skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and no. I feel that not doing certain things is a very simple thing to "do" things - and I appreciate simplicity.

For example, I would probably prefer getting rid of half of the cars and trying to find ways so that people do not need to move that much, if they do not want to (for example making all possibly remote remote work actually remote) - as opposed to making all cars electric.
You must be misunderstanding what I’m arguing.

I’m saying nothing about the actual law passed or how it wasn’t reported on.

What I’m saying is that the article linked talks about banning encryption or mandating back doors, and that law would be very controversial (much more than this one) so that law couldn’t just be passed unnoticed.

The future law text about banning encryption might be written some day and I too hope we have plenty of time to nag reps before it ever gets to a vote. This could be years from now, if ever.
How to Turn Awkwardness into Attraction
Exactly. And even if there are worldwide users, it's still a community, it's still its own insulated market of ideas.

I don't think there's anything about free speech that says that only Americans should be able to form communities with each other, or that communities should be restricted to a single continent.

This would be a problem if HN dominated the entire industry and it was the only place to talk about tech, but... it's not. It's just not the same concern as talking about something like Youtube, where not only is Youtube extremely dominant, it's also hard to integrate with and hard to replicate because of high hosting costs. Heck, HN is one of the best places to build organic direct contacts with people. It's one of the few places online where if you have a popular site, you will get asked about direct RSS feeds, you will occasionally get direct emails from people. So I just don't get the analogy people draw between HN and, say, Facebook. I can't even read most business listings on FB without an account, it's entirely different beast to compete with.

I don't see any problem with a community of tech people worldwide having a site where they talk about tech, and part of that is always going to be that the people who use HN end up skewing in certain directions. There's no such thing as a neutral community, there are always predominant ideas, and there are always ideas that the community will find distasteful.

You can argue whether HN's specific biases are good, I think some of them are quite harmful, and I'm sometimes upset at the way this community skews on multiple issues. But I don't think it's a risk to free speech that those biases exist.
Your solution could definitely work, it's just less humane, so there are fewer people who naturally want to advocate for it.

You might ask yourself why you want to stop at cutting unemployment benefits, when there are even more effective ways to coerce people into working.
Imagine asking this guy what he wants for breakfast!
Yeah, I don't understand this at all.... if they can't pay enough to attract labor because it will make them unable to be profitable, than it is false to say "business would be booming".

Yeah, lots of businesses would be booming if they didn't have to pay market rate for key materials. You don't see many articles about manufacturers saying "my business would be booming if I only had to pay half the going rate for steel!"
I haven't been there in a decade, but back in ~2010 I remember it being slightly cheaper than American, and noticeably cheaper than Australia. Have things changed?
There's a really philosophical question here about whether Copilot is learning or imitating.

For instance, a parrot doesn't learn to speak, it learns to imitate speech.
Anecdotal data is still data, just not conclusive data. But there is a Chinese saying "无风不起浪", which roughly translates to “If there are waves on the water, there must be wind somewhere".

We are hearing a ton of these anecdotal stories very recently about Californians moving to other states, especially wealthy, higher income individuals. My gut feeling is that there is some material shift behind it and our systematically measured data could simply just be lagging at the moment, or they are measuring the wrong things.
I have a pet-theory (see what I did there...) about pets; they remind us to appreciate and keep dear to us, not just pets, but the people around us.
My answer is that for me (and I'm assuming a lot of people) it would just be too immoral to do that. It's like forcing people to work against their will.
>is there a way to get the power supply to output from say 0-5v and 10-999 mA

Unfortunately not. There's a 3.3V output pin (on the left hand side here: https://github.com/EspoTek/Labrador/wiki/Pinout) but that's it.

It's physically impossible to get lower voltages than that out, as the power supply subsystem consists of a boost converter attached to the USB +5V rail.

That said, you can get pretty decent benchtop power supplies from AliExpress or eBay for under $50 - they're much more capable than Labrador's circuit (which is sadly limited by USB's paltry 2.5W output power plus a relatively inefficient boost converter).
We've essentially put all previous immigration processing on hold since Covid - our mandatory quarantine is currently full through November for just citizens returning home
I found the section above the linked one (Comparison with other universal codes) most interesting:

> Fibonacci coding has a useful property that sometimes makes it attractive in comparison to other universal codes: it is an example of a self-synchronizing code, making it easier to recover data from a damaged stream.
> Who is saying California is unattractive for rich people and venture capital?

One potential source: this is a popular conservative talking point about the dangers of liberal government, and the "exodus" is often used as evidence to justify those talking points.

"See, just look at California, they implemented <liberal policy I hate>, and everyone is leaving the state". This kind of viewpoint is rampant on places like /r/conservative, and is often followed by similar mischaracterizations of life in Chicago. This always fascinates me - it seems like people are actually excited about the perceived negative forces driving people out, because they feel it validates their viewpoints about certain policies, even when the evidence to support correlation (never mind causation) doesn’t seem to exist.

I haven’t encountered much serious discourse about California being unattractive to people with means.

Edit: I’ve upset some folks with this comment. I’m curious to know how/why.
No, it is only a proxy. For native content Peertube is a good option, I've been running it for a few years without any real problems, starting out on a machine with a Pentium E2220 and 2GB of RAM (video transcoding was... slow... but once transcoded it worked fine), later moving to less anaemic hardware.

Invidious is useful for more than just filtering out ads, it actually makes Youtube content useable on older hardware - like the Thinkpad T42p I'm using right now - where the "official" interface and player are close to useless. When configured correctly - i.e. when videos are proxied through the server - it keeps your video viewing habits out of Google's hands. It makes it possible to follow channels without Google knowing about it. It can not help against censorship, when Google removes content it can no longer be accessed through Invidious. I've used Peertube to mirror Youtube channels which have had videos removed which does help against censorship - run a cron job to monitor a channel for changes and mirror new videos to Peertube. All of this can be done anonymously - I do not even have a Google or Youtube account.
Just here to point out that you can actually pay for YouTube. It's $12/mo (https://www.youtube.com/premium).

I don't get any ads at all. Ever. Other than those "sponsorships" that are just as annoying.
Apply to TRC! You personally can get the same computing resources. https://blog.gpt4.org/jaxtpu

For some reason, everyone is reluctant to apply. I wrote that to dispel some of the hesitation. Wanting to play with TPUs is a fine reason to join.

Some reasons why TRC is awesome: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27728225
Apple refurbishes or recycles those components for you.
Some of my extended family has been facing this problem - they’re blaming the pandemic, unemployment assistance, and even raised the salary they’re willing to pay. They’re all the way up to $7.45/hr (that’s $0.20/hr more than they offered before the pandemic) with 0 benefits and a random work schedule of 10-20 hours a week.

I tried to explain that they had three levers they could try to move and they continue to blame the people who didn’t want to work.
Doesn't really matter, because if Google sued Microsoft, Microsoft would immediately hit back with a countersuit, since they would have little trouble finding something in their 90,000+ patent warchest that Google is infringing on. Software patents have become a matter of mutually-assured destruction for the big players. The only winning move is not to play.
I solve this by taking an afternoon nap - that lets me live reasonably comfortably in two timezones
How central bank digital currencies might operate and what they might mean
It hasn't been overnight that birds have been disappearing.

For example, this article from the NYT dated 2 years ago: https://archive.ph/zfDAH
I think things are a little more complicated now that we’re in a global economy.
> The life-cycle carbon cost of renewables isn't a fact about renewables. It's a fact about our current energy production mix, which renewables themselves will change over time.

Sure but we are talking about right now. Things will eventually be swapped out. That's a different conversation though, it's an advocacy and not a descriptive one.

People tend to use things that are marginally adequate way longer than anyone intended. For instance, the ancient Roman gravity dam of Proserpina is still doing its job.

Even if we had say a sleek $1,000 self driving solar car that never needs charging and goes for a million miles without maintenance, there's no guaranteed adoption curve, production capacity, distribution and logistic timeline, consumer acceptance, these are all hard unknown realities regardless of how silvery the bullets are.
Only about ~120k of them were even under 65: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Se...

Considering that even those will be weighted towards towards the already disabled, there's no way this makes a meaningful dent.
We are so fucked
Yes, sure. Without copyright there's no need for copyleft left, right?
hyuck hyuck hyuck
Yes, but cancer is not a solved problem, and so people will get it and eventually die. Also, who cares if people live 40+ years? Those with cancer statistically don't, yet drugs can increase life expectancy. That's the point.

An extra day with your loved ones is paradise. Taking a drug and potentially gaining years?

Come on mate, it's not a surprise you're being downvoted as your attitude is a disgrace.
So, what are reasons?

Computers and Smartphones?

Social Medias?

CRT?

Education not being cool?

Not believing that hardwork pays off?

<banter>

Well, maybe stealing faang jobs will not be that hard in future

</banter>
California lost a seat in the Congress while Texas gain two seats. California exodus might be a myth but there is no inflow of people while Texas is gaining more people from other states.
A naive developer thinks that they are the source code they write (you're not), and their source code leaking to the world makes them worthless. (Which isn't true, but being that invalidated explains a lot of the fear. Which, welcome to the club, programmers. Automation's here for your job too.)

Still, some of the moral outrage here has to do with it coming from Github, and thus Microsoft. Software startup Kite has largely gone under the radar so far, but they launched this back in 2016. Github's late to the game. But look at the difference (and similarities) in responses to their product launch posts here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11497111
and
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19018037
“or wouldn't be assigned to an office” seems to be doing a lot here to obscure the true meaning
> It's abundantly clear there is a lot of migration out of California. Just ask Texans, Coloradans, and Idahoans.

Or, you know, people generally migrate between states and Californians make up 13% of the population.
> bit [sic] part of them were minimum wage workers

I'm not sure that's correct. According to the CDC the vast majority of deaths were among people 65+ [1]. The curve for minimum wage workers is pretty much the opposite, the vast majority of minimum wage workers are between 16 and 24 yo [2].

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Ag...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/298852/minimum-wage-work...
Your wounds won’t heal. It also costs a fortune. I don’t think it clinically makes a difference in survival rates either. My wife had stage 4 colon cancer and they used it in conjunction with her standard chemo treatments for a couple of sessions. The incision where her port was installed never fully healed so they took her off of it.

Edit: when they took her off the avastin, her oncologist just said it was no big deal. They use it because it doesn’t hurt anything.
I posted a similar question here[1].

I'm not a GOPer, but I do hold some fairly free market beliefs, so I wanted to answer your question about the general case. I think some of this thinking comes from the fact that there's been a lot of legislation in the past that attempts to solve market "failures" with more government regulation or subsidies, and that those promises have fallen short. In my mind, there are a lot of liberals in the US who say things like "if only the stimulus was larger" or e.g. after the "assault weapon" ban failed to demonstrably change gun violence in the US that we "just needed to ban MORE guns".

For me, the big one on this is healthcare. I'm the first to admit that a single-payer healthcare system is my 2nd favorite system after a purely free market approach, but there's a lot of gaslighting going on that what we have today in the US is actually a free market approach. Liberals tell me that the free market failed, and that it's time to socialize healthcare. But from where I'm sitting, we've had massive governement intervention in healthcare for a century, and that intervention has made the market aspect of our system fail completely, govt subsidies for employer-provided insurance being the number one (inflates prices by increasing demand for lower-pri care, ties people to their employer for longer than they'd otherwise do), but also Medicare/Medicaid and the lack of insurance pools across state lines.

This debate falls out most cleanly when you debate the Laffer Curve. Are we on the left of optimum, or the right? There's really no way for us to know for sure in a vacuum, but "doubling down" is the only approach that either side can really take in pushing increased or decreased tax rates.

Obviously, I didn't flesh out all my positions here, and I don't mean to get into a debate on any of these things in particular. I'm just trying to help explain some of my own logic in response to your question.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27778374
> Raise prices and raise wages.

They're doing that and adding benefits, too. From the article:

> The Wacky Knacky Diner in Osage Beach, Mo., near the Lake of the Ozarks, boosted wages to $20 an hour, then added health benefits and a retention bonus.

There's more to the article than businesses complaining that people won't take their jobs at fixed wages. It's about how businesses are adapting, raising wages, adding benefits, turning away customers, and management is taking advantage of the lull by taking their own vacations.

The article also highlights some of the temporary roadblocks to getting people back into the workforce will naturally go away in the next few months, such as parents who are home with children while school is out for summer:

> A survey by Indeed found most job-seekers plan to start working within the next three months, but many are waiting for schools to reopen, vaccination levels to rise or for their personal savings — boosted by unemployment benefits and three rounds of federal relief payments — to run out.
I can't speak to that, but if I were looking for a job and saw this, I would take it to mean that they don't have any openings available. Kind of like when someone says, "We're not looking for anyone right now, but please still send a resume.. you never know!". Everybody knows that goes nowhere.
COVID killed about 0.2% of the population and about half of the death were in the >80 years age range. The death rate in the working age population has virtually no impact on the labour supply.
Whatever the reasons, the market rate for labor is the market rate for labor. If you can't make a profit paying the market rate for labor, then you are not a viable business.

Now, if we find out that our economy grinds to a halt because there are not enough businesses around to provide for the needs of the public, or if we experience rapid inflation, THEN we can say the things you mentioned might be issues that need to be confronted.
Multiple implementations allows for competition by novel approaches. (It doesn’t guarantee that that’s the way it’ll work out, but it makes it possible.)

Look at browsers: IE stagnated, Firefox got things going again, and IE eventually improved. And then as Firefox had become bloated, Chrome came along and showed that better performance was possible, and so Firefox improved as effort to match Chrome was exerted.

Or npm: it got mired as people couldn’t agree on the way to resolve some pretty big issues (centring on performance), so some people started Yarn, and its success helped unstick npm, so that now many that had switched to Yarn were able to move back to npm once it caught up again.

And these are just a couple of examples I’m familiar with.

Yes, there are costs to diversity of implementation, but there are benefits. The reasons why multiple backends is great can largely apply to multiple frontends.

Rust’s backend and frontend are both performance bottlenecks. One perfectly plausible course of events is that someone builds a new Rust compiler focused on end-to-end performance. That could help both the ecosystem and rustc.
> How is that "ain't much"?

Whether four or eight years, either is an enormous gift when facing a terminal illness. There is no question about it. It's even more so the case if a person is 40 years old than if they're 80. The 80 year old has already lived a full life, death is far more acceptable, tolerable, at that age for most people.

I suspect a person would have had to have never seen a loved one confront a terminal illness, to believe a year of additional time isn't a lot given the context.

My mother died relatively young from small cell lung cancer. At the time there were no specific therapies for it, it was often caught late, and typically a person would die within 6-12 months. Almost nobody would make it more than three years. She lived for around 20 months post diagnosis, and that was a lot of very valuable time, even if it wasn't enough time.

I've observed across my lifetime that some people live more in a year than other people manage to in a decade.

How quickly time passes objectively and how we experience time are obviously two different things. Perhaps the skeptical parent was failing to grasp the significance of the difference. When facing a terminal illness, how you experience time is drastically altered, even if the seconds tick by as they did before.
You should not be downvoted for this—you are correct. These are exactly the conversations that film executives are having internally, especially on the buying side. They don’t see it as a Twitter thing entirely, but as an engagement with the social “conversation” and the realities of the marketplace. However, the incentives are primarily fear-based. Why court the risk of a backlash when you could develop something else (they think)?
> is there something else here that I'm missing about why that wouldn't also mitigate the current labor shortage

- 600k+ dead people.

- Increased hiring competition from more remote-friendly jobs.

- Workers who don't want to return to employers who laid them off at the beginning of the pandemic or required them to work in unsafe conditions as "essential" workers.
So then how are people paying to survive?
You can't blame NZ for letting in some rich people as a risk/reward calculation. Presumably they will buy things and pay big taxes: a net benefit?
I don’t think Sargent meant for it to be easy.

YMMV.
My solution to this problem is to:

a) not be aware of it

which allows me to:

b) not worry about it.
I don't think of it as a quote either.

Why did you single out my response amongst all the other similarly tongue-in-cheek replies?
Ivermectin: ‘wonder’ drug continues to surprise and exceed expectations (2017)
That’s a popular narrative, but it may not be true. Of the 650k deaths in the USA, about 475k were people over 65 and most were probably out of the labor force[0]. That’s not to say that a 175k hit to labor force is nothing, but it’s not the sole factor at play here.

[0]: https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-by-Sex...
Yes, it was definitely social at least in part because MS leadership at that time didn't see something like GCC as a legitimate partner to cooperate with. They wanted open source to go away. Things definitely changed in that regard later.

I think you're probably right that two Rust implementations with a cooperative mentality would be a good thing in the long run.
Once again people are all for yelling "economics!!!" when scolding others but don't like it when it supply and demand applies to them.
Oh, I do get that; I'm more asking why a timeless god wouldn't tell the Jews 4000 years ago to e.g. not construct or partake of social-networking apps (and other such things where they'd have no idea what their God was on about.) An intercessor god dreamed up today would certainly give commandments like that; so why wouldn't a god giving commandments 4000 years ago, but who "exists outside of time", do the same?
Well, it's not a "labor shortage" because, as others have explained, there is an ample supply of workers if an employer is willing to pay for them.
Can you please leave me alone? I don’t know why you’re bringing attention to whatever you’re talking about, but it’s not doing me any favors.

My karma on this account is related to this account only. I’ve thought about asking to gather my old karma onto this one, but I’m not sure I care.
I agree that biases in communities aren't inherently a free speech issue. I was just making an observation. It's human nature to assume your cultural assumptions are the norm, and it can be jarring when you're a part of a community that doesn't share some of them. But that by itself doesn't mean there's systematic oppression.
I think people are really underestimating the number of people who have fallen back to the "middle class safety net" of parents.

It's mostly the orphans, abused, generationally poor without a safety net that are back to working underpaid / under appreciated jobs.

Why get back on the service worker treadmill (that discarded you during the pandemic) once you've already moved and blown up all your social ties if you can chill at home with parents while you try to change careers?

So many adults who grew up in the middle class really underestimate the compounding power of a safety net but they are finally realizing it.

I'd be willing to bet that a lot of people didn't take that option before the pandemic due to social stigma. With that gone why not make the rational choice?

A family safety net changes your entire decision process to more heavily weight "Maximize Opportunity" over the impoverished priority of "Mitigate Risk". I think a lot of people were just socially pressured into moving out and taking service jobs instead of making the more rational choice.