skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's an outflow of people willing to produce value, and an inflow of people ready to consume it.

Looking at California's continuously rising GDP, it is hard to believe that value producers are leaving to be replaced with leaches. More likely, conservatives have been leaving the state, but since they live in more rural areas anyways (i.e. the red parts of the state), it hasn't dented the state's GDP much.

> It will work just great until suddenly there's not that many value left to feed all the hungry mouths. And then the mouths will take pitchforks and go raid the nearby granary because that's where they think the food is.

Ah, is your statement more about immigration from Mexico to support California's huge agriculture industry? If that is the case, then I agree: ever since Trump cracked down on illegal immigration and then with COVID, it has been really hard on Californian farmers.
> the sort of thing 2to3 could trivially deal with

2to3 could also trivially add +, and if anything, that would actually help surface these kind of bugs, because if you randomly see a + in the middle of your list of strings, it's much easier to spot the bug than if there was a missing comma.
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I doubt it does 8km in the Sahara like I tried haha
At least in the English language, many, many subjects are less Euro-centric and more Anglo-centric: everything is seen from the vantage of the south-eastern part of a tiny island in the North Atlantic. What's so dark about the Dark Ages? Outside of the north-western boundaries of the Roman empire, not much.
I have a theory that if the East and West are ever going to reconcile their differences, we must find a way to retrace how these two great civilizations separated in the first place. What caused our societies to drift apart? Was it primarily circumstantial factors, like geography and competition for limited resources? Did religion play a role, like the recent East-West schism, where early societies self-segregated according to monotheist and polytheist beliefs? Was it driven by language, where the East and West favored certain modes of expression, eventually manifesting as logographs or alphabets? Did it originate in primordial social contracts, where early famers and shepherds drove nomadic hunter gatherers further to the North and East? Probably the original motive lies buried in the sands of time, but I think these are fascinating questions and would be curious to know what answers future historians might come up with.
Check out a payment app/ game I made called NextRound. It's a fun way to send gifts to friends in the form of virtual drinks with cards.

The app makes gifting money fun and personal, be sure to send your friends a drink!
Raw websockets on the frontend, and express-ws[0] on the backend.

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-ws
Those are good questions, thank you.

I think that a class of people, who ask kind of questions that need absolute guarantee of anonymity (I am thinking terrorists, drug dealers, traffickers etc) are:

- Looking for a different thing (because anonymity is not the same as privacy)

- Are probably looking at tools that cost much more than Kagi does

We are not even interested in serving that market.

Having said that:

- Kagi does not store search queries nor by definition it is then possible to associate something that does not exist with an account

- In general, Kagi does not store or mine user data in any way. Our privacy policy is pretty detailed, I recommend checking it out https://kagi.com/privacy

The strongest guarantee I can realistically give you that the above is true, is that our business model is simply not dependent on mining or selling user data. And the premise of our entire business would fall apart if the opposite turned out to be true. In other words the alignment of incentives here is as good as it gets.

We are not interested in your identity or searches, we are interested in providing the best search product for you, so we can keep you as a paying customer as long as we can. The moment either of the above is not true, you will walk away. It is wonderful to be in this position from a product/business perspective.
I can't answer for iOS devices, but I do know that on Android, the Google Messages app[1] comes with the ability to filter SMS messages that are spam. I am constantly surprised both with how many spam messages my number receives as well as how I never see them because the filter catches them almost perfectly. My carrier, Verizon, also has a spam reporting service that works in tandem with the filter, so occasionally I go through and report all the ones the filter catches. I also believe, as a side note, that a possible upcoming feature will be categorization of text messages [2] which I certainly look forward to being on my phone as the number of SMS messages I receive daily increases.

As for email, in my personal experience Gmail's spam filter is slipping more (as in allowing spam into my inbox) than in previous year, but I think it remains as good as it's going to get for the average user. I also use Yahoo Mail and its spam filter is a tad over-aggressive, I have to manually check spam once in a while and fish out the emails that are in the clear.

[1] https://messages.google.com/

[2] https://9to5google.com/2021/06/28/google-messages-categories...
Doesn't matter, people are leaving and people aren't coming in.

Other states are seeing the exact opposite.
> Germany has more ICU beds than the US.

That would be shocking if true, which it does not appear to be.

Germany has around 32K ICU beds. US has around 96K ICU beds.

Germany has slightly more per-capita than the US. (387 vs 294 per million inhabitants)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_hospital_...
the problem with this business model is the lack of understanding of mass psychology. in san jose, if someone has a SFH lot/home, they are not hurting for cash. people who can afford homes want their backyards.

and if an ADU is renting 40% above market..isnt this exactly why housing is becoming unaffordable in california.

plus: where is the water for the dense housing? right now, bay area gets water from hetch hetchy aka little yosemite..which was completely razed down for our water needs. how many new schools are being built? how many new teachers will be needed? how much road infrastructure? how will law enforcement increase to provide safe neighbourhoods? fire stations? power loads? traffic woes? and how much more will the state's tax liabilities increase? are we going to keep exporting our trash to poor countries?

we dont need to increase housing stock. we dont need to increase california population over the current 40 million. we need to take care of californians who have paid taxes for decades and decades..and are losing quality of life that is fast becoming unaffordable.
C/C++ has the exact same thing, no?
Hi! Great questions and let me see if I can answer them:

HFZ: Yes, sadly—though i think there is good logic to prohibit more density in fire prone area, and HOAs are already dense, so in your case it doesn't make sense.

HOA: yes, for now that is a blocker. This was also initially a problem with the 2017 legislation enabling ADUs, but in 2019 the state expanded the law to overrule HOA's. We'd like to see that as well, and can easily give you the resources to contact your legislators (coming soon on the search tool, we can help at connect@homestead.is for now)

LA County had relatively liberal interpretations of the ADU law, we hope they will reform some rules to make lot splitting easier!

All and all, there are still millions of ideal SB9 lots—I am very sorry your's isn't—and i think HOA restrictions are a load of crap!
"Kah-Gi" or "Kar-Gi"?
When you have a good insurance provider, the health care is top notch. You're able to choose your doctors, hospitals and that can make a big difference in your health care coverage. You're also able to get coverage for things that most single-payer systems won't cover.

Last year I was able to choose my surgeon who operated on my knee last year and my total out of pocket expenses were less than $500 for a $20k surgery. In most single-payer health care systems I wouldn't have been able to get the surgery because it was elective and only a partial tear of my patellar tendon.
Terrorist attacks take a few determined individuals, and would be relatively easy to instigate and pull off. But the suggestion that a foreign power can convince thousands of people with no grievances to come out and protest is laughably unrealistic, not to mention insulting.
We are the United States government. We don’t do that sort of thing.
Remember pfizers own report and raw data are not the only options, it's a false dichotomy.

In order to make the report in the first place, Pfizer had to preprocess the data to intermediate, tabulated formats. However, this data is their secret IP, which in and of itself is absolutely insane, given that we're moving in the direction of mandates.

I don't get how one of the most foul industries – by public track record — suddenly get a carte blanche from otherwise sane and critical people. There are so many scandals in Pharma, and suddenly overnight you're a conspiracy theorist if you want independent scientists to double check the biggest public health mandate in history.
What do you find great about it? (Honestly asked as a non-reader unfamiliar with its content, aside from the implication of the name)
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Been using it for a week now, very happy with it. I still had a few times where google had better results but I will pay for kagi (so long as they have flexible payment options)

Check out their Orion browser too, been playing around with it.
Very rarely in the northeast and only at Sunoco stations.
> The crime she was convicted of isn't a crime you should spend effectively the rest of your life in jail for. It's as simple as that.

Not if you're a young(-ish) and relatively good-looking female billionaire CEO, at least.

Apparently, judging from the fact that I haven't seen all you people spouting this line on the barricades fighting for more lenient sentences for ordinary lowlife ugly middle-aged male fraudsters.

That's how simple it is.
Humanity is who is asking for answers.
Sounds like your shields are down: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/shields-down/

Fundamentally, do you trust your manager? You admire them, but do you trust them?

If so, I'd have this conversation with them (outlining what you've said in your q) and say "I really like working here with you and [boss]. I want to succeed here. What can I do differently next time to make sure that I hit a home run?".

This should give you some tasks to do (check ins regularly, design review, looking at other projects). Do them. Make it clear that you are doing them (overcommunicate). If at all possible, loop in the boss (ccing via email works great, as does public slack channel).

On the other hand... If you don't trust your manager, start looking for another job.
Yeah maybe I'm just being old and grumbly.

Although the vast majority of our crews were skaters/BMXers, we were much more low key and much less flamboyant.

It was at a time when the feds were just starting to take some hacking incidents seriously. At that point in time, if you got caught, you'd usually just get a stern talking to by some authority figure, be it a local cop and/or one of the heads of the org you infiltrated.

I may give Hackers a watch this weekend and try to appreciate it for what it is. I was already adulting by the 90s, so while I was still on the field, I didn't pay much attention to 90s hacker culture, except for who was getting arrested or informing.
Worth pointing out that the two points are not mutually exclusive.
A great addition to prune a ton of false-positives is to check the length of the strings. Almost always, the intentional implicit concats will have a very long string that reaches the max line length, whereas the accidental ones are almost always very short strings.
It's not particularly well-worded. A lot of dictionaries list complex/complicated as synonyms.

I always took it to mean 'complex' as in having many connected parts, and 'complicated' more as in over-complicated or convoluted - the opposite of 'simple'. In other words, breaking something complicated into a system of intentionally-designed pieces is probably better than a chunk of opaque code to brute-force the current case. A good system is probably also 'simpler', despite having more pieces and interconnects.
”If you get too complicated the results will not respond well”

Seems to go for simple ones as well, the floor plan for four bedrooms and two bathrooms aren’t quite practical in the tests I did.

Never the less it’s a cool project being able to describe it like you would for a real person so will keep testing with more complex descriptions to see what it generates.
Worse than that, many would block any VPNs. Worse yet, they won't just say "we see you value your privacy, we hate folks like you, go away" - their site just starts spewing random errors or timing out. Eventually you'd guess "oh, they hate VPNs, that's why!" but it takes time and experience to learn.
Sure, you're explaining why and how testing went faster. I totally understand that, but it's not at all what I'm talking about.

All of the previous mRNA drugs failed testing due to safety concerns. But we're expected to believe that those safety concerns were resolved in a matter of weeks.
Also not CA, but I pay almost $3,600 a year while my employer pays almost $10,000. So $13,600 for just myself. My wife and son are on her plan since it works out to be cheaper that way.

We have good plans too but still have our deductibles which, if I remember right, are around $1,000.
That is $12,250 on average. If you are a FAANG tech worker, it will be much higher than that, you will less likely to be coming out ahead on this the more money you make (though, to be fair, they are only proposing to fund this partially with an income tax increase).
Like Germany's ex chancellor being chairman of the board for Nord Stream AG and Russian energy company Rosneft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der
I don't follow. "The minimum insurance that they get is inadequate to my needs" seems like a poor argument when the alternative is "absolutely nothing, which is inadequate for everyone". In the US, instead of wait times, we have people who just go without entirely. I know if I was unemployed, I'd much prefer an 18 week wait time to a "no".

And for anyone privileged to be able to afford good insurance in the US, you can presumably pay for better private insurance/service in Europe, right?
While I’d like to think that, anecdotal there are places like Baton Rouge. Where the state capital building, mayor’s house, and governor’s mansion and smack dab in from of an refinery plant.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29793966
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> they do not have the income to utilize it as cash

I take it by this you're specifically targeting individuals who can't qualify for a HELOC or other (very common) methods of accessing home equity?

I assume you have data to suggest that "most people" with SB-9 eligible lots are incapable of opening a heloc?
Why would you want to ingest liquid oxygen? :-)
The Afterburner kit[1]? I installed a small number of those for friends back in high school, was good fun. I remember the scariest moment while working on a friend's device was accidentally ripping off one of the buttons' contact pads while trying to solder onto it, and having to carefully scrape away the paint over a nearby trace to solder onto instead. He never knew :)

[1] https://www.gameboy-advance.net/accessories/gba_afterburner_...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29795059
Right but if you only consider those that are covered by health insurance then overall health quality is top notch. In the US system you have the luxury of choosing your providers and having your insurance cover things (like elective surgeries) that wouldn't be covered by single payer systems.

For example, I had a knee surgery for a partial patellar tendon tear last year that cost me <$500 out of pocket (insurance was billed $20k) and this surgery wouldn't have been covered by any single payer health care system.
Can't expect to commit to open source and then be bitter about the world being unfair -
https://twitter.com/marak/status/1479200803948830724
"I hope AVX512 dies a painful death, and that Intel starts fixing real problems instead of trying to create magic instructions to then create benchmarks that they can look good on…

I absolutely destest FP benchmarks, and I realize other people care deeply. I just think AVX512 is exactly the wrong thing to do. It’s a pet peeve of mine. It’s a prime example of something Intel has done wrong, partly by just increasing the fragmentation of the market." Linus T
That's really why states can't do universal healthcare on their own. It is too easy to move between states to find the best deal.
It IS a federation, and regardless of what you call it, the fact is that the EU has the ability to control and limit its rogue members to protect human rights, and chooses not to exercise this power in many cases. The EU is to blame for this and can be considered illiberal in this regard because it does not adequately prevent its constituent states from passing laws that infringe on citizens' fundamental rights.
The idea of search plugins for specific use-cases sounds incredibly incredibly interesting!
$4 to rent on all the major streaming platforms. ABSOLUTELY worth it.
Not sure how this works, but it seems to jump the Great Divide fairly frequently. E.g. a click on the Idaho side of the Bitterroots will show "Salmon, Idaho" as the start point, but jump to a stream in Montana that ends up in the Gulf of Mexico. Cool visualization, but does not seem to respect actual drainage basins at the start point.
> everything is seen from the vantage of the south-eastern part of a tiny island in the North Atlantic.

Iceland? :)
How does one determine classified vs unclassified?
It's cheaper and faster. What's the hassle or inconvenience of a separate drive? If anything, Dropbox is less convenient because it requires installing an application to use it.

The only drawback is that you have to carry it around anywhere you want to access it. A modern external drive is the size of a phone though, so that's hardly a dealbreaker even if you do want to carry it around. Although frankly, cloud storage is much better for filesharing.
We're spending TRILLIONS of dollars on this pandemic. TRILLIONS! These FOIA requests are not DOS attacks. It's very clear that some are very scared of what these FOIA requests might reveal rather than a concern about the cost of spending 0.000001% of the response budget on it. Why are you personally so scared of what the documents might reveal? It's nothing to do with imaginary DOS attacks.
What about the "californian's who have paid taxes for decade"'s kids? Where do they live? Their parent's attic?
Yeah but what about Popcorn-time.nl or The-Popcorntime.com?

IIRC there were at least a couple of these floating around, it was probably too much of a headache to figure out which were legitimate and which were malware.
In my experience, typing early and rapidly iterating and modifying, i.e. thinking on the page, is FAR more effective than spending tons of time in your own head trying to solve the problem elegantly before you ever type anything.

The exception to this might be spending time thinking about the very high level structure you want, since the initial structure you start with can lock you into pattern of trying to solve the problem that might not be the most effective.
I read the page and there seems to be nothing to back up the claim that this vendor is "snoopy?"
this is super impressive! I was actually looking for alternatives to use over kahoot for my local tech meetup for giving free tshirts, I think I like this more than kahoot

I did run into an issue on the scoreboard? at the very end of the session. I love the avatar options for users for unlocking character customizations, they look so simple and fun

the UI for creating decks is much simpler than kahoot for sure as well, and I like the option for creating more than 4 answers too
I'm pretty sure most people don't decide to have another kid because there's an apartment vacancy in San Francisco.
Moderna was founded precisely to find the Holy Grail. Making a breakthrough in a matter of weeks that couldn't be found for 8 years is incredibly hard to believe no matter how much additional money is thrown at the problem.
>no expressive switch/case statement

match/case (not a drop in switch statement)

>breaking out of loops

break

>ending scripts early (for explorative programming)

exit() or sys.exit()
That in itself is not a signal of responsibility. You could have increased revenues or cut the wrong programs.
> Colonialism and exerting power on a whole peoples is less obvious, and harder to see

Give me examples of colonialism nowadays. Or what you consider colonialism.

For me exploiting is only one thing: forcing the other part to do something under threat or coaction.

Namely: "we should pay more to x, y, z" is not exploiting. Going to them and forcing them to work for us, it is. When someone does not have alternative and you have something to offer, that is not exploiting, even if it looks like little to us. The solution for these people to get more is to have more people trying to employ them, then salaries get higher. This is a relatively slow process, but it happens (it happened in history).

We go to less developed nations because it is cheaper. True. And they benefit from it. Are they worse than us? No, it is just their countries did not reach the same conditions yet. But you would say: hey, we should pay them more, give them a better place to live, blabla, which I get, it is ok, I am with you in part, but there is a problem: people buy the products that are cheaper for the same kind of product. And it makes sense: you will not pay more than you need for something (I mean a meaningful extra amount that limits what you can do, not one cent more or less, of course), since you have a limited amount of money, which is resources.

So at the end you have a chain of supply where if you raise the prices much, people will stop buying. If people stop buying, people in developing countries go unemployed. It is all a chain. So now you would ask: how do you raise the salaries for these people? Letting many employers, I mean as many as possible, enter the country, because that means that employers start competing for the employees and the salaries get higher. They cut on their profits if they cannot find workers.

This is how it works. Many people do not understand it. I have been there, working there, living there in places where this happens. And the difference between some of these people having an employment that is probably three times and health care insurance (I talk about Vietnam, but this happens in many developing countries in similar ways) is that the sister of one of those guys does not end up doing what you are thinking and instead goes to university with the help of the family.

This is the reason why I cannot call that exploiting. They improve their lives, eventually they will learn and compete with us (they already do in some areas or are starting to).

I find very hypocrite people complaining about better conditions for others (we all want that I guess) when it is not them who pay the bill.

There is no replacement for this way of developing IMHO, and it has been the model of success, with all its problems.

Forced redistribution is awful to make people wealthy, even if it looks counter-intuitive, because we all have a tendency to think that if someone has a lot and someone has too little, then we take away from one and give to another.

But what many people do not take into account is that doing that kills the incentive to create the wealth in the first place.
As someone who did contracting as a Lingo programmer in the land that time forgot,

this really takes me back. Thank you.