skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in such a business decades back as a consultant, migrating clients from incredibly expensive mainframe systems to much more affordable alternatives, and I found out the path is fraught with perils. I was an independent consultant doing this sort of thing to get companies out of software contracts that would be around $10 million per annum in today's bucks. The vendor who was losing the clients had revenue approaching $billion/annum in today's bucks, ie a few thousands of times my revenue. I got a letter from their lawyers, an ultra-aggressive firm that had been written up in the NY Times for being so efficient at winning ultra-aggressive lawsuits. I took it to my lawyer, the best I could afford, and he negotiated a total surrender, which meant perhaps half of my potential clients were now off-limits. I did pretty well with the other half for around 10 more years, but the vendors whom I was helping by guiding their new customers through the inexplicable aspects of the replacement software, came to want my revenue and to prefer that their customers not be too well informed about what they were getting into, so they started putting terms into their software licenses that required new customers to fence me out. Game over.

I went back to work as a developer for a vendor earning huge profits in a different vertical market which they dominated. Their lawyers were far more strategically important than their development team. The amount of revenue they derived from capturing customers was audaciously incredible for a firm operating in so-called free-market economies, even though they were always up to their elbows in legal battles and skirmishes on multiple fronts over who owned what and who was allowed to use which licensed API's for what functions.
Thanks, this is helpful, will review.

In theory, those opposed to early treatments could publish a competing analysis of studies on early treatments. Maybe that has already been done?

On some contested topics, there's almost a need for rules of evidence, so there's an agreed upon list of papers/data for discussion. Then different stakeholders/teams can debate on their (likely biased) interpretations of a pool of evidence that is clearly bounded at any point in time, but expanding as new data/studies become available.
Coastal California is typically cooler than all of the states you mentioned in summer and warmer in einter. The other states have their own homeless populations- even Minneapolis get encampments that last into winter- but none are as favorable to outdoor survival and comfort as the southern Pacific Coast.

Also, california spends much more than all of the other states on providing assistance to the homeless, and is far more tolerant of bad behavior (public drug use, drunkeness, defecation, etc).

California isn't bad at handling the homeless so much as it is bad at getting the homeless to become housed, mentally and financially stable.
> Ideally, everyone would be tested for antibodies before receiving a vaccine

I agree that would help make optimal decisions with regards to distributing a limited supply of vaccine doses.

However it's worth noting that even when antibodies drop below levels detectable by standard tests, individuals are likely to retain robust immune responses that provide sufficient protection from severe outcomes [1][2].

[1] SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03647-4.pdf

[2] Prior COVID-19 protects against reinfection, even in the absence of detectable antibodies
https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)002...
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Yep. But it’s still a valuable tool and the tool is made more powerful with this ridiculous market.
Relying on "type stability" (which I assume means no structure-altering mutations are allowed) is pretty similar to "just use atomics" as a strategy, which is what languages like Java and C# employ (it also has some similarities to the "value restriction" in languages like Standard ML and OCaml).

However, this can be quite restrictive depending on your definition of type stability (and what optimizations are allowed); for instance, Rust considered changing a value to null to be a structure altering mutation and is able to optimize around that, while it sounds like Vale cannot.

The rest of it sounds a lot like Rust (though I'm not sure whether regions are more like arenas or lifetimes, I'd have to look at the implementation, but generally speaking people call the same kinds of things regions even if they weren't trying to coordinate, and the performance tradeoffs you're describing sound really similar to those of regions in other languages). Overall, like I said, it sounds like a very interesting point in the tradeoff space!

Edit: Also, I misspoke when I said MLton, what you actually want is the similarly named sister project MLkit (http://www.mlton.org/MLKit ; see http://www.mlton.org/Regions for details on why they did not end up going with this strategy).
> "might allow airships to avoid storms better than their early 20th century counterparts did"

Not sure they wanted to; from [1]: "To maintain altitude, Hindenburg would brush against clouds and collect rainwater in gutters that fed the ballast tanks. If we passed through a shower every few hours there was no need to release gas. There were occasions when no rain was available, but we were rarely far from a suitable shower."

[1] https://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/crossing-atlan...
"notebook support for Cosmos (who even asked for this?) "

Lots of users. The functionality itself is great. CosmosDB is a nice OLTP datastore with a flexible schema, and the ability to run OLAP queries over that data with SQL makes it a powerful tool.
That's exactly what got us into this situation. Save a few bucks by appeasing the communists, and before you know it, they own you.
I could be mistaken, but I recall reading that there are quite a few hoops to jump through before you can fly for the big boys. For example, you would typically start with shorter/less important routes on smaller airlines. Also, the pilot unions keep the good routes (and salaries) for the more senior pilots, so tenure plays a big part in how much you get paid.
As a fellow (ex)FBer who absolutely abhorred PSC, I applaud you, sir.

As a former manager at said company, I would absolutely hate you for making my PSC hell-period even more hellish, as I would still be on the hook for delivering your packet under incredibly unrealistic timelines. Won't somebody think of the managers! ;)
Too real, depends on the kids thou. Mine don’t want to sleep and by the time they fall asleep I have been already fallen asleep, woken up a few to accompany them to the bathroom or to fetch some snack as they are suddenly ravenously hungry…
I guess there is not enough time to spend with my SO, or even less time for side projects at this time..
We can't let the EU have all the fun
Hey everybody. Submitting this language because I really enjoyed using it lately. I like the clean look of my scripts after using it :), and it seems more than powerful enough to do some really awesome work.

I wrote a simple URL list processor recently, using curl and some other tools for status code and other check-ins, and the docs made it a piece of cake.

It's also cross-platform but I'm just using it in Linux for now. So if anybody is looking for a simpler or cleaner way to script, or just something new to try, I would offer ABS as a really nice experience so far.
To me, this is a good indicator that they're going to start (or are already in the process of) monetizing user data directly and they are shutting down avenues for third parties to hoover up that data.
Here is a direct link if you want to search stuff on a map.

https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/

The datasets you pick from can be a bit confusing unless you click the (!) icon next to the names to figure out what they are.

I have mostly used it for looking at old reconnaissance satellite images from the 70's and 80's. I posted some directions here and a image from a satellite.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24006367
How about the languages that have already "solved" the problem (in terms of ergonomically usage), such as Haskell, Purescript, Scala and a lot of other niche languages?

That being said, Rust has a bit of a harder time due to the focus on performance and optimally zero-cost abstraction, whereas other languages are more lenient and focus rather on expressiveness and composability / code reuse.
there are many other high cost cities in the world and yet only american liberal ones are in a state of decay and allow homelessness and crime
Thank you.

There's also PayPal and Venmo for one time tips.
“Just a mess”: A $3bn startup CEO's effort to get an employee out of Afghanistan
They wont. 1.5 degree warming is not major problem we can't fairly easily solve the consequences of.
In WA we've been pretty much living a normal life sans about ~4 lockdowns, most of which went for 4-7 days. It feels like ancient history. Last one we had was around April 24
In what way is Matrix not an open standard?
It's worth noting that property taxes in California are only re-assessed on ownership change or new construction. There's no downside to having the value of your home balloon as much as possible.
Regulatory burden doesn’t help, but I don’t think you should overlook the superabundance of cheap credit as a causal factor. If goods can be purchased with money borrowed far below market rate (like a mortgage) because rates are not determined by a profit motive (ie political or social-engineering reasons), then the long term effect is inflation of said good’s cost. You see this same phenomenon in higher education (subsidized). You do not see it in automobiles (to my knowledge, there are no direct subsidies for auto loans).

“The bay” has a particularly close proximity to cheap money for reasons so numerous they deserve their own book.
I'm thrilled that the government, big tech, and finance are working in lockstep to safeguard my rights and privacy. It's very generous of them.

I rest assured knowing that I will never be locked out of any one of my accounts; should I get on the wrong side of any of them, I'll be locked out of both the financial system, the internet ecosystem, and be on the wrong side of the law, for my own safety and digital health.

Building a better future, together.
Checklists are not the answer. Some kind of liability framework seems like the answer. And perhaps through such a lens we'll discover that some businesses simply shouldn't exist.
> "But the deadliest airship disaster in history was a helium airship, the USS Akron, which was destroyed by bad weather killing 73 of the 76 aboard."

Worse than that in fate's sense of irony, after the Hindenburg disaster the US authorities banned Hydrogen as a lifting gas and built the USS Shenandoah as a Helium airship. When a Hydrogen airship of that era flew too high it had valves at the top to vent Hydrogen to the atmosphere and reduce buoyancy, but Helium was 50x-100x more expensive and the Sheandoah had its valves sealed so the crew couldn't waste any of it. It hit a turbulent updraft, rose so high the gas pressure in the balloons was past spec, and this is suspected to have contributed to it breaking up and crashing, killing 14 people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Shenandoah_%28ZR-1%29#Cras...
It means getting access to your 2FA codes on a new device is as straightforward as installing the app and signing in. Other commenters have mentioned authenticator apps that let you transfer the codes by initiating a backup or generating a QR code, but that won't work if the previous device is at the bottom of a lake.
Facebook is absolutely well-known for its terrible work-life balance, borne out of high expectations and a high percentage of overachievers.
Does this mean there's a narrow testing window for people to be able to "prove" their natural immunity?
I think a story about an ultra wealthy ruling class that stands behind the public political class is not going to get published in mainstream outlets. I mean it will if it's about Russia or China or historical periods like "the Gilded Age", but I guess you don't see it talked about for modern day West.
Anecdotally, while 9/10 people with obsessive traits may crash and burn and possibly end up homeless, 1/10 may succeed spectacularly by becoming obsessed with something healthy-ish, or something that benefits people other than themselves. (Even if it's at the expense of their family and friends).
Yeah - capacitive touch tech was far from new, but it was still super expensive compared to resistive. Price made it largely not an option until around the time that Apple adopted it (which they were definitely ahead of the curve on, and they made fantastic use of it). It was pretty clear at the time that nobody was all that fond of styluses, but they were the sole pragmatic option available then.

That, and many people were glad to have plastic screens - iPhones shattering because you looked at them too enthusiastically was a source of many lols and many expensive repairs / re-purchases. The early iPhones still scratched nearly as easily (keys or sand were more than sufficient), but they were nowhere near as durable overall. Decent screen durability, screen protectors, and protective cases took years to arrive - the gorilla glass of the time was far, far more fragile than it is now.
One area the US government could really make a difference in cyber security is making identify theft more difficult. Currently all you have to do to defraud banks is get your hands on some government issued numbers (social security numbers and driver licenses). If the government created an identify system that was no so easy to impersonate, some types of hacking and data leaks would not longer cause problems to the public.
https://archive.is/jlVpX
Yes but what Softbank essentially bought was ARM's relationship with its captive western downstream market, at the time the Chinese downstream market was essentially 0 - $775m for that at the time probably seemed like a great deal for Softbank at the time .....
I'm mostly in agreement with that, as I follow a "live and let live" philosophy. Where I part ways with that binary choice is when the person is actively a menace to themselves or others; their behavior has a 'high' cost to society. I can't get on board with respecting someone's right to self-determination when they repeatedly and regularly damage property, attack people, or are otherwise damaging to the fabric of society. In this case I believe the person has lost some of their right to self-determination.

What to do about it? I don't really know; software development is my gig so this is far outside my expertise. But from what I observe, prison as it currently is implemented doesn't work, and doing nothing isn't working either.

Given the right environment and help, I'd hope that some (many? most?) can transform themselves and become healthy or at least functional in society. Some options that seem to help: a 12-step program, CBT and other therapy, drugs, low-dose hallucinogens (LSD, mushrooms, etc.).
Neither Squeak or Pharo have well maintained website and searching for documentation via google is very hit and miss. Pharo is worth downloading and playing with though. The old, main commercial implemention of Smalltalk is available through Cincom. VisualWorks was just about to take over the object world before Java was released:

https://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/

I have been blogging about it recently here:

https://smackeyacky.blogspot.com/
> I have considered building a competitor, alternative clients, and even bridges to other services like Matrix, but alas I'm stuck here.

Despite it's recent missteps, Discord has, if nothing else, provided us with an excellent technical foundation of what a modern one stop shop communications platform should look like. I'm keen to be involved at any level of a competitor.
This is typically what happens when people are arrested and charged for crimes, yes.
> Would that same homeowner be hurt if we built 100,000 cheap rental apartments?

Of course they would. Million dollar houses in many parts of the country are so insanely expensive not because they’re luxury goods; they’re expensive because supply is so constrained that even mediocre houses are extremely scarce relative to demand. People buying million dollar houses in e.g. the Bay Area know that their house is not particularly fancy, relative to other houses (that often sell for much less in other parts of the country).

As an analogy, consider cars in communist countries. Russian Ladas and East German Trabants were objectively horrible cars, but they cost several years’ average salary because supply was so scarce.

Introduce millions of even cheaper cars into the aforementioned communist countries and the prices of Ladas/Trabants would plummet. Likewise, introduce thousands of low income units into the Bay Area and the price of what used to be starter homes that now go for a million dollars would plummet.
I'm in a similar situation. Unless your bot for work is used in 100 servers, locking message content behind a privileged intent will only affect you minimally, unless of course the library your bot is based on languishes like discord.py, which is a very real concern. The general trend of locking things down and hint at moving to an approved-interactions-only model is worrisome too.
From personal experience:

The stress of dealing with an organization with the wrong culture, and you having to clean up the messes made, with no agency for meaningful change due to leadership is something most folks with some years in this industry have experienced regardless of the size of the company.

At a tech giant the salary removes even more agency. Near a vest date? Most likely not leaving until after. It's an awful feeling to show up for work, having enough professional pride that you continue to perform, but knowing you want to be anywhere but there.
Thank you, I'm pretty sure this was it. Pure gold.
Or maybe:

Your product is worth what people are willing to pay.
The interest rate is officially ~zero and effectively negative due to consistent QE (over $120,000,000,000 printed and given to banks every month). The Fed is practically paying the global financial system (in USD) to keep using USD.

There will be a massive reckoning as the global economy refuses to get ripped off by the Fed's relentless money printing. Yet the Fed is extremely hesitant to taper its QE policy, because that will detonate the domestic stock market.

It is not an exaggeration to suggest we are literally in the final years/months of the neoliberal economic order.
I don't consider it humane to let someone live on the streets begging until they happen to die of a drug overdose.

I don't care about their wishes, guided by drug addiction and mental health issues. To allow and enable this much squandering of human potential is a moral crime.

Get people clean of drugs, healthy, stable, and educated. By force, if needed. If from that baseline he decides to go back into a life of drugs and onto the streets, then so be it. But don't allow people to commit themselves to a slow death until they've been forced to step onto a better path and see what their life _could_ be.
> I wouldn't be that surprised to hear that Chicago was unable to clear snow from a 100-year snow event because the funds were mismanaged or something similar. That sounds entirely within character.

I guess if you’ve never lived near Chicago or visited in the winter, that might be reasonable. But they take snow extremely seriously. Like so seriously it’s funny. It truly is. The “mismanagement of funds” is true - they spend a lot of money on snow management.

They have over 200 snowplows, and every single garbage truck has a plow attachment so it can be put into plowing service, most of the city pickup truck fleet as well, etc.

[1] > Department of Streets & Sanitation (DSS) coordinates Chicago's snow and ice control efforts from Snow Command. This high tech command center allows us to access and view a network of cameras and pavement sensors to get a quick and accurate assessment of our pavement conditions citywide. We track incoming weather systems via Doppler radar and through constant communication with our meteorological consultants and the National Weather Service. And we combine all of these technologies along with the Global Positioning Systems (GPS) on all of our trucks to strategically deploy our snow personnel to up to over 280 snow routes.

People used to claim that the streets that alderman lived on got plowed first whenever it snowed, so the city put GPS on everything and built a plow tracking website, so you can see where everything is in realtime, any time it snows. [2]

[1] https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/streets/provdrs/street...

[2] https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/streets/supp_info/plow...
Given the push to have vaccination passports and people not pushing back hard on that aspect of privacy, probably pushing through a digital national ID might be as ripe as it’s ever going to be.
The big one remaining on Alpine is udevd. It's been on linux forever, but still feels to me like something that should just be part of the kernel.

In my opinion the dream is to have a system with literally just a kernel running, ready for user interaction.
Yes. That is the case, and we (developers) argued that, the response we received was "but the _users_ may not know, even if the owner has authorized the bot".
I find it a bit disconcerting you responded defensively to a quote to prove you know it - choosing to not respond to the more consequential data, which seems to address the heart of your argument.
Users, on the other hand...
Also not impressed.
Standardization is how most other industries address safety. It's not ideal in many ways, but it's better than the nothing we live with today.
Well, more attempts at this problem come along pretty often (speaking for Haskell at least, and I expect those attempts to be more mature than the other languages you mentioned), so I don't think you can say those languages have solved it. Like the other comment mentioned, it's an active area of research, and some of the research happens in languages designed to solve that problem, and some happens in languages that support solutions to the problem.

(Just to add- there's a really wide range of ergonomics that you can support and it's hard to get everything right. And performance is super tricky!)
You see it with HIPAA. It's unclear whether the financial liability causes companies to invest in security and that work discourages hackers. Or, if hackers aren't as interested in customer data / healthcare records. Seems like the low hanging fruit is just to infiltrate a network and figure out how to get it to mine monero.
Actually, no. It's the USSR that stopped the invasion of Great Britain. It would have fallen otherwise, if Germany wasn't otherwise occupied. Also, Hitler didn't have Germans on both sides of the moat, nor did he have an extensive embedded network of intelligence agents in all places that matter.
Update: they are mostly leaving now.
The 2020 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count¹ reported 32% for substance use and 26% for long-term mental health issues.

It's also worth keeping in mind that drug addictions and mental health issues can arise from homelessness rather than cause it.

¹https://www.lahsa.org/news?article=726-2020-greater-los-ange...