skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is pretty simple; the stock of mountain resort towns has not kept up to satisfy demand.

Imagine 15 or 20 years ago, a trip to a somewhat remote mountain town had a lot of inconveniences like bad internet, unpredictable weather/travel conditions, etc. In the current year, it's very easy to book an entire trip to Vail/Tahoe in 30 minutes. The amenities and infrastructure are decent making it a viable place for remote work as well.

Building enough short term housing is difficult and many people can only afford it if they book as a very large group (15 to 20 people is not uncommon) which means that the local 'lodging' supply is insufficient which creates a market for vacation rentals.

The polices these places put in place to combat the housing crises aren't actually designed to provide affordable housing. The post common policy is limiting the occupancy of vacation rentals such that large >6 adult parties are no longer allowed.

IMO it's pretty obvious that the local lodging industry absolutely hated competition since those 15+ person family reunion style groups were paying half as much on a VRBO a few miles from town vs an in-town hotel/townhouse setup. The second big lobby/group is the wealthy people who want to own a vacation home/2nd home outright for there own personal use rather than personal+rent use. Does anyone really thing that these small mountain towns have the kind of jobs to support owning a 4000 sqft house as a primary residence without some supplemental income/wealth?

So what happens is the wealthy retires/2nd home buyers support and advocate for housing policies designed to make their homes cheaper while actually constricting the short-term lodging supply further which in turn means more affordable homes are converted to short-term rentals. It's very easy to assume that limiting the use of homes as vacation rentals would increase the housing supply but in reality it only increases the supply for the wealthy - not the workers in these towns.

IMO I think the only solution is to create more mountain towns and ski resorts. Otherwise the only solution is trying to limit* the number of tourists and visitors.
Moderna says an omicron variant vaccine could be ready in early 2022
What rates are typical for being on-call for a week? (my team has a rotating weekly roster, Australian team).
Yeah, read it! It'll take you less time than it took to write this comment ;)

Plus, the article's not just about the health benefits of coffee, it's about Arabica production potentially getting wiped out and some fun facts about famous philosophers and coffee.

Lovely little piece, if you ask me.
Viruses don't mutate to escape anything, evolution doesn't work that way. Viruses have short generation times and they replicate extraordinarily fast compared to what humans see in their lifetimes. Their fast replication allows the virus to experience mutations at a massive scale and mutations that increase its survival become dominent over time.

Those mutations absolutely require an unvaccinated population to thrive but more importantly, a population with a laissez fair attitude that allows the mutation to spread to other humans. If you do everything in your power to cut down the transmission and vaccinate yourself, we could have defeated this thing.

But nope.. and here we are.
Non related with Libgen and much better when searching IT related books.
The problem isn't where the eyes are looking though, it is where the brain is focusing. HUD still distracts the brains focus.

HUD is useful for essential information. I agree if it is only about turn left in X. However my radio (infotainment) has a lot of things a driver shouldn't have access to. Ever try to find the right genre of music for the trip?
Perhaps the most important contrast that can be made here is between the ideas about causality. When AIDS first hit hard it was gay men in coastal cities, so people quickly became comfortable with the idea that rampant decadent buttsex was the cause and the issue and that allowed them to frame the whole mess in a more comfortable way. Later it was found that the virus had been for some time percolating in the Caribbean. Many stayed stuck to the original narrative and others came up with a minor variation that decadent travelers were the cause and the spread and the only at risk. Only much later was it found that the virus started in the wilds of Africa, and by that point many had already locked in their own preferred framing and causality story.

When COVID-19 hit people saw Wuhan, the wet market there, and the virology institute as being obvious scapegoats. Seriously studying and pinpointing the origins of infectious agents often takes decades and much rigorous science, but once again a simple story was quickly set to assign blame and explain the tragedy in simple terms. Now it is common knowledge worldwide that the virus was created or accidentally caused in a lab in Wuhan even though the true inception story may be quite different and perhaps will remain unknown to us for decades. The desire for simple stories to direct blame ends up being even more powerful than the killing power of a pandemic virus. Such is the human condition.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
I found this link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/omicron-variant-canada-trav...
Honestly, this is the most important point. Rampant speculation, amount other things, is already destroying housing affordability ( Hi from Melbourne Australia, where I'll probably need $150k for a deposit on nothing special at all, in an inconvenient location ). It's massively increasing wealth inequality, at a rate that seems to be increasing.

If this kind of algorithmic speculation took off, not only are we likely to see the algorithms themselves form feedback loops to push prices up far higher than otherwise, even if they don't sell directly to each other, I believe it will drastically increase the size and rate of the boom bust cycle.. and we're doing that to _peoples homes_.

The scope of human suffering possible here is huge, the societal damage massive.

This needs to be so very very illegal.
"Pinhole latch" sounds about right, I'll see what I can do with that.
Believe it or not, sexually transmitted diseases were not much of a concern from the sexual revolution of the 1960s until the arrival of herpes, or at least the re-branding of herpes as a very bad thing. [1]

So everyone was afraid of the herps, an untreatable condition.

Then AIDS came along!

[1] https://slate.com/technology/2019/12/genital-herpes-stigma-h...
I use fzf as command autocomplete tool in my zsh. It is still not a command palette but gets pretty close.
I’m not questioning the reality of AIDS or its impact. I’m trying to understand the climate and people’s outlook of the time.

You’re right: I wasn’t around during that era. I was born in ‘86 in a faraway society that did not see these issues the same way. However, I was taught from a young age that sexual promiscuity lacking precautions was a sure pathway to disease and possibly early death.

Was this not common knowledge in the US? Were gay men fundamentally more reckless than a baseline American?
This post is a case-study in the self-awareness of conspiracy theorists.

Parent post posits a conspiracy theory, in the literal sense, without any evidence.

In fact, it's worse than that. The parent didn't even claim their theory is true! They just sort of throw it out there as a random-ass thought/hypothetical. They didn't say "X is happening and I have proof". Fuck, they didn't even say "X is happening"! They said "Consider the following conspiracy in which X is happening".

But, for some reason, you not only (a) latch onto this theory as if it were plausible without a shred of evidence, but then also (b) slander a large group of people on the basis of... what? One internet user's random-ass thought that sounds kinda-sorta right to you because it tickles the right neurons even though the original claimant not only doesn't provide evidence but doesn't even actually assert that their conspiracy theory is anything other than a random thought!

Your post is close to something like "People who believe in bat-shit-insane conspiracy theories without a shred of evidence tend to distrust the people who those conspiracy theories tell them not to trust".

Which... yeah, no shit. This is why people believe conspiracy theories. Because they are prone to believe bat-shit insane things about people they don't like, regardless of whether there's any rational or empirical justification for that belief. And, not only that, but they are prone to circular reasoning to justify these beliefs. You hit the nail on the head.
I wonder if those plants are just particularly good at leaching lead from soil.

Phytoremediation is an area of active study for cleaning toxic soils.
It seems that a lot of companies have delayed their 3G sunset replacement plans until the last minute and then supply chain shortages pushed them over the deadline.
We have choke cherries growing all over along the sides of roads, riparian, and buffer zones. As a kid we would eat these all the time since they were abundant during the peak summer months. As another commenter mentioned they make a uniquely flavored jam although I don't know what cooking does to their nutritional value. Come to New England if you want wild chokecherries for sure.
"buy local instead of imports. Know the land your food comes from and its history."

I am happy to study history of all 300,000 square kilometers of farmland, but are the producers of this toxic crap going to pay for my time or health damage they inflict?
> So Hep B, herpes, HPV and anything else that is viral and not readily cured by a course of antibiotics is simply not a concern?

For the most part, correct. Herpes and HPV hit basically everyone; chances are you've had one or both. Hep B is less prevalent, but still quite widespread (Wiki says 1/3 of people will get it eventually), and in most cases has minimal symptoms.

They're nothing like HIV.
The "applying pressure" part was going to war.

Not sure unioning up with slavers for ~a century, extending their influence, undermining the morality of your founding document, etc. can be judged to be worth it if you're just going to have to shoot them until they stop slaving anyway.
It has been my experience. My agent took a particular likening to me for whatever reason, probably because I'm a very low drama client, and took me around on the open houses that are mostly intended for agents to connect. In my town these happen on Wednesday morning. Selling agent usually has some basic amenities out like a coffee station, pastries, occasionally pizza. A large number of agents just cruise through continuously. It's something of a festive atmosphere. I was usually the only client vs agent in these situations, and while all agents have a degree of salesmanship to what they do, I saw first hand very frank discussions of potential problems that would cause a deal to feel sour after it was done.

As an agent you make your money on the overall volume, not squeezing the last bit out of any particular deal. Near as I can tell getting a reputation for deception is nearly career suicide unless you're at the very low end of the market. I think you're making a fundamental mistake in thinking about incentives in the context of a single sale vs having a career in a business that is very strongly driven by personal networking. This is a common fallacy in microeconomic thinking.
You do realize that that vaccines are what teaches your immune system to combat diseases, right?

Your only "sick" because you didn't pro-actively teach your immune system to handle that flu.
No, my Twitter handle is not available
Iirc the alphastar team released an API to programmatically interact with the game
Completely your choice to bypass it, I just don't agree it's ethical when there is a choice to pay a bit of money instead to not have the ads. I will agree that this does not stop them from gathering your data and that is fair. But just stripping the ads without paying when they give you that choice doesn't seem like an ethical choice.
You're being harsh but I do think it ignores many of the realities of most software positions where you are often pressured into deploying on Friday, without time to write many tests, etc.
As much as the flagged sibling comment looks like a flippant joke, it's true: a few weeks ago I saw a posted image of a new school textbook that, in the "recent history" section, altered the timeline to make it look like the Biden administration had a hand in creating the vaccines, rather than Trump's Operation Warp Speed.
The article is from October. Has anything changed recently?

https://archive.fo/ig59W

» The new CDMA shutdown date is scheduled to take place in March 31, 2022.
a hypothetical occurrence to which there are adjacent real-world occurences. gain-of-function research being perhaps the most damning. if i was doing gain of function experiments, i would at least consider engineering a variant that squeezes out the more deadly ones.

it's not really that dissimilar a line of thinking to the people who want to use CRISPR to release genetically modified mosquitos with dominant traits that lead to eradication of the species as their new genes take over.

> A hypothetical situation is why people don’t trust experts?

it's the real-world occurrences which lead a person's theory of mind to believe that similar experts might feasibly pursue certain hypothetical occurrences. without the hypotheticals, it's mostly individuals who lose their credibility after doing specific things in the real world. but the hypotheticals allow that loss of credibility to spread from individual bad actors to whole groups.
I really hate on-call, sadly in any serious distributed systems used by many customers/running large scale online services on-call is table stakes :|

It's not like SWEs are paid by hour. If you are on call for a week every 2-3 months (for example), you could just consider the extra 2 work weeks (assuming 8 hour days for a normal week) of part-time work to be part of your paycheck.

Staffing competent people 24x7 is completely impractical in a sufficiently complex system... what you can have, and I have experienced, is some clueless 24x7 first-tier support. These guys don't work on the product so they usually cannot solve any problem that is not completely basic. And if they can't solve a problem, they'd call a component owner (or a random person) at any time, which is worse than someone being on-call. If you have a rotation, you can safely disappear when you are not on, because there's someone competent responsible for dealing with live site.
The culture told gay men that they were impossible and sex was bad. Gay men discovered on their own that they actually were possible and did in fact exist and when they had sex it was good. So there was a cultural idea that sex being dangerous was created by the church and other large social structures in order to control people. If you were straight and wanted a family, as is the case with many, then this might not be such a big deal.

This is similar to modern conflicts such as the projection that drug users or gun owners are inherently malicious.
>Watching the people around me has stirred in me many new questions.

Have you ever considered they might have a point? More and more data is coming out, like https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/circ.144.suppl_1.107..., in the highest-impact cardiology journal, showing that the mRNA vaccines are not particularly "safe" by any reasonable interpretation of the word.
Well, I had assumed none had support since none of the OSes I use regularly had support. I stand corrected.

That said, I do still wonder why none of the OSes that I use (Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS, accounting for pretty much 100% of the OSes regular people use) have support for it.
Facebook Messenger – end-to-end encryption delayed to end of 2023
I seem to randomly get "playback failed" errors when using this. Most of the times it works fine though.

Also, not sure if related but my phone seems to heat up quite a lot when using this. I am on an old iPhone 6S.
I used to know an AutoCAD pro and watching him work was magic. He hardly ever touched the mouse and could type house plans about as fast as I could follow along. It seemed that a great knowledge of the commands combined with some mental math and an uncanny memory for multiples of 12 and 16 worked wonders.
Ongoing investment in expensive propaganda is proof that public opinion has economic value, otherwise why compete to influence it?
>IMO I think the only solution is to create more mountain towns and ski resorts.

Almost impossible given environmental constraints. (Whether one agrees or disagrees.) Even expanding existing resorts is tough. And it's not clear the economics are there given demographics even leaving aside any climate change factors.

ADDED: More rural towns with very limited facilities may be possible given Starlink, etc. But they're not going to be world-class ski resorts or what most people think of as the associated mountain towns.
It has increased hospitalizations in South Africa and it is more contagious and spreading rapidly. What do you think will happen?
I think GP meant "if you want to distribute a paid program, what's the alternative to DRM?", not "what's the alternative to Typora?".
Because the ability to scramble signals is only something white countries have?

Not to mention this country has the ability to destroy these satellites if it came to it.
The M1 Pro and Max just have more CPU and GPU cores and more RAM modules. The architecture and single-thread performance are the same. So, no, if you don’t need more cores or GPU performance, it’s just as good.
Will someone, please, think of pure defenseless multi-gazillion corporations?!
Yeah and I see how this is kind of a modern analog to that, but at least in that case the consumer of the media is making a tradeoff.

Perhaps a better analogy is DVRs and their fast forwarding (or completely automatic) removal of ads. This kind of tech will always be possible and I kind of doubt YouTube will make a loud fuss about it.
Does it require a subscription? If it does, this would be much bigger issue for me than DRM ebooks.
In a participatory democracy, information is necessary for informed consent to political and economic decisions that can echo broadly across time and space. As social animals, even the tiny minority of humans with power can be influenced by the (perceived or real) opinions of others.
If you're dead you can't continue to transmit the virus, so lethality absolutely does decrease transmissibility. The fact that some people can be asymptomatic and contagious doesn't change that.
Parents wake up for their own babies. Very few engineers have a meaningful stake in the business. And on call hours aren't proportional to equity generally. Imagine if someone said they expected someone else to wake up for their baby in exchange for lottery tickets.

They said on call is ethical if an employee is willing and compensated accordingly. Additional paid time off is compensation.
Nostalgia! This was my first (and only) technic set I got when I was a kid. The most impressive here is the actual functional mechanical systems, all wheel steering, all wheel drive, differentials, gearbox, suspension, etc.
> However, I was taught from a young age that sexual promiscuity lacking precautions was a sure pathway to disease and possibly early death.

Sex ed changed pretty significantly in the 80s/90s, yes.

> Were gay men fundamentally more reckless than a baseline American?

The attitude of "baseline Americans" was likely fairly similar - if you catch something, you can get a shot of penicillin. The US military in WWII got pretty comfortable treating "venereal disease" after shore leave.
This is how Lemonades/Orangeade were sold in Poland in 70-90ties

https://s-trojmiasto.pl/zdj/c/n/9/1614/599x0/1614827-Uwielbi...

We also had ice cream packaged between thin waffle slices and wrapped in paper

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AszFCL3-C1M/UcHSgmG94nI/AAAAAAAAAe...

still manufactured 60 years later (since 1959) https://biznes.trojmiasto.pl/Lody-Calypso-maja-juz-60-lat-n1...
I too welcome fascism via vaccines.
It will sound too silly but: find clients first.

First, you need to know what you are doing exactly. What is your service? What are you solving? If these questions' answers are vague, you are have to go back to your drawing board. Consulting cannot happen unless you are an expert or somewhat very good at something. Better than the client you are trying to consult and ask money for.

Once you are really good at what you are doing and have confidence as well as persuasion skills, you will need to identify your niche's client sources. This could be word of mouth, SEO, door-to-door, hiring a salesperson, or simply finding a way that other consultants couldn't figure out yet so you can get those clients they didn't.

There are so many things to cover. But firstly, you must have a valid product and solve a real problem others, including the clients, cannot solve themselves or they are willing to pay someone else to take care of it for them because it is time consuming or would cost too much to hire a full time employee due to insurance, HR stuff, and liabilities.

Companies are not hanging out in a single place. Most of the companies out there don't even look for a consultant until someone brings it up to them.
Are there stock shortages in the types of phones Boost would be offering as replacements for 3G phones? I wouldn't think so, but who knows.
> Picture in picture works just fine on Windows and Android without a YouTube Premium account. Is this something specific to iPhone?

Google decided that in YouTube for iOS the feature would be premium only, at least for now. Maybe they feel iOS users are more easily monetized. Who knows. It most certainly isn't a limitation of the platform.

> stripping out the ads is dangerously close to "I just want this for free, so I'll steal it"

I never use YouTube intentionally. The service is a bit of the perfect example of boiling a frog, with one short skippable ad becoming multiple skippable ads becoming multiple unskippable ads becoming multiple unskippable ads plus interstitial ads, on top of the content itself almost always having sleezy "sponsored by" advertising content. It's simply remarkable how what was supposedly the new world that would break us free from the classic television model has somehow gotten so much worse.

That doesn't really address your point, but it is kind of tough to feel too sympathetic. The morality becomes...clouded.

> On the other hand the fact that the entire thing seems to be Apple ecosystem

Google decided to be extra greedy towards iOS users, so users helped solve it. Sounds like you're giving it a thumbs up.
There is a bit of a contradiction in this posting: "Only applications of candidates who self-identify as Black (including Preta and Parda identifications) will be evaluated for this role."

Then Google has this:
"Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form."
It also doesn't help that there are entities out there will actively make it hard to do proper investigations.
Scroll down to get bullets of what to watch out for.