skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it just depends, though you may be right that this "regimented life" is more common in the US. For myself, I'm happy to jump out in the middle of the day if a friend wants to go on an impromptu walk. But if I am planning a get-together at my house with more than a couple people, I probably will send out a calendar invitation. Not because I think the other people need it, but I do like to put things on my calendar so I don't forget when things are going on, and it's only a couple extra seconds to add the guests to it, so I might as well.

As another data point, I know people who are introverted and need a little mental preparation before seeing people, even good friends, so impromptu meetings can cause social anxiety.

> You can call a friend the same day and enjoy a cold beer after work (some time after work, punctuality not required)

I've definitely been trying to get better at the last part of this. People finish work at different times some days, sure. So it's fine to just head to the bar whenever you're done, and whoever gets there first will grab a table and just chill alone with a drink until the other person shows up, and that's the norm, not the exception. But I feel like most of the time (where I live) you try to figure out when both people will be done with work and then only meet when you can arrive at about the same time, creating unnecessary anxiety around punctuality.
Microsoft needs to go and redo the windows api at some point. Part of the reason why windows is such a terrible experience for developers is that it's so different from the posix-like apis available in macos and linux.

Maybe they should go all the way and make windows a layer on top of Linux.

I'd actually love if more OSes standardized around capability-based apis, like fuchsia.
This looks a LOT like StackBlitz WebContainers which were launched last month.

https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/introducing-webcontainers/

Is this using WebContainers? Or is it just very similar?

The HN discussion about StackBlitz focused on the problem that it would only work in Chrome… I assume that's true here as well? (Due to lack of the File System Access API?) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27223012
In Online Ed, Content Is No Longer King–Cohorts Are
In that case, how do I opt in with Microsoft service? Using _optin_nomap?
FLoC: The Privacy Scapegoat
Reminded me of this:

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

...and how many of the ads on this page are for "pixel ads" (no longer functioning of course).
Those links are for youth unemployment rate. I don't know how those are calculated across different countries. The "regular" unemployment rate is supposed to have some level of reliability for cross-national comparisons, and I don't know if that holds true for other metrics.

Looking at the overall unemployment rates, you'll see the variation is mostly in the 1-4% range.
What mechanism(s) of the housing bubble dampened housing development?
Even the Gates foundation itself wasted quite a bit of money in funding approaches to education (like "small schools") that just didn't yield good outcomes, and were sometimes harmful.
And they've also helped completely destroy housing for locals in plenty of locations in the process as owners over-leverage themselves to buy up more and more property since they can rent it on AirBnB for more than they can rent it to locals.
Royal Dutch Shell: The Dutch Court Ruling Doesn't Change Their Future
True, and maybe it's the same effect that drives ageism. Young things show promise and potential, while the old things are whatever they are, unsurprising, set in their ways.
I’ve had my local university-associated hospital knowingly overcharge & double-dip and repeatedly refuse to back down even when shown the evidence. My insurance company stepped in and resolved the situation by reminding the hospital about which billing practices are not legal.
These stories are amazing to read as a Canadian. I recently went to my doctor for chronic foot pain and I was into the MRI within a week (albeit at 3AM) and didn't pay a cent.

I have received multiple offers to work in the US as a dev but the quality of life and safety nets here in Canada are more important to me than a higher salary.
"Artificial scarcity" is indeed a thing - the author of software or a book or whatever has exclusive rights to authorize making copies, and if they choose not to authorize any (more) copies, then the legal answer is indeed that you can't get it. They can make a limited print run, they can make a time-limited offer, and they're also free to authorize just one or ten or no copies ever, and that's their right to choose so. Compensation to authors is essentially just a side-effect, the core copy-right is the right to control most (there are exceptions) making of copies.

But that's not really related to US legal system or 'western countries', the core principles of copyright are the same almost universally across the globe - here's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention#/media/File:B... a map of Berne convention signatories, there are just a few countries where that doesn't apply. The strictness and likelihood of enforcement of those laws varies a lot, though.
Article is from 2017 - would be good if this was in the title.
Isn't distributing it the means by which it's made immutable? i.e. you can't mutate it unless you control at least half the network?
But there are integrals that you can easily solve by hand but both WolframAlpha and sage will (effectively) timeout on them. And I’m not even talking about something made deliberately hard for computers to symbolically analyze.
Maybe because whichever of the 195 countries is sending them is mostly interested in probing US defenses.
And if both are present, you agree to enter the Premium plan
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IMO this is an underrated setup. Laptops are nice, but having an 'official', stationary, desktop computer builds up associations and mindsets that help with whatever it is you do on it. I didn't have a desktop until I was 26 and it was like going from studying in random chairs and tables to having a proper desk.
By no means I am defending Amazon, but

> make such huge investments in the one public platform we've got

How are things like AMP justifying this goal?

Ofc every company is doing things to advance its own interests, in that regard, Amazon has 0 incentives to share customer data which is truly unique/invaluable, with Google, or any 3rd parties.
Printers smell our fear and desperation.
I agree that health insurance companies should go, but I don’t know how we could accomplish this. Health insurance is a Trillion dollar industry, and that means there are a lot of people making a lot of money that have a lot of incentive for everything to stay exactly as it is.
Same happened to me, was in public a lot that February, got a terrible flu that laid me up. Got tested twice (two different antibodies tests) a few months later and both negative.

Just a bad coincidence but I suppose I could count myself lucky.
We very regularly associate things with their origin. We did so almost this entire last year when we talked about variants of COVID-19. And in the early days of COVID-19, in China, in their airports, the virus was called "Wuhan virus" on signage. Those names were also used in news reports regularly. I agree that something like "kung flu" is inappropriate, but I don't agree that "China virus" or "Wuhan virus" are inappropriate, and don't think they were controversial until they were deemed as such for what seems like political reasons.

> wanted to ban travel for people holding PRC passports

Banning by passport makes some sense. We can't prevent US citizens from returning to their homes. But we can prevent others from traveling to the US. It might make sense to ban all passports except the US for flights originating from China, but then you end up dragging in connecting flights through China from other countries. In terms of a quick, easy to implement measure, that will at least reduce the number of imported cases, banning travel based on PRC passports seems logical.

> the disease had spread widely enough that there weren't really many places that should have been whitelisted

Surely, given that we do care about just controlling the numbers even if it is not perfect (like with "flatten the curve"), it makes some sense to focus on the epicenter.
The way I think about it is that comments needs to provide information that is both new and useful, where "new" and "useful" depend on the audience

http://jeremymikkola.com/posts/2021_03_21_useful_comments.ht...
> I want to live as the locals,

You do this in AirBnB by actively harming the locals. You do realize this right? Every AirBnB in a 'local' area is one less house for the actual locals to live in. It's becoming a huge problem in many cities in the world.
You had the same experience in late Jan of 2020 or 2021?
In theory, yes. But is anyone actually effectively writing apps in that way? I can't think of a single good example I've seen in the wild.

Most of the time the app is either large and sprawling, updated frequently, or XHR fetches are written in an inefficient way. All of these nullify the benefits from the model of having cached application code. For example if you're waiting for your JS app to initialise, then fetching XHR in a serial way you're probably slower than an SSR page that is sending a data blob down inline.

I'd say SSR is a good rule of thumb, and the few people who build SPAs who can make use of this will know when to break that rule.
Crypto is a tradable asset, and like any other tradable asset you can make money with it. In other words you can make money with money, just like a bank, only decentralized. It's not about the technology of the banks or crypto per se, but the primary function of what banks actually do, which is save or lend money (really both).

If you think crypto currency was created to buy hamburgers, or make your energy bill more efficient to pay, as the saying goes " you can't see the forest for the trees". When was the last time you used bond certificate to pay for dinner?

The fact that people are making money and lots of it in crypto using traditional financial instruments is all the proof you need to know that it has a use case.
Its not just heavily regulated, it's also one of the most indirect markets that exists. People often have no idea how much their health insurance actually costs in the first place, and they have no idea how much their insurance may or may not pay for any given procedure, or how much a procedure will be billed for, or even if a single procedure will result in 1-10+ different bills.

Since the people giving care often have to provide care irrespective of ability to pay, they have no idea what anything costs.

Since Insurance companies generally aren't paid by individual people that use their service, and have discretion in what they pay the process is as difficult as possible for providers and users of medical services to navigate.
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I'm surprised they don't already do that?
I don't really know if her name is involved in mockery per-se - I think she's more of an example of both 1) how quickly a pandemic can spread and 2) the fact that asymptomatic carriers are a real danger since they can continue working and interacting in society as normal while just as virulent as someone coughing up a lung.

During this pandemic society has been extremely aware of the dangers of assuming someone is fine and not a carrier by their appearance - we've managed to normalize temperature testing, hand washing and wearing a mask regardless of your symptoms. I wouldn't hold ill will against Mary Mallon myself - I think her terrible experience ended up being a huge wake up call to public safety.

"The public" is really fucking bad at learning responsible behavior.
I'm surprised the article doesn't mention Rhino/Grasshopper, considering how prevalent it is.
Not exactly the same - you can drop edits from Wikipedia history (given appropriate access) and nobody would know.
When the M2 Mac Pro drops, the tables will turn: no PC will even nearly match it.
Which means another property off the long-term rental market in the area, further contributing to housing crises worldwide.
It would be interesting to see how many of those who thought they had it prior to Feb/March 2020 ended up getting Covid later, as it would mostly rule those anecdotes out.
Those ads were annoying enough that Kompressor wrote a song about them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF8NK6eruUs
That's more of an argument for them being overused, not for them being useless.
Check out Prandtl's Boundary Layer Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_layer

It's a set of smart physical observations/assumptions that allow you to find closed form solutions for the Navier Stokes equations in fluid mechanics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier–Stokes_equations for the important case of flow close to some body, such as an airfoil.
I had something similar in 2017
Do you really think they wouldn't acknowledge the upsides of a laptop? Why is that relevant to raw flops/dollar?
> This is different from Git or Wikipedia which make document-level snapshots.

I believe you're wrong, git commits are diffs, not snapshots.
We are using blockchain for identity verification in Canada (verified.me)

7 banks and 4 telecom companies are nodes on the network. They provide the identity details of a person.

Very interesting use case. Take a look
Where is this idea even coming from?

Boomers wrought this cancerous thinking onto us. Can't wait for them to all be dead.
// reuse counter for performance, this brings 2% speedup
total_count = 0;

would be a quite useful why comment, if not creating a new variable each time is intentional
I agree this is going to be hard for some to understand but there is no difference if you work hard for your money or just wait to have it handed out to by someone richer than you.
I'm all for applying whatever tool works. If somebody is suffering, and religion/spirituality can help them without too many side effects, let's apply it.

However... it's not like people haven't been self-treating with religion since time immemorial. Certainly longer than psychiatry. And it's usually cheaper than a therapist. So people tend to try that first, and go for a medical route only after religion has failed them.

The article cites a study with some positive results, but psychiatry is an area rife with unreproducible studies. This seems to warrant more study, but it wouldn't surprise me if there are a lot of contradictory results.

I'd really like to see it work. It does seem reasonable that some patients find spirituality to be a tool for coping, and psychiatry can benefit from that. At the least it sounds as if it shouldn't be, "Well, religion failed you, now let's chuck it and try something different."
You'd probably enjoy this collage of GeoCities vibes:

https://www.cameronsworld.net/
Others have done ballpark figures based on what you've said. And as someone who has lived in San Francisco making even less at times, I agree that you should be able to build up at least several months savings.

Unless: you have some crippling college debt ($20k/semester*8 semesters paid over ? years), or have a persistent medical issue ($10k/yr out of pocket), or another terrible corner case that I haven't had the displeasure of encountering.
The free version of it does but the Pro version will calculate it.
>I have a feeling this ain't gonna age well.

People have been warning of this since 2014 when Facebook bought out WhatsApp.Even 2012 when Facbeook bought out Instagram. Maybe it will end well and surpass everyone's expectations. Why don't people ever predict that?
What was frustrating to me, in the days before this sort of thing was all over YouTube, was reading that Feynman had a magical technique in biographies and so on, but not being able to find any reference to what the damn trick was.
i barely recall a product that used a smart phone and app as the "backend" of a drone, the front end being a phone cradle and a vehicle [terrestrial; aerial; or aquatic flavours available] simply textto: yourdrone: or radio link for manual piloting.
What's obvious now might not be obvious later or to another person.
Edited-in the year, apologies. It was Jan 2020.
> If someone had just bought shares of these three stocks a decade ago and turned off their computer,went outside, and did nothing else, they would have beat probably 99.5% of money managers/funds.

Will that be true a decade from now? For these companies to 10x again would end up with massive market caps, nearly $20T for AMZN.
Sweden is unusual in that way. You often hear about that it's one of the countries with the most equal income distribution but at the same time it has one of the highest wealth inequalities. Basically it's hard to make any money by working you have to own things.
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Generally I define a 3rd world country as a place that has a lot of inequality, corruption across the board, poor to no worker protection, failing and antiquated infrastructure, no free access to health care, high incarceration rate, persecution of journalists, a large working poor population with no ability to move up the social ladder, etc.

Which one of those does the US not have?
There's nothing better than a huge display with high resolution, keyboard and mouse. The computer might be in a separate chassis or a laptop or whatever but a huge display and a mouse are indispensable.
> Even the housing bubble had some upside: It created more housing inventory, and since the new houses were quite standardized, that made it great training data for “iBuying” algorithms — the rare case where the bubble is low-tech but the consequences are higher-tech.

Yeah who cares that people lost their homes and their mental health. Honestly, wtf is this hell I am living in?
I’d be very interested in any bucket shop wikipedia articles you might have stumbled across if you care to share! Or any historical cases of securities fraud that pre-date/coincide with the Martin Act, ‘33 Act, and ‘34 Act, if anyone happens to know of any worth sharing.
All of those musician's workstations have the actual computer hidden somewhere out of sight. There's a monitor or two, a computer keyboard lying around(all wireless, it looks like?), but all those desks are dominated by musical keyboards, mixer boards, and speakers. Sometimes there's a laptop sitting on it. All the cables are hidden, out of the way.

Take away the monitors and the computer keyboard, substitute a couple of multi-track reel-to-reel tape decks, and it looks exactly like what I'd see when I'd visit my dad at his audio engineer job in the 1970s.

The computer itself is just an appliance, stick it under the desk next to the mini-fridge. Maximize the available surface used for getting the work done; as long as the computer's got enough airflow to not overheat when you push it hard, who cares where it is?

Well, gamers care I guess, they all have those crazy light-up cases with clear sides to show off how much they spent on their custom-built rig. The computer's become an object of desire there.
700k GPUs Shipped to Cryptominers in the First Quarter of 2021
Ok so putting this all together, if you run a hidden network at home that means your phone HAS to use a directed probe request to find that network which it will keep trying to do when you are out and about. Am I reading that right?

If so the best way to have a phone that doesn't leak is to have a home network that does... maybe?
I own both Remarkable and an the same size android eink tablet which I ordered on kickstarter. I use my remerkable tablet almost everywhere from reading and annotating PDFs to making excessively complex calculations for my PhD and sending them directly to my supervisour. The best part that I can just lay on the bed while I do so ;)

I thought it would be great to read online articles as I read books on remarkable, check email and etc. so I ordered another Android eink tablet. It was a great purchasing mistake which I barely use today.

The morale is that eink screen is very limited with it's refresh rate and lack of color making software as significant as hardware.
Yes, it was a descendent. Instacart is a descendent of Webvan too. The idea is the same but Amazon already had preexisting technology and market dominance. You can't compare Webvan to Amazon.
Below, you say

but at the school level what can they do?

Lots, actually, but it's very resource constrained, so once again, the relationship between money-poor schools and bad students plays out.

There are a variety of diversion programs that have been tried and shown great success with problem kids, but that requires staffing so that disruptors get more teacher attention than they otherwise would in a class of 35. Having competent, active counselling services in schools does a lot, too.

With that said, it's not my wife's experience (as an inner city high school teacher) that disruptors are the problem. They're a problem, but there are lots of ways to handle them, individually or in groups.

The way kids get shafted in poor schools is high teacher:student ratios that reduce or eliminate any individual attention a kid might receive, coupled with poor facilities and supplies. You rightly identify parental involvement as a key factor in school success, but the flip side is that kids lacking parental involvement are denied any individual attention in schools that are simply overcrowded and understaffed. And the kind of attention I'm talking about isn't substitute parenting, it's just following up with kids on assignments and attendance.
> So you think its better to simply feed these folks and ensure they are ok will somehow motivate them to work ?

Care to show me where I said any such thing, or even implied it?

> Perhaps instead of letting the govt get away with violating the rules it was bound by we start enforcing the rules ?

To what end? I feel like you’re just agreeing with the sentiment of the top level comment, that we need to do a better job ensuring that social mobility is more than an illusion.

I also feel like you’re ascribing some rabid anti-capitalist sentiment to me and/or the top level commenter when, in fact (again), I don’t think either of us expressed any such sentiment, even implicitly. I happen to agree (?) with you that capitalism in concert with strong social programs to ensure the independence and mobility of labor (in economics I believe we may call that “liquidity”, which is said to increase allocative efficiency) is the right way to go.
That was really enjoyable to read, thanks for sharing.
you can still have counterparties hold portions of keys for recovery purposes and those counterparties would have less visibility into your online activities than current "sso for the web" offerings from large internet companies.
Please make your substantive points without downvote-baiting, which is explicitly against the site guidelines.

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