skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe instead of "supposing" we could simply evaluate empirical data: the US has some of the worst health outcomes in the developed world despite spending more per capita than anyone else. Clearly something is wrong, and clearly systems like the NHS work very well.
Eh, I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss it.

One analogy I heard recently is that lots of people get covered in paint worldwide, but if you see 10 people covered in paint right next to the dulux paint factory, you should probably consider the likelihood it came from there, even if the paint factory denies it.

Let’s not forget that we are talking about the outbreak being right next to a lab which was known to have inadequate safety precautions which was trying to make bat coronaviruses jump species.

We are also talking about a strain that, if it began in a lab with inadequate safety standards, could have very easily escaped due to its high infectiousness and low detectability due to asymptomatic carriers.

Might we find it in a cave? Of course. Might we find it started in WIV? Of course.

The only people I personally think are silly are people that outright dismiss either option.
Trust is contextual. I don't trust the government to be up front about their secret aircraft, but I know that healthy people earn lots of taxable income, sick people earn less, and dead people earn nothing.
This is great news. My question is how good will the web applications be to replace the rest of gsuite.

And while I am hoping to switch to Apple Mail on my Mac w the new MacOs, I kinda need a web application as fast and swifty as gmail for search.

My concern would be that Apple keeps sticking with the UX of their Numbers and Pages applications which have never sat well with me. I want them to do a copy of word or docs and excel or sheets.

I need a web version of Google docs and sheets that is as good or superior to what gsuite has. Numbers and Pages are not it.
The “Bitcoin, Currencies and Bubbles” Paper
Azure DevOps has this concept, it’s called “semi-linear merge” where it will rebase your PR on top of the branch being merged into, but then create a 2 parent merge commit with the PR comments and text to merge the content, letting you easily reconstruct what changes were made in one PR, while also preserving commit history and keeping the history clean overall.
Which is kind of nuts considering that most people on those busses can't afford the South Bay houses they're commuting past. Otherwise there'd be no bus.

disclaimer: the windows were shot out when I was riding the Google bus a couple years back
Doesn't javac issue a warning for this? I know most IDEs do.
Yes, and this surprises me each time it happens.

As a for instance, I was the operations lead a couple years ago for a large, customer-facing financial product rollout. The timeline was insanely aggressive, approximately 10 months ahead of my prediction and predicated upon several payment and banking vendors nailing their legacy integrations out of the gate with no delay (perhaps a first in the history of the world). Several of these vendors weren't committed nor was a spec agreed upon prior to the timeline. When raising these concerns everyone acknowledged them, but mitigations or deadlines revisions we not made as it would countermand previously set expectations with the executive team.

The project continued on for another 18 months past the deadline with a "launch" set every three months. Inevitably something would derail it a week beforehand that was unexpected but known months in advance by the project team (e.g. the mainframe the payment vendor uses has a fixed column length. It will take two months to build around this to support xyz).

In the end it got rolled out. Everyone forgot about the delays and the project team was praised as the implementation did better than expected. The same technique is employed once again.

While I don't like it, I now see the estimates and re-estimates as a method for an executive team to manage a project portfolio and prioritization. It's not a good way to do it but it's easy to express priority by simply ranking deadlines.

It's much easier to avoid this in high-trust environments (typically smaller organizations).
> Flow state comes about when skill and challenge are maximized.

This is why I so rarely experience flow state. Programming is largely about learning new things. Whether its new programming languages, new libraries, new platforms, new build tools, or even just new software domains.

I've been a developer for close to 15 years and the learning never stops. It's a rare week / month where I get to just relax and code something that I've done before, or, at least have enough tangential skill to enter into a flow state where I'm not constantly looking up documentation, trying things, pouring over logs, trying more things, etc.
This is absolutely not true. While some individuals might not care and might not always conform to their companies' policies, most companies have policies, and most employees are aware of and mindful of these policies.

It's absolutely the case that before using certain libraries, most engineers in large corporations will make sure they are allowed to use that library. And if they don't, they are doing their job very badly IMO.
If those places can suddenly hit 115F then so can the Bay Area. I am not saying it is likely but who would have said it is likely that Portland would hit 115.
Does the concept of “the lesser evil” mean anything to you?

Also, in practice, Apple offers objectively much better privacy than Microsoft or Google do. For example, for over a decade now, iCloud Mail aliases let you have completely different addresses tied to your login, instead of exposing your primary address like YourRealAddress+UselessAlias@gmail.com
> more efficient roads

It's not possible. It's a geometry problem. Cars take up too much space.

And if you increase the size of the roads well, you simply induce demand, adding more space inefficient cars to clog up the road. This is why places like LA and Houston have never solved their traffic problems.

There's only really one way to move people faster, and that's to focus on moving the person with more space efficient forms of transportation (ie. trains).
It’s just very noisy data.
I said car break ins/vandalized smash and grab style, not overall car thefts (Oakland has higher stats on that one). And given that people are so used to it, the stats are probably misleading (my neighbor didn't even both to file a report)

This started with 'progressive' Gascon (who is in LA right now) and it is accelerating with Boudin to stupid high levels. Feels like you are in war torn country and not a first world city.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/04/san-fra...
Thanks! This looks really useful. I've been using https://www.npmjs.com/package/zstd-codec which simply compiles the official implementation to WASM and wraps it up for JS use. It does include the compressor too, but the end result is quite dramatically larger (3MB unzipped).
Success for the company, at the expense of everything else (the environment, public health, individual privacy, etc).
> For starters we need to shut down all coal plants and thermal coal mines (physically occupy them if necessary), cease manufacturing new ICE vehicles, and tariff any countries that don't impose carbon prices.

Fortunately we already have a cheaper alternative to coal, and are making the factories to deploy this solution as fast as we can.

This is especially important given we need to reduce global emissions by at least 99% and keep it that low for the next thousand years or so.

If we didn’t have better cheaper options, you simply wouldn’t be able to convince enough foreign governments to shut down their plants and mines with any level of tariffs at all (look at North Korea or Cuba for the effectiveness of the harshest trade restrictions the USA can pursue), never mind sustaining that economic pressure for the millennium-long atmospheric lifetime of CO2, and even doing so unilaterally would just make you poorer and industry relocate.

Good thing PV and batteries are cheaper than coal or gasoline, and are still getting cheaper. The combination should be cheaper than natural gas in a few years, PV by itself already is.
It has worked pretty well for Houston. Houston is as close to free market as you can get. It helps that much of what people call Houston isn't actually in any city boundary.
Continuous Delivery Metrics Will Start Being Mapped to Business Value and ROI
AIP is a great start but I hope people extend the ideas here a little more. A lot of this is centered around conventions that make sense to humans and to automated API generators (see Long Running Operations for an example of this).

I hope at some point someone builds more gRPC-specific API recommendations that includes streaming and ways to do a better bulk data transfers. (ex: stream-with-filters)

However, applying most of these proposals has improved APIs I've worked with and written.
Two humans will output a thousand liters of CO2 a day, so to keep that at a low level would require millions of liters of oxygen/nitrogen.

Versus several pounds of scrubbing mixture.
We don't need to force a shift. We just need to get rid of incentives for cars, like off street parking requirements and free parking.

The government shouldn't be telling people what they can or can't build (beyond safety)
You actually did take in to account the nearness of the year of Jubilee when buying or selling. The Year of Jubilee was more in the realm of property bought and sold between the Jewish people. Specifically that of productive land, family land, and indentured fellow Israelites. What you are looking for is mentioned in the Bible in Leviticus chapter 25.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+25&ve...

The responsibility for making a fair purchase/sale was actually on both parties (buyer and seller). This is conjunction with the sale of property actually being considered the right of receiving the profits the sale of the goods the property produced would have prevented pretty much all short term purchasing. A landowner would not give up their land post seeding and prior to harvest because they have already invested in it, and a purchaser is not going to purchase land after a harvest in the year before the Year of Jubilee because there is no way for them to make a profit while still keeping the land.

EDIT: That being said, there isn't really a comparison here because the leaders of the Jewish people would never had made these kind of loans to the general populace and then expect other members general populace to pay for them.
For people who are interested in ancient Greek, Podium Arts' YouTube channel is filled with professional readings of Attic Greek works, like Apologia[0], Plato's Apology

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3tlBO3agFU
There’s a whole lot of (literally) nothing between Afghanistan and anything worth bombing in Russia or China, and the US has military presence much, much closer to the important parts of those countries.

Afghanistan would be good to have in a war with Iran, but I honestly think that the opportunity for that is gone. AFAIK Iraq has gone from being a US client state to nominally independent, and Russia’s plan to prop up the Assad regime worked out very well for them.
Seattle also has this problem:

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/caught-camera-seattle-store...

and a few months back, Nordstrom had their store windows smashed out, windows that cost $50,000 each.

What we'll see is a slow evolution of street level shops into fortresses with smaller windows with bars over them. Perhaps also locked doors with a gatekeeper who decides who gets in and who doesn't.
The biggest argument against Aliens is that, any civilizations which has technology capable of travel at the speed of light, would have developed almost real life like VR. And no point in traveling all the way physically to another planet when you can experience it in VR from your home planet. Also there would be so many artificial worlds that are way too interesting than the physical universe. Plus by that point the civilization would be so advanced, the beings would no longer be tied to legacy biological physical bodies. They would be living in the "cloud". And would probably does not give a shit about Physical beings like us.
Perhaps this is the right thread to ask the question as to how people figured out what ancient Egyptian words sound.

From what I understand Rosetta Stone simply provided a dictionary of sorts, so I can understand how they know which words mean what. But how do they know that a certain combination of hieroglyphs translates into words pronounced as say “Ramses” or “Tutankhamen “ and so on.
Citation needed.

No doubt Afghanistan has resources but I'd like to see supporting evidence that it was the reason for invasion.
I did this recently for a vacation. I asked what would make me miserable on this trip? And solved for those things. It's amazing how good of a time you can have by just avoiding the biggest and most obvious pitfalls.
https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/each-countrys-share-co2-emi...
Air exchange is the most economical solution. You can’t stuff enough plants in a typical home to make a measurable difference and there are other pollutants such as VOCs that air exchange will address. Here are the two least expensive options I know of:

1) Get a CO2 monitor and partially open a couple windows whenever the level is above 800 ppm. Cost: $60.

2) Get a good air filter such as an IQAir HealthPro+ and pair it with a ducting adapter such as https://www2.iqair.com/sites/default/files/documents/InFlowW.... This will allow you to constantly exchange your indoor air with filtered fresh air. If you don’t want to install a wall intake for the duct, you can connect it to a window adapter like what is used for portable A/C units. Cost: $1,500.
Where I live is considerably larger than SF at well above 900,000 people but only a pop density of a bit above 2.5k per square mile and with plenty more land to grow into.
You can sail upwind all the same, albeit not literally straight, but by sailing zig-zag.
According to a new report, US soldiers are four times as likely to die by (cont)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.01345
No what's not? I guess you're saying they're mostly done and have everything? That's valid, I thought about that too, but I still think they might have some explonentionality events, and I also think it's hard to know how far along they were the first time they visited, maybe the first time they visited they visited on our version of the titanic, and 5 years later out time, they had concord. Who knows! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Rest is great, but. We have something similar where I work and it has done great things for API consistency. But the efficiency of resulting implementations is not good. We have no solution for simple task oriented apis like change-password. In these cases rest is fugly.
I'm still looking for some good API guidelines for rpc that are not resource oriented and don't accidentally result in hundreds of new methods.
For me it has been Fusion 360 and Adobe CC that has kept the one windows hold-out alive among my systems. I've been trying to transition to freecad and gimp (would be very grateful for any lightroom/photo management suggestions for linux) but I just haven't had the time to learn them throughly enough to switch.
Honeypots and vigilante justice?

A sudden enthusiasm for the second amendment?

I do think that racist street enforcement by the cops was effective at keeping down certain classes of crime. With BLM, the police are backing off of that.

I absolutely think that modern policing can curb petty crime without racist brutality. I think drones and other surveillance based policing can work with proper constitutional powers/design and delegation to proper public institutions with legal charters.

If it can't be done in California, well, things don't look good.
Thanks! It will be a little strange to go from a senior role to an entry role, but I’d assumed that would be the case!
Next time buy plexiglass
A new ‘digital violence’ platform maps dozens of victims of NSO Group’s spyware
Are Lopsided Elections the Solution to Political Polarization in the U.S.?
> I've been to a couple of restaurants when their payment network was down

Visa and MasterCard EMV have offline transactions baked in. Your bank could disable it on your card, but then you wouldn’t be able to buy a beer on an airplane.

I’m not sure if all terminals can be configured this way (or more likely, if anyone nearby would know how), but the functionality is baked into the visa and MasterCard standards.

But it seems like there’s only a few manufacturers of payment terminals out there and they just interface to the POS.

Here’s a popular US/Canadian restaurant software with instructions on how to put your payment terminal into store-and-forward mode when network/wifi goes down: https://www.touchbistro.com/help-articles/offline-payments-i...
> Trades are an example of getting paid as a journeyman

You’re correct in that trades people do get paid while working. However, to add some nuance, I think the rate is going to depend on the trade, company, location, education completed, and work hours completed.

My brothers have their red seal and work as tradesmen. It’s 40-50% of the journeyman rate for 1st years. There are 4 years of schooling and something like 2,000 hours of work required between each level of schooling (there is a tolerance to early start / late start). Wages increase when the apprentice hits specific hours worked milestones or school level completion milestones.

This applies to BC, Canada. As I said before, this may depend on location, so it may not be the same where you are.
Funnily enough, the Linux distribution GamerOS, which is basically a game-console-experience distribution based on the idea of SteamOS (booting directly into the game platform), just rebranded to ChimeraOS last week.

I was immediately confused.
I see your point that it could be P-hacking (as in https://xkcd.com/882/), but why would Ivermectin be so much more P-hacked than HCQ?
> Perhaps also locked doors with a gatekeeper who decides who gets in and who doesn't.

That is risky from a legal standpoint due to various discrimination laws, but the less risky way is to relocate out to a suburban area where cars are required and transportation costs filter the possible customers to skew towards wealthier people.

Or the stores can become membership only, or just shut them down and go online.
Out of Life support was a huge issue in the case I outlined above. I kept things ticking over on my side, but there were no more updates from the original vendor except for bespoke work we had to pay them for to complete annual updates for federal compliance issues. Actually we pooled together with a few organizations in the same boat to do that until we rebooted the failed project.

To give the legacy vendor credit though, It was a legacy product 5 years past its "final" EOL and kept honoring the maintenance agreement and providing ToS updates for a long time. In terms of the database itself, it probably helped that it wasn't their own: It was native to OpenVMS and hadn't substantially changed in at least a decade. Ultimately that made data migration a bit easier since industry tools for migrating from VMS systems had reached maximum maturity by the time we got around to it.

I still have a soft spot for that old system though: It lacked any sort of modern functionality newer than about 1995 and the underlying application has it's nroots in the 60's. But it was fast & I had low level access to do some complex things much more easily than the upgraded system (installed about 6 years ago). You won't get much faster than a well-tuned decades-old system running on modern hardware, at least not unless you need something that can handle medium-to-big data.
It's more than that though as it's important to remember why Moore made his law in the first place.

The rough organizational structure of a VLSI team that makes CPUs is the following pipeline:

architecture team -> team that designs the circuits which implement the architecture -> team that manufactures the circuits

The law was a message to the architecture team that by the time your architecture gets to manufacture you should expect there to be ~2x the number of transistor you have today available, and that should influence your decisions when making trade-offs.

And that held for a long time. But, if you're in a CPU architecture team today, and you operate that way, you will likely be disappointed when it comes to manufacture. Therefore one should consider Moore's law dead when architecting CPUs.
> - You can have a trackpad that doesn't suck

Go on...
Depends on the effect of general stress from the environment? Cortisol isn’t exactly a great thing for us to marinate in.

(That is way out of my field of expertise, I don’t know how to properly gauge the relative strength of effect of stress hormones vs. CO2)
Seattle is also seeing a huge rise in catalytic converter thefts, which they can sell for $1000. Organized criminals are quick to slip under a car (SUV/trucks preferred because of more ground clearance) and saw off the converter with a battery powered saw.

Just another reason why I'm reluctant to go downtown anymore.

P.S. when I moved to Seattle 40 years ago, the police were aggressive in going after shoplifters, and things were very different downtown.
Sounds like the start of the demise of Gotham, to me.
Or maybe people should RTFM

This idea that software should always come to us, and not the other way around, is untenable. And, I think, selfish.
Since you bring up the notion of Vancouver's empty homes and speculation taxes I'll follow up with the impacts of that:

* These taxes added 8000+ 'empty' homes to the rental pool overnight.

* Many "luxury" condos in development changed into purpose built rental for locals.

* The vacancy rate barely budged and remained stubbornly low.

So while it was definitely worth while to bring in these taxes in order to instantly create more housing, and change the nature of what sort of housing was being created, effectively nothing has really changed in the grand scheme of things. Vancouver still has a housing scarcity problem, and near zero vacancy, and still needs to build much more housing.

I encourage SF to do the same sort of things that Vancouver has done, but they will also need to increase apartment development massively.
while generally agreeing the experiment setup is far from perfect, I can imagine a number of physical manifestations of constant stress exposure. Heck, animals and people die from it if strong/persistent enough.

If a person can turn their dark hair grey overnight by exposure to massive stress, other effects can be present too.
How does China solve this?
Natural selection will help rodents. They could have 200-300 generations by 2100.

Big mammals not so lucky. Just 4-6 generations
I didn't write or imply that WFH provided that protection.
Imagine if they welded on a pipe to ensure the owner wouldn't notice until the next check-up.
Using government guidelines to police content: state censorship?
Isn’t that what GitHub does when the rebase strategy. Because when the rebase can’t be made cleanly GitHub still asks for conflict resolution.
Yes, Mainly Price. Synology has 2 Bay option and is also more of a Set and Forget it. TrueNAS is more of a Prosumer option.

The DS218 with BTRFS starts at $249 and that is already consider expensive by most consumer. DS220J at $169 has the same CPU and could be modded to support BTRFS with software. ( Not suggesting anyone should do it ). If it wasn't the software segmentation I just need DS220J.

Synology DS420 4 Bay starts at $499 compared to $699 for TrueNAS. And this is already going into specific needs / niche territory.

I find it unfortunate, a lot of my friends are not comfortable with Cloud or dislike the idea of monthly payment. That is why I really wish Apple put out an iOS Time Capsule, unfortunately they are too busy or focused on their Services Revenue.