skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My neighbors are great. I have an Italian neighbor. He’s great too. But for two generations, American democracy was upended as Italians voting as an ethnic bloc fueled corrupt machine politics. New York and New Jersey never recovered.

Your neighbors might be great as individuals as well. That’s irrelevant to my point. Chicago might be the poster child of a city that could’ve been orderly and well run. Except for the last century it’s been riven by ethnic conflict and immigration-fueled machine politics that has sapped the government’s ability to actually serve its people.

Contrast New England. A large number of people from New England retire in the Annapolis area because of the sailing and warmer weather. The cultural difference is undeniable. Many have said to me that, growing up, they learned food was for surviving, not enjoying. They cut donuts in half at events so people aren’t tempted to eat too much, and regularly run out of food (because better to run out of food than to waste it). As a Bangladeshi, I find them totally unrelatable and frankly kind of scary in how little they seem to care about having grandchildren. But it’s impossible to deny that the little New England towns they created are extremely orderly places.
Russian EW is not even close to American. Excalibur just uses GPS, just about any EE here could come up with a jammer. Cruise missiles use terrain tracking in addition to other means so they can operate with in a contested environment.
Which is these is "faster" depends greatly on whether you have the very rare memcpy-only workload, or if your program actually does something useful. Many people believe, often with good evidence, that the most important thing is for memcpy to occupy as few instruction cache lines as is practical, instead of being something that branches all over kilobytes of machine code. For comparison, see the x86 implementations in LLVM libc.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/libc/src/stri...
Design and Control of a Bipedal Robotic Character [pdf]
You have to trust the platform with the metadata, but the actual E2E encryption of the messages is something you can personally verify if you cared to.
Police forces that follow Peelian principles tend to want this, as it makes their job much easier.
And ULID is translatable to UUID. So, eg, use ULID on display, links, etc and UUID data type in the language/DB
That's why Canada also is one of the worst countries in G8 and maybe the most mediocre countries when it comes to actual startup investment and building something new for the world and growing the share of the pie. On top of that, they have a horrible system where nobody can get a doctor. Everybody has to pay double to get a block of butter and housing is so high that you get a whole neighborhood in the US for that price.

That is why the countries like uk canada and also Europe are incredibly poor.

Class system and anti-innovation.
In Australia, prescription drugs generally cannot be advertised to consumers. Additionally, prescriptions for all drugs are written in the generic drug name form and not the branded form.

That said, where this currently seems to fall apart is the pharamacies.. most only stock a single "brand" and pricepoint for many drugs, two at most. Most pharamcies aren't online so you can't easily compare prices. In practice, I have frequently observed over many different prescriptions a price different of 1-2x between pharamcies in the same area for the exact same thing and dosage. Additionally, the way we fill scripts here you don't even get the price until you go to pay and theyve already labelled your box with your script, etc.

There's also largely no pricing on the shelves, even if you can see the behind the counter ones.

The only thing that saves us, is that "many" but not all drugs are subsidised by our public health care and the government negotiates the price. But for any non-subsidised drug it's open season and also much of the pricing is "per dispense" and not at all related to the drug quantity.

e.g. 4x10mg or 28x5mg of the same drug has the same price.

Also recently the much-publicised Ozempic which is used for weightloss and diabetes which is $150/dose here, because the price is fixed by that government negotiated price for diabetic patients but off-label prescribers get the same price even when not subsised by the government and they actually have to pay the full $150. They launched the literal exact same drug for weight loss as "Wegovy" but they vary the recommended dosages a little so that in practice you can't cross-fulfill the prescription. The exact same 1mg is $150 when sold as Ozempic and $250 when sold as Wegovy :) And for some straight reason the weight loss dose is "2.8mg" but the diabetic doses are 1mg and 3mg.
If you rely on exploiting the fact that your employee does not have the right to ignore your call outside of hours, your business shouldn't exist. What kind of take is this? It says it gives them the right to ignore, not to sue the business if they do call.
I think they are commenting on atlassianshrugged's tacit assumption that american foreign policy and military power is always used in support of democracy against totalitarianism, with a sarcastic reference to a socialist democracy that the CIA helped overthrow and replace with a military Junta.
I was responding to GP, who definitely did say they would love to use the IRS as a positive example:

> I would LOVE, absolutely LOVE, the ability to get my healthcare funded via an organization templated off the IRS.

I'm not at all sure what you're getting at with the rest of your comment, because it doesn't seem to relate to anything I actually said. I'm insistent that we be realistic about what a US bureaucracy will inevitably look like and not expect it to produce less red tape than is already present. I said nothing about glossing over anything.
You don’t have to be a fascist to support the arms industry existing. Oddly enough, even some libertarians think that having a military is a good thing for governments to do.

Military strength is a Red Queen’s race; you need to run just to stand still.
A POS device at a Target store was used to exploit systems in a completely different part of the Target infrastructure to allow CC details to be dumped. I think most supermarkets have lacklustre security.
You shouldn't have to pay that much. Pipes give you almost nothing, so they should cost almost nothing.

Specifically, there aren't many reasons for your fastest IPC to be slower than a long function call.
I have to respectfully disagree here. You place far too much stead in "individuals freely interacting" and none in "micromanaging bosses constantly hassling you at ridiculous hours for pissant assignments that can wait until the morning".

My experience in working at Australian businesses, especially as an IC, is that there is far too much of the latter, and far to little of the former. This is especially true the younger the reporting staff member is.
Not at all. Defense spending as a percentage of GDP is at historic lows.
The U.S. makes mistakes in terms of doing the wrong thing. But because it’s a democracy, it is capable of recognizing those mistakes and attempting to make amends. For example the internment of people of Japanese descent during world war 2, it was terrible for the folks rounded up and put into camps. It took 40 years, but we acknowledged it was wrong.

“In 1988, Congress passed, and President Reagan signed, Public Law 100-383 – the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 – that acknowledged the injustice of "internment," apologized for it, and provided a $20,000 cash payment to each person who was incarcerated.”

If you are in a dictatorship, that acknowledgement of a past wrong is absolutely impossible. That’s why democracy is so important. George Takei makes this point much more eloquently that I ever could, and it’s why he believes so strongly in democracy.
Narrator’s voice
“They don’t.”
I think there's a distinction between being involved in conflicts and being belligerent. Post fall of the Soviet Union the U.S. took on the role of world police, and that included getting involved in lots of conflicts that probably normally would have been fought by regional powers (ex. Desert Storm/Kuwait, Bosnia). The standout here of course is Iraq/Afghanistan, but in terms of globally belligerent behavior China seems to be the clear winner here, no (or maybe N. Korea but seems more regional)? Trying to redraw boundaries, creating artificial islands, aggressive maneuvers endangering Philippine and Japanese sailors, everything regarding Taiwan, aggressive trade tactics... the list goes on.
1.4M of those are defense, VA, or homeland security. It's not much of a secret that the US has a large military, and it dominates employment numbers. The highest federal employment total was 4.4M at the end of WW2. It decreased to 2M after the war ended, with clear bumps for the Korean, Vietnam, Cold, and Middle Eastern wars.
From the article:

> But so far, I have the lexer done, as well as a sizable part of the parser. Macro/module expansion is something I’m putting off as long as possible, typechecking only supports i32, and codegen is a little bit rough. But it’s a start.

So it is currently nowhere near complete (and the author never claims otherwise).
You don’t get peace by being defenseless.
Ask HN: Best public cloud for small websites?
With AWS now charging for IPv4 addresses, my reserved instance for a small personal website is no longer anywhere near as cheap as it used to be.

I was going to go back to Linode (which I had used previously), but it seems they've been acquired.

What do people recommend these days? I'm in the US and would (probably) prefer a US-based service, but feel free to answer for different localities (so this can perhaps be useful to others).

In my case, the site in question is a random name generator. Compute/bandwidth requirements should be near zero, so I'm mostly optimizing for cost, reliability and non-shadiness: https://random-name.org/
If you're curious, I don't have any direct connection with the Inuit but I got into syllabics because I have some Ojibwe speakers in my family, and Ojibwe also uses syllabics. None of the current speakers I know can write in Ojibwe (in any writing system) due to their residential schooling, but we have letters from the generations that have passed on.

I made a few syllabics converters for Ojibwe when I was younger, but Ojibwe and Cree are harder to build converters from than Inuktitut because they have a lenis-fortis distinction in the latin script but not syllabics, so the word "anishinaabe" can be converted unambiguously to ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒃ, but trying to convert the other way could render any one of anishinaabe, ani*zh*inaabe, anishinaa*pe*, or ani*zh*inaa*pe*. I don't think it could be done accurately without some sort of machine learning. There's also a lot more complexities surrounding how different dialects are encoded. In the end, Inuktitut was simpler to work with and has a lot more everyday speakers and text to work with, especially because the Canadian territory of Nunavut publishes its government documents and websites in Inuktitut too.

There's a lot to cover but I think the technical challenges might be interesting to the Hacker News crowd, I may make a series of videos about it someday!
What is the difference between legitimately taking advantage of open-sourceness and plagiarism? Attribution? If so, try to contact them and ask them to put your name/link to each file derived from yours.
Or Germany in the leadup to a certain major war.
Why is it strange? I do not see why there would be an expectation that details of company's investor relationships would be known to people that have nothing to do with company's business. "Pretty interesting" doesn't sound like a good justification.
This is fine for big companies and government but startups is going to die because of this.
I’m talking about the US and China, which is the great power competition of our time.
Only if you ignore the A380 debacle, or the bloat that A400 is. And then there is this - [0]

Boeing makes the comparison easy for Airbus.

[0]- https://spacenews.com/airbus-takes-a-charge-of-nearly-1-bill...
Employees benefit from calls out of hours. How? The employer is able to offer better service to customers, and make more money, and the employee can negotiate a higher salary from the more profitable business. Employees who are inflexible cannot offer the same level of service to their employer and its customers; they'll on-average be paid less and measures like this increase production costs, making goods and services slightly more expensive.

This law reduces the extent to which flexible employees can add (and extract, via hight salary!) value, and the extent to which customers receive timely service.
Agree with your point, but do want to point out I've lived in places where not toeing the local party line results in real life harassment, even stalking of people's kids, from friends of elected and non-elected officials. Sometimes that local party line is that police are infallible, and if you ever disagree with what they want to do, that must mean you're criminal and hate police, and are made a local pariah when you're personally called out by the police chief.

People have been driven out of town for voicing support for BLM, for example, not to mention the harassment that comes from participating in school board meetings if you disagree with the board.

Not even sure what my point is here, other than saying that sometimes engaging in local politics isn't safe for everyone. I made a post about it here on HN in the past, but I watched a single mother get doxxed and harassed because she disagreed with the mayor on policy. The mayor did the doxxing. YMMV of course.
Isn't that the military's fault?
That is way too hostile for a first contact. It would be much better, at first, to politely ask them to comply with the license. If they ignore you, or refuse, then think about escalating.
My insurer wanted me to try a different, older biologic first. My dermatologist recommended going with Taltz instead because

- the eli lily foundation pays for it anyway

- the older biologics have far more serious side effects profiles

Given that, it was kindof a no-brainer. I would have needed to go through the foundation anyway, since the co-pays on these drugs are insane regardless.
Keep in mind all the low-income employees who are harassed after work for trivial reasons that can absolutely wait by power-trip managers who will now feel a tiny bit more empowered to say no than they did yesterday. I think it's a great thing even though it doesn't benefit me directly.
A lot of companies here are pretty good. It's the ones that aren't that necessitate the law change.

My workplace, for instance, published the formal policy last week and the accompanying announcement was honestly bordering on anger about it. My team is pretty good, but other teams have been having to work out of hours. It's a good change.
There weren't any RAG communities, so I created R/RAG
Have N separate chats, and take the result that they all agree on. N=1 is like RAID0.
I find it incredibly hard to believe that ultima online was the first application of database sharding, but it may very well be the source of the name. "key-based partitioning" doesn't have the same ring to it, but has existed since the early 90's and possibly late 80's.
I think you're right. I've been thinking in terms of vehicles with habitats, where the conductive heating would eventually be a problem. But this is just a few buckets on a cable, the whole assembly can stay at molten-metal temperatures for weeks without hurting anything.
Yeah, I almost put in a sentence or two acknowledging that -- as well as the fact that Durov is far more unprotected by a state from a geopolitical point of view. Would the French police arrest Mark Zuckerberg or another Facebook employee? It's not hard and fast (Italian and Brazilian courts have both put warrants out for the arrest of executives at major foreign tech companies), but it surely factors into how much political capital one would burn to pursue the case.
At "10x smaller and 10x cheaper" I'm wondering if they are making traditional "cruise missiles" or something closer to what is being referred to as "fpv drones" in Ukraine...

They might be betting on a change in doctrine emphasizing this sort of platform, and/or the ability to sell directly to Ukraine (and to countries in similar conflicts going forwards), rather than looking at existing cruise missile contracts and trying to compete with those. Drones are one of the items I frequently see in the news as "Ukraine is purchasing these" instead of "these have been donated to Ukraine".

(This is pure speculation, everything I know about this company is from the article being discussed)
can't you just design your database so as to be able to do that independently ?
A company, not the same company.

I don't think that social mobility can be measured statistically, because it depends on people actually trying. I actually think that the UK does have fairly high social mobility _but_ the vast majority of people get stuck in local maxima, and the laws are influenced by that (e.g. stuff like obsession with the mediocre outcome).

Having said that, the index you've pasted is complete bollocks. I don't know what they are measuring but it has nothing to do with what I would consider social mobility (e.g. ability to move into a different social class or perhaps earn a significantly different amount to your parents). The factors they use seem super focused on socialist policies which I don't think have anything to do with mobility.
I've read somewhere that Seymour Cray used to write his entire operating system in absolute octal. ("Absolute" means no relocation; all memory accesses and jumps must be hand-targeted to the correct address, as they would have to be with no assembler involved.)
Proper ventilation systems address that issue
I think Blackberry was targeted to crush Canadian dominance and let American companies take over the smartphone industry.

I think telegram may be facing similar challenges.

This is an issue where the interests of big business and big government are aligned.
If overnight service is that critical and profitable, hire a night shift.
When a drug first stops being protected by a patent, in order for another company to begin making a generic version, they have to pay some up-front costs (of course).

If the government requirements for starting a generic for it are particularly stringent, it seems like these up-front costs might be particularly high?

I feel like there may be a strategy stealing argument that might apply here?

If it would be profitable for another company to pay the upfront costs to produce a new generic, then it seems like the company that is already producing the drug could undercut them, by producing the same drug as they are already making. (perhaps under a different brand name as they were already doing?)

This seems like it would discourage other companies from trying, as there might be a significant chance they don’t recoup their up-front cost?

If the company with the patent releases a new improved version of the drug, which is under a new patent, it seems like they could potentially phase the old one out of production, getting people on to the new one? If they didn’t need to lower the price of the old one due to no generic being produced, then even if the improvements are marginal, it might not be hard to get people to switch to the improved-and-still-under-patent version (just by telling people it is an improvement and that old version might not be available soon).

If they then stop producing the old version, then a company that makes generics could then make a generic without worrying about being undercut by the original company, but if people are switched to the improved version, will they notice that there is a generic of the version they used to take, and, if so, will they trust it? Maybe? I don’t know. Maybe they would. (Oh, especially if the out-of-pocket price is the same, due to insurance, they might be less inclined to try switching to it..)

If it is unclear whether people would switch to it, then the company considering making the generic has a significant wager to make. Would they make it?

Maybe they would. Maybe the chain of events I described falls apart at some point. I don’t think it is obvious that it does, but it seems reasonably likely that this chain I described doesn’t work and isn’t a real phenomenon. But I don’t think it obviously doesn’t work.
> failure when criminals anywhere aren't head to account

Not just anywhere, but specifically here in America; but you wouldn't know from all the downvotes if folks are okay with holding American war criminals to account. The propaganda of "saving democracies" is too strong.
My insurance company would have, but wanted me to try an older, cheaper drug first. Since the older drugs have a much more dangerous list of potential side effects, including lymphoma and skin cancer, and since the eli lily foundation would have covered it regardless, it was a no-brainer.

The co-pays on tier 3 (i.e. super spendy specialty drugs) are crazy anyway, so insurance covering it wouldn't have really changed the affordability aspect one way or the other.
It's indeed a very negative take on a pro-labour policy. Entrepreneurship doesn't equate to exploitation of workers. If your business depends on that then it's not a death by thousand paper cuts, rather a death by poor management. Germany has similar laws and it hasn't exactly become a 'business-backwater'.
Be careful if you're using python.

The python uuid standard library doesn't have V7 yet, and there is a package called uuid7 which is unmaintained, and not in compliance with the latest standard. That's using nanosecond time precision rather than millisecond, which means the leading bits are larger than they are meant to be.

If you use that unmaintained uuid7 package and later change to the correct implementation your uuid7 will go backwards, which is a breaking change considering that monotonicity is a key property of uuidv7.
There's some automated tooling, but at least the publicly available tooling isn't great.
Could be. I try to be verbose, but it also gets annoying to do. I usually just use some really handy GitHub search tricks and learn from other people's implementations.
Life took a hold here so why can't it be somewhere else? My problem is that there's a never-ending implication that if we can't explain something right away then it must be created by an alien civilization. It's a lazy way to look at how the universe functions. For most of our history, the default creator was God. Lately, in the last 100 or so years, it has been switched to aliens in many cases. We have Science which gives us a method to come up with a possible solution without defaulting to a super being. What bugs me is that there is 0 evidence of there being advanced civilizations. We have been brainwashed by sci-fi. Believing in aliens because we saw them at the movies or read a book about them helps no one. To me, it's a form of misinformation that's in the same realm as the moon being made of cheese.
>where he rams into the side of a gold 1966 Mustang driven by 55-year-old Todd

The gall to fuck up Todd's day and say footage is optional
Who's the Greatest Actor in Movie History? A Statistical Analysis
Fix issuance first, then we can talk about making it a requirement. What isn't acceptable is to deny even a single person their right to vote because they couldn't get a valid ID.
I’d guess (not gonna test it but it feels reasonable) that “almost every non-techie” has a very vague idea of what e2ee even is, so it’s not clear where the worst part comes from. Pretty sure the best ideas they have about security are from hacker movies best case on average.