skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a family member who, despite acknowledging that seat belts work and save lives, refuses to wear his seat belt purely out of petty spite "because I'm not gonna let the tyrannical government tell me what to do!" This endless conversation about vaccines is feeling more and more like that. Orthodox Individualism has become a religion.
That's because it was not submitted when you think it was. The submission came here via the second-chance pool. That means that it was submitted recently, in this case yesterday. It might have gotten a few points and comments at best but did not really catch on. It was deemed interesting enough and moved to the second-chance pool to be automatically put on the frontpage a few hours later again. The process rewrites timestamps as far as I know. You can see it in the list at time of writing this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/pool

(You can also access the second-chance pool via the link labelled "Lists" in the footer of the front page if you do not want to remember it.)
It may have been bad in the 1950s, but there was an acute acceleration of how bad it got in the 1990-2010 era.
I just want Banished, but with better performance and with some basic AoE elements of an RTS. Fend off raiders, create military units, deal with pillaging. I remember the guy at CrystalRock talking about it saying the way the AI determines what to do is the primary reason it's a little slow as populations get larger since they dynamically change the items they get and where they go on the fly.

Songs of Syx however seems like the real deal. I haven't bought it but it looks very promising in terms of what Banished couldn't entirely deliver.
Health insurance premiums are a tax, not actual insurance premiums priced to one's own health risks.

The Affordable Care Act stipulates various terms which result in young and/or healthy people explicitly subsidizing old and/or unhealthy people:

1) only age, location, and smoking status are able to be taken into account for pricing. And everyone must be offered insurance (i.e. no exclusions for pre existing conditions)

2) age rating factors - premium for costliest person (64 years old) must be at most 3x those of least costly person (21 to 24 years old)

3) out of pocket maximums
> And finally, something that would, in my opinion, really add to the realism and historical flavor of a medieval-themed city builder would be the introduction of mechanisms in which agricultural surpluses are skimmed by the church and the feudal lord. Tithes, taxes and rents! Instead of merely abstracting the taxes into an income modifier or letting the player be the extractor himself, we could be shown the tax collector visiting the village, counting the sheaves by the side of the road, selecting the calves and chickens. This way, the experiences of our medieval forebears are visualized and may help to educate the public about medieval village life.

This is the part that's most interesting to me. I always feel tax policy & land use is very rarely explored in games; in most of these games if you can set tax rates at all it always seems to be a straight tax on productivity so you just have to pick the amount of deadweight loss you're willing to accept to generate the revenue you need to run your government. There's also very rarely any distinction between government spending and private spending, and how government spending on public goods influences the asset values of private interests. You could make an entire game about just that subject.

EDIT: As a follow-up, I found this history of land & tax policy in Denmark going back to the middle ages to be quite fascinating and might be a useful point of contact for this sort of thing: https://bibliotek1.dk/english/history/centuries-of-experienc...
"In olden times, the average person didn't expect to be happy" - I don't think that statement is supported by any evidence or logic. People are happy sometimes even when they're food-scarce. Only the dead are truly never happy.

Similarly, the concept of 'pursuit of happiness' then referenced was a sort of adaptation of the 'right to property'.

Perhaps this article would be stronger with a deeper research into history of people a few hundred years ago, or philosophy of work/life at that time.
What advantages/disadvantages do you have compared to Restore-L/OSAM-1?
SWE roles with "high" total comp, you cant pay rent with total comp stock/equity, you pay rent with cash comp.

Also, before anyone cites the cost of a studio apartment in California, note not everyone is single and not everyone wants to stuff a family into a studio apartment.

I think ppl way overestimate living expenses relative to wages when making this argument. http://greyenlightenment.com/2019/01/02/the-sam-vimes-boots-...

just break down the numbers:

If you make $210k/year, after taxes you are still taking home $135k/year. In Silicon Valley, the median rent for a one-bedroom apartment is $2,300 a month. So you are still left with $107k. Not bad. Add $1,500/month for other misc. expenses such as food and health insurance and internet access and phone plan and car payment for a crappy car (no need to splurge). Still have $89k. This is not even counting stock compensation or sign-on bonuses or other perks. Of course, if you add children to the equation, expenses rise dramatically, but this can be offset to some degree by having a double income family.

$210k is the lowish end of FAANG. Most people are not expecting to have kids until later in life . You can also borrow from equity. The notion that stocks is not cash is wrong. If you are fully vested and deep in the money, it is effectively cash.
> Why then should Apple have monopoly on harvesting emails?

They don't, and aren't trying to. They are trying to disrupt the Google/Facebook duopoly in the SSO space. Devs are free to require new accounts that they have the email for, just not outsource it to FB/Google.
Eradication is not happening. You might as well be talking about eradicating the flu, which is another contagious respiratory virus that rapidly mutates and is not completely controlled by vaccines. This was obvious even a month ago, when over 10% of a naval ship tested positive for Covid despite every single person being fully vaccinated [1]. I only hope that the "end game" is not permanent restrictions on travel, movement, and trade.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/14/covid-outbreak-a...
Cool!
I just made the PR :)

Good luck with the project.
Well, high-end engineers are only in demand in specific fields. Anecdotally, one of my relatives is about to complete his PhD in Chemical Engineering, and since there isn't a labor shortage in that field, he's looking for software jobs to use the skills he picked up in his lab work.
Isn't "droid" trademarked by LucasFilm? Are you using the term under license from them?
Oh rad. I was just chatting with a friend about how tired we were of having no control over which inboxes gmail has, and what goes into them. This looks like a big step in the right direction.
Hard agree. Women as well. There may not be a labor shortage as such, but there certainly is a diversity, equity, and inclusion shortage.
The Ted Chiang books are great. Short stories. 'Arrival' the movie is based on one of them.
Be very aware -- SSD must be plugged in otherwise they may lose data after a few years.

The time varies with temperature. Search for SSD data retention for more info.

The JEDEC standard is the one to read.
At last $dayjob we were a speck compared to even the smallest "webscale" consumer B2C app and we gathered 800mil tracing events a week.
The sort of well-to-do 40+ lawyer you describe is really only something found at "biglaw" firms, and not only that, but people at biglaw firms who have managed to make partner. Getting hired into biglaw is like getting hired into big tech from CS school, but less predictable because it's almost universally based on law school rank after your first year. And law school rank is almost universally dependent upon exam grades. In law school, your grade for a class for the entire semester is dependent on one exam; mine often had somewhere around 4 questions. You can know the material back and front objectively, but if you have not managed to divine how the prof wants their questions answered, you will score poorly.

Everyone goes into law school thinking they will be the one to get high grades, but in my experience, working hard was not well correlated with good grades. Even if you work harder than anyone else, it still somewhat comes down to a coin flip. This can be so frustrating, I cannot even begin to describe it.

Even if you then make it into biglaw (a low percentage), you then need to make partner (an extremely low percentage). This is far more about a) office politics, b) connections, and c) your ability to "rain make" by bringing in big new clients; than about your skill as a practitioner of law.

I would also caution against looking at numbers like salary in isolation. Law is full of unhappy rich people. 36% of the profession suffer from alcohol use disorders, compared to ~12% of the general population. Nearly half experience depression at some point (compared to 15% in the general population, in the stat I was able to locate). It's not a happy field.
When creating an entertainment product, be it a movie or game, your user’s expectations are the canvas you paint on. In some places you deliberately violate them, in others you accommodate them at the expense of “realism.”

An amusing example: In the Sly Stallone rock climbing action movie “Cliffhanger,” they shot a scene where he ice climbs without an axe. To get past a certain section, he dips his gloved hand in cold water and freezes it to the ice, using that for traction.

This is an actual technique alpinists have used. But test audiences (who are not alpine climbers) rejected it as preposterous. So it’s on the DVD as a “deleted scene,” but wasn’t in the cut they released to theatres.

The movie also features a “bolt gun” he carries that can sink a bolt into rock, which can then be used as a hold or to attach a carabiner. No such thing is possible with current technology, but audiences accepted it as possible, so it plays a prominent role in the plot.

The movie’s producers were catering to their audience’s expectation as they actually were, not as we may wish they were.
Your rights end when exercising them endangers my life and the lives of my family. That’s also a basic tenet of civil society (see traffic laws for example).
My skill set and abilities increased the most rapidly in the job before the 60% raise. It then increased further in that job, but because it was a bigger, more established company, it took longer to get exposed to different things, and because my skill set was already larger, fewer of those things were as brand new.

Stress level was about the same as a result: on one hand, I had more to lose - my other jobs hadn't paid nearly as well. On the other hand, I found I had a broad enough base of skills to be useful immediately plus was becoming more confident in my ability to learn things.
The closest to modelling this skimming comes from Tropico, where the player's offshore bank account is effectively the player's "score", but the process of skimming off money to the bank account causes problems for your settlement.
Also

* package manager

* operating system
Wow, that was very entertaining though obviously a bit comedic. Both characters also seem to have much better technique than conditioning.
Regarding security: You can get fined over using fake certificates. So most people won't use fakes as long as the incentives are right. There's no need for airtight security here.
> bought a house in Florida and played golf everyday

It sounds like this was one of the big mistakes. Hindsight being 20/20 and all, it's hard to see it all now, but it sounds like he could've attempted to transition some of his best business relationships into personal ones, with lunches and/or some other kinds of personal meet-ups. Of course, enjoying the work, it does sound like he sold too soon!

This is still a personal anecdote though. As per the article, we aren't very good at predicting or evaluating what makes us happy. We think retiring and doing "other things" is what we want, but is it? It might be working, running a business, or golfing. You have to figure that out for yourself, and ideally in a way that doesn't require irreversible decisions.
The robot apocalypse is hard to find in America's small and mid-sized factories
But we're okay requiring masks, and we're okay putting the onus on businesses to enforce that.

I'd much rather enforce vaccinations than masks.
I was quite clear about what I meant:

> they don't understand that capitalism minimizes the amount of work required to meet their needs/desires

Anyone who thinks this is merely "ideology"--that there are non-capitalist systems that afford better quality of life for less labor--is invited to support their position with evidence.
You can both be aware of the situation and delusional.

Many people I’ve spoken to with tenure track aspirations genuinely believe they’re in the top 1% of their field, and thus have a good shot at making it. I’d wager that far more than 1% of graduate students/postdocs believe this about themselves. In general, the vast majority of people will rate themselves as above average for any given ability, even though that’s by definition impossible.
I went down to three days a week four years ago and it's one of the best decisions I've ever made.

At first, I planned on working on an existing business but I decided not to do that and started making YouTube videos because I wanted something else to do on my days off. That was fun at first but got monotonous fast. I volunteered for a political campaign for a year, and now now I am working on another business that I am really excited about. For me, I definitely have to have something productive to do or I get bored.

I own a home with no debt and am pretty frugal so I could probably "retire" now, but will probably keep working until my new business starts making money. Once that happens, I'll probably shift over to working entirely for myself. I don't think I'll stop "working", whether it's something that makes money or not. The beauty is that since I've been pushing towards financial independence, I'll always have plenty of "extra" cash that I can use for whatever I want. If I do decide to retire, I'll probably keep my development skills active so I'll always be able to find work if need be.
There is. It’s a bit crude and as far as I remember you can only remove things.

https://www.facebook.com/help/247395082112892
Maybe at the 600k mark, but the 300k mark is a very wide net. Source: levels.fyi
Census Data Change to Protect Privacy Rattles Researchers, Minority Groups
Women’s Running Pioneer Joan Ullyot Dies at 80
Track FAPI compliant RP libraries
With fibber internet increasingly becoming standard around the world and 5G it makes perfect sense people will use their computer as a terminal for a more powerful computer in the cloud than buying powerful computers
We shouldn’t applaud the normalization of health status checks outside a border crossing. The world has a nasty trend of using crises to erode privacy and we collectively never recover - what was sold as temporary becomes permanent, endlessly extended and expanded.

I’m not an antivaxer. The vaccine works and I believe it’s really safe. I’m vaccinated. Nearly anyone who is capable to go to a bar can easily go get vaccinated. If they don’t, I’m not interested in saving them from themselves, honestly.

If the spread or variant breakthrough or some other aspect is so critical that we need to resort to novel privacy violations we should just shut down again instead.
Are you drawing a comparison between requiring vaccinations (with 30+ year safety records) against measles and polio, for children to attend public school, with requiring vaccinations (with no long-term safety data whatsoever) against Covid for people to go to public establishments?

Did you ever need proof of a polio vaccine to get into Equinox?
It should be noted that Paul Pedriana, the original developer of EASTL and many other things, just recently passed away unexpectedly. He was an EA programming legend.

Note of passing:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/20296764839/posts/1015929527...

EASTL paper:
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n227...

Partial list of Paul's programming credits:
https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,2...
You can always switch jobs for a higher offer, that's not true of a chip purchase.
Can you imagine a real mayor simulator, where you'd have to get elected and answer to the city council and constituents? I expect most would find that boring, but it might be a fun (or at least educational) experience for some.
The problem is that these older websites depended on lax HTML parsing behavior, which still exists but has since been standardized in extensive detail.

It’s quite likely this site was already broken in other browsers, or even other versions of IE. And really, it’s not even broken now, the content does render. It’s just difficult to use.

And it’s not as if there aren’t a slew of sites that render differently on Wayback for a variety of reasons. This is in no way meant to disparage the Internet Archive, but I don’t think it’s a reasonable expectation that a site hosted in a way it wasn’t set up by its creators will always accurately render the way it did in its original context.
Only works for small projects, doesn't scale in terms of maintenance.

Same sort of issue makes people use microservices not because of their true advantages but simply to enforce boundaries between features because so many people lack discipline to make a well-structured (distributed) monolith.
Schoonschip
It more or less made sense to require masks when people where unvaccinated. But now there is no reason to be OK to require masks either unless you are for mask wearing mandate for everything, everywhere, all the time
Yes, buying an expensive piece of equipment is always an option. The point is that maybe people should explore other options and think about whether you actually need it and if the purchased equipment is going to give the quality you require. Occasionally I need to move an appliance or haul a load of lumber for a house project, so buying a truck could be a plan. But is the cost, both in purchasing and in poor gas mileage, and the space it takes up worth it for the hauling ability? For me, renting a truck the occasional time I need that ability is a far better option for me, but it does require me to actually think ahead and plan and I can’t just run to the Home Depot and pickup a sheet of plywood on a whim.

If I did get a pickup, is it the best tool for the jobs I need? Would a larger moving truck serve me better? It wouldn’t be a smart move to spend the money and then have it under perform for the tasks I actually need, because buying a commercial grade version is not feasible.

Buying a b&w printer that you only use once every few months might not actually be your only option. Buying a color printer that prints lower quality than you really want and is gummed up or out of ink when you need it, might not actually be your only option. Without one, you can’t print at 3am, but just like that sheet of plywood, is that scenario really important enough to you?
mmap on Windows is CreateFileMapping + MapViewOfFile
I think with modern hindsight, growth would be fairly straightforward, but it’s anachronistic to bring 21st century intellectual tools to bear in a 10th Century context, like bringing a machine gun (and plenty of ammo) to a medieval battlefield. Even things like knowing about sanitation (so don’t put wells where you dump your sewer) would help massively.
If you think the idea of a Canadian mafia is funny...

You may be positively tickled by the fact that the maple syrup industry is controlled by a cartel like group that may be mafia-adjacent and there have been high-stakes maple syrup heists.

https://www.google.com/search?&q=mafia+maple+syrup

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

It's no joke, of course. That's precious stuff. And where there's money there's crime...

Today [2018], a barrel of maple syrup is worth
about $1,200 — that's around 18 times the value
of U.S. crude oil.
That's perhaps the logical answer if the certificate is the outcome you care about. But I know a lot of students who decided that it made more sense just to take the year off and go back to school when things were hopefully more normal again.
Whether it is proper for the government to mandate vaccines in certain situation is a complicated question but I think some of your priors are incorrect.

1. The data out of Israel on vaccine efficacy with Delta is out of line with other studies on the matter and is generally considered to suffer from some methodological flaws. See https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2108891 for a study out of Britain showing an efficacy of 88% against symptomatic infection. There is much more data that corroborates only slightly reduced efficacy and the Israel study is the outlier so anchoring to that number is probably a mistake.

2. The Pronvicetown study (where 74% of infected were vaccinated) doesn't tell you anything about vaccine efficacy. The vaccine rate for the town or state are irrelevant since the event in question included a large number of tourists. The town itself only has ~3000 people but there were 60k people there from all over the country at the week-long event.

3. Here is a study showing higher mutational variance in unvaccinated patients: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.01.21259833v.... This is exactly what we should expect. Vaccines drastically reduce the rate of transmission so we should have a strong prior that they would also reduce the rate of mutation.
Villages are planned to some extent, but they almost certainly are placed in areas with existing settlers i.e. productive capacity. The farms (settlers) come first, then the village follows.
The best bit is this excerpt from the standard library (2019):

fn download_file(url, out string) {
// println('\nDOWNLOAD FILE $out url=$url')
// -L follow redirects
// println('curl -L -o "$out" "$url"')
os.system2('curl -s -L -o "$out" "$url"')
// res := os.system('curl -s -L -o "$out" "$url"')
// println(res)
}

Here's what that file looks like today: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/vlib/net/http/downloa...
Yeah, if a European developer attempted to make a non-European city builder then they'd probably get accused of appropriation, and in addition would also get slammed for the inaccuracies and socio-cultural misunderstandings that would inevitably manifest. Also, what stops developers in those aforementioned regions making their own games, there are plenty of relatively cheap and reasonable options in terms of game engines.
exactly. facebook generate among the highest profit margins of any company. Multi-illion dollar ad budgets by fortune 500 companies, plus tons of small business adverstiing, is jsut pure profit for instagram and facebook. Mobile ads are very expensive, too. More expensive than desktop.
The cargo cult mentality is the thing that I've seen throughout my career. FAANG does it this way therefore we must do it this way (I've also heard it parroted at the senior leadership and executive levels more than once!). IMO, this is the driving force behind juniors and intermediates who pull too much complexity into their solutions.
Hanlon's razor
> never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
I weep for those who think social media is "the internet"
As are most games. According to ProtonDB [1] it should run more or less perfectly on Linux with Proton.

[1] https://www.protondb.com/app/690830
Any ideia how the prices will be?

Windows as a service, if decently priced, would be pretty sweet.
iOS 15 beta removes famous 'green orb' lens flares we are so used to on iPhones