skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The four major black holes of modernity are not the result of incorrectly tuned policy levers but the result of fundamental cultural blindspots. These four areas: education, medicine, housing, and prison, all relate to one central problem. An incoherent philosophy when it comes to the concept of 'responsibility.' When I say black holes I mean that they are capable of sucking up arbitrary amounts of capital as we fight over them fruitlessly. And to be absolutely clear: the claim here is not that personal responsiibity should be 'higher' or 'lower' (whatever those mean) than they are now, that's what I mean by fighting over them. I genuinely mean that the incoherence of the concept itself is the problem.
Consider the following questions:
how responsible is a criminal for their actions?
how responsible are young people for making good decisions about their education?
to what degree are NIMBYs responsible for the housing crisis?
how can externalities of housing be assigned responsibility to various parties?
does the medicalization of problems, and thus the denial of agency lead to more problems than it solves?

You've seen debates about these and they never go anywhere because there aren't final answers. There is no algorithm for 'blame' that is perfectly equitable. Neither holding people to high standards nor relaxing those standards is stable or workable. Reality is always multicausal and situations are different. The traditional answer to this is the discretion of judges to adjust to what is happening. But law still has to deal with the fundamental incoherence and it has been deprived of one of the historical ways it has dealt with it. The idea that different people might have differing capabilities to take responsibility for things, whatever the reason, is in untenable tension with the notion that all men are created equal. We have a few categories that recognize that not everyone can hold the same privileges such as child, felon, or legally mentally unable to grant consent. There are also the only semi legible ways that money and access grant privileges while that very same hidden nature frees the beneficiaries of any responsibility for the poor exercise of said privilege.
Now we're seeing other countries find their own ways forward in creating a tiered society like China's social credit system or the soft classism of inscrutable and gameable admission to elite colleges (whereas before lower class people got in on merit). These are terrible solutions and we had better find better ones before the march of history declares a shitty winner for us. We can find a way to more tightly couple privileges and responsibilities or we can continue reaping the externalities of allowing incentives to drive a stronger wedge between them.
it was android studio stuff at the time. I just tapped out of using it jetbrains related tooling after that experience.

the point I was making is that it wasn't an under powered machine that causing issues as implied by the responder.

sadly the issues I was having at the time were not just me all of them were documented / reported in the github issue tracker for flutter/android studio.
What do you mean by auto imports? If you type a function, type, or other token in VS Code that is not part of the scope, but exists in the environment, it will suggest and complete an import for you. At least for Typescript.
I always thought GOG was funded by Witcher 3 money (and now Cyberpunk money). It pays by allowing CDPR to not have to pay the steam tax on a portion of their sales.
Startups are not the only entrepreneurial business.

Running a small business like a store, farm, etc without a spouse that carries the insurance is insane. Even businesses like bars and restaurants over time have tipped to larger or even public companies.

When I was a 1099 consultant, I had a heath issue that would have bankrupted us if my wife wasn’t working for a municipal government with good insurance.

You see more of these types of businesses in Europe.
Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata seems the best bet for non-lawyerly.
> “When I’m at a red light, I don’t feel like I’m rushed to get home anymore.”

This article and elsewhere I've observed that many employers are running antiquated or misled patterns that cause significant anxiety in their workers (examples are performance reviews[1], stacking unrealistic and unneccessary deadlines in attempt to push additional "performance", and excess hours for the appearances of productivity)

I wonder how many employees would be staying if their employers weren't doing dark patterns?

[1]: https://lattice.com/library/how-your-brain-responds-to-perfo...
Last 3 categories can afford it if they get a job. Single payer proponents claim on the order of 10x cost savings compared to the status quo. Presumably insurance costs wouldn't exceed $200/mo under single payer. Amazon pays $15/h minimum nationally. That's a day and a half of work for health insurance for the month.

The first 2 categories need better help than healthcare insurance. I think it's plainly obvious after SF spending $50k/homeless person that more money isn't going to help them.
If you want to criticize SV you should avoid complaining about "high taxes" since it reveals you don't actually know anything.

The people who live here and complain about that are talking their book, they universally pay like $3000/year property tax on $3 million mansions and don't want Prop13 repealed.
The literary world has changed enormously since 1989. I worry that many people simply don't read. Why write a book on Rust or Hadoop when the user-base is keyed into learning from the web or video education? Then, too, a story must be compelling to draw eyes away from video games and social media.

Having said the obvious, yes I would publish in print (hey - my feet are firmly in the 20th century). Moreover, I didn't write to make money, nor to make a name for myself, and certainly not to become well known. At first, I simply wanted to teach. Computer security. After talking with Guy, I realized that I had a story to tell.

Today, if I had the liberty to choose, I probably wouldn't self-publish. Partly because there's so very much to do: I don't want to become an expert in fonts, page-layout, paper, cover-art, distribution, promotion, and press-runs, etc. These are the important things that a publisher does. More important, I need the feedback that only an editor can give me.

I see my editor as the one person who represents my audience. An editor wears many hats - most important is a quality meter: I expect my editor to say, "This chapter isn't any good. Rewrite it." or "These paragraphs confuse me" or "You've said this twice!" In short, I expect red ink all over my manuscript, just like in high school and college English classes. Yep, I may scribble STET in the margin, but I take every red mark seriously -- it's my editor speaking on behalf of my readers.

Of course, for someone writing to make money, my comments probably are of little or no use.

Warm wishes to all! -Cliff (under a starry sky in Oakland, California)
40 people web startup. Currently Metabase as main BI tool, but I'm thinking about introducing a tool like hex.tech. IMO classic BI and dashboarding is inflexible and future lies somewhere else.

Backend is Bigquery + dbt. I highly recommend Bigquery if you are on GSuite and use Sheets. You can create views or tables in bq and have them included in sheets, always up to date. With dbt you can have them tested and be sure data is always correct.

True single source of truth, even for coworkers who work with excel only
> 10) I call up a senior leader in the office I applied to, an acquaintance of mine. His answer: "don't come. It's a mess and a revolving door of people". I was shocked with the response.

Stripe is preparing for an IPO, so naturally they will have some chaos in an effort to balloon it as much as possible.
It is just one example. There are numerous.

Canadians have a pastime of whining about our Big 5 banks. Nobody ever switches to another bank.

Same with telecom. We complain about the prices. Nobody tries their competitors like Freedom.

I hear stories of students joining startups in the USA over FAANG. Here many people do startups to boost their resumes for big company jobs (I was part of a startup accelerator where a lot of people were resume building). I know people doing this now. Building startups to be more employable by Amazon.
I don't think that Microsoft ever ran at 12 full-time given my experience with windows 9x... But then Joel is biased when it comes to Microsoft.
“A shake for the ass viscosity, improves the mass velocity.”

— Einstein, probably
Right, but this correlation with "blueness" is, I think, accidental and doesn't account for small businesses.

For example, I would expect more small local businesses in red states than blue states. The tech sector will favor large corporations because of the magnitude of investment involved, at least traditionally (if we are to believe the "economies of scale" explanation; some challenge it, but at the very least, it is causally relevant). So you might see more startup entrepreneurship in blue states because that's where the tech expertise is already concentrated. And because those in tech tend to have college degrees at higher rates, and colleges tend to encourage neoliberal and left-leaning views, you should expect to see more tech in blue states because of that, so you have a self-reinforcing process (there are of course other considerations).

But I wouldn't attribute entrepreneurship to the presence of social programs. On the one hand, those who need social programs are not going to be very educated and are most likely going to be much more interested in making basic ends meet over some business venture. On the other hand, once they receive social benefits, they are often not very motivated to try to start a small local business like a food cart either since they have food on the table. So you need to appeal to cultural factors to account for motivation as well.
By conservative he meant (edit: I thought he meant...) maintains-the-status-quo, which in modern politics is neither a Liberal/Conservative nor Democrat/Republic issue. Elites and bought-and-paid-for political hacks on both sides are "conservative" in that sense.

I prefer to use a different term, since that only invites confusion.
Most small and mid-sized cities? I lived in Mobile, Alabama for a couple years. I rented an awesome 1,400 sq ft place with power, gas and water included for about $600/mo.

Looking at that same street on Zillow it looks like there are a few 3br 2ba homes for around $200,000.
From the other reply's (very green optimistic) source [0]:

> While less than 0.1% of global dedicated hydrogen production today comes from water electrolysis, with declining costs for renewable electricity, in particular from solar PV and wind, there is growing interest in electrolytic hydrogen.

When do you think we'll see >50% of hydrogen produced with green energy via electrolysis?

I'm betting: "not within our lifetime", but enjoy taking long views on these things and being wrong. Just curious when you think that's realistically feasible, and when we'll reach 10% (again, I'll still vote "not within our lifetime")?

I'd be delighted to be wrong on this, but still haven't convinced myself. I would be genuinely interested to see your targets on this and then we can interpolate and come up with some milestone we can agree will be seen in our lifetime if you're correct.

0. https://www.iea.org/reports/the-future-of-hydrogen
I found the article linked at the end to be quite informative.

https://www.soundguys.com/what-is-dither-23700/

Basically you add noise to reduce noise. Fascinating...
Each of the terms are single digit percentages if you were completely replacing cool, implausibly bone-dry air with implausibly hot and saturated air. With more realistic ambient and goal saturation, temperature and leakage figures, I think you’re looking at more like single digit hundred thousandths or millionths for most of the terms.
Oh, and we haven't managed to confirm the transaction yet because I sent slightly too much and Coinbase's UI won't show me the transaction ID, or even the amount sent after fees.
Another axis to look at is the US over time (which also has less confounding with other differences across cultures). Looking at the graphs in the article, it appears Obamacare may have stopped the decline in self-employed workers. And since Obamacare started, the number of (likely) business applications increased steadily, doubling over 10 years. Unfortunately that graph doesn't go back in time far enough to determine if that's a deviation from a previous trend or not (it looks like it was increasing at a similar rate just before), but it's at least consistent with Obamacare helping slightly.

What's more striking is the 50% jump in business applications around the time of covid. Maybe that's in part due to stimulus?
And thank you very much, ElWell!

Perhaps the highest compliment that you say to an author is, "Tell me more!"
It really doesn't matter the system - people are already upset that people they don't like are doing things like selling NFTs (please don't buy NFTs, they're cringe)
48.5 lbs is not “right at the brink of human strength”.
Find a mentor who is doing what you want to do.

This will save you time, money and failure.
That remains to be seen. It isn't remotely feasible as written, so it should be very interesting to see how it plays out.
Artwork by Anatoly Fomenko, Professor of Math at Moscow University
Super excited for this!
I think that's often the reasoning behind this but I think the oversimplification doesn't help. It's usually harder to attract new customers than to retain them so retention is important and regression bugs affect that. They slowly erode the confidence until the customers who were your major advocates now become strong critics wherever they go.
It's not about the validity of the content, but whether the writer believes in what he stated.
Add noise in non-audible frequencies to reduce noise in audible frequencies.
I'm looking forward to seeing your full setup!
> those are not something the x86 code knows about

The implementation of AMD64 is in software. It knows about page executable bits. The 'x86' code knows about them.

Again, how do you think things like V8 and the JVM work on Rosetta otherwise?
Is there a law against teaching someone how to make nuclear weapons? There are certainly export controls, and almost anyone with the knowledge is subject to NDAs with the government, but are there any actual laws criminalising telling people how to make nuclear weapons?
> FIRE movement is largely a result of crazy high salaries and a booming stock market, it wont last forever.

Productivity per employer has gone up a lot, ideally everyone would be earning more, but at least some are. FIRE doesn't require a booming stock market to work... It simply requires places to put capital that return annually (ideally perpetually). For example buying solar panels is a form of capital sink that has a practical return annually, or sinking money into a home or insulation. At some point someone's savings + annual "income" will be enough to survive on.
Then spend all their retirement on medical care for their broken body.

We treat each other like animals no matter the job.

Moral relativism has never gone anywhere. It was black people, and women, now it’s just poor people.

Still flogging Anglo gibberish law when it’s clear it’s all just biological need being held hostage by political corruption empowering cliques like a fucking high school
I've tried it and half the time it's like "god damn this is the future" and the other half it's just repeating garbage in a syntactically correct way. It does particularly poorly for unstructured tasks like writing new functionality or classes.
I am not buying this - you can get very good insurance from the marketplace for $400-$500/month (I pay $445/month)
Zeihan made a particularly interesting point about 3D printing in one of his talks: Manufacturing is increasingly being moved closer to the consumer. Toyota pioneered a lot of this with their JIT system, moving the factories to the region the vehicles are being sold in, and retooling as needed based on what was selling. While we've seen a lot of failures of JIT in the past two years, we've also seen a lot of failures due to centralization and long supply chains, so the idea of deglobalization is probably making a lot of sense to a lot of people right now.
Hi,

So to avoid confusion here, my surgery wasn't some alternative to CPAP per se, but fixed my breathing issue. In short, my nose got so restricted I could barely breathe from it at all.

My journey began by seeing a doctor for it, who tapped on my forehead and said I don't have a sinus infection, take an allergy pill and go away. Nothing but pseudofed ever helped at all, and that got expensive and restricted.

Then I saw an allergy doctor, who said that's a stupid test and did an MRI and found that I have something like a constant sinus infection, and inflammation everywhere. He sent me to an ENT, which honestly is probably where I should have started. As a side note, I did try allergy shots for about a year with no luck.

The ENT has these cool but odd feeling cameras they shove deep into your nose to see around. It's a horrible feeling tbh, sometimes you feel it in your eye or even tooth(nerves, I guess). He determined I had polyps really bad and a deviated septum, so in one marathon surgery did both.

Afterwards, it was great, and slowly got worse. ENT said polyps were coming back, so put me on a daily sinus rinse with budesonide(sp?). So each night I rinse my nose with that, and have for going on 8 years now I guess. It's kinda gross, you wouldn't believe all the snot that comes out after the steroids open everything up, which usually takes about 20 mins.

Feel free to ask any questions.
You should have no obligation to reply to a cold email. Those go straight into the trash for me (or more often, to the spam filter for a permanent block). It's MY time that is being wasted.
Yeah that's one of the views I think helps drive this 'dejectedness' and 'complacency'!

That's for sure a valid opinion, I personally think most elected Dems are too conservative - the problem is lots of them are elected in relatively conservative states. Not all. Erm erm Diane Feinstein. But many. Manchin for instance would never get elected if they held even 10% of AOC's viewpoints.

But to not vote or to not work for the election of Dems because they don't line up with your views completely ignores that if those not as liberal as you want Dems don't get elected even more polar opposite to your viewpoint Republicans will fill their place.

I'm not sure I'm making describing my thoughts well.

but do you really think a Ted Cruz type Republican's views are not less aligned with your views than say a moderate Dem?

If you believe in a more balanced majoritarian senate (reasonable arguments for it not being one) we need DC as a state to help even out the Senate. maybe if liberals keep decamping from large coastal cities it might make lower population R states more competitive.
> some of the most 'entrepreneurial' places in the US are some of the 'bluest' areas

I'm not sure how you reach this conclusion.

"Screw this I'm starting my own business" is far, far more common in the blue collar world than the white collar world and they tend to vote way redder.
Energy Doesn’t Flow in Wires
Not replying to unsolicited recruitment isn't really ghosting IMO
I use Jellyfin. It's great FOSS!
I had no idea either! That's pretty interesting. Though I got huge downvotes for my question -- thanks everyone. We don't all know English is so wide spread in India.
I read the scifi book Dancing With Eternity years ago, and while it wasn't terribly good there was one element of the story that really stuck with me.

The premise is a future where humanity has solved death via transferring consciousness between bodies. As you approach old age, you'd have a new body grown for you, but the process is quite expensive.

The relevant bit is this society has organized itself by having people alternate between a life of corporate drudgery, as a cog in the soulless machine, and a life of being a real human. You'd sell your soul for a lifetime of corporate bureaucracy until your body expires in exchange for joy filled freedom in the next lifetime. This is the deal you make to earn your keep and pay for the rebirth process.
> hint "just stop" is not a winning position

It is the ONLY winning position. (almost) Every part of the world talks incessantly about it or around it rather than actually taking the position. Saying "just stop" is only the first step and if you can't take that, you haven't realized that every other position is a losing position. The trick is that it's a worse and worse position each day.

Saying "just stop" isn't supposed to win immediately against those who will fight you regardless of what you say. It's to show you're willing to take off the steering wheel in a head to head. Ofc, you don't want to say it when you don't mean it.

I'm convinced that parts of the world, thirsty for water (and other resources) will go to war and it still will not stop. The hand wringing and peace making is unsurprising business as usual.
My brother in mind. At least you did some money with it
all VDF does is solves the problem of pseudorandomness being manipulated.

Said randomness is needed to elect the new quorum who will build the new block.

This does absolutely nothing with the fact that you need 66% honest stakers in the system for it to remain secure.
That question really makes it sound like you have an agenda.
Firmware “Best Known Configuration” in Fwupd
It's so disgusting how conservatives downplay the lethality of this disease, and get all hysterical about the inconvenience of the measures taken to stop it. Quit whining and supporting the fasists tring to prolong the pandemic for political gain, and maybe we can emerge from the crisis sooner.
No offense, but Stallman has a very black and white view of the world.

I saw him give a talk once, and it was peppered with childish insults and calling companies and products he didn't like by "funny" alternative names.

It was impossible to take him seriously.
Agreed. For who dislike telemetry, it's your choice to disable it. But you shouldn't blame developers to have optional telemetry, like Audacity case.
Sorry Dude, this was a Trump thing, and you are probably getting a lot of down votes for it. But I agree we do need to treat early, acquire natural immunity, and not worry so much about continual vaccines and boosters.
The feedback is you win or you loose. If you don't like someone vote for their opponent. Or a 3rd party if you really want.

most of the politicians I work with will gladly change their positions on issues based on election results and polling. Gay marriage is a great and extreme recent example.
I feel bad sometimes about ignoring cold emails, but even taking the time to read all of them I get would require several hours a week. I am more inclined to reply if I can catch a hint of authenticity. It is usually pretty easy to tell when you're getting an automated email from a sales funnel.
It’s sadly fallen victim to the “if you’re not using a debugger you’re not a real programmer” reversal.
VDFs help with this and are being used by some newer PoS systems.
This was fuckedcompany.com back in the 90's, though companies and their lawyers didn't appreciate the satire.