skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is rationing ... bad?

Economics 101 often fails to convey the crucial fact about rationing: under any rationing system that isn't a pure random lottery, the only effect of rationing a good is to change the currency in which that good is priced. [1]

For example, I live in Canada. Our healthcare system is single-payer [2], which is isomorphic to saying that it is rationed. So it would not be accurate to say that your access to healthcare in Canada is priced in dollars. But it would be accurate to say that your access to healthcare in Canada is priced in your ability to navigate bureaucracy, the flexibility of your working hours (to snag last-minute appointments), and your family connections who are embedded in the healthcare system as administrators or physicians.

Depending on your personal values, you might consider it good or bad that access to healthcare in Canada is priced in these units. What makes dollars unique is that if you inject more dollars into the free market for a good, then ceteris paribus, you will cause more of that good to be produced. Whereas if you injected more bureaucratic know-how into the Canadian patient population, you'd merely cause more intense competition for the same fixed number of physician-hours.

That is: by repricing a good in non-dollar units, you've removed a lot of the flexibility that would have allowed your system to make more of the good if lots of people wanted it. There are situations when this might make sense to do, and there are legitimate debates to be had around it. But this is the tradeoff you're making when you ration.

People often mistakenly think that if the price of a good is opaque, then the good must not have a price. This is incorrect. What's more, if you believe it, then you're almost certainly getting over-charged. And very unfortunately, this mistake tends to be most common among less sophisticated folks — who are the very folks that rationing was intended to protect in the first place.

[1] And unfortunately, real human-managed bureaucracies are not reliably pure random lotteries, even when they are supposed to literally be pure random lotteries. See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Pennsylvania_Lottery_scan...

[2] More accurately, big subsets of our healthcare system operates under single-payer. Many services like eye doctors, dentists, etc. are private.
Microsoft will release Windows 11 on October 5th
The reason you get that sense is that we as programmers are drawn to the idea that generic solutions are the correct ones, and that special cases are bad. A HUGE part of our disciple is about creating and then welding abstractions.

However, as Alan Perlis famously said, “a programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.“ In general, Rust’s default stance is that these details shouldn’t be abstracted away, because they actually matter.

This is the fundamental tension that exists here.
Zellij 0.16.0: new UI, many bugfixes and more
Maybe we should say 'OSI Certified' instead of 'open source'.
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Indeed. And Apple does have the benefit of prior art in the case of games consoles which have—for the past 30 years at least—required developers to accept some kind of revenue share for the right to distribute software to customers.
Most "smart" TVs have cameras these days...
Last year I was building a "Cookie Consent" banner for one of my sites. I wanted to be transparent as possible with it so I had this box come up in the corner to ask for permission, big blue button for OK, big red button (of the same size) to decline, zero dark patterns.

Looking at the analytics after the fact made me realize why these cookie consent boxes use so many dark patterns. My acceptance rate for the box was like 4%, I tossed out cookies (and the banner) in the next update.
Cameras are here and we have no idea what they do with them.
>The terms "free software" and "open source" have a specific meaning in the software ecosystem. The former is defined by the Free Software Definition and the latter by the Open Source Definition, respectively published by the FSF and OSI. These definitions both require that the software is available for commercial use without restriction, among other things.

Problem: The OSI did not coin the term 'open source'. OSI partisans claim that Christine Peterson coined the term at a strategy meeting in Palo Alto on 3 February 1998. However, the term and the concept was well known prior to that. Martin Tournoij does a decent enough job of collecting prior citations [1] that go all the way back to 1990. All the OSI did was take an existing philosophy, scribble some new restrictions in crayon, and called it Open Source(tm)(c)(pat. pending).

Honestly, though, I do love it when this comes up. It gives me the opportunity to irk new guys telling them that Lyle Ball, head of public relations at Caldera, has an earlier citation than the OSI in the form of a press-release announcing Caldera OpenDOS[2][3]. :D

[1] https://www.arp242.net/open-source.html

[2] http://www.xent.com/FoRK-archive/fall96/0269.html

[3] http://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pc/caldera/OpenDOS.701/license.tx...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26504021
Yeah I mean you might be able to make it better, this is just what I would reach for first.

It is so rare that I don’t think I’ve ever seen it in any rust codebase I’ve ever looked at.
Good article.

Other algorithms like this : SPLIT-TWEAK and JAREK'S TWEAK.

Excellent for turning your chunky polygons into curvaceous organicoids.

I've used split-tweak a lot with good results. Here's code : https://github.com/johnalexandergreene/Geom_2D/blob/master/C...
Do you have know-how on distributing apps and getting paid for? This sounds to me like ideological talk.

"We wouldn't need to spend money on cleaning staff if everyone clean their door front."

Yeah, sure.
Nice classism.
"202.345.117 Years until GWEI fully owns Google."

Nice cosmological time scale idea
After a few decades away from programming I got back into it some and decided that Python was the easiest and closest to the languages I was fairly fluent in back in the old days. I did write a lot of Pascal code at one point and after going through the "give it a Go" link I can see the appeal. It looks like a good tool for some things. I look forward to working with it some more. Thanks for your article. I have always enjoyed Brooks and Wirth so that's some good "geek clickbait" that I can't resist!
Somehow I never realized until now that the word "discover" taken literally quite clearly means to remove the cover from something. Funny that now it exclusively means "to find something".
Apple broadens Racial Equity and Justice Initiative with $30M in new com
> Do we honestly think Nokia would have been able to compete in the same mobile OS space that not even Microsoft could carve out a space in?

At the time.. sure.

Symbian was great back then, and in many many countries, there were no large data plans back then, and a phone that needed to be online for a lot of the gimmicky features to work was not something a lot of people wanted or needed, because of data costs... app support was probably most important to people then.
Why do Gooogle’s peers charge Google less money?
Getting a severance isn’t the worst thing in the world. You can just lie to your future interviewers that you left or were laid off. Nobody checks this shit especially if you have a friend from work willing to speak on your behalf.
Yeah, it's all cool when a mob punishes some person. But when it then happens to one of the people in that mob, oh no, wtf is this injustice, where's the law?!

I've had to listen to rants about sterilizing alcoholics, shooting immigrants at the border, deporting people, having one strong leader like in a monarchy (but somehow it's not dictatorship).

Idiocy runs deep. Walk on a busy street and look around, more than half the people hold some of these views. 3/4 I'd even say.

I do, too, I believe all drugs should be legal (even if I sign away all my other healthcare), the death penalty should be a choice vs life imprisonment for example. Is that as dumb as sterilizing alcoholics? I can't really tell since I'm me. I like to believe I stop at not dictating how other people should live their own lives.
This is like saying a judge wore Calvin Klein underwear while presiding over a case against Calvin Klein.
> If your objective is to maximize ad revenue, the most obvious approach would now be to ignore Firefox completely and focus on non-FF browsers.

No, your best approach is to test firefox carefully to ensure it is broken. That way you encourage people to use something more friendly to you.

I hope I didn't give anyone ideas.
> Guess nobody has dared suggest prohibiting head playing in association football.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/jul/28/major-headi...
If your customers prefer to use a payment processor that costs you 3% instead of Apple's 15%/30%, then why wouldn't you support that payment processor? You gain more revenue and honor your customers' preferences at the same time.
Guns are loud, and you’d be amazed how many people’s first response is “not my problem”.
The Internet is yet another God that failed. When are we going to learn to kill our gods when we meet them instead of worshiping them and hoping they'll save us from the effort of saving ourselves?
I would call "can only use Jupyter notebooks" very bad at programming, not merely "not too bad". It's well below expectation in my opinion.

Whether you choose to call it "good" or "not too bad", there is a minimum bar of competence that data scientists need to meet in statistics/ML/AI, programming, and their domain of application. And the ability to move from Jupyter notebooks to Python modules/packages is a basic.
> Does anyone here have recommendations for a good alternative?

https://www.mollie.com/en
This isn't the transfer mechanism.

When interest rates decrease, leverage is cheap and financial asset prices balloon, so the rich become far richer. The problem with crises is that the rich are often the only group with enough of a cash balance to take advantage of fire sales that happen. Banks also become far more restrictive in lending to those without hefty collateral buffers in a crisis.
when was it considered ethical? I care as much about ethics as the next person tbh.
You're saying that modifying connection settings that will make something work with everything on your system is considered more complex than using custom software?

Also, OpenNIC TLD's are indeed TLDs, Tor's .onion is not really the same.
Anarres. And their way of life was not a choice, but their only possibility to survive.
The Fuggerei is really nice to visit and walk around. There's also a little museum house so you can have a look inside one of the rather small houses and a permanent exhibit in the old bunker of the Fuggerei.

Keeping it up and running is cross-financed by the entry fees.

Also the 1 Euro is not the whole truth. Residents will have to pay so called "Nebenkosten" (auxillary costs) for electricity etc. like with any other flat.

Compared to Augsburgs rent levels it's still very cheap to live but I'd prefer not to do so.

Source: Lived down the street for a few years.
> I'm struggling to see why you think landlords would be able to charge above market rate once rent control ends.

It won't be above market rate, but the market rate will go up to account for the call option. It's like if the city mandated all landlords to install AC (assume for this example this is for a region where most units don't have AC). Since this cost is applicable to most landlords, the landlords collectively will raise their rent because their costs have gone up.
.NET has had AOT support since its origin, although it only supports dynamic linking.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/tools/ngen...

Since Windows 8, .NET Native is also a thing, and then there are the other AOT toolchains like Xamarin and IL2CPP.

AOT compilation has been part of Java world for those willing to pay for commercial JDKs, specially in the embedded domains.

In fact, the JIT caches with PGO optimization now available for free on Hotspot and OpenJ9, come from JRockit and IBM J9 respectively.
OP here. I'm sorry that I didn't put the name "Voilà" in the title. I was so very excited that I've mistyped myself.
From my very limited interactions with them, Nokias saw mobile operators as their customers, not end-users. They were never going to do anything with it that would piss off the likes of the like of Verizon, Vodafone, Orange etc.

I have an n800 and n810 - the n810 is a thing of beauty in my opinion, even now. But there's no way they could compete with Apple or Google because Nokia designed phones that kept the operators happy and didn't step on any toes. Apple and Google didn't care about any of that.
Do you have any explanation in addition to @hyperion’s response?
Lots of legacy gotchas that aren’t as secure as you would expect because fixing the implementation to make them secure would break someone’s production code.
This functionality resembles Adobe Flash
Single-factor authentication enters the list of Bad Practices
That's something I often think about. Are blockers used for fingerprinting? Especially by the likes of Google who controls both the ads/analytics platform and the website (aka first party).

There is a specific demographic who use blockers, generally of the tech-savvy kind. It should even be possible to detect the blocker being used and some of its settings. It would be ironic to detect that a user is blocking almost everything and show them ads for privacy-oriented products and services.
Because supporting payment processors is extra work(which is requires technical and non technical skills) that can go into development, that's why. It is something that I would prefer to delegate, pay the due and forget about it.

What's so hard to understand that? Have you ever created a product and made money from it?
"How much intellectual life is now stifled because of fear of what a poorly worded comment would look like if taken out of context and spread on Twitter?"

Since when has Twitter become a platform for intellectual discourse?
There are guidelines around heading at junior level:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-51614088

But it's one thing to not practise it, and another to actually ban it. I can see the latter in <5 years at all levels if the current research is followed up correctly.
My experience running a web server also backs this up. The number of GET requests to the back end is around twice as much as I see in Google Analytics.
I do, and your arguments in this thread don't convince me at all. Is there something incorrect in my comment? Developers went from having one payment processor that charges 15%/30% to many payment processors that can charge as little as under 3%. Revenue-wise, there is no downside to having these additional options.
I guess that is the downside of being 20 years at the same company.
I'm not religious myself, but it is true that if you're going to treat something other than religion as though it were a religion, it's almost always going to be much worse.

Most religious prescriptions are either common sense (thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not bear false witness) or recipes to avoid social chaos (thou shalt not commit adultery).

Of course religion has also been wielded as a weapon, and I'm the first in line to cherish western secularization, but I don't see it as an inherently socially harmful force.
We cannot afford a mine shaft gap!

But more seriously: the furthest left people I know are the ones who grew up around conservatives, particularly in privation (usually one of the strongest signals for high birth rates). These things have a tendency to balance each other by nurture; assuming that people are genetically predestined to be conservative (or liberal) is both silly and incompatible with our observed history as communal animals.
Oh cool did they finally finish that? Time to get buildin' (I only use rust in my hobby so unfortunately it has to take a backseat a lot of the time)
If you mean giving teenagers loans on terms that fuck them over long into adulthood, yes that is closer to adulting than most would believe.
There is some really active discussion in the unsafe code wg repo by someone who is building an alternative compiler and has questions about corner cases. They largely seem like fruitful discussions.
File a provisional patent application in the US (you can do this as little as $65 as a first time filer) and just don't apply for the actual patent.
If work is stopping you from having a veggie garden or reading a book, it might be time to consider new work.
Ahhh I just follow YouTube and blog posts.

Actually universities that specialize in farming and agriculture have some of the best resources on cloning, germinating and farming you could imagine.

A few professors even have YouTube channels too. Awesome shit out there.
As a fellow scientist I wholeheartedly agree! I find that programming skills (and willingness to improve on them) are strongly correlated to success as a (experimental) PhD student, much higher than mathematical abilities. The ability to automate your experiment or do a quick simulation is a huge productivity boost.

However, the programming education in science degrees is absolutely appalling. Just show them how program a newton raphson method in matlab (without any considerations for performance) and expect them to know how to program.
https://archive.is/Vltrp

They attempt to answer "How will this affect the average tech worker?" ... with ... "In June, Google told rank-and-file employees it would reduce the pay of those who choose to work remotely or move farther from the office." and they then say "Should this worry the most in-demand engineers and product management? Probably not."

They finish with "But in the long term, remote work’s promise is more ambivalent." which seems like about the only real thing we can all agree on. We'll know how this all shakes out in maybe 5 or 10 years?

What was pretty interesting, and something I've never heard before was "some Peloton instructors earned more than $500,000".
That's the point. If I release code under an anti-commercial license it's because I don't want my code used for commercial purposes unless I'm getting paid. Businesses don't deserve freedom.
Pro cyclists sometimes die from crashes where do you draw the line in sport safety?
My OS is part of my toolset that I want to work and not have to tinker with to get functioning. The Apple hardware and OS are the best I've used from the perspective of I want it to just work and it doesn't get in my way with a huge amount of annoyances.

I used to use Windows and it had so many annoyances and differences when doing work that deploys to Linux. Using Linux as an end user had many more annoyances and things that just didn't function or required a lot of effort to get working just right (wifi and trackpad are the big offenders that I recall).

To answer the question specifically - the end user experience for Linux needs to surpass Apple's for me to switch. I don't see that ever happening, tbh.

Taking a step back - I don't see myself as a fanboy, this is purely from the perspective of I've already paid my dues doing IT desktop/laptop support earlier in my career and just want it to work.
Thank you for bringing this expertise to this thread. I hope more folks learn about the ways these parts of the industry works.
The Navaho Nation was hit hard by the Covid-19 outbreak largely due to the fact that tribal members routinely haul water from facilities as far away as Gallup.

They haul water because the wells beneath their land pose an extreme health risk as the article points out.

The article however, does not point out why those wells are contaminated. Nor does the project mention it.

They are contaminated because of all the rogue, illegal, unsafe, and exploitative uranium mining done during the Cold War.

The problem of contamination is so bad that over 40% of tribal members are forced to haul water.

It's a disgrace that the problem exists in this form, but it's worse to consider all the heartache and suffering that had to occur before determining the illnesses and birth defects were caused by the water.
Given the history of payment process in SK, I doubt it.. it's just other side of messed up system, likely worse. But this is definitely a step up I guess.
Its hard to imagine a calm, reasonable, informed person with any degree of empathy reading this depressingly eloquent piece and not agreeing, at least with its broad outlines.

Yet we are ten years later and the interim period didn't just see no alternative metaphor make any inroads, its been regressive in very visible terms. At some point there is a need to understand what is going on? There are several possible scenarios:

* psychopaths really do rule the roost. a tiny minority of well placed individuals hinder any chance of systemic change, essentially sacrificing the majority (and future generations) so that they maintain their current status quo for a few more decades

* there is positive change but its imperceptibly slow, dominated by "noisy" short term regression. the timescale of change is simply too slow to satisfy the impatient activist. the tumor is ultimately under control, too bad for the current generations, just keep persisting

* there is no change, because there can be no (controllable) change. the system is trapped in its own logic and sources of legitimization. Like a Jenga game we are at the point where removing any piece will bring down the whole. Like a runaway tumor, the faulty DNA will keep expanding until the organism is dead.

Maybe there are other narratives that better explain the situation or maybe its a combination of things. But we need to start understanding what is really our true condition.
Extreme ironing used to be fun sport but when Rowenta started sponsoring the UK team in the championships it's now only "commercial sponsorship and exploitation"

http://www.ntk.net/2002/09/13/?l=92#l
What on earth has this much source code? Every open source project ever?
Start small and iterate.
Thank you for this summary I was unsure of how this is really useful. That before step is missing I think.
This is already a law for executive branch employees (SEC employees, spouses, children are generally not allowed to own individual stocks).
On the Iron Puddler’s of the New Economy
Pfft, not even a coal fired iron? Extreme my arse
More drug war propaganda
> That is the narrative of the religious but most don't go to learn about what they are doing wrong. They go to find out what other people are doing wrong so they can feel superior and rail against the sin of others.

And this is the narrative of the Extremely Online Atheist. Of the hundreds of religious people I know (though I'm not myself), maybe two fit that description. You are noticing outliers and assuming they represent the entire group.
Same here. I particularly enjoy the mobile YouTube and Twitch experiences much better than their respective apps (mostly because of ad blocking).
Amazon's increasing share price would be a result of this though wouldn't it? Interest rates are low on savings accounts so the wealthy invest in the stock market driving up equity prices. So Bezos' paper wealth sky rockets because of the overall trend of the wealthy saving instead of spending.
Where does the power come from, in your model? Money? Apartments controlled?
People born a hundred years ago suffered through the great depression and then got thrown into the meat grinder that we call World War II. Certainly those two events produced tough spirits, but I wouldn't wish that on anybody.