skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The colors sound like normal PC CGA graphics, but the joystick sounds like maybe a PCjr (or compatible), which, IIRC, sometimes came with a joystick, since the machine itself had built-in joystick ports. The CGA graphics could be explained by the games being written for PC CGA graphics, and not the better, but obscure, PCjr graphics.

But… 20 years? That’s like, 2002. PCs were abundant then, and CGA graphics were already ancient, and use of joysticks in games were already relatively uncommon; mouse & keyboards were the norm.
I'm not OP, but just confirming that their site does go to the unexpected.
What your employer obliges you to pay directly is arbitrary. What matters is what percentage of your total compensation from your employer is healthcare costs.

I highly doubt that number is only 2.5%.
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Yeah I had to get a replacement a couple months ago and it's the exact same flimsy little cardstock card as we've always had.
$2500/month here (silicon valley) for blue shield PPO (company pays a small part of that, I pay directly most of it). So that's 30K/year just in the premiums plus of course a lot out of pocket since insurance fights against paying for so many services.
your "slightly" is a 30% difference ...
Apologize for misreading you and getting frustrated. I appreciate the explanation. I hope you can understand where I am coming from.

If I am anxious or depressed, going outside into nature or to the beach would help me tremendously. Much more so than sitting at home. How anxious and depressed do I have to be before it flips from "relaxing" to "legit"?

At my job I get x vacation days and y sick days. If I feel I unwell mentally I am going to use a sick day. Why is it anyone's business why I am sick or what I did on my sick day?

If my coworker said they were feeling terrible yesterday so they took the day off to go to the beach I would understand and encourage that. I would also admire them being brave enough to admit that rather than pretend they had a virus.
Is the implicit claim that we would lose to the UK in a war?
Easier target, a couple of google devs hanging on a public square would do much to disincentivize others from working on similar products in the future.

At least executives can dream of hiding behind private security, for mere developers earning 300k/yr the situation isn’t so rosy.
It has always existed. When men collected food and survived they shared. If there is an surplus of something you do not need, what do you do with it? Eventually, I guess, they started bartering.
Bartering is a primitive way of trading. That trading is possible accumulating enough, otherwise you would need it all for yourself.

I do not think it is difficult to see the beginning of these patterns, they seem relatively natural to me: if I can plant a big field of potatoes and you can hunt well, we assess the cost of each activity and x kg of potatoes equal y kg of meat.

I think you are mixing the fact of something being free as in "no money involved" with the fact that time is "money" or that spending time doing something is also money: it is consuming time, which is also a kind of capital.

So you could pay in coins, in sheep, in yarn, with your time or in whatever. That is not important, it is still an exchange and equivalent to trading.
Is America in Decline? (video, 2021)
Sorry to hear about it. That's a lot of questions, I'll be brief in just sharing some of my own experiences that may be relevant.

First, it helped me to consider that people may need to find their own ideal sleep circumstances by analyzing data about themselves. There's only so much others can tell you about what will work for you.

Personally I created a measurement system for scoring my daily outcomes; analyzing the numbers helped me figure out what kind of sleep worked best for me.

I sleep about 8-10 hours a day if you include naps. I try to aim for at least 6 full sleep cycles at night if possible. This means I go to bed earlier than I used to.

I have had experience with oversleep as well, and 11 hours is about where that line is for me.

If I get at least 8 hours of sleep I consider myself "weapons free" for daily intake of up to 800mg caffeine for productivity and creativity. Less than that and I try not to take more than 100mg for a variety of reasons I measured over the years.

I also started using supplements to help me get this kind of rest at night and would not go back. They are really, really effective.

When I wake up in the middle of the night, which isn't too often, I find it helps to go into executive mode immediately rather than laying around, or worse, waiting for the next sleep cycle.

I usually get out of bed immediately and get into what probably looks like a normal pre-bedtime routine. I use the bathroom, get a bit of water to drink, take an anti-inflammatory (I find that these work well alongside sleep supplements for me) or similar supplement and also a sleep supplement that I didn't already take earlier.

I also eat a tiny bit of mixed nuts and then go back to bed and read from something I've already read before, like a favorite book. This is both for establishing a known feeling of comfort and also to prevent a dopaminergic response to new information.

This early waking by itself is almost never the same as a poor night of sleep, because the process gets it back on the rails and I let myself sleep in if I need to. I try not to use an alarm clock.

Sleep got really difficult for me in my 20s and 30s for a variety of reasons. I consider this part and parcel with chronic depression and anxiety of that time which is no longer an issue.

I also developed a meditation system that is based on my personality dynamics and this almost always gets me to sleep at nap time without much trouble.

If this all seems fancy, it kind of is. And it works really well. I can still take off and go out camping with the family and get terrible sleep laying on the ground for a couple nights when needed, but part of the new me is knowing how to take really good care of myself overall and setting those boundaries.

Good luck and I hope you make awesome progress.
It’s own disingenuous if you’re dumb enough to take it seriously.
Attaching bro to any term is coded language to label groups as dumb misogynists.
Real shooting stars exist, but they aren’t the streaks you see in a night sky
This is very cool. Understand that you are constrained by the datasets you have available, but still very cool.

Just wondering if it would be possible to reverse the track and plot out where a waterway is fed from? I understand this would be a lot more complex and computationally expensive, but when out on a waterway I always find it interesting to think about where the water I'm floating on came from.

Again thanks for the work.
> “two dashes set closed on the side of the main sentence and set open on the side of set-off phrase”.

Eh, I don't think that's the interpretation the author was going for. The author wanted to show two different ways of approximating a dash, and he had limited options.

If he'd done this-- for example-- he would have been showing one way, not two.

If he'd done this --for example-- you would have called it "two dashes set open on the side of the main sentence and set closed on the side of set-off phrase".

If he'd done this-- for example -- it would have been too obvious (on the same line).

I suppose he could have done this-- for example--but I still think that would have been too obvious. You're not supposed to see it on a first read.

> And the third use (in the heading and later in the body) is seperating parts where neither is a mid-sentence appositive phrase, and uses open-on-both sides. So that's not a different way of doing the same thing, it's a different way of doing a semantically different thing.

It's a different use of a dash, but it's still a place where you'd typically use a dash.

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Edit: You know what, thinking about it again—perhaps both interpretations are valid. That almost adds to the effectiveness of the whole thing.
are you saying tax benefits should be inherited? are they disabled? why pay for schools for all if the kids still want to live behind their retired parents resources meant for their old age. children already inherit their parents homes without paying market rate tax rate. even though that isnt relevant to my point. driving out californians who have build cities by creating more and more unaffordable housing is a ponzi scheme.

perhaps if housing stock is increased for those who dont use public utilities and said homes are fully sustainable for utilities and trash, power(solar), water...and they submit to using roads only 2-3 days/week..well..then it would make sense. but thats not possible.

people who live in homes need utilities/services. infrastructure has to be scaled along with population increase. children need to go to school. schools need teachers. housing stock increase without a proper plan for utilities and infrastructure just seems like a plan that is set up to fail. and the only ones who lose are the tax payers.
thank you!! that's very nice to hear. and I will check out musixmatch for sure.
If that is your reasoning then consider barter vs money exchange.

With money one party has to borrow it first and pay interest. With barter nobody is paying interest. The money lender is clearly abusing his "authority" over money by excluding it from the economy. He uses that power to charge interest and thereby render economic activity that can only cover its own costs unprofitable.

Here is an example. I sell you an apple for $1 and you sell me a banana for $1. We are both better off because I like bananas you like apples. However, if I had to borrow the money first from a bank with interest, then the trade would not be profitable. This is the real source of unemployment. Artificial minimum profitability.
This. Jim Keller was hired into an even higher position than this guy and he left in less than two years. Jim Keller was hired in to fix Intel's terrible design methodology and mindset and his own organization responded to reject him. It was actually quite amazing to see all the middle management stop their own internecine political warfare to respond to the Keller threat.
You can't undo the split. One of the caveats passed in the same vote states that you can't reduce housing density - so if you build two units, they can't be reunited into one lot again.
No need of tr here in your example.

The fd will only be used to stor it temporary since, we first need to sent headers, and the headers need to be sent before the bofy. The server base os working fine now with accept and a patch request os already sent to bash. So probaböy on the next release accept will be full usable.
I’m sure it was much appreciated but it’s never expected.
> It often leads to what I call the "hiring death cycle." A startup faced with a problem tends to hire more people, making it harder to solve the problem and thus requiring even more hires. The death cycle is reinforced by the "next hire fallacy," in which, supposedly, the next recruit will suddenly solve the problem. It's common to fall into this vicious cycle and hard to break out of it.

Also here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
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In theory you could choose a building firm you own that charges 500k instead of a different one that charges 400k (and even subcontract it to the 400k firm).

If you sell for 1M that means you keep the extra 100k from the building firm and 100k from the land.

If you go with the cheaper builder you only get 120k
Honestly, to me, I'll be happy with a good FOSS search engine.

The only thing out there is gigablast but it needs money/ hardware/resources and a better look GUI.

I had high hopes about brave... But they are not FOSS so... Nothing new there. Just for privacy I prefer DDG (even depending heavily on bing and that I would prefer it was independent - I don't like much of that meta mambo jumbo)

All in all: an independent free and open source search engine that respects user privacy.

I don't think it's too much to ask
who was it? I don't think I can see a flagged comment
Not facts and claims...common sense.

Nothing suggests these folks are acting in good faith. They showed no willingness to bound an obviously over-scoped request. It is sad the judge didn't see this for what it is.

They are abusing the process to make the FDA and Pfizer look bad by requesting an absurd number of things and not scoping out things that they obviously are not entitle to. Pfizer, like it or not is entitled to have their trade secrets protected. Like it or not, Pfizer and teh FDA have a responsibility to protect the private healthcare information of patients who participated. That takes time. If I was a vaccine trial participant I would be suing the pants off these loons.

I feel like I'm living in crazy town...go read the emails that these loons attached of their own email conversation with the FDA. one person (the FDA rep) is trying to have a serious and productive conversation, the guy from PCP (or whatever) wants to stand on a street corner and shout. They attached this in support of their own lawsuit

Extraordinary claims require at least some effort. It isn't the job of everyone to engage and disprove everything stupid people say...at some point saying 'this dude is a loon' is a sufficient counter to 'why won't you debate me'. The preponderance of evidence, including engagement with things like the American Conservative and Joe Rogan as a source of healthcare information meaningfully suggest against taking these people seriously and that's all that is necessary.

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And I'm sure Kim Jong-un gets fantastic healthcare, but that doesn't change the fact that North Korea is ranked #124 in life expectancy.

I'm happy the American healthcare system worked well for you. And I'm sure there's plenty of people in Canada who've had terrible experiences with their healthcare system. But that doesn't change the fact that the average Canadian has better health outcomes then the average American.

The American healthcare system fails to support many people most needing help. The fact that the richest country on the planet doesn't provide adequate healthcare to everyone is an embarrassment. Something needs to change, and I refuse to believe that we can't (or shouldn't) provide world class healthcare to every American.
purists are going to be purist for sake of purism only.
Why did the flywheel hybrid system never catch on for road cars? (2021)
Doesn’t seem like it. I didn’t see any reference to it on the website, either, but the last time this appeared on HN I was hoping someone would ask.

Since I haven’t seen the co-founder mention it, I hope he might make a little Easter egg or add it to the FAQ somewhere to pay homage to Kagi. That company made me my first money as a teenager with software.
>how this could work for a typical San Jose home — footsteps away from one of our customers. The new house on the split lot has a sale value of $1.5M, based on a same-sized new-build home on the block. The total cost for building the new unit, including permitting, local fees, and financing, is $700k. That’s a net profit of $800k, of which the homeowner’s 80% share is $640k.

Can you share actual numbers from completed projects?
Can already do that with rclone, although a one button setup for syncthing would likely get some play.
Wordle: What's the Best Starting Word?
Have you tried bringing this to him?

“Look, I have done A, B, and C and judging from your response I feel like you don’t trust me. Is that accurate? Am I’m misinterpreting it? I expected X, Y, and Z would happen, but it didn’t. Can you please help me understand where the disconnect might be? I really would like to achieve X, Y, and Z. How can I get closer to that? Or is that not realistic?”

Maybe “delivering” a lot is not what he values. You need to find what that is. You might be using the wrong tool to get in his good graces.
“The average age of these children was three years, nine months.”

Pretty sure I ate cat food off the floor at that age
>axes (this word alone is a crime),

why so? you prefer something like axiis?
I'm asking for examples of Rust crates that have added async on functions that are not IO-bound, not examples of your work.
I’d guess the new house is collateral, and there is some Joint Venture vehicle (LLC?) that the financiers invest in and that owns the new house, so no credit needs to be extended directly to the homeowner. You don’t need to structure this with credit risk on the original homeowner.

The investment risk would presumably be mostly if the owner moves and the subdivision becomes inegligible. Or of course if they aren’t as good at building as they think and can’t clear 20%, or housing market tanks…
As someone who works in medical publishing, you have no idea how infuriating posts like the one you were responding to make me.

This is HN, a group I would expect to have above average understanding of statistics and statistical analysis and yet the idea of causal relationships and that old adage of "correlation is not causation" STILL seems to slip past far too often.

To the larger world: There's a reason every single drug commercial/ad you've ever engaged with has a list of "possible side effect" and not "known things that will/did happen". The "possible" doesn't even always mean "this is a side effect we conclusively know this drug causes, and could possibly happen to you" but sometimes just "we couldn't prove this drug didn't cause someone to shit blood since we had one guy who did one time during our months of trials".
Same for Perl.
This. Captcha wants me to choose crosswalks and you can see there’s that sliver of a crosswalk in a few pixels off in another tile. You’re not wrong! But you’re not right. Regression to the mean.

A hexagon would be better as a frame instead of a square.
property tax is different from the rest of the budget. perhaps you should look into how the state of california manages its budget. there are paid professionals and researchers who will do the research the work for you.
Love Signal but this was totally unnecessary and puts the whole project at risk.

Also the whole integration was super shady. From the possible conflict of interest (Signal CEO being advisor to MobileCoin), to the MobileCoin CEO dodging any serious questions, to the fact that whole supply is premined and most of it held by founders and investors.

Why can't Signal just stay a secure messenger app?
I like a lot of things in Folly, but as others have mentioned: you have to pull in quite a lot, even if you care about only a tiny part. It's not very modular in that way.

However, I did have decent success taking the classes I was interested in (CPUThreadPoolExecutor, and surrounding), stripping the library down to just those bits, and using them. Obviously a PITA to stay current with upstream, though.

If nothing else, it's worth reading for some of the highly-optimized stuff going on in there.
Anti-vaxxers are already using released technical documents to support their ideas using out-of-context or misinterpreted snippets of information. I don't think it's going to affect them much either way.
> The real reason it doesn't qualify, though, is that my HOA—my entire city of ~650 SFH homes exists behind an HOA—has stated it won't approve SB9-related lot splits.

So get together with other homeowners around that and any other dissatisfaction with the HOA and disband it. Or take it over, either way.
https://www.retro-exo.com/exodos.html has "eXoDOS/eXo/eXoDOS/Bubble Bobble (1988).zip" which you could try with DOSBox. Other commenters mentioned that the DOS screenshots use the red/green/yellow CGA palette but plenty of CGA games switched video modes for a tiny extra bit of variety.
I've reached my diversification and contribution goals.

401k point noted. I was just trying to be concise in my comment.
I love a rant on this one...

Sometimes the bus/boat/truck has motorbikes sometimes bicycles. Is that a petrol-powered bicycle, or a motorbike to the [USAmerican?] person who wrote the rules!? Are all large yellow vehicles buses in USA or do you have minibuses, oh wait, are minibuses buses.

I've worked out fire engines are trucks for captchas, not sure about Transit-type vehicles, lorries are trucks apparently but goods trucks on railways are not trucks!

Is a traffic light only the lens/led array or the black light-holder too? Do pedestrian lights count as traffic lights? Are those weird lights hanging in the middle of junctions 'traffic lights'.

Wish they'd just tell you what counts.

I have noticed that times I realise after clicking that I missed a square they tend to go through whilst many times I get repeated captchas when I know I got it right. Success, as a user, seems impossible to predict.
Unless it sucks, and then you just pay it twice.
Bitcoin’s Cryptography Fares with Quantum’s Prowess
>No, it is a means of wealth transfer to the government without raising taxes. Where does the trillions in deficit spending come from? Inflation!

Saving creates a hole in the economy, the trillions of deficit spending are a very stupid way of filling that hole. It works better than doing nothing which is why we do it.

>The notion that it is for monetary stability is also propaganda. Milton Friedman in "Monetary History" showed that instability increased after the creation of the Fed.

Uh, that is a property of capitalism. It's great at first when debts are low then it gets worse and worse.
If people are going to act like children, they should expect to be treated that way too.
It should be worth remembering that we don't need trials anymore to predict what the results of vaccinating millions of people should be. We have already done that. Indeed, by looking at the results of actual vaccination, we can find things that have happened that won't be found in trials, because 1-in-a-million events aren't going to be found in trials. (Risk of myocarditis, for example, is something that's been found with actual vaccination.)

... so if you're claiming a risk is clearly visible in the trials, you should consider if the actual experience in mass vaccination actually bears that risk out. And if it doesn't, well, there's a good chance you simply misinterpreted the trial data.
> This is my thought, as well. When your private insurance company stinks, you find a new insurer.

You can't, because the health insurance is provided by your employes so you get whatever they give you.

My health insurance (blue shield) is absolutely terrible (right now I need some medicine they refuse to let me have because it cuts into their profit margins) but there's nothing I can do about it.

And that's after paying $2500/month for the privilege.