skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that many people are not.. well intelectually suited for voting and making important decisions.

But how do you decide who votes? The fairest is obviously to allow voting for everyone. As soon as you try to single out 'unsuitable' people, you run into a problems of how you would do so? You could try to give people a basic test, but these 'literacy' tests were historically used to supress all kinds of minorities.

That is the true problem of democracy, it sucks, but everything else is miles worse. The people voted, the people get what they voted for. If you want a different result, convince people to vote differently.
Also an order of magnitude or two better for the climate than an electric car.
I'm having trouble imagining a system where inability to log causes a failure to serve the request instead of just not logging the request.

Surely generic servers like apache, nginx handle that case gracefully.

It probably isn't a handcoded server in python or something like that, because it is returning a precise status code and message instead of just converting a write() exception to a generic 500.

It's an amazing feat of engineering to get this so wrong.
I have met several of these leaders. Problem is, that very few of them are also very successful.
Most of these "leaders" that I met, based a lot of their success from basically being able to stack their bs very high and bailing out before that stack fell over.
Interestingly, the one guy that I am the most sure of being a good guy and leader is also one of the most successful, having retired with several hundred millions in the bank.
But the most successful guy is the one with the worst methods, who is very close to become a billionaire (he might actually already be one, haven't checked on him for a few months).
KDE has a global menu bar that works like the one in MacOS.
I like “analog bike” but it doesn’t make any sense either
"I don't want solutions! I want to complain. Meh!"
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It’s easier to control speech if you have just a few companies to lean on.
360 emulation was already quite good a year ago, now there's even an experimental fork of xenon that does recompilation for even more performance.
And to add, it’s worth noting that most of those places in the developed world that aren’t surveillance hellscapes do have national registries of business owner information.
I code in C# and I find the language and its ecosystem lack luster. There are lots of packages that are not active. Also, the language doesn't have good generics, no sum types, no decorators support
There’s a bit of a difference between a foreigner and a dual citizen (or a person with multiple citizenships).
It is the 1% or 10% case. Like for me going to bigger airport. Renting a car would be complete waste for it to sit a week there. And for range I would want something that can get me there in one go and back also in one go, with week of sitting idle. As adding extra 30 minutes to 1h travel time on top of all time it takes is less than ideal living. And public transport would add even more time or less flexibility those types of trips.

Also there is some possibility that there is no power at for example summer home...
"Everything.exe"

but more to the point you have to enable indexing and let the indexing service run. Microsoft caught flak for "SearchIndexer.exe" using 25% of a CPU 24/7 that i think it's much less aggressive now. But i don't use that search because windows searches CIFS shares slowly, too. Everything.exe indexes and the searches are near enough instant that it's not even worth splitting hairs or stopwatch timers.
`recover` is still useful for unrecoverable errors, eg to capture telemetry then propagate the panic again
Considering that the constant stream of system software and game updates became a thing exactly in the 7th console generation (x360 era), updates are a pretty funny thing to bring up in a comparison like this.
Not everyone drives. If population growth is mostly in places where people bike/ebike/walk/train, then your assumption doesn’t hold.
The opposite would be protecting democracy from fascist invaders. In my opinion the west/Biden were too wishy washy and should have stopped the thing from the start.
> The reason is: It doesn't affect their pocket books.

I mean, a trade war absolutely will.

> Meanwhile property prices and 401ks are up

The S&P500 is down YTD.

That said, this will probably all take a while to sink in.
I am unsure you know how a VPN works, because non of your comparisons work in anyway shape or form as representing the same thing.

A more appropriate comparison is a real-estate company which manages corporate offices, leasing out a corporate office space. That space is being offered under the proviso that NO brothel is opened there, underage or otherwise. Now, they won't ask you what you're doing and generally won't look but if there is a single complaint of you running an underage brothel, they look, and see any brothel activity, instead of wasting time they'll simply evict you and avoid the entire mess and waste of resources spent investigating. Easy.

The alternative is having to painstakingly prove the wrong thing was done, which is notoriously difficult, and ties up a lot of resources.
Because "defending democracy" is propaganda for the common people. It's always economics. The US/Europe will support or even install a dictator if the government is pro-western.
> People don’t want to pay for browsers, you can’t rely on the donations of people preferring to ad-block YouTube instead of paying for Premium.

Firefox has never tried it so we don't know it for sure. I think they should at least provide it as an option.

You can donate directly to Thunderbird development for example https://www.thunderbird.net/donate/

But you can not donate directly to Firefox development, only to Mozilla, which I'm sure most are less enthusiastic about than supporting Firefox development.
Nobody in the US cared until Pearl Harbor. Was US meddling in South America just protecting them from communism, or was it for US imperialism? Trump isn't that different, he has different allies and is more blatant about it.
Which completely ignores the differences between investment costs and running costs across different technologies.

Open cycles gas turbines are extremely cheap to build and expensive to run. For a green future these can be run on biofuels, hydrogen or hydrogen derivatives.

Therefore they perfectly complement renewables.

Nuclear power on the other hand is an awful companion due to having extremely large fixed costs and acceptable marginal running costs.
> Capacity factor is calculated in. But intermittency is not. The issue is that once demand is saturated during periods of peak production, the excess energy is wasted so the effective capacity factor drops as adoption grows. E.g. once you saturate daytime energy demand, further investment in solar energy yields no more useable energy.
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> Intermittent sources are a good way to supplement dispatchable sources of energy like gas plants or hydroelectricity. But as a primary source of energy, they're not feasible without a massive breakthrough in energy storage.

Intermittent sources are baseload, your argument applies to any baseload system, I.e. you always need some additional dispatchable energy source (unless you over build by large amounts). Again if your main energy would be e.g. nuclear you need even higher amount of dispatchable power because if your nuclear plant goes down (planned or unplanned) you need to compensate for a lot of power.
My monitor has a strange EDID that requests timings with such short vblank that my GPU doesn't have time to reclock memory between frames, preventing switching to low power modes. But because I use Linux I can supply an EDID with standard timings in software, using the drm.edid_firmwire kernel boot option, which works perfectly. Linux gives you vastly more options for fixing broken things than MacOS.
I have implemented a GPU version of Pica which is high quailty image resizer
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> continuing it's healthy trends towards increased economic and political importance.

They "just" need to flip the script: be the single superpower that all countries are dependant upon, and then take over Taiwan. And then announce "Does anyone have something to say about what I just did?", and enjoy the silence. Already China is investing all over Africa, buying their compliance (which is what the US also did in the past).

Thanks to Daddy Issues 1 (Musk) and 2 (Trump) in the White House, their path just got a lot easier.

The response of the Russian 2014 invasion of Crimea was also quite muted because the EU was dependant on Russia's energy..
I admire that you put yourself in dangers way for what you think was right.

However it is really disingenuous to try frame a global conflict between super powers in terms of personal responsibility. Your prescription is in the same vein as saying those worried about climate change should recycle more, when it is clear their utmost efforts would not make a dent in the global scheme of things. As such, no amount of motivated militia is going to make a dent in a war against an industrialized military.

Just come out and say I don't want to pay for to support Ukraine's war against Russia. Your opinion is valid and should be taken into account. However you don't get to dodge your responsibilities if the outcome doesn't go your way, just like a Democrat has to live with Trump's policies whether they like it or not. It's pathetic to try garnering sympathy with cage analogies.
You’re cool with the IRS cage if the money is going to Israel though?
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Not only that, it makes my phone hot and drains battery.
They are concerned that maybe they will remain to work in USA
>if that were truly (sustainably) possible, I'd support it, but imo that'd just be signing ff's death warrant

I really don't think so, have a look at the ladybird browser:

https://ladybird.org/#sponsors

Or even Servo:

https://servo.org/
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Do the writers know the difference?
Is it very personal if it was generated from a third party? Making music and, more importantly, playing it is an incredibly personal, physical experience. Especially if you're doing it for yourself rather than being a gun-for-hire session musician.

Getting it from a service like this is the equivalent of buying an already assembled lego kit. Putting aside ethical concerns (we're talking about the music industry after all, there were none even before AI arrived) is there a viable business in it?
Cities shouldn't have to mandate carparks, let alone charging in them. Having no car at all should be viable and we should build toward that.

Pre-empting, obviously many places still require cars, but we shouldn't codify cars into the building code. It makes everything that bit more expensive, and it's a waste of valuable city real estate.

At the moment the cost per square meter in Melbourne and my city means a single carspace is worth more than my salary. That's ridiculous.
> The USA is going to claw back whatever economic largesse it has granted to the rest of the world

If anything it's the other way around - the world has granted America incredible economic concessions. America has decided it doesn't want them.
The last time I read the Federal Register and SORN documents for the BOI Registry, they were _explicitly_ confidential, limited to government access based on need. There are already legislative oversight controls in place.
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That's the third major use of the printing press.

The first was for catholic indulgences.

The second was for religious propaganda during the European wars of religion.
The benefit of real human-made music is that you can make it for yourself. The goal shouldn't be to get other people to listen to it. It's very personal and that should be the end goal.
the UK has a 20% VAT as well. I don't think the person you were replying to was taking that into account. Also, they are probably not taking into account employer NICs which are effectively the same in terms of tax incidence as employee NICs but people incorrectly treat them differently because the employer nominally pays them. But if you think about it for a second, your employer makes two payments to the government one of them is called employee NICs and one of them is called employer NICs and both of them are based on the employee's wage so it is silly to treat them differently. Though, I'm guessing Canada probably has employer payroll taxes as well. Employer NICS can get up to almost 14% so it is a significant tax in the UK.
Whole blackouts? probably not a lot but for instance https://www.pnmpowersaver.com/overview/frequently-asked-ques... in NM and I assume other places have similar programs
No need to go on the island to win. Just encircle it. A blockade. Always works and this has been the modus operandi to conquer fortresses and castles for millenia.
i just got downvoted for saying elsewhere that this "needs an /s" - but this either does, or you need some help.
> I'm not here nitpick, but do you have source?

Unfortunately no, and maybe I should have phrased that with a little more doubt. Still, I think it's very likely true, given the sheer size difference between the two (geographically), and the fact that France has a massive auto industry, while the Netherlands does not.
As I'd just noted in another comment: in 1929 the US (and eventually global) stock markets collapsed.

This set off the greatest period of wealth equality in the US, through a combination of factors:

- Strengthening the power of the Federal Reserve to re-liquidate banks.

- Direct government employment of individuals, whether through the Works Progress Administration (WPA), Civil Conservation Corps (CCC), and eventually of course the armed forces as the US entered WWII.

- Enormous strengthening of labour rights and unions within the US.

- The US stepping in as the world's leading manufacturer in the post-war era, having its industrial plant intact, raw materials available, and demobilisation providing for a vast increase in the labour force itself without wage reductions.

- Generally progressive policies in government regulation, civil rights, educational access, housing access, transportation improvements, and healthcare over the period 1945 -- 1975.

- A highly progressive tax policy.

Not all of that is obviously replicable today. The US faces strong disadvantages relative to other countries in raw manufacturing (though can produce very-high-value goods which make up in trade value what they lack in sheer tonnage) and demographic challenges (along with much of Europe and advanced Asian countries, notably Japan, Korea, and China). But other options remain available and to my mind useful. Changes in tax policy to re-distribute aggregated wealth and make tax havens (both onshore and off) far less viable would likely be good starts. These are of course politically challenging, particularly under present circumstances, but might remain within possibility.
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Why is Ladybird going to be more successful than all the other failed browsers?
Martyrmade had a really solid episode about Ukraine that explained the Russian motiviations in a more understandable way.

If I remember correctly, a lot of the problems come down to broken promises of stopping NATO expansion after the fall of the Soviet Union. Russia made concessions, NATO did not. This is the Russian case as I vaguely remember it.

This is a reminder that geopolitics are wildly complicated and that the waters are too muddied for laypeople to make sense of in real time.

Your analogy holds. The psychopath must be stopped, but it's good to remember that the west provoked it when it had a chance to tame it.
There are also a bunch little of usability bugs related to selecting, copying and pasting text. The auto-complete has become more adversarial then helpful. There are bugs related to search in pdf documents in safari. There are (or at least were until recently) bugs when searching for settings in the settings app.

Can't think of any more at the top of my head ... it feels a lot like Windows, where there are a bunch of eternal bugs one just sort of knows and works around, even though it's a kind of shitty and occasionally very frustrating experience.
The US is an ally in distress. We'll be happy to repay the debt from
80 years ago and reaffirm our common cause to freedom when the call
comes.
I guess I managed to say the same as you but with less words. /s

I wasn't mocking op, I was referencing Mark Twain
They exist, and are very valuable, but I've never worked at a company that employed even one full time technical writer. If I go on a caffeine bender and write the 20 page doc OP described, nobody is coming back around to clean that up for me. At best some peers might tell me "hey, great effort there, but could you cut the word count by 75%?" Access to full-time professional editors seems like a luxury of very large organizations.
An ally that has broken pretty much any agreement he has ever made, invades neighbouring countries and spins alternative facts around to justify it, suppresses and fights just about any values that the USA used to hold, and played a key role in the KGB, a hostile secret service? An ally that is ever more dependent on China economically?

I refuse to believe you can be so dense to actually think that!
> When PM Liz Truss tried, it ended with disaster.

The plan Liz Truss proposed was to scrap the top rate of income tax, i.e. giving a tax break to the rich.

And the markets, understanding that it was exactly what the economy needed, reacted accordingly. By crashing.
>"Apple tax"
It's not what you think. Apple siphons all data they can and sells it, that's the real tax.
> world because China wants to invade them and they wanted to give the US a reason to defend them and China a reason not to

Reverse logic much? If wanting the best electronics know how was just enough to get it, every country would have a TSMC like by now
Both facts may be true without the causal link being present.

Establishing the US as the global reserve currency had little if anything to do with where gold was stored, and far more to do with US economic and military power generally in the post-war era.
It really sucks that "Saddam has WMDs" broke an entire generation of Americans into knee-jerk contrarianism regarding any global conflict US is involved in. What's the "WMD" equivalent here - what do you think the media is lying to you about? That there's an ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine is something all involved parties acknowledge.
> The fact that zig can compile C code makes it useful for other languages too

Agree, C interop is IMHO the big feature of Zig. There are plenty of systems programming languages in 2025, but where Zig shines is its pragmatism: a single standalone binary containing compiler, libc, build system, code formatter and test runner for C and Zig.

As of late though, I've been concerned with some "holy wars"/"ideological postures" that the dev team started which IMHO departs from the original "let's be pragmatic" mantra.

- There's a bunch of places where the stdlib just crashes on unreachable assertions, and that won't be fixed "because the kernel should have better error reporting".

- There are a bunch of kernel syscalls which are just not possible to call "because C enums should not allow aliases"

- etc

I hope this trend fades away and it gets back on a more pragmatic stance on these issues, nobody wants a systems programming language that plays the programming police.

Otherwise, C3 looks promising as well (though not as nice than Zig IMHO), but currently it's a bit too barebone to my taste. There no stable LSP, no nvim plug-in, etc.