skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? Even now most countries do not have anything like a "citizen". Only 21% of the human population lives in democracies today and that is an all-time-high, not an all-time-low.

And if you discount supposed democracies that have a form of apartheid, ie. a portion of the population excluded by law from participation (and thus from effective citizenship), you can at least halve that number. Even an extremely moderate islamic country like Morocco has legal apartheid for non-muslims, even if a majority of the population supports it. Do such countries have citizens? I think it's at best 50% true, and the truth is that Morocco is probably the best and most open islamic society (this, despite the fact that I do believe the large majority of muslims, including in Morocco, do NOT want apartheid anymore, but let's just say extremists don't accept majority votes and kill, so ...). Pakistan is still "a democracy", but has extreme apartheid, and regular attacks against minorities (whether you mean Christians or Afghans by minority)

In the vast majority of human history democracies were a rounding error. And it may go back down. At this point, is there really any reason to consider countries Russia, or Egypt, democracies? You have to count both to get to 21%. You'll find you need to count quite a few "democracies with very significant defects" like Pakistan and Russia as normal democracies to get above 10% of the human population.

Btw: consumer is still a very positive word. It still means to me that the country is dependent on the approval of the citizens. The difference is what is measured: heads ... or dollar bills. But approval is what really matters. The majority of Russians, Egyptians (and frankly even Moroccans) do not approve of the basic structure of the state they live in. Either they can't change it or they think changing would be a disaster and status-quo is good enough.
And plenty of attorneys would take a case like that on contingency if you would present even halfway decently in court, and win - and get you a nice payout on top of it.

Since they can say ‘Your honor, the prosecution can not identify any articulable factual basis, or even concrete suspicion as to why they should have seized my clients money. The money my client just withdrew from the bank that he earned lawfully, paid taxes on, was held in a regulated institution, and that he intended to use for lawful purposes.

In fact, as is clear from opposing councils arguments, they not only didn’t even attempt to investigate to discover if a lawful basis existed to seize my clients funds, they actively ignored documentation that my client attempted to provide them showing the funds were from a legal source.

Additionally, it’s clear they have since been unable to identify any lawful reason besides a generic ‘my training and experience says this was okay’, and in fact are not even able to identify which parts of their training and experience support it, even with x months of time.

This is in violation of the federal rules around these seizures (cut and paste the sections), and their own policies (cut-n-paste from their policy book).

Additionally, that they persist in not only defending these tactics, but continuing to keep my law abiding clients funds, shows a complete and continuing disregard for the law, my clients rights as a law abiding citizen of this great nation, their own policies, and the integrity of this court. ’

If they still persisted (historically they haven’t, even in far more ambiguous cases), I can’t imagine a judge being unsympathetic to punitive damages (3x) on top of everything else.

It wouldn’t be hard to make an argument that literal criminal gangs are less dangerous to society than a police agency acting that way in such a case.
Capitalism at its finest. No sarcasm.

The only problem is efficiency vs redundancy tradeoff. The organization needs to be antifragile to cope with that.
> Hard-coding your handler to manage SQL transactions will come back to bite you if you switch to Mongo

I uuuhh, I hate to tell you this, but uh, if you’re swapping Postgres to Mongo, and you think that hardcoded queries are going to be your migration pain points, I have some bad news for you. The difference in semantics (for any such change, not just db) will bite you first, and wil bite a lot harder.

This idea of “we can abstract over everything and then swap them out at our leisure” works less than we’d all like to imagine it does, and crucially building everything to accommodate this utopia, will leave you with mountains of code that will do nothing other than make your teammates hate you and obscure your actual logic.

> AuthorRepository

Oh hello C#.
So instead of cursing everyone who has the misfortune of working on your C#-flavoured-rust codebase of having to write literal pages of boilerplate to inevitably add a new struct/type to the codebase, I suggest leaning into idiomatic Rust a bit more.
Personally, I’d make read/delete/upset traits, whose methods take a handle to a connection pool. Logic for sql then lives inside these implementations, and can be brought into scope only when necessary. Something like `my_struct.upsert(&conn).await?`. We have locality of behaviour, we’ve separated IO details out, we have all the same advantages with about 50% less code-noise.
You often hear about HN posters complaining that when they do go into the office, they’re just having Zoom calls in the office instead. That’s what Amazon is trying to fix here. Everyone in office 5 days a week.
Yearly reminder to not jump ahead directly if you care about your productivity. Just wait a few months, there is no rush to upgrade, you won’t miss anything critical by delaying a bit. macOS releases always come up with issues that are solved in minor/patch versions in the first 3-6 months.
Climbing (not bouldering), you literally trust with your life to other person. Or some hiking/alpinism sports club, usually if they do 1 of those many of them do other interesting stuff like ski touring in winter.
I agree and disagree with specific points in your reply.

Yes, Europeans should start having more children if they want to keep their way of living. But no, immigrants will not save demography, as data shows that migrants tend to have less and less children in subsequent generations (ignoring the fact that fertility rate is falling everywhere around the world, even in poorer countries). It is not a panacea, it is not even a palliative. Nobody can point to any country in Europe and say that mass immigration changed it for the better (some limited immigration may be beneficial, though). And this was my point - immigration benefits mostly those that own factories, capital etc.

You are right in your last sentence - gerontocracy is taking a future from their children. Everywhere.
> Taking steps that drive resiliency and security for Windows customers

Like, cough, fixing bugs, cough. /s
> the name "sprint" is a bad one. This is marathon.

'Marathon' is also as bad. It implies running fast to the point of almost puking over an extended period of time for the glory of it.

How about 'cycle', or 'trip' if we have to use distance traveled methaphors?
https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/3093/how-does-the-... :)
Please re-read my comment carefully. I never claimed undergoing an MRI with metallic implants was safe, in fact I stated the opposite: "A force will act on them, and this force can cause complications"

The only thing I strongly disagree with is the urban myth that MRIs turn implants into projectiles. I don't think that can happen. None of the videos you linked show anything of the sort.

Yes, objects can be accelerated to dangerous velocities; but only if they can move freely (eg. oxygen bottles on a cart, wheelchairs, small objects placed on a smooth surface). Objects embedded in tissue can not move freely and won't start tearing holes in your body like reverse bullets.

It can of course still be dangerous. One lethal case documented in the literature involved a metallic clamp inside the patients head. The MRI seemed to have moved or dislodged it causing cranial haemorrhaging. It killed him, but it did not shoot out of his head like a bullet.
I mean, i don't like pop music, i dislike disco, and while some rock/rap song have value, i'm not a fan either. To me, since the Big band era (which i doubt anybody here know), music on the main radio stations were always commercial shit (unless you live in Louisiana). At least nowadays i can tune in and listen to Wooz (or other) from anywhere.
also super cool that it's microtonal, love it!
Last time I’ve checked FreeBSD didn’t seem to handle mixed core types like the ones you find on recent intel and ARM processors very well. Did it changed?
In France it's simply not legal to send cash through the mail. We barely use cash anyway. Sorry to blame the victim and it's easy to say that now but they shouldn't send $43k via FedEx.
A lot of tech industry mythology is written from the perspective of a technical lead as imagined by an executive, or from the perspective of an executive who views themself as primarily a technical lead. In practice, this mythology is usually exactly just that
Ideally in a healthy community there would be members who could encourage a bit of nudging and reformation of harmful behavior. Maybe nobody has bothered trying to get through to them.

Perhaps some people genuinely thrive in hostile environments. Perhaps they just wish to establish themselves as superior within your group's dominance / status hierarchy. If much of their ego is tied up in their intellect then they probably need an outlet in which it may be flattered regularly. Perhaps it would be possible to construct situations in which more prosocial behavior is rewarded.
If you already love cycling, why no do like I did and add running to your sport routine? I know, it's painful if you aren't used to it, but I found the local Parkrun community to be a bunch to connect with much easier even for someone neurodiverse like myself, grant you we are a very small one with only 30 runners on a rainy day.
Oh ok it was about concatenation, not just this example case. Got it, thank you!
`psql` allows for putting your credentials in a dotfile with a very simple syntax. Should be quick to add support for, and would create a seamless onboarding experience for people who are already using `psql`.
for 1977 I am so curious what security it has stopping a bad country from crippling it.
> Sorry to blame the victim and it's easy to say that now but they shouldn't send $43k via FedEx.

Why?
> 2. You can't apply Moore's law to humans.

not with that attitude. /s

if you take reproduction into account and ignore all the related externalities you can definitely double your count of transistors (humans) every two years.
Musk seems genuinely confused that his jokes (and sexual advances) work so much better on his paid employees and just seem creepy when delivered on his self-own(ed) social media platform in public.
> What happens when you walk up to a publishing agent and tell them you don’t have anything to show them…

They told him to hand over whatever he'd got:

"Douglas happily built his reputation for (at this stage, merely) sailing close to the wind when it came to publishing deadlines by telling interviewers that he had been ordered to literally stop writing and hand his manuscript over to a courier no matter where he had got to…"

— The Frood: The Authorised and Very Official History of Douglas Adams and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Jem Roberts"

He was famous for scraping or missing deadlines from the very start, and openly admitted to it:

"All of my life I've been attracted to the idea of being a writer, but like all writers I don't so much like writing as having written. … each time I meant to try to write something, I'd miss the deadline by two weeks."
The original Aero Snap was almost perfect. But I find the newer variation in Win11 a bit annoying as it adds a bunch of UI for tiling that is too easy to activate by accident.
Also see (for various reasons):
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1055480.The_Inmates_Are_...
The Untold Story of Git [video]
Yes, German work/employment culture is a crab barrel where every quality of life improvement has to be fought for tooth and nail.. The Netherlands cemented WFH as a right after the Corona period when it had shown to not negatively impact productivity while positively impacting quality of life for employees.
Yes, thanks for pointing out that "valid" should not be thrown out too easily. And it happens that I made and mistake and the snippet is actually valid, a pattern shared with a small set of others exceptions, exactly as you point out !

Thanks for pointing out key aspects of the story, I had a loose knowledge about it.
I'll concede the ratio of crap:good might not have changed, but I feel the point being made is the nature of the crap has changed to be louder.

Also, the time spent across the web has changed as do-it-all companies like Google or Amazon came along: why go find 5 different perfect services, when Google has an alright implementation of them?

Sure, you can say "well just discipline yourself to go look at it", but like I said, that's not how human nature/addiction work. And even if I as an individual am some sort of dopamine-free superhuman immune to manipulation (I'm not) the average human isn't, so this means the average conversation about the web is more focused on fewer centralised services, as that's what people spend more of their time on.

All of this makes it a lot harder to "just go and browse some personal websites" compared to the early internet.

I agree with you that there are many services on the web that weren't around before, and lots of things we could do now that we couldn't before. But that's not the point of the post, the point is specifically saying they preferred the compromise of personal, slightly rustier, less featureful web, compared to the modern, sterile, polished, depersonalised web.

> there is nothing to gatekeep about the early internet, it was shit compared to what we have today.

That's your opinion, and the upvotes and frequency of these posts suggests it's an unpopular (although still valid!) opinion. It's clearly not a fact though.

You know there are also an increasing amount of people who had smartphones who now have dumb phones? It's not unheard of for people to want to step back in preference of simplicity.
> Do you still have to quit and restart the entire application after you give the permission?

The funny thing about this, even on Sonoma - I could click the button to allow it, when it said "restart app" I closed the box (or clicked cancel), and it worked anyway. Specifically, I noticed it more on things like Teams/Zoom where I was doing a screen share, it just "worked" - no need to restart the entire application.
This is apparently an unpopular idea but you're right: human nature is based on cooperation. Even under "free market" systems people do things that are not optimal market decisions because they are naturally predisposed to helping other people, even when it is often exploited. A lot of marketing deliberately exploits this, e.g. the common tactic of "giving something for free" to make the consumer feel like they owe a favor, or giving products a cutesy persona so consumers anthropomorphize the product and their interactions with it instead of seeing it as a disposable tool.

We come into this world naked, defenseless, starving and freezing. Other animals are able to defend themselves or at least flee, often only minutes after being born or hatching. It takes literal months for us to learn to meaningfully move on our own, about a year to feed ourselves and many more years to be able to pose a meaningful threat to natural predators or forage for food on our own. Throughout this entire time we not only need to be nurtured by our parents, we need an entire society to sustain us and our caregivers.

This is a common misunderstanding of our evolution: it's not simply our brains that gave us an edge over the rest of the animal kingdom, it's our cooperation. Large brains are a natural consequence of complex social interactions and feed back into them. It's not just the ability to make and use tools that set us apart, it's our ability to teach each other about them and learn from each other.

It didn't take a great individual inventor, it took a tribe full of people to carry on each invention and pass the knowledge to the next generation while sustaining the tribe to allow the inventors to invent new technology or improve upon old ones for the benefit of the entire tribe. We're not standing on the shoulders of giants, we're standing on a human pyramid of all who came before us and everyone around us helping to perpetuate humanity.
As long as we are sharing anecdotes, I can share mine from the Netherlands as well. Employer sanely leaves it to the team to decide how often to work from office. My team decided to work from home but meet at office atleast once in 2 months. There are other teams within the company that works practically 100% at office because they like it, and it makes their job easier.

I do know atleast a few other companies where I worked at or have friends working at in the Netherlands with similar WFH setup.
It's close to useless.

I would know, I made the mistake of paying yearly.
The flashing and corruption problems point to a very poor software engineering culture.
> But Indian, German, and Chinese are the legal ones right? Maybe even Polish, too.

What do you mean ? He said: "a lot of the migrants are from countries in unrest.". /s
Glad you went over my post. It was a great experience watching someone go through it on a live-stream.

Well the formula is mentioned but still I added an explicit section with the formula here: https://animeshchouhan.com/posts/measuring-distance/#approxi...

Thank you for your feedback!
Exactly what I have commented on some of Beato's diatribes. He's so fixated in finding good music on what's popular that he misses that ship has sailed, popular music is supposed to be popular, not great, and as in every endeavour when you cater for a bigger audience you have to shed some of your uniqueness, and weirdness, to be palatable and approachable to be consumed by more people.

There's an absurd amount of great music being made, they're just coming from smaller acts/artists. Those have managed to attract a following around the world through the internet.

In the before-times those artists would struggle a lot to find an audience for their niche in local areas, and wouldn't be able to jump-start a career. They would hit dead-ends unless they lived in very specific areas which could foster a forward looking music scene, that scene is now spread all across the globe.

I agree it's a skill issue, as well as a "keeping with the times" issue, Billboard Top 100 doesn't matter anymore for finding great music, to my taste in music it's actually an anti-signal. It takes as much skill nowadays to find good music as it took by scavenging through vinyl crates at music stores before, it takes knowing people sharing similar taste and who are great at finding tunes to break through the noise.
You're out of your mind if you think the YC pre-seed terms are unnecessarily greedy. Where in the world can you get half a million with nothing but an idea to show for it and only have to give up 7%+uncapped?

If you've already got investors, why are you looking at YC at all? YC funding is a product, you can't just go and say "ah this product has got features I don't need, so it's a terrible deal".
None whatsoever, other than being obscure and very far away. Not a target of any commercial or military value.
The Zephyr Project is a Linux Foundation hosted Collaboration Project. It’s an open-source collaborative effort uniting developers and users in building a best-in-class small, scalable real⁃time operating system (RTOS) optimized for resource-constrained devices, across multiple architectures.
Already on the wall next to my desk :p
> Cultural stability and assimilation rate are real processes, that can be influenced by various policies. [...] Yet immigration and assimilation create cultural friction with the then-dominant national culture, so that needs to be managed.

You're getting it backwards: What creates a lot more cultural friction is lack of assimilation. And Sweden officially abandoned assimilation as a goal under Olof Palme in the 1970s. That, and the fact that it was taboo to criticize this lack for many decades, is what has put Sweden where it is now.

Sure, public debate there looks ugly now, mainly because so many on the left still live in the past and basically accuse anyone to the right of Palme of being Genghis Khan's and Hitler's secret love child. But still, the actual government finally having officially abandoned at least some of the previously-mandatory virtue signalling is one of the few promising signs that Sweden may still have some way forward.

> Ultimately, I'd like to see more honest communication around "We're encouraging immigration to drive our economy" and "Here are the things that immigrants are having to deal with, as they adjust to living in our country, and what you can do to help them."

Unfortunately I'm still doubtful that they'll have the balls to tell it all thew way like it is, to wit: "The one thing that immigrants have to deal with in order to live in our country and not destroy it, is to assimilate; to become Swedish."

> It sucks when someone is outcompeted by immigrant labor, but that should probably prompt some self reflection -- how can someone new to a country substitute into their job?

And all the virtue signallers (which I can't quite tell whether you are one of) should probably reflect: Couldn't be because they're "competing" while living on social benefits and working on the black market, paying no taxes or social security fees, could it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison#Health

He abstains from alcohol and drugs, maybe?
I see this or a variant a lot. However, while this can still happen, it’s not a given and is rather unlikely as the world is a lot different now.

It’s more connected, broader alliances, different laws and so on.
"Handlers were falsely told that two conditions contained a paper marking scent location (human influence). Two conditions contained decoy scents (food/toy) to encourage dog interest in a false location (dog influence). Conditions were (1) control; (2) paper marker; (3) decoy scent; and (4) paper marker at decoy scent. No conditions contained drug or explosive scent; any alerting response was incorrect. A repeated measures analysis of variance was used with search condition as the independent variable and number of alerts as the dependent variable. Additional nonparametric tests compared human and dog influence. There were 225 incorrect responses, with no differences in mean responses across conditions"

"To test this, we influenced handler beliefs and evaluated subsequent handler/dog team performance according to handler-identified alerts. The overwhelming number of incorrect alerts identified across conditions confirms that handler beliefs affect performance."

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-010-0373-2
Your language-learning journey with Finnish is cool
> Bluntly, I think these people are idiots, and safely ignored.

I think they should be listened to, acknowledged, then ignored. You never know, sometimes idiots have good points.
I don't see how that fixes anything as your browser is transmitting PII simply by fetching the iframe content. The sandbox only limits what they can do client-side, they still get to see your IP and user agent.
I wish Rust had a good dependency injection library. More specifically, a library that solves the problem of having long chains of constructors calling each other.

The two main use cases are routing frameworks and tests.

Axum already has this, but it is married to HTTP a bit too much.
Missed a great opportunity to call it Electron Neutrino (Neutrino for short)