skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sad thing was the status grind on his partner; that's unfortunate but all too common. It seems he ended up with a more compatible partner in the end, so I'm happy for him.

I recently learned there is this term called "Sigma male" where status is not interesting. Now, I don't know if it is real or just some label, but I do know people that don't care. I personally don't care, but this is after testing the waters of spending money for happiness (remodel house, changes, etc...).

The key that I hope to leverage is that for me money nor traditional status does not translates directly into happiness. However, working on my silly programming language and products that use it: very happy.

My hope when I retire is to work almost full-time with the flexibility to stop and go. I'll be tinkering on http://www.adama-lang.org/ whilst I try to bootstrap a board game company.

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. My strategy therefor is to balance the meta-game of language building with building actual games. For instance, I'm currently designing a two player deck builder game for husband and wives to play.

I gave a demo of a product that I am building with a friend, and his mind was blown. Sadly, this is the form of status that I seek. I don't see the lifestyle or the materialism, I seek demonstrating my cleverness and being ahead of the curve.
HAMR and MAMR will use lasers and microwaves to pack as much as 60TB into drive
I owned a small company. After selling it, and giving 2+ more years of my life for the new owners to figure out how to replace me, they didn’t. On my last day I told them that if they ever needed anything my rate is $5,000/day, non negotiable. It’s kept them at bay for now. I have no ethical qualms with my decision. It’s business.
Google paying it.

Out of Chrome and Firefox, one is one big level of indirection further away from Google's influence than the other.
> Currently the public charging infrastructure is awful

In what sense?
Most western countries could have easily afforded to build their own factories but they cheapened out and didn’t want to spend the 10 million for a one off factory. That’s a lot harder to defend than throwing 100 million a day out of the window on lockdowns.
of course there is no click. a lot of search traffic is machines (machines don’t click) + a lot of the results come in on the SERP.
How I became a professional self-taught developer while working a full-time job
This in no way absolves their god awful mobile experience but if you're logged into Reddit with the new UI turned off or use the Old Reddit Redirect add-on it's basically as if nothing on Reddit changed since 2011.
It's even more complex than that, since some countries have now switched to UK-like intervals between doses (11 weeks)... but not all. And there are a bunch of country-specific issues too.

This is one of those situations where "EU" as a concept is a bit of an overgeneralization for 27 loosely-coordinating countries.
> How about deciding whether a heavily-used pure-function method should take a whole struct as its receiver, or instead a pointer to it? If a whole struct, then non-modification of the receiver is guaranteed by the compiler, a great boon to the code maintainer. If a pointer, then any number of members may be added to the struct with no performance penalty per invocation. How to choose?

It seems like you answered your own question. I’m not really sure what you’re looking for here...

> You also may have to learn the hard way that saving a pointer to an entry of a slice that is later appended to may, or may not, depending on len()<cap(), produce an unintended copy.

That’s all pretty inductive from the simple definition of a slice: a growable view into a backing array (where “grow” implies copying to a new, larger backing array). But yes, it can be surprising if you are jumping into Go without ever reading the basics. In general, the best practice is to avoid multiple references into a mutable slice (this seems like generally good advice in any language).
Saved you a click: It's called Wiz.
A lot of these letters are also from real estate "investors". Their tactic is to go after properties before they are on the market and use the seller's lack of pricing information to score a substantial discount.
Always happy to help!

I try to "collect" search engines, so I'm always interested in finding more/sharing the ones I've found.
Kind of wondering why hemp isn't being more explored. Hemp for material manufacturing and fuel purposes seems incredibly powerful.
Last time I checked, $250,000 was 1/4 of one million dollars.
That won't work in most reasonable countries. A company that is no longer employs someone cannot make that person work. In the situations similar to the ones that are being described, the time is not on the side of the company - they have a dead line, a former employees does not.
If they could finally make Faceted Search configurable to show a list of results and make that list matching your normal view settings (e.g. not threaded) that would be awesome. It is really a drag that it is always 5 clicks to get a view where the search results are comprehensible.
This is a classic garden-path sentence [1] if I ever saw one. It happens sometimes in "headlinese" when editors or authors try to squeeze as many characters out of a headline as possible.

"[A] note[,] in which [The] Hitchhiker's [Guide To The Galaxy] writer reminds himself he will [']finally get pleasure from process['][,] is] to be part of [a] book based on his archive."

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
That's a bit like asking, "Which is worse? A shot to the head or an overdose of morphine?" Either way the person's going to die.
We use https so its encrypted at transit. We host with heroku and fly.io. So we use their encryption policy for our cloud solution.

We have papercups-eu.io which is hosted in Frankfurt and is encrypted at rest.

For those who are more privacy contentious we have a self hosted solution. Where we collect logs and anonymized data to make our product better and debugging purposes.
America is supposed to mean freedom from hereditary aristocracy. If billionaire dynasties don't count as that, I don't know what does.
Sounds like your best next step is to become an exemple of software/infrastructure best practices - get everything in the best backup/recovery solution you can, document every detail any time an issue comes up, and above all treat your people like the vaaluable assets they can be.

You may be doing any of that already, since I don't know anything about you except your one comment.

But the answer to your fear of exploitation is avoid making people hate you/your environment enough to want to protect themselves from it.
The EU appears to be of the opinion that it needs to net export 8 million vaccine doses a month to the UK (plus 17 million to other countries, although the article doesn't detail if any doses are imported from those countries).

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/eu-exported-mor...
Inheritance is another topic, many things will affect your quality and life satisfaction and wealth inheritance is definitely a prime one however the problem is not about having rich and poor people here, the problem is having different compensation for the same input(even worse, lower compensation for the higher input).

Because of the nature of the housing, that is limited and not optional, pretty much everywhere it is optimised to a level that drains everyone exposed out, acting as a tax. What is the difference between living in a communist country that takes half of your salary and gives you free housing close enough to your workforce and first having the money in your account then sending half of it to someone whose function in the society is to collect rent? It's not like you have choice? Money going through your bank account or not, it doesn't matter. You are effectively compensated drastically differently depending on your property ownership.

Inequality is no big problem when you have options and viable(hard work and compensation beneath that work is not viable) path to change your circumstances. In places like London, NY, Paris etc. enormous money is siphoned into property owners, probably the similar to the size of the productive economy and what you have is young people, usually the best among their peers, seemingly making a lot of money that live in very low quality houses and you have property owners that live the sweet life that is well beyond their contribution the society.

It has become a structural thing and it's not right.
I like the idea of unarmed or less than lethal robots in policing for some things like raids or approaching an armed suspect that is attempting suicide by cop. Removing police officers from that equation means that there isn't a threat to life/limb and armed suspects can be apprehended without having to kill them.

Still I can imagine how pant soiling scary it would be to have a spider robot capture you in it's legs or wrap you in netting during a night time raid. I remember seeing the video of that dog entering a house and pointing it's light at the occupants and they looked freaked the f out.
Do you have a reference for that?

I think it is market specific depending on the makeup of your areas grid.

As far as cost in many markets a heat pump is more cost efficient today compared to electric AC and gas furnace.

https://www.breakthroughenergy.org/our-challenge/the-green-p...
What I find entertaining is that while answers may be wrong, you can see from the question statement and the returned sample text that it is working perfectly in a mechanical sense. The parsing of the question is correct, the searching works, and so does the ranking. But at the end of the day, it is just applied NLP at a large scale, not AGI, so it doesn't know that it is returning a wrong answer. It doesn't know anything at all!
Senator falsely claims Greenland only recently froze
In addition to it just working, it also is great for writing from anywhere. I have a technical + personal blog. This let me log into blog from anywhere and write a quick draft or even publish a post. It is pain to type a post on cellphone but doable.
> Maybe THE fastest

Almost, but not quiet. As of 3/21 Britain has done 44 doses per 100 people.

Israel is leading with 112, followed by United Arab Emirates with 74 and Chile with 44.31. These countries are all smaller than Britain though, as you point out. No country as big or bigger than Britain is doing it faster.

For comparison, the US has done 37 per 100, while most of the EU countries are between 12-13. Hungary is at 21, because they have not only used the EU provided vaccines, but also using the Russian vaccine.
I know. I meant to ask if Firefox on M1 has the same behavior.

I guess I'll ask a colleague at work.
I tried suing a landlord in small claims court. Their lawyer just had the court move the case to civil court so they could bring representation. It's a broken system imo.
I'm with Kenneth Arrow[1], markets for healthcare don't work, can never be made to work.

[1] 'Uncertainty and the welfare economics of medical care - 1963'
The best way that I've heard these ideas is "you can't outrun your fork".

In other words, loosing weight starts with portion control as the largest factor for most people.
I did the same approach. We used someone a family member used and recommended. We would send her houses we liked, and she would setup the appointments. She would offer her advice when asked, and did a great job handling the various offers we put in. I honestly never felt pressured at any point during the home buying process.
The site seems to be fried, but a Wayback Machine archive is available: https://web.archive.org/web/20210322182029/http://www.mattmi...
For a number of years, it was a tactic for resolving impasses between labor and management. Labor would accept a lower salary in exchange for a pension -- funded by expected growth rather than an investment account.

Everybody wins. Workers get a safe retirement. Management gets to hold the line on salaries.

Oops.

It might even have worked, if growth had continued the way it did in the 50s and 60s, where there was often 5% GDP growth. Then came the 80s. Things have leveled off at a reasonable 2% growth, but that's not enough to support all of these pensions. But the pension plans were promises, and not contingent on that.

So it's not quite as stupid as it sounded. But it's still pretty stupid. Everybody thought they were taking advantage of the other side.
You imply that this is implemented over gamma compressed data... Doesn't that make all the analysis you have done void?
What if we were born without the need to consume or generate matter? I think it's easy to generate idealistic scenarios, but not so easy to implement them in reality. There's a couple counter-pressures to your question. The first being that the average consumer has come to expect and demand a higher level of functionality out of even simple devices. The next is that there's no monetary incentive in creating the perfect system from the start, especially when you can just use premade things. Finally, hackers (whether they be nation-state actors or your neighbor's bored teenager) are CONSTANTLY on the prowl for vulnerabilities in all things connected to the internet. With that in mind, it's not quite as easy to develop the perfect, unhackable system.
Thanks for your comment - author here.

You're absolutely right - the good old trial and error applies when it comes to innovation. There's just no way someone could come up with a breakthrough technology or product on their very first try. You absolutely need to be relentless at trying and testing out new things.

And yes, diversity of thought isn't nearly as valued as it should be these days. A team of people who all think the same about everything probably won't innovate as much as a team whose members can think for themselves. Just think about the early Paypal days (Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, Elon Musk, etc.)!
https://futurism.com/spacex-building-military-rocket-to-ship...

SpaceX signed a contract with the Pentagon
"The company stopped its nonconsensual tracking after it was exposed by a researcher in 2011, court papers said."

Did Facebook stop tracking non-users though? Maybe that particular method was ceased but Facebook still slurps up all the data it can on anyone and everone. Case in point: the recent Facebook login SDK for mobile was tracking non-users.
AFAIK you are correct except perhaps that US and UK have exported 0 vaccines, though the number is probably quite small relatively speaking, and certainly smaller than the EU (foolishly) expected.
This is my dream. Is that bad?
You stay on basic until your subscription expires or you upgrade: https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/faq-new-product-subscriptio...
How to level up your software design skills
I want this on a simpler scale: an external drive that has a physical switch. In normal operation the switch is in "append only" mode and the drive ensures that nothing can be erased. Only when the switch is temporarily hit to a "unsafe" mode would it allow deleting to make more space. I don't know how easy or difficult this would be (I assume external drives don't typically know about filesystem-level information like this), but it would be a nice product for people with simpler needs than yours. If the backup system can write only incremental changes then the storage requirements would likely be fine for many users.
Fifty Years of Fear and Loathing
According to the Bloomberg tracker[1] the United states has given 24.9% of the population at least one shot and 13.5% two shots. The EU has given 8.7% one dose and 3.8% two doses. The United States is administrating 2.5 million doses a day and the EU is administrating 1.1 million doses a day, although the EU has a larger population. Also the rate of vaccines administered in the EU is down from 1.5 million a day from the prior week, while the US rate is going up. So severely behind seems about right.

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo...
I'm going to start blogging about FIRE from the other extreme end. I'm a principal engineer making serious dollars, and I'm writing down my playbook.

I intend to "Fat-FIRE", and the only reason I don't retire now is to see how much I can leverage my position to do crazy shit at massive scale. Paradoxically, this sets me up for larger windfalls because I can take risks that my peers do not take.
How Much Weight Did We Gain During Lockdowns? 2 Pounds a Month, Study Hints
Lawsuits come with discovery. Discovery is a terrible thing for a plaintiff that lies in the lawsuit.
A number of major drug cartels would be at least on the Fortune 1000 if they were publicly traded corporations. They have management structures, accountants, IT and security professionals, logistics, HR practices, and so on...
Devs are creatives, with exactly the same problems as any musician, artist, film-maker, or cosplayer (for example).
Not much (per capita)
Wall?

var out []X
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out = append(out, x)
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That’s so easy I typed it from my iPhone and anyone looking at it can infer at a glance that it’s filtering a list. If you are deeply worried about it, throw a comment at the top of the block.

I too like terse code, but it’s because it makes me feel smart, not because it’s easier to read or more maintainable. I’m having a blast writing Rust for my hobby project, making everything super DRY and free from boilerplate, but I don’t pretend that I’m saving myself time or making things more readable or maintainable should someone else come across it.
A move to anything similar to Electron is gonna be the same to me as the project dying. In either case, I'll no longer use it. That's a shame.

[EDIT] "but it's already XUL!" right but XUL-based GUI programs can run great on machines without enough memory to use Slack or VSCode without hitting swap, even if those were the only programs open. My source for this: I've been using XUL apps since the days when machines with 128MB of system memory were pretty damn high-end. They were kinda heavy back then, but basically fine. They're straight-up lightweight by today's standards.
interesting read, the author got lucky his ex-wife didn't sue him for half of the 'nest-egg' and alimony, the whole FI dream would have gone up in smoke.
Even within the confines of that contract, any realtor will have their limits due to the commission-based structure. If they spend 50 hours working to get you 90% of your theoretical maximum selling price and it would take 50 more to get the last 10%, they may end up pushing you to accept the 90% offer because the next 50 hours is best used selling another property.
Now you have to pay more for features that used to come standard, in addition to making tv ownership ad supported.

Nobody had a lighting fast or slow RF remote, the volume just went up and down when you clicked the button (after getting it pointed in the right direction)
The eviction moratorium is for people that make up to 99k or 198k married.
Yep, this is Content Marketing. People use SEO tools to gauge how good a blog post is going to rank, and the current sweet spot seems to be around 1000 words, so they end up filling it with fluff. Some of those are even machine generated.

The answer to the "can cats eat X", of course, can't be at the beginning or at the end. The reason is that the user must stay a long time and read the text, otherwise Google punishes the website for having a more than acceptable "bounce rate".

Putting the answer in the title (what has been dubbed "Anti-clickbait") also makes the site "less clickable" and will make it drop from the results. Trust me, I tried.

This is why we can't have nice things.
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I think the EU even today is still boasting about how they saved a few euros on the vaccines. Such an great deal, when someone else pays for the consequences.
> You may be surprised to learn that cattle herd size has remained relatively stable over time

This doesn't seem to be true, at all.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cattle-livestock-count-he...

This data goes back to 1962 and shows a trend. I suspect that if we had data from before the advent of industrial agriculture, that curve would tend to approximate lower and lower numbers as we go back in time.
I just signed up for a free trial with Wasabi and they include trackers from Google analytics and LogRocket. I'm not sure if they send filename data across the wire.
There's some great shit too. Webinos was an absolutely fantastic, consumer-secure IoT platform[1]. It still feels like it fixes so much of what's wrong with internet-of-things technology: it's all on someone elses networks. Webinos used basically VPN technology to connect your systems to your self. I really wish they'd seen better adoption!

I hadn't heard of GaiaX. The mission statement sounds incredible though. It sounds like trying to create a democraticized online market-place. Rather than rely on big tech to intermediate all our search & transactions. It sounds amazing. So virtuous, so smart, so obvious. But I know nothing about implementation. And less about adoption.

There's a fairly popular post in this thread about EU looking grim[1], & the top reply is the US looking grim. The answer I wanted to put there was that it's the lack of efforts like this, it's the lack of big initiatives & trying things. That things feel stuck, that only the very wealthy get a chance to try & bootstrap things. Failure & bad efforts aren't great, but it's worse to have a society that's not trying, that doesn't have some surplus capacity dedicated to giving folks a chance to try civilizationally-benefiting radical & practical things.

There's a lot of bullshit & bad. Yes. And it does feel like we're falling away from seeing success. But this should be a rallying cry. It should prompt adjustment, a redoubling, trying to find out how we're not taking things seriously & finding ways to distribute the money more widely, to less classic figures, trying wider innovations, and see what we learn.

Also though some times big innovation is semi-necessary. I definitely have trepedation, a mix of hope & fear, but efforts like the EU chipmaking[2][3] plans are 100% what ought to be happening. Huge investment, but if it fails, my recommendation would 100% be to try again. Stop failing. Probably by failing faster, failing smaller, & working up to bigger.

As Kevin Kelly says, "over the long run the future is decided by optimists"[4]. Making your part of the world a place where optimists get chances, where things are tried, even when the criticism is correct & things are bad, is what keeps a place vital.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26544555

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56334210

[3] https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/04/22/drilling-down-into-t...

[4] https://twitter.com/kevin2kelly/status/459723553642778624
Pretty much. Some additional insight I've heard is that COVID has restricted peoples ability to consume things other than housing, so people have the ability to consume more housing. If a family normally spent $7k on housing every year but didn't because of COVID, that is $7k more they have for a down payment, which means they can buy $35k more house.
These are all questions of degree and how to balance trade-offs, so while you've raised one legitimate concern (among the many), I don't think an absolute statement like "prohibits anonymous speech" is accurate.
This os the EU being a good ally. The expectation was that the UK and US would also help by exporting part of their production, which was indeed dumb.

The US also didnt secure such contracts, they simply forbid any export. The UK is helped by AZ not sending anything produced in the UK to the EU, despite the EU contract stipulating that doses would also come from the UK.