skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Spain:

"Under the plans, an estimated 200 to 400 Spanish companies will voluntarily take part in the project by reducing their employees’ working week to 32 hours while keeping their salaries the same. The government will compensate participating businesses for any higher costs incurred by the changes, such as the need to hire additional staff or to reorganize scheduling and shift patterns. That investment will be financed through Spain’s share of the EU Coronavirus Recovery Fund."

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/spain-four-day-work-week-n...

(check out the graph "Annual working hours per worker" and see which country has the fewest working hours annually; you might be surprised)

And Microsoft Japan:

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/04/776163853/microsoft-japan-say...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26495933

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21919721
Firefox should worry about implementing standards as fast as possible and improve the browser speed

And Stop trying to "re-implement" features for which there are already user extensions way more capable
The AUG and other scoped rifles have seen a fair bit of competitive use, depending on their current state of balance.
I agree about everything you said about safety design, but Vice and uninformed comments have guided you into being mad about this today, and it is not the safety issue you think it is. The article was spreading FUD with the idea that the subscription lapse could cause a fatal crash. The product was designed to prevent that. Yes, there are reasons to be careful with electronic control of safety critical systems, but despite that fact, we are completely surrounded by safety critical systems with electronic control. Every vehicle you own, use or ride in has them.
> That’s close enough to the notion that supporters of slavery deserve credit for the abolition of slavery, because without slavery existing it never could have been abolished

Um, that's not remotely close to what's being contended here. What we're talking about is tradeoffs; i.e. what do you do when you want to coerce other States to abolish a regime that's politically unpopular in your State, but politically popular in the State in question? You can either do nothing, and let that system continue to exist (in perpetuity), or you can set up a new system that enables us to eventually abolish that institution from the top-down.

You have to consider the alternative: Founders that didn't create a Union, an independent South, and no real incentive or force to act as a check on slavery, and potentially allowing it to exist in the South beyond the 1860's. This is a hypothetical that's pretty easy to imagine considering that those Southern states tried creating a Confederation with slavery literally being enshrined in its Constitution (a "founding pillar", to use your framing) in 1861.

A world in which the South just agrees to join the Union in 1787 and also simply agree to abolish slavery is a fantasy. A world in which the North creates a slavery-free Union without the South is one in which slavery exists in a Confederate constitution well past the 1860's. Given those options, I'll take our reality any day of the year: the one where we created a Union that allowed us to eventually outnumber the South, elect Abraham Lincoln, and abolish slavery once and for all. That was the Founders' gambit, and the Confederates admitted just as much in their Cornerstone Speech I cited above.
> I think your class is inherently related to your wealth/income relative to your peers in your country.

I'm not sure that completely tracks with the way I hear the term "clase media" used here, however I very strongly agree with the other thing you said:

> The 50th percentile Mexicans are not the ones going to the US to get vaxxed.
Correct. There is a mandatory quarantine on arrival, but Australia is very unusual in nonetheless not allowing Australians to leave the country under normal circumstances. You have to (for example) be able to prove that you will be away for more than three months.
you have a warped view of how the MMR/SR systems function

essentially all that matters is your win-rate, if you can win more than 50% of your games over a reasonable stretch of time your MMR will increase and your SR will follow it

performance based SR is only a very small bonus (up-to diamond)

initial placement is essentially a guess: over 25 or so games your MMR will converge to where you're supposed to be

(4200 support main)
which orbiter? What?
Canada was handling it well (or just lucky) until this past Q4.

I have friends in BC. For a population of 5 million they had around 2,000 cases in September. Now? 130,000 cases. They got complacent, people let their guards down, it exploded.
California allows citizens to put laws directly into the state constitution. You propose the law, get signatures to put it on the ballot, and then if 50%+1 vote for it, it becomes part of the constitution.

So if you want to be pedantic, they are laws made by unelected lawmakers.
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Alright, collected smartypantses: any bets on what happens now? Some people estimate that 2 in 5 renters are late on their rents [1]. This wave of sudden evictions is going to be traumatic, and I really don't have enough room for any roommates.

Is there any option other than some kind of one-time federal rent forgiveness program?

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/31/economist-a-surge-in-evictio...
IQ (correlation between IQ and wealth is positive), capital (such as starting a business), and inheritance. I think educational opportunity is important but not as much as the first three.
It's data from the Wikipedia article you shared.

You said it's normal practice but I say it's only happened twice in over 50 years.
Couldn't someone send boosters or something to nudge it so it lands in Beijing?
Because people are still living in the streets in squalor and the state is already broke entertaining that and other programs.

I’m not being facetious.
Put it in index funds. If possible, put it in tax-advantaged accounts.
The people elected the laws - they are the law makers. Each of the people is 'elected' simply by being a citizen.
>So. It turns out that the EU propaganda may have been just as misleading about US vaccine exports as everything else - although no finished vaccines came from the US, apparently a good chunk of the raw drug substance which AstraZeneca packaged up into vaccines from the EU market was imported from the US early on

Yes. The EU didn't ban vaccine exports to the US because it was afraid that the US would in turn stop the component supply chain that European plants need to function.
Really it’s just an issue that the voters are able to change the state constitution with a simple majority in an off year election and there are no checks on this power. The legislature, executive or judicial powers of the state cannot overturn such a policy, and you can write in an exception like prop 13 to make it so that you need a 67% majority to overturn a result passed by a 50.1% majority.
It’s really just an example of why checks and balances matter.
I used to worked in customer service automation and it was extremely disappointing. All studies show that providing good and fast customer service improves customer retention (even when they want to cancel their subscription). Our clients often post these studies on linkedin, yet when it comes to servicing the customer they choose deception.

For every company we worked with we had to create 2 experiences. One for California where you click one button and boom! You cancelled your subscription.

For the rest, there are forms after forms, and then we give you a special email and a specific format to follow. Sometimes you have to talk to an agent to do what we do with a single API call in California.

Not to name names, but something about shaving, men, and landscape. They made the cancelling process so complicated that we decided not to do it. It involved more than 5 emails, some with the only words in the body being "Are you really sure?"

They ended up cancelling our contract. I was never happier.
It probably won't fly again, certainly not soon. SN20 will be the first one to fly on a Super Heavy. SN15 was built for this test, and as the first to land successfully they'll almost certainly be going over all of its parts looking for potentially problematic wear.
North Carolina man breaks record with 3,050 pushups in one hour|interesting news
For those looking for more explanation and commentary - I really enjoy the Everyday Astronaut streams of Starship. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htnG_mABtSQ is SN15
The term AI is fairly imprecise, and might include game playing AIs like Deep Blue and Alpha Go, or research focused systems like Fermi Net and Alpha Fold. I don't think those applications are in need of regulation. What really needs to be regulated is:

1) Mass tracking and collection of personal data.

2) AI being used to make important decisions that affect people's lives.

3) Autonomous weapons. (This is a subcategory of 2, technically, but has its own unique set of problems.)
Buy a house? Or I suppose any appreciating assets.
Surely that's exactly what overwatch ultimates are?
For what its worth, the A16Z boss talk podcast episode/clubhouse this week had everyone (incl Databricks CEO) basically agree with this model. Most people in the office 2-3 days/week. Some full remote.

Seems like that is the way the valley is headed.
I don't think Google committed to that. Other companies have.
too expensive in 1.6
'The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy', the author of this book has also pulled together data to show that wealthy families usually end extending financial life-lines to their children. It's not surprising that most wealthy neighborhoods are inhabited with people who are the first generation to become rich sprinkled with a few wealthy inheritors but most of the time the wealth stops with them.
There isn’t one.

The government decided to loot the middle class and hand it to the elite, with trillions stolen in the past year.

Your children’s future was destroyed using the COVID lockdown as a pretense for the theft.

At this point, the only fix is wiping out a lot of current, ill-gotten wealth/debt.
The monetization in WoW is pretty invisible. Many games have a core of players who love playing no matter what and don't mind buying whatever new thing pops up on the store.

Everquest 2 is such a game. It is basically dead in terms of attracting new players, but people who love playing it have been keeping the parent company afloat for a while. IIRC, WoW and EQ2 came out at the same time. I can easily see Blizzard having the same fate in the not too distant future.
I don't know about the best way, but one way to protect against inflation, without concerning yourself with outpacing it, is to purchase TIPS.

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/prod_tips_glan...
Suppose that a genie gives every human on earth access to infinite power, with no externalities like CO2 or radioactive waste. Would it make the world a better place or would it turn into a dystopian nightmare?

I think it would be like pouring sugar over a bacteria colony. The earth's crust could be economically strip mined. Ore could be smelted into metal at negligible cost, which could in turn be used to make more machines to strip mine the crust at a faster rate. Oceans could be boiled to access rare metals, or maybe just for fun by a bored teenager.

This isn't to detract from OPs practical comment, but it's an interesting thought experiment.
That's true, but customers always vote with their wallets. It's been happening for decades and will never stop.
If we look at just steel:

Your implicit assumption is that companies are willing to pay more for steel. An increase of just a single digit percent more to the price of steel is enough to be completely uncompetitive with overseas steel production, which would inevitably lead to the closing of all local manufacturing capacity of steel.

Steel production is also a commodity critical to national security. Losing access to foreign steel due to war or other concerns would literally bring the country to its knees for the duration of the encounter.

Shifting all local manufacturing capability overseas to where there is less regulation sounds good, until it doesn't... as we saw during the pandemic. The world would have looked a lot different today if Chinese manufacturing had closed or decreased for more than a few weeks (roughly Jan-Feb, much of which coincided with the usual Chinese New Year shutdown that is typically planned for).
Houses and land don't really appreciate unless there's some factor constraining supply in the face of stable high demand for example waterfront property within reasonable distance of major cities, land in a city that's full of morons who vote for regressive policies that limit development, the land has an industrial facility on it that couldn't be built today but is grandfathered in, etc. etc.

Also, housing is highly inflated right now. By buying you're buying into a bubble and betting that the inflation will outrun the pop.
That would mean a cessation of sovereignty by Brazil, so why would they do that?
There's family, and there's immediate family.

Until a man marries, his mother is included in his immediate family.

After a man marries, his immediate family is wife and kids. His mother then becomes part of his extended family.

But then of course, some men will always be a 'Mummy's Boy'. Their marriages won't last because he can't give his wife his full attention. And when his mother dies, he becomes rudderless because he hasn't developed a fully close relationship with his wife, and by then it's too late to start doing that.
So it’s not due to the fed printing massive amounts of money? I feel they are conveniently forgetting how we just shrank the dollars value merely months ago. The toll comes due.
I look forward to the time when the SpaceX Starship is actually an ambiguous name.
What reggieband mentions began very early in the lockdown process: See the Atlantic bubble (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Bubble).

Individual Australian states did the same thing. There such a thing is effective because only a handful of highway connections exist between states, and there is effectively no way for people to cross the desert outside the border crossings. It's not nearly as effective in Canada and, aside from constitutional issues, would be completely ineffective anywhere in the 48 contiguous states; even the most rural states have hundreds of interstate road connections, and it's possible to cross on your own almost anywhere else.
YESSSSSSSS!!!!!
Beautifully illustrated in this comic:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/the-wireless/373065/the-pencilswo...
YESSSSS - WELL DONE!!!!
I’d like for you to reflect on why you feel the need to try to make this distinction and do some reading on white supremacy and how we define racism, particularly systemic racism.
Trust the market has been repeated ad infinitum for decades. Except when the sh*t hits the fan the market either collapses or is nationalized. We saw this with PPE and we see this with vaccines. People are either going to have to pay more to maintain in-country manufacturing or just wring their hands and whine. Those who can manufacture have done well. Some export and some do not. Countries have learned who their friends really are or that there are no friends. Vaccine production has greatly increased but it’s going to be very hard to get dosing outside the g20.
> It's literally in my employment agreement

Without making any argument about what is legal in California, I will note that it is not particularly valid to argue for “it is California law” on the basis of “its what my employer claims in the employment agreement”. Employers are notorious for claiming things beyond what the law allows, knowing that the resulting effect on employee behavior is nearly as good as if the claim was actually enforceable.
Housing is madness right now.

I’m in a neighborhood under construction. It cost about $5xxk to build one a year and a half ago. One of those homes went on the market this weekend for $750k. One day bidding war and it sold for $820k.

I have no idea what to make of this
He gets loans using stock as collateral. billionaires have entirely different resources than the rest of us. AFAIK he has slightly >50% of his Tesla stock pledged as collateral for loans right now.

At tiny interest rates (wouldn't be surprised if he gets even better private bank rates because they want in on his other business or IPO etc).

it's basically free money - until something goes wrong... especially in the crazy dynamic we seem to be in now where fast stock growth = more access to free money = faster stock growth cycle. until pop
How do we know if it is inflation/devaluation or simply a temporary rise in prices due to a hike in demand due to the economy reopening?
Hating people for their ethnicity, or hating people for their religion - both seem to come from the same cesspool of ignorance and impotent rage (you're angry about something else, but resign yourself to picking on another group to vent on - much easier)

Why do you feel the need to justify one over the other?
In Musk’s biography it mentions how he argued it should be trivial to get your money out of x.com or else people won’t deposit in the first place.

This is almost like that. The WSJ is bad too. But I’ve noticed that cancelling and restarting my Audible sub was totally painless.
Bear in mind that TIPS can go negative too: https://www.thebalance.com/why-are-tips-yields-negative-4168...

This means you will still lose money relative to inflation, just with tigher bounds.
OK, that would be nice but...what you're saying just doesn't work! The user gets an error message saying

thread 'main' panicked at 'foo invariant upheld'

And everyone, except those who are inured to the illogic via experience, will read that as

thread 'main' panicked because 'foo invariant upheld'

especially new users, less experienced programmers, and non-Rust programmers seeing the panic message.

Now if the Rust language made that error message say

thread 'main' panicked at failed expectation for 'foo invariant upheld'

that might be cool. But it does not do that. It feels like you're bending over backwards trying to excuse what is clearly a wart in a beautiful language. I'm happy to continue the debate though, I am fascinated to know how I can be wrong here :)

So that's my main point, that your strategy doesn't work due to the error message. But a secondary point is that Rust documentation encourages people to use it opposite to what you suggest: I mean, just look at the first example in the Rust book. It's completely nonsensical:

let f = File::open("hello.txt").expect("Failed to open hello.txt");

I know there was some controversy about this early on and somehow it didn't get reverted; it would be more honest if the docs would at least admit that it's "a little strange".

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch09-02-recoverable-errors-wi...

Playground if you want to remind yourself of the psychological experience of seeing that error message at run time with minimal effort.

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
The opposite, this is them walking back their commitment for across-the-board return to onsite.
Lowest position for Java in Tiobe Index since 2001
It probably won't be popular here, but allocating a small % to Bitcoin. And assets, stocks, real estate.
cbc article: "Twins get some 'mystifying' results when they put 5 DNA ancestry kits to the test"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/dna-ancestry-kits-twins-mark...
While it certainly provides some hedge inflation adjusted bonds don't seem that helpful when the government can pick and choose what's in the basket of goods the government uses to calculate inflation to get the number it wants.
It’s not that simple. Landlords won’t necessarily rush to evict because there is no demand. Most landlords would rather work with a tenant, rather than kick them out and guarantee no income for a while.
This could only have happened decades ago - for the past 10 years department stores have felt borderline unattended, at least below the lower upscale threshold of e.g. Nordstrom.

Grand huge stores in prime real estate in world cities, basically empty. Elegiac energy.
Seattle also rises very quickly from the ocean. Take a look: https://en-us.topographic-map.com/maps/na3/Seattle/

With the exception of the international district, all the low-lying areas are industrial in nature.
So much consensus out there on inflation, quite remarkable. Haven't seen this much consensus since the fear bottom in March 2020 when many of mine "long term index fund investor" friends told me they liquidated (some of) their holdings.

Almost as if this was the (local) inflation top. As usual, time will tell. The CPI and PPI are indeed hot, the tbond and stock markets are still calm (both will be massively damaged if inflation really is to come, and frankly even gold and Bitcoin are likely to suffer, due to the resulting liquidity drain).
Lone Dev adds top voted feature to free recording app same day
I think this would be called inflation either way
>2. United States stopped all vaccine exports.

There has never been a US vaccine ban (see my comment elsewhere). The US did, in fact, pay every pharmaceutical company with a vaccine in development huge amounts of money for enough doses for the entire country from each company. Basically, the US was the firstest with the mostest.

>We got all vaccines from Europe.

... because Canada's bet on CanSino failed.
That’s putting a lot of faith on the gov’t to correctly report CPI, when they have every incentive to underreport it.

In fact, they’ve changed the CPI methodology twice in order to report lower average inflation (under the premise that the old measures “overstated” inflation).
Looking at the talks/papers from 1978 is a trip: Grace Hopper gave the keynote, and there were talks by legends like Backus, Naur, Liskov, Kurtz, and McCarthy.

There are transcripts available of all of the talks as well as Q&A sessions and the like -- really fascinating to look back on now with the benefit of hindsight.

For example, McCarthy was asked [1] whether he believed "that LISP has made any long-lasting contributions to the more 'normal' programming languages, e.g., FORTRAN and ALGOL, COBOL, etc."

He responded that, yes, he thought conditional expressions and recursion were here to stay. Safe to say he was right about that!

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/800025.1198363
Why not just compare caricatures and get this over with?

Extremes in both blue and red states are equally stupid. Average iq doesn't differ between states. Education level does, but as any techy knows, that's an overrated proxy for intelligence.
I had to call them and deal with a guy almost yelling at me about what a good deal I had going. Took 20 minutes
Sadly, it appears that the logical starting index compromise between the zero index and one index factions doesn't work.

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> ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

> Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends

I appreciate that they're upfront about that.
> Really it’s just an issue that the voters are able to change the state constitution with a simple majority in an off year election and there are no checks on this power.

There actually is a check, and it is the higher requirement required for a Constitutional revision rather than a mere amendment.
> Nobody wants to go through the trouble of setting up a zoom for the 2 min conversation you have about a thing

I have set aside 30 minute blocks on my calendar for "drop-ins" for exactly this flavor of conversation. I'm the only person on the invite list, but others know about its existence and will find the link on my calendar as needed. Sometimes no one shows up, other days the block turns into an impromptu large group brainstorm, other times it's back-to-back 2 min conversations.
The Psychology of Clubhouse's User Retention (and Churn)