skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Healthcare costs have risen faster than inflation, eating into take-home pay.

Who's fault it is? The government has the power to change all that. You cannot pay your rent with a copy of your health insurance bill. I wonder if people still pay way more out of pockets expenses for healthcare now, despite having super-expensive insurance.
Amen!

If your app is monolith, can I ask you to share the link? I'd love to see your turbolonk implementation. Can't wrap my head around it.
Not if compared to 3000 years of Egypt.
You missed the part where I said "at this time"
Those who argue strongly for one method over the other are likely to not understand the one they're against. Which sucks, because if you do know both, there's rarely a reason to have strong feelings one way or another. So, once again the naive but vocal voices get all the decision power.

/Too many arguments at work are over dogma and I have to spend a lot of my time reminding people that there are options. That's all. There are options. Your kneejerk response to a problem might be fine -- might be right -- but there are always options.
How did you put money into AMD? Investing in their stock doesn’t meaningfully impact their likelihood of bankruptcy, as that capital isn’t going to the firm. Even buying bonds doesn’t mean much if you’re not part of the initial bond issuance.
Researchers show conscious processes in birds' brains for the first time
ScummVM “Interactive Fantasy” 2.2.0 Sees the Light
"Not with a bang, but with a whimper."
That is not be universally enforced for Freemasonry. It may be a jurisdictional thing.
Sedentary is relative. If it's nice out, I could spend hours outside working on my plants, and really only need to wash off my arms at the end. I'm up and moving, but it's not enough to make me sweaty and gross. I would still refer to it as sedentary, because I didn't leave the house, and didn't engage in rigorous physical exercise, but it's not like I sat on the couch and ate chips all day.
Im in Europe.
And I must add, after reading more comments, I always browse private mode, and open new tab for every link that I visit.

So could also be workflow related maybe. Or combi of both?

Maybe share a medium with “upgrade” link that I can visit and compare end-results?
I think you are making a good case for a somewhat different point: we have long reached the point where the tools we use for writing and reading programs can give us all sorts of semantic information on demand, and language syntax design should take advantage of the fact that everything the programmer needs to know need not be forced into just one flat page-of-text view of the code.

Alan Kay made essentially this suggestion when the requirements for the language that became Ada were being debated, but it was not taken up at that time.
I can say what I do use Bash for: create files & directories, and simple string replacements in files. Anything more involved goes into a proper program. Usually OCaml, though I can fall back to more mainstream languages (Python, C) if I need a wide audience to be able to read it, and the program is simple enough that types aren't really a problem to begin with.
Sounds more like said pushy salesperson didn't realize the OP would actually get email with that name attached.
As someone with a masters and phd in library science fields but not actually working a library, some of the sentiment described here always came across, to me, as librarians (understandably) trying to make themselves relevant in a world where their relevance is increasingly easy to disregard. The enthusiasm they feel for their profession has always seemed extremely high as a result.
I think they are individual. That would be the top 5%, which I think makes sense based on other numbers I've seen.
As others mentioned, while git shows you diffs, internally it's actually snapshots of the entire repo, with each snapshot listing 0 (initial commit) 1 (normal commit) or more dependencies (merges).

While it works decently, the big problem with this model is its notion of dependency is too course. For example, let's say I'm working on two completely separate things, A and B, and I happen to work on A one day, and on B another, for three days, so I end up doing work A1, B1, A2, B2, A3, B3. In git, I'd end up with the following dependency graph:

A3 -> B3 -> A2 -> B2 -> A1 -> B1

The problem is these are not the real dependencies! If I decide, "oh, you know what, let's drop B and try C," there's no easy way to do that.

In a patch based system, instead, the actual dependencies of every commit are calculated. So in that system, I end up with the following graph:

B3 -> B2 -> B1

A3 -> A2 -> A1

And then it's very easy to say things like "drop B".

(A special case of this that's a big pain-point in git is cherry-picking bug fixes between branches. When you do that in git, git has no actual notion of what happened; it's not obvious looking at any given commit if it's been cherry-picked somewhere else, and you frequently get merge errors later on. If the thing you want to cherry-pick is actually multiple commits, you have to carefully go through and try to cherry-pick them in the right order. It's a huge pain point that a patch-based VCS promises to solve.)
Several countries only allow a stay of up to 15 days for visa on arrival. For instance, Malaysia and Thailand for Indian visitors.
> I expect government housing to be nothing less than a backstop before homelessness

This is not at all the historic situation/expectation in the UK.
I love the effect on undo/redo. So many times in all kinds of editors do I cycle through undo/redo in a game of spot the difference just to find where did I made a change. Now I'm off to see how to implement this in my code editor.
There’s certainly parts that are hard to test, but it’s incorrect to say it’s unfalsifiable as a whole.

For example, court attendance isn’t a Boolean: we create a confidence score and decide the “yes/no” question via some threshold.

Even if you can’t test the model on the people you decide to keep in custody, you can test it on the people you release. The percentage who do appear for trial vs running should match your confidence score in that cohort — ie, if you guess they show up 95% of the time, then they should show up 95% of the time.
The current thought patterns that seem to be the dominant ones for the majority of ordinary people seem to assume that there are no feedback loops or tipping points. While the evidence from other planets directly contradicts this.

Also with end of history, I didn't mean the end of the human race. Just the end of the current civilization and possibly written history. Another dark age, so to speak.
I did it just fine in a Fiat Panda, for instance 3 adults, 2 French bulldogs and luggage for 2 weeks, 6 hour drive.

Going home, we added a cat, its transport box and toys/accessories/food. Not a problem.

In the Peugeot 406 (midsize sedan) I had after that, we were 5 adults going to weight lifting competitions, so you can probably guess that none of us were exactly tiny. Also not a problem.
The documentary is wonderful called "the man who saved the world"
Those are pretty great deals, due to the excellent local incentives. I was quoted $57xx for one-pay 36mo 10K/yr lease. We opted for a 15K/yr lease at a little over $6K instead because my wife puts a lot of miles on her daily driver. We won't go negative, but my wife was spending $200/mo on gasoline previously, so our only net cost will be the insurance (which would also be a wash except we're keeping the old daily driver for it's utility aspect).
I can very well see similar statements in 20 years:

"Not surprising considering that the vast majority of people just use robo taxis now. The ICE manufacturers did just fine in the transition to EVs. It was the transition to self-driving they lost out in."
Bigger cars don’t “clog” the roads. Their impact on car spacing is minor.
As written, the twitter thread is basically augury. Fitting a curve does not make it true; the processes of science, reality, academic research, and human discovery do not follow neat lines. They are messy. Even economics is a hell of a lot more complex than "logarithmic increases have linear returns". You need actual engineers and scientists doing research; "cumulative kWh" is just an extremely rough proxy.

There is value in plotting data like this: to dispel anecdotal notions of progress or stalls. Progress has been incremental for a long time. The future expectations are incremental. It's probably going to stay incremental for now. There is little evidence of a stall, or that Tesla suddenly tore down the walls of physics.
Netscape was behind JS, Sun too (for the trademark license). It wasn't just me throwing up whatever I liked against the wall and seeing what stuck.

The <blink> tag, on the other hand, did result from a drunken outing (before my time) of first floor folks.

I agree that when there is no functioning, consensus-based standards process, browsers should innovate.
Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis

Types Bad, Types Good, Types are a gateway into sophisticated automation of programming tasks but not a panacea.
Does this study account for all of the women that have entered the workforce? Or the greater access to jobs blacks and other minorities have gained in this time. Or the influx of immigrants?

A lot of labor activists complain about “greedy corporations moving jobs to low wage countries.” What does replacing one $50k job here with 10 $5k job in India do to inequality? In a global economy, I don’t think you can have a serious conversation about inequality unless you talk about global inequality. I don’t know what the data there says, but there’s no question that there are far fewer people living in extreme poverty now than 50 years ago. Part of that is driven by some (low skilled) Americans living a slightly less cozy lifestyle.
While concrete does absorb CO2 there is a large misconception that it can absorb as much as is output during production. In reality any concrete worth its cost can only absorb a very small fraction of the production output.

A largely overlooked issue with the idea of concrete absorbing CO2 is exposed surface area. Imagine a hydro dam, one side is saturated with water, the other side is air. The dam is also usually quite thick, several meters to hundreds of meters. That really limits the available absorption surface especially considering the ratio of surface area to volume. Concrete foundations, epoxy coated parkades, even painted surfaces start to drastically reduce the possibility of CO2 being absorbed.

Think of concrete like a membrane or a sponge. The thicker the membrane you want to pass a fluid through, the higher the pressure you would require. So using our pressure as atmospheric, getting a high depth of CO2 absorption requires a well connected pore structure, and a long time frame.

Add to this membrane metaphor the issue of size. We design concrete structures to prevent fluid transfer, especially hydro dams! H2O is a smaller molecule than CO2, and the static pressure on the ‘wet’ side of a hydro dam increases 1 atmosphere every 10m.

As concrete sets and gains strength, its porosity decreases. This process happens rapidly in the first few days, and only ever stops when the cement runs out of free water to absorb. CO2 absorption depth is a pretty common test when evaluating a structure for rehabilitation purposes (carbonation dept testing) as CO2 will mess with the concrete PH and corrode reinforcing steel which (depending on many factors) can be as shallow as 5cm from the concrete surface. I’ve seen structures with up to 5cm of depth, but that is outside of the norm. 1-2cm of CO2 absorption depth for a structure from the 50’s is pretty common in my area.

Modern concrete, through many different means, has a highly disconnected pore structure (compared to the concrete of the 50’s). New concrete, is designed to reduce any type of fluid transfer especially after the first few days of curing. This will reduce the depth of CO2 absorption further.

So bringing this all back together, consider the absorption depth of 2cm, a structure with minimal exposed surface area, and some sort of coating or cladding… and you very quickly realize that you are not going to be off setting CO2 production outputs by any significant margin, and its not in your best interests either.
Looks cool! There's also a similar project for F# (but hasn't been updated in a while):

https://github.com/kjnilsson/fez

https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/11312-fez-fsharp-type-s...
The comment you replied to implies that if you reached the CTO by other means, your problem would also get fixed, even without publicity.
I'll add a 4th thing to his list based on my experience moving from Java to Typescript:

Nominally-based type systems like Java (where you can only write Foo f = new Bar() if Bar has Foo somewhere up it's static type chain or interface hierarchy) are way more of a pain in the ass than structurally-based type systems like TypeScript (where you can say f: Foo = new Bar() as long as TypeScript determines Bar has all the required fields of Foo).

Primarily this makes refactoring much easier because you don't have to necessarily change things up a (potentially brittle) type hierarchy. Instead, you can just add new properties to your type to fulfill the set of properties required on the target type.
Make sure this isn't the reason you're not getting subscribers
Who cares. Bitcoin is a joke. All PoW based coins are a joke. They can't scale to meet transaction demand and once the rewards run dry there will be no incentive left to mine them anyway. CBDC is the future like it or not.
We're not, time between start of WWII and till the Arab Oil embargo when the technical revolution ended, was quite a bit more influential. And yes sure people had an even better way to destroy biosphere then too, as well as lots of ways to make things better, and it's fair to say our grandfathers used this resource in general, in a very constructive way.

We neither got that much potential to either break or fix things, nor we make a wiser use of what we have. Yes we got Elon Musk sure, but apart from him, all that the humankind is doing is finding progressively sneakier ways to make people click on ads, which is hardly a great achievement. Everything else from art to politics is just a tool to this end.
For those unfamiliar with "horse and sparrow", an admittedly rural metaphor:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nHfCt5rEDOI/UVqr2tUVvpI/AAAAAAAARA...

https://www.chronofhorse.com/forum/forum/discussion-forums/a...
It has a lot to do with income inequality. GDP is a reflection of overall economic activity. If it grows by 10%, it's entirely reasonable to expect that most people's income grow by some number that has a linear relationship to 10%. That's largely what happened in the 50's and 60's.

The conventional measure for this is "percentage of GDP distributed as wages". This number has mostly dropped for the last 35-40 years, whereas its corollary - "percentage of GDP not distributed as wages" has grown. This is the largest single contributor to current income and wealth inequality.
honest question for those whose main concern in life is income inequality:

Which of the following 2 example worlds would you prefer:

1. everyone makes exactly 50k (0 inequality)

2. median income is 55k but there is vast inequality.
I didn’t find the argument compelling. It was essentially “Donating to charity removes the urgency around removing the real problem: capitalism.” But whether or not capitalism is the problem is not decided. If it was decided, whether or not we could change it is not decided. If we could change it, whether or not the things we could change it to is better than capitalism is not decided.

I can donate to charity now and accomplish some good, rather than wait for some nebulous and uncertain future that may or may not be an improvement. The moral thing to do seems clear.
Are you sure? I agree that if original work has an active copyright then in usual case you need permission from whoever owns it.

But if I make translation, then I may be unable to distribute i. But in exactly the same way original author would need to have my permission to distribute translation.
I purchased stock, it’s Not entirely true stocks don’t meaningfully impact the company. Increasing the stock price means they can issue more and increase revenue. They can also take loans more easily as they could issue stock.

At the time I purchased stock was under $2
Durability: NVMe Disks
FUD is an effective tactic.

There are documented examples of each in my comment history.
> being able to write large swathes of code without actually running it and being 100% confident that it's all _valid_ (not bug-free of course) just takes a huge load off my mind.

I've heard similar things before, e.g. "static typing allows you to find bugs in your code without even running it".

Perhaps the reason I'm a fan of dynamically-typed languages is that I don't see the benefit of this. Maybe my workflow is unusual, but I don't write code without running it - I run tests every time I add a few lines.
> It is supposedly possibly to properly design a single pipe steam heating system that achieves a comfortable temperature in more than one room.

If you are interested in learning more about this "possibility", particularly if you have a steam system that you hate, you'd probably enjoy Dan Holohan's books. His basic thesis is that when designed and installed, they worked well, but the knowledge necessary to keep them functional has been lost over the years. Here's a New Yorker profile of him: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/04/steamed-the-jo...
I don't think this logic applies to the demographics of today. The total number of humans to have ever lived is calculated to be ~105 billion. So assuming you're applying that logic to today, you're one of the most recent ~7%, which doesn't seem that remarkable -- at least not to the point of assuming fatalistic scenarios.
How do you know it's safe? I cringe at giving admin rights to a .exe downloaded from the net.
From The Atlantic article:

"In the AST [...] was further adapted to model the attentional states of others, to allow for social prediction. Not only could the brain attribute consciousness to itself, it began to attribute consciousness to others."

On the face of it this AST theory would nicely support Susan Blackmore's work on the `meme`.

Recall Dawkins first proposed the meme, because he thought the gene was such a powerful mechanism there must be other similarly algorithmic mechanisms in nature.

In her 1999 book on the subject Blackmore proposed the theory `imitation` is at the heart of the evolution of human theory of mind

"...if you want to know whether that huge male gorilla is likely to attack you if you try to mate with this attractive female, you should try to imagine what you would do in the same situation." (Blackmore, 73.3)

"'Arms races' are common in biology, as when predators evolve to run ever faster to catch their faster prey, or parasites evolve to outwit the immune systems of their hosts." (Blackmore, 74.2)

"The turning point was when early hominids began to imitate each other. The origins of imitation itself are lost in our far past, but the selective (genetic) advantage of imitation is no mystery. [...] If your neighbor has learned something really useful - like which foods to eat and which to avoid [...] it may pay (in biological terms) to copy him. You can then avoid all the slow and potentially dangerous process of trying out new foods for yourself." (Blackmore, 75.3)

"I suggested imitation requires three skills: making decisions about what to imitate, complex transformations from one point of view to another, and the production of matching bodily actions. These basic skills, or at least the beginnings of them, are available in many primates and were probably available to our ancestors of 5 million years ago. Primates have good motor control and hand coordination, and good general intelligence which would enable them to classify actions and decide what to imitate. Some of them can imagine events and manipulate them mentally [...] and, most notably, they have [social intelligence] and the beginnings of a theory of mind." (Blackmore, 75.5)

Seems this AST theory would offer Darwinian continuity and fill gaps in the qualitative theories of mind between other organisms and the exceptional human condition.

Blackmore, Susan. The Meme Machine. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. (1999)

Dawkins, Richard. The Selfish Gene. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. (1976)
I'm just saying that total compensation is a better comparison of employee compensation over time.

It would also depend on the tax structure to support healthcare as to whether that helps the total comp.
I most often choose Python because it's what's available, and it's good enough for the things I need to use it for. Other people can generally understand my code, too.

F# probably is a good language, but I haven't had a good enough reason to use it.
looks amazing!
good is better than bad !
Hold up, never log into the machine is exactly what the discussion is about, not logging into machines for log access being one aspect of it.
One consequence is that we're in a low trust <-> bad social safety net feedback loop, rather than an innate consequence of a fixed "American disposition".

Jam one thing like through like Healthcare or Federal Rerserve accounts for all, and the feedback loop might find a markedly different equilibrium.
> .dev domain (prior to actually publicly releasing it) in Chrome, breaking everybody's non https local .dev environments.

Yeah, except it broke more than that.

A lot of folks use/d ".dev" and and ".prod" as internal sub-domains in their actually-owned domain (dev.example.com, prod.example.net).

For convenience you could however use the resolve.conf's "search" option to simply things, so at the CLI one could type "ssh webserv01.dev" and the resolver would would then append the company's domain to get the FQDN for the query.

Except once Google made their changes "webserv01.dev" now could go out to the Internet—especially if you had it in a browser and it tried to be "clever".
It appears to be full time, prime age workers. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/working_papers/WR...
Poom: Doom on Pico8
Learn people.
Apologies for the use of 'x' to denote multiplication.
I just figured out that I could have written as asterisk * as 3 asterisks in markdown, but it's too late to edit my post now.
If you click through the headline for that first claim is "The 12 countries where poor children are more likely to get rich and actually achieve the American Dream than in the US". It's a claim about social mobility, not inequality. I don't think the author is reading the data backwards
Kripke resigns as report alleges he faked results of thought experiments (2012)
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More people entering the workforce kept wages down?