skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is stupid not to have windmills in the mix. In Germany they contribute more electricity than solar cells. Especially at night, in the winter. So one should have both solar and wind, the mix depending on the local conditions. In southern Germany there is more solar, in the north more wind, especially near the coast.
Wind power also doesn't require much space, you can farm or grow forests below them.
All this leads to question - what can common people do with corruption? Corrupt politicians have robbed my home country of 50-100 years of development. People are miserable in a country rich in natural resources and skilled workforce. The only reason EpiPen costs $650 is because of the corruption. What can be done if we exclude mass suffering?
Jury nullification does not create binding precedent.
I've seen this before. Somehow people convince themselves that moving from Apple to Google somehow gives them more privacy. It's really an incredible phenomenon.
Jedi mind trick: "this is not the healthcare you are looking for". It be socialism...
Not everyone has the same goals or mobility as you. What you described is especially tough for families with kids.
Right. It's not perfect, but it's pretty workable in a pinch.

In no means am I saying the current system is good or the right way, but simply offering reasons why there aren't enough people up in arms about the status quo.
75% accepting rate still does not mean its a good deal. This percentage also does not imply that they wouldn't prefer a better system like Canada/UK has.
It doesn't matter so much if a country is taxing their own rich if they allow rich people from other countries to buy real estate.
https://xkcd.com/1605/
> I've tried both, and by a wide margin the worst was firing someone.

I've done both as well, and I agree. I'll take getting fired any day of the week over having to fire someone.
Honestly, I think nearly the exact reverse -- the world would be a better place with more Excels and fewer "languages as we think of them."

Separation of "developer" and "user" is artificial and more should be done to recognize that.
My understanding was the 'modest' copay can be thousands of dollars. Is that not right? Can you buy insurance to pay the copay?
Syntax Obsession
#!/usr/bin/env2 punkif *!type=text/plain* *!encoding=utf-8/unicode*

io = load! {[_punkif]/lang/base}

io.say {Hello world!} *

user.name: {Jack R. Hacker}
io.say {Welcome [user.name], nice to meet you.} *

while not [user.callsign] -> ! {
user.callsign = io.ask {What's your callsign? > }

if not [user.callsign] -> ! {
io.say {Please enter thy callsign, lol!}
}
}

user.dir = {/home/[user.callsign]}

ret = ! mkdir -p [user.dir]

if [ret] not {0} -> io.say {
mkdir -p [user.dir] FAILED!
} *

else -> io.say {
SUCCESS, [user.callsign]! your home dir was created at [user.dir]
} *

# objects/dicts ("a" is created automagically)
a.thing = {

}

name = class ! [type] {
first: {default first name}
last: {default last name}

full = $ -> {[$.last], [$.first]}

__init__ = $ (first, last) -> {
$.first: [first]
$.last: [last]
}
}

person = class ! [name] {
age: ` -1

__init__ = $ (first, last, age) -> {
$.super [first] [last]
$.age: [age]
}

breathe = $ -> io.say {[full] breathes...} *
}

john = person {John} {Lennon} ` 40

john.breathe *

Basically I want to make for python what typescript made for javascript
Part of the cost cutting culture is embracing incompetence and using IT systems to provide a consistent, albeit shitty experience.

Everyone aspires to make their customer facing business like McDonalds because it’s cheaper to measure outputs from a broken system than to effectively lead humans.
> Do you think rental is the only way one can have a dwelling?

That's rich coming from someone who thinks that owning should be the only way to have a dwelling.

No, I don't think that renting is the only way to have a dwelling.

However, I do think that renting is a better option than owning for many people.

Moreover, I don't think that telling people how they should and shouldn't have dwellings is good.
This is a myth. Prices are inflated because there is no transparency and is privatized. Healthcare is not car insurance. We should stop treating it that way.
It is effectively theft. Since it is being done to ‘bad people’, as long as it keeps the fig leaf of due process on however it generally gets a pass - both at the voting booth and in the courts, same as FISA, rendition, and similar overreach.

This isn’t THAT new - very real government documents that leaked decades ago on COINTELPRO and MKULTRA should hopefully disabuse anyone of the notion that the gov’t doesn’t do pretty abusive things at times to it’s own people. Pushing back, downsizing gov’t so they do have the budget for large scale shenanigans are important.

Unfortunately not the direction it has been moving for some time however, or is likely to go anytime soon.
> I remember reading in the ClickHouse docs some time ago that it does not have DELETE functionality. Does this pose any problems with GDPR and data deletion requests?

Clickhouse has ALTER ... DELETE and ALTER ... UPDATE functionality now! (and TTLs)
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I was ready to buy an estate in the Georgia mountains earlier this year - then I saw the internet connection options. Then I looked up how much it would cost me to get a decent wired connection out there.

Totally unviable for tech workers to live in most of the solid red areas of the country strictly due internet capabilities, or lack thereof.
Older generations consumed resources at far higher than sustainable rates. I don't think older generations is an acceptable benchmark.
This seems like a nifty visualization of Clojure code, and it's rather fun to play with. Certainly looks like it was fun to make!

You can play with it here: https://vlojure.io/
A hot-button issue that contributed to the UK decision to leave the EU was the notion that outsiders (defined broadly) would get access to social services. Similar concerns are playing across other EU countries & Australia. Immigrants getting access to social services is a contentious issue in many countries.

In the United States, there are large ethnic groups that have not been full citizens for all that long. (The millennials are the first American generation to have all its members born as full citizens.) As a result, a very significant proportion of the US is seen (by a large minority) as not fully American, or not "real" Americans.

The US is ~27% nonwhite, with demographic trends pointing toward a much browner populace in future decades. The US basically has the same tussle over outsiders getting social services, only a large part of our citizens are considered outsiders by the political process. Much of the messaging against universal healthcare is racist and disgusting; unfortunately it is effective.
Unless you lose your job or are self employed...
Meanwhile spending 1/6 of that massive GDP on healthcare...
"My point is that" is a forced segue, when you've completed your argument but haven't brought it back naturally to your conclusion statement.

It's awkward, and I try to avoid it whenever possible. It's not the worst rhetorical crime, but it's helpful to note when you're forced to use it and see if you can write it in a way that flows better.
News Consumption Across Social Media in 2021
Perhaps a taste of the working world will give them a greater understanding/appreciation of what college will offer if they decide to go back. A lot of people waste their college years cause they simply went cause it was what you do.
Good, fast view of scenario aggregation. The idea is powerful, not just a heuristic, and from R. T. Rockafellar.

I didn't want to publish my dissertation because that would be like giving it away for free. Instead I wanted to sell it! I made some efforts to sell it but ran into the problem I mentioned for the suits. So, it didn't sell. But I still don't want to give it away for free.
Such rules wont fly in USA as Americans generally guard their liberties better than EU or NL. There is no reason why there should be any restriction on cash transactions. But in USA which has a huge network of cash/coin operated machines such a restriction would not be possible either.

Sometimes I feel restrictions on cash are at the behest of large banks ad duopolies like Mastercard and Visa.
This might be able to be achieved with a new serialization format for xls files. Something line-based, with canonicalized sorting of cells.
hey, you can scroll down to find a long comment of mine documenting the approach.
FWIW, clickhouse.com is also blocked by "Malvertising filter list by Disconnect"
I had the 250cc Nighthawk. I sold it thinking Honda's were junk. I was wrong obviously.

I used it to get me to high school. I was always sick that winter though. I had money for the bike, but not the gear.

CA had a insurance policy of requiring insurance, but not demanding it at DMV. Cops couldn't ask to see proof of insurance for any reason. It was all civil if their was an incident.
> It's not even a claim to say that the dollar is devaluing against assets, it's just like tautologically what it means that asset prices are booming.

Yep. This is true. The issue is that the OP seemed to suggest that the price of assets (e.g., housing) was wholly explained by the devaluation of the dollar.
The amount of private equity in housing is really underreported I think - still the vast majority of people owning second homes or additional property are doing it for investments, but there is nothing stopping an “uber for housing” where they use VC money to buy up massive amounts of properties and influence pricing. I believe this is one of Zillow’s primary models.

My take is that we need to treat housing as an actual human need, and there should be penalties for buying houses to rent or for investment purposes outside of ones primary residence. That sort of exists in the mortgage interest tax deduction but with rates near 0 that’s become far far less effective.
Virgin Arris routers can be put in modem mode you put your own router behind it. I guess this solves most shortcomings and security issues.
Forget credit cards, the U. S. is a place where you can scrawl your name and a monetary amount on a piece of paper and people will accept it as if it is cash. If that isn't "high trust", I don't know what is.

(Granted, these days that piece of paper gets run through Telecheck or whatever, so the risk has gone way down that last few decades.)
The project of present day capitalism is to put a wall around social capital and in fact all relationships or social bonds and all knowledge as well so they can be owned and traded and sold. You see this with Facebook, with non compete agreements, with reit’s, with company towns, etc
Did anyone say there are any? Seems more plausible that it's the other half of the statement that's being denied.
Yeah, the "War on Terror" picked up and expanded upon prior art so to speak. Here's Biden talking about the history of the Patriot Act in 2002[1]. You'll note the 1994 bill he mentions actually came after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which I'd neglected to mention earlier.

[1] https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4876107/user-clip-joe-biden-w...
Thanks for the feedback, will pass along :-)
It's not in the list of OEMs, but that's not a guarantee. There is more info on the page about identifying OEM hardware.
How long will you and your Reddit pals keep saying this before you realize how untrue it is?

Last prediction I heard was that everything was going to crash today. Now it's next week. Next week will it be November? 2022? 2024? 2030?

Over and over again, I see newly minted retail investors discover the only hard part about investing; actually knowing when things will happen. If you can't say when the MOASS (or whatever the "bad thing" is this time) will actually happen, it's useless to keep doomsaying about it in the meantime.
I learned on a nighthawk 650 :) Brings back good memories.
Maybe the Linux version is just there to check the "cross-platform" box.
Yes, you still have a job. But you also have the knowledge that (even though it probably wasn't your fault), you just turned someone else's life upside-down, and you have no power to do anything about that. The person who was fired will probably get resolution in the form of a job somewhere else, but you'll rarely ever get to share in that resolution.

To clarify, the person losing their job has the bigger problem and are worse off. But the person doing the firing pays a cost as well, and between the two, getting fired is easier for me to handle than firing someone.

Layoffs are probably a little different because they're less personal, but I've not experienced those, so I don't know.
> The top earning 50% of Americans with a stable w2 job (union + white collar jobs) get very "good" insurance where their job pays most of, while they pay a modest copay.

These folks are getting squeezed too, though. Copays keep increasing, employee contribution to premium increases, and healthcare increases have eaten compensation increases for 25 years.
OpenAI Codex Coding AI Product – Gradio UI on Hugging Face Spaces Deployment
let's say americans don't accept that. now what do they do?

they vote for democrats, because that's the party that's most open to universal healthcare. and what do democrats do? they certainly don't pass universal healthcare legislation.

it's only natural to accept what's out of your control.
I always hear this but dont think I’ve see proof - can you link to some?
> I think this is a bad idea. The author is clearly self motivated, so why does he want to start a full-time dev career so early? College is basically the best time in most people's lives to explore ideas that they have. College students are smart enough to build something significant, and have enough time to do so.

What does this have to do with actually going to college? If the degree and courses don't matter, it sounds like OP would be better off just not working for a couple years in a sort of "pre career sabbatical". If you're going to dedicate your time to exploring ideas without an income, you might as well not waste your time on useless classes and accrue unnecessary debt.
I saw a video of somebody poking a stick into a wall and it just came apart like sand/rocks - so cement was too little.

The worst was the rebar that you could bend with your hand like toffee.
Practically speaking, there are already 1000s+ SaaS apps built on TimescaleDB (and using the Timescale License features)

But I appreciate the feedback on how we could make our language clearer. Will share with the team!
>"If americans are overpaying for health insurance, where does that money go?"

Owners and other shareholders
CI/CD/CF
There is no feedback loop from production to code. Access to production analytics will allow us to write better code
I find it hard to correctly state what I'm looking for when asking for help. Stackoverflow is the main example that comes to mind but it can be any place.

How were you taught to get to the bottom? When saying what it's for, I often feel like I give way too much irrelevant backstory that nobody cares about. Or without it, I risk missing out on a better solution. Also, if one mentions the goal, people will often go "why don't you [redesign the whole thing and] use X" instead of answering the question, but perhaps that's out of the scope of what the asker can do for a better answer and this is more something answerers should avoid doing.
yep totally agree, depend on objectives :)

I've grown up in a poor family, while I'm not really obsessed with money, I do find it a pity to not try to get the best that I can get for a particular period in my life.

This can of course change in the future, I may as you've said be content with whatever max salary I can have, and focus more on hobbies, family, ...
The bottom 25% of Americans don't have free health care. They won't be treated for anything that is not an emergency. There is a huge difference. Some die because diseases aren't detected until it is too late.
No, vacancy rates are at near all time lows. Any reputable study will show we have a housing shortage. Even in rural America, house prices are skyrocketing. We need to build more, ideally near transit hubs as to minimize the effect on infrastructure, and reduce our environmental impact.
Huh, fun to learn that there's only three degrees of separation between Norm MacDonald and Miguel De Cervantes.

I love projects like this; they do a good job making the world feel a bit smaller.
Agreed! I live in NYC and don't drive too often. I just got back from a two-week trip with a car rental and was really surprised at how great Apple Maps was. The map design is nice and clean and it works well with CarPlay. I also felt like the audio instructions were very clear and easy to follow. E.g., "pass this light and turn right at the next one." I also liked the "Share your ETA" feature which I used a few times. Really nice job Apple!
https://caas.athenahealth.com/knowledge-hub/sites/insight/fi...
Care to mention the major differences?
I mostly just look at the money supply. Print 10% more money, that's 10% inflation. It may not be uniform throughout the economy, or take effect immediately but that's 10% more money chasing the same assets. It's all has to go somewhere.
As a rapid prototyping tool, it doesn’t sound terrible, honestly. Many people are comfortable with Excel, so let them use it! You’re gonna use some calculation engine on the backend, might as well be the tool that contains the ”reference” calculations.
I'm not against dark humour, I think it's grand, actually, and helps us get through trouble. But I think there is a difference between someone putting up a sincere joke and someone in their twenties at the workplace. I'm not Mr. PC Police, but when I put myself in the shoes of someone else that may have lost a loved one in that manner it really shook me.

Suicide isn't so rare that we should avoid making affordances where we can. And even so, a true comic like Dave Chappelle can create real human even on dark subjects at the same time. It's a balance.
I open sourced my first project months after Sourceforge was born. I've been doing open source continuously since then. I've lead 3 open source projects.

Most companies have bought into the old "Frat Boy" meme, albeit in a different form these days. The idea is to only pick "the best and the brightest" judged by the criteria chosen by the "best and the brightest" (Dunning-Kruger effect : -) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect)

Back in the day, MS decided you needed to be able to figure out a puzzle, e.g. how many ping pong balls fit in a truck, how many piano tuners are there in Detroit, etc. Eventually books arrived with all the "good" puzzles and people stopped using that as a gate keeper.

These days you'll find that your post-phone interview is conducted by 20-somethings who just graduated. The questions are all related to their data structures course. How fast can you reverse a linked list? What's the O(n) of this search? I'd be curious to see if they can perform Knuth's line break algorithm or Forgy's OPS5 algorithm.

Of course your resume is never read.

And, of course, those data structure experts have no clue how to prove programs correct, create an expert system, write a JTAG device driver, etc. The "gate keeping interview" is the new IQ test, conducted by people who think they are the "best and the brightest".

It used to be that the manager who needed a person would interview the person, examine their resume and references, and see if the person had the required skills for the job. Now it seems you don't meet a project manager until you are hired.

The primary blame is on Google/Microsoft/etc. Their HR (sorry, People department) is badly broken. I can't find the reference but I believe Google's head of "Persons" said the same thing.
I mean, that's one thing to do when stuck in a river trying to flee angry archers.
> Someone is doing something for free out of their own money and time. Someone else comes along, who has the power to sue and win, says that the service that was provided for free didn't include them and hence the rest of the folks who were beneficiaries of the free service should not benefit from it unless they were also benefited

You are wrong to say "and hence the rest of the folks who were beneficiaries of the free service should not benefit from it unless they were also benefited". That is not how it goes. It is simply "people with disabilities should receive reasonable accommodations to access the content that is provided".

> Because of ADA's law thousands if not millions across the world are losing out on wonderful resources for education which might not be available.

For you, it's a simple case of "it's the ADA's fault". Is it so difficult to think that it's {the UC, MIT, ...}'s fault for not captioning their material? Between providing captions and removing their videos, they chose removing their videos.

> Is there any benefit of robbing someone else's education because you're not able to get it?

It is terrible of you to make disabled people the villain in this story [1]. You say "you're not able to get it" as if that is inherent to the situation.

No. Deaf people can access the lecture if it is captioned. They are able to get it. The point of the ADA is to generate legal pressure to improve accessibility and create justice. I cannot say this is the best outcome, but it is an improvement on the previous situation where you (and countless others) were not even thinking about accessibility. Now you are.

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilCripple
I know the feeling of the DE getting in the way, part of resolving that for me was just learning to work with the DE rather than working against it and resisting changes. If an old workflow is slowed with a new update, it might be time to adjust that workflow and look at it in a different way.
Err, no. Using emergency care as your only source of care is not “workable in a pinch”. It represents a vastly lower standard of care than that available to poor people in most first world countries. Face it: if someone you loved had no money and no health insurance, you wouldn’t feel reassured that they’d be able to access the care that they needed.
Like every service in the history the Internet, blogs were great for the first few years, then got ruined by the uncontrolled nature of the medium, which is why we liked the Internet in the first place. Yes, I know, nothing new and lovely is being invented now, it was all great before, but honestly is it worth pining for a web page that took five minutes to read and was discovered by link trees rather than a tweet you read in 5 seconds that is discovered for you by a crappy algorithm?
> To reassign crops for feedstock to human consumption is not as easy as it sounds.

It is done all the time. On dry years, when grain prices increase, meat producers hush to sell their cattle and the extra grain does get into the people's diet. The reverse happens all the time too.

On the customer side, a change on food price leads first to a change on meat consumption, what couples nicely with the production side. Of course, any price change pushes some people over the starvation line (on whatever direction), but
this is something societies can fight.

It's just not done on the scale that a supervolcano would imply.
Insurance is the culprit. Insurance added a layer of abstraction between users and so users never had to know the actual cost. The folks on the product side never saw human costs as they simply dealt with a money pool. So they were able to raise prices at will, ruthlessly.
Why not an extension that removes [insert-domain] from search results, such as Personal Blocklist. Why just one domain?
This is pretty ignorant, but you can start with:

- UK

- Spain

- Germany

- Italy

- France

- And Canada is within a couple % of the size of California
Then give the EU all those BionTech vaccine doses back, I guess?

Just kidding of course, we are happy too help!
The best solution there is to not send an Excel file. The most portable way is to export the data to CSV and send that.