skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your Cost of Living argument is lame; the term has a definition which you have overloaded to mean something completely different.

Your usage of the term has a loaded definition. You're trying to thread a needle between the nominal cost of living (which has increased) and effective cost of living (which has increased for some), presumably by appealing to CPI. But you can't appeal to a measure that's from the exact paradigm I'm criticizing - of course things look consistent and reasonable from inside that paradigm (but its results on the real world are problematic).

> I don’t feel sorry for horse buggy whip salespeople who had to search for a different purpose in life. They already won a lottery by being born in the USA in the most affluent time in history

I'm not arguing that we should have held back offshoring, and you can spare me the race-to-the-bottom privilege indictment.

> The economy doesn’t owe anyone anything

This is a passive voice, while I'm criticizing a specific actor. "The economy" didn't decide that prices have to go up year over year, and in fact they would have naturally gone down with offshoring. Rather, the government decided that prices still needed to go up year over year, despite the gains made from offshoring.

If prices had been allowed to decrease, then the communities that lost manufacturing jobs would have at least seen some benefit from goods costing less as their own expenses would have gone down. But rather than the promised benefit of "cheaper goods" being realized throughout society, those gains were collected centrally far away from the people most impacted.
More freedom being taken away for my protection. More obsession with safety over all else. Looks like I'll be using wget more in the near future!
No it's not. "Big branded" IDE's are actually more feature complete in terms of intellisense and auto complete and auto formatting when compared to "code editors" that are fully loaded with plugins.

They usually achieve much better integration with the projects and this is not including the side features like remote development or database browsers. VSCode comes close to an IDE much closer than vim or emacs when fully loaded on plugins but even in this case jetbrains edges them out.
Seems pretty obvious to me that if you mime shooting someone with whom you have an ongoing mutual animus, they might take it as a threat.
What is China speed? Are the Chinese known for fast manufacturing?
> …but it's impressive to me just how deep the less-discovered, high quality web really is.

Would that there were a search engine out there that prioritised the indexing of these high quality ‘well behaved’ sites.
SpaceX will now be renamed Union Aerospace Corporation (like in Doom).
Because quantum mechanics _really_ does not like destroying information. Mangling information beyond recognition is just fine, but the laws of quantum mechanics are very insistent that, if you have a complete description of the state of the universe, you can solve the equations backwards and figure out what happened in the last. When you throw in a black hole following Hawking’s rules, or any other device that irretrievably chews things up and spits them out in a way that can’t, even in theory, be undone, quantum mechanics breaks.
I've only ever worked on something that solved a personal problem. I just go ahead and build something rudimentary/MVP that solves my problem. That MVP could still include manual bits, be sitting on a free subdomain (subdomains from Google App Engine), not have a proper logo (just use text for the branding), etc.

Once I get rudimentary version, I can then put it out there in public to validate it. Maybe do a Show HN or do a 'low budget' Ad on Facebook/Twitter. This is what I did for my current project, https://nocommandline.com (I did a Show HN).

I feel that software needs a 'trial' version to be able to gauge whether people will actually use it or not.
If I told you I’m giving you an annual $600,000 budget to build a small team and write software, and you chose Deno and had to reinvent JavaScript libraries that already existed for years, I’d fire you for being negligent with funds.

What you’re saying sounds ridiculous.
I'm sorry but I fail to see what reality you are pointing out. Yes there are homeless in LA. Same with many places.

You are commenting on a post about the _experience_ of living in Los Angeles without--by your own admission--having visited the city.
We have a very bare minimum of knowledge for individual treatment, but only in a very few cases. There are genetic markers known, for example, to impact metabolism of specific medications, and there are tests (Genesight) to find out your own profile. So there is some very minimal progress on that front. It's a start towards personalized treatments, but we don't always know why a specific genetic marker doesn't work the same way or why an enzyme has such a large impact on things.
Zen is a desktop app so I'm happy to see that we satisfy your preference.

Those are great ideas. We'll be adjusting our website to make it more clear!
I want to share an anecdote that I've told countless times in person.

My 1 year old daughter came down with a bizarre rash on New Years Eve in 2019. We took her to a pediatric urgent care where they diagnosed her with a viral rash (not uncommon, anyone with kids is probably familiar). Some Tylenol did the trick and she was fine.

Two days later we followed up with her doctor, who did a full exam and did not identify anything in particular. The next day, she was acting lethargic and had a slight fever. Nothing we hadn't dealt with before. That night though, things took a turn for the worst. She began vomiting heavily and had a febrile seizure which prompted us to call 911 and they transported her to the ER.

There, her temperature was 103 and they immediately administered medication. A chest x-ray showed she had developed pneumonia in one of her lungs.

The next day when we were finally discharged from the hospital, I realized I too had developed a terrible fever which soon turned into a cough. My daughter had rapidly improved after treatment for the pneumonia, while I was suffering from a terrible cough. Laying in bed, I became delusional with a high fever, sweating through everything I wore, and went to the ER twice over the span of 4 days with shortness of breath. My sense of smell and taste was gone. I had a residual cough for about 2 weeks after.

You're probably thinking, wow, you and your daughter had COVID-19 in January of 2020. And you'd most likely be wrong. We both had RSV, confirmed through rapid testing. I was tested later in 2020 for the COVID-19 antibodies, and nothing popped up.

Take that into account when people say they had COVID in early 2020.
The video brings up that the same auction house was involved in the coin collection bubble in the 80s and had to settle with the FTC then.
While the lab escape theory is possible, there’s definitely not enough evidence to just state it like it’s fact (as you just did).
Persism 1.2.0 Release – A zero ceremony ORM for Java
Good diet and keeping hydrated are probably more important
This article cherry-picks a few items and discussed how EWG interprets the ingredient safety. It does not follow that all of EWG is misinformation; dismissing the useful database of ingredients, animal testing statuses, and other data is itself misinformation.
Pyre[1] is about 20k loc of ocaml[2].

$ time make -C source -j8
make: Entering directory '/home/fnord123/src/download/pyre-check/source'
../scripts/setup.sh --configure
Build info: Linux x86_64 @ Mon Aug 23 2021 (development build)
abort: no repository found in '/home/fnord123/src/download/pyre-check/source' (.hg not found)!
Git commit: 1e4dd5a39db1631fd13a3a8df74d6e0f5d801fbc
dune build @install -j auto --profile dev
menhir parser/generator.{ml,mli}
Warning: 31 states have shift/reduce conflicts.
Warning: 5 states have reduce/reduce conflicts.
Warning: 77 shift/reduce conflicts were arbitrarily resolved.
Warning: 75 reduce/reduce conflicts were arbitrarily resolved.
make: Leaving directory '/home/fnord123/src/download/pyre-check/source'

real 0m43.700s
user 4m3.030s
sys 0m41.005s

I must be doing something wrong.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/pyre-check
[2]

$ tokei
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Language Files Lines Code Comments Blanks
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Autoconf 2 235 204 3 28
C 15 242641 165361 60669 16611
C Header 10 14267 2617 11094 556
Coq 10 2391 1968 220 203
CSS 5 713 540 44 129
Dockerfile 2 71 42 11 18
HTML 2 35 30 0 5
INI 1 12 9 0 3
Java 31 2654 2080 267 307
JavaScript 7 867 752 61 54
JSON 17 939 939 0 0
Makefile 5 229 145 45 39
Markdown 47 7213 7213 0 0
OCaml 791 229096 198302 10455 20339
Python 398 61909 50119 2917 8873
Shell 5 111 59 34 18
SVG 2 2 2 0 0
TeX 4 929 642 129 158
Plain Text 5 457 457 0 0
TOML 1 2 2 0 0
TypeScript 2 130 84 20 26
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Total 1362 564903 431567 85969 47367
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Advertising crams itself into every nook and cranny unless some external factor keeps it out. if you're old enough, you remember the inserts (usually advertising cigarettes) in pulp paperbacks:

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/books/review/Collins-t.ht...
How long would a full lockdown take? (a real one, not a mockdown)

The experience in Wuhan shows that 76 days would be enough to eradicate the virus from a massive outbreak. So the loss would be way less than 20% of the GDP (since essential economic activities would still be going on [1], and there would be people being able to work from home. Government could still use financial instrument/regulation to alleviate the damage).

I don't think the the US would be able to do such a large project, but I had thought that the European bureaucratic system was organized enough. I was apparently wrong.

[1] To give some perspectives on the GDP contributed by different sectors https://www.statista.com/statistics/247991/value-added-to-th...
naw, despite this there is a noticeable lack of features from the "code editors" side. So much so that the definitions have evolved but the distinction remains.
You are of course entitled to your own opinion, but I am still going to do what I think is right, and you are going to deal with it. Simple as that.
And then what do people do with all of those dollars they just received?

They buy US Treasury bonds. Or oil.
There's a difference, though. Microsoft's Windows Update driver installer does not require launching executables, it never has in the past, it simply got the inf and supporting files and put them in the system's driver location. Now they're automatically running executable code that microsoft isn't verifying as an Administrator. Yes a malicious driver could be bad, but since drivers have a more finite api surface they should call, they can be audited / restricted with static analysis checks. launching a userspace app with admin privileges automatically is a bad idea.

Would you be ok with the AMD kernel driver launching a web browser as root on first boot? Or every boot?
I'm glad Darktable exists.

Adobe letting Lightroom "Classic" sit and rot for years, along with increasing the price substantially has really opened the market up to competition. I'm currently using PhotoLab 4, but that's mostly because workflow wise it is "good enough" while offering killer features like DeepPrime and ClearView+ (that neither Lightroom Classic nor Darktable have an answer to yet).

Long term though I suspect Darktable will be the final victor if they can find a consistent group of contributors. The biggest limitation right now is lack of proprietary plugin support, for example if they had PureRaw Plugin support I could use Darktable instead of PhotoLab 4 today.
Where do you end up with the translations from wdt:P25 to "mother"? That's the most incomprehensible part. It feels like I need a reverse dictionary lookup to write a single query.
And today I learned Donald Knuth was the youngest Turing award winner at the age of 36. I'm going to have to go learn SPARQL.
> Also, the question of should a government force its citizens to have a medical procedure.

There’s a Supreme Court decision[0] about whether states can mandate a vaccine (they can).

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._Massachusetts
Yeah thinking about it more it's probably a cheek swab and not a blood prick. And yeah the card would be the more regularly used 2FA. The DNA test is just for when you lose your card.

As to doing it by mail, that may be potentially doable, but one would need to think through how to prevent e.g. stolen saliva, MITM mail sample interceptions, etc.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-s-coronavirus-hospi...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-20/beijing-r...
Handle requests or interaction to API by Faith_James – Fiverr
Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences

https://www.skynettoday.com/editorials/humans-not-concentrat...
Actually, Commander Keen could be called an indie title by today's standards. The success put them in a position to make DOOM.

At least, I think that's how the history went. I could be wrong.
If you're looking for a good keyboard I recommend KeyChron. I have used their mechanical keyboards (K4) for gaming and they feel great while I use their slim optical keyboard (K3) for software and general use. Both keyboards are 1/2 to 1/3 of the cost of the mainstream, brand name equivalents and, IMHO, double the quality.

Razer makes a lot of junk. I saw a headset stand with plastic and RGB. I don't know why someone would waste money or a bus port on a 5 dollar part with lights. That said, I do own one of their cameras and it's incredible quality. Corsair and Steel Series are usually my go to's.
You could same about "Can't you just take the jab?" and "Can't you just wear a mask?". If you want to be the one deciding who has to do something, then that's called authoritarianism and it's the reason why so many people are pissed off about the all of the covid restrictions.
I mean, they built the world's largest high speed rail network pretty damn quickly.
In the UK we had shops that sold everything -- Argos has done catalogue shopping for decades. Sainsburys, a major supermarket, owns them, and does delivery.

Amazon makes it trivial to buy pretty much anything I want and get it the next day. Sainsburys sells the same stuff between themselves and argos, yet they failed miserably at competing. They could have worked with companies like royal mail and leverage their logistics expertise to compete, but they failed miserably to even realise why I shop at amazon.

I'm not some 1970s afficiando going out to a high street to buy something in person, it's very unlikely I need something right then and can't wait for 24 hours for someone to bring it to me. I have better things to do with my time.
So ...

I spend a lot of time on a bike. I don't spend $1300 on bikes.

There are people who want the latest carbon fiber blah blah just because they are using it for sport. I have no problem with them. But I have my current $200 Craigslist bike, it would have been $900 MSRP, but it rides fine, it's a little heavier than those carbon fiber things but so what? I get more exercise, and worry slightly less about theft, which buys me a LOT of freedom because I can just lock it up in downtown San Francisco and enjoy my day. If it gets stolen I just buy another bike, no biggie. If my landlord confiscates it, I just buy another bike, no biggie.*

Yeah, I agree, it's reasonable to spend $1300. If you have $1300. But it's also okay to NOT want to spend $1300 and still want to take it up as a serious hobby. I for one am pretty happy with my $200 bike.

I don't use clip pedals, I just use flat pedals, and these $20 aluminum flat pedals are nice and solid. I tried SPD clips before and hated that stuff. To each is own.

I have done many long distance trips, and I avoid proprietary or hard-to-find components because it's awesome that I can find replacement components in some random village in rural China or rural Myanmar or rural anywhere I go.

*Saves me on rent anyway because apartments in my area with proper bike storage OR enough apartment sqftage to store bikes inside have rent rates higher than my current rent plus the cost of a new bike per month. It still saves me money to stay at my current cheap apartment, lock bike to the pool fence (because property manager refuses to install bike racks on the premises), get it confiscated every now and then, and keep buying new bikes.
Everytime I hear about companies patenting everything, it really bothers me.

I wish we would tie patent fees to the assets of a company, or person. Basically the wealthy boys would pay much more for a patent, and low income individuals woukd pay less, or nothing.

So a big company might think twice about an exponential government fee when they are on their 100 patent.
Who "acts like that"? Maybe somebody unpaid and abused over a bug maybe already fixed, years ago.

What "silly child" abuses unpaid maintainers? Oh, right, you.

If you just want somebody whose job is to listen to you complain, there are companies that will sell you a contract for that.
Eating great food in Paris is expensive on average. And the service is unfortunately known to be horrible. It’s not a rule though.

But other French cities are full of restaurants that serves really great food, with either gorgeous local specialities (hello Britain and Provence), or excellent « French » cuisine for really modest prices as low as 12-15€ for the « plat du jour » (which is made from what the restaurant bought in the morning) to 30-40€ for meals you’ll keep in your memory.

This is due to a law that enforces employers to pay for your mid-day meal. Most of them do this by giving you restaurants vouchers so a lot of people in France got to eat at restaurants on a budget every day. So as a restaurant owner, you’d better have nice food if you want to see your customers come back every week.
We regulate things that can harm people. If your body can harm people, it's subject to regulation.

We regulate your ability to punch, to bite, and to infect. Simple as that.

And this last was formally established by the SCOTUS 116 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._Massachusetts
Hindley-Milner typechecking in practice is quite fast (as evidenced by ocamlc and Elm's compiler) and easily on par or faster than Go's typechecker (my rule of thumb for Elm code is usually 1 second per 100k lines).

In general HM-based type systems are both conceptually quite simple and can have quite fast implementations. What makes them seem "complex" is that languages with HM-based type systems also tend to make it hard to "go around" the type system and enforce much more rigid discipline around how your code can be written.
Mosquitos are the closest thing to a predator that we have. They're by far the animal that kills the most humans (outside of other humans), and it's been that way for at least 10s of thousands of years.

We already know that billions of humans have genetic mutations that specifically are there to protect us from mosquitos. So I'm not surprised that mosquitos have specific adaptations made for us either.
The most proven anti-aging for skin, that I'm aware of, is prevention of UV rays damaging the skin.

Sunscreens are amazing "anti-aging" formulas.

Interesting fact: sunscreens are not proven to prevent melanoma; only basal cell carcinoma and other skin cancers. Beware I said "proven". They may, but evidence is not there yet, as of last time I checked.
Was going to make a long winded post describing all my views on this but thought better of it. For me personally, the decision is very simple: I already suffered through COVID, the current data shows naturally acquired immunity is at least as good as any vaccine, therefore there is no good reason for me to consider getting it.

If my ability to make a living will be held hostage based on my vaccination status, or if https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4980 gets passed, I will change my mind and get the vaccine just so I can gtfo of here.
https://www.razer.com/legal/services-and-software-terms-of-u...

<ctrl-f>keystrokes

It does mention you can turn it off, but still sounds over the top to me.

"Mouse Usage Statistics. Synapse 2.0 offers a feature of collecting mouse usage statistics, specifically keystrokes, mouse-clicks, wheel-rotations and pointer distance travelled. Such collection of statistics may be turned on or off within Synapse and is under your own control."
Wait, can any webdevs explain a legitimate use for these features? Because my (admittedly uninformed) mind can only think of bad uses...
zero covid is unrealistic. how are things gonna pan out when the hypothetical zero covid nation opens up to outside travelers?
I'm always amazed at the people that think that somehow if the government had not misspent these trillions of dollars on war that it could have somehow effectively spent it on massive health and education projects. The choice here was for a corrupt congress to dole out trillions in directionless war or dole out trillions in directionless health and education boondoggles. Also these same people seem to be against tax cuts.

I think the federal government needs to cut about 700,000 federal jobs and we need to shrink the discretionary federal budget by at least 500 billion. If we don't, you will keep getting iraqs and afghanistans until we collapse.
You might be on to something. I got a fever and was sick for a while after being bit by a lot of mosquitoes last year. It could have been a coincidence, but I'm still going to try to avoid getting weird illnesses from their bites from now on.
People who realistically anticipate opponents (the state, kidnappers) using force to get at information on a personally targeted basis are likely willing to deal with a degree of real pressure, as shown by the long-term intransigence of many political prisoners through history.

What I'm saying is that if such threats are unacceptable to a person, chances are they are not going to involve themselves in the sort of activities that require keeping secrets in the first place, or are sufficiently disciplined to have weak device security because they don't write anything down.
It's a new 'feature' of Windows update. In the past, driver vendors that were supplying to the Windows Update driver DB only had the option of providing infs and firmware, basically. I think they could provide apps too, but they had to be 'move it into place and it works' sort of apps. The mistake is that now Microsoft allows installers to run, Logitech does the same thing, plug in any logitech device and Logitech Options pops up a custom notification prompting you to 'continue' installation.
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I'm reading your examples of what is principled and unprincipled and I don't find them very convincing; mostly owing to how easy it is to paint genuinely "principled" attempts as being "unprincipled," and perhaps vice-versa? I've seen A LOT of that before.