skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with average and basket goods for this problem is that it's difficult to assess whether someone is financially constrained when their circumstances push them beyond the average.

As a minimal example, calorie and nutrition demands can vary by about 2x with height and biological factors and easily up to 3-4x if you consider more active lifestyles. You would generally expect some portion of the population in the study to need double or even quadruple the grocery cost per household member than the average. Are they cost burdened if most of their budget goes to grocery?

Similarly housing is heavily biased by when you purchased property comparing someone renting market rate housing to someone who lives in rent control or has owned property for a while is challenging. You can't exclude owners as they are the most likely to bankrupt in this scenario if they become cost burdened.

Even worse, for both of the above baselines the cost of goods can easily vary by 4x depending on where you live within a 50 mile radius when it comes to dense population centers. Starbucks employees in SF proper aren't going to commute 4+ hours through bay traffic to live in lower cost regions of California. They will inherently need to purchase grocery, housing, and other goods at higher than average prices.

These edge cases matter in this analysis as the outliers are the ones who probably will go bankrupt or otherwise exit the economy if the economic environment turns profoundly negative. If by circumstance the average household is happy, but 10% of households are on the brink - it wouldn't take much for things to take a serious turn.

All that being said, there is no reason a government agency couldn't devise a methodology based on the 90th or 99th percentile to capture these edge cases and report on a number that would more reasonably reflect the long-term outlook of houses under financial stress.
> in opposition to what the actual X maintainers say, who actually created wayland?

[citation needed]
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> Unfortunately due to the misdesign of Wayland

It has nothing to do with wayland, it is due to linux not wanting to provide a stable API for drivers, deterring binary blobs (successfully). As for whether this latter thing is good or bad is subjective.
Their international marketshare is above 15%, your numbers are way off but even moreso their share of international smartphone profits (very high margins) is gigantic and far our of proportion to their market share. I don’t think there’s a smartphone maker getting more profit from a phone than Apple.
> but I really don't see how you can work 7+ hours a day and actually be productive. Doing different kinds of work or taking frequent breaks, possibly. But not just sitting and staring at your computer for 7 hours

Ironically the only way I can be productive for that long is to do the opposite of what you're describing. Focus on a single problem or piece of work, take minimal breaks and sit at my computer for most of the day.

I've only ever done this for bursts of time before though (And never for a company, too many distractions), because how can you be spending so much time building without thinking? It has to be a large, well defined problem. But that doesn't really exist unless you're just copying something or you've already put in the work to define it.

In saying that, I don't think 2 hours is really long enough to make much progress on something. That would only leave me with about an hour of productive time.

Btw, if you're a recent college grad I'm probably around the same age as you.
Especially back then!
I'm from a country where unions are basically destroying the economy and progress.
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>And on a small scale, I had that post reviewed by 8-10 working PhD virologists before I posted it as part of the editorial process. Not a true peer review since I know them and it wasn't blinded. But I want to be clear it's not like I just wrote it out of nowhere.

Again with the appeal to authority. Argue the merits of the argument. Not who is making it (which is almost all you've done). Except in this case, the merits of the argument were pretty weak and superficial, and only applied to people who weren't expert enough to realize that no one is suggesting CRISPR-Cas9 was used to make 1200 edits to a virus lmao. There's no talking your way out of that one. Anyone who knows anything about molecular biology or virology knows clearly that that was a total strawman rebuttal. I won't suggest motive, just that it was not ever a good faith argument.

>Okay, let me know when you wanna talk about it like adults!

If you point out where I'm not in that reply, I'll happily edit it to be less offensive.

*Still waiting for you to refute my hypothesis with an actual argument, by the way.*
With an incredibly small sample size
Type metal doesn't actually expand much when it solidifies either; it's an alloy of tin, lead, and antimony which contracts when it solidifies, but only very slightly. Antimony by itself expands when it solidifies, and so by varying the amount of antimony (and consequently the proportion of antimony crystals in the solid) you can get a type-metal-like alloy that expands when it solidifies, one that contracts, or one that remains precisely the same size. What you actually want is something that contracts by the same amount as the mold, which is a very small amount, because the mold ("matrix") is made of iron.

The Sn–Pb–Sb eutectic is 4–84–12. Most type metal alloys have a substantial excess of antimony over that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_metal
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Historically, styling buttons wasn't supported. The result of styling an input element of type submit and a button element were different too. It eroded adherence to proper semantics. I think people are still used to the workaround which is use an anchor element.
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Gutenberg didn't just invent typemetal; he also invented printer's ink.
This thinking did influence the california high speed rail design, to be anchored (initially) by two large conurbations (SF Bay and Los Angeles Basin) but passing through Bakersfield (700K), Fresno (550K) and San Jose (1.8MM). Followed by a spur to Sacramento (1.6MM). This in a state with 2/3 the population of France

“To be” assumes it will ever actually happen.
This is a good reminder to me to double-check my own organ donor status. And also to review the information I asked for a received regarding what is involved in leaving my body to science. (In a morbid kind of way, I'm hoping my remains end up at the forensic taphonomy research facility[1] in NSW.)

[1] https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-science/after-facility/...
> There is circumstantial evidence the virus was introduced by an animal/person who traveled to the wet market.

Not for this one. There were several cases we know preceded the wet market cluster. This was known in January 2020.
New software doesn’t get better just because it is new, but it is short-sighted to not evaluate (or evaluate on not enough context) a possibly better solution.
The very people working on X decided to continue development on Wayland, do you think they would got with an inferior solution?
Apple getting beaten at its own game is kind of fun to witness TBH.
Read it anyway and agree that someone taking care of a task that requires technical understanding, but is in itself repetitive and time consuming is often a critical part of some business process. Many times I've witnessed such issues grow over time, slowly and surely reaching the stage mentioned in the piece.

Every time, people up the chain have been aware but haven't acted, when usually the solution is (unavoidably) making the time and space available for a capable person to do it, and having then be incentivised/rewarded enough to proceed.

Off topic: I was hoping based on the title for an unusually technical skateboarding article.
> Whatever you think about this, it seems unbelievably foolish to locate these labs in the middle of metropolises.

Is there a viable other option?

Don't these facilities require large numbers of extremely highly educated staff?
How sandboxed is the macOS version of zoom?
This is a win for both sides. Unions, more often than not, blow. I wish this apoplexy was around when Walmart was king.
This is a routine occurrence in aviation. What happens is that one particular operator (airline) discovers an issue (in this case an electrical grounding fault) and decides to conduct a local survey of their own fleet. If they discover more than one aircraft is affected by the same fault then they will usually choose to notify the engineering authorities who will then send out an airworthiness directive, or a service bulletin, or similar instrument to all affected parties.

Because only certain aircraft were affected with this issue it's probable that it has to do with a specific variant configuration of avionics in use by only a subset of operators.
I asked if you wanted to talk explicitly about the science, you said no.

Until you agree to that, I'm good.

Thanks for the interesting thoughts, but I think for my own mental health, I'm good.
I don't think it's about getting 1ms execution time: It's more like having 300ms vs 301ms execution time be very similar in cost (or however the rounding worked).

The firecracker microvm says startup time is under 125ms, but I have not personally done any benchmarking, though my employer does use firecracker for hosting our CI builders.
I feel like by far the biggest impediment to my productivity is the knowledge that I have a meeting any time in the next two hours. Unfortunately, that's usually the case.
stuff like video games often require driver updates to function, which is a major use case of this hack. Not to mention older nvidia drivers do not support newer linux kernels.
At least they were smarter then the monopolies...
Some sort of transformer coil. You can see a similar component on the 3C503 board but it looks less like a camera.
The joke that UFO footage never improves despite universal improvements in photography is an apt observation.
I assign non-negligible probability to each of them. I don't know.

But I hate the stupid racism and hate around it. COVID-19 attacked every country. With the exception of, like, New Zealand (but it affected them as well... had to shut down their borders, etc).

These viruses are a threat to all humanity. I just want us to fight them better and help everyone.

I think it's super important that we both simultaneously hold China accountable (rhetorically, in the social sphere at very least) for aggressive expansionary actions (i.e. vs Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Philippines) and human rights abuses (Uighur, etc)...

...while simultaneously trying to help everyone do better, including the Chinese, to face common threats (like novel viruses, climate change, etc). And we must not start up a new Cold War with all its proxy conflicts, death, and unnecessary economic suffering and threat of annihilation.
Why is the quality of every UFO video always terrible? Any other random event can be captured in crystal clear 4K, but spaceships are always blurry and out of focus.
On routine routes, protected bike parking could make the medium-distance-rideable bike viable. Make it a voluntary unscheduled servicing thing, so that there are some people on premise, not just some camera access vending machine thing.
Indeed. Running the DMA at 4.77Mhz made a lot of sense in the context of the original PC and XT, especially since the 8237 was only rated for 5Mhz anyways...

[Not to mention that the 8088 took 4 cycles to read a byte from memory and 5 cycles to read a byte from I/O.]

The true power of the 8237 was that it never touched the data byte itself: it just manipulated the bus lines, transferring a byte directly from I/O device to memory in just 4 cycles, much faster than the 8088 could ever manage.
What do you mean? This is exactly how hash verification is supposed to work. You either supply the correct hash or the verification fails, telling you the actual and expected hashes. Works the same way on any package manager that verifies its sources.
A far-right extremist allegedly plotted to blow up Amazon data centers
This May 2017 SC ruling should have fixed a lot of that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TC_Heartland_LLC_v._Kraft_Food...
No, there aren't any good reasons. If you want iMessage, get an iPhone. Similarly, if you want to sideload apps, get an Android.

You're not entitled to everything you want because you want it.
Very happy to see this blog here!
Sarcasm really doesn't help online communication. I think they're referring to a phenomenon called "dogpiling" where a twitterer says something about a person they don't like, and their followers have a field day trashing the person. The phenomenon isn't new, but the magnitude is.

Come to think of it, maybe just the speed and availability. Mass letter writing campaigns are totally a thing, but they require significant efforts to coordinate
How did this not get any traction on this site? Incredible.
> Can you have a system panel? No, you should not want to have one.

Yes you can, wlroots has an extension for that, that will work on every “niche” wm based on it. You could not really get a system panel to work on plasma and gnome as well on X.

> Can you have one client talk to another client?

It is way too vague (generally, what does it have to do with the display manager? Pipes, IPC, dbus), but if it means something like drag’n’drop, it is supported.

> Can you turn on your computer and do anything even remotely productive with it? No, you should not want to be productive

This is just utterly stupid.
Have you considered using the jamessan's vim-gnupg plugin¹? It handles all of the grunt work for you, and has been exposed to people for a long time(packaged in Debian and such).

For example, I spotted you don't disable undofile, which is fine if you're not using it. However, you'd have to remember to think it through if you were to enable it elsewhere for some other reason².

¹ https://github.com/jamessan/vim-gnupg

² Best one being that it is awesome :)
> But rail is unpopular in US for political reasons, not practical ones.

There is tremendous economic incentive against passenger rail as well; path dependent it may be, but real nonetheless.

Specifically: most of the roadway is designed for freight, not humans, and what little passenger rail there is must run over it, typically yielding priority to freight. Thus at this point the network reaches deep into agricultural, manufacturing and port relations and little goes near the major cities.

Even Caltrain in the Bay Area runs on a freight line owned by S&P; while I’ve only seen freight on it at night, S&P could contractually push Caltrain aside for freight (though it would cause an uproar S&P would rather not deal with). S& P received Covid relief money to government on its tracks in case caltrain couldn’t pay the rent.

The US has the most efficient rail system in the world...for freight. Berkshire Hathaway has been investing.

Passenger rail barely exists any more (in fact rails have been pulled up and sold for scrap and the land repurposed over the last century). To bring it back would mean building a lot of infrastructure from scratch. That’s not necessarily bad as the the layout of the population has shifted lever the last century as well.
ah yes, his own submarine topic ;)

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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Drop the gatekeeping and appeals to authority and we have an agreement?
You may want to look at your options on the ACA marketplace again. The recent stimulus bill included significantly more subsidies for ACA plans and enrollment is reopened for the next few months.
> A small pedantic nit but I think the word "governor" in systems engineering predates cybernetic systems.

Cybernetics & systems design is the distillation of patterns common across various engineering & science domains. It still applies as an apt description.

> So from this vantage point, the primary role of government is to facilitate coordination between constituent parts of society? I.e., you don't feel they have a role in terms of a service component?

The government has become insanely bloated, full of grifters & opportunists, pseudoscience, revolving door lobbyists, misinformation, & other self-serving interests that have had a detrimental effect on society. Any "service" or "cure" that the government provides is caused by the government in the first place.

> Can you give more concrete examples of exactly how this facilitation would be employed?

Yes, let humans coordinate their own activities without the income tax & reduce intervention and watch many societal ill including poverty, violence, drug use, & disease decrease.

> Because my understanding of many "early" governments is that they were predicated on standing armies, particularly those governments that used them to protect commerce and/or expand their territory.

The USA did not have a professional army. Most governments, before conscription & the draft, had a small, if any, professional army.

> Medicaid/Medicare, SNAP, etc. and other quality-of-life programs

If these programs worked, why are there so many people who depend on these programs in poor health? Why are unhealthy practices, such as the food pyramid, foisted on the public, encouraging obesity? No, large government programs completely miss the mark & merely act as vehicles to create profit for large pharmaceutical, insurance, & tech companies, at the expense to the public. Just because somebody is insured does not mean they are following an optimal lifestyle of health. There are many doctors who dislike the paperwork caused by Obamacare, because paperwork distracts from caring for their patient.

The "voting booth", or now mail in voting without ids, is probably the sickest joke. The notion of Democracy, where 51% have tyranny over the losing 49% does not represent most people in the county, as most people do not even vote & the choices are between bad & worse.

The only way to escape the madness of this growing government intrusion is to escape to less governed states & nations (currently occurring) & watch the bloated governments collapse under their own weight & greed, while creating systems that work for us, not the top-heavy self-serving technocracy/bureaucracy. The government is going down it's typical autopoetic path & will have a major collapse of some type, probably within this decade. Good luck!
as long as we're discussing the molecular science, I won't have to bring any credentials up. But you just /had/ to get those two little accusations in there, didn't you?
You should at least transition it into something appreciating. By default, you make basically no interest, but you can transfer it into investments.
How would you suggest he press the people he's talking to that are outward lying to his face?
On a national scale sure, but that makes mismanagement in solidly democrat areas all the more grating. A lot of this blog is about such mismanagement in ostensibly pro-rail places.
Basic glasses are usually at least partially covered, and whatever extra you need to pay for frames is very affordable unless you want a designer brand.

Nobody is ever going to kick you out of hospital. It's covered and the stay is usually longer than in the US where they kick you out right after you wake up.

The wait times are not worse than in the US, never had to wait more than 2-3 hrs in the hospital.

Neither you would ever receive a surprise bill from the hospital.
Yes, I support the right of any private business to engage in ideological censorship if they want to. I don't care if it's Spotify and Rogan or a Christian business censoring atheists or a homophobic cake shop not selling gay wedding cakes. They all ought to have the right to choose how they do business.

If you don't like it, don't sell your rights away, and go somewhere else. That's how free societies work. Private citizen can lobby, workers can protest, customers can boycott, and everyone's free to start their own venture with their own rules, that's how you deal with it.
Your hangups about not reading two books at once and being contractually obligated to finish a book are interesting but I'm not sure that they're culturally normative, I've certainly never felt this way about books.

Our time on this planet is finite, and I'm not going to push through a slog of a fiction book because the last 20% of it is ostensibly worth it.

It vaguely reminds me of old jrpgs and how you used to have to do a bunch of boring fetch quests and grinding to be able to actually get to the enjoyable aspects of the game.
That's no help for Safari. Personally I haven't needed to care about Safari in half a decade, but presumably others still do.
OK so if you go back to here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26757986

You don't have any molecular biology refutation that I can find.
What do people turn to when the legal system fails them?
True, in my head I have a particular stereotype of who’s doing the voting, and i implicitly believe that group are lacking understanding. It could be otherwise. To me, it really feels like the arguments against are quite poor, like denialism of any problems, as if a company as big as Amazon needs an individuals protection.
A startup in PMC space that reverse trolls the patent troll using the same strategy a week later? Would YC fund such a venture? lol
so far the only "language" i've fuzzed with AFL is an ANSI-BASIC dialect, and i used the first column from the token documentation to seed the dictionary.

A few words to the wise:

1) If you can fuzz in a VM or container with persistent storage, that's the way to do it. Fuzzing will absolutely hose your host file system (but not from a VM, hopefully.) It can't be "copy on X" sort of "delayed writes" either, because some fuzzing (sandsifter, for instance) will lock the host up. Even when fuzzing in a VM!

1.5) One way i've done it is to export iSCSI drives as the "work" drives and making the OS drive read only - but that was years ago back when "pivot_root" was something i was doing a dozen times a day on various machines.

2) AFL, the original that lcamtuf "finalized" several years ago, had no "out of the box" multicore fuzzing. But it did recognize "multiple fuzzers" in a directory with the M/S modes, and the actual "fuzzer input/output/results" directory could be on a network share. just make sure the "pwd" of the directory you run the fuzzer on the target binary/whatever in is not remotely near that network share. I suck at linux file systems so if there's a clever way to stop a misbehaving userspace binary from clobbering a filesystem, i'm all ears!

3) fuzzing can be very fun to mess around with even if you have no idea what the results mean, how to write a bug report, whatever. on lcamtuf's AFL page there was a demonstration of AFL building some graphics format from scratch, without a dictionary. I think the original seed input was "a\n" as ascii in the file, and that's it. Visualizing how the fuzzer was actually interacting with the file is cool. Seeing the BASIC programs the fuzzer would spit out after a CPU-month of fuzzing was interesting too...
And yet this is what several open source projects do, including VSCode. They've even automated the process. If there's no action on a bug for X amount of time it's auto-closed.
Yes, the original problem is how did the employers get such monopsony power in the first place. If someone is proposing fixing that instead, I'd love to hear it!
Current climate model simulations overestimate future sea-level rise
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Wow, Handprint.com is incredible.

I needed to spend some time clicking around to figure out what was where, but then just spent half an hour learning about which hue is actually the warmest (there is no universally accepted answer, but a common theme is scarlet).