skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Several of my grandparents spent way too long in ICU and hospice care and ultimately it wasn't worth it. I feel terrible about how their final days went, but other family members were adamant about 'throwing everything they could at it.'

But the family members making that choice weren't footing the bill and they didn't have to lay in bed all day, so why wouldn't they try? I also feel they had a gross misunderstanding of the capabilities of modern medicine.

In each case the doctor's asked, "do you want to give him/her a fighting chance?" Of course, no one wants to say 'no' to that question, because they don't really understand what's possible and don't understand what "winning" actually looks like.
Are you seriously suggesting that food prices have increased more and people are just generally eating less calories?
I had the same frustrations until the other day I saw a tip to enable 'Use the new Virtualization framework' under Preferences -> Experimental Features. Since then Docker's background CPU usage has dropped to 1% and I no longer bother stopping it when I'm not using it.
You seem unconcerned with whether or not your credentials will be considered valid by an employer (based on your other comments mentioning something to this effect). If that is the case, why would you spend money on an online university? Online university (from personal experience) takes just as much willpower to stay invested that self-study and MOOCs require. If you can't manage that piece, an online university won't be much help.

If you believe the quality of education to be better, it might be worth considering. However, I'd caution that the only benefit you'd be getting would be access to a professor. At the college level, a well-written textbook is just as valuable as the average professor if you're not using office hours. If your intention is to get help from someone in specific subject areas, I would recommend just hiring a tutor. You'll save a lot of money and can get actual personalized help on whatever specific issues you have.

In terms of opening doors, I doubt it moves the needle that much. At this point in your career, a college degree has almost no value unless it's an upper level one (like a masters or a doctorate). Every person I've talked to has indicated that their undergraduate degree stopped mattering once they entered the workforce and had legitimate work experience. If the Open University is only offering you an undergraduate degree, I can't imagine that would do anything for you even if the employer trusted the school.
If only there were some way to capture and use all that power from the giant fusion reactor in the sky...
Even if we pretend that's true for the moment, it's also a shitty store of wealth, being propped up by a never ending supply of totally-backed-by-USD tether.
Do most punctures result in a slow leak?
This feels like the whole industry is now all going through the same motions…

I tried podman; two hurdles I haven't figured out: 1/ sending the context is incredibly slow on podman, compared to Docker+Buildkit. It's definitely trying to send literally the entire context, like Docker without Buildkit does, but even more slowly… 2/ private registry auth. Haven't really tried too hard, but it's not just "a drop in replacement"; I think I need to somehow auth with podman specifically. (Part of this is our external registry is ACR, and we auth with `az`, but I think `az` is presuming Docker…)
I can’t remember where I found it, but there’s an ad-supported iOS app called Flush that does this:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flush-toilet-finder-map/id9552...
Is HTTP3 quic on non-Chromium browsers?
In terms of vaccination coverage, they're doing poorly (just a few ranks below Brazil). They're also currently in lockdown, dealing with their first true spike of cases and struggling to contain it.
I wouldn't recommend this specific setup, but these are the type of filters/fans I am talking about:

https://www.amazon.com/VIVOSUN-Inline-Controller-Ducting-Ven...
FM Radio, the Choice of an Old Generation
Wealthy industrialist H.E. Pennypacker would have loved such an application.
This is absurd. You can make a security out of something that's not a security.

The US Dollar isn't a security (it's a currency), but many USD lending platforms in fact offer securities. Bonds can be denominated in USD and they are securities.

My house isn't a security, but when my bank decides to package the house-backed mortgage and sell it as MBS, it's a security.
> Will do that. They haven't yet, presumably. At least from our perspective, anyway.

Well, from the perspective of their subjective experience.

From our perspective, if we are already seeing the effects...
This is a really strange (i.e. wrong) comment considering that the CPI adjusts for changes in the size of things.
Long before orbits of electrons around atoms are affected the iron in the blood will get concentrated due to the strong magnetic field and cause blood clot and death from brain stroke.
I'd more say that "the US hates poor people". It doesn't help me, as a rich person, that poor people get screwed by the government regularly & repeatedly. In fact it makes my life much worse in a bunch of ways.
It seems like they could start scheduling windows for say June 2022, and then if it happens to be ready before that, have a lottery for slots that you have to use within a day or two of getting the slot. So basically for the folks who just happen to be ready to go and what they're looking at isn't time dependent.
Yeah, this question is akin to: how strong a gravitational field would you have to be in, to kill you? Well, you could be in a gravitational field of 10^12548125971 Newtons, you wouldn't feel anything though, you would be weightless. It's the Spaghettification [1] that can hurt you, and that's due to the gradient in the field, not the actual field strength.

Thank you for your comment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghettification
I am suspicious about the alleged problem finding people willing to work with COBOL.

Generally, if it's crucial for the business, the lever you pull is increasing compensation until the market responds. That's how you influence willingness. People are willing to do much dirtier jobs given enough money.

"But we need someone who is not only willing but able," they say, meaning they want someone with many years of experience with the language.

These same companies did not invest the time or money to train future maintainers in the language or make it worth their while to accumulate that experience. Guess what happens when you don't invest that money up front? You pay for it dearly later on.

So it's either an impossible situation of their own making, or those elusive COBOL programmers are out there, but companies significantly underestimate how much they really need to shell out for such a specialized skill set.

Either way, I don't think the problem can be reduced to younger programmers wanting to write code in the hip newer languages.
Does anyone have a similar recommendation for Rust?
Kubernetes does a lot of code generation to work around some of Go’s shortcomings.

https://cloud.redhat.com/blog/kubernetes-deep-dive-code-gene...
> Toyota is going to respond to actual sales

You can't respond to sales if you don't have a product that you can sell.

> Assuming they produce a desirable EV they could still ramp up production well past that by 2030.

Sure that goes for every car company. There is no way current plans of Toyota will stand. However they will still be massively behind the curve.

It takes years for the supply chain to develop to build 1 million EVs. Battery factories, lithium production, cobalt mining, cathode/anode production all need to scale and there is increasing competition and very limited human resources.

Its not so easy to 'just' throw up 50GWh of battery output if in 2026 you decide you want more cars 2030.

And if Toyota is last to market with good products and last to realize they need to massively increase production goals it not hard to see how it could be to late.
neither of which are vaccines.

i also probably ingested a million times more ranitidine than there is mRNA in a vaccine, and the ranitidine still hasn't killed me.
What metrics would you use to determine if an iPhone is better quality than older models?

Quality sounds rather subjective and they did not always calculate CPI with taking that into account. Seems like they don't share the criteria they use to determine 'quality'.

They added the quality weight to make the overall numbers look lower. I have zero idea if that distorts it, or makes it more correct.
It seems you're suffering from "neutron embitterment." ;P

Space-based solar power generation (itself "fusion power" in the loosest sense) would be great in the inner planets.

Though to open up the outer planets, Kuiper belt, Oort Cloud, and any other stars, we'll need non-solar* power: hopefully fusion, at least fission.

*Unless we want to go the stellaser route, but I'd bet we'll crack fusion before getting near K2.
My point was that living paycheck to paycheck is not a proxy for being poor.
Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu
Ah I've wanted something like this for ages.
Do you know of anything similar for Android?
Yeah, the vast majority of millennials and later generations can’t afford a place of their own and are destined to be rent slaves for years, but think about the amount of Tik Tok videos you have in your pocket!
Qualitative ones, yes.

Apple’s Macintosh made waves with its cheeky hello world demo: “Never trust a computer you can’t lift” (…and defenestrate).

Similarly, with an IBM big iron box, if something goes wrong, I sure hope the 6-figure support contract gets it fixed - probably within a few hours if you’re in Manhattan or the SF Bay, but what about elsewhere? Whereas with commodity HP/Dell/Supermicro pizzaboxes in a HA configuration I don’t need to worry about needing a same-day fix for hardware issues - I could put things off for months, even - and probably do it myself and spend the support contract money on a Plaid Model S and have money left-over for a Mac Pro with XDR display (with the cool stand!).

I know IBM’s srsbsns machines have their own redundancies - including being able to hot-swap literally everything, it still feels like open alternatives are overall better in the long-run.
Hmm that was a compliment. Translating: talk about a just in time article (with respect to me) which targets the problem I was thinking about just today ... I'll look at applying it tomorrow ... Now fix your down votes to some net positive value. Geez!
I'm interested to know which years you consider the BBC and PBS to have been "non-political" or not engaged in propaganda (propaganda in the dictionary sense, not the pejorative sense)? I've watched both for 30 years and also significant amounts of archival footage from both as a hobby/interest in broadcast history, and it's very clear that they have always had politically motivated narratives.
My local one doesn't allow customers in the bathroom unless they buy something. Are there ones that don't?
Inside of certain polar craters can satisfy the shade question. Pretty limited utility for a telescope, doubly for solar powered ones.
Wow, Mac users put up with some bullshit to avoid configuration and have things "just [sometimes, unless you're holding it wrong] work"
Cambrian Explosion is a bit of a misnomer because it leads people to think it was unique with respect to evolutionary processes. There is a push to call it the Cambrian Radiation [0]. Throughout complex life's time on Earth there have been multiple periods of rapid evolutionary development similar to the Cambrian. A blurb about the Cambrian Radiation appears in my coffee table picture book [1].

[0]: https://impacts.to/bibliography.pdf#page=41

[1]: https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf#page=15
I am indeed referring to total monthly food expenses, and also individual prices for things I track the unit cost of, like meat, dairy, and produce.

To break it down further, best unit prices from 2006 to present:

Lean ground beef: $3/lb -> $4/lb

Chicken breast: $26/4kg -> $26/4kg

Pork tenderloins: $2/lb -> $2/lb

Milk: $4/gal -> $4.50/gal

Apples: $0.69/lb -> $0.99/lb

Green Peppers: $0.99/lb -> $1.49/lb

I'll stop there but you get the idea. I've noticed pasta boxes shrinking from 500g to 454g at some point in the last 10 years, as did bacon going from 454g to 375g. But those are fairly isolated changes and bacon prices have also tripled in that time period for some reason.
This is the second article I've seen lately that credulously quotes an observation Brad Smith made, on the grounds that he is Brad Smith, without telling us why we should take Brad Smith seriously on this or any other topic. The last article quoted Smith and Eric Schmidt about how the US needs to accelerate AI development to beat China and prevent "1984", also a less-than-expert set of sources on that topic. Reporters should be embarrassed to quote people in "news" articles about policy directions whose only qualification for commenting is being the executive of a big company.
> A big downside of vanilla database/sql or pgx is that SQL queries are strings

What's wrong with strings? The argument in the article is that they cannot be compile-time checked, but I'm confused as to the solution to that problem ("you need to write exhaustive test coverage to verify them"). Is this saying that if they weren't strings you wouldn't need test coverage?
I did a deep dive on the origin of "master" in git a while ago when it came up on HN. In that thread, it was often argued that "master" is taken from the recording industry (i.e. a master recording), where there are no connections to slavery. Unfortunately, the use of the word "master" recording in the recording industry is usually paired with a "slave" recording, so there does in fact does seem to have a direct origin referencing the history of chattel slavery in the United States if the origin of the term is from the recording industry. Here's that thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26497027

While it's still a mystery to me exactly the origin of master in git, what I do know is that the term carries enough weight that my students appreciated me renaming our course repositories from master to main, so I will keep doing it no matter what the origin, as it's really not much of an ask at all, and the result is it makes people feel better.
It just a decade away!!
Thank you; this guy is an obvious grifter, and it saddens me how many people know math in theory, but still fall for the nonsense.

He’s realized that there are people who will pay $175/yr for a newsletter that confirms their priors (inflation is secretly out of control), and that these people will keep buying and recommending the newsletter even after _decades_ of it being obviously wrong.

I mean, on the one hand, good for him. He realized there’s a market of people who want to be lied to, and he lies to them for a fee. But it’s nonsensical for it to be posted anywhere serious.
I like this approach. I always wanted more positional sparring and less free sparring. I've noticed that high pressure "expected to win" situation (which, frankly, I love in mount/side control as I've got a better game, relative to expectation of a submission, while my back control/submissions game underperforms).

I've noticed the defender from 'bad positions' does better in specific training than they do in sparring in the same position, probably because they can put everything into getting the "W" - while the attacker in sparring would probably be cooking them or switching to a different position.

There are still weird ego-driven things going on here. My least favorite: being on bottom open guard and having people disengage and run around to win - it's like, bro, if we weren't positional sparring I can just stand up and we can see who has better takedowns. Personally I think this one should begin with at least one grip to avoid time-wasting.

Do you do the "5 minutes on top / 5 minutes on bottom" approach? Or alternating? Or "3-5 people down with a line of people coming in". I think each of them has good/bad elements (without "3 wins and you're out", the latter tends to reduce to the top 3 students annihilating the newer people and not facing each other :-) ).
Sports and other live events are still linear, to the extent you wish to keep up with real time and not have it spoiled for you elsewhere. Pandemic aside, people still go to bars and friends houses to watch live events (usually sports).

Not sure that will change by 2040.
> he remains the only person to win both prizes

Wow, if I was a scientist this would definitely be my new life goal. I love the comments on the levitation page under "Why did you use a frog?"
> Get an A7-III, A7C for $2000, and install latest webcam drivers. Its colors and fidelity will blow Opal out of water, even without trying (both have 6K sensors, too).

Colour, maybe, but fidelity absolutely not: over the USB connection, all Sony’s cameras deal in no larger than 1024×576 (citation: personal experience with an α6100, and https://support.d-imaging.sony.co.jp/app/webcam/en/instructi... agrees this applies to all). You need to go HDMI to get 1080p or 4K, and then hopefully you’re on a desktop with a PCI-E capture card or something, because USB HDMI capture cards are a minefield with no perfect options (they all have problems with latency, compression, or colour, typically more than one of the three).
This ended in my neck of the woods; a friend of a friend is who spotted him. Before they found him, they closed down the roads for vehicle searches to make sure he didn't flee the area.

I rolled down my window at the stop, the cop looked around, and waved me through. I hesitated and said, "what if he is in the trunk?" - the cop's eyes got wide. I then said, "no, he is not back there, but that's what I'd do, I'd hold a family member hostage back there."

The next morning at the check point, they were checking trunks.
Fusion gets closer with successful test of new kind of magnet
The question is a bit broad to give you a precise answer. I often cross check multiple sources for a given topic and I find the sources most frequently identified dismissively as the mainstream media does a pretty good job of getting the facts of the situation correct and complete. I have not in my personal experience noted this being meaningfully different in the 22 years of being an adult whereas I have noted in that same time frame the explosive growth of social media and person to person sharing of made up news and fake takes that used to proceed far more inefficiently via email and subsequent radicalization of America.

Keep in mind that I don't just mean right wing kooks. Crazy people come in all stripes and while different camps may not agree on much what they all share is a pride in being in the know. Of being more plugged in by virtue of knowing about for example conspiracies that are somehow simultaneously secret and available via the feed of people you wouldn't trust to watch a hamster.

It used to be that merely being available say on TV or in a widely distributed newspaper was a good first pass filter because it filtered out most obvious malarkey. At the dawn of the internet this increasingly ceased to be so as it became easy for anyone with an increasingly broadly available skill set to reach a wide audience if what they want to say resonates with what people want or worse fear is true.

At least however because making a nice website was harder it was at least SOMEWHAT easy to pick up on the bunkum because it looked like junk and was hosted on geocities. Now one can really and in fact be plugged into a lot of really high quality and up to the minute data on social media and in fact it all looks the same whether on twitter or on slick easy to make websites and we are relying on people with no usable first pass filter to pick out the garbage based on critical thinking skills they in fact lack.

I think its well established without further need of proof that people trust the media less. I suggest its because a lot of people are building their world view on complete nonsense not because the media is any better or worse. This seems trivially true from observation but I don't know how to go about proving it to you in the large.
Lol yeah, that was a goof. I had Zeno’s paradox in mind and intended to choose a divergent series but accidentally used the textbook convergent one. Let’s swap it out for the harmonic series.
I get this, but personally I love using jOOQ because of how composable and dynamic query building is with a good query builder pattern. Adding optional filters, joins etc doesn't turn into a string-concatenation abomination; it's something. can do in native readable Java

(and then translating back to generated Java objects is also great compared the alternative of unpacking some generic result set, casting to the right type, etc)
Tritium is a natural byproduct of CANDU fusion reactors, of which there are some 25 or so in operation globally, mostly in Canada. CANDUs use heavy water as a neutron moderator (D20 instead of H2O), making T2O a natural byproduct.

Though most of the reactors do not harvest the tritium, a small number do.

CANDU operators have long been ready to make the capital investments in tritium harvesting, once demand materializes. ITER has long been seen as a potential major source of tritium demand.
That's pushing into full-on-ORM. I get the sense that these kind of transforms are not liked by this OP.
"Hydrogen is very corrosive and hard to work with" Corrosive compared to what? You can put it in a rubber balloon and hand it to a kid.

"T is radioactive hydrogen": True, it emits low energy beta radiation, which is an electron, and is stopped by a sheet of paper. I used to have a wrist watch with a tritium dial; I haven't died of cancer yet.
Because autoimmune reactions to antigens either show up in 3 months or they don't.

Vaccines are tiny and you don't take them chronicially. They aren't like medicine.

The bad side effects are entirely your body attacking itself.

And there's a well-studied branch of medicine dealing with that. There's no autoimmune disease which emerges only >2 years after exposure to an antigen. In all of medicine that phenominon doesn't exist in order for to happen after an mRNA vaccine.
I think we have to be careful because those laws can be wielded by dickheads. See: every abuse of power.

That's a fallacy in itself, however I think there's definitely some merit to both sides here.
So like months and years? On every project I’ve worked on, the programmers conception of the requirements evolves until the minute they stop working on it. And they only understand the part they worked on, not the whole thing
The number of domains/kingdoms/empires/superkingdoms of living things is actually much more of a matter of debate amongst taxonomists than people realize.

Taking our classification schemes as a fact about biology is confusing the map for the territory.

But you are correct that mushrooms (which is the fruiting body of some types of fungi) are separate from plants (and actually more closely related to animals. They're basically animals that digest things externally instead of having a stomach to digest things internally)
> In each case the doctor's asked, "do you want to give him/her a fighting chance?" Of course, no one wants to say 'no' to that question, because they don't really understand what's possible and don't understand what "winning" actually looks like.

Right, and people don't generally think to ask those questions because, at that point, they're not in an emotional state that is conducive to stopping and asking questions. That said, the phrase "fighting chance" is absolutely terrible here. It's far too loaded to convey what would actually be meant here.