skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Things can always get worse.

Consider what would happen if brokers disappear and your application is rejected by an AI from a company that most landlords use.
You're right except, they will when the price goes up. I think that's the implication here - middle class would have to adjust their lifestyles to good/services that are no longer cheap.
As a counterargument, the web platform has multiple "frontends" (multiple, unrelated codebases that interpret HTML and JS and CSS, not just multiple engines/renderers), and the argument to avoid the monoculture seems good there.

Although, hm, I suppose you could argue that if there were one libhtml5 and Gecko and Blink and WebKit all used that, but they had different "backends," that might be even better than the current situation - that the value of having multiple web browsers is in the equivalent to the backends, not in the equivalent to the frontends.
Forget the software.

How did hardware get so good? When you think of many, many gigabytes of RAM, all those billions and billions of bits and it checks out as flawless, I am gobsmacked at the perfection.
At some point, I would think you at least need some kind of regulation with stable coins.

You don't need that big of a correction from here for the sum of Tether/USD Coin/Binance USD to overtake ETH even.

If that happens then what is this space even about? Why would the second biggest coin basically be USD? What fits the crypto narrative less than that?

Ultimately, the stock market was not better in the 20s with bucket shops, syndicates, wash trading, all kinds of nonsense.

I am a big crypto fan long term but I need less bullshit that I have read about in market history books.
Climate change doesn't necessarily mean everything will get hotter and scorched and we all have to move to northern Canada. It means things will be different than they were historically in ways we don't necessarily understand that well. There's plenty of evidence that past warming periods caused the Sahara to green by shifting the African monsoon patterns farther north on the continent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_humid_period

Current climate change seems to be messing with the jet stream in North America in ways that diverge from historical data. Then you get things like your yard scorching in Portland this summer and my hedges freezing and dying in Austin this winter. We've built a huge amount of infrastructure on assumptions about local weather patterns that may now be invalid.
I'm in a similar situation. Partially have self-serving hope, but agreed that the game is starting to shift. The goal is now to buy enough time with the current drug you can move to the next version. So if you get 3 years from the drug and new ones come out every 2, you might get to die of something else.

Also aggregated death rates will always lag if treatments are improving.
F-stop is the relevant property for exposure, but not for the total amount of light collected by the sensor, which is what determines the noise level (all else being equal). Exposure is light per unit area.

I do think that focusing on sensor size is unhelpful when thinking about noise levels. Big sensors do not magically collect more light simply in virtue of being bigger. They can only do so if you’re able to put a bigger hole in front of them (again, holding constant the angle of view). The use of very wide apertures is inherently more practical with smaller sensors.

As for using wide apertures with a DSLR, this is of course possible, but only in cases where a shallow depth of field is acceptable. On a cell phone camera f1.8 will almost always give sufficient depth of field. Realistically speaking most photos on a DSLR will be taken a few stops down from that.

It’s undoubtedly the case that DSLRs have an advantage over phones in terms of noise levels, but you have to consider the whole optical system to estimate the magnitude of the difference, not just the size of the sensor.
Burn the Ships - Constraints breed creativity, focus, and life
> Like, that thing above is promoted all the time - while Americans are getting heavier and heavier. And while most people who loose weight gain it back again and some more.

I suspect that this is largely because for the average person, the majority of their physical activity is a response to the physical organization of their environment rather than a specific lifestyle choice. We've spent the past ~70 years filling America with places where not only does one need to deliberately seek out excuses to physically move, economic and infrastructure factors might also demand that one spend upwards of an hour per day sitting in a motor vehicle.
Ending the extended unemployment benefits only reduces the weekly unemployment payment. In my state that was an extra $300/week. Our Governor got rid of that, but the labor shortage remains.
Some jobs cannot be outsourced, for example from the article, baking pizzas.
> Speaking of the number 4, awesome my comment already at -4, which is the cap.

I cannot believe how flippantly you're responding to someone who told the story of their dad passing away due to cancer, and yet you have the gall to also whine about downvotes.
You know, you gain seats by gaining population. Just because one state is growing faster doesn't mean another is losing people. Those are hardly dependent nor even expected (California gained it's massive population despite an overall high growth rate of the rest of the nation).
I had the same problem. ```550 5.4.1 Recipient address rejected: Access denied. AS(201806281) [BN8NAM11FT010.eop-nam11.prod.protection.outlook.com] ```
First one is totally valid, and honestly a bit chilling. Not sure why that wasn't obvious to me.

The 2nd one seems dubious to me: in my experience, people are moving to remote-friendly jobs from within the US...it doesn't explain why we have a shortage of people making pizza.

The last one is the one I'm struggling with: I don't knock people at ALL for making those choices, but if they're struggling to survive and (as others have noted in response to me) unemployment insurance has ended, what are they doing instead of taking a job?
Surface air temperature for June 2021
Not to be morbid, but dead people don't consume, either. You are right that they are no longer in the labor pool, but they are also no longer in the consumer pool.

Given that Covid disproportionately kills elderly people, who are out of the labor pool but still consuming, I would think their deaths would cause a greater reduction in consumer demand than in labor supply.
The final step is to break down these monopolies. The government can do that and has done it before.
It may rule them out. But many standard-of-care chemo drugs are quite cheap.

When I had leukemia, my first rounds of chemo used cheap drugs. (The drugs were far cheaper than the daily hospitalization costs, which was required due to drugs obliterating the immune system.) The insurance company didn't require any oversight into the process.

But once the chemo stopped working and a much more expensive treatment was needed, the insurance company became quite a pest. I'm fortunate have saved a lot of money, so I didn't delay treatment until insurance approved it. (The 2-3 weeks between treatment starting and the final approval from insurance may have actually made a difference between life-and-death when dealing with aggressive leukemia.)
Just a reminder that in the 19th Century we killed off billions and billions of passenger pigeons until they went completely extinct. They were the most abundant bird in North America and we literally killed them all. Humans causing massive damage to our environment isn't anything novel unfortunately.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon
Just my little data point but I moved into a sleepy little ID town that has a lot of people that have moved here from SoCal, and of the 5 people I asked "what brought all the way up to Idaho from California?" 4 of them commented on how expensive California was and the high cost of living. 3 of them also stated that they didn't like how things were happening in Cali.

Again small anecdotal data point but take it for what it is worth.
Well...I personally wouldn't want to stop at unemployment benefits, but I'm not trying to make that case here because I understand there's a lot more moving pieces and it's much tougher case to make.
> What the heck do they expect people to do here? This forces people to know what positions are open ahead of time, and if they don't, they're basically throwing applications into the wind. Just post the damn openings!

It's a small restaurant, not a tech company. You're either working in the kitchen or front of house. People in the food service industry basically know the drill. You don't really need a job listing with bullet points of every responsibility because they're not really unique to each restaurant.
> "West Nile [disease] is ruled out. . . Everything has been ruled out. To date, we still do not know," says Monsma, citing tests conducted by Wildlife's clinic director, Cheryl Chooljian.

I’m no expert in this, but I’m going to guess that destroying their habitats may be to blame.
That's a general decline in populations. This is a new and very distinctive disease that has been recognized and is spreading rapidly in certain species.
fully valid women who were born with penises are 1000x underrepresented in your completely arbitrary 'women' group, therefore should get 1000x weighting to their opinion
Amazing! Congrats on the launch. We are looking foward to use it!
Its easy to forget that heart-disease kills as many smokers as Cancer. Vaping is still ingesting mystery compounds & heavy metals directly into the blood stream for the body's immune system to freak out on. https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/heal...
https://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2018/study-lead-and...
Dad bought a similar clock few years back in west coast of Lithuania. Apparently it always resets by one hour back which I assume is a time signal from Sweden. No way to disable it so he just lives with it lol.
I think you're referring to the hole drilled in Oklahoma back in the seventies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Rogers
But eventually the standard unemployment will run out too, right?
There's nothing unfortunate or that needs to be done about women leaving the workplace to take care of their kids and deciding to continue.
That’s a great idea!
Thanks!
UberWAV (wheelchair accessible vehicle) is a thing in “select markets”: https://www.uber.com/us/en/ride/uberwav/

No idea how it works in practice but it’s a thing in Toronto.
It makes the math harder, but it is still about supply and demand.
Let's first define "bad advice" and "good advice."

"good advice" - Advice that actually works, and makes the person like you more

"bad advice" - Advice that doesn't help the person and makes the person like you less.

"Eat less food" would fall in the latter category, pretty obviously.

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"Everybody should have infinite self control" is an obscenely naive starting point that erases the whole practical problem. The practical problem is "What habits require the minimum amount of self-control/unpleasantness to get the results I desire"?
It's almost like capital owners take workers for granted.

Why would people not spend their lives to make capital owners rich? /s
I mean we are but what does that have to do with swollen eyes and neurological impairment?
Depends where you live - you may have selection bias. When I go back home away from the wealthy bubble I see a whole lot of “dirty” living around and not a whole lot of wanting to change.
ah ok, phew! I guess the OP just didn't know about that - they seemed surprised it was recoverable!
Remote for me but not for thee
Duplicate? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27771689

(Repeating my comment here, since I think the topic is highly relevant and should be discussed)

This reminds me of "Unauthorized Bread" by Cory Doctorow, which describes a dystopia like this - see https://craphound.com/category/radicalized-full/ for Doctorow's site and https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-... for an excerpt.
Maybe. But even if true, the shift wouldn't be instantaneous.

Hence, lots of lower-to-mid timeframe unemployment.
Definitely agree that the habitat destruction we have inflicted upon the animals we share the planet with is sad.

The article is about a specific disease though that birds in the eastern US have started suffering from this spring/summer.
I’m kinda the opposite. I tried to be like this and it broke my brain.
> Clearly brokers are doing something or else people wouldn't pay for them.

There's a great Joel Spolsky comment[0] that explains why landlords use brokers. They perform work that would otherwise be done by the landlord.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9961727
131F (55C) forecast for Sunday. Possible global record
It really doesn't take an expert to recognize the cause on a macro-level - destroying their habitats, an infinite number of chemicals making their way through the food chain, air pollution, climate change, fewer insects.

If anything, this seems like a predictable outcome.
Well, although taxes are usually effective, they affect more the low and middle classes than the rich, as they can opt to pay and enjoy life as usual. Exemption to activities that are mostly enjoyed by the rich is quite absurd.

People will be more thoughtful and less cynical when the rich take a serious attitude at ecology and inequality.
Yeah, sorry. I'm not correcting anything you said, I agree with you. Just expanding. I think the way I wrote this it sounded more like an argument than I meant it to.

There are spaces I'm a part of that consider HN to be basically Right-wing, and there are a few spaces I encounter that consider it to be Left-wing. It just comes down to what those communities consider to be normal, it's expected that different communities have different standards of what is and isn't objectionable to say.
A Nintendo Entertainment System has been mounted in the chassis of a toaster for the deliciously absurd aesthetic thereof.
That might be a blessing on mars.
Urs is kind of quite assured of himself about a lot of technical decisions. Probably because he blueprinted TI, and contributed directly to some of the key decisions (warehouse-scale computer, as one example, although I am not sure if he or Luiz is more principal). He largely no longer made any good decision since the google plus era?

I read somewhere it states that Urs was behind the push of google plus.

Urs missed Cloud. Half-heartedly built GAE, which is technically superior, but mediocrely implemented.

Urs decided to defund internal development, in order to boost Cloud, after realizing google was years behind. That was a laughable technical decision.

Personally, Urs shows some form of personal distaste towards a few old but still working systems, and tried to make them disappear by cutting off their resources. borgcfg was one of them. Another evidence of Urs losing touch of the technical reality. borgcfg code is right behind C++, Java, the 3rd most human written code in Google. Make it disappear by cutting off its resources is essentially making almost every engineer suffer at Google... (I am behind the effort to revitalize borgcfg, and experienced the ridiculousness behind this view).
What an ambitious vision! This is a really neat concept and a great breakdown of the interesting challenges with making a great text-based experience for game users.

My kid was interested in starting with game programming a few years ago and I tried to push him down the path of a text adventure to start simple... and I recall not being happy with the text game engines I stumbled upon.

Here are some links I tracked down to play with it more:

* Main website: https://egamebook.com/

* Knights of San Francisco game: https://egamebook.com/knights/

* Game engine source: https://github.com/filiph/egamebook

* Quickstart to run locally: https://github.com/filiph/egamebook/tree/master/edgehead#dev...

* A web-based prototype https://egamebook.com/vermin/v/latest/

Edit/Update: Contrasting the game on my phone with the how it plays in the terminal, while looking at the source files is blowing my mind :). The phone game rendering is really slick/polished -- I can see this was a labor of love. Nicely done.

Here's the starting point of the game's text source if anyone else is interested... https://github.com/filiph/egamebook/blob/master/edgehead/ass...
Thermal fusion rockets, meanwhile, languish. The Princeton group got some money, but under current plans cannot hope to fly a test vehicle before 2035. Yet another victim of the Tokamak mirage.

Field-reversed configuration, D-H3, aneutronic.
Building a good process into your company to receive a query, execute it against a read-only database, and shovel the results back to the user as a CSV file will pay dividends and is, honestly, pretty trivial in most cases.
Yes because the input latency on os9 under a G4 it's almost inexistent. There are unnoficial patches for media production:

http://macos9lives.com/

http://macos9lives.com/mac%20os%209%20lives_005.htm

I am more like a Void/OpenBSD guy with Unix and CLI tools, but people keeping old machines being useful it's always good.
Deeply worrying. And it looks like we might get a new world record on Sunday in Death Valley.
Done well (like here), The Goal like storytelling, is both educational and interesting.
Unemployment insurance hasn't necessarily ended. The extended benefits have in many case though. Those extended benefits included things like more money per week and benefits for longer.

Regarding increased competition for people working from home, you're right. It might not be a huge factor, but I know two people who used to work in IRL service roles pre-covid who now work for call centers from their homes. So it is a possible factor even if it's a small one.
Hm, I actually see this as an advantage of these alternative frontends since there is far less incentive to be pulled down some rabbit hole. Without recommendations and autoplay the thing just plays the video you point it at and stops without trying to entice you to stay just a bit longer [1].

[1] ...cue audio from that ancient C64 game: Another visitor, stay a while, stay FOREVER... https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Impossible_Mission
Let's hope this doesn't jump to us.
Curiosity rover finds patches of rock record erased, revealing clues
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), which looks after the booking system, said using the script is a breach of their rules, and it discourages its use.
They're savvy enough to pay for a nice site, but not savvy enough to add a couple lines of text on their website? Not buying it, sorry.

I (mostly) agree with your point about how the food industry operates, but in this situation, the company agreed to be interviewed by the media in order to make a larger statement about the economy. When there are trivial things they can do, but aren't, I'm not sure how it fits into a narrative about the larger economy.

Edit, this is literally all they need to do: https://i.imgur.com/KY08Hne.png
I’m glad you’re here and a survivor of that hell. Yes, what you are describing is a very real problem. It’s something we need congressional action on. Call it a surprise medical bill but more rather a surprise insurance denial. I am no stranger to insurance battles…

I actually should have put it differently. Precision medicine will bring new treatments to the standard of care because we will be able to find the correct drug for you or me.
Housing prices don't ever stop here, a lack of CGT and aggressively lending banks means a very unhealthy amount of capital ends up in residential real-estate.

My wife and I bought a 1950s, 5 bedroom house 30 minutes north of Christchurch for $520K in 2018. Estimated market price is now $640K. Not bad capital gains in two years... ...not that we're selling until some kids move out of home.

Prices have also been pushed up by expats with considerable purchasing power fleeing Covid, and supply that is very far behind demand.

There was something like 1 million Kiwis living overseas before Covid, which is 20% of the population here.
Anecdotal data that you do not collect yourself is subject manipulation (both deliberate and incidental) by the people who do collect it. There are over 300 million people in the US, you can collect anecdotal data for just about any narrative you want.

Anecdotal data you collect yourself is subject to your own biases, but is probably a decent reflection of the bubble you live in.
Could high levels of CO2 be the cause?

CO2 at 800ppm has a huge impact on mouse lungs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27721892

Could lower levels (400s ppm) have an impact on other parts of animals?
Well it's not documented for resource groups, so their surprise is expected. The fact that it applies to resource groups is based on empirical evidence.
There's a great documentary called "the messenger" on this topic of declining bird populations

https://youtu.be/3xXV95gYHC8
> [Caption to the lead photo] Zack Morrison, a 29-year-old filmmaker and Columbia University MFA film graduate, worries about how he will pay off his school loan balance of nearly $300,000.

$300k for an MFA? Surely it doesn't take that much sense to realize this is not a good investment.
> Experts do still have their theories. And one of them links the disease with the arrival of Brood-X cicadas that made their appearance around late April to early May — the same time people started to notice the dead birds.

A different article makes the possible connection more clear:

> Some people commenting on Facebook and elsewhere speculate that people are spraying chemicals to deal with the current cicada emergence and that may be impacting the birds. There is absolutely no reason to spray cicadas, as the Animal Welfare League of Arlington said on Twitter:

https://www.birdwatchingdaily.com/news/birdwatching/terribly...

The tweet says:

> DON'T use insecticide on cicadas! Remember that many animals, including birds, bats, dogs, and cats, eat cicadas and can get very sick if they ingest insecticide. Help us keep local animals safe and well - the cicadas won't be here for that long, anyway!

https://twitter.com/AWLAArlington/status/1397332919639805955

Given that no pathogen has been found, this would seem to be a viable working hypothesis.

edit:

On the other hand, the birdwatchingdaily article also notes:

> In the last 10 days, people in the Washington, D.C., metro area have been reporting increasing numbers of sick, blind, injured, and dead birds. For the most part, they have been juvenile Common Grackles, European Starlings, and Blue Jays.

To be consistent with the hypothesis, these birds should be carnivorous.

edit:

> The common grackle forages on the ground, in shallow water, or in shrubs; it may steal food from other birds. It is omnivorous, eating insects, minnows, frogs, eggs, berries, seeds, grain, and even small birds and mice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_grackle

> The common starling is largely insectivorous and feeds on both pest and other arthropods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_starling

> The blue jay feeds mainly on seeds and nuts, such as acorns, which it may hide to eat later;[2] soft fruits; arthropods; and occasionally small vertebrates. It typically gleans food from trees, shrubs, and the ground, and sometimes hawks insects from the air. Blue jays can be very aggressive to other birds; they sometimes raid nests, and have decapitated other birds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_jay
Sure. It's been done before by humans but now we aren't deliberately killing off these species. We are just existing and through the consequences of our behaviors we are killing them. We are all killing off species at a rate humans never before could.
I read about an instance where one of the cartels kidnapped a couple telcom engineers working in Brownsville to force them to help set up this kind of infrastructure.

Truly scary and ruthless people.
> How things were happening

What does that mean?
I really wish it were easy to do this as a non-citizen.