skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Salt is something regulated well in all higher organisms. Probably dating from when we evolved in a salt-water ocean. That said, in a modern diet with lots of sodium, but also lots less of other important minerals like magnesium, potassium, etc., who knows?

Probably depends on the totality of the diet, for instance if you are getting a lot of salt "artificially", and eating an otherwise nutrient-poor diet, maybe lowering salt intake is a good thing. But if you are eating a varied and mostly natural diet, so that you're getting a wide variety of vitamins, minerals, sun-exposure etc., your absolute sodium intake may not matter much.
> Are you able to substantiate that claim?

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/03/18/china-covid-19-killed-h...

It is widely known that when the new coronavirus emerged in December 2019, the Chinese government downplayed the pandemic threat for several critical weeks. Less commonly known is those same authorities deliberately sacrificed health workers to maintain their lies.

The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) calculated cover-up enabled the coronavirus to go global. By silencing doctors, Beijing not only fueled this pandemic but also compromised the world’s ability to spot the next one.
Look, I want to agree and I'm neither a geologist nor a nuclear scientist but I think you're fantasising if you think there will be no particulate, dispersed matter. The salt mix even if the lower temp melting mixtures is 200°C or more above ambient. It will explode on contact with moisture. There will be clouds of burning materials.

If you say LESS dispersed radiation? Sure. None... sorry not chemically or mechanically or hydraulically or meteorologically plausible.

The elephants foot degrades over time into dust. Radiation causes stress fractures in solids, crystalline structure disturbs. It's going to "decay" in the non radiative sense of the word.

Btw I am pro nuke, in Hypothesis. In my economy (oz) it would have been ideal 30 years ago. Now, with zero power nukes (only one medical manufacturer with a dido type swimming pool reactor) the build out is probably economically infeasible after lawsuit attack, compared to solar, wind and battery. But I remain hopeful of this new stuff, and the PBMR
Having been in this hidden group of homeless myself, I will let you in one one little secret. The land-use restriction argument might apply if you consider all homeless people needing housing, but on an individual level there are vacancies in every region... but they are unavailable for other reasons.

Once you strip out the (very visible) addicts and mentally ill, the real reasons for homelessness are: credit score/report, 2-3x income to rent cost requirement, and to a much lesser extent, criminal background checks.

I understand the reasoning for all of these. It's valid. It's also the cause of most non-addict, non-mentally-ill homelessness.

tl:dr; The vacancies often exist, but the credit system prejudges and denies.

(yes, I know private landlords exist who can "work with you" - they aren't the ones with hundreds of units.)
> I’ve started noticing the inverse of this situation: Some of the juniors I’ve mentored end up working at ultra-cushy jobs at overfunded and undermanaged startups where they’re paid a lot to do very little. After those experiences, it’s hard for them to go back to a regular job where they’re paid normal comp to do normal amounts of work.

The "normal comp" is now bellow their market rate.
Rectangle and Amethyst are both great, but only Amethyst will auto-tile your windows as you open them, like i3. Rectangle just exposes keybindings to resize the selected window.
I also don't want to live in a world where I have to show my papers to participate in daily life. You know what I even want less? To live in a world where daily life is implicitly restricted because there is a constant danger for me and others to get severely sick.

And most western countries are still far to far from being highly vaccinated. If they were, we wouldn't need to ask for their vaccination status.

Yes, long term we either manage to actually erradicate SARS-Cov-2 or at least reduce it to the group of all the other dangerous viruses we can deal with. If the vaccination rate is high enough. Think measels. They didn't ever go away, but for many years, they were not a problem. They are back due to too many people who think they can skip the vaccinations.

And if you ever tried to go onto international, especially intercontinental travel, many countries require proof of vaccination against a variety of diseases.
Do accounting not get a record of everything you purchase on the corporate card and require an explanation (or else repayment)?
> we should have. Tolerating disease spread and threats to vulnerable populations when vaccines are available that are practically risk-free (or the risk being magnitudes smaller than the payoff) is ridiculous. Maybe this finally shakes people awake and puts public health and safety to the top of the agenda rather than people throwing tantrums like children about government incursion.

You can certainly go down this path, and dismiss everyone who disagrees with you as "children", but what you value is not the same as what everyone else values.

I am willing to balance the risk of never having a normal life again with an overall risk of illness and death that is on par with every other year I have been alive.

Eventually, I too will become old and frail, and become vulnerable to some virus or another. If I ever become so afraid of death that I demand that other people give up their basic human rights to "keep me safe", then I hope that illness takes me quickly after that. I don't want to live in the world you propose.
That assumes you have a lot of free pasture lying around. Odds are, the pasture is already in use, likely for sheep or cows.

All that's really necessary for the draft horse to wind up eating oats is that its economic contribution exceeds the value of the oats.
I Agree, I wish people would try to find a compromise. Unfortunately the people who choose to not vaccinate will die out and have no voice in the matter.
The tax stuff in EU4 is the exact kind of modifier-based abstraction of extraction that the article is saying is all-too-common of simulation/strategy games set in this period. EU4 is one of the most "board-gamey" Paradox games with probably the most abstraction of the individuals you're supposedly ruling over. The tax system is truly one of the most bland parts of the whole game. Saying this as someone with many hundreds of hours in EU4, it's a game I used to really enjoy.
> I don’t personally understand why I would choose Zig over Rust. I think it’s long past time we closed the book on unsafe languages as a profession.

You might be interested in looking at the CVE list for Rust programs before you conclude that safety (programming as a safe space?) is the highest principle we should aspire to.
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=Rust

From a first principles basis: Time will probably reveal that languages that give us accurate insights into what the hardware is doing, and thus give us better control of hardware, will yield higher programmer productivity and software quality, in the long run.
Congrats on the launch!
I have built a job board for the Space industry here is the link if you want to have your job offers on the site.
https://rocketcrew.space/
>1. Can they safely store valuables?

The camps in state's major cities notoriously have armed guards to prevent people from looting or moving the tents, and given that these tents already have all kinds of other furniture like couches, chairs, cabinets, etc, I wouldn't at all be surprised if they have lockable cabinets or drawers. One of the camps nearby has actually formed a "governing board" where they assign people jobs in the camp such as security, gathering more materials and food, etc.

>So if someone can shower, has internet access, can keep a work laptop without it getting stolen, and has been homeless for <5 years then yes, let's exclude them.

AFAIK the vast majority of homeless people in my state's major cities have only been homeless since last year.

So I guess we can remove at least 10k people from the US's homeless statistics now?
Nice project. FYI, this is using the Yosys Verilog synthesizer for the real magic.

https://github.com/YosysHQ/yosys
Don’t be snide, it’s unbecoming.
I worry about falling drones. How far above ground did the drones fly? How fast were they flying? How heavy were they when you added payload? What material were the blades? Was there any protection or cushioning? Where do they intend to fly? Above streets or above homes or above sidewalks?
Roughly, I think his plan for a Mars ticket (move there, optionally come back later) is the price of a modest home in California, say $300-500k or something. And a ticket from like London to Singapore on the E2E Starship idea would be about business class prices today, which I don't know, but let's guess $10k.

So I think using this silly method, I would personally expect the price of a moon round trip to be maybe $100k. That's just market-pricing guesses though, I do not know what the costs of such a trip would actually be. But again, Elon does like to set a price target for the public and then do the engineering and production required to meet that target, so I would be surprised to see something less than an E2E hop or more than a Mars ticket, to go to the Moon and come back.
I found this to be a remarkable interview, not for anything it elucidates itself. It's old ground and they're rehashing debates from the 18th century really. But it was revealing of Peterson in many ways. Also Harris, but it didn't reveal anything about him I didn't already suspect. (A mercilessly methodical thinker there, to the point of it being a fault.)

Peterson's concept of self is very tied up in his beliefs on this. (So is Harris's but since he believes the self doesn't truly exist I guess that buys some wiggle room.) I got the impression of a man who is an atheist but is unwilling simply to admit it, perhaps because it's too embarrassing and painful after writing something like Maps of Meaning trying to base the foundation for contemporary Western thought, even his own, on Christian metaphysics. It's not that he's arguing in bad faith; he really isn't. But it's fascinating to see a man that intelligent stumble around the edges of his blind spots, as Harris zoned right in on them.
Netflix is a business. If you think they should be supporting your ideology dream on. They are making good money right now.

Netflix earned a net profit of $1,353 million in the second quarter of 2021, which is an 88% improvement over the result a year earlier.

Market cap is going to be > $200B.

When the tides of user preference change - they will change with them.
You're right, we can't do much about it. Even if a Google change harms a million people, they consider it peanuts.

Yet..."arrogance precedes the fall".

One day they will pay the price for their carelessness and harm, and I welcome that day.
Imagine having to work with this person, and having them “network” with other staff in the workplace to scheme how to “address” such issues.
maybe in movies. governments mostly tend to lie about things they did badly, not about long-term accomplishments that can be fairly easily measured against their previous record, currently level of expertise, etc.
So they're requiring vaccination in "many indoor settings", which just includes restaurants, movie theaters and gyms... Those are luxuries.

What are people up in arms about then? Its like another take on the mask mandate outrage, where people conflated selfishness with freedom, except this time you can still do everything you need to while being non-compliant.
I find the noise of drones much more annoying than trucks and cars. There's something about those small rotor noises that really grates on me. I really hope this never kicks off.
Try your test cases in other languages. E.G. python3 import datetime ; (datetime.datetime.strptime("2019-01-31","%Y-%m-%d") - datetime.datetime.strptime("2012-02-29","%Y-%m-%d"))

The result, which reminds me of one of the other reasons I avoid python for trivial projects, is the duration / interval answer of days=2528.

Part of the bug is surely in Wolfram|Alpha returning the interval broken out in human durations; but importantly those durations __don't use fixed time values__. The precise length of a //year// and of a //month// are variable.

I still suspect there's double or single counting of leap-days in those durations as the reverse ones clash with converting a duration back to a whole number.
NPR yesterday was interviewing a guy who'd had an organ transplant and thus has to take immunosuppressant drugs. He'd been vaccinated, it was either pfizer or moderna.

His doctor tested him for antibodies, his were undetectable. He was getting a third shot in hopes it would finally give him antibodies.

By being against vaccines or against vaccine requirements, people risk the lives of those like that guy, who's already suffering and already has to be 10x as cautious.
Deadliness is only selected against once it impedes transmission. A virus that kills after transmitting (because you spread it while asymptomaticly) will only burn out once a ton of people die inhibiting transmission.
Here in Germany you get the same kind of certificate when you prove that you recovered from the disease as when you got vaccinated.
> or crash landings became at all common

Many things can cause a drone to crash. Motor failure (from gunk/over-use/loss of power/birds/bugs/...) to unseen obstructions (eg: branches/power lines) to user error. My bet is that like all things Amazon, there will be a race to make everything as cheap as possible which includes the labor watching over the operation of individual drones. This makes the perfect recipe for balancing crash statistics with money invested... which means crash landings will become common.

At some point, the question will be, "Is it cheaper to maintain a fleet of cheaply constructed drones or just replace them through attrition?"
I read somewhere that it is more common with women in conversation and is meant to garner an affiramitive 'uh-huh' type response in the listener.
Obviously it’s not just asking. What would be the point of asking if the response to any answer was the same?
I found it comforting to realize that long-term unemployment is quite unusual, less than 6% of the unemployed (who, even in the depths of a recession, are low double digits) for 'Professional and Business Services': https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-biggest-predictor-o...

Obviously, I can't speak for everyone reading this, but if you're getting pinged by recruiters regularly right now, I'd bet that you'll be able to find something within 6 months even in the next recession.
the only good TPM can bring to this world is to entice people to finally hack a open source bootloader for the pi :)
Well it seems we won't agree on the substantive point, but in case you're interested, that principle is a hostility to ID cards and demands from the state to provide them in various circumstances.

And refused entry to a bar I wouldn't dream of going to the park, I head home with two bottles of decent white wine.

Good day to you too.
Not to alarm you, but I'm pretty sure that satellites can see you and your kids in your back yard - and they're taking pictures.
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect that there be a landing page that says “most healthy people should follow a Mediterranean diet” or similar.

Sure, there are food allergies - I have some myself - but this site seems like it’s trying to get me to buy the book and give the video views. I want information in text quickly. Then if I want to learn more, more information in longer text. This is how almost all valuable information is conveyed across all topic areas.
I didn't label them as "beyond saving", etc. I'm not saying to be disrespectful. I'm saying that the problem isn't respect, it's the ideology of the political movement to reject masks, the vaccine, and everything else - there was no chance they would accept it; they are extreme reactionaries. Try to imagine a scenario where the government announced masks and a vaccine, and they all got in line. Respect is only a justification, a rhetorical technique they've used for a long time - adopt the position of a victim (and in fact, I don't see people being particularly disrespectful).

> naturally divisive a position as POTUS

It's not "naturally divisive"; that's only an issue of the reactionary political movement. Presidents have been uniting the country for generations. Biden is not divisive; Obama was not divisive; Trump and the reactionaries are.

> Doesn't it feel a little too convenient to label your opposition as "beyond saving"? And how do you propose we "deal with this movement now"

It's not convenient for me; it's more convenient to keep my head buried while the movement and the problem, which I agree is very difficult, grows worse. People don't want to face the catastrophe; neither do I.

It can't be more obvious; all the warning lights are blinking red. We have a responsibility to our ancestors, who faced catastrophes and built a society for us, and to our decedents, to face the problem and the hardship.
Windows aren’t despised, though

(I love drones)
> I understand, I just disagree that this is a disproportionate threat to our society that requires disproportionate response.

That has absolutely nothing to do with what was just being discussed. There is hard data which says COVID has a huge range of long term side effects, that’s simply a fact you can personally feel it’s an acceptable risk but nothing about your personal beliefs change the reality of long term impacts of severe viral infections.

I personally feel that the US has given people long enough to get vaccinated it’s time to open the floodgates of infection and open things up. Yes, the unvaccinated and many vaccinated will simply get very sick and die in large large numbers based on their personal choices, but such is life.

I expect most people will disagree with my personal options and that’s fine, but don’t argue about objective facts.
> This question was mostly based on an article I saw about a nurse who was fired because she didn't get the vaccine even though she had antibodies. It made me think it was mostly a move by some corporate lawyer limit liability.

That's ridiculous, but hey it's the blankfaces making/enforcing the rules! [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28042392
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People keep saying this.

It’s trivially easy to get a mailing address for a relatively small amount of money (less than an hour of panhandling).

If someone is committed to getting a job, “mailing address” is not getting in the way.
I never find this sort of argument convincing. There’s what’s legal and there’s the de facto circumstances. Yeah, can fly drones and peep in people’s windows right now, and that’s legal, but people don’t actually do that. Amazon has the actual money and logistics to indifferently blanket your neighborhood with noisy and nosy drones.
1a. tie requirements to a person not group
> Because Microsoft permits testing without a license

Yes

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virt...

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/v...
what about immunocompromised people who don't really have a choice. Some of them get the vaccine but it gives them no anti-bodies, as if they were not vaccinated. What about them?
I feel like it needs a group identity around it —- how about “Syndicalists”?
Yeah. Keyboards, headphones, mice, monitors, desk chairs purchased for software engineers... Pretty self explanatory.
I wish I could, frankly, but smartphone UIs are just not designed for it sadly. Heck, input boxes don't even autofocus on Android (presumably because a virtual keyboard pops up over half the screen for most people once they focus an input) so I need to jab the login field before I can start typing.

Whether or not Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V actually copy paste within any given application is about 50/50 (and not always the same between copy and paste!).

Since the big new version of Mobile Firefox it no longer scrolls when you send it scroll events (presumably there's a child frame or something).

Then again, Android is just generally not ready for production in a lot of ways other than keyboard support (the latter of which I sort of forgive them for -- phone keyboards are unfortunately quite rare these days).

So yes, we make an exception, but it's due to necessity not desirability.
Unless you're writing Office plugins, why do you need an office license for your test VM?
The whole country is structured so that verification by foreigners is next to impossible:

Foreign journalists cannot freely report from within the country. If the government does not like your reporting, you are forced to leave the country.

Information controls ensure that communication with China & the western world is controlled and subject to scrutiny. People in China cannot legally access most foreign news, or communicate with foreigners on social media. You cannot even access hackernews legally in China!

This creates an environment where it's extremely hard to actually vet any information about China, as there is such a strong communications barrier. Both for professional journalists and regular civilians. There is this immense culture of secrecy and information control that does not exist on the same scale anywhere else in the world.

Unsurprisingly this creates a situation where people distrust the words of the Chinese government. They have created this apparatus that prevents foreigners from verifying Chinese information.
20 odd years ago I worked on someone else's helpdesk as application and PC support. Sometimes the calls that came in were a bit more interesting than Extra Term is blinking at me or Sophos ate my Word doc.

Call (ticket) came in along the lines of "Need help with a neural network I am developing in Excel". I bit. I showed the end user (who was orders of magnitudes cleverer than me) a bit about VBA. Some reasonably good habits like Option Explicit and making sure all eventualities are covered in If clauses. Keep your inputs, working and output separate and sum north/south and east/west and compare. Document the bloody thing! If I recall correctly, it was a Hopfield thingie, so I'm pretty off topic here.

The next call was for help with an Access database with fifty odd tables all linked to each other in a way that must surely be designed to invoke Cthulhu. I deleted it and we started again! My call notes were odd enough to get a mention at the next ops meeting.

The product is still flying so all good.

Convoluted ... what?
That’s fair I can see the argument but I think we all have the ability to be addicted to things regardless of your mental health.
This is good context for your comment. Thank you.
> In review, Foreign Policy covers news related to foreign affairs with minimal bias. Headlines are generally free from loaded words, though at times moderate such as this: Bernie Sanders Still Doesn’t Pass the Commander-in-Chief Test (anti-progressive) and this Trump Doesn’t Want to Play Peacemaker (anti-Trump). Both articles use proper sourcing. In general, Foreign Policy leans slightly right in their news coverage but balanced in reporting and well-sourced.

This is hilarious. I wonder if there's a political group that benefits from attacking both these positions.
It's easier to understand typical politics concerns in the US through the lens of peoples dreams.

A modest and common dream is to live in a place where you are free to do whatever you like in your yard without concern for neighbors e.g. A house in the woods/rural area. A simplification of that dream is to have fences in yard.

If you remove a dream from possibility Americans will often react negatively even if the reality is that only a portion of them will achieve that dream in their lifetime.