skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The (b) and (c) are not really needed: early timesharing systems managed to launch processes straight from the punched card decks IIRC. And without (a), what do you even need the second, identical task for? I guess it could be used parallelize crunching the numbers, but that's it; and probably that should perhaps be done from the system operator layer anyway? Like, "launch 5 copies of program on this deck but mark one specific slot in memory different for them, so they would know their ID".
Here in the UK, there’s a product called Veganzola made by a small company called Honestly Tasty. It’s incredibly close to the cow’s milk version.
I suspect that was a misstatement - I haven't seen a proposal that avoids higher taxes without a large debt being written against something else (i.e. redirecting funding from the military). It is, however, accurate to say that personal out-of-pocket expenses wouldn't increase for most individuals. The cost per patient for government funded healthcare is expected to significantly undercut private costs per patient due to some efficiencies of scale and removal of some pretty big market friction points - so less money would end up being extracted from the economy to pay for an equivalent level of care.

In short - you can buy a banana for a dime or give the government a nickle and get a "free" banana.
Thanks a lot! I always assumed input automatically gets used for training. :)
>We want

>"We" don't

I want the money that my employer pays into health insurance to be paid to me into an HSA like tax sheltering of healthcare funds, and then I want no health insurance middleman. Poof---there goes all the corrupt incentives and ridiculous administrative overhead.
This is a great point. My evidence is anecdotal but I became a vegetarian about 5 years ago. I used to hate all of the meat substitutes as the tasted "off". Now, after a few years of not eating meat, I could not tell you what chicken or meat would taste like and I have grown fond of some of the alternatives.
You don't need to be a germophobe if you just care for basic and decent hygiene.

And I really experience a lot of people just not caring for basic hygiene at all when outside.
Hmm, seems like the closest high speed charging is Fillmore, UT, about 60-70 miles away?

Obviously, I don't know of any current EVs that would be suitable for those kinds of 4x4 roads, but it seems like it isn't impossible from an infrastructure standpoint.

TBH, part of me thinks that in the long run getting electricity near places like this will actually be easier than getting gasoline there.
It's conspiracy theory by definition if it falls outside the official narrative. So even science can be a conspiracy theory.

In fact, real science has a tendency to be viewed (by non-scientists, it should go without saying) as conspiracy theory insofar as it challenges the official narrative, and invokes complicated explanations, rather than a nice simple answer.
The fact that a million dollars isn't attainable to 75% of the nation doesn't make that million an enormous amount of money one can live off the rest of his life. This fact only says that 75% will never become that middle class. And the SV bubble is one of few last places where one can climb to the middle class level. I prefer to call things the way they are: Americans have been sliding into poverty. Doing clever stats and percentiles doesn't work around this fact.
I think it would be good to re-package this information, but for me, the critical thing that stuff like this accomplishes is comprehensiveness. You have to go through so many classes at school just to have all the knowledge base covered at all. Everything is compartmentalized by default, so that's kind of the mother of all bottom-up approaches.

Top-down takes time and reflection, and re-packaging.
As someone who's about to implement this myself (for a long time, while in beta, I allowed users to skip typing their email), I can tell you this: some of the feedback you will get will be much more polite if people know you can reply back.

Just my $.02.
Just washing my hands regularly and not touching my face had me avoid colds for many years now. I've never worn a mask before COVID.
Thanks for all your work, dang.
To me it sounds like a service like Uber requires so much control over their product that they just can’t use gig workers/independent contractors.

These are all completely reasonable things to require from a company/customer point of view. It’s completely unreasonable to demand these things of independent contractors.
> Androids aren't known to be virus ridden privacy compromising devices.

I mean, statistically, they kind of are. From Nokia's Threat Intelligence Report for 2020 (https://www.nokia.com/networks/portfolio/cyber-security/thre...):

Figure 3 provides a breakdown of infections by device type in 2020. Among smartphones, Android devices are the most commonly targeted by malware. Android devices were responsible
for 26.64% of all infections, Windows/PCs for 38.92%, IoT devices for 32.72% and only 1.72% for iPhones.
>Do we cut back on the military industrial complex?

The US spends $676 billion on defense, almost the exact same amount on Medicare, $1 trillion on Social Security, and $409 billion on Medicaid. Social welfare spending is a much, much larger portion of the US budget than military spending. Here are the numbers straight from the Congressional Budget Office https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2020-04/56324-CBO-2019-budg...
Yeah I'm kinda confused as to why he went through all the effort of setting up email addresses rather than throwing them in a folder and backing it up to as many off-site storage providers as needed to make him comfortable.

I get that sending an email might be easy but so is uploading to Dropbox or Nextcloud if it must be self-hosted. And you don't have any storage limits.

Plus having blockchain domain names does nothing for the storage. IPFS is great but he still have to keep seeding it or it will go offline eventually. He still needs backups!
Isn't there supposed to be a nice three-way equivalence between certain systems of logic, category theory, and lambda calculus? Presumably something that lies beyond the scope of CT also lies beyond the scope of those other systems.
> Invest heavily in education and revisit in a few generations

It is a persistent myth that the US does not invest in education. Not only is the dollars per student spent in the US competitive, it exceeds the majority of European nations spending per student by a large margin.

"In 2015, the United States spent approximately $12,800 per student on elementary and secondary education. That is over 35% more than the OECD country average of $9,500. At the post-secondary level, the United States spent approximately $30,000 per student, which was 93% higher than the average of OECD countries ($16,100)."

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/020915/what-country...
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It's fine if they include controller support, then it's just an alternative screen for playing a game.

But very few did, until very recently (in the grand sceheme of things. It didn't help that native controller support for Android took until a few years back).
It's not the labor secretary's job to rewrite the law

This.

Sometimes I feel like the entire nation needs to go back and revisit our civics books. The job of the Labor Secretary is to make certain that federal labor laws are followed. If you want changes to federal labor law, it does you no good to demand them of the Labor Secretary. Call your congressperson and your senator. Even better, vote for more qualified congresspeople and senators.

This is a republic. Which means that ultimately, the labor laws are far more our fault than the fault of the Labor Secretary.
Agreed. I've accidentally gotten a few beef burgers since I stopped intentionally eating meat, and at this point I prefer impossible burgers over beef. I still haven't found a sufficiently satisfying ham (always just tastes like bologna) or breakfast sausage (too dry) yet though.
And the worst part is that you can have a massive project and have it measured as a success but the users are still having a bad day every time they have to use the result of the project.

It doesn't matter a whole lot if the contract was successful or the managers got their bonus for on-time delivery or the budget forecasts were correct, a crap product is a crap product.
Similarly, many of us don't want to be chained to a comparably sociopathic and unaccountable government entity. We'd instead prefer to independently manage our own unique needs using our own individual economic agency.
I don't see any reason to expect it would. Summer months, for example, already apply a strong negative pressure on the flu virus (that is, we have a flu season), yet we have not seen a year-round flu.

Diseases always face selection pressure to spread more easily and rapidly. When that selection pressure is caused by broad factors like "people aren't congregating together," it's hard to imagine how any simple evolution could overcome that barrier.

Covid itself is instructive here. Some of the variants of concern are more transmissible than the originally-distributed variant as of March of last year, but those mutations don't uniquely overcome masks or social distancing. They would have always result in a more transmissible virus (because SARS-CoV-2 appears to be a zoonotic virus not originally perfectly-adapted to humans), and we are seeing them now because each infected person is a new roll of the mutation dice.

Applying that lesson to the flu, the less prevalent the virus the less likely we are to see variations, not more. Alas, for influenza itself we always have the asterisk that we regularly see new variations cross to humans from animal reservoirs, so we're unlikely to eliminate it through only (nonpharmaceutical) human-health measures. (It'd be nice to get a universal flu vaccine, though.)
A related question I always had is why many vegan people are pushing so hard for a substitute product just to simulate the flavor of flesh —- many Asian food like Tofu are vegan and natural. Why not embracing and inventing more types of naturally plant based recipes rather than pushing for fake meat?
Step #2 is precisely the opposite of the advice that keeps innocent victims of the police out of jail. Cooperate, sure, but the actual advice that lawyers provide is not to talk, and end the interaction as firmly and respectfully as possible. As a reminder, cops are encouraged and professionally trained to manipulate and deceive, and they will use anything you say against you.

Your advice might work more effectively for someone privileged enough to be able to afford bail and a lawyer.
> Start small

Yeah, I'm saying it's pretty clear most people won't even do this.
Thanks for reading!

Litestream is doing more magic than it seems, so it's much better than a naive while loop.

Litestream is only streaming the changes in the database, whereas the naive implementation would have to upload the entire database every second.

Also, SQLite has a write-ahead log, so you're not guaranteed that all the data is always in the main .db file. Litestream watches the write-ahead log files as well and immediately streams those changes to cloud storage. A system that only watches the main .db file would have long time windows where data loss is possible.
I imagine it's similar to most legal tech companies: they believe the industry is antiquated and that by applying technology they can give themselves an edge over other firms.
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Tech companies dumping their self-driving R&D divisions seems like a stronger admission that full self-driving is unlikely to materialize in the near future.
I know only the slightest fundamentals of compilers in general and Rust’s compiler in particular, but would it be technically possible to ship library dependencies as compiled MIR code to older compilers to maintain forward compatibility?
Stop looking at it. Put it on silent, and don't check it.
It sounds too simple to be true, but it actually is. Only the first 2-3 days are a pain, after that, it will get easier and easier.
A norovirus will laugh at your hand sanitizer, as will most other non-enveloped viruses.
India will need 5 lakh ICU beds, 3.5 lakh medical staff in next few weeks
Nevermind the fact that as we find more people positive we see an increase in hospitalizations and mortality shortly afterwards, why in these charts[1] did Alberta get so many sub 0.8% 7 day rolling averages then?

https://www.alberta.ca/stats/covid-19-alberta-statistics.htm...
You would be able to cut out an entire for profit insurance industry, I would also think people would be more inclined to go to see a doctor before a minor issue turns into a major one than they are now.
> It's becoming less sane to use any systems package management to handle tool chains and libraries with each passing day.

And this is a terrible development that we should all try to resist, as it leads to a combinatoral explosion of dependencies and problems, as soon as you introduce another language. So then we end up using docker to encapsulate things because they are hard to manage on one box.

It just seems crazy, but I don't really have much of a solution, tbh. Perhaps we could just install the build tool (in this case rustup) for supported languages and stop trying.
It seems to go without saying Employee protection laws are for the benefit and protection of the Employee. The law specifically prohibits employers from improperly reclassifying employees as independent contracts by simply titling a worker agreement/contract as an Independent Contractor Agreement in lieu of an Employment Agreement.

If these drivers want to be independent contractors and not employees, great, if these laws were fully enforced from the beginning it would be the drivers that organized and owned the ride sharing business and UBER would have never been able to compete with them (UBER's own S-1 admits this risk, and acknowledges if drivers were Employees it would be an existential threat to their business). Its also no surprise this legal inevitability comes after their public offering.

Sure many gig workers may not want to be employees, but they were, they just were not being provided the benefits and protections. I don't think the politicians are the only ones who benefited clearly the UBER investors and private shareholders pre-IPO were the single largest beneficiary.

Is there any reason on the merits you disagree with the current legal standards distinguishing employee vs independent contractor? I mean the drivers desires is not part of the standard, and in fairness, I don't think you are able to collectively speak on behalf of all drivers and say that's what they wanted, clearly based on the number of lawsuits and employment claims many of them did want the employee status and benefits that come with it.
Every modern language works like this. rbenv, pyenv, nvm, gvm all exist for a reason. People don't want to wait for package managers. I go out of my way to avoid dependencies on them, because all they do is break things. Hard drive space is cheap, things should be self contained.
There are many successful independent workers in the US, from your local plumber to Paul Graham. And they have plenty of support in government policy.

The people who are not successful are independent workers who are dependent on an employer. The government cannot fix a logical contradiction.
Always happy for a bit of good news. Lovely analysis, good clean graphs. Aces.
This is pretty big. While Germany has been doing a lot in regards to climate change there are quite some laws left which are on the contrary side, e.g.

- no speed limit on autobahn

- cities being relocated in order to mine coal

- no restriction of short national flights (like France)

- ...

Also, current polls show the green party being the most dominant at this time. That along with this verdict could actually spark some new discussions which the CDU/CSU tends to ignore.
It's a known problem, but getting kernel maintainers up to speed is Not an easy job.
Would wifi or bluetooth have enough bandwidth to transfer camera data? That would remove the high maintenance cable from the equation at least.
> This is precisely the current state of employer-sponsored healthcare, and also the wildly complicated medicare/medicaid system.

I'm happy to talk about manufacturer drug rebates which is an amazingly crazy portion of the healthcare market that would be illegal in almost any other market due to the perverse market incentives it creates. But yea, the short version is that the private healthcare market is incredibly inefficient.
Of course -- the majority of Americans are not employed in mid or senior level white-collar salaried jobs. Uber drivers are definitely not in this classification.

I am saying, classification as an employee does not require Uber to change anything about their expectations of their workers' work frequency, duration, or schedule. It can remain voluntary just as it is now.

There are currently voluntary hourly jobs that exist, but people here are probably less familiar with that concept as compared to salaried jobs.
It was subpoena'd for a reason, but since court documents are public record (eventually) it just makes for an easy news piece.

So the answer is: we don't know. Neither does Verge, I wager.
All you need to know:

> Will My Life Change?

> Yes, my friend! It will because you can easily build your own decentralized website and simplify your cross wallet crypto payments, share music and photos (not just of my kids), start a business, secure and verify your identity “on chain”, or showcase your brilliant NFT art gallery.
Here in the UK there’s a number of small companies making some really delicious vegan cheeses, and some of them are starting to show up in organic supermarkets. Anyone based in London who’s interested in exploring what’s available should make a visit to La Fauxmagerie in Shoreditch - they have all the best stuff. Otherwise, some brands to try are Honestly Tasty, I Am Nut OK, Kinda Co, and Tyne Chease, all of whom I believe have online stores.

These companies are all getting extremely close in terms of flavour, but I’ve not personally tried anything that replicates a stringy melty mozzarella to top a pizza. That’s the holy grail for me.
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Well, you can choose to not contribute to animal-based agriculture. Similarly, I do not want mine to grow up in a world with forced veganism. Who wins in this conflict? I would say you keep your morals in your court for such contentious issues, to do otherwise is maliciously aggressive.
I think one of the very first thing is having an alarm clock to sleep, not only to wake. Cut all the screen time at that moment and try to sleep. The first week probably you will have a hard time trying to sleep at that time, but if you do it every day it would be really easy to do after that first week.

Also, if you are working from home, probably having a strict schedule to work and to have fun is important, specially with leisure time. Too much leisure and you won't do what you need, too little and you would have sadness or even depression (I have been in the last one and nobody want that).

If you don't exercise too much, try at least having control on what you eat to not gain (or to lose) excess weight. Trying only to not to eat sugar in any shape or form (sugar in the coffee, sweets, and bread specially) is a pretty big deal. I done this and eating the amount of calories I needed every day and I loss a lot of weight some years ago (and I haven't gained more yet).

If you aren't a sporty person, remember how good is walking and dancing. One can be done outside and the other inside without being tired too soon.
While Russian agricultural productivity lagged significantly behind western countries, government policies (both soviet and imperial) were arguably the most significant cause of all peace time famines in the Russian Empire/USSR that occurred since the mid/late 19th century.

Before 1913 main reason behind regional famines in Russia (excluding war time) was poor infrastructure and no efficient mechanism for redistributing grain (and the imperial government's unwillingness to establish one). Russian net exports of grain remained positive during the 1891–92, 1901 & 1906 famines.

This (at least according to the death count) only got worse after the revolution. Agricultural production levels in 1930's weren't that much higher than they were in 1913 (grain production was much higher in all years besides 1936, however livestock production remained mostly at similar levels or even fell).

However again, even taking into account the poor productivity exacerbated by the poor harvests the Soviet Union remained a next exporter of grain in all years between 1930 and 1933 (in 1932 and 1933 around 50% of all exports were from Ukrainian ports). During the same period at least 2 million people (up to 10 million according to higher estimates) died as a results of the famine. Considering this I don't really see how could anyone seriously blame the weather...
> it didn't matter that I used some shitty laptop or OS to get my work done

This isn't a reasonable comparison. Your shitty laptop or OS was likely not part of the product. If I want a website I don't care what your laptop looks like. If I am being driven somewhere I certainly care about what condition the car is in.
The main thing categories add to graphs is identifications of paths. Every pair of edges f: A -> B and g : B -> C generates a third edge g.f, and we identify the path (g)(f) with the new edge (g.f). Not only that, we add h.(g.f) = (h.g).f for any h: C -> D, which basically says that "." acts like concatenation of paths (it doesn't matter how you group the edges in a path, you get the same thing).

Those are the basic axioms to say you're working with a nice operation that turns paths into edges in a reasonable way. It gets interesting when you add more identifications (commutative diagrams) and operations (functors). Prototypical example: vertices are sets, edges are functions, you get identification of paths (sequential compositions of functions) whenever the underlying composite functions are pointwise equal.
So in the wrong sense?

This squeamishness is a product of the infantilization western culture seems to be going through recently. Hopefully immigration from 2/3-world countries (e.g. me) helps fix it.
Sorry you think government is sociopathic and unaccountable, it honestly seems like a rough life if that’s what you’ve experienced.
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