skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What is "violent" is generally defined by those who are more powerful I'd say.

I think the hidden war of words is over the definition of "illegitimate violence" (like premeditated murder) and "legitimate violence" (like getting tazed, kettled at a protest, or shot dead by police at a traffic stop). The latter is generally not defined as "violence" at all by those with power.

There was an interesting article that analyzed usage if the word "violent"/"violence" in mass media reporting on college campus protests in the US. Going by the reporting, when police were bashing heads, the protests were not violent, but became "violent" when protestors were fighting back against counter-protestors who got physical. Violence meted out by the government is not called that.
Not any more. An E-Form 4 is now processed in a week or two.
I can't take this author seriously. They seem to live in some perfect world divorced from reality. I'm sorry, but these defence companies are the reason that you can enjoy a liberal democracy that protects your LGBQT+ rights. There's no end to the authoritarian governments (or 'regimes') that oppress their citizens, and would like to oppress others through imperial ambitions. I would rather than a strong defence sector and have safety for myself, my family, and my fellow citizens than virtue signal to others that I am somehow above silly things such as 'war'.
When I look at my Tesla, I see the hard work of hundreds (or thousands) of engineers, tasked with doing something new and complicated. They're collective trailblazers, and they know they're making the product that best it can be, given the constraints.

You look and you see one person.
Shout out to the low-FODMAP diet. I did that last year after having several months of abdominal pain and discomfort, and was stunned at how quickly a change in diet could solve these seemingly chronic symptoms. At the end of the second day I told my wife I couldn't remember the last time I felt so good. I'd recommend trying it for a few days to pretty much anybody, because doing it can't hurt, and who knows? It might make you feel better. It's not intended to be a long-term thing anyway, more of a diagnostic tool to help you learn about your body.
https://archive.is/XbB0J
The book kiosk in my town had a leave-one take-one program that was suspended because a local stole all 40+ books to sell on Amazon.

Also, no more nativity scene at the church because they steal the baby Jesus.
Right.

Dickies and Vans were and are both units of VF Corporation.[1][2] VF also owns The North Face and Timberland, and a bunch of other "lifestyle brands". They have headquarters all over the place.
VF corporate HQ is Denver. Vans HQ is in Costa Mesa, CA. There's a HQ in Shanghai, which manages manufacturing. Timberland HQ is in New Hampshire. North Face HQ is in Denver. And for some reason, there's an IT unit in Greensboro, NC.

Too many HQs. Looks from their job listings like they're consolidating apparel in Costa Mesa, except for North Face and Timberland.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VF_Corporation

[2] https://www.vfc.com/
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Makes me think of the "cobra effect", like the Great Hanoi Rat Massacre.[1]

Set arbitrary metrics like download count -> bad actors make bots to download their package -> they profit while the registry suffers from very heavy load.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanoi_Rat_Massacre
Yea, good for them.
The awkward diversity era of Hollywood movies is over
Actually I think the opposite is true in many cases. Food quality and safety standards are higher than ever.

This stuff sticks out because it’s getting caught and called out. There was a time when information spread slowly, tracking supply chains was basically impossible, and many businesses would do shady things because they knew they were unlikely to get caught.

Now we can sample things like honey with lab equipment that is basically magic compared to technology 50 years ago, so these things are getting caught. We also have the internet to share stories, so they’re getting seen.

So while people are becoming more aware, I think these things are actually better than in the past.
"every"

you're missing a lot

TTS: 11labs, PlayHT, Cartesia, iFLYTEK, AWS Polly, Deepgram Aura

STT: Deepgram (multiple models, including Whisper), Gladia Whisper, Soniox

just off the top of my head (it's my dayjob!)
I think you may have rose tinted glasses on historical Youtube.

Youtube used to be a wasteland of horrible insulting comments closer to 4chan in politeness and quality. Near constant spammy meanness.

Youtube has issues, yet when the Baltimore bridge collapsed, the live view on the bridge was almost constantly polite, curious, and respectful commentary. The text summaries are actually a nice change so that if you don't want to sit through some annoying drawn out video, that often ends up using a robot voice anyways, you can just read the text summary. A feature that I was personally interested in a long time ago when almost every article became a video instead. Same reason https://neuters.de/ is one of the best ways to read Reuters News.

Part of the issue with Youtube is not Youtube specifically, it's humanity. A lot of the 90% is annoying spammy BS, and it's difficult to filter away the constant "first post", "you so hot girl", "me too", "like like", "rofl wtf bbq" nonsense. Part of what ended up making FB almost unreadable. Even small town groups are deluges of spammy, copypasta, upvote trolling.

Scrolled through Youtube front page to find a "random" video and landed on a Half Life 2 documentary. Comments were either polite, informative, or opinion without being especially flamebait. There's a lot of the world wide web that's not nearly such high quality these days.

The others issues would probably be multiple pages of commentary, having tried to be an Android developer. "The function you're searching for is deprecated, move to ... a function that is also deprecated."
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I agree - and what's funny is that according to this blog it was the US community that rejected US MIC companies, and the EU community didn't reject the EU MIC company.
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Your first sentence says:

> just is a command runner, not a build system

And then you go ahead and complain that it is poor at building.

If you need a build tool, don't use just. Use make or something else. The purpose of just is to stop putting non-build stuff in Makefiles. And of course, it has a nice set of features that make doesn't.
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The Mountain Pass mine solved that problem years ago. What they couldn't solve was making money during periods when China cut rare earth prices.
Ya know, there is such a thing as self hosting on your own rig.
Thanks for the honesty dude. I got fired earlier this year.

I have been working on personal projects since.

I have personal savings to last for around 3-4 years.

Lately I have been stressing a lot, thinking about what would happen if I fail to make a single penny in upcoming years.

Reading your post was a breath of fresh air.
Excellent, edit, that painting looks almost exactly like your world to me. Very cool project.
Such a stupid headline. The quote is:

> According to a national work-from-home survey by economists at three universities, less than a quarter of 20-somethings who can do their jobs remotely want to do so full time.

https://archive.ph/Ayjyk

Which isn't backed up by the data:

> The Gap Between How Much Employees Want to Work from
Home and Employer Plans Fluctuates Near 0.5 Days

> Employers Offer Fewer Fully Remote Jobs and More Fully
Onsite Jobs Than Employees Want

> Workers In Their 50s and 60s Are Fully On Site and Fully
Remote More Often Than Younger Workers

> SWAA Respondents Prefer Hybrid WFH (2-3 Days/Week)
Over Fully In-Person Work By A Margin of 3.8-to-1
(With 57.4% of respondents preferring to work from home as compared with working on site every workday)

> Even the Least WFH-Friendly Age and Education Groups Favor
Hybrid WFH Over Fully In-Person Work by Wide Margins

https://wfhresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/WFHResear...

I'm sure there's some "creative" reading of the data that supports the headline, but it's non-obvious how, and certainly not in keeping with any reasonable interpretation of the data and reality.

Stretching credulity, this part: "less than a quarter of 20-somethings who can do their jobs remotely want to do so full time." could be related to the data item "SWAA Respondents Prefer Hybrid WFH (2-3 Days/Week)
Over Fully In-Person Work By A Margin of 3.8-to-1", as a reading of the survey question compared working 2-3 days *in total* as compared to working full-time on site:

> "How would you feel about WFH 2 or 3 days a week, compared to working at your employer's site every workday?"

And so the headline may be based on this single poorly worded question.
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But websites don’t
Imputing a position to you was not my intent. Apologies.
well, a more charitable take on it would be they just don't have the means to achieve what they might want to do. would you be able to charter a boat with the ability of cutting the cables while also ensuring that whatever crew you hired will be complicit with your task? make it more simple you say by finding where the cables come on land and attack them there is more complicated because now you're on foreign soil.

so does that make someone stupid because they're not an evil billionaire and just someone that likes to watch the world burn?
> Quoting is a disaster.

It surprises me a bit that, of all things that are a mess in shell, your comment mentions quoting. It’s one of the few things that absolutely make sense for me in shell scripting. Do you have an example for me where quoting feels messy to you?

> My favourite solution is Deno. Easily the best scripting tool for infrastructure tasks at the moment.

I don’t think there’s an objectively best technology for everyone.
For example, how long-term are your infrastructure tasks? What are the chances your scripts are still going to work in 2 years? 5 years? 10 years?

Suppose you’re in a large enterprise embedded project which needs to work for 10 years or more, and the project uses shell scripts for infra tasks. Would you recommend to migrate those to Deno or Python?
One administration was applauded for reducing the amount of time and resources spent evaluating the possible negative outcomes of the vaccine.

One administration was harshly criticized for reducing the amount of time and resources spent evaluating the possible negative outcomes of the vaccine.
> if you install Microsoft's C/C++ dev stack (typically via installing Visual Studio).

So I have to install this huge dependency just to use make, when my project is in Python?

Way easier to install just :-)
Call it “rarefied honey”, that makes it sound premium.
I say, tRump gets knocked off his thrown, making way for King Martian.
That's how it goes at mine. I regularly whine about the amount of waste in there.. insane. I was more productive, creative and happier when jobless. In group you have to navigate all the hurdles, egos, fears around .. Makes me wonder how Xerox PARC managed to exist all (beyond the fact that they had a lot of money of course)
What right wing news source is that? They paint a pretty one sided picture here. Some truths but not all. Germany was on its way to be energy independent with wind but that was blocked by Merkel and right leaning governments since 2010. Without that intervention we could be big in wind and having a lot of people work in that sector. Instead they turned back to gas and coal.

The dependence on cars and the incompetence to get excellent on software are a huge problem here in Germany. But the educated part of the people here saw that coming.

The will to change is what is dragging us down in Germany.
Mhmm let's see what's more likely...

Zoonosis right next to a lab that does gain of function research on flu viruses - and not anywhere else in the world

OR

Lab leak covered by the CCP
This whole thread is full of dunning-kruger.
Maybe Europe just needs a bunch of tunnels like the Channel tunnel, and then add some fiber to it.
Yandex has been used in Kagi for years, and this was even posted about previously. I guess the knowledge faded into obscurity, and new people just weren’t aware of it. I think Yandex is a decent search engine at times—at least it finds results that others don’t—so I can see why Kagi would use it to enhance their results.
Thanks! Sorry to be a stickler, these discussion always devolve into a morass of semantic misunderstandings.
Apparently humor is no longer valid?
you seem to imply you are personally benefiting from wars abroad and that they somehow protect you.
This was a terrible debate. The winner claimed that it was implausible that the WIV had unpublished viruses, so the absence of published sequences was strong evidence of their innocence.

The WIV just published 56 new sequences, proving him wrong (but still exonerating themselves per the headline). So I guess now it's implausible that they actually had 57?

The debate also relied heavily on Pekar's argument that the polytomy structure of SARS-CoV-2 proves it arose from multiple zoonotic introductions. The form of this argument was always suspect, since it's a high-dimensional model with no history of successful predictions; but beyond that, researchers replicating it found basic logic errors that greatly weaken the result:

https://x.com/nizzaneela/status/1686105717135097862

The paper was eventually corrected, but the authors haven't changed their exaggerated claims to the popular press, which already went beyond the original claims of their peer-reviewed paper. It seems like no one on the other side of the debate had the mathematical background to raise these issues, with the unfortunate result you see above.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8337
Everything you've just brought up as a concern is addressed, and more, over at https://endthefud.org

The energy use is a big one people who don't think it through keep coming back to (thanks to the WEF planting this bogeyman back in 2017 or so). Miners do not operate when the cost of electricity is high, for economic reasons. What they do, however, is look for stranded power. This has led many to operate where gas is otherwise being flared, as well as on wind turbine and other green power sources, making it economical to build them out as it creates demand. That demand in turn falls off if other use for the power materializes, but is there to pick up the slack if the surplus re-emerges.

These are a few examples, of which you'll find many if you bother to look. Bitcoin in many ways serves as a battery to balance demand for energy, and may well be one of the greener initiatives out there. Which certainly can't be said for traditional banking infrastructure.
1. It's a fine language but I have all kinds of "works on my machine" problems with it because it has no associated dependency manager. Other languages solve this with lockfiles and such, and it's likely that you're already doing that with one of those same languages in the same project. So just... Use the main language for whatever it is.

2. No, nothing's so easy, but you can get more if you're willing to work for it, and I think the juice is worth the squeeze.

3. For runtime state, I find that using just as a wrapper around Tilt or docker-compose or k3d or whatever just hides the perfectly adequate interfaces that those tools have. The wrapper discourages deeper tinkering with those tools. It's not a particularly difficult layer of abstraction to pierce, but it doesn't buy you enough to justify having an additional layer at all.

4. In the case I'm thinking of, the whole team was working happily because they had used a Just recipe to download a file from a different repo, and then somebody removed the recipe, but everyone (except the new guy) had the file from months ago, which worked. Nix wouldn't have let us accidentally get into a broken state and not know it. It would have broken as soon as we removed the derivation for the necessary file. I sent him the file through slack and then he was able to work, and only discovered later how it got there on my machine. That kind of uncertainty leads to expensive problems eventually.
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Ah, the wonders of platform-exclusive content.
> Most of their tech is stolen or trickles down from innovation elsewhere

Overheard at a battery conference: western battery suppliers are actually copying (or in your words, stealing) the Chinese electrolyte formulas and other designs.

Great artists steal, the US and Europe play the same game.
"bleeding edge" may also be unproven and more importantly it is not standardised. This is why people would muse that they trust a civil engineer over a software engineer - sectors that include physical engineering have rigorous standards. Software projects that interface with this (say, a flight computer of a new jet) also have strict standards. Ones that do not (currently) cover the "bleeding edge" in software development.
I admire the self-confidence and the freedom it brings. I sometimes wish I had the courage to go down my own path.
> Who are you to decide what style the author should use?

Who am I to decide? Well, who are you to ask me who I am to decide? Should we keep going in circles, or would you prefer we actually discuss the point at hand?

Well, seriously, to be honest, I don't care much about what style the author should use. The author should write in their style on their personal blog as much as they want. I care about it appearing on the HN main page and me having to click it and then being unhappy about my dear HN community upvoting a mundane article of questionable quality to HN main page. Who am I to do so? Well, I am the reader!

If I can't even critique an article that I read here, then what are we all even doing here?
You have probably lived in a big city all this time, which most Europeans have not.
> If that were true, we’d see a lot more sabotage

It is true. There is a lot of critical infrastructure out in the open that a dude with a pick-up truck of fertiliser could trash. (I'm not even getting to our electrical or natural gas distribution systems.)
Norway's sovereign wealth fund rises to a record €1,700B
I don't know what else to expect from a profession that selects for the most violent members of the bottom decile of our society.
They call it "an anchor", but could it not be a tool designed for purpose that only resembles an anchor in the fact that it connects to the ship while sitting on the ocean floor? We are talking about hostile nation states and not some fishing crew
It's a sticky situation!
Well, for one, your recipes can be in another language (e.g. Python).

You can build complex recipes out of simpler ones. Sure, you could do that by creating a new shell script that calls other shell scripts, but then you're reinventing just.

You don't need to be in the directory to run those scripts.

I think a better question for you: What's the benefit of putting .PHONY recipes in Makefiles, when you could just have a directory full of shell scripts. If you find yourself using .PHONY recipes, then you already have a reason to use just.
I mean shooting electricity transformers turns out to be pretty viable, it's just got the basic problem of (1) you probably need that electricity yourself and (2) while it might be hard to prevent, catching the guys who did it is a lot easier and no one wants to do 12+ months in prison.
I still think Europe makes the best cars. But being the best is never enough to also sell high volumes.

Europe is stagnating due to an ever-increasing set of regulations, higher taxes (partially required to enforce those regulations and a shrinking labor force) and specially the effect that those have on the motivation of the most skilled workers: killing it.

Me and my wife have tried starting a couple of businesses, but it’s incredibly complicated to navigate and deal with German bureaucracy, and all the effort gets awarded with an incredibly high tax rate of around 50%.

So lots of smart people in my environment are actually walking the path backwards and they have either stopped side projects or simply started to reduce working hours. Either that or just moving to other countries like Switzerland, Singapur or the US.

The situation is even worse in Netherlands, France or Spain.

The taxation system in those countries creates negative incentives as it makes you feel punished if you become economically successful with a new product or idea. I really think it should be the complete opposite. And it’s not a matter of lack of budget for public services: public education, healthcare and justice are usually covered with around 30% of the public expenditure.
https://archive.ph/mcZ2p
No the couch is too comfy
We should either close the loopholes or eliminate the tax.
Yes, I absolutely love how other adults in the sailing community treat my kid with kindness and respect, and listen to them the same as any adult. Sailing is somewhat of a dying thing- few young people do it and the older people are mostly really excited to see kids in the community.

We don’t actually live on a sailboat in the sense of this discussion, but a lot of our friends do.
Wuhan has a BSL-4 lab since 2018, but it wasn't used for coronavirus research.

Most unversity cities have virology groups, and coronaviruses became a popular research subject after SARS, particularly in China. The probability of finding a coronavirus researcher group in any large Chinese city was probably fairly large in 2019.
You are mixing up nuclear bombs with american nuclear bombs. But regardless, i think eurofighters are getting U.S. B61 certification soon.
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True. I was thinking of time between planets though. It’s hard to get to Earth orbit but it also takes six to twelve months to get to Mars without some kind of crazy torch rocket. In a smaller system it might take a few weeks. Big difference.
Question - mise is also incorporating a command runner. Anyone tried it yet? We love just, of course. Always curious about new tools.
here they'll probably be executed simultaneously, since they both have zero dependencies and the machine can run multiple jobs at the same time. (can be disabled with `--max_jobs=1` or `-p=1`).

Here's another illustrative example:

A -> B
B -> C
Z -> C

In this situation, frof will schedule `Z` to run in a parallel thread ASAP, so it will likely run alongside A... and if Z takes longer to run than A, Z will continue running when A stops and B starts. But C will wait for all other jobs to finish before it can schedule.
What do you need one for, if you're not in the Google ecosystem?

Just about the only thing I can think of is Google Docs. But if you need that for work, chances are you're using your work account for that, not your personal one.
In future court appointments her taking a year long vacation with the kids will be used as an argument that she should get them (and he should pay more child support) beacuse she already spends the most time with them.
I still don't get what the "concern" is supposed to be.

That Nietzsche's worldview was intrinsically fascist (or proto-fascist)?
Maybe that's because you're attacking a dumb strawman instead of addressing my actual point. The comment I'm responding to said "makes you wonder why" Yong-Zhen was being persecuted and no it doesn't, we have a very good explanation as to why.
Because macOS closest relative isn't Free/NetBSD, but OSF/1 which, under few different names, was sold by Digital as Unix for Alpha (there were few rare builds for MIPS too).
What are you talking about? None of those things have happened in the EU where this fraud is being discussed, in fact it’s the opposite over there