skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What? I just dont give money to companies that im my view are authoritarian.

I agree that private companies can do as they please.

Im not warring in any greater sense than im warring against big business when I buy a recycled product over another. I support companies that, in my view, support principals I care about.
Then why do we keep hearing about this "export ban"? Who would benefit from spreading this misinformation?
Fertility apps may be selling intimate health secrets
there's also the negative pressure. We might see a Telco give 1k to 50 congressmen and think they bribed cheaply, which they did. But it also means if you betray their trust they're willing to spend 50k on your opponent. Also, making sure a plurality of people in the room have some stake in the Telco can prevent uncomfortable conversations from even arising. After all, there are always other issues to work on that won't upset your colleagues
Well- aside from the issue that is renters being evicted and lenders foreclosing...

The positive side is it will add inventory to a tight real estate market that desperately needs it. Which should result in somewhat of self-correction in prices on its own, making for an overall more affordable (appropriately/properly) priced market.

It'll be interesting to see how much the moratorium gets credit for the current housing market inventory shortage (and the likely extant and/or imminent resultant bubble). Certainly it's prevented an onslaught of covid caused evictions, but I'm curious to see how much it decreased overall pressure on a typical/generic seller's decision to sell.
No, anyone who can come into an office should come into the office. We have very flexible work hours with some core days/hours where everyone's schedules should overlap. FWIW, most people I've worked with prefer in-office to WFH unless they have extenuating circumstances like a long commute. Having a good, quiet office with respectful coworkers and management makes for a great environment.

The organization will never be perfect and stay perfect, but as long as you pay attention to it when hiring and designing teams then it can be close.
> Slack is definitely important because it lets people acquire some sense of personal agency again.

Care to elaborate on this? I was with you right up to the end. In what ways does Slack provide a sense of agency? I feel this might be true in my experience too. Is it because it allows for quicker feedback and validation?
Yeah but this doesn't necessarily work. I actually investigated Argentinian real estate not long ago and it's declining (in real terms, let's say in USD which experiences very low inflation), quite obviously due to it being overvalued and the real GDP decline + deleveraging.
They get involved in certain things by being who they are. And they avoid other things and other people by being themselves.
Do you think the factors have improved in the last decade?

And yes, StatsCan made a minor adjustment, and yet it was such a shock that they rolled back.

Accounting for the true increased cost of housing, market and rental, would cause Canada's inflation metric to jump considerably.
>"liberal DNC hacks,"

>"Liberal political hacks"

>"authoritarian shit liberals"

>scare quotes around "extremists"

... I'm sensing a lack of objectivity on Glenn Greenwald's part.
They have struggled for developing new franchises and serious for more than a decade, but eventually, they still get some hit with HearthStone, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch. Just not as dominating as what they previously did.

But in these years they don't seem to even try to develop new franchises at all. All they do is just shitty remasters - it seems to me that the equity holders want the suck all the value from the brand and the company and then just get rid of it. So disgraceful.
From my experience I've heard the word toxic in common parlance for about eight years and its just part of a common trend for the common mind.

The same minds that gave me shit for plainly stating that light speed wasn't sexist in a 1982 class room, I'm sure.

I prefer the 'toxic avenger' style usage from the past.
Wow if you're real, I'd love to have worked for you. Typically managers don't do the other half of what you do: they want critical surprise issue fixed yesterday, and with no caveats; you better still be available for marketing bullshit and that salesforce thing and that support issue we escalated to you and also when's that feature going to be ready?
Homeschool communities have all sorts of extra curriculars, the parents I know that homeschool have better socialized kids than the ones that do public school, anecdotally
From Data to Wisdom – Ackoff [pdf]
Voice Synthesis Software Helps YouTubers Scale Content Creation
Biden’s Vaccine Patent Theft
Try https://tinypng.com/ for png compression.
Is the shortage of lumber getting Americans to try other materials like brick and stone?
US seen as bigger threat to democracy than Russia or China, global poll finds
Look we found the guy who's willing to let someone die to maybe make 400USD.

Because I'd expect a company to be willing to write off <400 USD to prevent someone from dying. If I get antibiotics to you know, not die. Where I agree to pay it off after some time. And for [reason] can't/dont. I wouldn't expect the physician to reinfect me. Would you?

inb4 that's different! Ok how?

Edit: is it lease to own, or is it an indefinite subscription system?
So selling stocks in order to have more cash in anticipation of a market correction is the wrong strategy??
It sounds like everything you mentioned falls under the heading of software project planning. Are you familiar with those techniques already and possibly asking whether those should be applied to personal side projects?
Nothing to ask, just would like to congratulate ya for building this library, really high quality stuff.

People often compare it to P5, but somehow the first thing that came to mind when looking at it the first time (probably over a year ago) was D3, and that's some pretty high praise in my book haha
Im so confused as to why theres a subset of people who seem to think i am against companies running as the please? Is it because my opinion is so opposite yours?

I agree, run your clubs and businesses as you want. I will do the same. I support Blizzard in this respect, I just wont with my dollars or time.
Anecdotally, as a Googler, I think I've talked to maybe one person on the teams I've been on in the past year who really wants to stay remote. Nobody else really likes it, and misses the office and being around people.

The new team I'm on is better, as we have a daily standup and more frequent interaction. But I still miss the face to face interaction, spontaneous brainstorming, and ability to just tap someone on a shoulder to ask for help, etc.

Remote works for some people, but it isn't working for me right now.
I wish cicadas in NZ came only every 17 years.

Where I am, in summer, their chorus is deafening.

You know it’s summer when all you can hear outside is those blasted insects chirping.
Is it still considered inflation if it's rather temporary? I agree whole heartedly with your comment, was just curious about the terminology since inflation usually seems to imply a...longer term trend.
Canada's Alberta confirms first death linked to AstraZeneca vaccine
For God's sake, just quote the whole thing. You really broke it off mid-sentence?

If including "a million buildings destroyed" (or whichever other part you felt you couldn't include) would make your comment seem less devastating, it just isn't that devastating. It's fine. Representing things accurately is more important than... whatever we were hoping to achieve there. Seeming cool for knowing the original article was BS, I guess?

It's a good article! I don't think it's BS. I might think that if I read your partial excerpt, but that's a problem with the excerpt.
Terminal Trickery
It's never your job to empathize with your manager. They get paid more to manage you. If your manager needs coddling, you're managing them. Or you're being a friend; but as a subordinate they are responsible for enabling you, not the other way around.

When I'm a lead/mentor, I know my job is to protect and enable people. When I'm a cog in the machine, I expect leadership to have their shit together. When leadership doesn't have their shit together, I quit.
Portland’s ‘Hygiene Hub’ Goes Way Beyond Free Showers
There is no such thing as an export ban.
Cyanide fishing. Ugh.
No it's not hand-coloured - it automatically updates with the data
Inflation is like sitting at a bar. Have a few beers and feels nothing special. Then halfway through the fourth round, get up to pee, and suddenly it will all hit.
Satellite-navigation systems such as GPS are at risk of jamming
it's "supply shock" inflation. it is temporary.
It's not a science paper. It's in the New Yorker. It's supposed to be interesting. It also features great lines such as:
"Oh, shit, Goldfinger thought, although not in dread, at first: in amazement. "
"As Goldfinger put it, “In the late eighties and early nineties, the paradigm shifted to ‘uh-oh.’ ”"
"...magnitude 5.0, magnitude 4.0, magnitude why are the neighbors moving their sofa at midnight"
How does someone get to a point where they're willing to hurt someone over money? I understand desperation, life or death. Which I don't believe this is. The simple reason is, indifference. Which I can't wrap my head around. How do you have the ability and knowledge to write software that does this... and still do this?
"SpaceX needs to pass through a deep chasm of negative cash flow over the next year or so to make Starlink financially viable. Every new satellite constellation in history has gone bankrupt. We hope to be the first that does not." -Elon Musk in February

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1359024384200101888?s=21
Isn't their an unlimited supply of coins? I'm strongly anti Bitcoin but at least that has an artificial scarcity mechanism built in.

But hey, do what you want with your money I guess.
This is simply awesome, thank you.
Could you imagine if all telcos asked Apple for a 30% cut from all it's 30% cuts for network infrastructure maintenance?

Whether or not Apple likes it, iOS is critical infrastructure. If you want to make a device that a large portion of developed nations use, you're going to have to deal with the consequence of having people wanting it to be an open platform.

Operating systems are the infrastructure of the Internet. Just charge a fair fee for the App Store (based on usage/costs), allow alternate methods of side-loading apps, and of this will go away without substantive increases to privacy and security violations.
I feel like CCP's vision is always ten times that of its capability. Walking in Stations would've been achievable for a larger, more funded studio. But CCP has never been able to put out something on that scope. (EVE itself is simple, in comparison to WiS, from a game development standpoint, and that took over a decade to get where it is.)
As someone who was initially fairly positive on cryptocurrencies (2012ish), I have to say that I'm so, so disappointed how everything has turned out. Bitcoin wastes electricity. Everything else struggles to be popular enough to Really Matter (tm). And now on top of it this bizarre GoFundMe/Ponzi Scheme/Pump n Dump *thing* that has been happening lately has finally found a home in Dogecoin.

The way people gamble with GME, dogecoin, etc really disturbs me. I see people putting entire paychecks into <hype vehicle du jour> who really can't afford to do so. And the language I see around dogecoin atm really disgusts me. There was a reddit thread recently... this one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/n2lp6w/im_crying_...

I find it really appropriate that he's thanking everyone because in essence he's thanking all the people who funded his gofundme, just in a very roundabout way.

Furthermore, you have posts to the effect of "Please please don't sell at $1.00" that get super close to being self-aware. Some of these people know the only people who are buying doge are those who plan to sell it later, and the only people they will be able to sell to are people who then plan to sell it later too... and so on. It's a massive game of chicken.

I don't know. I consider myself to be somewhat financially literate and watching people throw away what little they have hurts to watch, since I've worked in equities long enough to see people lose more than they thought they could possibly lose.

Like here: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/05/xiv-exchange-traded-security...

when the whole inverse-volatility trade blew up and bankrupted several inverse-vol ETFs. Our trade floor was like death that morning as a large % of the people there had just lost huge chunks of their personal portfolios.

Maybe some people are buying responsibly small amounts of doge, as a joke. But I'm just really worried.
> you are basically forced to do non-LFR raiding, rated PvP, or mythic+ dungeons to actually progress your gear at all.

Those things are the game though and pretty much always have been. Raids, dungeons, or PvP. If you don't want to do any of them why would you have ever picked up WoW.
I agree it doesn't tell you.

Your link has some great pointers, even the event log will straight up tell you.

So why doesn't the popup tell you?

It doesn't seem like a complicated issue, hence my query as I feel like I am missing something here.
> the conclusion should have been: we aren't able to make healers and tanks fun, let's try something else. Instead, they forced people to play them

Healers and tanks are fun! The problem is that they keep introducing balance changes that make it incredibly frustrating to play certain tanks/supports. With DPS, this isn't an issue, because there are literally more DPS characters than there are healers and supports combined, so there are more to choose from.

If they made the experience of playing tank/support more consistent, or if they actually expanded the pool of tanks/supports by having more than 8 tanks and 7 supports, there would be more interest in playing those roles.
There are multiple contributing factors, but the supply-side limitations are very real.

Sawmills slowed down in anticipation of a housing slump that never came, and now they're stuck playing catch-up.

Wildfires destroyed huge swaths of trees and even equipment last year, especially in Oregon. Oregon officials estimate that they lost 4X more harvestable trees last year than the state produces in an average year: https://www.ofic.com/after-the-fires-timber-industry-faces-g...

Even various policy changes from timber harvesting quotas to required sawmill safety retrofits have contributed. If you were a sawmill looking to upgrade, what better time than to do it during a pandemic? Turns out this wasn't such a great time.
What evidence do you have that its temporary?
While this might be tongue-in-cheek, one big issue is that it's hard for millions of busy people to fully inform themselves on the minutiae of complicated ballot initiatives in their spare time. There are huge opportunities for information asymmetry via spending boatloads of dollars, which is why many propositions ultimately come down to "special interest X wants to see if they can pay their way to overturning/passing some law."
LocalCDN seems to break sites often for me. Isn't it because it sometimes replaces js libs with a non-compatible version?
Yes, it will, as in the sheer volume of passed legislation. No need to be skeptical. The below link will have to be filtered for the passed legislation, but as you can see, it's not a minor amount.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billSearchClient.xh...
It’s less about specifics than approach. IMO, direct democracy is very poor fit for creating or editing laws especially in terms of taxes, but a fine idea for repealing laws.

Several times I have seen something complex where making an informed decision take at minimum several hours of research. Which most voters are obviously not going to do. Most people are at best following their parties lead, which asks the initiative pointless, or more likely making a knee jerk reaction without understanding the details.

Repealing laws on the other hand is something voters can have direct experience with.
I know people are looking more at stone patios then wood decks but the cost was already higher for those. And that’s seen a rise too (though not as dramatic). Brick and stone are still a lot more cost though than fast grown sh* pine.
This was proposed: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19392-emoji-multi-recs.pdf

And declined to make RGI: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20114r-family-emoji-explor....
> We still don't have any hard evidence that the vaccine stops transmission. It's possible that it keeps you from getting sick while being an asymptomatic spreader.

We absolutely do and such studies exist, and furthermore you can see a rapid decline in new cases in countries that have achieved high vaccine coverage, which would not have occurred if vaccines did not prevent onward transmission.
I picked the wrong year to start my woodworking hobby. I've resorted to stalking FB marketplace and Craigslist for cheap/free lumber.
Yes, though for zooming in to sufficient detail you will need recursive indexes if you don't want the initial fetches to be really huge.

https://github.com/protomaps/pmtiles#specification
Unfortunately the third little pig has cornered that market.
I wouldn't say the 45k words were any more well considered. I just managed to finish less days and was always playing catchup.

It also wasn't quite a stream of consciousness. I did have specific things I talked about, usually written as a quick bulleted list in a notes app to remind me ahead of time because I was always days or weeks behind anyway.

It's just that I was trying to explain full game ideas and the thought processes that led me to the different ideas I was trying with game prototypes, what worked and what didn't, and also served as a rough game manual when I wanted to revisit the game idea later (which I've done several times).

Also I tend to be pretty verbose, which is evident by my Hacker News and Reddit comments.
> ”Marks the 60th anniversary of first American in space”

And also 1 day short of the 19th anniversary of SpaceX, which was founded on May 6th, 2002.
I recently built a couple of side tables for our living room, brick and stone just wasn't the right choice. I went with reclaimed wood and it was more expensive than I expected.
Ask HN: Should one diversify their stock portfolio
I am relatively new to investing and have been struggling with how to diversify my stock portfolio. Coming from tech industry I naturally have a tech heavy portfolio. If I don't understand other sectors that well, is there a good way to deepen my understanding?
Dont. Steal. Back. Clicks.
This is a little pessimistic.[1] As a percentage, few people are expected to die, and modern buildings are unlikely to collapse. At least in the Puget Sound region, buildings codes have been seismically sound for several decades, and old buildings and infrastructure have gradually been retrofitted[2]. There is _already_ preparation being made with the aforementioned programs, and notably the Cascadia Rising simulation excercise carried out between the Washington and Oregon governments and FEMA.[3]

This will be a huge disaster, but our government and institutions are not apathetic to it.

1. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/how-to-s...

2. https://www.seattle.gov/Documents/Departments/Emergency/Plan...

3. https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20210318/emergency-manage... (a 2022 exercise is planned)
Inflation is just the change over time. If you’re measuring a month or year it’s still inflation.

Trends in inflation are just that, trends. So it’s certainly possible to have high inflation for short periods.
In Silicon Valley, that's often correct...
you still need to consider that lots of people would judge you by how you upkeep things in any present moment. Sure, you can be a genius scientist in the stat of "flow", but recognition would come only later if that's the case
Used railway sleepers (I think they're called 'ties' in the US) were really popular in the UK once, then we literally just run out for good.
I think you should be using `replace` more judiciously. IMO its primary use is redirecting from some kind of invalid state/URL, i.e. when the user does not want to ever go back.

For all valid states/URLs, users expect that the browser's back and forward button work as expected, and that they can save or send that link to others.
The Odd Lots podcast had a good discussion of some more details about lumber futures, trading, and delivery.
Do you really think there can be this much government-doled money, money printing, and wage raising without permanent inflationary consequences? I can’t hire anybody right now because so many people not working are getting more from unemployment than they would in a job. This is going to unwind at some point.
> Why on earth would you expect something that you failed to pay for to keep working?

I'd expect it to keep working because the airbag doesn't need a micro service in the cloud to function. Once the software is written, and the hardware delivered. The company can't lose more money then they're already out. The user may, or may not pay the full amount. If the airbag doesn't work, and the user needed it to work. There's 0% chance they'd pay you after that. But if they didn't pay you, and they used it, and it protected them. Some of them would pay the remaining owed.

You can even ignore morality and ethics; simple game theory makes this idea stupid.
WSJ youtube had a segment the other day on the price increases and shortages but pointed out that this isn't necessarily translating into increased prices paid for trees, and interviewed a couple who own a wood lot in Georgia (for 40 years) who sounded like they were barely getting by:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_5MkGbXXKc

So yeah, problem is at the mills.
This is reporting that someone else wrote about how Signal wrote a blogpost, please submit the original post in such a case. also a dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27040470
Right now I'd say we don't know what it is. We have some anecdotal evidence from various industries but until we get some updates from the wider indices used to track inflation there's probably not much point in speculation.
The Google equivalent of a chipping block in most cases is not getting promoted

Do tell, given what you know about the Google promotion process, how a choice to work remotely would translate to a decreased likelihood to be promoted (and, importantly, to an unfair degree)?
Sounds like a reasonable accommodation to help pilot a labor regulation to substantially boost everyone's quality of life. Most people work to live, not live to work.
> Probably the worst example I've seen first-hand was an entire retail banking loan-approval process

There's some real doozies out there. The Reinhart-Rogoff error, which was used to justify imposing austerity on Greece [0]. The UK's COVID tracing fiasco [1]. The list goes on. People using Excel have no business making decisions that affect other people's lives.

[0] https://stanfordreview.org/clarifying-the-implications-of-th...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-54422505
Hum... Are you referring to the numbers that appear when you nest lists? As in putting an ol inside an item of another ol?
Major Depressive Disorders Have an Enormous Economic Impact
True, but what other languages or other anythings are doing is at best irrelevant and at worst the entire point.
In short, the safety issue is that a company that makes gloves and jackets decided to build a passive safety system with an on/off switch tied to payment networks. The alternative is obvious - get rid of the on/off switch and just sell the thing. Not everything in life should be reduced to a monthly subscription.
My bad, this one showed up in my RSS feed and I thought it was amusing. I'll check that before I post next time.
Can we ban sites that intentionally break the back button?