skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ruby 3 does static typing, so that would be the quickest path for static types.

Crystal is interesting to me because its a systems language, using Ruby syntax and idioms.

I'm a Rails developer by trade but I've been pining to go back into desktop GUI development. Right now the only viable cross-platform options seem to be Swing and Electron. I'm not sure what the desktop story is with Crystal but if it there is a workable solution based on GTK or something similar I'd be very happy!
I definitely don't consider Firefox's resource use (battery, CPU, memory) something to aim for. Pre 2.0 Firefox? Hell yes, it was part of what got everyone on it in the first place. After 2.0, when it started to bloat rapidly for unclear reasons? Not so much.
Content management systems picking up support for ActivityPub in the same way they currently support RSS will probably result in a tipping point for the ecosystem.
> whether the companies were cognizant of the implications of adding Facebook scripts to their site.

I’m inclined to believe Backblaze were not cognisant of the implications of adding Facebook scripts to their site, given the speedy (~12hr) turnaround on resolving once brought to their attention.

If tech companies are unaware, what are the odds that the majority of other companies are?

Discussion from here earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26536019
Every job I've ever had except one were for companies I had never even heard of before applying and usually in industries I'd no experience working in. One of the most rewarding parts of work for me is being able to shape the culture and future of a company even as an IC.

Forgive me for the observation but it seems to me you've put big name companies on a pedestal as though they are objectively better jobs and maybe have some blinders on in terms of the real scope of opportunity that is out there.

And if it's about pay, smaller companies can often pay well too.
It isn't, it is expensive and time-consuming to collect this data, and the edge is huge (I know a fund manager who has been spending several million a year for the best part of a decade collecting historical financial statement data). Also, a lot of the large databases are known to be inaccurate (for example, CRSP). I think the best long-term data is Credit Suisse DSM and Global Financial Data (I can't attest to the accuracy of the latter but have heard it is good).

The website says it is using Schiller's data...so the model is missing almost everything. Stock markets have existed in multiple countries for centuries, using one country makes no sense. It also looks like the bond data is totally wrong (prices rather than total returns).
As someone else who has been unfairly flagged on this thread, I will stand up for jtdev. A quick scan of their profile and posts show they have been here 2-3 years. They have a small number of on topic submissions about CEOs, technologies and science. Their posts are normal enough. There's the obvious theme that they're not in the Woke club though.
I would add "...if you weren't a good match in the first place". Your statement kind of tries to make itself universal.

I absolutely will never subscribe to the BS notion of "couples love each other more when they don't spend much time together".

I'm with my wife for 7 years now and I already worked remotely by the time we met. Our relationship is actually getting better with time.

So what you say mostly applies to people who are, let's call them, good roommates, not two people loving each other.
> "Making music" they never release. Picking up little "pass the time" jobs. And these are people that aren't living "leanFIRE"

> It seems like such a nihilistic way to live. You're just floating along the stream of life. Things worked out for you, but you have no further passion or inclination to improve the world? No problems you could set yourself to solving?

You seem to assume or take for granted that releasing music for an external purpose, improving the world, solving problems, etc have inherent value. I would 100% disagree with that. I don't think there's any greater objective value to raising orphans than there is to playing video games for the rest of your life. If somebody wants to make music and never release it, then they should have the freedom to do so. Your comment is on par with criticizing people for living meaninglessly just for not having children, when not everybody values or enjoys having children.

> complete leisure time 100% of the time or picking up arbitrary hobbies.

I'm at the opposite end: I'm surprised how many people care about solving problems or things like that. I couldn't care less. If I were to win the lottery or something, I'd immediately erase my identity and go live in a castle/farm in a forest somewhere, making music I'll never release etc until I die, etc
Will need to replace all the interior wiring I'm sure. Maybe also get rid of all the eyeballs in the entryway.
Some thinking is inherent to the societies where capitalist relations or feudal relations or slave/master relations or hunter-gatherer band relations predominate. Short-term thinking, centralization and environmental externalities have been hallmarks of capitalism for centuries. Some things only change when relations of production go from one form to another.

One question is - what has improved under capitalism? That children don't have to go to dangerous, Dickensian factories is one improvement. Between labor agitation and capitalists realizing a literate population was more profitable, this changed in industrialized countries.
>I've come to the realization that most of my ideas are going to be seen harshly from many technical people, and they will not be taken seriously at first.

No, I think your ideas on fatFIRE are right and should be copied by everyone who can.
Ransomware isn’t lucrative enough to be the primary transactional or consumptive use case of crypto.

Comical world view, to me.

Of course, the nature of cryptocurrency makes both of our claims unfalsifiable. I would suggest hanging out in crypto-adept communities more, being privy to a 300-participant transaction or other things communities get excited about, to give you a different view of how people use it.
Imagine Mark Zuckerberg saying something like:

You were stupid enough to not devine my intentions 10 years ago, so now I think the US Supreme Court should decide you are that stupid now too.
The absolute state of this thread, it's full of conspiracy theory retards.

Sort yourselves out, "hackers".
It's really only unusual for lineage B coronaviruses:

> Although they only emerge under artificial conditions in influenza viruses, these furin cleavage sites are found within several branches of the coronavirus family tree.

Even the original quote, "In fact, no influenza virus with a furin cleavage site has ever been found in nature" leaves out something important:

> the fact remains that every highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, defined by having a furin cleavage site, has either been found on commercial poultry farms that create the pseudo‐natural conditions necessary for serial passage, or created in laboratories with gain‐of‐function serial passage experiments.

That is, the authors are defining "in nature" not to include commercial poultry farms.
ooh yeah, especially when I am doing some specific database programming stuff and my results come up with amazing perfect resources and a noob's results come up with absolute shit... its bad.
I get that you're trying to say that Ransomware is a kind of evolutionary pressure to force IT ecosystems to adapt and improve, but that's far from saying it should be legal.

It's like trying to justify armed robbery as a method of convincing people to take self defense lessons, or burglary as a method to get people to upgrade their windows to lexan.

The middle ground, which is always a bit in flux, does already exist. It's known as Bug/Security bounties, similar to what HackerOne tries to make above-board.
I don't understand why WHO is selling it's creditiblity in trade for politics. What is there to gain? Perhaps I am too short sighted but I cannot believe that this is ever the right compromise to take.

I also don't understand why they even had the slighest faith in a reliable investigation. After all these months of pushing back on researching accessing the site, they still bowed to their whims. How does this help the argument that it's better to just suck it up?

One thing I am really interested in to read more on is a historians analysis of the parallels one can draw from the period rising up to World War 2, and more importantly, how the rest of the world acted back then. When Germany was dissolving all their democratic processes, and started labellling jews, what did the rest of the world do? What did their neighbours do? Did they just happily keep on conducting business?

I have read slightly into it, but placing the responses of the countries at that time in the right context really requires some solid knowledge of history. If anyone knows interesting articles to read about the responses of the world during that time: I'm very interested.
My understanding was that they had separate finances, and 30k/year was just his spending. My spouse and I spend less than $60k/year in a comparable cost-of-living area (COLA), including flights/hotels/entertainment and other nice things to have (home, some land, modern cars, monthly massage, etc.). It's really not "extreme frugality" in my point of view, but I suppose some might see it that way.
>RMS can be trusted and depended upon to hold up the idea of free software and lead it.

Well said. I agree.
Loophole is a loaded term because it itself implies morality or lack thereof. If it's legal, it's legal. Period. Calling it a loophole implies otherwise.
> That argument is not going to hold a lot of water with people

Yeah, because people prefer to hold their pet conspiracy theories.
no one on earth has that much cash. 20K * 1M people is $20B.

All the billionaires in America do not just have that much money just laying around. This would be a budgetary concern of the federal government. No citizens could individually pay everyone's rents.
> literacy rates are actually lower in countries with ideographic languages

The World Bank puts China (97%) behind Korea (98%), but ahead of Vietnam (95%) and Thailand (94%). They don't have data on Japan, but I'd be surprised if their literacy rate were much lower. (I'm also on my phone, but here's the link: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.ADT.LITR.ZS?location... )

I think those literacy rates mostly reflect the quality of these countries' respective education systems, rather than any inherent properties of the scripts used.
Lab 257 is an amazing book about germ research labs. It fascinated me both with how hard it is to contain diseases under ideal conditions (lab 257 was on an island miles from anything inhabited) and how poor of a job people who should have known better, the actual virologists and people with MDs, did at containing diseases they were researching.

https://www.amazon.com/Lab-257-Disturbing-Governments-Labora...

Warning: this book is non-fiction and is scary.
> "even with the central control of china there is no way they could keep that secret"

Funny, we have thousands of people in certain countries in three letters organizations who can keep secrets just fine.
Their mobile website works fine for me, or at least the annoyances are a blessing because I spend less time on it. The one thing I do notice is if you follow a link out of reddit then go back, it shows an error instead of the thread and you have to reload, which loses your place.
Me too.

I don't have any use for it, however as language geek it is quite nice to see ecosystems blossom.
> the earliest cases of Covid were all connected to the same wet market.

This claim has less weight if China does not share the raw data.

[1] https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/who-experts-want-more-data-f...
Ah! I hadn't thought of those, though I think because 3 out of 4 are tied to a specific platform
My team was looking for something like this. We ended up choosing Gitlab since we were already using their VCS.

These organization products all look so complicated. I can't see the value add here vs Notion/Atlassian/etc. A feature list and example use cases would help.
> because I'm extremely extremely burnt out

How often do you take real vacations?

Your scenario comes up a lot in FIRE forums: People lead unsustainably stressful work lives and think the only antidote is to quit. Then they decide they're not ready to quit, so they continue working the unsustainably demanding job.

The real solution is to work on refactoring your career. You need to teach yourself how to work sustainably, manage stress, and take vacations. Job won't allow it? Time to start looking for another job. Other jobs pay less? Doesn't matter, it's still more than you'd be paid if you burn out and have to quit to get relief.

Re: Gap years: You can find stories of people taking gap years and then diving right back into the workforce, but many of them are either from young people or people who have a network that can get them back into a job. If you're making a clean break and re-entering the workforce without job connections, it's going to be difficult in your 40s and 50s unless you have some very niche skills that are in demand. Hiring managers might be concerned that you're looking for a cushy semi-retirement job to keep you busy, and that you might simply retire again if the going gets tough. They'd rather hire someone whose career interests are more aligned with staying with the company. Keep this in mind with how you frame your gap year.
Why don't we just simply tell people straight up "If you don't have capital at this moment, you most likely never will" because that is the way things seem to be going.
The suit only covers between 2010 and 2011. So unless their tracking opt-in dramatically changed, I believe the issue of the lawsuit was the lack of consumer privacy options in this period.
TL;DR: Berg made connectors like these. Berg was bought by DuPont who put their branding on things. Around this time in the early 90's, clones started showing up and enthusiasts assigned the "DuPont" to apparently differentiate between these new clones and the previous, officially made, "Berg" connectors.
Everyone in the EU would have preferred a Norway-shaped deal. Switzerland was off the table (and is itself likely to go away over the next decade, for the reasons you mention), but Norway or Turkey were absolutely available, and it was signaled very clearly in 2016 and again all the way to 2019. The insistence on leaving the Custom Union on the UK side, however, precluded any scenario like that.

The absence of a Swiss option was very well-known, even before the referendum, to anyone who paid any attention to actual EU policies. They see Switzerland as a mistake, ever since the country tried to walk back on its commitment to the four freedoms, and will absolutely not repeat that mistake ever again.
I get a few of those every month for years. It's not a sign of much. I hang out in real estate investing circles and this is purely marketing. The majority of times, they're looking for people who have a lot of equity in the house and are in trouble financially - so they'll sell at a discount. Maybe only 1% of people who get such mailings fall in this category, but they are the ones who will pick up the phone and call, so the money to mail was well spent (if the mailer did some market analysis).
Our realtor was great... because he wasn't really a realtor. His fulltime job was as a DA, he just did the realty stuff on the side, so he didn't really need the commission. It seemed like he was showing us houses just because that's what realtors are supposed to do, but he was great when we found our house looking on our own.
I'm not sure that this virus even behaves in this way where a BSL-4 worker could become infected. What we know now is that you need a concentration of virus particles over time in order to come down with the disease (in other words, you are most likely to catch it drinking in your friends living room for 4 hours with an infected person, than in a grocery store where an infected person might cough on you in line but there is no long term exposure). I can't imagine where there is a situation in a lab environment where you would have the equivalent of an infected person drinking beer with you for hours in terms of exposure. Even a rip in your PPE wouldn't expose you to very much particulate compared with an infected person spitting in your face conversationally for hours.
The Meadows.
Similar, rsync.net has historical ZFS snapshots that only cost the diff of the files.
Unselfing: The Philosophy of Psychedelics [audio]
How about this analogue:

You come to a restaurant to eat dinner with your friend, who arrived early. Unbeknownst to you, your friend arranged for one of their acquaintances, who you don't know, to sit at the next table and secretly record the whole conversation.
I have a high school friend who retired around 40. He came from a family of money, but worked in corporate IT sales for a large, well known vendor. We had lost touch with each other until 5 years ago when he reached out to me via FB and wanted to call. We spoke for a few hours about our lives, and I realized he was a lost soul.

He had a wife and children, and had been retired for over twenty years. His kids were now all grown and out of the house, and it seemed like he was asking "what should I do now." In contrast to him, my kids were in middle school, and retirement was 15 years away, at a much lower standard of living.

My friend had spent the last two decades traveling; he would travel to a country, live there for 3-6 months and immerse himself in it. His family would stay for a while, but then return to the States when school started, while he would remain. He seemed very curious about "normal" life which he seemed to have growing up. His father was in financial services, and he had a stay at home mom.

I envied my friend's financial independence, but nothing of his retirement life other than the opportunity to travel on a whim. Life without moorings is to be adrift, forever seeking the oxytocin rush of new things, and then being disappointed when it fades.

I haven't spoken to him since, though he randomly posts to FB; I hope he's found real happiness and acceptance in his wanderings.
The UK only requires notification from the company in a commercial call. The recipient can do so without permission.
> My hopeful opinion is that this leads to more stringent worldwide rules for reporting leaks, and checking of safety practices to avoid this happening again

A leak that results in 2.7 million worldwide deaths will not result in "more stringent worldwide rules for reporting leaks". It would result in economic reparations and possibly war.

Leak or not, it's in China's interest to prevent the blame from falling on them. The narrative here is an incredibly powerful geopolitical tool.
Because controversial campaigns are usually not welcome on other platforms. Niche platforms that court those kinds of controversial campaigns exist, but they struggle to stay alive with the public always trying to get their host or payment processor to stop doing business with them.
I'm inclined to think that someone who needs hours of time just to write an email in which they don't sound like a big jerk is likely to be a fountain of workplace interpersonal problems. If spending a few seconds to be a little more tactful is difficult for someone, the problem is with them, not the "millennials" that need to be "coddled".
Not to be harsh, but maybe this guy just isn't a good engineer / academic? This is why I switched from EE to CS, I found it far more interesting and could execute doing software stuff at a very high level even with my piss poor academic record. Never do something you're mediocre at, life just isn't going to be a good time if that's your approach. Tbh, if I was this guy I would've just switched industries and done something I was objectively better at. I quit EE because without a doubt I would've been a C-level electrical engineer at best.
Ah I missed that he was selling calls for stocks he owns. That makes it even less interesting IMO? The premiums on these options are small enough and now you're also capping upside on stocks you already own. And remember that black swan events happen once a month in finance, so I think people would be surprised how far OTM they need to go to actually get to a "minimal" risk of them being ITM.
Programming by Voice May Be the Next Frontier in Software Development
I think any new programming language should have a "why?" section on their page. I mean obviously this language is serving a need, but what is it? In any case, congrats! I like the features and would like to give it a try some day. I'm still curious about the motivations of this particular language though. Anyone more familiar care to elaborate a bit?

Edit: Ok, looks like there is a "why" section on github!
Write only setting perhaps
you need a certain amount of interactivity for full compliance with the protocol.

perhaps someone can provide a sort of managed service to act as a backend to support this.
Big Island flows have stopped though at least recently Kilauea went alive again. Pu'u'O'o that was responsible for those flows into the ocean one could walk to/on is dead though.
I believe that info came from a plan 9 user who interned at Bell Labs in the 00's. Though honestly you can get much better answers from the source by posting to the 9fans mailing list. Charles of Vita Nova, current owner of the Inferno code is a regular on that list as are many of the original Bell Labs folks.
Averages are not a good metric for this field. NAR itself uses median to make it look more balanced than it is [1], but in reality - 80% of the transactions goes to 20% of the agents.

[1]: https://www.nar.realtor/research-and-statistics/quick-real-e...
Many Hindus, Hare Krishnas, Jains etc also are told to refrain from Garlic for the same reason, that if you want to go on the path of spirituality, it puts your nervous system into overdrive and can make you angry, tense and sexually avid too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spPZMB_FFG8

This all comes from Ayurveda and Vedas long before medieval times.
I mean, that's a practical side effect of the fact that England owned much of the tropics for a few centuries.

It's further evidence that these things get sited sensibly, not randomly.
If you don't have any hobbies and just watch TV all day of course life will suck when you retire.

My dad has been retired for almost 20 years and is as sharp as ever. He spends most of his days making things in his shop.

I can't imagine living a life with nothing to look forward to outside of work.
This is simple:

Are the ideas worth it or not?

To me, they are worth some effort. How likable RMS happens to be is an entirely different matter.

And, frankly an excuse I have seen used to dodge a meaningful discussion about the ideas.

My only interest in RMS is related to those ideas, put another way.
Well, that's what I mean. Nobody knew COVID was circulating in Italy at the time either. It's easy to miss a new respiratory virus. For it to originate one place and by chance end up exploding in a different metropolitan area doesn't seem unlikely at all.
Your source cites the WSJ, which itself cites the Wuhan Virology Institute, which is trying to imply that China may not be the origin of CoVid at all, so I don't believe it.
I think this is a nice way to console yourself, but ultimately not true.

The reason people want to open a bar when they work in IT or whatever, is because most people don't want to do the same shit over and over again for 40 years.

That's just human nature, we are not robots, but society has been structured to commodify us and make us predictable producers of 'moar money' for people who already have money :)

It's called wage slavery for a reason, and no, a slave doesn't simply want more friend time or whatever, humans want to be free.