skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How has marriage become unaffordable? In what way? I'm really asking.

Seems to me two people with two incomes living in a 1 bedroom apartment is cheaper than one.

Nearly everything is cheaper when you're married:
Insurance, taxes, meals, utilities.

What's less expensive as a single?
What do people think of the thesis expressed in The Bitcoin Standard that the replacement of the gold standard by fiat currency led to a short-termist mindset among people? In other words, we now have artificially high "time preference" as a result of our currency inflating and the resulting disincentive to save money.

The book also argues that fiat currency encourages people to get into debt and risk bankruptcy as a result. In doing so, it increases demand, drives prices up, thereby further incentivising people to borrow money, creating a vicious spiral of debt and increasing prices.

While the former sounds strange to me, I find the latter to be interesting. But I'm not an economist, so I don't know whether my summary is accurate.
How is it not? They solved homelessness
Here is one link I found: https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/tesla-autopil...
This was not our experience earlier this year. We experienced a sequence of breaking changes in various dot-releases that led us to not being able to upgrade from 10.0.6 until 11.0.1 came out. Basically every single release in the 10.1.x and 10.2.x lines were unusable for us. We're very cautious about upgrading now.

It's part of why I suggested this issue:

https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/26827
I didn't drive to much until 20 or so years ago but I think I saw a lot more of ot back in the day.

In according to the more usual explanations I've been working if lights along the road might be part of the problem.
Most surgeons are self employed. Employees usually make less than business owners. I know personally several surgeons earning around $5 million per year.
Owh almost literally cromulent!
https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/tramulant/eyJ3IjogInR...
It;s true that selection bias is a factor, and the way GPT-3 is distributed tends to aggravates that.

Also, this is a human impersonator. It's not surprising that we find it personable and interesting. We find ceramic dolls personable and interesting. People can't really be trusted to evaluate human-looking things well. It's just to triggering to the instinctive biases of a social mammal. A gorilla impersonator would probably amaze gorillas in much the same way.

That said, I do think there's something to these nlp systems that we didn't have before.

The poke-poke stage of examining novel tech tends to be quirky, and most almost-insights are bogus. Stuff that's cool but useless is as compelling as useful stuff, at first. This isn't a long stage though. We usually gain a grounded understanding of a technology only when we find a use for it. Technology being used for something is what makes it technology, for some definition of.

Prompting & filtering by humans is how GPT-3 is "operated." That it's merely augmenting the creativity of the prompter is a philosophical concern. The practical one is that it needs prompting and filtering. Also, it's trivial to automate some kinds of prompting and filtering.
>bleeding edge software development tools will never be as good on Windows as they are on Linux or MacOS

Personally, I've never experienced any better IDE than Visual Studio. I would call it bleeding edge.
Kyoto: Create Front End with Golang
You know the big fancy wedding for 50-300 people in a hotel? That's expensive. I forget the sociological terminology but getting married has gone from a "We're getting started" to a "We have arrived" statement and the wedding is meant to show that, which is expensive.
But most of the time the media is not misleading. They are just reporting. They take the information they get and the repeat it. Most journalists wouldn't have the time nor energy to do anything but repeat the first layer of facts as they perceive it.
> It was not created to be fast or secure.

Bummer, I was going to ask if there is any sandbox for security purpose. But don't get me wrong, this will be extremely useful for casual use cases like home servers or a "sidekick" during development to quickly visualize the results of whatever project you're working on.
Thanks, I will check those out. Much appreciated!
Still see no evidence among those.

Victory aircraft was a WW2 wartime aircraft manufacturer, not sure how that is relevant for anything. Wartime economics is very different from peacetime economics.

Orion Bus Industries is and was always a private company. It was owner by a government entity for an extremely short period.

Canadian Vickers is a private company.

Canadair was a private company, then nationalized for a decade. Crown didn't do a good job leading this company so they sold it a decade later. This just solidifies my point, they can't run industries efficiently.

> There's not really an incentive for Crown corporations to do that. They're not there to make ever-increasing amounts of money, they're there to provide a service.

Right, they can work in service sectors where you provide a service to people. They can't do good work in an industry sector where the job is to produce goods. Government agencies are great at managing simple sectors, but they couldn't take over the entire private sector. If they could then they would already have done that in many areas of the world and those would thrive. But anyone who tried quickly reversed it as it didn't work out.
> Us programmers stick together. Quite a high rate of marrying within the community.

nobody else would take our schtick ...
Because being infected by the successful, fast-spreading one confers you a measure of immunity against the less successful variant, thereby directly suppressing it.
No disrespect taken. There are countless studies backing up the finding of insect decline. I was simply throwing out a hypothesis of how someone could claim otherwise - they simply aren't measuring the appropriate way and/or they aren't accurately representing their results.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/studies-c...
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/studies-c...
cheeky jab at the competition
PostgreSQL Database Without the Hassle
Stellarocious!
Songbird populations everywhere are hurting.
Here's a tortious causal chain that I think explains everything.

Computing evolved up the point of Multics. The military has always been a driver of computing research to some extent. The deployment of computing resources to help plan airstrike missions showed a critical need for developing a system in which a single computer could handle multiple levels of secure data. The research resulted in capability based security, which was in the process of being folded into Multics.

The folks at Bell labs happened to have a spare DEC machine, and having seen the complexity of Multics, decided to eschew capabilities, and instead relied on a much simpler, and quicker to implement system based on group and user IDs into Unix. This quickly spread to be the defacto multi-user model of security across the academic world.

Over time, PCs came to dominate the low end of computing. When it came time to implement multi-user and network systems, the Unix model, or a slightly upgraded model, based on access control lists (as in Windows) effectively ate the world.

Eternal September happened, and the internet went commercial. With this, we now have persistent internet, and are stuck with the oversimplified security model from Linux and Windows dominating everything. As such, no computer is actually secure.

Because computers aren't secure, you can't trust programs that run on them to be secure. Because of this, you can't trust the web browser on your computer to not get you into trouble if you click on the wrong link. This results in a very strong tendency to avoid clicking on links from unknown domains and sites among the general public.

Because the audience has settled into a few walled gardens, most of the authors of content have had no choice but to move to do the same.

And here we are, because capability based security is seen as too complicated (it doesn't have to be, in fact it can be simple to use), we're all stuck with facebook, twitter, etc.
The entry to my particular rabbit hole is to read any wikipedia article in math and follow the references up to the primary sources. Thanks to libgen and scihub nowadays you can access immediately the whole math corpus. You get to read the first proof of any theorem you fancy in a couple of clicks. We are living in a golden age for historians of math. This is awesome!

It feels really to be "exploring the internet". In a glorious quality and extent that I could have never imagined when my dad brought home a modem in 1995.
Hail Fauci!

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Have you been a good little nazi?

Hail Fauci!
I'd be more surprised if the internet didn't have some sort of restrictions. However, since the university is public, there's probably a free speech argument somewhere, to be made.
At least it is honest...

Me: Should I close this site?

Delphi: you should
> you will save on taxes

... if you pair a high earner with a low/no earner
> There's something to be said for the focused nature of older technology.

For one, it is unlikely that it'll rise up and try to enslave humans.

I guess the writer took the lessons of the Butlerian Jihad to heart.
NDB (non directional beacon) is also still in use in quite a few places. With two beacons in reach and a bit of math, you can cross reference your position.
> He spent a sabbatical conducting field work on {Trinidad and Tobago} and in {Suriname}

Could be clearer, although "On Trinidad and Tobago" doesn't make sense. "In Trinidad and Tobago", or "On Trinidad", or "On Tobago", sure, but Trinidad and Tobago are two islands (and many smaller)
A lot of birds are getting way closer to our windows than they used to be (lived in the same place for 40 years). These aren't angry bird (npi), usually they keep their distance with humans, but now they come very close very often.. I cannot not interpret it as a sign of risk taking facing higher needs.
I love this. It's awesome. The aesthetics are also very well done.

Potential improvements:

- The share links are weird

- Let me give a word to the machine and will return an interesting composite
There's also some joke in there about the only person able to write a contract to successfully bind a lawyer to a long term commitment being another lawyer.
Sounds delicious.

I just got “mycobiology”, with a perfectly correct definition. I’m guessing its dictionary is incomplete, and it reinvented that word on its own.
> the small number of bits that appear to make sense.

What I find most impressive is just how much of it's output appears to make sense.

Of course "make sense" is the critical part of this. It's skin deep - but still quite astonishing fairly frequently.
Good for science fiction writers maybe
Cause everyone on this site is a liberal fucktard.
FTC Report Finds Annual Cigarette Sales Increased for the First Time in 20 Years
Counterpoint to all the gloom.

Most interesting content is indeed either

(a) on 5 or 6 sites, or linked from there
(b) on professional news or media websites

This is because only a tiny proportion of people have the skills, or need, to build their own website with their own domain. 99% of people - including 99% of people with interesting things to say - will say them on Facebook, Twitter, Medium or Substack. Then there are people paid to be interesting. You'll find them on the NYT, or (for my region) the Eastern Daily Press.

This is fine! Web browsers are read-only. Certain websites, built on the web, provide services for writing. People use them.
I use Authy. Find the security good enough.

As for internet access on the device, shouldn't be a problem for any site that uses TOTP. However I can't imagine a situation where the phone wouldn't have access, but I'd be accessing a resource where authentication is an issue.
New MacBook Pro Models Include HDMI 2.0 Port Instead of HDMI 2.1
We use 1password at work. It's fantastic, never had issues. The GUI is really nice (on MacOS where I use it at least). The CLI is also nice for pushing secrets into scripts.
The 1000 people argument is poor. The same logic could be used to justify mistreating a very small racial minority, and we know that is wrong.

If new government spending is really justified, it should be popular enough to fund it in a broad-based way.
I'd like to read a newsletter named MetaMuffin.
>Note that they are making variant-specific vaccines, not proving that variant-specific vaccines are effective against the target variant, if delivered after the original vaccine.

You are correct that it isn't proving vaccine efficacy, but it is showing a different set of antibodies created by the variant vaccines that are more effective at neutralizing the targeted variant than the antibody collection created by the original, WT-targeted vaccine.

>Side note: I hope we can do better than taking at face value investor press releases by the biopharma corps producing the vaccines.

I hate science by press release too. I wish I was better at bookmarking the pre-prints and journal articles I find/read, but they'd just be a mess I couldn't find anything in either :|
You are misunderstanding the CEO's statement. It says that 95 days are sufficient to make the vaccine, it does not mention testing. You cannot assess the lifelong effects of almost anything in just three months.
Quantum Cyberattacks Are Coming. This Math Can Stop Them
doesn't amazon do this with brand names now?
This reminds me, somehow, of "The Meaning Of Liff". A wonderful book you need to read.

A sense of it can be found here: http://liff.hivemind.net/
> If the user needs to be loggedin somewhere, they must be online

I will be using JWTs, with asymmetric signatures. An internet connection will only be needed while adding the device for 2FA. The JWT will be generated from the private key already on the phone so internet is not necessary.
When I was at university, Engineering and Psychology used to have parties together. But that might also have been because Engineering was 80% men and Psychology 80% women.
"I also believe though, that some people can and have create(d) amazing and ambitious careers without a college education, or by dropping out early from the process. There are no rules..."

Absolutely true. Do you have any statistics on their rate of doing that?

Survivor bias: If the only thing you look at is success, success looks pretty easy.
Some exciting stuff for sure, but the most exciting stuff we still have to wait on as it's all experimental until React is ready.

Anything that speeds things up and gives us more control is great though.
Oh boy, I'm an engineer, but I'll do my best to pretend I'm on the sales or marketing team for a minute...

First of all, CockroachDB Serverless is available on AWS, and should integrate quite well with that ecosystem, including with Serverless functions offered by AWS Lambda.

Here are a few advantages of CockroachDB Serverless that Aurora will struggle to match (note that we're still working on Serverless multi-region support):

1. Free-forever tier. We offer a generous "free forever" tier that doesn't end after a month or a year. As the blog post outlines, our architecture is custom-built to make this economical.

2. No ceiling on write scalability. Even non-Serverless Aurora runs into increasing trouble as the number of writes / second increases past what a single machine can handle. CockroachDB just keeps going. We've had multiple high-scale customers who hit Aurora limits and had to move over to Cockroach to support business growth.

3. True multi-region support. Aurora only allows read-only, stale replicas in other regions, while CRDB allows full ACID SQL transactions. If you want to move into other regions of the world and have latency concerns or GDPR concerns, CRDB is custom-built to make the full SQL experience possible.

4. No Cloud lock-in. Perhaps this is not a concern for you company, but many companies don't like getting completely locked in to a single Cloud provider. CockroachDB works on multiple cloud providers and doesn't have a monetary interest in locking you in to just one.

5. Online schema changes. CockroachDB supports operations like adding/removing columns, renaming tables, and adding constraints without any downtime. You can perform arbitrary schema changes without disturbing your running application workloads. SQL DDL "just works".

6. Cold start in an instant. CockroachDB clusters automatically "scale to zero" when they're not in use. When traffic arrives, they resume in a fraction of a second. Compare that to Aurora, where you need to either have a minimum compute reservation, or you need to endure multi-second cold starts.

7. Great support. We've got a friendly Slack room where you can get free support and rub shoulders with fellow CockroachDB users, as well as CockroachDB folks like myself. We also have 24/7 paid support for deeper problems you might encounter.

Taken altogether, CockroachDB can go wherever your business needs it to go, without all the constraints that traditional SQL databases usually have. Do you want thousands of clusters for testing/development/tiny apps at a reasonable cost? Could your business take off and need the scale that CRDB offers? Could your business need to expand into multiple geographic regions? Are some of your workloads erratic or periodic, but still should start up instantly when needed? It's not just about what you need now, but what you may need in the future. It makes sense to plan ahead and go with a database that has "got you covered" wherever you need to go.
Alphabet Announces Third Quarter 2021 Results
As I have said many times on HN, a gold standard protects the wealth of the people from government excess. That is also why the gold standard was ended by government.
Dang! Just saw this. Agreed!!
Interesting that it comes up with a definition that might incorporate the sense of any root words (if present):

https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/pr7C
Microsoft is force installing PC Health Check in Windows 10
Multi-Cloud Kubernetes
It's understandly not something a lot of vendors consider, especially early stage products, but classified systems don't have Internet access and can't use managed cloud services (unless offered by AWS via C2S, and possibly in the future by whoever wins JEDI if they resurrect that), leaving no choice but to self-host anything. That's the extremest example, but lots of enterprises airgap part of their network for other reasons, and private companies that don't handle officially classified data may still be restricted in where they can host data based on PII/PHI legal regulations, and may not be able to use your data center.
besides the fact that plenty of European countries have banned the use of certain vaccines because of heart issues?

besides the fact that Fauci is responsible for funding bio-terrorism in Wuhan?

No not really.
I spent a long time thinking about how to do query parsing and have been dissatisfied with what I could come up with.

This is the perfect solution! Thank you so much!
The model M is my favorite keyboard and I own a stash of them large enough to last me for my whole life. That is to say, I own one model M keyboard.
> Whatever happened to the idea of “exploring the Internet”?

Written content on the Internet are much lower in terms of quality than before. SEO has taken over and so written content tend to be wordy or salesy. There is no mechanism for users to flag low quality content to Search engines or other users, so it is a free for all.

Online forums are long gone. People migrated to Reddit where discussion is much more shallow, or private communities on Facebook.

We could still find interesting stuff on YouTube, for now.
Two legged animal will believe anything. -Alardyce T. Merriwether
Likely a mistake in the spec list copied from the earlier intro article published in March. The chip has no DSP, HDMI or DVI blocks listed so it makes sense.
Lileks... I've been visiting his site off and on since the late 90's. Always something interesting there.
A lot of the original metaphors for "using" the internet carry connotations of exploration or perusing, but they've been in use for so long the meaning has sort of gotten worn off.

Listen to these words and think about what they actually mean: Internet Explorer, or Web Browser, even Netscape Navigator with its nautical theme has such connotations.
One thing I liked about Lynch's version was that the settings/sets made the universe feel old and decadent. Good feeling for an aristocratic setting of Emperors and Houses.
> it's very difficult to get a H1B, even as a senior

I'd say it's the opposite.

The last administration started sending more and more RFE which weeded out a lot of fraudulent applications, especially from body-shop operations. Now there's a lot more room in the pool for real "specialty occupations".
Turbines, nuclear, fusion, renewables is the play for relevance. That and squeeze every last drop out of the last century of fossil fuels. Many won't survive, but some of them will pivot in time/have enough burn to pivot later than they should have.
Well this would be me. Over the past few weeks I often get dozens of spam calls each day. So I turned on permanent Do Not Disturb, and only phone numbers in my contact list will ring.

Of course, if you leave a voicemail, I'll check it, as a very large percentage of the spam calls I receive do not leave any message.
As a counterpoint, I upvoted and favorited this post before seeing your comment.
Is there a website like this - show a new word interesting word at each refresh - but for real words?
25% to 40% of Tech workers could lose jobs due to vaccine requirements
I used this guide when implementing my own real-time multiplayer platforming game.

It really understates the importance of authority. It blows my mind how many games, especially FPSes, give a lot of authority to the client. Lag compensation for shooting is one thing, but clients should not be able to shoot through walls or speed hack. These types of cheats are easy to prevent server-side, but developers don't because .... ? No idea. I've always guessed that it's to reduce server-side CPU load, but that's all I can guess.
> I run into trouble with sharing across users on a team and individual user sharing. In that case, I see most solutions use express as middleware for the couchdb connection.

A shared databases where everyone can read but only some can write is very much possible with design docs. And when being flexible with assigning/revoking roles + creating/replicating data, a lot can be modelled without a proxy.

But yeah, at some point it's probably easier to use a proxy than to do weird stuff with databases and roles.
> Did college in those places / time periods put you into debt?

It was common for family lineages fo hundreds of people to support promising students to do the Imperial examinations and they didn't do it out of the goodness of their hearts. Equally people don't pay for their sons to study law for their intelectual development. Only the relatively wealthy could afford to send a son to college. Just being able to afford them not working for 3-5 years marks them as wealthy even if they fely poor in comparison with others of their social class.
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Young people get pretty bombarded by divorce horror stories - especially from pop culture. Most divorces don't go to a court and a large number are resolved entirely internally and only seek professional help for the finalization of the agreement... but there are the attention grabbing headlines of someone being left with only the shirt on his back (and like 20 mil in options) on the far side of a really bad divorce.

I also think that culture does play a fair role. I was initially hesitant to marry (as a millennial) because a lot of my friends were being denied the ability to marry who they chose, so I wanted to stand with them and reject the institution. That, thankfully, has been resolved - but I can totally understand people who have mixed feelings on marriage.