skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be honest, after playing with stuff like Enterprise Architect, and even JIRA - they could be game changer in many places I worked in.

But that would require a lot less gatekeepng and other artificial moats around them, and possibly a rather more open organisation model which wouldn't fly with middle management (even if your specific adjacent middle managers would like to, they don't operate in vacuum). And that's before you hit cost reasons. Or cost of training, especially since companies really, really don't like training people.
No no no. You don’t get it.
You cannot make up your own definition of wealth and go meta (personal wealth vs WEALTH) as soon as the point you’re trying to make no longer works.

Something scarce that has any demand at all will see a rocketing price for it. That’s what scarce means. Of course it’s supply and demand and all that jazz but usually scarcity + any kind of demand leads to a high price.
Sorry, 2011 is correct. Must have been a typo.
Let's set aside, for a moment, the very poorest people, who are just struggling to survive. Let's talk about every family (emphasis on family and not individual) that is above poverty.

The people in the family work to achieve a certain standard of living. If they want to afford 2 weeks in Bermuda every summer and 2 weeks at Vale every winter, then maybe they work a little extra to afford those things. Maybe they work longer hours, or pick up an extra job.

Indeed, consider that in the USA male wages were stagnant or declining for most of the period 1973-2000 and yet family income rose steadily until 2000. That's because women were entering the work force, and their additional income more than made up for their husband's losses.

We just had 18 months where people's standard of living was reduced by government edict. Some people have grown used to the new, lower standard of living. Others plan to raise their standard of living, but plan to be strategic about it.

It is well known that the lockdown affected women more than men. But as things get back to something like normal, there will be no repeat of the somewhat casual way that women picked up low-wage work during the period 1973-2000. To the extent that women rejoin the workforce, they are going to be more strategic about it.
"Why? Humans got there and there's been no reason to go back"

-- Europeans in 1493 about the Americas...not!
No, Scottish income tax is different, so the employer does need to deal with it. (Though I imagine most UK payroll systems have such options.)
These companies aren't going to the moon, the US government is going to the moon using these companies. These companies are significantly lowering the cost of going into space and eventually going to Mars. That is moving the world forward.
It's very easy to fix these problems though. There's nothing inherently broken about the models or direction that prevents error rates from being made more uniform. In fact newer facial recognition models with better datasets do perform approximately equally well across skin tones and sex
I think you're ignoring the point the article is trying to make because the lead-crime hypothesis is one that is likeable- it's a simple cause-and-effect that we can (and did) remedy.

The point they are making is that selection bias in which studies get published and which get suppressed can fool us (and may have done so) into believing an effect is real that isn't, or into thinking an effect is much larger than it is. Forget about which study this is and look at the point they are making on its own. Is there bad science going on here?

> but the mass media reaction to it just shows how much is wrong with our society

There is a whole other branch of mass media that desperately wants the lead-crime hypothesis to be not just true but the only reason for the crime rate falling in the 90s. Why? because it's much preferred over the alternative answer: Roe vs Wade. That side of the mass media is very aggressive in defending the lead-crime hypothesis.

Good discussion on the subject here: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/abortion/
When stupid people willfully do stupid stuff, it's a fun parlor game to question their psychological health. In other words, it's typically not cool to pose that question. But w.r.t. vaccination it's beyond fair to do so.
One way of modelling trees in SQL is hierarchical intervals. It allows fast querying entire sub-branches, along branches, and so on. Updating hierarchical intervals is a real pain, so think of them as an index that is built like a materialised view.

Quickest explanation: each node has two numbers: left and right (or low/high). All children under the node have numbers between left and right. So, querying an entire sub-branch:

select child.* from Nodes as parent, Nodes as child where child.lft between parent.lft and parent.rgt;
> FBI has expertise to do my taxes

They do not.

If you want to invite the FBI over for a visit, it's easy enough: just report a major federal crime.
> Why do you believe it was deliberate?

“The courts warned him to take his blog down or face the ­consequences of identifying the women but he refused.”

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/called-scots-act...

> What is your explanation for why the order has not been applied to any other journalists

Actually, no, that's untrue. IIRC, the Spectator was warned or investigated for some material it published.
What’s your side project?
Wouldn't you have to perform gain of function research in order to create vaccines for not yet existing viruses? Isn't this what the Wuhan lab was up to?
I think certain research needs to be justified and this falls within that camp
>My advice? Read up a little on history.

>Kowloon and HK Island had always been Chinese territory.

What, You mean the Qing Dynasty?

My advice? Read up a little on history. Oh wait..
Bill Maher back around 9/11 had a slide deck act where he justified racial profiling in airports with a picture of a fundamentalist Muslim in traditional garb going through airport security. He once literally hosted a talk show called "Politically Incorrect"

He has always been "I'm leftist, but I have a politically incorrect anti-establishment edge.". He has been saying things like this for decades.
Propaganda much?
"In any electro party in any western european, ~ 25% people at least regularly take either c, d, l or k... most of us pretty reasonably."

c = cocaine

d = dmt? heroin?

l = lsd?

k = ketamine?

What about MDMA (aka ecstasy or molly -- though often what users get under those names is actually not MDMA but other drugs, leading to fatalities) ?

And why even abbreviate the names of these substances?
What do you mean by 'hand scraping'?

You know, I've never really thought about it, but I would think that grinding two same-material surfaces together with an abrasive compound would result in flatness if the pressure is even.
I think it's more to do with lack of social engagement. It's not difficult to figure out how to refresh your accounts comment page.
I don't think anyone asked for free advice from a foul-mouthed anonymous throwaway on how to secure their computer. If I was building a website I'd want to secure it from you not with you.
Mastodon’s new first-party iOS app, reviewed
what a complete waste of energy
That doesn't change the thrust of the comment. If you're trying to work around spotty support and detecting the feature is "tricky", then change the program so it performs a small power-on self-test against a known dataset.

(And what's the point of crafting a comment in this tone? Is it supposed to be a retort? Whether or not Netlify is doing the wrong thing, if it works in Chrome, but not in Firefox, then that's a materially relevant fact. Don't rely on implementation details and a hope that they won't break in the future.)
>[1987] However, at a top restaurant such as Masa’s in San Francisco a fixed-price meal runs $48 (almost certainly excluding drinks and tip), while diners at Berkeley’s innovative Chez Panisse can expect to pay at least $45.

Gosh - I'm pretty sure the last time I walked out of Chez Panisse it wasn't for less than $250 each (with wine).. inflation surely doesn't count for this?`
George Hotz: Self-Driving Cars and the Future of AI
But then they'd charge more, and I'd have to pay 3p more a pointless plastic waste off amazon and that's fundamentally unacceptable to our democratic capitalist mess of a society.
https://chovy.neocities.org
> I think that people started to realize, that they can live much better with lower amount of money.

I might be able to buy this argument if the person in question is making 6 figures, but what about the median person making $36k/year? If you can barely make rent, reducing your working hours because "can live much better with lower amount of money" isn't really an option.
Could you elaborate on the reasoning for your company to initially use Redis vs SQL (or any other database)?
One of my favorites from 1999 is October Sky. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0132477/
I think sales is essential if you have a B2B product and want to sell to larger enterprises. Most of them will not seek you out, and you need someone who can do a deal tailored to each enterprise's needs and wants, and maintain the relationship going forward.

But otherwise I agree.
Shifting people's relative positions in the status hierarchy.
The Webapp on https://yazz.com/app/homepage.html is pretty cool. Has a Visual Basic 1 vibe.
To be clear I prefer OSS over closed software. I contribute in my spare time and I've worked on OSS projects in my career.

What I'm saying is there are far better methods to do Good in your career or spare time than starting an OSS project. I don't have stats here but I'd wager 99% of OSS projects die by the way side and 99% of those aren't providing any sort of tangible use in relation to problems mentioned in this post.

Happy to be proved wrong - working on effective things is the driving force of my career.
Yeah same, the only "good" way I found was using the amazon synchrony store card, it displays the item name alongside the charges, which makes it doable to find the related orders for purchase categorization
1981 The chain restaurant TGI Friday’s charges $2.95 for its Plain Potato Skins appetizer, which comes with sour cream and chives for dipping, but $5.20 for Loaded Potato Skins which arrive with cheddar cheese and crumbled bacon.

Seems way too much
Apple Is Now an Antifragile Company
I believe there are more types of jobs, and jobs that allow people to set their own terms.

Uber, Lyft, Instacart, Rover, Wag, Onlyfans, YouTube, Twitch, Instagram, TikTok, Etsy, Amazon FLex, drop-shipping with a Shopify storefront - there are countless (new) ways for kids to make money now. And many of these jobs allow people to define when they work and how they approach work.

They simply don’t have to work the same type of entry level jobs we all had available to us. Plus the proliferation of jobs involved in the supply chain & warehousing has to be mentioned. What wants to interact with fussy and aggravating customers all day in a hot and smelly fast food restaurant?

We can’t forget - population growth is leveling off in many developed economies, while service sector job growth continues.

Toss an aging population, reduce immigration, and it is a recipe for the current situation.
That is not how anyone would reasonably expect to be able to display rich text.
It can't happen soon enough.
Here are two separate, independent, international corruption indexes that both rank the US in the best 15% of nations, above several major Western European countries:

* https://risk-indexes.com/global-corruption-index/

* https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2020/index/usa

The US has its problems, God knows. But you've never seen real corruption if you think it's anywhere close to the worst.
"summer camp" is also "day care outside during the summer" not only "sleepaway camp".
Handouts and ubi are bad. Raising minimum wage is good. Consider iceland. Most of their lower pay workers were immigrants who returned to their countries when covid hit. And they are still in debt from the 2008 crash. Unlike the US, they cannot print more dollars to bail themselves out. Yet Iceland's minimum wage is $19/hr and healthcare is free. How can they manage to treat their people so much better than we treat ours??
> You'd need to pull a Microsoft IE-on-Windows on Google

How about actually just making a good, competitive browser instead? Firefox is not failing because of Google's monopoly; it is failing because as a product it is unable to compete and beat Chrome where it matters. If not Mozilla, I am pretty sure somebody else will make such browser (and search engine, and email... ) eventually.
Do we have an index of the ratio between the cost of fine dining and peasant/fast food over the last few centuries?
On the other hand a good marketing person is worth gold. In one company I contracted at they had a marketing person who was super proactive and really worked social media , the press and other channels. She pretty much singlehandedly made the company into a known player in their field. Same probably goes for good salespeople. But there aren’t too many people of that caliber. Most just go through the motions.
Too much money might be part of Blue Origin's problem to deliver. SpaceX did not have the luxury to take ages, they had to build a working rocket to be able make money or die otherwise.

I can only recommend Eric Berger's excellent book "Liftoff" to gain insights into SpaceX' way of working to get the Falcon 1 rocket off the ground and eventually into orbit. I cannot imagine Blue Origin having operated in a similar way at any point in their history.
Keep waiting. You have until 2140 until the mining stops. What you see today ain’t nothing yet, and after 12 years you ain’t seeing it, please look harder.
Most mastering yes. Remastering less so.
I'm having the same experience myself. I've been in the role for less than a year, and the culture is completely opposite of what I expected. My team and managers are fantastic, the workload is less than a number of my previous jobs, its been one of the better jobs I've ever held (Although for all I know I've just had extremely bad luck with jobs for the last few decades and not realized it!).
It's a primer for singers. In music, the emphasis and flow between words is given for you.

Aside: There are other biases built into Italian singing that will trip up singers in spoken Italian, too. For example, Italian opera is largely written in a metric form where the phrase emphasis is ALWAYS on the last word. That teaches singers an instinct for odd sentence structure, or for putting a weird accent where it doesn't need to exist in speech.
It’s too bad we didn’t go the scifi route of having money be energy credits and instead went the route of proof of energy wasted.
With IR35 reform in full swing, I'd expect quality supply to incease as contractors start to seek full time positions.
It's one thing to disagree, another to call them sociopaths.

If what they're doing is debatable - let's debate then. With respect for each other and with civility.
Would it be better if C, Java and Rust were integrated into a single überlanguage with one central committee to drive further development?

From a layman's perspective, an idea like that would make superficial sense; they are all programming languages, after all. From a programmer's perspective, that would be a nightmare.

I think the companies are so far apart that extensive technical cooperation would slow them both down. Maybe they could share a weather service or even a drone ship fleet for landings, but not the core products and their parts.
The extra processing done is to clean up incomplete combustion and particulate. CO2 is the end of the line. The CO2 molecule is very similar in size to N2 and O2.

It can be separated and captured in various ways, but they are quite energy intensive (though occasionally power plant output will be used as input for industrial CO2 "manufacture" where they separate, liquefy or freeze it, and then sell it for whatever purpose.
For those who downvoted me, they aren’t. They are rejected by the judiciary.
> proof of energy wasted

I really like this term.
Also landfill becomes like a nuclear waste site, a burden on the future. You can't let it puncture, or be dug up (by humans or animals), or landslip, or flood. You have to cosset the damn thing in perpetuity, or until someone invents plastic-eating fungi (which dump it into the carbon cycle instead).
It seems like ULA's team-up with BO hasn't been going well
It still works as a random fishing expedition as well though. There were certainly lots of legal strategy messages that would be very valuable to the subjects of investigations or ongoing cases. Some of those subjects may be initially ignorant they were even on the radar yet. Some of those would be very wealthy and willing to pay for the information.
So just to be clear if a company is not paying an employee the money they should be it is called wage theft.

So if Norway were having the same issues with employee shortages you could add the reason that maybe the employees are tired of having the company steal from them.

And maybe that's a factor common to other countries
19-year-old earns $54k a year mining Bitcoin as a full-time job
Nothing, I'm sure, but the idea behind GraphQL is that you can query all of the different backend services you have in a single request, reducing the network latency associated with firing off requests to all those services individually. It would seem that an emulated SQLite database would bring you right back to having to perform multiple network requests, assuming your data needs are more complex than a single relation. Under normal usage, SQLite avoids the N+1 problem by not having IPC overhead, but that wouldn't apply here.
This is an incredibly small minded perspective. Difficult challenges require new technologies, new processes and new ways of thinking. More specifically, technologies developed through the race to land on the moon (and space flight generally) are integral to almost every aspect of 'your' life and define what most of us consider human flourishing.

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies#:~:t....

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/20-inventions-we-would...
Sustained T cell immunity using extended dosing intervals of mRNA vaccine [pdf]
HN recently discussed an article arguing that obesity in the United States apparently rolls downhill, with little at high altitude and a great deal at sea level. The inference being that water-borne pollutants may be the cause of obesity.
So nasa wants to go, they're driving the innovation.

> SpaceX CEO Elon Musk responded to the GAO decision on Twitter with a flexed-biceps emoji.

This sounds like billionaires and their egos fighting with each other. Not really trying to make the world better
They have some achievements to show. New Shepard was the first to land vertically. That's not nothing.

BE-4 has been delayed, true, but if it were looking like a failure, ULA would have dropped them a long time ago.

I think 2022 will clear up lots of things for everyone. SLS, BE-4, New Glenn, etc... Till then there is no sense of dooming anything.
Do you think bezos was a psychopath in 1999?
Yeah, I get it, I just keep reading these "there are no workers" articles and scratching my head. Ironically, I work in delivery now heh
>Just to add for neophytes-- audio improvements over the past 100 years have no discernible relationship to the pace or quality of video improvements.

Not to mention the audio quality has declined in some ways.

Back in the day even casual music fans had hi-fi systems (even if cheap ones).

Today the huge majority, even so called music junkies (unless they're also into hi-fi), will listen through crappy headphones, computer speakers, and so on.

(and/or heavily compressed mp3, streaming, or YouTube music)
Mostly because ammonia is shitty explosive. So it just wouldn't explode that efficiently if we make the pile bigger. The fact that it is 5 times bigger doesn't mean that it would release 5 times the energy in a detonation.
There's no distinction anymore. As of this last week, NPR isn't even trying to hide it anymore: https://www.rt.com/usa/530618-npr-reporters-activists-protes...
The privacy battle Apple isn’t fighting
No, it wasn’t.
Blue origin was founded two years before SpaceX.
SpaceX in the meantime managed to create the first ever reusable commercial rocket, the first ever reusable heavy launch vehicle.
The first ever commercial manned flight for the ISS.
And it’s well on track to perform an orbital test in the next month or two with a fully reusable rocket that is using a full flow engine.
Seriously, you are trying to compare an Australopithecus climbing a tree with an Homo sapiens building nuclear weapons.
10 Iconic logos. 156 Americans. 80 hours of drawing from memory
season 16 :'(
This is not really a race, as it does not have a well-defined endpoint. Reaching the orbit is just a starting step for some other activity and former champions may fall by the wayside as decades go by.

Soviets were once in the lead very clearly, Roskosmos lost that edge a long time ago.
And any company that has done this might see it coming back and biting them even though they would never admit that they brought it on themselves
True, I was mainly offering it as a suggestion for someone that doesn't want to mess with casting molten metal.
You're scared of me, hiding your vaccination status. So I think I'm bigger in your mind than you're pretending.

But in case I'm mistaken, and you indeed look down on me, a question naturally arises: is bullying people you deem beneath you a lesson you want to impart to your daughters?

Do you want them to hide their opinions and not stand up for what they believe in, like you? Do you want your daughters to be weak like their father?

If you kill one of your daughters' relatives, owing to your extremist anti-vaccination stance, do you have a plan in place for how you'll explain it to them? The fact that their daddy has strong libertarian opinions that are worth more to him than the lives of grammy and grandpops?

Because that's what it boils down to. You're a disease vector who cares for nobody but himself and his reality-detached ideology. You're a delusional whackjob who believes himself smarter than epidemiologists and medical professionals, when in truth you're capable of little more than throwing together PhP scripts.

But what person am I? I'm the person that appears when you threaten the lives of another man's family with your decisions. We'll see how far your libertarian notions take you when push comes to shove.
Similarly delayed? The delays are different by over a decade. Spacex was attempting orbit in 2006. When will blue origin? 2026?
Before 1971 gold backed currency. After its fiat with only backing a promise and price doubling every 15 years on average.
Thank you for writing this. It exactly aligns with my experience.

When such a rant actually feels sensible and pragmatic, there must be something seriously wrong.

I don't mean actual engineers wringing bug free code for a space telescope attitude control system. Seemingly they have it figured out - their code does not seem to fall down at a higher rate than bridges or office buildings. They have a method.

But this method, whatever they implement, is surely too costly for us regular chumps, at least provided your employer, as you put it, has competitors.
Variances in how countries calculate IMR don't affect the calculation of life expectancy at birth which is a standardised measure - see https://www.who.int/whosis/whostat2006DefinitionsAndMetadata...