skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but it's hard to comprehend why Russia was unable to do anything at all.

Russia is a country with a modest GDP. They are very close to Mexico or Brazil both in GDP and population. We wouldn't be surprised that Mexico couldn't hold multiple wars
The answer is simple, there's an endless amount of churches and castles to maintain in France, so many of them that it's actually impossible to maintain them all. As long as the state cares about maintainance, there's going to be jobs for it.
Have you heard of a thing called, Islamic State? They had a thing for creative murder. Aside from the usual behadings, they came up with things like pushing homosexuals from buildings in the public and alike. They are also now free again.
But a lot of those 40% simply didn't live lifestyles like today.

Everyone until my generation in my family lived in a single-income household. At least full-time income.

They also gardened - enough where canning skills were widely known and utilized. And picked up odd jobs - everyone, the wife and the kids as soon as they were able. Every single kid was working a part time job by age 15 and contributing to the household in some manner or another. Every kid did a serious chunk of daily chores to help out. Extended family assisting in basic child care, home repair, car maintenance, and other duties was the norm.

McDonalds and the like were absolute luxuries for special occasions like birthdays. Not the whole family. The parents and the one kid who's birthday it was. Your menu selection was strictly limited. Anniversaries for the parents were celebrated by the once a year "fancy dinner" at a place like Olive Garden.

The stay at home parent home cooked all the meals from basic (read: cheap but labor intensive) ingredients.

Kids invariably shared bedrooms, sometimes even 3 to a room. A single used car for a family of 6 was the norm. Every kid got two sets of clothing to start the school year, and if you ruined them you were out of luck or learning how to sew patches onto things. Hand-me-downs were the norm.

Houses were about half the size on average in my area.

These were folks everyone likes to wax nostalgic about as "solidly middle class" and lived in the "rich" suburbs.

From where I stand, most of what the dual income household did was simply increase lifestyle and asset inflation. It first started with some folks just "getting ahead" and choosing that life. It then turned into those folks bidding against anyone who wanted to keep costs down and turned a voluntary game into a mandatory one. The market is going to serve the majority and most profitable segment. If you wanted to buy a home, you were bidding against that dual income household willing to take on a 30 year mortgage and max out their finances. You were forced into it - 30% income rule be damned as there were no other choices with so many folks bidding homes and rentals upwards. Now we're at a point where all the fixed expenses have met the median dual income budget - there is nothing left to give. Things will get interesting.

That is certainly not the whole story, but it's a decent part of it very few talk about.
I don't know that "what kind of news is it" is the right way to look at this. Things happen, without a reckoning of whether they are convenient or inconvenient to the most powerful military forces in the world. The people who just overthrew the Ba'athists are Salafists; their leader has (had?) a $10MM price on his head from the US for leading the al-Nusra front, which was (is?) al-Qaeda in Syria, and was almost a component of ISIS (HTS => IS-Ish). It's not who most people on HN would pick to overthrow Assad! But then again: why would any of us have a say in who overthrew Assad?
You shouldn't treat them as different brosers. They're just skins.
This is a huge blow for the russian regime. Things are really starting to look bad over there. We might see a second collapse in 2026. Putin has destroyed a country.
The order to stop the program of "consensual searches" at mass transportation facilities was sent out on November 12, and the more detailed report that I linked to on November 21st. Do you have knowledge of these DEA consensual searches happening at airports or other mass transit hubs after November 12?

Or are you referring to broader law enforcement attempts to do consensual searches or civil asset forfeiture seizures, which are absolutely still a problem?

I guess my point is, there are still massive problems with the way policing happens in this country. But the Biden administration has ordered this particular problematic behavior to end, specifically in response to the incident brought up in this article.

So, are you just making vague generalizations, or do you have actual knowledge that this program has not ended?
A lorry-load of antimatter will help solve secrets of universe
It sounds like what we need is a program akin to rural electrification and rural free mail delivery, which (despite
obvious unprofitability in the "small picture" sense) were both subsidized by forward-thinking government programs.
Nassim Taleb (in Lebanon not far from Homs right now):

"The strangest thing is that after 14 years of war, the Syrian rebels walked into the entire country faster than if they were on a tourist sightseeing tour. Except at the beginning, there was no fighting."

(from his X Account)
Not GP, but I have an i5 from around 2015. 4 cores, no hyper threading), 32GB ram. And it's still good enough for most things. Adding ram and a decent SDD gave it many extra years.

In the prosess of switching it out completely now though.
I have heard this argument before, but I'm not particularly convinced.

Either way pretty much all their pre-war modern equipment has already been destroyed. Now they're fighting with really old stuff like T-55s pulled from storage, newly manufactured equipment, or whatever North Korea thinks it can spare.
Interesting. For me it's generally much faster than other package managers. The evaluation takes some time, but copying derivations from a cache to the Nix store is so much faster than traditional package management.

I wonder if you somehow ended up eval'ing many versions of nixpkgs?

your nix store weighs at 100 GB

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ outside very constrained devices, who cares? I just checked my NixOS dev VM that I have used for months now and cannot remember when I last garbage collected. It's 188GiB, but I have many different versions of CUDA, Torch, etc. (the project I'm currently working on entails building some kernels for many different build configurations), and I run nixos-unstable, where a lot of stuff changes, so generations are pretty unique.

A 2TB NVMe SSD is just over 100 Euro. Caring about 100GiB seems to be optimizing for the wrong things.

I completely agree on embedded machines though. Just deploy it by copying the system closure, garbage collecting anything but the previous closure for backup, it'll be pretty much the same size as any other Linux system.
“ In an era defined by automation, smarter programming tools, and sky-high user expectations, companies can no longer rely on legacy methods.”

Not on topic but this structure of sentence was a really common first paragraph sentence in blog posts in the UK written by PRs over a decade ago, but seems to live on in US corporate language blogs and adverts. Not really sure why, given it doesn’t say…anything, really. It also just signposts the writing ahead will be fairly generic.
Firefox does, but does a really poor you if exposing that info. (See places.sqlite)
I disagree with that definition of cheating. Manipulating people is cheating. Everyone cheats, just this guy seems off the charts and you have to draw the line somewhere.

Too many people on this thread think in black and white. Because everyone cheats/lie it’s ok to cheat/lie as much as you want.

Very defeatist, as the other commenter said.
This best explains what I must be missing. Saying, “shell scripts are bad,” doesn’t tell me anything. Thanks for giving me a concept to explore. I’ll have another look with this in mind.
He honestly comes across as a bit detached from reality. He presents these concerns about C++ standards as self-evident. He further goes to conflate these _very_ specific concerns as "obviously" the signs of Rockstar losing its appeal to any and all talent, even though that's not self evident either.
You can configure both to use either.

List of emacs-like config in Qutebrowser:

https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/blob/main/doc/hel...
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And there we have it, thank you.
100% agree.

“Study finds Jumping off roofs is bad for your legs”

“Study finds looking at the sun is bad for eyesight”
what do you normally use the diagrams for? Personal notes/blog posts/work?
Hmm - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan_Heights ?
[Not that I'd take this as having any new impact on the current situation, but...]
Some good ideas here especially the history tree and keyboard history. Don't care much for the hacker = keyboard mentality, I enjoy using my mouse.
> Denying claims generally doesn't improve health insurance company profits.

If this is true, why do several of the larger companies deny so many claims? I can't imagine they would do this if what you were saying were true; the board would have leadership's heads.
Wow, that's offensive, especially the last part. Good job!
Poisoning someone is using physical force. Why would you think otherwise?
I like knowing what's going on, and I'm not chronically anxious.

I'm especially interested in new historic events and new ideas (including bad ideas). I want to know what people around the world are up to.

The news stories I avoid are human interest stories, local news, and "fluff" pieces. Except when they involve actual fluffy animals, I read those. But generally if something has already happened a million times before, like some murders, an explosion, some pollution, I don't care. Noticing these doesn't make me feel bad, though, unless my time was wasted by clickbait.

Shit happens. A lot of commenters here are saying "if it doesn't affect you, why read about it," but I think that should be understood only as a message for anxious people who are going to feel affected by things they ought to feel blasé about. And often these are stories about the same old grind anyway.

I'm going to flip the message around: "since it doesn't affect me, and I know it, and yet it's globally significant, I'm going to have a cosy time reading about it."
I hope this is successful but have a feeling that it's going to end up like Premium Friday. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium_Friday Starts with big fanfare, supported by businesses, until focus drifts elsewhere and it quietly disappears.
Wow that's great! I'll be totally honest, I completely forgot that fire happened until now. It was really big news and at the time I thought it would be the defining moment of 2019, then COVID happened and I pretty much forgot anything else that had happened that year.
Fabrice Bellard, unbelievable what a single person can get done.
Yes, exactly. Government orgs also need IT, developers, etc. I get to end my day at the same time every day and while major changes make for a week or so of a ton more work responding, there aren’t sprints to deliver important PR-sensitive releases. My off time is my own.
I think there is a good chance that reasonably fair elections get held. The government will likely take a moderate Islamic tone, with other religious groups coexisting. For now all the main players seem fairly chill.
>The commander of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, Abu Mohammed al-Julani, says all state institutions will remain under the supervision of al-Assad’s prime minister until they are handed over officially.

Pretty unusual for a terrorist group
>There is no sane reason to restrict violence to the immediate physical.

There is no sane reason to restrict sane to mean of sound mind. It should also mean blue. How sane the sky is today!

Much better.
A large part of my extended network can only make ends meet because of jobs created by tourism.

Also true: the amount of money needed to make ends meet doubled because of the large influx of people…

The real question is: did the majority of natives improved their life with it?
Because it doesn't fit the definition of violence.
Nix [...] and a terrible language

I never get this criticism. Nix is a pretty nice, small, functional programming language and lazy evaluation makes it really powerful (see e.g. using fixed-points for overlays). I wonder if this criticism comes from people who have never done any functional programming?

When I first started with Nix six years ago, the language was one of the things I immediately liked a lot. What I didn't like was the lack of documentation for all the functions, hooks, etc. in nixpkgs, though it certainly got better with time.
> The purpose of the drip feeding is, unfortunately,

Absolutely not, it's not intentional.

- Suddenly, the world defense base needed to get on up to a level to match the world's 5th largest army, with all its stockpiles -- regardless of if its just lil ol Ukraine, Russia is putting its full effort in.

- Politics in US delayed it several months, I can't recall the exact number, but it was at least 6.
[dupe]

Recent discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42243751
All modern programming languages very specifically are designed to make syntax analysis much more deterministic--for example, you can differentiate variable name from variable type with very little parsing (no C typedef complexity).

There is no inherent reason why we might not design programming language syntax to be much more parallelizable.
If there was, I’m unaware. But I’m not unhappy so, if this is a serious question and not trolling, I escaped an unfortunate self doubt.
I am keeping up with my steady tide pod diet, learning about how much God loves me, training to be a YouTube influencer to make thousands of dollars per month without leaving my home and investing in helping a Nigerian prince move his funds out of the country. Yet I still feel there is something missing. Which Gab group would you guys recommend for knowing the truth about the events shaping my world that they are hiding from us?
Berlin does this for a completely different reason. Most of the clubs are FKK/kink/drugs zones. Having sticker on the camera stops people from taking photos of others doing the deed, making club goers more comfortable.

In berlin clubs where those things are not allowed, they generally don’t ask you to put sticker on cameras, unless they want to look cool like those places.
>Assad wasn’t really a stabilizing force

Questionable statement.

Syria has (had) a secular government that allowed Sunnis, Alawites, Christians, Druze Muslims, twelvers, and Kurds to live there. The status quo for the region is theocratic iron fist of a particular Islamic denomination, with all others persecuted.

Not to mention, Assad is a Ba’athist (as was Sadam) which by definition is all about Arab unity.

Which Sunni warlord group should we hand the country to now? Do you think things will be better? Can you name a single Syrian political figure or interest group (don’t Google!) that you would propose lead the country? Be honest with yourself.

>Almost seven million Syrian refugees might have he chance to return home and rebuild now

They’re not going back.
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> Maybe there's something else going on we don't know yet.

We know whats going on, the world was just focused elsewhere when this all started and suddenly spiraled.

Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham launched a run of the mill offensive on November 27 in retaliation to SAA attacks and it turned out to be so successful that the Kurdish SDF launched its own offensive on November 29 to take advantage of the situation. Within a week almost every rebel group joined in, the SAA lines of defense broke down, and Russian/Iranian/Hezbollah support disintegrated and evacuated from the country.

I wouldn’t be surprised if some intelligence agencies greased the wheels here but this was mostly dominoes suddenly falling thanks to conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East sapping military resources and a single spark lighting the powder keg.
Russia's military is about 4-5x the size in men and 10x the budget, and 10x compounded over years, and years, and years. What's a GDP? :)
I like these challenges, where people rebuild stuff low level and “line efficient” (not saying this is a good idea in general). This makes me curious and I can learn a lot from these examples.

I was a bit disappointed though to see that this code used SDL for sprites and more stuff though. That’s not 1000 lines anymore imo. Still the code was an interesting read.

Thank you OP
A roadmap to better health in the USA
In case you want to run Justfiles in places where you can't install the Just binary (for whatever reason), I wrote a compiler that transforms Justfiles into portable shell scripts that have byte-for-byte identical output in most cases.

https://github.com/jstrieb/just.sh

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38772039
I’m reminded of how people in Afghanistan had the reputation of switching sides pretty easily.
Just random musings, I have a somewhat visual imagination when it comes to math stuff so it is quite intriguing to see if I can get Claude to reproduce what I see in my 'mind's eye'. Here's an example w/o really getting into what it's about lol: https://codebeautify.org/svg-viewer/y241266c9

Note: this one is actually just un-edited directly from Claude, I made this when I just had discovered Claude is reasonably decent at svg, and before I figured out the whole editable pipeline workflow.
Recipe of the day
Sriracha Maple Bacon

Is this the North American version of "healthy"?
I think it's too good to be true that after 13 years of civil war fought by multiple factions, suddenly everyone becomes friends with each other and then they happily live thereafter in a democratic utopia. We can expect a string of coups as various groups attempt to seize power.
EDG: 6 employees according to Wikipedia. That's what I call travelling light, not much room for corporate BS there, I bet.
an argument could be made that this was a once in a few generations chance to do something different, or at least change/add to the existing design. another argument is that the building saw many changes from ~1180 to today, so change was actually part of the history of the building.
The last time they did that we ended up with Itanium.
Yeah... It's an accident waiting to happen with someone's security key. (Yes, I'm aware chrome tries to protect that one... for now) We really need more intentionality around hardware use. There's many SDR apps already packaged for all systems. Stop trying to juggle chainsaws, please!
HTS has cut off ties with ALQaeda and IS since almost 10 years.
Yes, I can also wear underwear as a hat.
I’m very interested in reading the book but it certainly seems like Russia and Iran propped up a zombie admin that is actually totally hollow when push comes to shove and the benefactors are busy elsewhere
> a secular government that allowed ... to live there.

"live" is a strong word to use there.
(typo in previous comment: current samples store 350 Wh/kg)
I blacklist all news sites, reddit, all social media sites etc. Completely blocked on my device.

I have switched away from using Google as a search engine entirely.

That still wasn't enough, so I ditched the smart phone for a brick phone. So on that I can only message/call and play Tetris.

That still wasn't enough so I also sold my TV.

That still wasn't enough so I also built an internet content blocker extension to further block mentions of certain words/phrases/patterns (think drugs/war/alcohol/gambling/porn/religion/politics etc).

I'm thinking of building an image blocker next, somehow without "AI".

All this + site blacklisting + ad-blockers + no social media + no TV + no news seems to do the trick!
Definitely, do this. When you do, take the underground Western Wall tour. The stonework just beggars the imagination.

https://thekotel.org/en/tours/western-wall-tunnels/2/?srslti...
Like always it's a second class citizen. I spend a stupid 6 months trying to use emacs like vim. Emacs isn't a text editor. If you need to edit text as a rectangle of characters then you can drop in evil mode. Expecting to use emacs control characters from evil mode it a bit like using Kanji to write English.
What kind of work do you do with those specs? I have a machine from around the same period with similar upgrades and I feel that it really is good enough, especially if you don't play video games.
If we look at what happened in Tunisia or Libya after they got rid of their secular dictators (Gadaffi an Ben Ali), it doesn't have to be that way. They were also fears of them becoming islamic states, yet they didn't.

If we look at Egypt, they could become again a dictatorship.
You can blame other countries all you want, but the reality is that «Syria» is colonialist project that was always bound to fail.

There are very few muslim/arab countries that are also prosperous, successful and peaceful. They all seem to have good ties with the west, as a common factor (amongst others).
Do you think someone pointing out how bad the uprising in Libya turned out is in "a cheering section" for Gaddafi?

You do not have to love or even like Assad's regime to be concerned about an organization with past ties to Al-Qaeda and ISIS taking the reins. Some people in here have a lot of faith in their newly claimed moderate stance. I do not think that a group like that changes its colors over night, but we shall see.
The "service" of writing down things people have said out loud is pretty low margin. So your choices are to put a paywall up and hope people pay a flat rate for whatever you happen to offer each month or to increase your distribution as much as you can while embedding relevant static advertisements. Since delivery is exceedingly cheap it seems obvious which strategy to use.
The vast majority of Syrian refugees are going to try their best to stay in Europe because why would they want to leave to return to devastation and ruin (aside from forced deportation).
"Raygun" Is her dance persona and is presumably defensible intellectual property. Parody defences have limits I guess. A shame, it might have been funny.
One key difference is that they continually exhaust some of the air (unlike a conventional oven) so they are much better at lowering moisture content while cooking, which helps produce a crispy texture on things like fries.
What are the chances the
Kurds will get their own land out of this?
It's quite easy to accidentally write makefiles that build something different when you run them a second time, or when some server that used to be reliable suddenly goes down. Or when the user upgrades something that you wouldn't think is related.

It does no validation of inputs. So suppose you're bisecting your way towards the cause of a failure related to the compiler version. Ideally there would be a commit which changed the compiler version, so your bisect would find a nice neat boundary in version history where the problem began. Make, by contrast, is just picking up whatever it finds on the PATH and hoping for the best. So the best you can do is exclude the code as the source of the bug and start scratching your head about the environment.

That willingness to just pick up whatever it finds and make changes wherever it wants with no regard to whether dependency created by these state changes is made explicit and transparent to the user is what I mean by "imperative".
My view is that widespread access to and use of generalized LLMs as trusted tools for learning is problematic partly because of the serious lack of critical thinking and basic education in the US. Which itself has nothing to do with LLMs right now, but is certainly a big part of why we’re in the current situation we are in. gestures around wildly

LLMs aren’t going to do much to fix that in the short term given the slop in, slop out problems.

It’s just another race to the bottom.