skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you said you "really dislike gos style".

there is no better person to produce a proposal than the person who best understands why it isn't sufficient or is wrong in one or more ways.

I didn't say it was easy to guide a proposal from the proposal stage through to acceptance, or that I was optimistic about doing it. (you think I am misunderstanding you?) I merely feel like the people who like something the least are probably the most qualified to produce a quality proposal which has a chance at improving the landscape. that's all.

By the way, if i haven't said something outright, I did not infer that thing. Don't read between my lines, there's nothing there.
> The SUV craze was a thing 30yr ago and arguably peaked 20yr ago.

This is not the case as less than half as many cars are sold or leased today as the time frame you're talking about [1]. In the same period truck sales and leases have increased by more than half.

> "Why is it a problem now?" seems to be a question that has no flattering answers.

Not sure what you mean by this specifically. It was a problem them and is an even bigger problem now. The vehicles in question use more fuel than cars on average and are substantially deadlier to non-occupants because they keep getting bigger [2]. This is all despite both relative and absolute declines in blue-collar employment in the same period [3]. In short - people are spending increasingly-large sums of money on dangerous, depreciating assets that they have no need for. Every metric involved here is moving in the wrong direction to the detriment of society.

What should be done about this is an open question but I don't think it's controversial to say that it's A Problem.

[1] https://www.bts.gov/content/new-and-used-passenger-car-sales...

[2] https://www.fastcompany.com/91233935/suvs-keep-getting-bigge...

[3] https://cepr.net/publications/the-decline-of-blue-collar-job...
I thought this as well reading the last discussion. I believe some extra shady free VPNs have used a browser extension to borrow your endpoint to work around geoblocks, etc. I always thought this was a terrible idea, who wants their home internet ip associated with some random VPN users traffic? A voracious mindless bot that slurps up everything it can get to isn't much better.

Microsoft could build this into Windows even, they already use your upload bandwidth to help distribute their updates.
Prescription canisters (the tamper resistant/child proof ones). You could do without it but you now subject children to accidental ingestion.

Single meal frozen food containers. You need a seal. Some impregnated cardboard can work, but not as well and is full of chemicals to overcome its disadvantages.

Disposable water bottles. You can use metal vessels, they cost a bit more, but doable.

Packaged frozen meats (they keep longer). Not sure there is a good alternative to plastics other than having people buy meats semi-daily from the butcher.

Some plastics need to be heat resistant, others solvent resistant, others flexible, others stretchy, etc. Different formulations give you what you need at a price point.

Yes we could go back to the 1920s but then life would have to be adjusted to the 1920s. You’d need someone to remain “domestic” at home, etc. as more time is needed to carry out house work without the convenience of modern materials.
> I'd rather work with Scala devs on a Java codebase than Java devs on a Scala codebase.

And Java devs on a Scala codebase is effectively the norm once your project enters BAU/maintenance phase.
Most underrated library in the world
Things can always happen at borders, some borders more than others but more than say traveling within a country in general. It's a risk equation but maybe not totally irrational to not travel internationally either personally or for work. It's not a risk equation I would solve that way in general but I could understand if people did, especially if they were of a nationality/ethnicity/profession/celebrity/etc. they felt put them at particular risk.

I'm in the US and I'm not in a big hurry to get a new Chinese or Russian visa.
Vaccine skeptic hired to head federal study of immunizations and autism
I never known a book still in copyright to be cheaper as an eBook than a used, "Like New" or "Very Good" paperback copy from eBay (with free shipping).
Yuka app seems to not only include nutrition but rates each UPC-labeled food products by how much dangerous ingredients is in it.
Spam is advertising for their other more profitable criminal enterprises. It's a means to an end, not an end itself. If the goal were simply to send messages, there would be no content.
>Why wouldn't the United States employ DARPA or the NSA to create a non-commercial mobile communications platform for high ranking government employees?

Because high ranking government employees don't want to be told they can't use whatever they're already familiar with for whatever they want, and they would rather heaven and earth move to accommodate them than be inconvenienced. Even if it exists, which is probably does, you can't force such people to use it, they'll just have you fired and maybe have the program axed for good measure.
I've seen the same attitude in Australia. "What's the point in saving because I'll never be able to afford a house?"
Agreed, SEPA is objectively better than what the US has.

But it doesn’t matter how easy it is the transfer money if you increasingly don’t have any.

On average, governments in the EU centrally direct roughly 40% more economic activity than the U.S. (and Chinese) government does.

In the short term, this appears more efficient. Allowing markets and decentralized private players to sort things out is messy and aesthetically unpleasing at times (like democracy), but leads to greater growth and innovation overall. The Chinese Communist Party understands this, maybe the Eurocrats will figure this one out after a few more 6-course dinners in Brussels.
Being unable to find underwear that properly suited me, I tried making my own clothes a while back.

The experience was hugely humbling, and completely robbed me of any belief I had in the idea that "hard work pays off" - the person who made my pants probably works 12 hours a day, 6 days in a week in an awful sweatshop, producing garments of a quality I couldn't hope to approximate, and is paid a few dollars a day, while I have a cushy, well paid dev job where I work a fraction of those hours and get paid a few orders of magnitude more.

A friend did (correctly) remark that this was due to programming skills being rarer and more valuable than sewing skills, and this is true, but I remain highly suspicious of anyone suggesting that "work harder" is a route to riches.
IMO you are rationalizing too much because, as you said, you are being paranoid and risk averse.

I moved from a third world country to the UK (London) and at some point I had similar concerns as you have now.

At the end of the day, living means taking risks everyday no matter where you are. My final conclusion was that if I didn't move I would regret not taking the risk, I wanted to know how it feels to live where I live today. I wanted to live an adventure rather than staying on my home country and developing regret.

I don't know you but just reading through your post it seems that you want to do it but fear is holding you back. Are your fears unreasonable? Probably not. Should they dictate what you do with your life? Absolutely not.

It's also fine if you decide to stay, just don't allow this to become a source of regret in your life, be in peace with whatever you choose.
I'll check that out. Thanks for the link.
But if that is true, why does the EU actually has almost double the entrepreneurs per capita the US has, as I have linked?

> Having to move the goalposts to the 1850s to make a point about relevant European businesses should be alarming to you.

Please actually have a look at the EU list and click through to the companies. They are all directly linked in Wikipedia. The majority is from the 1980s and younger.
I don't see how it is, you wont have your phone searched if you come here.
Is there something like "Claude Code" for Gemini? Or do you have to manually copy/paste the code in files?
US tariffs can't stop tech jobs moving to India
I believe this is out of date. There’s a very explicit opt in/out slider for permitting training on conversations that doesn’t seem to affect conversation history retention.
It is time to cap the healthcare admin overhead to 10% from supply to patient.

Make the middle-man duke 'em out for their own justification to exist.
This reminds me of the tweet where someone said their favourite font was "Ariana Grande".
My understanding is this is because the hardest problem in robotics is handling fabric, and we’ve yet to build robots that are any good at it.
https://archive.is/PF2Ct
But the EU hasn't abolished or even reformed the AI act with the ridiculous FLOPs limit and bureaucracy that hurts innovation.

Same for the Digital Services Act, Cybersecurity Act, GDPR, etc. - all just more make-work and bureaucracy, just look at all the tools around auto-generating cookie banners for websites, and auto-accepting / hiding them for users!

Nevermind the crazy taxation issues, in Sweden I pay 56% income tax and 30% capital gains - that destroys a lot of motivation to innovate. You can work hard and risk a lot and the government just steals it from you anyway.
Meta's BitTorrent Uploads of 'Pirate Library' Data Equaled 30% of Downloads
So?

You deal with the government as-in.

It's not like we say "Oh, Nalvany was a great guy so we shouldn't sanction Russia".
And what concept would that be?
You’re making a strawman argument from a pretty high proverbial horse there ;)

First off: I never said all languages are made equal. Literally the opposite: I said all languages make trade offs.

The fact that languages make trade offs means they’re not equal but rather they’re targeting different requirements.

You referenced Assembly but actually some problems are easier to solve in assembly. In those instances you’ll sprinkle your ASM inside your higher level language like C, Rust, Go, whatever rather than trying to hit everything with the same hammer.

In fact inlining foreign code is a common design pattern in most general purpose languages, eg Python supports CFFI (calling C FFI) for when you reach the limits of what can be done effectively in native Python.

As for Brainfuck, the point of that language is to create an esoteric Turing complete language with the fewest tokens. Readability was very deliberately a tradeoff. So BF is another example of my point.

More generally speaking: a lot of this stuff does just boil down to personal productivity and preferences. Because different people’s brains are wired differently and different people need to solve different types of problems.

You accidentally proved this point when you said “I’m not a parentheses guy” before commenting on Racket.

This is the real crux of language debates. Where you say “PHP sucks” what you actually mean is “I prefer other languages because I solve different problems that aren’t as well suited to PHP”

But being rational like this is hard because bro-programmers love to mock people who aren’t part of their tribe. (This dumb tribalism is probably my biggest pet peeve in tech. People really need to learn to grow the fuck up).
Luke reminds me of the First Follower phenomenon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ).
> The Department of Health and Human Services has hired David Geier to conduct the analysis, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.

So, how's all that Free Speech working out at the moment?
That's why Russian companies have such a global reputation for being sleazy. You have to be a sleaze in order to get anywhere. Fish rots from the head and all that, so we should expect American companies to get the same stink if things keep going this way here. Bad companies will wade into the muck, and good money will flow elsewhere more stable.

Scams and frauds are going to flourish under Trump because the guy himself is keen on running scams and frauds from the White House. Who is going to investigate crypto scams when POTUS is launching his own pump and dump shitcoin? It's going to be scams and frauds from the top all the way down.
Very simple - burner phone for sketchy countries.

Then again with phones being basically mirrored to the cloud my working assumption is that US gov is helping itself to my data anyway
> Diminishing sectarian hierarchy

Boy, oh boy, did that backfire!
Historical robber 'Schinderhannes' clearly identified
Confide in Me is one of her best, but she has quite a few reliable pop hits. She also did a song with Nick Cave that is worth a listen.
He’s making most of his 15 minutes. He’s now walking back the “war plans” characterization of the chat.

Yes these intel guys and gals certainly should be spanked to improve their operatsec. That’s inexcusable, but this guy is squeezing the most he can out of the story.

Signal is an approved app. The prior admin also used it for non classified discussions.

Whoever invited that putz accidentally into the chat needs to be fired.
My favorite showcase of Scala to this day is pattern matching on regular expressions:

val date = raw"(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})".r
"2004-01-20" match
case date(year, month, day) => s"$year was a good year for PLs."

This reads better than any equivalent Java or Kotlin code, while being much easier to maintain (e.g. matching against more than one regex).
> but these are the right first steps.

What are you talking about?

The concept of a hacker space was exported to the US from the CCC which started in 1981 in _West Berlin_.

That idea mutated a bunch of times to become more palatable to the main stream and ended up as the bloodless maker spaces you can find in universities today.
I think maybe this refers to unlearning wrong information?
> of those who actually voted

Sounds like they were happy to roll the dice. Play stupid games.
That's the White House line, apparently they did nothing wrong. It's that Journalists's fault. It can't be the Russians though, they're trusted allies now.
Compare it with the USA though...

Europe is just a collection of crises - migration, energy, age demographics, productivity.
The binaries for signal that come down from the apple/google stores are different than when built from the source code yourself. As much as a 5MB difference. So who knows if it’s even secure in the first place.
I don’t think that would do much. The states that went for Harris have a fairly higher degree of passport ownership than states that went to Trump.

As someone who grew up in an area leaning hard conservative, the trope of “American who doesn’t travel outside of their state” exists for a reason and describes a lot of people. Extend that to international travel.

https://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/...
literally spent all day playing with this until I ran out of image gen capacity a lil while ago.

so much fun.
It’s not the topics you should discuss with strangers in online forums. We don’t know your needs, desired lifestyle and future plan. It’s you negotiating the salary in Germany and it’s you deciding what rent to pay. So if you’re better than 6000 recently laid off Siemens or 7500 Audi employees you have good chances in Germany.

Edit: salaries are low unless get faang job in Germany. It’s very geographically dependent. You could start in Munich with 3000€ after taxes with included medical insurance. Medical insurance is not good. For modern things you need to pay additional 50-500€ depending on complexity. Rent for garage sized apartment gets close to 1000€ per month. The same apartment to buy costs 200000€ and is bad investment.

It’s you who should decide where to go and what to do. My colleague is telling, that Modi does great job and his family will move back to India. But I have seen too many families, that postponed the great comeback home to the time when kid goes to school and then when the kid graduates and so on.
Never Wait for the Check at Restaurants (2022)
That's probably per day, per bot. Now how does it look when there are thousands of bots? In most cases I think you're right, but I can also see how it can add up.
Every time there's a school shooting, somebody defends gun rights "because muh well-armed militias" - I'm yet to see that put into action. Or maybe the well-armed militias are happy with the "progress".
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/science/google-maps-a-swiss-sto...
They did. They are legally required to use those systems, which also make it easy to archive the official government records that are also legally required. Every government employee has annual training emphasizing these legal requirements.

The problem is these officials chose not to use the secure systems, because they don't want those records to exist.
Optuna often works fine in this context (even with the memory errors or, with some tuning, with the non-halting runs): https://github.com/optuna/optuna
Yeah, I don't understand how those people use reason (or maybe they don't).
If you look at the biggest/richest companies, it's all about US tech industry and associated, even though we have fronted a lot of the research and education.

And we ask them to pay taxes fairly they complain, and they don't want to open their stuff, they even work hard on malicious compliance.
It's a pretty bad deal.
Pretty sure one of their phones are hacked... They like to be mobile. SCIF would be counterproductive. After Hillary and this, I think they really need to invest more into a secure mobile comm program...
That doesn't change the meaning. It's not trivial to execute well on an idea, test a wide swath of use cases and edge cases, and release a high quality product.
Bernie was never big on immigration [1].

He's just big on being a decent person. So don't do things like store people on concrete floors under 24h lights. It doesn't mean that he wants unfettered immigration.

> (2015) [2] So I was disappointed, if not surprised, at the visceral horror with which Bernie Sanders reacted to the idea when interviewed by my colleague Ezra Klein. “Open borders?” he interjected. “No, that’s a Koch brothers proposal.” The idea, he argued, is a right-wing scheme meant to flood the US with cheap labor and depress wages for native-born workers. “I think from a moral responsibility, we’ve got to work with the rest of the industrialized world to address the problems of international poverty,” he conceded, “but you don’t do that by making people in this country even poorer.”

[1]: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/2/25/21143931/b...

[2]:
I'm definitely with you that sites should be leveraging CDNs and similar. But I get that many don't want to do any work to support bots that they don't want to exist in the first place.

To me it seems like the companies actually doing the crawling have an incentive to leverage centralized caching. It makes their own crawling faster (since hitting the cache is much faster than using Playwright etc to load the page) and it reduces the impact on all these sites. Which would then also decrease the impact of this whole bot situation overall.
> That's how buying works. You can conveniently forget who you bought it

Sure. But when you buy an innovation, you can't suddenly claim that you invented it.

> Google Maps was bought from an australian company BTW

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/science/google-maps-a-swiss-sto...
There’s another reason for the decline of Scala - much less people are writing Spark code in Scala. At peak I think Spark accounted for a large portion of Scala’s growth
You can, but how well does that iPhone integrate as a ROS node?
Probably the best single, lazy marker for “is this article of clothing decent-quality?” is whether it’s made with developed-world labor, and the reason is simply that it doesn’t make much sense to pay ultra-expensive labor to make pieces with poor construction and shitty materials, since you’ll end up with not just crap, but expensive crap.

Good stuff’s made almost everywhere, but it takes more diligence to find it from other sources.
well, meny did not choose democracy in the first place, it's "inherited". and even if they choosen, did not choose the FPP voting system. even if they accepted FPP, can not express weighted favor to individual policies of either of the total sum of 2 parties programm.
and even if one fully agreed on a party's program at election time, there is no mechanism to express loss of confidentality (from the general public's side), kinda "un-vote", during reign. you are not responsible for something you have no control over. or other words: you have as much responsibility over something as much control you have over it.
so no, average Joe is so far removed from the executive and legistlative powers that he must not be considered responsible for them.
Anubis (or something similar) is an alternative option:
https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

Aside from the obvious disadvantages of a non-anoynmous web I also don't even think it will work. How do you deal with identification and punishment of threat actors across the globe? We've been failing at that since the start. When was the internet ever high trust?
Credit where it's due – new insights about household finance
A few years ago I got into the hobby of handmade leather goods, like wallets.

One thing that struck me as I learned more about the process was that I could with little training, make a higher quality, hand sewn wallet than even most luxury brands for less money by simply buying more expensive material. Indeed, the wallets I've made are still going strong.

What was also apparent was that I certainly had far less skill than the people constructing those mass market wallets. To be able to operate an industrial sewing machine at speed takes far more skill than learning to saddle stitch by hand. When you stitch by hand you can go quite slowly, and taking the time is the point of a hobby anyway. A sewing machine is slightly worse in quality (but not by a lot) but also scales way better.

If you watch videos of skilled folks sewing together shoes on youtube it's insanely impressive how precise and practiced those folks are!

Back to wallets, most hobbyists will take a very high end and thick piece of leather, cut out the pattern with an exacto knife, skive the parts that need it, hand stitch it with a saddle stitch, then finish the edges. Whereas a mass-produced wallet will often use a blend of leather, synthetic fabric for pocket liners, and be machine stitched, with some other machines used along the way. The hobbyist design is simple and robust, it's just layers of leather thicker than you'd find in a normal wallet.

A mass manufactured wallet, even many luxury ones use thinner pieces of leather and synthetic material and construction methods that are less robust. It's not all about cheapness though, some of these things require extra work. I think a lot of it is about producing a product that looks a specific way, even if it is less durable. For instance some luxury products will use a delicate finish (like a paint) that will look awesome, but just won't last as long as a thick piece of vegetable tan. A thin turned edge can certainly be a failure point as well, and that takes more effort to make! I also have to wonder if these brands intentionally want their items to wear out to encourage people to buy more. I imagine the sort of person who buys a Gucci wallet sees it more as a seasonal status symbol than as an investment.
It's a meditation on the meaning and practise of "rest". I can imagine that wouldn't appeal to everyone. Perhaps it helps to see it a collection of small points.
Border police does not have authority to demand your data from the cloud providers, unlike the police or FBI.

It's mentioned in the article:

> At the border, however, there are currently policies in place that prohibit CBP from searching online cloud services.
America's ability to fail its citizens is truly limitless