skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the first time I've heard that the reason Americans aren't saving money is because of their confidence in the USD. Typically the reasons are that they can't afford their healthcare or housing costs, or are just financially illiterate.

If I wasn't confident in my currency, why would I save in it? The collapse of my government destroys my investment at the same time.
Yes, some things have such a low marginal price that metering is pointless, for example unlimited coffee refills at a restaurant. That doesn't mean it's free, you still have to pay for the cup. And that was Rod Adams' take on electricity, too, more than a decade ago:

https://atomicinsights.com/too-cheap-meter-its-now-true/
My parents both have type 2, and I fast every Sunday night until Tuesday morning.

I don't think this makes me at all miserable, although it is easier if I stay busy. I also work a two mile walk into this.

I'm thinking about asking my physician for metformin. I don't need it now, but in cryonics circles it is recognized for life extension properties.
> People who do need to buy from breeders already know they do

I'm really not a fan of this line of thinking. How do they know? What if they're just starting to get into "dogs" as a more serious hobby, e.g. IPO or rally?

Discussion around "should you buy from a breeder" isn't something that should be stamped out just because you think it's bad for informational hygiene or something. It should be thoughtful and honest.
There are studies that back up this claim, though[0]. From the paper: “Labor force participation has fallen more in areas where relatively more opioid pain medication is prescribed”

[0] https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/1_krueg...
Our own survival takes precedence in the situation you laid out.
Sure. I don't dispute that the author of the text in the NT was probably inspired by Leviticus. And both Leviticus and NT use "men" there.

I don't agree that codefreakxff's claim that "the original version was against sleeping with young boys, not men" is correct. Because Greeks had the specific word for that and didn't use it there, but used the word arsenokoitai.

Searching even more, this internet poster even argues that the Paul used that rare word (with "men") because he used the more common for "fornicators":

https://www.quora.com/How-has-usage-of-the-term-arsenokoitai...

"Centuries before Paul, the πορν- porn- root referred only to prostitutes & prostitution. But over the centuries, the meaning expanded to include all illicit sexual contact. Paul had already used the word πόρνοι pornoi to mean fornicators. What that meant is that Greek, for all intents and purposes, no longer had a word that specifically referred to having sex for money. That alone was reason to create a new word for it."

That actually sounds strange to me, that at Paul's time there was not a specific word for prostitutes.
International studies major, long ago. This article is fascinating.
> My first tip is this: “If you take health advice from a Las Vegas magician, you are an idiot.”

That’s hilarious, I’ve always respected Penn Jilette (and Teller), the craftmanship and hard work they put into their act is unique and incredible.

Love the fact that he is so on the ball at 65, I hope to be the same way at that age and older.
Sustainable Web Manifesto
So, work to change the rules through the legislative process.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160517131928.h...

It's thought of as occurring just as you described, but it's very difficult to prove it even in rodent models.

Also, humans are wildly diverse. Some people have aphantasia, where they cannot 'image' things in their heads. Invariably when you bring this up on HN, you get a lot of people saying they cannot believe this and a lot of people saying that this is their normal reality. Similar to discussions on synestensia (hearing colors, tasting names, other 'mix ups') and if you stand or sit when you wipe in the bathroom.

https://www.iflscience.com/brain/cant-imagine-pictures-your-...
No, considering most are from places with far cheaper labor. Like India and Asia.

Hiring in the US is expensive with high salaries (especially in tech) and healthcare costs.
I think there's often a leeway given to the full stack dev that they have strengths and limitations. I haven't got to the point where I could compete with the true / good front end dev with my skills.

Even at the backend you have the application backend (c# or whatever) and then sql/rdbms. If you are that good perhaps you deserve thrice the pay by this logic ;).

Jokes aside, at the last good company I worked for where I knew other people's pay, I was compensated for the entirety of my skills compared to the good front end dev. We earned the same, and I was quite happy with that.

Jack of all trades...
My family at the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires run out of water during Sunday. Cell phones where working intermittently.
Common lisp meets Rust, I'm intrigued.

All these new exciting programming languages over the past ~5 years or so are quit exciting. I'm starting to believe that in the not so far future we'll look back on that time period between the late 90s up to the mid 2010s as some kind of a dark age for programming, where we kept using those inelegant, inefficient, hacky languages carried by Moore's law and an incredible demand for new software being written in huge quantity extremely fast, quality be damned.

Now that the gold rush starts to cool down there seem to be a lot of very interesting work to take a few steps back and do it right.
You may want to rethink that. There are possible benefits.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-39070183
What Happened to Norsecorp
Loved the map, now subsumed by who?
After looking for 2 minutes... pffft

https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/norse-corp/
I, too, can't believe how many times I've been Caltrain in an Uber Pool.
I see. You don’t even need a federation, a customs union usually suffice. E.g. there have been zero wars within the European Union for example. Although I’ll admit, looking at the internal struggle is an unfair simplification as European parties (as with the United States) have plenty of that external violence going on.
Walmart to move resources away from Jet.com as latter fails against Amazon
Impact on productivity is not the right way to judge a crime. Definitely not the sole measure or the paramount one. It would be open season on old people if that were the case. I suspect you wouldn't want to see that happen.

I don't believe the current system punishes offenders effectively or rehabilitates them. It's not great at segregating dangerous people either, as people are released when they've "paid their debt to society" rather than when they stop presenting a threat.

I'd prefer it if prisons were more like the prison farms in Scandinavia, especially for young non-violent criminals. They need to learn to produce things or render services that other prisoners will want. They should be able to build their own houses. They should have to learn how to work and freely trade with others BEFORE they are released.

Some criminals are a persistent threat to the population and must be tightly controlled. People who've murdered multiple people, for example. And some should never be released.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/09/wh...

Anyway, a complicated topic for sure.
>Perhaps because you don't state any mechanism on how the borders of a country increase the complexity of building a particular transit system

This is HN. I shouldn't have to exhaustively spell out every detail like I'm on Reddit. I think that stating that a mass transit system that covers more people and more area leading to more stakeholders with more opinions who need to be pleased is more than enough. Presumably most people here have jobs where they work with other people and should be familiar with how increasing the number of stakeholders and/or coverage of a project increases technical and political complexity.

Look at the history of public transit in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area for an example of political complexity scaling with the number of people and different jurisdictions covered.

>China

The land of "the subway is going here, don't like it then screw you".

>Russia

Which built out most of it's infrastructure back when it could operate similarly to China does today.

I would think it would go without saying that having a government that unilaterally steamrolls any opposition to its public works projects is not a practical solution for mass transit in the west.

>Canada

In basically all of Canada you "need" a car. Most here would say that means they don't have good mass transit.
This is awesome!

One of the features I really liked about MacOS is spotlight. Is there some (fast) equivalent that I’ve been missing on Linux? I’m aware of `locate`, but that only matches the names of files, not their content. Is there a search engine that indexes local content as well?
> I think the question to ask is what created the opioid problem in the first place - I tend to think it's lack of regulation in the pharma space.

The opioid addiction crisis is a complex issue, and the data defies reduction to any particular cause.[0] It's become popular to blame the issue on the pharma industry, but to do so is an oversimplification large enough to call a mischaracterization, and focusing primarily on that area will not solve the problem.

I think that the reason for the popularity of this misconception is that it throws a bone to almost anyone's ideological predispositions. It blames both "big business capitalism" and "the out-of-touch elite", it avoids laying blame on doctors, or on homeless urban addicts, or on poor rural addicts, or on the suburban middle class, or on a culture that fosters both urban homelessness and rural poverty, and it's a simple explanation that has intuitive appeal.

[0]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5846593/
Your link [1] https://ibb.co/WtLMvCH is an altered image. See how it is mirrored horizontally?
Very good article, intuitively I'd say some overlap with "the pragmatic programmer".
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>> DNA is not source code

It is source code, it's just that source code is self-modifying.
Justa matter of time before Beijing use Tiananmen force to quell these protesters. Done so multiple other places like Xinjiang and Xizang.
I'm not sure what fraction of paid jobs even contribute greater than their cost to society. The War on Poverty has spent trillions, and poverty has increased. A lot of industries obviously don't contribute (tax attorneys, lobbyists, bureaucrats, administrators (see the Rise of the Administrator in healthcare), even much of law enforcement, academia, or regulators). Actually even my first high-paid job working for a financial tech company, I'm convinced didn't contribute to society. Most of our work was mandated by regulatory laws, and most of our customers were capture by monopolistic competition or downright aggressive, questionable sales.

I don't see anyone saying this, but I think fixing the bottom 10% of society requires fixing the top 90%. I see no way that happens. Nobody accepts blame for being wrong, and most people's cognitive capabilities are filled by an evening watching cable TV.
According to http://guam.org.gu/gary.heathcote.muscle/Legendary.Chamorro....

The Taotao Tagga mentioned in the article is estimated at being 5 feet 9.5 inches while records of European soldiers from Hungary, France, Bohemia, and Saxony who were born between 1735 and 1739 were around 5 feet 5.5 inches.

Noticeably taller, but maybe not gigantic. On the other hand I have a newfound understanding of just how gigantic George Washington (6 feet 2 inches, born in 1732) would have seemed to the vast majority of people.
Suzy grids 2 is an amazing tool for ie11 and everything above it. So I can use one codebase for everything.

Yes, it is float based but my code is at the correct level of abstraction.
Shipped fun pun E-commerce site in 4h
I spent 4h putting together products and making this go live. Less than 15$ in costs later, I have made my 1st sale.

Let me know what you think.
What is the situation with bail in HK? In the US authorities often settle for incremental policy creep while counting on using legal and medical expenses to wear down activists in addition to physical violence.

People stateside have been very impressed with action in HK, taking notes on topics from communications to practicalities like quick extinguishing of gas grenades. Here it's often difficult to achieve sufficient density due to geographic dispersion as well as different political conditions.
They also have booming economies. People move to successful big cities for work, where they have no existing safety net. Then they can't find a job fast enough, or get sick, or get divorced and start drinking, and become homeless. These are the vast majority of "not from here" homeless people in Seattle. The chronically homeless tend to be old people in pretty bad shape who don't move cities for the weather. So is the answer that people born in economically ruined rural areas should be locked out of big cities? Only allowed to stay there so long as they have enough money? People arguing you shouldn't be able to get benefits somewhere you're not "from" are arguing for a system that entrenches the political and economic divide between rural and urban Americans.
It’s not usually what comes to mind when I think of the word “censored”, but I don’t think it’s unrealistic for a forum or conversation to set ground rules on what’s acceptable speech and isn’t.
I think legally you likely have not "bought" a song, you have licensed it. The license includes the right to listen to the song, but not to redistribute either the music or the lyrics.

"Ownership" such as it is for intellectual property is still with the copyright holder(s), which is why it makes sense that you don't have the same rights you would if it were truly "your" song.
Is one of history’s most rousing speeches apocryphal?
The NIIP (Net International Investment Position) measures whether a country is net debtor vs net creditor.

This wikipedia list from 2017: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_international_investment_p...

has some interesting trends:

1) US is far down below in the list as a net debtor country with the NIIP being 43.4% of its GDP

2) Many erstwhile developing countries like China, India, Nigeria are slowly getting closer to the 0 mark twards net creditor status

3) Venezuela is a net creditor country with NIIP beign 30.5% of the GDP. How does that work for a country that's internally collapsing? Is it from historical oil lending deals to other countries?
The article touches on how later Anglo Saxons identified with Gildas, especially in their own resistance to Danish invasion. I think that's largely why the myth of Arthur became so entrenched. It resonated with later English readers, with the trials of Arthur paralleling the struggle of Alfred against the Danes.

I can't help suspect that Arthurian scholars and fans that want to place Camelot in south-central England are drawn by the ghost of the kingdom of Wessex.
Apple has all the right to not think about Vulkan and invest in their own implementation.

- First release of Metal is June 2014. The Khronos Group began a project to create a next generation graphics API in July 2014. First release of Vulkan is 2016.

- Metal is C++. Vulkan is C. Yes, that may matter

- Metal is specifically optimised for a specific set of hardware with known capabilities. Vulkan aims at everything under the Sun

- Vulkan is headed by a consortium that wasn't known for its great decisions in the past, and Apple might want a faster turnaround on features and capabilities

- It's just business
Why not use static code analyzers? You run them in compilation time and warn you of uninitialized variables.

Initializing values just because seems wasteful. That's why global and static variables are already initialized in this way.

For me it would yet make sense that Gcc allows it even if it's not a very good practice it may have its uses.
American culture is not the same everywhere—try living in NYC for a few years, walking around for miles every damn day, I think people stay pretty active and healthy here just by virtue of the urban density, even if we drink a lot more.
This kind of critique is applicable to all sorts of specialized writing. The flipside is that an article of this caliber (And it is indeed a very useful and well written set of guidelines for the intended audience) is not truly relevant to the layperson or an absolute beginner -- he lays out common problems and frustrations that people who've ever tried to layout a moderately complex website would have encountered, and presents some good solutions for them. If you haven't worked in the field and encountered these sort of problems, then an article like this is simply not relevant.

It is important for the field to be welcoming and open to curious individuals who want to learn, but there is also a very real need to have literature to communicate ideas that industry professionals encounter, and that necessarily implies some level of baseline knowledge. In other words, there are already plenty of resources to begin learning CSS, and not every article has to assume absolutely no proficiency in it. Every discipline of course has plenty of specialized writing. If you pick up a Quantum Mechanics paper, for instance, you'll find that it doesn't spend much time building up mathematical fundamentals like tensor algebra or topology even though it may well be required knowledge for someone to understand the paper.
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It's probably not for everyone but I just read the specification [1] last week. It is probably also worth noting that I did this to get a better understanding of some details and not for initially learning CSS. But those are mostly easy to read specifications and I think one could use them to initially learn CSS.

CSS level 1 is pretty short but will still teach you a big chunk of the fundamentals of current CSS even though it is more than 20 years old. After that you can focus on the changes and additions in later versions - those newer specifications are a lot more technical and precise and cover a lot more features, so they are also longer and less fun to read from cover to cover.

[1] https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work
Now for LA
Couldnt you make a backwards scenario filter, that kills simulations that run against evidence? Like - if this planet ceases to be, or that condition is not fullfilled, you are history.
> From the outside, it might seem as if he is enslaved by his pet.

I don't see the issue, this is the explicit contract of having a cat for a pet.
Also the compiler is self-modifying. And the compiler flags as well. And the OS. And the chip architecture sometimes. Like, at what point do we decide that pushing the analogy further is just silly and just drop it altogether?
It's more that we need people to live in such a way that they're not paycheck to paycheck.

If everyone spends up to their limit on rent/food/cars/etc then you end up with whole swathes of individuals who "need" concessions from their employer because they have no leverage.

It's not solely an individual decision, of course, because if other people outbid you for housing then your choices can be limited.

The American model seems to be that most people just work for 40 years with a few weeks off per year and that's their entire adult life.

The above is completely stark raving bonkers to me. Economic cogs.
Anyone on reddit for more than 6 months will be familiar with that term since it comes up in subs like r/til every other week.

It's definitely not some super common term but I am guessing the overlap between hn and reddit is large enough that most people here would be familiar with it.

On the other hand, I don't think I've ever seen anyone use svelte in common parlance in my lifetime.
>But eventually I realized this has to become my mother-effing lifestyle

>what I do now is to eat more deliberately and pay close attention to the feeling of satiety so I can stop eating.

Ah yes, the old trick of avoiding a lifestyle change by adopting an exactly similar lifestyle change.

The only person suggesting a certain lifestyle change need to be all or nothing, is you yourself.

Intermittent fasting is the most non-all or nothing approach to eating that exists. The very definition of intermittent is telling you it's not constant. It's whatever you want it to be.

In fact, you could call what you are doing right now 'intermittent fasting' and nobody would bat an eye.

I'm glad you found something that works for you, but the logic here is not congruent.
Not everything needs to solve a problem. Sometimes it's just fun to work on stuff.
Our desks are a "collaborative" area, if you want to do focused work you need to wander around the office for a quiet corner. So despite having a great 2x 4K monitor setup on my desk, I do most real work on my laptop only.

Dell U2718Q is our standard-issue monitor, and close enough to Retina that I can stand to use them side by side.
It’s different because the US dollar is the worlds’ reserve currency, and it is violently backed by US imperialism.

The MetaCurrency Projects’ Holochain is the next generation P2P no-middle-man accounting system which open sources and decentralizes the rules around money creation and usage. It allows us to evolve the rules together and build mutual credit, interoperable, open and unencloseable carrier’ currencies. Currencies are backed by real world commodities, leading to a rich network of flows between a community.

Your comparison shows me that you might not yet have had the privilege of critically exploring the underlying patterns and stories that have made Industrial Age money the tool it is today. For me ‘The Future of Money’ by Bernard Lietaer, and David Graeber’s ‘Debt: The First 5000 Years’ are very paradigm shifting books and helped me to challenge the underlying stories of economics that I believed. These stories stopped me from seeing a more beautiful future.
Surely that distinction must to go to Android and/or ChromeOS?
I got the same impression from people who studied chemistry after high school too though. Some things are just simplified so our children can ramp up their understanding gradually instead of having the wild complexity of the universe thrown at them in one go.
I really look forward to Taiwan as its own independent country like Singapore.
If you become homeless, you are super likely to do drugs. Just visit a homeless camp and you’ll find that out.

This article gets causality backwards. It’s kind of amusing.
This was definitely the case in the first few years after Chrome was first released and, to some degree, even after, up to the Firefox Quantum release. I don't think this is true anymore even in an objective, measured sense, though I haven't checked recently. However, Chrome is definitely not (to me) perceptibly faster anymore, though.

In what way do you still feel Chrome is better/faster?
> significant expertise advantage of closed source in many areas

Citation very much needed here! The average closed source product has zilch expertise advantage compared to FLOSS. And the expertise that is embedded in FLOSS is actually verifiable (as well as, crucially, being resilient over time - sometimes enduring for decades in a "load-bearing" role with no long-term maintenance issues whatsoever), in a way that closed source could never be.