skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "median citizen" is an absurd concept given the income distribution. It completely fails to capture income inequality.

Also access to free education, free healthcare and so on.
Well, that's obviously a one star rating for the rider.
Most US cities have a policy of buying homeless people one way tickets to another city, and if they do provide homeless shelters, they are often full, underfunded, and have issues that make using them difficult
I ended up learning this accidentally and have used it ever since:

I knew that hospitals charge ridiculous prices at first and then insurance jumps in. At the time, the insurance that I was on seemed to have a policy of "first let the hospital bill the patient and see if he/she pays then we'll get in involved." My procedure was $3,000+. That was a joke, but it also wasn't wholly inexpensive. I figured I'd end up for my deductible at about $800 or so. Hospital sent me the bill for $3,500. I expected insurance to chime in, but didn't. A month went by, I got an other bill, only lower. I call the hospital why this wasn't being resolved, and they said "looks like we didn't mark the procedure correctly. Ignore the bill, we'll fix this." Another month goes by, another bill, still lower. The bills still come and they kept changing. Eventually, it gets coded correctly and insurance did their part, and I owed $600. I forget it about, though. I get a call on the phone with the hospital saying, "we're going to send you to collections unless we can get some level of payment on this." I ask what the bill is if I pay in full. She says, "Pay in full and it's $380." I said, "I can make that happen."

The U.S. is quite corrupt like any other "third-world" country. Just in different places. Our places are acceptable, though because "deregulation" or "gun rights" or "free speech".
Just look at smaller players: Iran, Turkey, etc. Look at China's activities in SE Asia via a vis their neighbors. Look at their activities in international waters. They all project at least regional power.

You're saying given a larger playing field, they would forgo it. Let someone else project?
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I've made a simple Python app that shows a GIF for any chess opening together with a link to Lichess analysis board and a link to 365Chess.com ECO database. Any feedback welcome.
>fast switching between recent documents

This is what my research told me last I looked too, thanks for the confirmation that this is still true. I believe RM will deliver long term, hacker friendliness goes a long way. Not sure if it's worth the price atm, but I'll look out for a cheap used one. I could do so much more critical reading if I could do it while lying down.
What I remember was people arguing that it was present earlier where also making the argument that infection was widespread. And thus the case fatality ratio was 100 times lower than the 0.7% the Chinese were reporting.
Couple of points you say "no other country" but Russia and China are definitely engaged in both.

Quite frankly it's probably only a matter of time until India develops them as well. The fact of the matter is all our history, doctrine, tactics, and studying come from living in a bi-polar world.

We aren't living in the 1940's or the Cold War, we are living in the early 1900's and we need to start studying that time to understand how to navigate and succeed in a multi-polar world (Russia, China, US, India?), or we will be fighting a trench war, while the enemy comes in with tanks and machine guns.
In the bay area, I actually know a very surprising (shocking, to me) number of people with au pairs. It would never even have occurred to me that people would do this. But it’s common at least as far as I can tell, among people in their late 40s who’ve made a modest amount of money.

I still can’t get my head around it. These are people who have a relatively low asset base (owned house, 401ks, maybe modest taxable brokerage account), high combined salaries and high burn rate.

Also an unusual frequency of divorces, some of them explicitly tied to the presence of an attractive young woman in the home.
Fancy coffee is like 6USD a pound. The benefit of having free coffee at work is to not having to arrange a coworker coffee shrine to put coins in - not the cost of the coffee.
> Is there aspect of this that I don't understand?

Yes - it's very useful for access points which change location often.
Is it so binary? Maybe people are reprioritizing work relative to things like family, environment, health.

That rationale makes sense to me, after the year and half of lockdowns and torrent of abysmal climate news, regardless of whether it is the right strategy to solve the problems we have.

The author of the tweet may be talking about how to be successful in a narrowly defined context of business, and getting a lot of blowback from people suggesting there may be other ways to define success that don't require the fetishization of career growth.
Not sure if this would fit into your use case, but in my use case, I have custom js code which runs at the build time and downloads/compresses/resizes all the required images into node.js file system. Then, next/image serves them as it would from local static image source. The drawback is I have really long build/export times.
You realize that in Germany for example, most house are hidden in google street view ?
Adam Smith observed many years ago that if you give people more money they tend to spend it on better dwelling places.

Medical care has always been expensive. We have made a lot of progress: 200 years ago those ER bills would be zero: because everyone just died from what we consider solvable today.
Why all this discussion of a stupid article?
Lee C. McIntyre said at the article of his that was discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20174811:
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Like medicine, social science is subjective. And it is also normative. We have a stake not just in knowing how things are but also in using this knowledge to make things the way we think they should be. We study voting behavior in the interest of preserving democratic values. We study the relationship between inflation and unemployment in order to mitigate the next recession. Yet unlike medicine, so far social scientists have not proven to be very effective in finding a way to wall off positive inquiry from normative expectations, which leads to the problem that instead of acquiring objective knowledge we may only be indulging in confirmation bias and wishful thinking. This is the real barrier to a better social science. It is not just that we have ineffective tools or a recalcitrant subject matter; it is that at some level we do not yet have enough respect for our own ignorance to keep ourselves honest by comparing our ideas relentlessly against the data. The challenge in social science, then, is to find a way to preserve our values without letting them interfere with empirical investigation. To change the world, we need to first understand it.
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What does “preserving our values” refer to? Is it the same thing for a nazi as it is for a good person? Is that phrase, in that context, smug, and maybe even idiotic? Does it already assume an answer to the question that the writer pretends to be asking?
Two "fun" examples:

1) System trying to boot would hang at seemingly random points. Could never be pinned down to a particular instruction, but could be caught doing it when stepping through with attached hardware debugger. It just wasn't consistent and never made any sense. Hang on an add. Hang on a call and never reach the first line of the thing being called. The hang would always be relatively late in the boot, but that's all that could be found.

Eventually I got it. It would hang the first time a timer interrupt triggered, which would only happen after that interrupt was enabled something like halfway into the boot.

Turns out there were disabled cores and the system was waiting trying to park those cores before servicing the interrupt, but they'd never respond/ack/say "I parked" and so we'd hang.

Disable the interrupt and there was no problem.

2) Operating in Cache-As-RAM mode early in boot, no "real" memory, just the L2 cache mapped as memory. Two valid/available address ranges could not both be written to. Writing to 0xA and then 0xB, or 0xB and then 0xA, would hang the system. Data being written didn't matter. Writes didn't need to be back to back. Just couldn't play nice.

Knowing it's a hardware problem spoils the fun of trying to debug that. Bad cache, couldn't properly convert addresses to cache lines, wrapped back on itself and panicked. Solution - move and resize "usable" cache region to exclude the overlapping ranges.
here's the thing, though.

microsoft has watched people in the past NEVER update their operating system for whatever reason. too much of a pain, "no need", can't deal with the outage caused by a reboot, whatever.

microsoft has also been blamed quite voraciously for "insecure" operating systems allowing worms to spread, when patched systems don't even get infected.

so, because MS is damned if they do, and damned if they don't, Microsoft has chosen to "do" and keep people patched up.

oh the horror.

the culture of blaming Microsoft for things that you or your installed applications do is the cause for this attitude Microsoft has about users not knowing what's good for themselves. THEY DON'T KNOW WHATS BEST; Not when it comes to security. We as users have demonstrated this over and over again.

So MS err on the side of caution, and essentially force updates.

and, yes, Microsoft change things, for reason(s) that you are not aware of, because either a new feature requires a change in a supporting subsystem, or because they believe they've discovered a better way to do something, or through extensive user testing they have discovered a better UI paradigm. or maybe just because they want to.

look, things are NEVER going to remain the same from year to year. your "the good old days" were someone else's "this new stuff sucks so much, why did they change it, it was fine" and that will be true so long as humans use things others create.

sometimes the decisions Microsoft makes are good. sometimes they are bad. yes, the correct decision FOR YOU is crystal clear FOR YOU, but guess what? other people exist, and what's best for them is something else.

so the majority get better representation. positively and negatively. I hate many decisions Microsoft has made, and I recognize that there is no way to please everyone. It is amazing to me how many people do not understand this.

(in this entire comment, I am using the royal "you" and I am not talking about any specific individual.)
Contact them and have a discussion with their finance department.
I've got a ReMarkable 2 and love it. I also have written and sketched in notebooks so there is that habit. But a couple of things in your comment made me say "hmm".

This stood out "... and who likes or is good at hand writing or drawing."

Over the years many folks have seen me writing in my notebook and said, "Wow I wish I could make notes like that." It motivated me for a time to carry around copies of pages from my early notebook notes which compare unfavorably to cro-magnon cave drawings :-). I would explain to them they are written for an audience of one (me) and serve to help me recall details that I might otherwise forget, so there isn't anyone judging or evaluating them. At the same time, the more you write and draw, you tend to get more capable (this is especially true if you're somewhat self critical of your own results).

So I would agree that something like the ReMarkable is a big chunk of change to spend on something you don't feel you would use, but consider that a 5 pack of quadrule or lined composition notebooks is a couple of dollars/euros when school starts and can be thrown away. A stack of those, a variety of writing instruments (I like 1mm gel pens or the BIC 4 color pens, but others like mechanical pencils or roller ball type pens) And be intentional about writing things down for a few weeks (the various habit books suggest six as a minimum number of weeks but its an experiment right?)

Then at the end of your experiment go back and review your notebook(s) and compare your awareness and "presence" in that time with a time where you were not taking notes.

My guess is that either you will say, "this is a good thing, I should do this more" or you will say "interesting but not my cup of tea." Either way, you have a good understanding of yourself and how note taking and notebooks fit into your life. At which point the decision to buy something expensive or not has the backing of your lived experience of whether or not you find it useful.
You're not wrong but there's probably a nicer way to say it.
Win10 has added this actually. It was a great feature for me coming from Win7.
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8MB would take all night on my 2400 baud modem.
Keep in mind that vaccines solve a systemic problem, and a bad vaccine can exacerbate a pandemic. Yes, vaccines can be made in a day or two, but it takes a long time to know if they are effective.
I got an ad :-)
Absolutely, the best way you can kickstart a career in which you will be heavily exploited by your employer is to show early on that you're super happy to be exploited.
... and AirBnB provides a streamlined experience connecting customers with owners.
Both jobs were in the same somewhat small city in the Midwest, they were just different sizes and have drastically different cultures.
I have come to love the feeling that the universe is broken when bug hunting. It means the solution is close at hand. If there are still lots of plausible explanations left then it means there is lots of work left to do. Things always seem most insane just before figuring it out.
You are giving them far too much credit. Do you really think Allen Dulles and the United Fruit Company murdered Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala because they were worried he might become the next Hitler? This is just one of dozens of cases where their actions were clearly not meant to benefit anyone other than the small sliver of ruling elites sitting atop the Western power structure.

Dulles literally passed around little copies of this mural because he was proud of how it depicted him! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Gloriosa_Victoria

And this is without even getting into the fact that the CIA's early leadership worked at Sullivan & Cromwell when they helped fund the Nazis' rise to power, or that they helped thousands of actual Nazis escape justice after the war in order to bring them to the US to aid in all kinds of research.
Ah, it's just one of those things like Vi or Emacs. You can argue for or against it until you turn blue in the face, but the fact is some people love it, other people hate it, and everyone gets their work done just the same. I don't know if I'm really more productive using Tailwind, but it sure feels like it... and I'm okay with that.
If you mean homeless shelters, yes, but they're horrible and most homeless (or underhoused) people would rather live in a tent than go there. The justifications given are usually assault, thievery, and not being able to bring any personal possessions. I can understand why someone wouldn't want to stay in a shelter if it meant leaving all of their belongings unattended (if you're homeless you probably don't have a storage space or a friend's garage).
You're saying because refugees manage to slip through it's clearly vulnerable to an army?
You must have some incredible debt? Or a bad gambling habit?
This is why I love Lichess. Having an API access like this for free allows for lot of fun.
The title is misleading. The AI is floorplanning human-designed logic in 6 hours. Humans are designing the logic, and AI is doing the high-level placement and routing.

It's an important step and a huge time saver, but it's nothing like AI taking in an instruction set specification or examples of input-output pairs and designing logic.
I have no idea what any of that means.
Incredible deep dive on a complex GraphQL infrastructure (Gateway + Engine). Awesome!
I’m not framing it as an absolute. I’m generalising. I accept edge cases exist but my point stands for the majority use cases.

Also you shouldn’t really be using robots.txt any more unless it’s a simple “Disallow: /“ because ironically bad actors use it to decide what URIs to hit. If you have content up you want to limit access to, you’re much better off putting it behind an auth layer (even if it’s just simple HTTP auth + fail2ban)
Retired engineer initiates 'First Amendment rights' lawsuit
hence the /s at the end of the comment
btrfs on suicide watch. This was one of the main features that made btrfs a more flexible choice. If only we can get live defrag/balancing in ZFS... that would be amazing.
See also Star News Online article about this:

Former coworker of 'brilliant, respected' Wilmington engineer speaks out about lawsuit

https://www.starnewsonline.com/story/news/2021/06/15/wilming...
Cool, I'm a big fan of instantdomainsearch (it's my goto domain search tool) and had no idea how you can lookup the domains that fast. Is it fair to say that Next.js is a big part of that performance?
Canada has the same housing cost issues that we have in the US, with arguably worse wages. Healthcare is provided, but all I'm taking from that is that it isn't a silver bullet.
It would not at all surprise me to learn that large swathes of technology are technically illegal, just not anticipated (or properly understood by the right people) or against the 'spirit' of the law.
Universities are not operating as physicians or investigators. They are not conducting medical studies. Studies of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 have been carried out and are ongoing. At least one of the vaccines will go up for full approval by the FDA in the near future.

It is possible that adverse effects will emerge that have not yet been seen. It ought to be policy that folks with a plausible claim to injury by vaccination have recourse to compensation, as through the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP); I think it is an oversight that vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 have not been included in its purview.

Although the individual risk of COVID-19 infection to younger people is significantly lower than in older people, this is not a medically homogeneous population. There are nontrivial numbers of college-aged people with chronic medical problems who are at greater risk. Moreover, those students will encounter people of a wide variety of ages, with a great variety of medical comorbidities, while on-campus.

Vaccination against communicable disease is a public good as much as an individual good. That a given person may not benefit from vaccination is not an argument against it. So long as the risk of injury is substantially lower than the probability of an individual benefit and there is a significant public health benefit, a strong utilitarian as well as deontological argument can be made for compelling vaccination.
The marketplace should probably be on datasets.
Most of those are what I described as under-the-hood-changes though.
That's one of the weirdest things you figure out traveling. There are really no rules to what life is. It can have a drastically different texture based on things about your environment that don't feel that meaningful when you just think "that's the way things always are" with no alternative to compare it to.
same here. spotify does not seem to get the user experience right unfortunately, particularly around offline/low data use. or may be it’s just me not liking “one stop shops” when it comes to podcasts and music.

i started tuning in less, but i still do.
No, it isn't extremely narrow. It is based on the truth, as shown in the article. What purpose has the CIA served other than business interests and anti-socialist ops (tied to business interests, can't have your oil fields nationalized by the local savages after all)?

How did allying with former SS commanders and other Nazis help the people? How did them stealing children from Cuba help the people? How did them supporting Cuban exiles ongoing terrorism help the people? How did Gladio ops killing any sort socialist movements in Europe help the people?

Maybe you should take a second to realize a lot of 'anti-american talking points' are actually valid criticisms of a corrupt and deranged government.
Do you carefully curate your hardware? Only purchase from a very limited selection and don't use advanced hardware features (biometric authentication, for example)?

Those are loaded questions, I'm quite sure I know the answers (yes and yes).
I know, and I don't think it makes sense. The cityscape should be in the public domain and for everyone to use, don't you agree?
OpenSCAD exists, is perfectly usable, is very cool, and stores CAD models 'as code' which is git-friendly. Professionals don't use it. I like it, but I would never standardize on it at work. I'm sure a more point-and-click front-end is certainly possible, but that nobody has tried something quite so obvious probably speaks to its incompatibility with use common use cases. I use Autodesk software daily, and merely representing 3D objects is a very small part of the utility it provides. The software is undoubtedly an unstable mess, but feature parity with Revit or just Fusion 360 is far beyond a pizza-box team of 'disruptors'. There is also a culture of professionalism and practicality in AEC that I don't see folks used to coastal VC/startup playgrounds doing well in.

I also find it pretty hard to take the contents of an article seriously when there's name-dropping of celebrity-developers whose business appears to be self-promotion. "I use vim, btw ;)" really puts the nail in the coffin for me. I'm sure CAD-but-on-electron would look great on a slide deck, though.
Now that one more or less works (not really in the map view but I assume there's an API or some other way to use the raw data). If you're trying to maintain your online anonymity, best to not be casual about revealing your SSID. Or don't choose a super-unique one. "Pretty fly for a WiFi" far from generic but there are still hundreds with that name in a single greater metropolitan area.
New tool from Japan for developers – fix errors and bugs previously undetectable
This site would benefit greatly from HTTP 2.0, but it's kinda cool to see each banner load one after another.
I recreated this feature ad-free with a Powershell script: https://github.com/gregoryjjb/fake-spotlight
Because the number of your house is there for strangers to identify your house.

Your SSID is there for you to connect to your private network. The fact that it is broadcasted is a technical limitation, and it is not intended for others beside you. Nobody besides technical people know that the SSID broadcasting can be disabled, and even less know how to use their wifi when it is disabled.
I don't think capitalism has a monopoly on this. It's an intrinsic property of any hierarchical organization.
I feel like this is a lesson that the engineer(s) on every big scale service learns the hard way... :) I wish more libraries did this sort of thing out of the box.
It protects the Baja portion, not the whole border. Significant because of the population center though and considerable logistics of taking ports intact.

Plotting exercises of invading nuclear powers is still a pretty masturbatory exercise either way.
Isn't that true of a lot of people and companies?
Any chance the ADA or similar legislation can be dropped on them for that?