skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We do have an abundance of housing. There are millions of empty homes/housing units. Housing redistribution would involve cracking down on the landlord class to release those homes from exploitative pricing and rental strategies.
Looks like your server didn't survive the HN crowd lol I'll check it out later!
I'll grant the need for connection associated with a monogamist relationship.

The path my life has lead me through has gotten to the amount of effort to find and establish that relationship as part of courtship isn't worth it / required too much. Trying to find that relationship in SV in the late 90s through 00s when my life was most flexible lead to some substantial disappointments.

At this point, I'm not going to be looking for a woman in her 40s or 50s to try to settle down with - it just doesn't make sense. I don't have a desire to pursue the financial and time obligations of courtship.

In the frame of "win lose", finding the right person is win-win. However, trying and not finding someone enough times leaves one rather averse to trying again. One could try to attribute this to learned helplessness. Trying again isn't enjoyable / rewarding.

As it is, I am reasonably happy, content, and successful by myself. I have the resources and time to pursue what interests me to what I feel is a greater amount than if I was in a partnered relationship.
Users would need an order of magnitude superior
alternative, and most critically, users would
need to move en mass.

Yeah. Network effect. Arguably nothing on Earth has ever had such a powerful network effect as Facebook.

I dislike FB for all of the usual reasons, plus a few of my own.

But I still have an FB account. I don't check it very often, and I've got notifications turned off. But ditching my FB account entirely means I'd lose access to dozens of people I wouldn't have a great way of contacting otherwise.

History tells us that something eventually will replace it. But, it's hard to imagine.
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I really wanted to settle on OCaml as the "real programming language" that I would learn for any "serious programming" I had to do. I couldn't make it stick (in part because I don't actually do any "serious programming") precisely because of the syntax.

There's too little of it! OCaml seems to take a "you don't need syntax except when you need syntax" approach, which I found very destabilizing. One of the major online OCaml tutorials said something like "If it doesn't work the way you expect, try adding parentheses", and I thought "Oh hell no. In a Lisp I know exactly how many parentheses I need: all of them". I prefer not having to think about it, and letting the parentheses become invisible to me.

But otherwise I have a deep and irrational fondness for the language, and still wish I'd been able to make it stick.
The early 20th century put a lot of Monopoly and Trust Busting laws on the books that say some of this is illegal, not just "ought to be". What we've lost since then hasn't seemed to be the laws themselves but the willpower to regulate in the spirit of those laws and executive power to enforce those laws.
This is absurd because a $1000 Mac has the same labor cost as a $179 a Chromebook
Covid still isn't over.
EPYC isn't NUMA anymore.
Have things changed / improved with regards to file system related bugs and config hell that was sometimes popping up in WSL2 on Windows 10 in the recent past? Or is it a small improvement over WSL2 on Win10?
For clarification, are you saying you needed two pipes measuring 3/8" by 8' or a single pipe that is 2.375" wide by 8' long?

Edit: What's wrong with asking a simple question?
Not to defend facebook, but these kinds of indirect dependencies are only obvious in hindsight.

And even if someone thinks of the problem there's usually some kind of failsafe (an override key or angle grinder) in place.
More importantly than this, we need to discuss why major news outlets were parroting government propaganda that shortages and inflation were transitory, when they were obviously not. Major news outlets claimed that 'new economics' would mean that the expected inflation and shortages would not come to pass. Instead of critically questioning government official's proclamations of a new economics, outlets gladly parroted this position. This is a far cry from the critical reporting of the 2016-2020 years.
Folks think advertisements are "showing me something I can buy"

But really ads are a huge detailed dossier on every person, being sold so that water filter companies can bid the highest to get a water filter ad in front of the people with the largest income.

Meanwhile, you like legos and lego will never be able to bid high enough to show you a lego ad (probably they don't need to anyhow)

and the off-label uses for these dossiers... I wonder if used car salesmen can find out your "price insensitivity" and charge accordingly?
A time wasting animation delay before every single screen. A bit annoying for a "productivity app".
Almost?

The history of Netscape and Mozilla is sufficiently farcical to fuel an entire 6-series comedy franchise. Were it not for the jaw-dropping salaries that the absurd execs draw, I'd laugh.
"purchased" and "redistribution" are kind of contradictory. That's just the market.
That's a good way to get that 6% to a 0.6% is a few years.
Healthcare is another example.

The general point here is: what good is a right to X during a shortage of X? As in "what good is a right to food during a famine?"
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I don't think he's advocating over-consumption. The point is that if your policy goal is to re-distribute wealth you have to consider that your policies also have to make sure that the global supply chain is working smoothly. Otherwise the currently already disadvantaged groups are hit hardest.

I can easily pay extra or wait out the shortages but if you're just scraping by it's much harder to survive if the shelves are empty.
"Allowing market participants to more efficiently use expensive land" seems like allowing a (housing) market to work, rather than "forced re-distribution".
Any vehicle which gives me more control I find preferable. A pension is great if it's competently managed and the entity it's tied to is stable. The problem is that it exposes you to counter party risk you can't reasonably mitigate.

Is the pension fund making sound investments? Will the city, state, or corporation be sound decades from now or will they be bankrupt or struggle to pay obligations made by their priors that were maybe inflated?

Private investment vehicles are independent of your employer. If they go bust your balance is sound if it wasn't in their securities, which is again ultimately the investor's choice. If I make bad investment decisions I can live with it. I can't live with promises others couldn't keep, I'm at their mercy.

I would prefer eliminating 401ks entirely and expanding IRAs. IRAs allow choice of broker and much wider investment options. If I know what I'm doing I can take more risk. Otherwise I can play it safe with mostly index funds and sensible asset allocation. If I don't know where to start I can hire an advisor or multiple of my choosing to handle it for me. It also would eliminate vesting periods which keep people in jobs they're unhappy with.

> nobody reports on someone's 401(k) fund vanishing during a recession

Recession dips are temporary. If you're well diversified and don't panic sell the balance should recover. Whatever balance you're relying on near term should not be in something volatile like the stock market.
Wow! A great idea (haven't look into the code yet). With the new EU AI regulations coming in 2023/4. Every company with ML in production will need to be able to monitor these issues. Potential for a very good open core business model.
I don't think chasing profits is necessarily a problem. Profits over everything else is. When your moral compass has to be thrown out to continue to push engagement then you have a problem.

And which political movement is it that you think is being suppressed?
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Not sure why you were downvoted. What you said is absolutely true. Washington Post kept a lie tally for Trump and when he left office, the tally was close to 30K lies[1].

Also completely agree that the "both sides" coverage did not work as intended.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/24/trumps-fa...
I monitored the Facebook amateur radio club’s repeater during the outage to see if they utilized it in any capacity like that. I didn’t hear it used that way.
They make profit on non-fuel items because they already have fuel-buying customers to upsell to. These two are co-dependent and are likely to fail together. Once people don't have to come to refuel, the store next to the pumps won't be in a convenient location any more.

Simply swapping pumps for EV chargers may not sustain a good-enough business. EV charging needs about 30-60 minutes. Current 5-minute shops that sell cigs and energy drinks aren't an attractive destination.

I think it's more likely that malls and supermarkets will add EV charging and take over both sides of gas stations' business.

(This is based on first-hand experience. My nearest fast charger is at a gas station.)
I highly recommend Poetry as a way to manage Python projects. It's my favorite bit of software I've had the pleasure of using, period; if any Poetry devs see this, kudos.

However, with pip's native freeze and install -r abilities, I'm also curious what you mean by hunter gatherer style installs. I've not yet had a problem with installing Python modules.
It seems like the so-called progressives want to take a stab at solving socialism again by making everyone miserable.
> Please define what an ad is.

I made this comment[0], where I talk about "building buzz."

Basically, ads without ads.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28788169
So? There are limits to Roth contributions(and 401Ks) which have been abused by finding loopholes, which the proposed law closes. The fact that it's post-tax has nothing to do with it. Something being post tax doesn't magically make it an untouchable investment. For example capital gains tax is applied to post-tax investments.
To me it looks like they took most of their inspiration from Things 3
Miller was essentially a saboteur. She was primarily operating out of self-interest but used her position to promote false stories in exchange for access. And she was punished for her crimes.

NYT also ran Joseph Wilson's oped explaining the yellowcake accusations against Iraq were likely fabricated.
FSD has been released for many months.
> Frontend there is that ReasonML/Reason/ReScript thing that Facebook it trying to do. It offers an alternative syntax but nearly nobody uses it because they changed the name and I think also the syntax three times already. So it is all a mess.

"Nobody" uses ReasonML / Reason.

Plenty of people use ReScript.

I wasn't a big fan of the ReScript split, but I think by now it's unfair to speak of these as if they're one community with a confusing story. I think it's very fair to say it's now two separate communities: ReScript and OCaml. It was very confusing for a while, but by now it actually is much easier to understand than before the ReScript split:

ReScript is really its own language now. The compiler for that language just happens to still understand OCaml syntax, for now. The ReScript language and community is focused on the JS ecosystem, with readable JS output.

OCaml has js_of_ocaml. JSOO compiles OCaml to JS, so it's focused on the OCaml ecosystem. The JS output is not readable but you can build "any" OCaml program.

Really that's the main story -- not so hard to grasp?

There is also melange, but that's a relatively new effort in the OCaml community (attracting OCaml-y refugees from ReScript) whose status I haven't formed a view on yet. The idea is to compile OCaml programs to readable JS. Reason used to do that, but Reason now only has a tiny community (and I believe it now uses JSOO?). ReScript still does that, but using it for that purpose is no longer supported.
It quite clearly says "our trusted partners". And the intention is they are relevant. You're finding malice where there is none.
I group all those people as having blood on their hands. But this is only helping me vent and not really conductive to a better discussion.
If this happens, maybe 401k providers will lose business. People often have reasonably large traditional 401ks, which they don't roll over to traditional IRAs, because having traditional IRAs interferes with the backdoor Roth (and they don't want to do a Roth conversion, because that would be a taxable event). But if backdoor Roths went away, then there'd be no reason not to roll a traditional 401k into a traditional IRA. Brokerages like Fidelity and Schwab would win, as people brought their assets over, and 401k providers would lose, since now people would take their money out as soon as they switched jobs.
"Take the pledge and mark your calendars for November 10, 2021, when we’ll take action to log off together."

The website is silly indeed but the plan is to logout on november 10th. They'll probably send an email or something.
> Complete scam. Imagine if you had "unlimited pay". Turn up, demand a million bucks, see what happens.

1) Set your pay so incredibly high that you can accrue enough to retire within a few minutes.

2) Get fired like 15 minutes later when someone figures out what's up and freaks out and manages to frantically do whatever's necessary to get you off the payroll.

3) Retire.
Zuck changed the motto in 2014 to be "Move fast with stable infrastructure."

It's obvious that the first mentality was a bit reckless and only optimized growth at all costs. At some point you have to pay for that debt.

https://www.wired.com/2014/04/zuckerberg-f8-interview/
I’ve been watching this YouTube “speed run” by a GM who is a great teacher and have gone from 1000 to 1300 so far. He does a great job explaining some basic theory and giving advice for newcomers.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytkf3qZTj74
So... nothing to refute? Just don't like the guy?
Cite your sources.
The irony for me is that I pretty easily get a static IPv4 block from my ISP (they do it for free for me, but should be $5/month or something).

Trying to get a static IPv6 prefix is not possible. So there is actually LESS availability of static IPv6 for some reason - even through the address space is so massive, the rules around using it are so restrictive you can't get something static.

This ripples into absolutely everything - now doing firewall rules is a total pain. Additionally the machines and devices are constantly changing IP addresses (on IPv6). So the old small business setup model where a DHCP server is setup, some static IPs configured then reservations in DHCP made, then everything works great no matter what happens in DNS or other servers etc is gone, which feeds mgmt dashboards so you can easily do a alerts or period end report - so and so used 5TB, is something wrong with their machine type stuff - get's harder.

I am curious what recommended IPv6 solution is for this classic small biz situations.

Dual WAN, primary ATT, secondary comcast (for failover).
Local DHCP server for addressing.
Monitoring / reporting by User/IP.
VPN terminating at a sonicwall or similar.

1) Without a static IP - what do I give my VPN users?
2) With all the IP address changes, how do I assign IP's to users to get my monitoring tools to play well with everything.
3) With PD, how do I get my failover working well?
Great question. This is technically referred to as "Wake Word Detection". You run a really small model locally that is just processing 500ms (for example) of audio at a time through a light weight CNN or RNN. The idea here is that it's just binary classification (vs actual speech recognition).

There are some open source libraries that make this relatively easy:

- https://github.com/Kitt-AI/snowboy (looks to be shutdown now)
- https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx

This avoids having to stream audio 24x7 to a cloud model which would be super expensive. This being said, I'm pretty sure what the Alexa does, for example, is send any positive wake word to a cloud model (that is bigger and more accurate) to verify the prediction of the local wake word detection model AFAIK.

Once you are positive you have a positive wake word detected - that's when you start streaming to an accurate cloud based transcription model like Assembly to minimize costs!
That misrepresents the argument. Progressives want to better distribute wealth so everyone can have reliable food, healthcare, and housing. The primary shortage in those areas in terms of necessity are where existing capital is located. More taxes on ultra high earners, closer to what they were at the start of the 20th century, would help achieve a lot regardless of good/labor shortages.

Additionally... I would happily sacrifice paper towels and vinyl for seats if it created more equity... but that's not what needs to happen at all. The article creates a false dichotomy.
Because it's Facebooks horcrux and no-one wants to admit it.
The hard part is determining with 100% accuracy what is a "critical change". Many of these incidents start with someone making a change that "should be" safe. So you either have to make all your changes with a crash cart nearby, or trust in your ability to recover from a bad change remotely.
Which "hobbies" do you think are unnecessary, and how much do you think they cost?
So I don’t mean this is to be snarky , but aren’t all chess games decided by mistakes?
can I dedicate a song to certain Mrs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ye18aMVD7Q
May I suggest that tech companies are so heavily valued because it seems reasonably possible for a single company to win the market on a global scale. We all know the absurd amount of money required to put out a mature service. Losing tons of money but getting there first is a winning strategy and practically delivers a monopoly.
You should not be reading my statement as an absolute; it is circumstantial/contextual.
AWS S3? Cloudflare R2? We think we know what's coming next
I am no fan at all of Facebook, and I would tend to regard the prospect of a dispute between it and its advertisers as a good thing, but here's a slightly-expanded version of the passage quoted in the article:

"We can also confirm that ads did not deliver during the time the systems were offline, and advertisers were not and will not be billed for ads during the outage. Ads have now resumed delivery and some advertisers may see accelerated delivery as our services recover from the outage. We encourage advertisers to review your bids and budgets to ensure they accurately reflect your marketing goals."

One way of looking at this is that Facebook is notifying its advertisers that the outage will affect how advertising is delivered in the following days, and if advertisers want something else to happen, they will have to make the changes themselves. Facebook could reasonably claim that it does not know how any given advertiser would prefer the situation to be handled.

Of course, if it is expensive or inordinately difficult to make such adjustments, then Facebook would come across as dissembling (and not for the first time.)
Redistribution in my understanding would mean taking away someone's housing or healthcare and giving it to someone else. I don't think I've heard anyone advocate for that. Since there are ways to achieve universal housing and healthcare without taking it away from anyone (which is what universal means), I don't think declaring them to be human rights means you support their redistribution.

To be clear, I'm sure you can find some random Twitter user who thinks we should eat the rich and then give their homes to the homeless, but I'm thinking about progressive politicians and writers and people significant to the movement.
Are 3rd party payments in iOS apps as beneficial as they seem?
Fair enough, the second half of my comment didn’t really follow from the first. But I think my point stands about the relative attention paid to FB compared to other platforms. I don’t get it.
There are multiple types of risks in financial instruments. Risk of loss of principal is only one of them. Risk of underperforming inflation is better addressed by equities than annuities. If there was one single "best" investment for everyone, everyone who was well-informed would just buy that.

For me (and I think many others), an annuity that ends at death is not my primary goal when considering how to arrange my investments.