skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would life be like if we had adopted those kind of policies in the middle ages? Hmm

Things change over time. Whether it be 10 years or 100 years. Arguing about character of a neighborhood is somewhat nonsensical IMO.
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My point is simply that Sweden chose a response. You are absolutely welcome to argue that they chose a better response than what others chose, that they served the greater good for cheaper, that the surviving Swedes are happier. But everyone - most especially the Swedish government ministers who made that choice - will tell you that Sweden said, we think we know better, so we're doing this.
Financially sure we face more pressure. But let’s be honest that modern society is practically a utopia compared to being drafted into WW2 and facing carnage and death.
I'm a bit confused. For all the description of different convoluted processes below, why not simply handle backup with something even simpler like Backblaz, SpiderOak or maybe sync.com? Seems a lot simpler than the Restic, Rclone and other methods described here.
I don't understand the logic. Because Greece has some issues with its women employment rate, USA can't do anything about parental leaves? You even suggested in your initial post simple solutions for this problem, that work in other countries.
Our municipal pools have 'warm water' hours where the pool is heated to 34 degrees Celsius I believe.
Unless the singles are OK with no one coming to clean their bed pan, then it is not just pain for them.
The only way I can think of is to pay down the debt. Of course we're going in the opposite direction.
There is a flip side to fast.com, though: it’s much more likely that it will encounter throttled speeds on mobile devices, since many unlimited plans keep the connection to Netflix artificially slow.

Not endorsing that for a second but I was using fast.com as an absolute measure of internet speed until I realised this. But speedtest has the issues you’ve outlined too, there are very few 100% reliable options!
Fungi, the Earth's Miracle Worker
One thing most libertarians never understood about Keynes, is that Keynes was probably as much, if not more, anti-communist than they.
But keynes also knew that people that are hungry today, don't have too much patience to wait for the markets to reach an equilibrium, and because of that they tend to make revolutions.
This American Market fundamentalism is probably the biggest threat that the liberal capitalism ever met, because this is what is going to radicalize the american worker, and soo, the disappearing middle class.
Seed Rounds at $100M post-money
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there more square us states than round states
I felt similar after the first child. But the reality for my SO is that it was harder on them because of all the other non-baby chores I couldn't do when working.

So for the second child I had to get VP approval to take a whopping 3 weeks (unlimited* PTO, technically no paternity leave). That was essential because now there was childcare, chores, and baby care involved. It should've been more like 8w.
Software evolves – An experience guided by results
Same here, I loved the language and the concepts behind it but the companies that populated the eco-system were terrible and users did not like the end result due to the lack of native interfaces. We too went the C++ route (specifically, Borland C++ Builder, which was very fast and easy to develop with) and never looked back.
Because it is pro-social behavior. Same as voting for higher taxes on yourself personally.

In fact, lowering property values is often good for people. It lowers property taxes (well... not in california since they never recompute) and it lowers the price of comps so if you move and buy another house it is largely a wash.

Yes, we've created a system where a ton of people are highly dependent on inflated housing prices and this leads to anti-social policy support so they can keep their wealth. This is a tough nut to crack because people are greedy. But this approach isn't sustainable.
Deaths in Children and Young People in England Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection
For "free"

Also maybe there is a reasons for most of the internet not to care about ipv6 or current implementation, but that is another different big debate
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The majority of the population over time will use parental leave if it is available. Most people do have at least one child in their lifetime so this is a terrible example of an entitlement which is unequally distributed. Health care is even worse, especially if you are guaranteeing access prospectively. Even people who are not currently using healthcare resources (hopefully most people) know that there is a very good change that they will have to and realistically as you age the chance that you need substantial medical care approaches 100% pretty rapidly.

It is not a Ponzi scheme for a number of reasons.

First, Ponzi schemes use money from new members to pay for older members. This might be a model for retirement spending (it isn't, see my next point) but it has the timeline reversed for parental leave. Parental leave is effectively funded by the fraction of the population not currently using it for the benefit of the fraction that currently is. It effectively serves a few different distributional roles:

a) It moves resources from your own pre-child and post-parental leave career to the period when the child is born. Many people who can easily fund a year of not working from their total career earnings cannot do so in their peak child-bearing years and there aren't any efficient ways of using saving or borrowing to shift that money either. For these people, parental leave uses the risk pooling and payment guarantee capabilities of the state to effectively borrow cheaply against their lifetime earnings.

b) It distributes resources from higher to lower earners, depending on how the obligation is structured there is usually a progressive taxation element which ensures a certain minimum is available.

Second point, retirement schemes are also not Ponzi schemes.

A Ponzi scheme requires an ever-increasing number of new entrants to maintain payouts. Pay-as-you-go retirement schemes require maintaining a balance between payers and payees which can be disrupted by changes to demographics but that does not mean that they are inherently fraudulent, just that in the presence of demographic trends which lead to a change in that ratio, they either need to reduce payouts, or increase payments in, or borrow to bridge temporary gaps. The difference is that in a Ponzi scheme, the changes required to maintain this are exponential and rapidly become impossible. There is no stable state to a Ponzi scheme.
But it doesn't hold up the other way when you remove one piece. I'd wager most people would select a Michaelangelo replica even if they were directly told it was a replica than the dot on the canvas if told it was a replica of whatever artist made it.
No, I think. As far as I know hydrophobic materials break the surface tension that water creates and this does not allow higher friction between an object and its environment. Nitrogen does not create drops and the only friction there is is the one created by kinetic impacts between the gas and the object, hence decrease the forward surface or choose a shape that does not allow for turbulations.
They shouldn't have to be in favor of it.

But then they also shouldn't be holier than thou about their oh so great liberal values when they aren't willing to live up to them when it actually affects them.
Yeah, sure. Only the american libertarian knows how things really work.
All those other countries are stupid, and because of their stupidity, look at them, all the women are out of the labor market.
I'm a mathematician, but I don't really understand Gödel's incompleteness. I've recently been reading everything I can about proof assistants such as Coq and Lean, and Homotopy Type Theory and such.

My lay understanding is that Gödel's incompleteness put a dagger through Hilbert's vision of automating mathematics. And now we're automating mathematics.

I of course oversimplify, but what gives? You'd think all popular accounts of Gödel or proof assistants would name-check Hilbert (as this article does just before the paywall) then reconcile this apparent conflict.

Someone here understands this well. Can you explain?
Correction: "Logical Dilemmas" by John Dawson
Didn't check, but I'd be very surprised. That would open a huge MITM opportunity.
> A state lawmaker in Oklahoma is bringing forth a bill to fine employers as much as $1 million per vaccine injury if they enforce Biden’s unlawful federal vaccine mandate.

What a shame they brand their reporting as political take/propaganda in the first paragraph.

There is already a federal program that pays people for injury attributable to vaccines. Punishing businesses for following Federal mandates is just showboating on problems already solved. I could care less on the politics, I simply hate the intentional inefficiencies.
For happiness:

"Do more, want less"

Dali Lama
My favourite is when they suggest replacing bees with miniature quadcopters for pollenation.
> People don’t have to have children.

Ah, here we go. This is a veiled "only people who have enough money should have children" argument.

> And people can and do stay at home with their children at all income levels.

I am sure that disproportionately favors certain income levels.
Agreed, Clojure very likely exceeds them combined in active business use.
I can only assume you have no experience of what breast pumping entails, and the biological and chemical effects of a mother breastfeeding her baby. It is not true that it is "without issue". Not being able to directly breastfeed your baby leads to many downsides, even just mechanical ones.

Such as decreased or erratic milk production, clogged nipple ducts, engorged breasts, all which are greatly reduced when an infant feeds from the breast.

Not to mention the effects of oxytocin on the mother's healing body from having skin to skin contact with the baby.

The effects are extremely complex, I do not even see how you can measure them to claim dropping an infant off at daycare is "without issue".

If you also cared for an infant, you would also know they don't sleep 7 hours, and feed 1 hour. They feed every 2 hours, and they can take anywhere from 10 min to 45 min to feed every time. And every time, the infant will need to be burped, or maybe they will need to poop and the mom has to wait that process out, and then go back to feeding.

And to keep up this production while the infant is at daycare, the mom has to pump every 2 hours. Which means going to the pumping room, taking out the pump equipment, cleaning the pump equipment, storing (refrigerated or frozen) and transporting the breast milk, heating it up.
Developer chapter leads as managers. I believe this is a model from Netflix. It's absolute garbage at my company. I want to say it's because we have IT as a cost center, but it might run deeper than that. Who honesty thinks that making a senuor developer split their time between managing people who aren't on their team and coding for their own team is a good idea?
Your next car may refuse to start if it thinks you've had a drink
Algorithms as Employees: Holding Corporations Accountable
My recollection matches yours. Smalltalk was too expensive and hard to program user-facing apps as quickly as VB or C++ with MFC. So front-ends were either VB or C++/MFC if speed was needed on the front end, and C++/DCOM on the back end.
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Maybe fresh woolly mammoth tasted like ambrosia and unicorn spunk. There must have been some reason to hunt them beyond my ken; deer etc, smaller game seems much more viable otherwise.
According to Wikipedia a godwit weighs ~0.5kg and it flew 7000 miles. If my calculations are right we are looking at 1.5kwh of energy and 0.2 wh per mile?

Even if we assume that the bird is almost all fat and fat can store ~3500kcal per pound, the maximum stored energy is 4kwh. That gives us 0.8wh per mile. So we can safely say that the bird spent [1.5-4kwh] to do this trip.

Teslas that are very efficient are in the order of 200 wh per mile.

What the heck we have a lot of work to do.
Hehe, good point. But for me 'land' means soil, though I'll take landing on an ice floe or the North Pole as land for the purposes of this discussion. I'm not sure how far North/South the Albatros' habitat extends, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if they went there too.
I was on the free tier so I don't know for sure, but I believe the whole point of the dedicated IP offering is you are the only customer who can use it. So long as your SPF records reflect just that IP SPF will remain in force if someone tries sending through one of the shared IPs as you.

But if moving isn't a huge deal, there are plenty of recommendations in these comments of alternatives.
I am since reverse engineering their mobile app protocol and developing a Python library for it :)
I did try that, but the quality was dreadful and it's just something else needing recharging/eating batteries.

The decision to drop a universally supported headphone jack really doesn't make any sense unless you are trying to force people to buy your expensive wireless ear-buds, (which I can't wear because they are uncomfortable and fall out of my ears within seconds).
It would definitely great if the article is not locked on a pay wall.
Apple domains pointed to their engineering server
The point is that you don't need to host them in production. Being able to self-host is still very useful for testing and local development workflows
Seagate took over Samsungs HDD department in 2011:
https://www.seagate.com/news/news-archive/seagate-completes-...
You should not compare the numbers of deaths that may or may not be caused by covid, but the absolute number of deaths.
I found Sapolsky's lecture on the chemistry of depression to be highly illuminating of this effect.

https://www.robertsapolskyrocks.com/depression.html
The biggest impediment to modernising anything is that one of the US two parties is resolutely against anything government-related working better, and the other one is at best wishy-washy about it.

EBT doesn’t have to be a disaster, and programs don’t have to be means-tested, they’re designed that way on purpose.
I was depressed for years due to two things: a bad relationship and bad jobs.

Once I moved on from the hoarder ex with 3 un-treated mental health problems, whose clothes literally covered the entire bedroom, floor and bed and all surfaces, well damn: I was a lot less depressed! Imagine a 1500 sqft apartment where 90% of the possessions are not yours, where if you see a piece of her garbage and toss it out, she'll get mad at you, even if it's a rotting, blackened orange peel. This sort of toxic relationship has to end, do not cling, do not "care for them" if they refuse professional help. This will sap your energy, it will sap your life, and you'll become depressed, unable to muster the energy to "fix" them or to leave the relationship. It was only when she went away for 3 months one summer, and I was marvelously not depressed and I didn't miss her one jot, I knew it had to end when she returned.

On top of that, I was in high-stress teaching jobs, $11/hr with no benefits in inner-city schools: this was important and impactful work, but brutal on the self. We actually got called racists by a very rowdy student, who wasn't allowed to jump on the desk and scream "I LOVE TACOS!" I'm not kidding, he called us racist for not allowing that. Never-mind the constant fights, religious students telling me science is fake, or having 35 kids in a tiny classroom. Teaching is a very important and undervalued field.

Once I actually got a $30/hr job with benefits and gained my freedom from toxic relations, suddenly I was the happiest I'd ever been. Add onto that, being in a relationship with a good match, with someone who had no undiagnosed/untreated mental health problems.
Modern printers refuse to print/copy money anyway, right? At least ours did when we went to print some money for a themed Christmas party.
> Maybe you should not live somewhere so expensive and stop spending money on unnecessary things.

Because The Poors waste their money?

> You can switch to eating cheap food and minimize your expenses.

So, The Poors shouldn't care about nutrition?

> If you are just making ends meet you are not financially responsible.

This is so naive.
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Common Lisp: Roswell: Install libraries/applications
"Can you be ok with nothing ever bringing you happiness? I asked that question to myself, I finally said yes. It was a spiritual moment. Joy at last! No more happiness"

It seems like you tricked yourself, to put the pressure away of "must getting happy again" and felt the joy (which is happiness, no?) of being relieved of that stress.
I think this may be true. If you're good at pattern recognition, you may end up better at realist predicting - but also depressed in the process..
Several years ago, I had lunch with a former Smalltalk dev who gave me his perspective on what happened. He recounted it as IBM's entrance into the Smalltalk world, which wold be today's equivalent of a FAANG member deciding to compete in your niche. This caused several major Smalltalk providers to believe they had to unite in order to compete. Internal conflict within the Smalltalk providers eroded development and when IBM changed to push Java ("which falsely claimed to do what Smalltalk already did, like be able to run on a toaster" is the quote I roughly remember), this led to the collapse, when others followed IBM's lead.

Seeing how smaller companies like to follow FAANG's technology choices today, combined with the profession following free-as-in-beer options, this also seems like an alternative plausible explanation.

EDIT: I'm not blaming IBM or Java, I've just used this to inform my own technology choices for my knowledge portfolio.
Poor people have more children than rich both per capita and in aggregate

Also, I never said only rich people should be able to have children. However at the end of the day raising children requires money. Hence the newly introduced children tax credit.
Policy changes don't exist in a vacuum. I'm not interested in studies that show something. I'm interested in a mental model that results in employers being indifferent to hiring men or women when statistically women are much more likely to take a considerable amount of paid time off with restrictions set on replacing them.

The model could be that employers are altruistic. Or that employers are dumb and don't realize this. Or they're sufficiently compelled by the law and the penalties and enforcement are strict enough.

And your model also has to account for the system not being a closed system. For instance, its not enough that all employers are altruistic, but any prospective employers that could enter the market would similarly be altruistic.

Again, it could be worth it, but don't pretend that there's no disincentive by this policy.
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To spare people reading article:

"In short, AirPods have become too widespread to be cool"

This is the same phenomena like the return of vinyl records, there is exactly zero logical reason to use them over CDs or flac compressed files, yet they made a big come back because of being in fashion now.
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Thanks for sharing your use case :) We don't support Clickhouse yet, but this is exactly the kind of problem that we want to solve for data teams. You shouldn’t need to write and deploy code to monitor every metric or data that needs to be accurate and timely.

Looking forward to hearing what you think, and please reach out to team@metaplane.dev because we’d love to explore building this integration for you!
Great idea. Now US companies down the supply chain have a higher cost of goods sold too. US Steel is technically more competitive domestically, but is worse off internationally. You have successfully incentivized even more businesses to leave the United States and have lost millions of jobs. You have possibly violated several trade agreements too but let's ignore that.

So what now? We haven't accomplished much other than moving manufacturing to other countries. Are we just going to tax the finished goods coming into the country too because they were made with dirty fuels too? Because people are already pretty unhappy, including auto manufacturers, pretty much anyone who actually makes stuff, and also people who need to eat food. Especially people who just lost their jobs due to your earlier choices.
The pace of development is a lot faster. The pace of writing has not. Documentation is now much more costly as a percentage.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29212447 previously
This explains why the behavior is so inconsistently seen. I haven’t seen it on my three macs and others have had their systems crippled by it.
I once saw a person walk away from a mixing desk in a studio wearing headphones. He got janked back violently enough that he lost his balance and fell. Pretty good cable!
This was one thing I found difficult learning Gradle: its seeming complete lack of autodiscoverability.

I expected it to catch on, but I think a lot of people are sticking with Maven.
Is this Copy-on-Write? Is the copy a real file or is this a filesystem implementation detail?
It seems to me all it needs to assume is that genetic* ancestry/ethnicity matters - i.e. it has some effect beyond just appearance (if you think caring about appearance is illegitimate). Could you explain why all those other strict assumptions are necessary?

Edit: Actually, I've just noticed this question shifts us from "it's not happening" to "it's happening but it doesn't matter". Is that your claim now, and you're conceding that it is happening? Or would "it's not happening but if it did it wouldn't matter" be closer to your opinion?

*'Genetic' to separate it from the culture and customs that are also passed down through ancestry.
Tracy-Widom Distribution: At the Far Ends of a New Universal Law
> Even if the federal government picks up the bill, it's still a discontinuity in business, something an employer would want to avoid.

IMO this as well is something where the DevOps slogan "if it hurts, do it more often" should be applied.

The "discontinuity" of an employee leaving temporarily with months of warning in advance is the easy case. If that is a serious problem for your business, it's a failure of company culture and management. How would you deal with the "Hit by a bus" scenario?
I think there's too much ideology, politics and tribalism involved to simplify it like this.
They may be lousy coders, but they're quite good at carrying data as per RFC 1149.
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Major takeaway:

"evidence has accumulated that in many circumstances, cash improves the life of poor people more than equivalent spending on aid programs or goods."
Ideally yes. That's the basic problem with international trade. If you try to do something that's better for the world, someone will eat your lunch, your people will suffer, and little will change.
I think I agree. At least the way our company does microservices and staffing, this makes sense. We have a team if about 6 devs owning about 12 apps, many of them microservices. The overhead for technical upgrades and prod support is high. They always want us working on new stuff too. If a product owning team is around long enough, eventually you have to stop adding new apps to that team unless you retire some of the old ones.