skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alberta has had plenty of deficits in the last 10 years, never mind the last fifty:

* https://www.fraserinstitute.org/fr/node/9227

And they're not the only ones to be positive, as Ontario has had several surpluses or small deficits ($200M):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_government_debt

This of course assumes that a balanced budget (or surplus) is something that even should be aimed for. Certainly one shouldn't go crazy with spending (especially when stimulus isn't needed), but the balanced idea seems to be a strange fiscal fetish that is over-focused upon.
Outside of Windows, I believe, you can do it so that the dataset is read-only shared (or copy-on-write) via fork, and then it’s as quick as local access.

Not on Windows though, as it lacks fork.
> Every single criticism that one can level against Facebook applies to Twitter ten times over

Eh, I disagree. Sure, Facebook and Twitter can both be used to spread disinformation, to foment divisiveness, to addict their users to low-quality scrolling. Facebook, however, allows secret distribution of misinformation at scale, does a much better job of censoring at scale (i.e. they censor leftist views for users on the right and vice-versa), seems much more interested in the elimination of privacy as a concept, and seems much more interested in connecting me with people I don't want to connect with.

On twitter I can curate my feed so it's high signal-to-noise ratio. On Facebook I have to put up with the nonsensical political opinions of people I'm related to, used to go to school with, and used to work with. I left my hometown for good reasons.
Livejournal, to me, was a fusion of three things: a simple HTML editor (aka posts) + a time-sorted view and access controls + discoverability through your network.

The things that made it different than Facebook were (1) that they didn't screw around with your feed (it was your friends' posts, sorted by date), (2) that discoverability and networking was user intentional and exploratory (pull, rather than suggested / push), & (3) access controls were simple, understandable, and obeyed user intent.
This is an elegant solution to a difficult problem, must read!
I also couldn’t find the pricing info, so I just blindly signed up for the closed beta. I’ve been guided through a short form, at the end of which I’ve learned that after a 14 day trial Sunsama will cost $20 a month (!), even for personal or any other non-commercial use.
You seem to have a few misconceptions here:

1. That only uneducated 'researchers' have concerns, and ill-formed ones. Petrovsky, as a leading vaccine developer, outlines a clear, educated position on why it's still reasonable to have concerns over the current options [1]

2. That because billions of doses have been administered, there are no serious problems. You can certainly make a very sound case that Covid side effects are worse in defence of using these current options. But they are irrefutably far less safe and effective (relatively) than any other vaccines authorised and widely used over the last few decades. Considering this it's understandable why there is still concern over overdone claims around the safety of the current options. Even in a pandemic numerous regulatory authorities have had to add additional warnings and modify use of the current options.

3. Your last cited point on Covid deaths is very wrong. You just need to look at UK statistics (and other countries) to realise there is something very, very odd about the claimed US stats from the CDC.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_2Rq1zoRg&t=3063s
I don't know about the Panama Canal, but the rest is true (mainly UK).

" ... transporting porcelain and whatever other goods China exported at the time."

China exported Silk, porcelain and tea like the is no tomorrow but did not buy anything. At one point China accumulated a huge part of the world silver reserves, sucking liquidity out of the western economy. Opium "solved" this problem.

It was my understanding that the Opium trade was mainly a GB thing. I was not aware that the US was involved.
You (your client) can still subpoena Cloudflare for the customer's IP if you can get a court to agree that it's infringement and then go after the upstream host. That's seems like a solution compatible with this ruling, and an appropriate amount of lift.
Autonomous drone navigates independently through the forest at 40 km/h
Warsaw’s Public Transit and Walkability
A partially-automated medium-throughput homemade cider press with lasers
Americans don't know how to cook, and don't have somebody to teach them the basics.

The bar to entry gets high when your parents can't cook
> instead of trying to fear-porn parents

> we are going to put your kids at risk from the vaccine

A bit on the nose, don't you think?
That's like saying "War and Peace isn't a big book because it isn't even as big as the smallest car". Yes, both can be measured in the same units (e.g. weight or volume) but that doesn't mean the comparison makes sense.

You have to compare things which are in some sense alternatives of each other. The question is not "is the vaccine safer than driving" but "is the vaccine safer than not getting the vaccine?".

Sure, if you don't get the vaccine there's a certain risk of getting COVID and subsequently having serious disease (though if you are a young and healthy that risk appears to be relatively low).

And certainly the vaccine lowers your risk of getting serious disease (for now) but it doesn't entirely erase that risk. So now you have figure out what the long-term risks of adverse reaction to the vaccine are, plus the long-term risk that you will still get serious COVID disease anyway (due to the narrow immunity provided by the vaccine).

For young, healthy people it's not clear to me the vaccine is all that much safer than not getting it. If you can show me, by a breakdown of these risks by age and health, that the I'm wrong and the vaccine is much safer I would be very open to it. As it is, I've tried to find something comprehensive and I cannot.
It's also very strange that he don't specify how many 'billions' - could be 2, or ... most probably 69 billions $.
How is hikaru before agadmator - it’s pure entertainment. Watching a super gm intentionally blunder on first two moves for 3 hours probably hurts your chess more than improves it
> Not sure how the author could define MasterClass more “at the beginning” than in the title and by-line.

They do define properly, just after an unrelated blurb about public universities: "MasterClass is an online education portal"

> It does, MasterClass is capitalised in the title showing that its a proper noun and the by-line is

That's fair, although it wasn't capitalized on hackernews
It has been known for a while that people who switch from regular soda to diet soda (and make no other changes) do not lose weight.
This is a crazy result given the calorie difference, so there must be something going on.

Somehow the body is reacting badly to the dissappoinment of not getting all the promised calories that it tasted. Either triggering cravings that drive people to make up the deficit elsewhere or causing the digestive system to change gear in some way.
It is now known that there are sweetness receptors in the gut, so this flow of what the body thinks is undigested sugar may make things go haywire. Anyway, it's not my field, but I find it interesting.
I attempted to list out all of the insane things that news does today at https://legiblenews.com/about/ and yes, breaking is so overused to the point of abuse.

I too like PBS NewsHour and modeled https://legiblenews.com/ off the idea of being non-sensational with no ads.

Another thing I did that this crowd would appreciate: I made sure that each page would have one and only one web request. Check it out in your network activity area in your browser—its fast!
I was very unhappy with the instruction I received from masterclass. Maybe I'm an idiot but I actually thought it was going to be out of Mastery level and I was disappointed that a lot of the classes really only focused on introductory material. It's annoying because most educational material for any topic is introductory, particularly the kind that you find online. So it can be pretty hard to find Mastery level advice at a high quality level of instruction.
If you don't boil them too much, they're plenty flavourful.

It's just that it's the flavour of the vegetable, which isn't full of sugar, salt, or msg unlike the very optimized processed foods
Very true[1]

1: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002565595246.html
How much of this traffic is from people who previously who taken public transit but now do not. BART is quite cramped.
Facebook’s own PR shows Frances Haugen is Right
Well said right the way through.

The other thing cryptocurrencies potentially offer is an alternative financial system to the status quo. There are lots of bugs to be worked out, but it's well on its way, and Solana and Ethereum (as only two examples of many) have the ability to act as the platform upon which these financial services can be built.
What this thread really needs is a hot take like calling Bitcoin a pyramid scheme
Just want to add this here, artificial sweeteners are a blessing, specially for people with slower metabolisms. Food in the US is loaded with sugars, its nice to have a way to minimize consumption while satisfying cravings. You cannot argue that being obese is better than consuming artificial sweeteners. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame_controversy
JSX at Lowest Level
"trying their absolute hardest to reduce the fingerprinting surface"... for anyone else :)
I don't know why people don't understand this. There was a twitter spaces a few weeks ago after one of these ETF delays where a bunch of bigwigs pushing these ETFs seemed clueless or willfully ignorant of this fact. Its just pathetic.
> I remember things like shifting inventory to a customer to have it returned after inventory.

This seems like something that would have been obvious to outlaw when drafting the legislation for the tax.
Yup, I second this. At a past job we needed support for Kafka, and their tech support's advice was so fantastic that it was actually circulated around the company for general reading. We had an entire team of people who were expert in Kafka - including myself - to the point of having given widely viewed talks etc, and we learned a lot from them. I can't rate it highly enough.

That said, it's famous that there's a very big difference between the different tiers of AWS support. When I say 'tier', I just mean in the sense of how far your query gets escalated, though it's possible that only large clients get to be escalated to the very high tiers. (We were worth billions and spent near enough a million a month, so we were at least a t2.large to them.)
I'm not sure why this is described as if it's bad or even surprising. Of course their audience is mostly not watching with the earnest expectation that the content of the videos will bestow upon them mastery of the topic. It's educational entertainment, just like any number of great YouTube channels, but with the high production values and famous faces that allow their content to command a high price.
People also pay a lot of money just to have something to talk about. Saying "I started taking this course from {famous_person}" is a conversation starter.
Brilliant documentary how Google stole Google Earth from two small guys and how Google steal patent from small businesses.
This isn't about making things easier or better for ordinary people. If it were, the government wouldn't make it a crime for small businesses to not accept Bitcoin in a very poor country with limited communications infrastructure. El Salvador has 3.8 million internet users out of a population of 6.4 million people.
In Scotland about 8% of 12-15 year olds got it in 5 weeks after the beginning of the school year. UK did not vaccinate <16 year olds till 20th September. Now they got forced natural immunity.
Initialisms are a subset of acronyms; acronym is accurate here.
Great question! I should have been clearer. Each event type gets a new partial index where the WHERE clause of the partial index corresponds to the properties of the new event type.

Hope that clarifies! Lmk if not. :)
Unvaccinated Anesthesiologist Escorted from UCLA Medical Facility
>> Turkey is truly the wild west of illicit money at the moment.

Any source on this ? I born and raised in Turkey and I won't let you to bullshit on my country
I really don't see how enabling people to make wild fortunes in tax advantaged accounts if they get lucky in cryptocurrency is good for society as whole.

The default is taxable accounts. Things like IRAs and 401ks are exceptions carved out to encourage the population to invest so that they don't end up eating cat food at age 80. People building huge fortunes in their IRAs isn't achieving this goal.
This really doesn't seem like Cloudflare's problem.

Did banks sue the Ford dealer for selling big V8 getaway cars to bank robbers? Or the city for operating the roads that they used to get away? Or the toll collector for letting the bank robbers cross a bridge after they paid the toll?

No, because any of those things would have been ridiculous.

At some point we as a society are going to have to get off this intellectual property high horse.

Maybe we should stop trying to protect things that are easy to copy like website designs and wedding dresses. The enormous effort to try and protect these things damages society more than the benefit that even a successful outcome might have for a rights holder.
> This color extraction algorithm is basically a map from the set of all possible images to the RGB color space. The set is infinite and the RGB color space is limited by 2^24 combinations. Theoretically, this means every RGB combination is possible.

I know this is missing the point of the article, but this is not how the pigeonhole principle works.
Coincidentally, I just finished reading Under an English Heaven by Donald Westlake. It's the story of the British invasion of the tiny Caribbean island of Anguilla, and the invasion itself turns on an incident where a British diplomat (delivering more-or-less what the Anguillans wanted) humiliated the leaders of the 6000-person island, who in turn kicked the diplomat off the island, humiliating him.

(If you're interested, the book is in the Internet Archive freely. It's hilarious.)
Presumably any proposal for completely or largely government-funded schools would contain some price controls.
The trouble with myocarditis caused by the mRNA vaccines is that even though the risk is low, for some of the age groups it seems to be higher than the risk of them being hospitalized due to Covid. (A risk which a lot of people seem to overestimate, but that's another story.) So even though they should be more worried about crossing the road than the vaccine, it's also entirely rational for them to consider the vaccine a bigger danger than Covid itself.
It used to be a cliche that American tourists were the only ones who would order water at cafes or restaurants in certain countries.
re is an ordinary standard Python library —

https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html

pcre2 is not —

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
$6 in China.[0] What this actually means is that they reused an existing set of polymer injection molds instead of spinning one for the project, which has two benefits: 1. Reduced cost. 2. Deniability for customers. The second would support a default-boot-to-games boot configuration with a secret button push to activate real functionality.

Having opened such a device in the recent past (cloned gaming type, not the carjacking type) there are seals around the buttons so the whole assembly is nontrivial and overly complex to reproduce purely for a small-run specialist device.

[0] https://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?id=627222036223&skuId=4551...
Is this just the plot of parks and recreation's last season?
I think you're conflating enjoyment with status?

It's low status to eat well on home cooked foods, and high status to eat poorly at well advertised garbage restaurants
I think it's generally true that "people who do X (and make no other changes)" do not lose weight for all values of X except some very unhealthy things, and those unhealthy things are generally followed by rebound weight gain anyways.

Almost everything to do with weight loss verges on pseudo-science and the field is constantly flooded with misinformation from people peddling something. Focusing on weight loss as a goal in and of itself is thus pretty much always a road to pain anyways.
is this a documentary? It looks like a tv show
There's a chance. If you consider that society is largely digital and increasingly remote, it stands to reason that theoretically a new mini Silicon Valley can be founded anywhere.

El Salvador already offers permanent residency if you have a few BTC in capital. And they're going to start mining using excess volcano energy. We truly live in odd times.

Imagine that it works. A tech society evolving in the jungle. The feeling of being part of a rapidly developing society, rather than one stagnating or in decline.

And next, every neighboring country watching carefully. Which they already do. Because they're all tired of being a 2nd class America.

On Twitter, the president of El Salvador dissed the IMF's concerns as if an immature crypto bro.

I love it. It's a thing of beauty.
Toyota's safety sense system has saved me from minor accidents a few times. It has never auto applied the brakes, but the alarms and brake assist have been really helpful on freeways during abrupt stops. My girlfriend, on the other hand, hates her Honda's auto braking system, as it triggers too easily, even on the lowest setting. I've seen it regularly trigger when pulling up to sensor controlled gates.
As someone who had a "mild" (I only had a 103 fever for 3 weeks, swelling in all manner of weird places, and exhaustion) Covid Original Flavour(tm), I still have symptoms due to the aftermath even a year later.

Research keeps increasing the percentage for people who have "long Covid" symptoms and the length of their duration.

And I didn't have a symptom like losing my smell which seems to be very common. Losing your sense of smell for a very long time really sucks.

People are vastly underestimating the risks of actual Covid and vastly overestimating any risks from the vaccine.

And this is before we talk about the fact that people are dying of treatable, non-Covid diseases because Covid patients who won't get a vaccine are clogging the hospitals.
No, he is using the past tense because personal computers with small color palettes are largely a thing of the past now.
> * I no longer really have an opinion about V; it's been two years since I paid any attention to it.

Good to see that you finally got rid of your jealousy

I will be honest, seeing everyone getting "mad" at V project owner was very "dishonest" move, to stay polite and within HN 's rules
I guess I'm just in the wrong part of the industry then. It seems $250k per year work is rare, at least outside of a few specific markets.
> How would they stop them? Invade and depose the democratically elected president, then setup a puppet government to do their will?

Are you at all familiar with Latin American history? That's hardly an unprecedented US response to ideological, commercial, or other differences.
I wouldn't expect it to be. A "master class" is a class taught by a master, not a class intended to make you a master.

A master class is supposed to involve personal interaction with the the master, not a videotaped lecture. So I would expect even less from it than from a proper master class.

Master classes can bring very advanced students up a notch, though it's not really intended to make them masters themselves all at a go. That's something you have to earn on your own. But master classes are often taught to the most advanced students to bring their performances to level where they're prepared to strike out on their own and truly master their craft.
I‘ve never cleaned up longer than 5 minutes after a meal, and I‘m cooking 1-2x a day for a family of four. Cook just one dish, ideally in a single pan/pot or in the oven. Get a pressure cooker for one-pot-dishes, ideally a smart one with auto-shutdown. Get machine-washable utensils. Get a self-cleaning stove (who cares about the mess anyway). Coated pans can just be rinsed with a soft brush and dried immediately (only smelly stuff like fish needs to be soaked).
> It is unclear what the object in the video is
> This typically happens when someone multiplies a tiny probability by an infinite value like "time till the heath death of the universe".

This is absolutely not what they are doing. Most of their charities are working on immediate problems and are evaluated on their short term impact. The obvious exceptions are the Long-Term Future category and the Climate Change category, which are looking at around 50-100 years from now. They are not multiplying some tiny utilitarian value by an extreme number of years.

Their top 4 charities by total donation amount are Against Malaria Foundation, GiveWell, Global Health and Development Fund, and GiveDirectly. All are fighting immediate problems.

There are different categories of charities because people will never agree on which categories are most important. Does animal suffering matter? Is preventing a life of extreme poverty better or worse than preventing an early death? Everyone has different answers to these questions, so the site gives donors a variety of suggestions. They suggest charities that are well evaluated for their category. E.g. Climate change charities are evaluated on their climate impact per dollar donated, and human health charities are evaluated by lives saved and disease prevented.
> sed maybe isn't turing complete though (but someone's gonna prove me wrong here too)

Done! :) Since a turing machine has been written in sed, sed is turing complete. [1] [2] (both from Peter of Browserling).

[1] https://catonmat.net/proof-that-sed-is-turing-complete
[2] https://catonmat.net/ftp/sed/turing.txt
Hah wow. I hope that's a typo.
People talk a lot about stevia, and it's prominently displayed on packaging, but then when I look at the ingredients, the sweetener is actually mostly sugar alcohols.

Is stevia ever used alone? If it's just a "fig leaf" so to speak, then perhaps the health effects of the sugar alcohols would be more relevant.
What due process do you believe Cloudflare should implement with regards to claims that a particular site on their service deserves to be booted?
A Ford dealership would be liable for selling counterfeit Fords, or at least would be responsible for helping track down where that counterfeit came from.
The breadcrumb trail ends when the funds are exchanged for a privacy coin like Monero.
I feel like Masterclass is a more direct competitor to Netflix than a university. I am a member and love the content, but don't really watch it with the intention of becoming the next Gordon Ramsay or Judd Apatow. Watching celebrities and others who are at the top of their craft give an insight into their creative process is worth it in itself. If I learn something useful then, well, that's a bonus.
That's true, but the point is, they haven't created anything that bridges the two worlds. They are just there, in coexistence.

Well, then again, I also think you are also falling into the trap of underestimating the amount of VBA code, and businesses built on it, because of your cultural disdain for it.
I don't dispute your prediction that you would be more satisfied if your iPhone could support third party stores or sideloading. My prediction is about customer satisfaction in aggregate.
They're different organizations, few people seriously think that USDC is going to 0.
Not all countries vaccinate kids for chickenpox. The UK still doesn't for example. I'm pretty sure it's easily the least necessary of the childhood vaccinations.
> I think It could be next Switzerland in the new world order.

Could be, but i suspect there are a lot more laws and historic reasons for the swiss status than just banking.
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