skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that the Constitution is largely meaningless, feel-good fluffery that has no actual bearing on which of our so-called rights are actually available to us.

It's an aspirational document in a largely lawless land, more a historical oddity than the supreme anything. If you wait for legislators and law enforcement to fix personal privacy, you've already lost... the US law enforcement culture is actively hostile towards individual rights because it makes their jobs harder. The only real difference to, say, China, is that we like to pretend otherwise. But the reality in the ground is that nobody on the grid has had meaningful privacy for decades now.
Definitely worth properly modelling out both buy and rent scenarios including all related costs, the substantial tax benefits of the mortgage interest deduction, remembering you are paying down principal in the mortgage payment, and the opportunity cost of the down payment. But when I've done this the cutover point is usually fairly close to where mortgage payment = rent.

The other thing that's notable when you model the scenarios is how much of a difference it makes how long you stay in a house given the absurdly high transaction costs of selling in a house in the US. 5% realtor fees! $50k on an SF condo, $75-100k on an SF house.
What makes you think we have nearly no traffic?

Anyhow, this was not a comment about our uptime against any particular service, but rather how our uptime against the collective (so how often any of those fail) - because that's what matters here.

Though there's definitely a big difference in uptime between a service that has SLAs and random user-endpoints that don't necessarily promise the same.
Trucks are a lot bigger now and traffic is worse.

I'd love to let my 6 year old wander the neighborhood freely but there's a good chance he wouldn't see 7 simply because he's shorter than the grill of most SUVs (let alone the lifted bro dozers that are so popular now)
I'm not sure that spinning that as a positive is a good idea. It's objectively a massive amount.
I dont think it is reasonable to take history of one place as told by literally one person and extrapolate from it whole nation.
> I am seeing this, too. Oftentimes, ostensibly in the interest of protecting children from harm, we try to control their behavior with increasingly disproportionate ultimatums, to the point where the authority's response is vastly more harmful than the situation itself.

And IMO, perversely, this incentivizes behavior problems. Kids sooner or later (and often sooner in the case of smarter kids) catch onto when adults are making disproportionate ultimatums, or when the reasoning behind a ruling is disconnected from objective reality. What does this teach a kid? Adults are liars, don't know what they're talking about, are undeserving of respect, are not to be obeyed if the consequences of such are bearable, are to be subverted whenever possible, etc.

I mean, there's going to be a degree of disrespect and disobedience when a kid enters adolescence and they start to try to assert their independence as they approach adulthood. But learning the above attitude as a child is going to make adolescent behavior so much worse.
That's about as likely as Nintendo or Sony indiscriminately rendering ads on top of the viewport while a game is running on their consoles. It's never gonna happen.
Harvard's CS50 is an introduction to computer science that focuses on C
https://online-learning.harvard.edu/course/cs50-introduction...
J started in 1990, Mac was 6 years old. I think it was pretty obvious GUIs will stay, no?
I think this is the bigger issue. It's the double-dipping from both ends — getting money from the consumer and getting more money from advertisers. It's like cable television all over.

Why can't they:
1. Be less greedy
2. Raise the price so I can be guaranteed to see no ads
I have to agree - maybe outside of dogs, all other pets are not happy. For example, how can "fixing" cats be acceptable?! Just because we don't want to allow cats to mate and inconvenience ourselves, we "fix" them and everybody seems okay with it! How is this not animal cruelty by the book?! Cats grow obese and feel miserable. I've had cats, I let them go in and out, they lived fruitful lives and were not forced to come back, yet, they did. During the mating seasons, of course, they were gone for weeks.
this sounds ripe for abuse.
It's true. Though I suspect that the proportion of code whose portability is hampered by clever code like this is vanishingly small compared to the volume of code whose portability is hampered by things like, "assumes POSIX-style file handling", "makes lots of DOS syscalls", or "targets AVR microcontrollers."
This really should be higher - really well-made video on something incredibly important
> Yeezyzs and sneakers are now bonafide asset classes to many people?

No? That kind of stuff makes for good headlines to get clicks, but is there any data showing it is anything but clickbait?
They occasionally do anticompetitive things IMO bc that’s what I’m aware of. There may be (likely are) other anticompetitive things that they do which I am not aware of bc they have not been discovered yet.

“The vast majority” of their products seems like a stretch. But setting that aside, many economists (including me) are skeptical of a “predatory pricing” argument.

The idea that a firm would actually lose money for years to get rid of competitors in order to then raise prices later makes us skeptical. (At the very very least it would be extremely expensive - and then as soon as you raise prices and act like a monopolist you attract the attention of regulators!)

Separate from the question of whether a firm would actually do it, if a firm were doing it, would it be bad for consumers during that time?

Suppose Amazon is currently engaged in predatory pricing and is selling everything at a loss, below cost, but will in the future drive all of its competitors out of business and then raise prices... (note: I don’t think this is a plausible theory of Amazon’s behavior at all.)

Why shouldn’t the regulator just take its time regulating? If everyone in the market is getting goods below cost, that seems like a win for consumers. If and when Amazon decides to act like a monopolist and raise prices later... regulate them! But if they want to lose money selling cheap stuff now, this seems like a win for consumers now so... let them!

Predatory pricing arguments are not that well received in most of the economics profession, in part for these reasons.
Is this true anymore? It used to be true back when all the really cool Google search operators worked and the service didn’t use natural language processing to process search queries. But these days you’re ‘supposed’ to use google like this: ‘what is the purple wild flower that grows in spring in England?’ as opposed to ‘filetype:pdf site:blah.org +foo -bar 2010..2012’ which would find files of type pdf on domain blah.org referring to foo but not bar between the years 2010 and 2012.

Honestly I prefer searching the latter way and would love to know which search operators still work these days.
The first two are very sad honestly and it really doesn't help with a child's psyche if they discover the purpose of their birth was for this reasons. It's almost like your purpose is to become a disappointment specifically because your parents had you as a trophy.
Without context, sure, but when we're talking specifically about the precision of expression, I don't think so. Some philosophers operate closer to mathematical precision than others, and when those sorts of precision-oriented philosophers screw up their precision, it's a bigger problem. In Reasons and Persons, Parfit jumps through hoops to make his statements precise but ultimately trips all over himself (in my opinion).
I've been following VR technology's development for over two decades now, and the concern that those profit mechanisms don't exist at the margins necessary to sustain the business is real. I think people underestimate how fragile this technology space is; we're talking a system that only a percentage of the population can use without experiencing motion sickness, requiring a dedicated usage space that is hard to share with other uses in a family setting, which (up until the most recent iterations) sold at a price point that was uncomfortable to most people for a luxury product.

More revenue streams to support it is better than fewer, at least at this stage of its development.
I asked my question sincerely. Are there limits to this abolition of competition?
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Look at how your last few jobs were represented by the recruiting department compared to how the actual job was. Everybody does this, it’s a transparent lie to push you over the edge if you were already interested.
Would be nice if tail call optimization solved the halting problem.
My son just underwent Sex Ed this year - it was so detailed that I'm sure many adults could learn tons of stuff. Yet, accidents happen, but mostly because we don't educate kids. In the past, I remember my grandparents talking to my sister about these things, and teen pregnancies were much less than now with all the Sex Ed, wide availability of contraceptives, etc.
We really need to allocate more money to USDS. Seems like they've been saving our ass for a while and we're paying them on government employee scale?
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How about Chainlink being a likely pick for an SEC lawsuit?

- Tech is a literal JSON parser designed as a Rube Goldberg machine.

- They came out with a whitepaper 2.0, even though not even 30% of what was promised in "WP" 1.0 was delivered.

- All the founders are in the USA, and the company was initially in the USA when they ICO'd, but now their company magically migrated to the Caymans, even though their operations are completely in the US, San Fran and NY.

- Literal 4chan coin, to the point, one of their execs, Mark Oblad, was some sort of staff at 4chan.

- They dump $20-60M every 2 or so days, depending on what the price is (they dump the same amount of tokens, amount in USD depends on price). Yet have nothing to show for it, apart for a Lambo for the Russian founder's Papa, plus 2 of the founders bought a whole block of NY condos apparently.

- Thousands of "Partnerships" done purely for marketing, to get 4channers/linkers to hopefully shill their products too, even though there is no actual partnering of any kind.

- Rampant insider info leaks happening from their founders, for announcements and dealings that will pump or dump the price. I'd even be able to showcase some in court myself.
I sometimes wonder: shouldn't archaeologists wait before cracking open specimens until science has advanced to the point where we can make much better measurements, perhaps even without cracking open the specimens and spoiling them in the process? And how do you determine the best time to do so?
As I understand the landscape here, the big enabling win of microvms is faster boot time; there's a cool qemu-lite slide deck that goes into detail about how they cut down boot time:

https://www.linux-kvm.org/images/d/d2/03x05B-Chao_Peng-Light...

The big win was slashing away the BIOS stuff.

We use AWS's Firecracker to turn our customers Docker containers into Firecracker microvms (Firecracker is Amazon's Rust VMM, the engine for Fargate and Lambda). Anecdotally: in my dev environment, the difference between Firecracker boot times and native Docker container startup is imperceptible; the logging we do swamps the VM boot stuff. It's very fast.
It's kind of insulting that this doesn't have a Linux release, given where git comes from. It's an Electron app for crying out loud.

<edit> I've reconsidered. It's really insulting.
The amount of concussions that happen in high/middle school is staggering, and has real effects. Theres a reason why 'dumb (contact sport) player' is such a pervasive stereotype. I, for one am really happy that full contact sports are being treated with some more caution.
The link you posted is not USDA data. It's estimates, based on USDA data, by
the owners of the website. For example, the opening paragraph in the article
says:

> We estimate that 99% of US farmed animals are living in factory farms at
present.

The owners of the website are the Sentience Institute, a nonprofit promoting
various Effective Altruism goals. One of those goals seems to be the elimination
of animal farming. One of the founders of the Institute is the author of a book
called "The End of Animal Farming" that "argues animal farming will end by the
year 2100 based on effective altruism reasoning and social movement strategy" (see Wikipedia on the book).

So it's vegan propaganda. From the point of view of Effective Altruism, but
still, vegan propaganda.

Let's see that quote again:

> We estimate that 99% of US farmed animals are living in factory farms at
present.

It says US farmed animals. The whole link talks about the situation in the US.
In our discussion, I made the point that factory farms are the norm in the
Americas, but not in the rest of the world. I agreed with you that factory farms
are an atrocity that must be eliminated. But that atrocity is an American
atrocity, and the rest of the world, by and large, is not yet responsible of it
although this situation is changing rapidly, because of course where America
leads the way in atrocities, everyone else soon follows because that way lie
dollars and everyone wants dollars.

In general, my complaint about your comments is that they seem to ignore that
there is a world outside the Americas, or even the US, and that this world is
not the US and doesn't do things, particularly farming, like the US does them. I
seem to be justified to complain so, given the continued American focus of your
discussion of farming and animal rights.
Are you suggesting there is only money, power, and propaganda by deniers of climate change? Don’t you think it’s possible there are people exaggerating it for money, and power?

I don’t think ”they use propaganda and everyone who disagrees is just wrong” is a good argument when the topic is “we know in other areas there are issues with the scientific community so why not this one”.

We can still have the right answer and have gotten there the wrong way.
Yeah I think the fundamental distinction is that metascience is probably at its core going to be philosophy, but that doesn't have to make it any less rigorous. And I agree, Philsoophy of Science being included in more science degrees would be great. One of the most interesting courses I took in my undergrad.
If you push out enough grammars that makes writing lexers and parsers by hand more work than learning tools for that, you will soon have all kinds of other problems.
If you actually care and aren’t here to simply be a contrarian, the term is “deflationary spiral” and it exists because interest rates cannot be held below zero indefinitely. It’s very similar in concept to why potential losses on shorting a stock are infinite.
If you treat your workers badly enough so that they never return at any salary, doesn't that mean you can run out of that resource?
You'd love Simulink.
> That culture might be more or less effective (again, according to what metrics?)

Isn't this the idea of "free will". That you get to choose for yourself the metrics you want to optimize your life for?

Now I think that you'll use a combination of learned and inherited desires for it. But the idea here is that each individual can express those desires, and then the "success" of a society is thus to maximize each individuals success, even when they differ in their metrics.

That's a made up concept as well, but I think it still stems from individual desires. We've just mostly all individually observed that an organized society that compromises with each other to maximize each and everyone's individual desires has less risk to our own desires being squandered.

The alternative would be to try to achieve power over others to maximize your desires, and maybe from history and life experience, people have found that to be not sustainable or only achievable for a few, thus your chances at it are lower.

In essence, I think I'm saying that it seems over time people know their desires, but don't know how to beat fulfill them, and this is the metric.
Sweet summer child
The point here is to do migrations live while clients randomly connect and stay connected for random time. When all old clients have disconnected, the old schema can be removed.

The point is not to let old clients work indefinitely.

In other versions of this idea, all views/procedures are prefixed with some revision-number but that looks messy.
we don't tend to vote in our own best interest; whether it's politics, or economically.
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My guess is that it's a two-tier process. For one, in many ways, NPM packages are kind-of winner takes all type of a setup where a narrow circle of packages accounts for most of the installs. This leads to more eyes on them, but I would say this is secondary to the following point. Most of the time, when a package is either added or updated, someone technical, usually a developer, is staring at their terminal, browser dev tools, and/or dozens of other things. If something fishy was aloof, the chances of it being noticed are considerably higher than in a regular user-computer interaction. Add automated scanning employed by Github, NPM and others to the mix, and I'd say that's the answer. Clearly it can happen since it has, but every time it does happen, the space for shenanigans grows narrower.
This is what happens when everyone is told they're awesome and nobody is allowed to fail
Correct me if I'm wrong, but they really did need such extreme measures against humidity etc then, right? The components we have today are better sealed, the materials are less likely to be affected by humidity, etc etc. Years of marginal improvements in epoxies mostly I think.
If you've dealt with VC's or lawyers before you'll understand this example. Of course many probably worse examples from Academia or restaurants or military or whatever but if you're a software entrepreneur these are very good examples.
Traffic and lack of walkability is definitely an issue (and not only for kids, btw). I am wondering if the idea that children must always be within arm's reach of an adult, has in a way contributed to building cities in a way such that there is no (safe) walkability in many places?
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I used ANTLR to build a query language parser and interpreter for a past employer. They had a specialized use case. ANTLR was pretty pleasant to use. The solution ended up being a pretty small amount of code and enabled much more powerful searching in their internal data viewing tool. I still think fondly about the project from time to time, partly because it was the one project where my fellow devs were just as happy with the tool as the non-dev users were (this was a very common tool for both devs and non-devs to use).
The bailey is in the othering of trans women as a separate class which opens opportunities for discrimination by separating them from women-at-large. And since we still have binary gender norms to contend heavily with in the US and beyond, this ends up playing out as bills banning trans women from playing in a league in accordance their gender, bathroom bills, etc. [1]

There's a fantastic book about this written by Julia Serrano called 'Whipping Girl' [2] that goes over these things and more and describes these phenomena as 'Transmisogyny' - trans individuals being subject to both misogyny and misandry depending on the situation, and sometimes both when it's convenient.

[1] - https://freedomforallamericans.org/legislative-tracker/anti-...

[2] - https://www.amazon.com/Whipping-Girl-Transsexual-Scapegoatin...
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Quoting the source you linked,

> Sweden went out of its way to make sure the public was informed of the allegations against Assange, even against the will of the concerned women,

So- these women (plural) DID make allegations. And if publicizing them was against the womens' will, then we know that they didn't make these claims for the sake of publicity.

I'll readily believe that Sweden publicized them with political intent, and that they didn't have enough evidence to successfully prosecute. But what evidence there is (regardless of legal standards) definitely exists, and has not been recanted, and I have seen nothing to suggest it was a lie. And in general, I believe women. Just because it's not up to a legal standard of convincingness doesn't mean we have to just ignore it.
Nonsense? How about you read up on Operation Ten-Go and the senseless suicidal demise of the battleship Yamato, wasting the lives of two and a half thousand Japanese men to accomplish absolutely nothing except a show of defiance. In total more than 4,000 Japanese men lost their lives that day, while less than 100 Americans were killed. They knew it was suicide and they did it anyway.

> The ships' crews were briefed on the nature of the mission and given the opportunity to stay behind if desired; none did.

Your parent post is right, the Japanese military were absolute fanatics.

Edit:

And another point. After the second atomic bombing, military officers attempted to overthrow the Japanese emperor to prevent the surrender. After the second atomic bombing. Let that sink in. If not for the heroic actions of a few Japanese men, they might have succeeded in suppressing the broadcast of the surrender: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%ABj%C5%8D_incident
Too many pop-ups; I left the site.
Delightful! Really challenging.
On other articles (like this [1]), they put a box at the bottom where you can submit your email address. It's far more respectful way to do it.

[1]: https://tomassetti.me/working-with-excel-in-python/
.. yes! This was the biggest empirical component, and ... what's going on? If it is Strep. shouldn't it be visible in a CSF (spine fluid) sample? PCR?

edit: https://www.pandasppn.org/flowchart seems pretty decent. the article paints an excessively mysterious picture, but this seems easy. also IVIG is relatively cheap and safe for kids and only one course is needed (and seems to work).
At the risk of going further off-topic, what issue did you experience with Backblaze? I rely on them for my backup too (yes, 3-2-1 rule, etc.)
If this story is interesting to you, Gastropod did a really interesting episode on this a while back: The Birds and The Bugs

https://gastropod.com/the-birds-and-the-bugs/
If I recall correctly, I2P uses some sort of onion routing.
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The piece is written by a consulting company who by design are probably pushing out a lot of grammars but to different systems and companies.