skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They also have no land borders. Very easy to close borders when all it involves is closing airports and turning ships away. That's doubly true when you have no exports that are vital to the world economy.
> So because there are people in wheelchairs nobody can complain about a suboptimal user experience on a popular website with hundreds of engineers making copious amounts of money?

That's not what I'm saying. Not even close. However, if you knew even a small number of the usability issues that certain people are forced to put up with every day of their lives, you'd cease viewing twitter UX as a problem worth even acknowledging.
This is a definite risk if you haven't planned for it and got buy-in. But it's a risk that's also fine with me: I don't want to support and develop shitty prototypes that I've whipped up and know to be awful from a maintenance perspective. So if my garbage gets sidelined and I go work on something else, that's also a win and also not my problem anymore.
And you listed a lot of other components which pull down the overall CPI drastically, thus averaging out the increases in these categories, making the whole exercise pointless.

For instance, consumer goods, or electronic products, or automobiles, or gasoline, or literally n other products that have suffered from lower or stagnant prices.
> Reciprocity

China doesn't believe in the word.

I suggest you read this article about how it really works:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ericsson-writedown/ericss...

I would like to see accounting that any non-Chinese company gets profits out of China.
Dude I use twitter regularly and I navigated the thread easily.
Point still stands, right?
For (b) even a quite low res thermal camera can be useful. Compared to a laser thermometer, you have a much wider fov, and you can always get closer.
The upholding and expansion of human rights becomes a serious part of any policy platform if voters make it a priority for whom they choose as their elected officials. In this space I would argue there is room for independents to steal votes from incumbents. As long as everyone sticks to red and blue teams, there's no way to fight entrenched conflicts of interest.
Well, fast chargers not so much. There you're looking at 50+ kW with liquid-cooled cables. But yes, urban and destination charging stations don't need any fancy infrastructure.
they named the app after a harmful drug that does the same thing the app purports to do. it is not a stretch at all to view the app as promoting drug use.
hahaha I see what you mean. so it really comes down to the concentration, specific instructions, and how a single pill is digested, as the pill is the same size as the others but the delivery method relies on the slow destruction of the outer layer, with explicit warnings not to chew them.

lower dose pills don't have the same warning.
The whole premise of 5% target growth per year is flawed and unsustainable.
To my understanding the world's economic policies are set to spend resources to promote growth.
5% growth means doubling virtually everything every 10 years: imagine doubling energy consumption, double population in every city, double production, consumption.
There is no a non-ideological answer/solution to the state of the world.
The balance of nature will settle itself to an equilibrium, hopefully without too much pain and without complete destruction of the environment.
GPUs do exist with 64+GB of rao, virtually. A dgx2 has distributed memory where you can see the entire 16x32GB of address space backed by nvlink. And that technology is now 3 years old, and it's even higher now.
The One-Line Resistor
What do you mean by a lot more threads? Are you comparing an epyc?
How about median house prices in all major employment zones in the US? I'm sure that would filter out all the small places in the country while also including places in the country used by the old money Brahmans. In either case, you still can't compare house prices in Albany to house prices in NY, which these median measures happen to weight in, even if slightly. Exclude a thousand such places and the median shifts to the right.
Just because people pay off the Mafia doesn't mean that people like it.

The opinion piece agrees with you, a few paragraphs later, with: "Joe Biden’s choices for top staff in his administration include a depressing proportion of former tech company stalwarts. And his vice-president-elect, Kamala Harris, consistently turned a blind eye to the anti-competitive acquisitions of the Silicon Valley giants throughout her time as California’s attorney general. So if people are hoping for antitrust zeal from the new US government, they may be in for disappointment."

However, as the opinionator points out, there's also the UK or EU legal systems.

In any case, while he hopes (as "an eternal optimist") Zuckerberg will on trial, his actual predictions are less extreme:

- "attempts to regulate the tech giants that began last year will intensify"; and

- "we will be increasingly deluged by sanctimonious cant from Facebook & co as they seek to avoid democratic curbing of their unaccountable power."
Looks like Rupert Murdoch's little paper is having more circulation problems. What with Fox on the decline and all.
I’m not the OP, but for me it’s a mix, usually aligning more toward the latter, just like this post which was delivered to me as a notification.
Considering that humans evolved having most of their skin exposed to sunlight, and typically people have their hands and face only exposed (or arms if summer and wearing short sleeves), And combined with most people having indoor jobs -- wouldn't that cause most people to be at least somewhat deficient?
The US also botched testing quite a bit, keep your expectations low and you’ll never be disappointed/surprised
Anecdotal - In my country, doctors advice newborns to be given a certain dosage of Vit-D for the first year, in addition to trying to get them out in the open in the morning sun. We seem to be fairing slightly better with respect to COVID mortality numbers.
One angle is that since no one owns a patent on Vitamin D, there is no one who lobbies for it.
I live in Finland, where winters are short on sunlight.

Taking a vitamin D tablet once per day is a common occurence here for a lot of the population.
I think we're talking past each other, because you're thinking of your own (and similar people's) ability, whereas I'm thinking of broad majority usage.
Not sure what platform you’re on, but searching “disable safari ios” yielded some measures.
I suspect there may be a bad meme involved here too. People have been told “just fifteen minutes per day outside in the sun is enough for your body to produce all the vitamin d it needs.” But I’ve heard it’s more like you need to basically be running around naked in the sun all day - like how we evolved. Not sure how they’d measure that though.
secretely retracting messages he sent to others from their inboxes, a feature exlcusively made available to him[1], with a straight face telling people that discourse on his website does not have influence on elections, tying his donations to having his name put on a hospital which is petty as hell, I mean pick your poison

[1]https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/6/17203114/facebook-mark-zuc...
Update: Just found this.

https://github.com/pnoll1/osmand_map_creation

It seems to have full coverage in my city, and drastically improves address coverage in the US
Wouldn't YLL be a better measure between pandemics? Lets say pandemic A kills 100 humans at 25% of life consumed versus pandemic B that kills 200h at 75% of life consumed. If only lives are counted then B is 100% worse. But if the human-years are measured then pandemic A is 50% worse. Given a zero-sum trolley car dilemma, is plain lives or YLL a better measure of utility?

For example, if a person dies at age 50, and life expectancy at age 50 is more 25 years, then the YLL is 25. In contrast, if a person dies at age 80 and life expectancy at 80 is 2 more years, then YLL is 2.

https://healthcostinstitute.org/hcci-research/the-impact-of-...

Stipulation: if the baseline life-length is 80 years and a ninety year old dies, then the YLL is 0 and not -10.
Amphetamines have documented and accepted medical value to individuals diagnosed with conditions such as sleep apnea, eating disorders and ADHD. Do you ascribe also these individuals and their practicioner with drug connotations, maybe you simply avoid them?

The name of the application seems appropriate for addressing common problmens described in ways like,
> “sleep behavior [..] affecting several of my operations, I have been trying to use caffeinate ..”
Exactly this: people don't realize that encryption involves considering risk of losing your data (lost keys) against risk of someone seeing your data (no encryption).
Negative recent reviews in Chrome Store are a problem. I don't want to experiment with an extension if others have done so already and are unhappy as a result.
Not true. This topic is more complex then simply replacing the F-22 with F-35 as most government decisions on multi-million dollar projects with state interests in mind are.

The F-22 was cancelled because the military thought that they didn't needed to spend the money on air superiority fighters and wanted to use the money elsewhere (drones and bombers). I don't think the F-35 was in the discussion that much... they fired the top leaders of the Air Force at this time.

Robert Gates killed the F-22 and fired the chief of staff of the Air Force Moseley and secretary Wynne. Since then we knew it was a mistake and tried to restart the F-22 line. It didn't make sense for cost.

Gates has his own book Duty which references this quite a bit and is a great political read https://www.amazon.com/Duty-Memoirs-Secretary-at-War/dp/0307...

And there is another book that argues it was a bad idea. https://www.amazon.com/Air-Power-Abandoned-Betrayal-Americas...

Also:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/20472/retired-general-...

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2018/05/10...

This one is funny because they talk about the increased costs of the B-2 due to cutting it early..... as they cut the F-22.

https://www.airforcemag.com/schwartz-in-memoir-says-f-22-was...
> We can manufacture it in the body. "Essential nutrients" are things we cannot manufacture.

Entirely anecdotal, but there are definitely people out there who have to take supplements to achieve normal levels. My most recent blood tests showed that I had a vitamin D deficiency, so my PCP prescribed vitamin D. At the time, I was getting outside plenty and was exposed to the sun more than most people with desk jobs, but it wasn't enough. I wouldn't be surprised if being stuck inside due to the pandemic has made it worse.

Did the prescription change anything? Dunno. I haven't died yet, and it costs nothing since it's prescribed by my PCP, so I'm not complaining, but otherwise I feel exactly the same. Would I go around taking random supplements without the oversight of my doctor? Nope.
Earthrise over the Moon
The trouble with Urge Surfing for browsing is my urges to browse are so quickly acted upon that there is never actually a feeling of urge to tip me off. It takes milliseconds for me to spin up a new tab and get onto reddit, and the vast majority of time that means I'm already subconsciously browsing and I won't notice.

For me it took banning the sites entirely, so that when I am met with the "could not connect" screen I realise what's happened and I need to go be mindful so that I can get into an intentional mindset again.
Does anyone use Zig for production?
If the next-best alternative on point (c) was nuclear, nuclear is probably less polluting. But since nuclear is off the table, since people react really poorly to rare events that cause towns to be uninhabitable, the next-best for (c) is going to be natural gas or another fossil source. I'll take wind any day.
Thanks for calling it out! Open Source is a consideration, but we're not there just yet with it. You still have 'On' Premise with Amna. All data is stored on your machine.
I can't tell you how many places I've worked that rely heavily on excel scripts and they're so unbearably slow. These are core functions of the companies and even higher ups use them. There's 100% a market for this and it affects the decision makers so they'll definitely shell out for it.
Mine sleeps with the lid closed unless it’s plugged into power.
New electronic chip delivers smarter, light-powered AI
I wonder if borg plays well with e.g. pyoxidize. Technically you still require the python runtime but it's embedded so you've still got just a single file.
If you have a better system, you should suggest it. Peer review (and any process) may be imperfect. But I trust something written in a peer reviewed journal more than I trust pretty much anything else I read these days.
The black-nosed cars made from 2014-2016 had autopilot 1.0 (lanekeeping + radar cruise)
No, but probably 95% of air combat operations don't need stealth (well, as long as you have air superiority).
It'd be ridiculously expensive compared to the prescription option, though. And potentially rather dangerous. If you're willing to invest that much in dubious self-medication, use that money to get better insurance (edit: if possible), which should in turn pay for a PCP visit and some basic blood tests. And a prescription--if you need it. Edit: If you don't have that option, you probably shouldn't be dropping money on supplements, and you're probably not going to appreciate someone on HN telling you to prioritize such matters in the first place.

Edit: People who are in difficult situations financially shouldn't be focusing their energy on self-medication with random supplements. Those resources are better spent elsewhere. It may be the case that no, they cannot get insurance or blood work for the cost of self-medication--but that doesn't mean they should go ahead and do it anyway.

Asking someone in a financially difficult situation to spend $15-30/mo on Vitamin D is silly. That's a lot of money. It would be better spent getting more or healthier food (the latter of which comes at a premium in the US), or perhaps setting it aside for the inevitable medical costs that life always brings. If you can afford to drop $15-30/mo on vitamins, you can afford to visit a PCP once every year or two--even out-of-pocket, the PCP visit is going to cost less.

Could you get the vitamins online for a fraction of the cost? Sure, but there are people who often can't pay with anything but cash or food stamps. Suggesting that they're in a position to order products online is rather dismissive of the reality that many of these people live.
I think the appeal is that it's a generator, so that if you need to encapsulate/cram bytes of the zip over some other transport that you can just naturally ask for a few more each time without having to accumulate it in memory.

Of course, by crafting a special file-like object you could avoid this too, but perhaps a bit less elegantly.
Or lzop for speed, while still being better than gzip.
I would email MITRE responding to your own email that they haven't responded to, after a couple months. I had to request a status update nearly two months later to get a response once, I suspect they are busy.
Twitter really should just add support for long ass tweets instead of this janky mess of trying to pick out all the crumbs of people replying to themselves.

How the hell can we have so much tech and leave so many common use cases so fucking broken for so long

It’s a perfect example of how you don’t really decide how others use your products; people do.
Why do you even need a Windows workstation as a Ruby or Node developer? That doesn't make any sense.
It slowly has progress. I once heard there was an ROS2 port to run OS/2 code on it. I wonder how that is going or if they quit? ReactOS is a nice XP and Vista replacement. It don't run 100% of the apps but they are making changes to the API every day so it will run even more.
Maybe this is a good thing!

I personally agree with the message of and support the The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement [0].

There is good introduction in form of a short film "Thank You For Not Breeding" [1].

[0] http://vhemt.org/
[1] https://vimeo.com/7652051
...And yet it has served in actual combat with the US, UK, and Israel.

Do you really think that an aircraft not meant to do something would be fielded by those nations and used to do that very thing?

And of course the program has political goals, every defense acquisition program does, to pretend otherwise would be silly.
The content that is there is good, so I would recommend this article, however it omits anything related to the FDA, or Operation Warp Speed. For an article that purports to describe the year of the virus, this is a huge gap.

I think the biggest mistake of this whole pandemic was none of the things listed, it was banning all vaccines for almost a full year. The FDA was granted far reaching powers by congress multiple times to ensure they can approve vaccines quickly in a pandemic. The FDA instead forced. So as badly as Trump handled the pandemic (and he did handle it badly), at least he wanted a fast vaccine. You might blame the first 100k deaths on the disease, but everything after that is due to the ban on the vaccine.

Now, as the vaccines are distributed they are requiring them to go through an ineffective CDC, who is holding back 50% of the vaccines, to the states who aren't able to distribute more than 30% of what they get yet.

The FDA, CDC, and states need to just stop banning people from getting a vaccine. Let private industry help.

Should Trump have proposed legislation to fix this? Yes, but so should Democrats and Republicans. Our beaucracies failed, both parties failed. Even Biden is coming in with goals like "vaccinate 100M in the first 100 days." What a low bar, since we have already bought 200M doses for delivery by the end of Q1 (70ish days into his term). So Biden's goal seems to be "not approve any more vaccines and try not to lose most of the vaccines we have." His goal should be vaccines for everyone that wants it within 60 days. That is achievable with existing supply+ Astrazeneca and if J&J looks good too then that makes it a slam dunk, unless the government gets in the way again.
It is an interesting thought experiment. If caloric restriction and sleep hygiene increased more quality life years than masks, would you support the police raiding people's refrigerators and monitoring bedroom activity?
this doesn't allow to edit existing businesses at a location
Immigration is addressed in the article as a potential cause of societal collapse.

I do think we (the US in particular, and the western world in general) are undergoing a process that, if it continues to fruition, is societal collapse. That said, I don't think it is imminent or unavoidable.

I do think there's a gray area between immigration generating diversity and immigration serving the same ultimate purpose as invasion. At some point you go from becoming diverse to being supplanted. Immigration rates high enough to drastically change the culture of a society within the lifespan of one human being can be catastrophic. It naturally creates division and strife.

It really doesn't matter if the cultures are both equally advanced, good, if one is being mean to the other, etc. There will be friction. When this happens slow enough, over a few generations, newcomers adopt prevailing norms, and the incumbent culture adopts some newcomer customs. Also, the stronger the incumbent group hold to their customs and take pride in them, the more immigration they can handle, because this creates peer pressure on the newcomer group to assimilate.

The combination of massive immigration and social pressure to view our own customs as unimportant or even inferior is potentially a bad combination for the survival of our society. I hope to see it survive, I do like it, I wouldn't want an entirely homogenous society.
How can I follow your work?
Most with insurance have little to no choice. It’s 1 or two of the same PPO with different deductibles or an HMO, if you’re lucky.
> There are a lot of employed software engineers who have disposable income and who are happy to pay for a dev tool if it means they can actually build and launch an idea in a weekend.

This is absolutely true, but companies also, or even devs working in companies will buy out of their own pocket to improve their productivity without having to ask the Accounts department, I know I have!
Yes, that is correct. You can either have the backup server ssh into your clients, or set up an account on the backup server for each client to use. In that case, 'snebu' is installed owned by the user ID snebu, and is set-uid to that ID.

When starting up, it checks if your UID is different than your EUID. If so, it looks up your UID in a table to determine what you can do (listbackups, restore, newbackup/submitfiles, expire, purge), affecting which backup sets.

Back on the pull backups, the backup server ssh's to a client (optionally using a non-privliged user), then sudo's to root (or if backing up files owned by a specific account, can sudo to that account). And no software is required on the client in that case (except tarcrypt if doing encryption). So it is really easy to set up backups on a fleet of servers.

BTW, I see in your profile that you are a C++ programmer -- feel free to drop by the github repository (github.com/derekp7/snebu) if you have any issues or ideas (I have Github discussions enabled also for free form chat).
I keep thinking of btrfs, where one can snapshot the fs directly, almost instantly at nearly zero storage cost. And then send around incremental diff between snapshots.

Alas, as the FAQ states, there is no native encryption in btrfs. https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ#Does_btrfs_suppo...

Interestingly bupstash documents how to store a btrfs send "image" into bupstash. I imagine the primary use for this is adding encryption (otherwise why use bupstash at all? perhaps simple uniformity I suppose, if one already used bupstash): https://bupstash.io/doc/guides/Filesystem%20Backups.html#Btr...
borg can do that if you restrict the client's ssh key to only run borg in append-only mode: https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/notes.html...
It makes people misunderstand each other, which makes them angry, and increases engagement/replies.
I remember vit-d coming up in articles before covid.
Apple certainly can make very pretty watchfaces. Especially in the areas where it seems that they are inspired by physical, classical watches: there’s a bunch there that you can basically see as very attractive to traditional watch people. But the other faces? Eh, they’re kind of mediocre. I never really understood why Apple is so dead set on shipping watch faces that aren’t very good while also denying people the ability to make good ones :(
Average speed cameras seem unbelievably dangerous to me. I haven't ever driven somewhere with them, but I suspect all I'd be thinking about was the speed limit, resulting in very dangerous driving. With all my focus on making to correct average I'd fail to properly track other drivers and potential hazards.

I'm much happier with a flow of traffic enforcement. Ticket those who speed excessively beyond what traffic is generally flowing and let the posted limit be more of a guideline.
This is entirely anecdotal, but I was recently prescribed 50,000 IU/wk by my doctor after blood tests. Even if I had paid for the doctor, blood tests, and prescription entirely out-of-pocket, it would've been cheaper than self-medicating at a dose like that. Most of it was out-of-pocket for me anyway because I hadn't met my deductible, and the whole ordeal set me back less than $100. If I didn't have in-network pricing, it still would've been less than the cost of one month of health insurance.

Obviously, there are plenty of regions and situations in which things don't work out that way. Asking someone to self-medicate with Vitamin D still has the potential to be expensive, and there may be better uses for that money, especially for someone in that sort of financial position.