCore) system-wide.
Third party apps never had been able to JIT on iOS, no permission to write executable pages.
As far as I’m aware, JIT isn’t available to third-party apps on iOS and iPadOS.
>Apple will only authorize developers to implement alternative browser engines after meeting specific criteria and who commit to a number of ongoing privacy and security requirements

Smells like malicious compliance.
Works where archive.ph is blocked:

https://on.ft.com/3WyKE85
As an end user I really don't want Electron apps on my phone. I want people to actually bother to do something native and fast, not cheap for the engineers.
Distributed tracing?

Is that the same as what Elixir/Erlang call supervision trees?
Yes apples does that only for the privacy of the users...
Weird. I can run alternative app stores and browsers on my computer just fine.
It's a good pattern in theory, and the main route I'd personally choose most of the time.

However in practice, depending on the kind of application, it can be really hard to do those gradual rewrites in practice, especially if you want to modernize by introducing new programming languages.

E.g. for a legacy project on the JVM, how do you gradually shift things over to Kotlin? Or for the same project how do you go from Java to Rust? Of course you can also do that by splitting things out into REST services, but now you have to handle reliability issues of your transport layer and have to figure out how to pass large data through it and/or how to handle a barage of calls that were previously swift in-memory function calls. So in practice there are a boatload of potential challenges when doing gradual rewrites, and in my experience very few people have the expertise to pull them off in practice.
Thanks for a great product!

A (small?) ask. Can we have instruction timings please? Like how many cycles SMLAL (signed multiply long, with accumulate) takes?

Will there be an official development board with all 48 GPIOs exposed?
there are some alternative frontends although I am not aware of the innerworking

https://nitter.poast.org/
fantastic tool; I used it a lot to transcribe interviews during plane travels where there was no internet, and I needed to fill the time. Really useful to have if you do a lot of interviews
I begrudge them. The law can simply say what you paraphrased and not try to get into nitty gritty, and leave it at good ol common sense. It's funny how when we interpret laws, they stop at what THEY consider common sense and not at the level that EVERYONE considers common sense. What I mean by that is, say you try to argue (for whatever reason) that your vehicle DOES meet the definition that was oh-so-difficult to write (Won't someone think of the law clerks?), they clearly have a conclusion already in their mind that they are so benevolently protecting us from, and YOU VIOLATED IT, YOU FIEND. But say you get up on the stand and try to argue the exact circumstances of your vehicle, you had a record of every bump and balance point, an IMS log, and a log PROVING the wheels never once slipped, even though you "DIDN'T HAVE 4WD". You could go as far as you want proving them wrong. In the end they'll just tell you to stop trying to be so pedantic and proclaim you guilty.
One of my all time favorite movies! And definitely agreed, I'd be curious to know if there was any direct inspiration
> Program security requirements

>> You must do the following:

>>> Use memory-safe programming languages, or features that improve memory safety within other languages, within the alternative web browser engine at a minimum for all code that processes web content;

AFAIK all major engines are written primarily in C++. This "features that improve memory safety" is worryingly vague, and we already know Apple goes out of it's way to make these rulings less useful.

I wouldn't be surprised if they rejected both Firefox and Chrome on these grounds.
A big part of the "German Miracle" is that while Germany got less money than Britain or France they assumed they'd have to pay all of it back and when they didn't, that created a massive windfall that was used to provide affordable loans to businesses and reconstruction efforts. The "KfW" still exists as a public credit bank today - most younger people aren't aware its name literally expands to "credit institute for reconstruction" in German.

West Germany formally has a "social market economy" and while there have been pushes towards a "free market" economy those were largely the result of reforms from the 1980s onwards. I don't think "free markets" is a good explanation when looking at Germany vs Britain or France in the 1950s to 1970s.
It's great...except for all the standards it doesn't implement. Probably because they can't collect 30% from every web site.
Even if you interpreted that sentence right, that's not a reasonable rebuttal. If a feature stops someone from buying a product, then it makes sense to complain about the feature. Their non-purchase doesn't invalidate the complaint. It's only when someone isn't interested in the category at all that complaints lose their value.
> One of the largest, most valuable companies on the planet

> but their tech support can't handle some new problems

Now you know WHY it's one of the largest. Tech support doesn't scale. Making millions of copies of the same device and making things once then distributing does scale and brings a lot of profits.
like iMessage. Oh wait :)
Can anyone explain why is Apple so opposed to having different browser engineson iOS? Is it really just about security? I don't understand what is Apple to gain by not allowing 3rd party engines everywhere in the world.
> Because let's be honest, most of the population does not even understand the idea of "app store" beyond THE app store the same way they don't understand the idea of "search engine" beyond Google Search.

I think you should show more respect for your users. Walled garden should be an opt in/out. Not long ago most of the population didnt know how to use a PC beyond turning it on, and lots of people thought Windows 95/98/2000 as equivalent to their PC.
I want to know if Firefox or Chrome would pass these requirements as is. If not, they're clearly taking the piss and the EU should take a gigantic dump on them.
Money that goes into this is money that doesn't go into the shareholders pockets or into growing Apple. It's like asking Whatsapp to allow third party clients or expose their API. Makes tech nerd sense but not business sense.

At the of the day, tech nerd sense is working your socks off on an OSS that companies get to use for free with 0 contribution to the ecosystem while accepting underpaid tech jobs. Business sense is decreasing costs and increasing revenue in the long term
Arctic Circle hotter than Florida
You’re a bit confused here. A Subaru is AWD, and essentially has 3 diffs. Centre, front and rear. A Tacoma has 2 diffs. And a transfer case in the middle. A transfer case acts like a locked centre diff when engaged in 4wd, otherwise only sends power to the rear diff. When 4x4 people talk about locking diffs they mean a locking front and or rear diff.

Something like a wrangler rubicon or a G-class would have a locking front and rear from factory which is rare. Transfer case and locking rear isn’t particularly unusual in an offroad vehicle.
Now, hopefully, we all come to a simple realization: opinions vary.
Keeping up denial of the evidence is a valid defense strategy, albeit maybe a cheap one.
For the technical side, this is a part of what a good software engineering team should be teasing out from the verbal requirements. Check if the intermediate PDF is needed, if it is, it still shouldn't be part of the automation path, but instead serialize/send the data properly and output the PDF on the side.
Mudge Back at DARPA as CIO