skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's becoming less and less possible to live without every year. More and more government services over here can only be accessed online. And the private industry has been happily gutting offline or in-person services for a long time. If you still want access to everything, you better be ready to pay huge premiums just to be able to do things the old-fashioned way of having humans perform tasks for you. So if you're poor, you basically have no choice but to be online.
Global immutable or global mutable. I vehemently agree with the latter, but while I could definitely make a case for the former [1], I think it is a bit too extreme especially without language support.

Would you access a global M_PI constant? Or another function name? Or would you require every dependency to passed through?

[1] i.e. a total capability based system.
Are you counting russia as part of Eurasia here? Because to me it's looking more like becoming part of Eastasia instead.
Yeah Visual Studio, not Visual Studio Code. The main issue is the new code is built using an old .NET framework that isn't supported by the C# plugins on Visual Studio Code.

I think you have some good points, especially when it comes to supporting other devs. The hosted dev boxes make sense, assuming it's not laggy / slow to develop on. Will explore the Azure Microsoft Dev Box option and see how it feels.
So you are ok with if nobody will come to help you when your life is in danger because your life is not anyone else's problem.
Not driving licence, the toll-road sticker. Vignette in many countries. It's usually tied to the vehicle, and it indicates that the yearly highway toll has been paid, and you're allowed to use the paid-highways.

If you personally did something, then you personally are responsible for that something that you did. Not your families car.
I never use it. It is extremely easy for a bad-actor to program the unsubscribe feature to identify and mark an email as "active".
Unfortunately this is largely not the case in North America, there is no reliable public transit outside of urban areas.
Don't do it. Really, really don't do it. People have tried for decades to develop such a sandbox, and it does not work.
That's my question - Uber / Lyft generate billions (low tens, not hundreds!) in revenue, and pretty much no profits at all. It doesn't seem like an excellent business at all.
>Some of the money went to Swedish construction workers for example

Ah, the myth of trickle down economics.
Use https://pulsetic.com/
Assuming GP is referring to 'ticky tacky' and the song is Little Boxes, yes it is, but wasn't written for it (in 1963) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boxes.
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Short term, this war is costing Putin dearly - both inflation and rates in Russia are very high, there's a state of technological collapse (trains derailing etc.) due to sanctions and lack of access to advanced Western technology. Ultimately, he may only benefit if he's allowed to keep the territory he conquered and gets to absorb it into Russia. It may (or may not) be worth the cost he's paying for it right now.
Different kind of magic. Needing to account for every single line of code being able to throw an exception is very mentally taxing, whereas the existence of a GC removes mental load of needing to account for every single allocation.
The European Central Bank said it’s due to energy.
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I would infer that it's insecure, since if it were that easy there wouldn't be various abandoned projects trying to sandbox Python.

It's the curse of any sufficiently useful language. Well, maybe not Lua, but that was specifically designed for embedding. Java also began with that intention back when applets were ahead of their time, though IIRC secure sandboxing is no longer really a feature.
One study found that lonely people also engage in more imaginary conversations than those who don't consider themselves lonely. Perhaps ending up talking to oneself out loud is somehow related?

https://psychnewsdaily.com/lonely-people-have-a-unique-brain...
>you can't just reverse that decision on a whim.

You definitely can when your own existence/security is under threat.

In such cases, you can override people's idealist wishes since keeping borders defended and citizens safe, fed and warm in trouble times is more important to maintaining a stable economy and society long term, than rolling with the idealist fantasies of not using nuclear energy that people wished for when times were good.

But 30 years of not taking military/defense and energy self sufficiency seriously, is costing the EU taxpayer greatly now. It's a tragedy of the commons.
Of course public transportation in some parts of the US is so bad a car is almost necessary, despite being a privilege. I’m not saying it shouldn’t remain a privilege, but for many losing their license or not having a functional vehicle would mean almost certain financial ruin.
I look for this sort of thing whenever I travel, but it’s really hard to find.
In principle data races can cause memory safety issues, but they are usually very hard to exploit.

Java guarantees VM integrity in the face of data races, while for example many races are UB in theory and in practice in Go. Both are considered safe languages.

Sometimes pragmatism is in fact a valid goal.

edit: from a practical point of view I don't know how realistic is to retrofit memory safety to a language that lacks it.
Yeah, we're talking about a car here, not a new release of iOS.
Tribalism. They are political statements now, before the were saving the environment vehicles.
Cppwinrt is in maintenance mode[1]. Cppwin32 is abandoned (with windows.h as the official alternative). It is now possible to deploy WinUI 3 apps as single files in C#[2] but not in C++. From experience, the entire C++ side of WinUI 3 documentation is underbaked to the extent that the easiest approach is to read the C# documentation and attempt to guess the cppwinrt equivalent (as docs for cppwinrt are not really... there).

I don’t know if they’ve really abandoned C++ entirely—the compiler team certainly hasn’t, that’s true. But the above doesn’t feel like first-class support.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/cppwinrt/issues/1289#issuecomme...

[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/sing...
Of course they'd say that. Did you expect them to just say "yeah, we fucked you over by devaluing the currency causing your wages to be worthless"?. Don't be naive please and look into how much currency was issued during the pandemic and see for yourself.
You've obviously done a bit of research. Have you ever seen the vitamin B12 link referenced in other studies? Are you taking supplements or did you get it tested?
> not being able to drive the car

I had plenty of recalls and it never happened even once that I could not drive the car before the recall.
Yes there is. For example there is war in Ukraine and in Gaza and you can find more information on those digging deeper. Not trusting any news source and never combining news to "unbias" them is same thinking that leads to " maybe they are lying to us and the earth is flat". There is always a solution.
Roughly like in this paper https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/RadarScenes:-A-Real-Wo...
There might be a First Amendment argument for internet access. Congress shouldn’t have the power to force or coerce an ISP to disconnect someone from the internet. (Doesn’t take too much imagination to come up with a partisan copyright troll.)
I think if you tried to tell a professional carpenter that you'd replaced the contents of their toolbox with the equivalent pieces from a discount hardware store you'd be looking for your teeth on the floor.

I certainly wouldn't give up my electronic hardware repair tools without a struggle, it took me years to find ones that I like!
So not blowing ourselves up , up to now means that we will never do ? Strange logic fallacy but I've heard it before.
NATO as it exists today is a welfare program where US taxpayers subsidize the defense budgets of European countries so they can afford lavish social benefits programs for their citizens while the US drowns in both personal and federal debt. You were never going to come help us, and the exploitative relationship between our countries is now over. Good luck.
Interest on reserves is very much still in place[0]. Open Market Operations haven't been a thing since shortly after the 2008 Financial Crisis.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reserve-balanc...
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I have read this on Quora 10 years ago, esp. when i was in a highly divese neighborhood, like: Poor people, doing-well-people, refugees, unemployed, but also academics and wealthy. So i could jump segments very often in a week, and this saying turns out to be absolutely right, in my perception.
Since then, i'm looking/hearing very thoroughly when being in a group situation.
“By 1975, Americans could again freely own and trade gold.”

Woah.
One, they didn’t say DL.

Two, DL is a bad example because in America driving is legally a privilege, not a right.
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Russia was always the weird case of a country with a cruel, Asian steppe mentality (early in the days of the Dutchy of Moscow, they were conquered and thoroughly subjugated by the Mongols, the Mongol mark of cruelty and disdain for human life is still there in XXI century) that is also Christian. The Christianity has confused Western leaders throught the ages, who thought Russia is like any other European country, and can be reasoned with.
The only thing similar I’ve heard of in the US is vehicle registration fees and stickers (that usually go on the license plate), but these vary state by state and are not tied to any toll road or the like.

Every toll road I’ve ever been on in the US you have to pay each time you use it. These days most states use the same transponder system where your vehicle is detected by that device when you enter the toll road or by license plate readers.

I’ve never heard of a general “yearly highway toll” anywhere in the US.
As a strong emotion, creating fear is an effective means to an end, but rarely/never an ultimate goal. If you really want to understand what's going on, don't stop at "they just want to scare me".

As far as the news are concerned, they just want viewers / advertising customers / money in most cases.
Not staying in Python. Python's run-time is not built for sandboxing.

If you set up a new runtime environment, like a FreeBSD jail, with no access to anything and a short CPU limit, then start you could start a Python subprocess in that environment, where the only thing that gets out is data via a pipe to call you names.

An operating system like FreeBSD is built to run code in a restricted manner.
Will try it out. Some initial feedback

- I have a decent amount of bookmarks and bookmark folders, toggling on the bookmarks makes the new tab overwhelmed and other things don't show. Would be nice to just pin a few.

- The to do list is hard to see on some background combinations (e.g. black text over dark green trees)

- I like the command palette idea, but would be nice to be able to add my own (https://github.com/thingbomb/flowtide/blob/main/src/componen...)
Again, I see no reason why Putin would back down. Instead it reinforces his worldview that the West is the enemy and not interested in any kind of fair balance of power.
As for who understands diplomacy, one wonders if the US/EU understand diplomacy. China seems to have no problem dealing with Russia. Somehow the US/EU with their combined might cannot manage it.
Name a war that was recently started by Europe
See: https://neuviemeporte.github.io/f15-se2/2023/07/12/overlays....

From this series: https://neuviemeporte.github.io/category/f15-se2.html

Related HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40347662
Tell HN: Uptimerobot.com offers a fake free plan
Hey HN, I am using uptimerobot.com for some years now through its free plan. It monitors some hobby-non really important projects. The same plan is advertised here: https://uptimerobot.com/pricing/

However, before some days I got the following email: "From 1st November 2024, our Free Plan is for non-commercial use only. If you're using it for business, you'll need to upgrade to a paid plan and now they are forcing me to update."
Golang is very much not considered "safe" from data races.
It can do; everyone you export to and import from still has the same money with which to buy and sell, and the same goods have different prices than you'd expect from just exchange rates in different markets.
I've also learnt to accept my recewding and thinning hairs.

Yet, Everytime I look in the mirror I also don't like it and wish it were different.

Have I really accepted it?
Yeah, was thinking that. Do we cut off power to a home if it’s repeatedly used for growing weed? If no, then we definitely shouldn’t cut off internet over something even more trivial.
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> what makes someone go such a great length to bash ...

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Inherent complexity does not go away if you close your eyes.

When you choose not to care about complexity, you're merely pushing it onto other developers in your org, ops people, your customers, someone. Now they have to work around your assumptions to make sure everything keeps running smoothly.

And nowadays, I'm often that someone, and I'm tired of it.

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> [Go] works brilliantly for the projects I've encountered.

Of course, C, C++, PHP and JavaScript works too! Of course many many many things "work" in our world. Of course just adding one more lane works too, of course police states work too!

Yet something else would work even more brilliantly?
World War 3.
This is all very interesting historically.

However the rise of repo markets has rendered the money=medium of exchange, bond=store of value belief pretty much redundant. Rehypothecation more so.

Banks are liquidity providers. If they think they can make a turn they'll discount any asset into money for you.
> I don't find any problems whatsoever in those audio

I think this is why there is no real, powerful protest against all that generated stuff. Only the people, that care, are able to articulate what's wrong with it. To me, all of AI generated content sounds horrible. To almost everyone else, this sounds ok. So we will see and hear more of this generated stuff. We are in the middle of the enshittification of all consumable media.
Looks like the site is broken? The login feature doesn't work, and trying to post a product gives a 500 error.

{message: 'Request failed with status code 500', name: 'AxiosError', code: 'ERR_BAD_RESPONSE', config: {…}, request: XMLHttpRequest, …}
Utter nonsense, and I say this as nicely as I can.

Check the price of Russian gas before and after the invasion, and the resulting price of electricity: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

Combine with the fact that Russia and Ukraine are some of the biggest exporters of many critical raw materials, like importantly, foodstuffs (wheat, sunflower oil, etc), and steel, aluminium, oil, gas. Hell, there was a crisis in availability of mustard and snails in France due to the invasion of Ukraine (and on the mustard, a series of bad harvests in Canada which further complicated things).

We can even clearly see it in the inflation charts, first there was growth in energy inflation towards the end of 2021 (as things were ramping back up from Covid), then a big spike in 2022 due to Russia's invasion, and then over 2022-2023, related spike in other sectors: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

To pretend none of this had no impact whatsoever is wilful ignorance.
Science paper for those with access:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.ado3890
This is precisely it. The ease of deploy, https domain configuration, scaling.

Additionally, having machines that turn off when not in use is easy to configure, which I never managed on AWS.
We don't control inflation with interest rates; we do some economic theatre with interest rates that some people believe controls inflation in a predictable way.
If anyone tells you C is "boring", that's just plain and simple bullshit. C gives you undefined behavior, buggy compilers (yes even for simple C code, MSVC is especially bad at plain C but there are other offenders) and the world's worst standard library for manipulating strings. Using C in embedded development is probably OK, even if you have to suffer with whatever crappy vendor compiler you are stuck with, but that's only considering the pretty severe limitations that very resource-constrained embedded development typically has (e.g. no dynamic allocation.) C is only as boring as you force it to be, and you really have to force it to be.

That said... the thing about the embedded space is that most of it is C, always will be, and may continue to be for the foreseeable future. It's really hard to really know what you have to regret if all you've ever known is C.
Interesting. Not sure how that happened. I thought I ended the post with the URL. You may be on to something.
And then put some salt in that water.
I think Trump has the best chance of ending the war, but I don't think America and the CIA gets to dodge responsibility for helping to start it.
Maybe they changed their mind on it in the last 10 years. I had as the source a high-ranking BMW manager as well as an Audi one who each gave a public lecture at a university with such a statement.
Can't the same question be asked on any other illegal activity done over connection. Say wire-fraud? With many computer crimes it gets even more questionable. Should internet connection of some cloud hosting company be terminated if their connection is used for attacking other systems?
I was an early user of Starlink, starting with the original terminal (today I have the 3rd generation high performance terminal). Being in a very rural area in MT where there was never congestion in my cell and I have a very open view of the sky, it has worked well for me since day 1 and has only gotten better with time.

Personally, I monitored latency more than speed, as I always had enough speed to do whatever I wanted. When I first started using SL, latency averaged around 100ms (which compared to my previous provider HughesNet was amazing, but was high compared to ground based connections), but today averages around 35ms which is still technically higher than ground based connections, but for all practical purposes for me, is indisguishable from any other internet option, even for online gaming and live video streaming.

Although I did not monitor speed as regurarily, it averages around 300Mbps for me. Sometimes it exceeds 400Mbps (I just ran a speed test and got 420Mbps), and it is rarely less than 100Mbps.

I have contacted support twice, and always received quick replies. However, based on my monitoring the Starlink Reddit forum, customer support during their beta period did appear to have often been poor. And there was also a period of time where performance was poor in many populated regions as they started opening up the floodgates a bit sooner than they probably should have, resulting in slow speeds for people in many regions, until their satellite launches caught up to demand.

However, my impression is that both of these issues have improved significantly since Starlink left beta. I do still see some complaints about customer service, but anecdotally it appears less frequent. My impression is that they have the ability to remotely troubleshoot many hardware issues, and will quickly send a replacement if they can confirm a fault. I do worry about this though, as even a quick reply and a quick hardware replacement means several days of downtime.

Speed complaints are almost certainly less frequent than they used to be.

I have no doubt that your customer service hell story is true, and if that happened to me I would be just as turned off, but I think that, especially today, that is not the norm.

I have considered purchasing a spare terminal as a backup, but I do have some concerns. I have heard that terminals that stay unpowered and unconnected for very long periods of time get too behind on FW updates and essentially become bricked, I don't believe that is the case today but I am not 100% sure. Also, back when there used to be a queue for signing up, it would not have been practical to just set up a new account for the new terminal, but now that the sign up queue is gone, maybe it is an option today. I have not fully researched my options for this redundancy idea.
Without getting political, please, does anyone have a good argument for the expected inflationary pressures of the next year or two? Tariffs will make prices go up, investment in infrastructure will make prices go up… but on the other hand, AI & robotics seems to be a deflationary pressure… where does one go for scenario analysis of the next year or two?

This article scared me a bit with the notion of banks implementing “quantitative freezing.”
Would've been funny if you had been expected to literally cut out six zeroes from the notes.

In 1963 Finland also ended up shifting markka to the right by two, so that the old markka became the new penni (1/100 markka).
Count yourself lucky. I lost 1 parent, 1 good friend and -his entire family- of 3, several close associates that I counted among my friends , and my wife.

Random events do not have random distributions, and the early strains of the virus were much, much more aggressive. I still suffer from neurological effects of my COVID infection from the very beginning of the spread of the virus.

People with cancer in remission for years of even decades experienced a huge spike in breakthrough tumors. Vascular damage provoked a massive uptick in ischemic events such as stroke or heart attack. The effects of COVID reach far, far beyond “dying of COVID”.
For an international perspective: buying and selling government bonds is far from an universal mechanism for interest rate control (AFAIK when discussing central banks the US is almost always a special case)

For instance the Canadian, UK and European central banks provide systems for interbank short-term loans. It is almost entirely through these systems that they set their target rate.

For Canada the BoC doesn't do any open market operations to reach target interest rate (so almost only repos and reverse repos). Their target rate is in fact called the "target overnight rate" and only concerns overnight lending between Canadian financial institutions.
Think about it:

- We have CRMs for customers
- Project management tools for tasks
- Communication apps for team chat

But where does all the valuable content from these tools go? Where do you store the insights, the important links, and the knowledge you'll need later?

If you are curious? Check out this tutorial on creating a productive content workspace.
Bruh, 80% of all USD in existence was issued during the pandemic alone. How the hell can you tell me with a straight face that that didn't cause the inflation? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL
Fair point, although the way things are currently shaping up with his administration, I'm expecting there to be some serious consequences for the spooks that orchestrated all of this.
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I was a big fan of JEMM386, was quite revolutionary when it came out - it used only 192 bytes of memory! A godsend for some demanding DOS games back then.

And there was also HXRT from the same author, which allowed you to run win32 apps in DOS. Never really made good use of it, but thought it was still pretty cool.
Yes, you must have assumptions to apply logic in the first place. I don’t mind it, even if I have different assumptions.