skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That is incredibly stupid. Someone (single) in Alabama making $40k/year is paying 4.07% effective state income tax rate, in California they are just paying 2.37%.

This actually validates my point. 40K in Alabama goes a lot farther than 40K in California, based on differences in average cost of living. Just look at relative gas prices. Why are you so hostile? You shouldn’t bully fellow commenters on HN.
I wonder if people are after a "hybrid hedge" -- not just asset preservation, but appreciation.

Precious metals are sort of understood from a technical standpoint. We're unlikely to discover a 600-metre-diameter orb of pure gold in the middle of Nebraska, and, conversely, we're not going to suddenly double our industrial demand for it.

Once you strip out the "civilization will crumble and you'll have to use Krugerrands to buy ammo for your Mad Max-converted Prius" crowd, the hedge case for gold is more or less "Gold has a practical ceiling somewhere around 2000-inflation adjusted USD per ounce, and will stay near there indefinitely. Buy at 1800 today and hold it to avoid exposing yourself to dollar-denominated assets." Boring.

In contrast, crypto offers the appeal of avoiding direct dollar exposure, with the excitement of speculation. If it turns out we build the next financial ecosystem on the random token you've chosen to back, there's way more upside than just "avoiding dollar risk."

TBH, a lot of it is very stupid money chasing the moon though. A lot of people have had their risk tolerances out of whack for a long time. I suspect too-big-to-fail and the political mentality that if the S&P 500 goes down, the world ends may have reinforced this attitude, so we see people being more speculative than would be prudent.
An interactive reference to major and minor scales
Oh no we have more cases, but not enough deaths..quick, more jabs..even some of the sheep are tired of the nonsense...

Openvaers.com
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/medical-misin...

"False or misleading claims that people who have received the vaccine can spread or shed the virus (or symptoms, or immunity) to unvaccinated people."
The flip side is you can choose to extend your rental without giving them any advance notice. And you can cancel your reservation without penalty (at least before these new pay-in-advance deals). Hence they are never quite certiain they will have cars. I have had to wait around for someone to return a car before I could get my rental a few times before.

Also I believe one of them (Hertz or maybe Enterprise) told me if I did the pay-in-advance deal they would guarantee a car was there because they'd bring one in from the airport if needed. Some locations have very few cars and can be hit-or-miss.
When I quit my job to go back to college full time, I qualified for our state healthcare which was basically socialized healthcare, although kinda shitty in terms of how often you can do stuff or how little you ever have to pay.

It was incredibly simple actually. The only reason I didn't lose it when I got my internship was cause of COVID. Had it not been for that, even with a full-time in summer, part time year round, I still made more than allotted to qualify...which was frankly a joke.
I brought Grandma along, she wanted to watch. Yes, she's fine, she's just sleeping. Please don't mention the scent, she's sensitive about it.
I don't think any research that shows men having it worse than women will be taken seriously in 2021.
> This is clearly not true, which disproves the "fixed number of jobs" theory.

Not sure why you are disproving your own theory.

Perhaps you just missed the point I am trying to make.
>Redis is also a very convenient way to share a state between multiple instances of our software that need to have access to the same data.

Aren't there better tools for this? etcd, consul, zookeeper etc.
Your question re-framed as "why is any famous person's opinion on a topic outside of their expertise worth anything more than some person in a bar?" Is an entirely fair question with the answer "It isn't!"

Sadly we seem to a very, very long way from that obvious truth. Being famous is vastly more important than knowing something through hard work when it comes to your thoughts being heard. Especially given most famous hollywood people are famous for being attractive to look at and if they have any skill at all other than having luckily failed upwards that skill is to lie, convincingly enough so you believe it even when you know it is pure fantasy, the thing becomes clear. There has been many such people opining on NFTs.

From TFA: Hence, it’s incredibly refreshing to see Reeves react so honestly - most celebrities have embraced the technology with alarming enthusiasm; beloved figures such as Snoop Dogg, William Shatner, Doja Cat, Tony Hawk, Eminem, and Grimes have all endorsed NFTs. Reese Witherspoon even tried putting a pseudo-feminist spin on the fad (because equality means women should be participating in pyramid schemes too!).

I don't know how to counter it. I strongly think that any agreement concerning the content of an interview (no questions about X, if my PR client movie star looks bad you never get another interview from anyone I represent etc.) in the media should be the opening paragraph but there are so many ways around it. Maybe if a few reputable news organisations had a charter they followed saying they will never agree to a no-go area to secure an interview and were willing to fire any employee who does it in disgrace, celebrities might have their luster reduced compared with people who should be interviewed. Also the transcript of any interview should be published in full as there has been a lot of BS from the media where the pretend to do an interview then report "impressions" from it rather than its content which have clearly been very misleading at times.
They're being replaced by people taking fewer trips, and fewer people taking trips at all. By people taking road trips instead of plane/etc trips and having their own car at their destination, or by choosing to visit friends/family and being able to use that person's car. And then of course there is uber, to mop up the remainder.
The car chase sequence, lighting, textures, level of detail, world building are simply amazing (as played on PS5)
I’m putting this quote on Twitter. :). What handle should I use to credit you?
Was the water cold? Filtered well?

Yes, food and drink was probably better for them, because technology related to those can be replaced by manpower. For air conditioning, healthcare, lighting, or travel they had problems.

> How do you get your water?

I takes me a few seconds to get cold, pure water from my fridge.

The bigger benefit of running water I think is hygiene. I doubt they would have a hot shower. A hot bath would be possible for the king, but not other people. A lot of the servants would probably stink, and the toilets were holes in the side of the castle that went into the street. I think it smelled quite bad.
> Plus, I'd guess that AWS is probably making sweet margins off those Graviton instances. Let's say that their margin on Intel instances is X and that margin on Graviton is 2X.

I’d guess like everything they do, they’re taking a bath on margin in the short term to solidify a monopoly in the long term. Amazon made basically $0 for over a decade. Investors were fine with that because everyone knew they were building a monopoly to later be exploited.
On Generative Algorithms (2016)
"OS-native" implies not cross-platform.

??
Hertz screwed up applying my earned rewards points on a rental and charged me $400.

I was on chat with their customer support while booking the rental and specifically mentioned that I wanted to use my rewards points for the rental and followed their guidance. Their booking system was crap and would not show rewards being applied half the time. I took screenshots and saved all chat transcripts.

When I saw that they finally charged me full amount upon returning the car, I sent them all the proofs I had that this rental was supposed to come out of my rewards points. Upon my escalation they reviewed it twice and they refused to reverse the charge and said I should consider their response "final".

I gave up and ate the $400 charge. Wish I had more patience and time to fight it.
> The biggest transfer is cash through the EITC.

Per Wikipedia, "At a cost of $56 billion in 2013, the EITC is the third-largest social welfare program in the United States after Medicaid ($275 billion federal and $127 billion state expenditures) and food stamps ($78 billion)".[1] That looks to me like Medicaid spending is nearly 8x that of EITC.

And that's just Medicaid. Medicare spending is greater still, though I don't know the breakdown of Medicare spending by revenue source--FICA vs straight government subsidy. The subsidized component may be less than Medicaid, or may already be accounted for by Medicaid.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned_income_tax_credit Wikipedia's source is http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/08/federal-spe...
Text-only NPR: https://text.npr.org/
> you can say "well why not just make git better then it will handle any operation in any size repo imperceptibly quickly", but I think you and I both know that isn't anywhere near as easy to implement as it is to type

Good thing I didn't type that, then. That's not what the shape of my argument looks like at all.

There's a massive leap between, "we don't want every clone of our repo per se to carry all the baggage of our dependencies' histories, so it would by nice to have some scheme for handling lightweight, shallow copies" and "... so we decided the right way to do that, rather than making that a first class feature of the version control system we're using, is to create a hack in the form of a new set of unrelated tools meant to circumvent our VCS's fundamentals completely—so from our its point of view, these controlled objects and the scheme we use for managing them are invisible and might as well not even exist."
Exactly. The post doesn't make sense at all. Learning is a cycle b/w "tacit knowledge" and "deliberate practice".

There's also this chicken-and-egg problem:
(1) you can't absorb the knowledge well because you haven't practiced
(2) you can't practice well because you don't know a shit.

This early stage is really really painful.
How can you guarantee that?
I don't think it's the smell. My puppy works for this too.
> the "vast majority" of cases "involve renters who were many weeks or even months overdue returning vehicles and who stopped communicating with (Hertz) well beyond the scheduled due date

Even if true, that does not address those not in that "vast majority". Truly effective corporate speak for "whatever".
They are, it takes years to make meaningful changes meanwhile a marketing campaign can be done in months.
I think the distinction is - is enough of it excreted that it can be transfered between people (or babies and people) or it just something that is made internally and just affects yourself,in which case it wouldn't be a pheromone.
Funny timing: I just upgraded a 2011 Mac Mini from 4GB to 16GB yesterday, and it works just fine. After searching around, I found a site (can't remember the name) where they specifically call out that the actual amount of RAM that various Macs support, regardless of what Apple's official specs say.

(Had to crack it open because the old spinning-rust hard drive was starting to go bad, so I replaced it with an SSD, and figured I should upgrade the RAM while I had it open. I have Linux installed on it, and it's a nice media server box, running Jellyfin and a few other things. Only downside is that its support for HW video decode/encode is kinda limited -- no h265 -- due to its age.)
Why isn't not returning the rental car also a civil wrongdoing? You violated the rental contract, let Hertz process that as a civil case?
I am currently using QTtabar because it does not interfere with explorer context menu.

does Directory Opus support it? or has an acceptable workaround for it?
I'd have liked to see an implementation of `compress` in the DSL. As the author mentions, n-fold is pretty easily implemented in pure lisp by reading a "static" identity property of the transformation's prototype. In compress there may be no such prototype available.
Notice Coal is dropping, Oil is flat, and while Natural Gas is growing, it has stunted substantially?

It's only in the last couple years, and what else is happening? EXPLOSIVE growth in solar/wind/storage (well, and COVID).

IIRC, adoption rates of solar/wind are running FAR ahead of prognostications by the Energy Department and UN projections.

Fundamentally, almost every major application of fossil fuels in the economy is at an engineering disadvantage economically. I'm not talking about "what will we decide to put in for the next powerplant". I mean: coal and oil existing plants are cheaper to decommission and replace with solar/wind, and natural gas is very very soon going to be in this situation as well.

For transportation applications that EVs can replace, BEV drivetrains will very soon drop under ICEs in cost. Tesla probably has the price advantage but is taking profits with their cost/technology advancement. But 200 wh/kg LFP will make virtually all consumer cars cheaper than oil. This won't happen for a year or two because of supplier inertia and designer inertia/executive ignorance at major car companies.

So saying the entire decade is a good one for oil/gas? That seems very foolish. It's an industry where the floor will drop out rapidly. IMO it will happen when finance realizes it is pointless to invest in new oil/gas projects. They won't pay out.
I like https://readow.ai/

It’s not perfect but it gives me a decent idea of what I might like to read next.
> There’s one story that’s neat and clean and politically convenient to tell about my life. It goes like this: Poverty is the root cause of my problems (and those of my friends). With enough financial aid, and a good test score, anything is possible.

> But the data tells quite a different story. Poverty, even extreme poverty, is surmountable. What is nearly impossible to overcome is the instability—the psychological havoc—created by broken homes. Especially for boys.

> Research in psychology and economics shows that childhood instability has much a stronger effect than parental socioeconomic status for a variety of important outcomes, including education. This is clear when we compare children living in poverty with children living in foster care. In the Los Angeles County foster care system (where I grew up), for example, only 64.5% of foster kids graduate from high school. But the graduation rate for students categorized as “socioeconomically disadvantaged” is 86.6%, the same as the overall average in L.A.

Turning those numbers around better shows how stark the difference is: 35.5% of foster kids fail to graduate, compared to 13.4% of the socioeconomically disadvantaged. I.e. foster kids are 2.65x more likely to fail high school than poor kids.
I guess this is because we do not have blue blood:(
FreeBSD 13: License to Thrill
yeah this, Plus that LinkLonk.com that was presented recently. I check the newsletter daily and add sources as I see I need them.

Its growing faster than my RSS feed atm and that has over 1k feeds in it.
I have been watching Volta. It looks pretty great.
And not just non-threatening, you've also acquired a type of social proof, in that you were attractive enough that another woman allowed you to breed with her.

A wedding ring can provide the same signal ;)
For me Economist is great for a weekly review of world politics and general economy and New York Times has good perspective for daily news (I'm not from US so for me it's the 'international view on news').

Lots of 'casual' content there but I'm not sure if this was what you meant precisely.

Economist is a rare source in that each time they have an article about a topic I know I have fairly good grap of, they generally offer a fairly _correct_(!) popular summary of the issues. This is why I have a fairly high trust of those articles where the subject matter is less familiar.
Go to https://www.taxfairnessproject.org/ to see how much subsidies your neighbors are getting.
> This is a triumph of software, not hardware

Purpose built gaming hardware has significant advantages over a typical PC. Modern consoles have SoC designs with incredible bandwidth between CPU/GPU/RAM that you simply can't have on upgradable form factors.

The closest thing in the general purpose computing world are the M1 family of SoC MacBooks. UMA on the M1 in particular could be harnessed to have physics and graphics geometry in sync with each other without the penalty of bus transport - so things like high-detail deformable environments become much more feasible. But again, even these machines are geared towards general purpose computing, not graphics.
What does California have to do with it?
Years ago a employer asked I install some monitoring software that also allowed access to work resources on my personal phone.

I politely, and clearly declined. I told them I’d be happy to use a device they provided for work but beyond that it was my personal phone and I wasn’t going to blur the boundaries of personal property / information and work resources, or risk muddying the legal waters if for reason a legal issue came up.

They politely informed me they wouldn’t provide a device, but also understood my reasons and I wasn’t required to install the software.

Good outcome IMO.
> If it's not Amazon it will be something else.

Companies do vary in how they treat their workers. Some are unionized.
Why do you find profits unethical as an anarchist? Capitalism is not a form of government.
Sure, but that situation is not unique to America. Go to any country in the world and if you have a bad upbringing, how far you go is likely stunted.
Requests generally provides a simpler interface and absorbs some of the complexities if you were trying to use the stdlib directly e.g. pooling, redirects, retries, proxies, etc. It also smooths over some of the differences in the stdlib across Python versions, though that's less of an issue as of late as older versions are being deprecated.
I didn’t realize Intel has such a diverse workforce.
Isn't that the opposite of what this article is saying (unless the woman were really aggressive in their cooing)
It does actually work flawlessly. Turns out I didn’t understand the rules.
I'm not 100% sure, but believe this is the case in many states.

As to why some states criminalize it... I don't know, too many years of voting for tough-on-crime politicians?
What's wrong with newtypes? Even Rust is using them, see for example Wrapping: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/num/struct.Wrapping.html

> I hadn't seen a great type-safe way to support ad hoc polymorphism

This is an oxymoron. Type classes were invented to create type-safe ad hoc polymorphism (as opposed to parametric polymorphism). You should check out the original paper that introduces type classes back in 1989—it literally had a title of "How to make ad-hoc polymorphism less ad hoc" by Wadler (who else?)

I only skimmed that paper about modular implicits, but it does seem inspired by Scala implicits, yet another earlier work to make ad hoc polymorphism useful.
Glad to see this. Ends up I was waaay out of spec with my EdgeRouter X and didn't realizes it.
> Our tech and business communities believe regulations are harmful, and American politicians are inept.

Perhaps the latter is a convenient way to take action on the former?
So these days there are 3 layout choices. Table, Flexbox and Grid. The one you pick is ultimately determined by how you want it to work relative to screen size.

Table is still good for making tables, that won't change layout based on screen or printer size. Very useful. For a spreadsheet type view, with strict columns and rows, regardless of screen, this might be a good option.

Grid is the best alternative where the grid must adapt to screen size, but there are still clear rows and columns in the layout.

Flex is more 1D than 2D, but can (easily) be coerced into 2D. It's great for things that should "flow" to fill the page.

So now instead of 1 (almost always bad) option, we have 3 distinct options, but it does take some experience to figure out when to use one, and when the other.

I recommend the guides at css-tricks for quick reference - I have them on speed dial.
Maybe I'm stupid but I'm not sure I understand the difference between most recent common ancestor and the identical ancestors point. Can someone explain differently?
Wow the Alphabet works fast.
Zero Trust approach to ensure security of application environments
But between you and the previous renter it may have been driven by an employee or transported across the country by truck, or just damaged in the lot by the person renting the car next to it five minutes earlier.

I found the walkaround off-putting initially (years ago). Especially when you get it wet from washing and this it hides all the minor damage. But they have pretty lax rules about what counts as damage.

The best though, is those airport lots with cameras that record the condition of the car as you drive out.
Maybe they just wanted to know where they could reach you if you’re phone wasn’t working?
Think of telomeres like a counter at the DNA level. Each time the cell reproduces, it loses a counter. Eventually it runs out of counters and dies. To extend life you have to add telomeres. And you have to do it in an extremely careful way that still manages to control cancer.

In a sci-fi hypothetical where nanobytes can do arbitrary behaviors, sure, maybe they could intelligently do that. But that's an extremely complex thing.

My point to my original post is really that if anyone hears a "longer life" breakthru that doesn't even mention telomeres, I immediately move on. If they moved the needle on well-being of the elderly a bit, that's great. But nobody's "solving aging" without telomeres.
Size Comparison of Fictional Starships [video]
Agree 100%. I knew a couple people that did that. One started a business that manages washing machine rentals for apartment buildings. The other did a plumbing supply business. Both walked away with enough to retire after 10 years of working on the business.
I don’t know I’m just keeping an open mind. I imagine that Amazon or Google or one of those probably has something with an RDMA interface that smokes memcached.
It’s usually not images but rather the CMS making 100 read queries and 20 write queries per page load without any object caching that brings sites down. Even a slow uplink serving big image won’t bring an nginx server down, it’s all async.
> Why can’t there be a balance where users can post what they want as long as it isn’t bigoted?

Good luck defining “bigoted” and enforcing that objectively. Almost anything interesting will offend someone.
From Wikipedia:

> A more recent study on NGC 1052-DF2 suggests the previously reported distance of the galaxy was greatly exaggerated. Consequently, the galaxy now looks "normal" in every way. Using five independent methods to estimate distances of heavenly bodies, a team of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) found the correct distance of NGC 1052-DF2 to be 42 million light years (13 MPc), not some 64 million light years (19 MPc) from the Earth. The total mass of the galaxy is around one-half of the mass estimated previously, but the mass of its stars is only about one-quarter of the previously estimated mass. This implies a significant part of NGC 1052-DF2 could be made up of dark matter, like any other galaxy.
https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook

a well loved and maintained ansible playbook for macs.

Just FYI