skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem I have is that Google is not optimizing for the best results - they are optimizing for homogeneous "best" results for the average person. And a lot of that comes down to optimizing for showing product placements (even if they are not ads) and difficulty filtering out garbage paperclip sites and repetitive blogs and whatnot. It used to be that I could fine tune my google searches using just quotes or other simple "advanced" methods and get great results but that has significantly decreased as the years have gone by. If I search for a string in quotes I dont want google automatically "suggesting" I meant something else and then I have to click another button that I am "sure" I meant my original terms.
I live in a former socialist country, with current "left" (red star in the logo) parties, who scream a lot about "tax the rich".

In reality, if you look at their proposed policies:

* nothing happens to the poor (since they already pay almost zero taxes)

* nothing happens to the rich, because they start a company in bosnia, or delaware or panama (I have no idea how the panama papers were forgotten by the people and the media), funnel the money, and again pay (almost) zero tax

* and me, an engineer with an above-average paycheck, but way below "rich"? I get fucked with the higher taxes.

I don't need the rich to have higher taxes, I'd be happy if they atleast paid the current ones, or atleast the same percentage of income (in real sense, not accounting sense, since there are many ways to earn very little on paper, but buy a lot of stuff with that) as I do.
In my HCOL area houses are mostly prices by price per square foot. Lot size obviously has a affect on price, but not to the same extent.
I used to believe taxes were a good way to redistribute wealth. That is until I moved to San Francisco and saw how a welfare super state prioritizes its spending. $75,000/tent/year homeless camping sites, 2 million heroin needles, community ambassadors who aimlessly wonder the mission district with multilingual pamphlets on how to sign up for welfare benefits. Billions funneled to nonprofits, who in turn support politicians. Lavish state retirement benefits at the expense of cutting community services.

Sure, raise taxes on the rich, but the plot is lost.
Are you saying we need to "build the wall" around California? To protect those saintly old timers paying property taxes for an assessed value of $100k on a house worth $2m?
Because then, when they got a FOIA request, the party submitting the request would inevitably challenge the redacted versions as over redacted. It isn't red light green light on words...your asking the judge to literally do the job that each department's FOIA folks are trained to do.
Hard Edges, Soft Middle
Yes, but unlike a true nation, there are no immigration restrictions barring you from moving to a different state if you don’t want to opt in.
And accountability. I understand the need for urgency and the use of emergency orders, but once these are gone these companies will still be unaccountable and will still be getting paid even if their promise of efficacy are not held.
Gambler’s Fallacy and the Regression to the Mean
Indeed, the point I was making was that the experts wouldn't be experts at all, they will be aparatchiks and party loyalists who can be trusted to maintain the narrative and ideology, just like they have been in every other variation of this scheme in the last 100 years.

What started with, "hey, maybe we shouldn't litter, and maybe we should stop companies from poisoning watersheds and wrecking land," has become, "we must centrally plan all economic activity according to political exigencies," and I'm saying this has precedents that ended terribly and I don't see it working this time either.

The issue of fertilizer prices is the effect of these policies designed to orchestrate a controlled demolition of the economy, which is a necessary step to disenfranchise the specific class of smallholders and business owners who naturally resist living under the regime of a planned economy, which operates on hallucinatory narratives designed to atomize and subjugate people. It's called "de-kulakization," and it's straight playbook.

The kaleidescope of absurd narratives we see right now are designed to "neutralize" people, that is, to make them believe nothing is true and trust nothing enough to resist what this cadre of terrible people are creating. It's a trip to watch it happen in real time after only having read about it in history, and to have the opportunity to provide commentary while it's happening, but this goes so badly, if a few more people can see wtf is happening, maybe we can mitigate the consequences.
Perhaps this settles it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig4VTr0rt4Q
Again, we used to double grid capacity every decade or so. An extra 5 percent is nothing in comparison to what we did doubling electricity production each decade from roughly the 40s through the 70s.

(And that’s about 10-20 new nuclear reactors, not 40. A fraction of our current nuclear fleet.)
Alley Cat also ran on the PCjr: https://oldcomputers.net/ibm-pcjr.html
> Debt is necessary to invest if you don’t have sufficient savings.

If you don't have savings, you accumulate. Much easier to do without a mountain of debt weighing you down. Seriously thought that was the accepted wisdom, especially if you're poor. Apparently not.

> Also, all debt is very much not magic money. Most debt represents very real, hard value. Businesses routinely provide goods and services to each other with 90 or even 180 days to pay.

And what happens when one of those persons or businesses goes bankrupt? All that very real, hard value just disappears. It goes away. Doesn't get paid. Defaults.

> You’re confusing all debt with speculation and irresponsible borrowing.

If you go into debt, you are speculating. That's a fact. You're betting that you're going to be able to pay later. Whoever is extending credit to you is taking a risk. Obviously that's a calculated gamble since any number of things could happen that make it impossible for you to pay. Absolutely no confusion here.
I feel like you're about to make a "modest proposal"[1] for a possible solution to this terrible problem

[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1080/1080-h/1080-h.htm
One of the coolest projects I've seen built with Svelte!
I think trevcanhuman is saying that the clip does not work well with his car. I had a '99 Camry that became a real bear to fill up around 2019 with the newest pumps.
Yeah I really don't like this.

It reinforces the idea that the best programming languages should be dumbed down to avoid people ever abusing features.

I fully support the right to carry and bear footguns and that programmers need to be trained in the responsible use of them.

So things like unicode identifiers (allowing the use of π as a variable name), custom operators and operator overloading (so `matrix * vector` rather than `matrix.VecMult(vector)`) can all be used in certain domains to produce perfectly readable domain-specific code. They can also be abused, but that isn't an argument against their use.

The argument by the author seems to be around a case where in perl bashing on XML with regexps is easier than XML parsing, which sounds like proper XML parsing needs to be made simpler, easier, more performant, more standardized or whatever it is about proper XML parsing that causes perl authors to not use it. Somehow there's too much friction there which needs to be addressed.

The way this argument usually winds up though is someone argues that regexp parsing needs to be made worse to punish people for using it in order to shepherd them into the "better" way.
great tips, thanks for commenting!
Hmm, that's really not much at all.
In the distant--but not too distant--past, "the rich" often meant business owners who might make a lot of money, but employed a lot of people. The idea of cutting taxes would mean more available capital for business expansion.

It's not really the case so much anymore. A decent Silicon Valley salary would put you in the top 10% of earners, and a Python programmer doesn't usually hire a lot of people. Top 1%ers tend to be of the financial rent-seeking sort, who might hire some people, but they're not expanding the concrete pylon plant to another state or anything like that, which would expand middle class wages and/or employment.

The gutting of the industrial base since Reagan cut high tax rates for the top earners demonstrates that things don't always work out how you expect.
I have ADHD and while I'm happy for the author that they've found something that works for them I do not consider my ADHD a superpower. I write this for anyone else that finds that their struggle is greater than any potential boons that they might experience.
If you don't mind long waits, then a UK style system may be a good option for you.

Places like Germany have taken a very different approach. Govt stays out of delivery of care entirely, but everyone has coverage basically (80% public/20% private maybe).

Public care is pretty good with low waits. But govt not delivering it.
Hmm, that's really not much at all, for IM.
>I like obamacare, but something happened as part of obamacare that has CLEARLY driven up costs. Is it the lack of limits (ie, $10M in coverage during last weeks of life?) Is it some sort of other mandate?

That's an easy one, Obamacare mandated that insurance companies couldn't charge more than X times as much for their most expensive plans vs. their cheapest plans, The people pushing it were either tremendously ignorant or outright lying and claimed that this would make plans cheaper, while critics rightly predicted that instead of making the most expensive plans cheaper they would make their cheapest plans more expensive.
neovim ≠ vim
Moderna had some pre-COVID mRNA clinical trials that failed for various reasons. (As is, to say the least, common in the pharmaceutical industry.)

https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/10/moderna-trouble-mrna/

> But the Crigler-Najjar treatment has been indefinitely delayed, an Alexion spokeswoman told STAT. It never proved safe enough to test in humans, according to several former Moderna employees and collaborators who worked closely on the project. Unable to press forward with that technology, Moderna has had to focus instead on developing a handful of vaccines, turning to a less lucrative field that might not justify the company’s nearly $5 billion valuation.

Of course, as the apocryphal Edison quote goes, "I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work."
"it's literally all money laundering and crime havens."

Which is my silver coin purchase being used for, money laundering of my legally reported electronics design or is it my criminal enterprise of liking silver?
Hi! My sleep profile is identical to yours, as you've explained it.

- Sleep within 15 mins of actually laying down

- Total of 7-8h sleep

- Weird waking up in the middle of night @3am to drink or
use the restroom.

- Poor night of sleep due to hard exercise.

- Same experience and habits with coffee/alcohol.

I wonder if the 3am wakeup is due to something with the body's circadian rhythm.
That's a terrible advice. Smart people avoid entangling their emotions into their work.

If somebody is pissed at you at work, filter information out of it, discard all emotions, from information discard all information that is not actionable for you then move on.

Don't engage into emotional layer, don't seek emotional allies. Don't expect people will behave in just and responsible manner. It should be sufficient if they are predictable. People never change, they just become more so.
"Neighborhood character" is a NIMBY dogwhistle
> Why do we care about this? Does he also have bad taste in summer outfits?

You can feign ignorance here but the answer is obvious. Anti-vax talking points are far more common in conservative media.
> Mouth-to-mouth is not deemed particularly necessary these days (since the act of correct CPR will draw oxygen in anyway), better to focus on proper CPR and wait for the ambulance to turn up with high-flow oxygen from a tank.

Not exactly. More precisely, for the “average” out of hospital cardiac arrest in an adult, chest compressions are more important than expired air resuscitation (mouth to mouth). The guidance to the public was watered down because there was recognition that members of the public were not enthusiastic about starting mouth to mouth resuscitation with a stranger. Mouth to mouth definitely helps.

You need a patent airway for any type of CPR to have any chance of working. Chin lift and jaw thrust are important for both compressions only and compression with breaths.

Source: I’m an attending anaesthesiologist and have resuscitated more people than I would like to count.
I mean, in theory me, who has spent their whole life working on solving problems in the physical world at scale—-for the last 4 years working on housing—- could run a scam that was horrible for homeowners and then get sued for price gouging, and expose myself to personal lawsuits, legal persecution (imagine how unsympathetic the jury would be).

This is true with any product that is new and requires mutual trust.

Or we could just deliver a product people want, and make much more money at scale than trying to optimize for a short term scam!
You are correct, in my hospital system beds haven't been an issue since the early days of covid. Staff is the big issue. We are consistently over 100% nurse utilization. Having an open bed is useless if we can't put you in it and subsequently take care of you in a timely manner.
Linus Torvald's opinion of AVX512 just doesn't matter.

It's like asking a 3D game programmer their opinion about FPGAs.
There are plenty of other reasons...

Neovim in vscode is pretty great but it is still quite hindered behind vscode. It is also easy to get in weird mental states when the editor panes and other vscode panes behave drastically different.
Surely there must be services that do the opposite?

Make people believe that you use nano instead of vim, that you created the nth Javascript framework...And that you are the one accumulating Rust empty crates?
Yeah, I liked the idea that it's asymmetrical. You use the VK to find replicants trying to pass as human, but to try to make sure they're sufficiently robotic you need something else. Which makes sense: the original VK would be easy to tank if you were _trying_ to act like a replicant.

And narratively I think it works amazingly. The idea of forcing someone to prove that they're sufficiently inhuman ... shudder.
Homestead says my property might be eligible. In fact, my lot is small and there is no more room to build. Plus the HOA would never allow it.
Wow that looks really cool! I was watching the demo from Dub FX, really cool how it hooks up to the APC40, now I want to try it out. (Although I'm pretty sure it will be a bit disappointing as my music skills are less great haha)

Very reasonable priced btw, audio stuff is usually stupidly expensive, but this seems fair.
All: this is quite an interesting article. It deserves much better than the tedious flamewar that this topic has routinely been converging to, so let's give it a go.

If you're going to comment, please focus on specific, interesting things in the article that you're curious about.

Please don't post generic, shallow, obvious, indignant, and/or dismissive comments—those are repetitive and predictable, we've had more than enough of them, they're tedious, not what this site is for, and we don't need more.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> And prior to the ACA rule taking effect, denial for preexisting conditions was common practice

Bigger than denial was recission, where if you ended up with an expensive to cover condition, your insurer would fine-tooth-comb your history for evidence that you had a preexisting condition that has not been revealed, cancel your coverage, and leave you uninsured and uninsurable; recission for reasons other than proven intentional fraud was prohibited by the ACA, which is a pretty big deal.
To be fair, a lot of the housing issues in California stem from local ordinances and voter passed propositions rather than legislatively passed state laws.
First infection rate report of 2022 from UK Health Security Agency
Given that all of the services targeting that particular political demographic seem to be largely undifferentiated when it comes to the apps themselves it's gonna be interesting to see how quickly they'll start to cannibalize each other once the Mercer money dries up.
My quick calc showed that's roughly one guy redacting 2.8 pages per hour. I know people who'd LOVE that job.
They aren't really different concepts of rationality; consistency and non-bias are about not fooling yourself, so that you can come to the conclusions that the available evidence would justify. That's how people as a group can empirically acquire knowledge about the world. Of course, for individual people, social aspects are often even more important, since learning from someone else's experience can be much cheaper than learning from your own—as in the case of alpine sweetvetch; but even resisting deception and knowing whose opinion to listen to benefit from consistency and non-bias. Indeed, perhaps even more so, since the alpine sweetvetch isn't trying to emotionally manipulate you into believing it.
I don't see how "poorly parallelized" is relevant compared with, say, a decent OpenMP BLAS which is likely to benefit from any reduced power consumption that allows a faster clock. In general on compute nodes it's worth turning off cores dynamically which aren't being used by jobs, like on a half-full node.
> Employer-sponsored healthcare is aggressively anti-entrepreneurial and any universal program would be a massive boon to independent workers and those who own or want to start their own business.

Can't emphasize this too much.

I'd rather start a small startup of my own, but the only thing that always keeps me away is health insurance in the US. I have enough savings that I could afford to pay all my expenses for many years so I'd be comfortable with no revenue for a long time.

Except for health insurance, which currently is $2500/month through company group plan, surely even more expensive for a new tiny startup. Can't do it.

I guess I need to wait until I qualify for medicare to try my hand at my own startup.
True. But the power penalty from 512 was already quite reduced in Cannon Lake (2018) and completely gone in Tiger Lake (2020).
For a language that is so incredibly picky about it's whitespace rules, it's a little laissez faire on the string-concatentation/tuple syntax side. I say this as someone who loves python and uses it extensively.
The REPL prints the value of a variable that you type in. exit is a variable, and so the REPL prints its value. If you want to run it as a function, you can do that, and indeed its string value is a message telling you to do that.

$ python3
Python 3.9.2 (default, Feb 28 2021, 17:03:44)
[GCC 10.2.1 20210110] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> exit
Use exit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit
>>> exit.eof
'Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF)'
>>> exit.name
'exit'
>>> exit = 42
>>> exit
42
>>> exit()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'int' object is not callable
>>>

I would have special-cased exit, though.
It doesn’t have an iOS app ready though
I've been building non-trivial software in dynamic languages for twenty years. They work great.

I'd take a project in a dynamic language with a decent test suite over a project without tests in a statically typed language any day of the week.
I'll approach this from a different perspective, in the last 20 years can pro-higher tax proponents provide proof of a single program that actually improved the quality of life of US citizens in the middle class? I suspect, many will spring up and suggest Obama Care, but where is the data to support this? I know myself and my families health insurance continues to rise and rise (self employed). My mother is on Medicare and pays absurd prices for her diabetes medication and testing equipment (smart device). Democrats continue to fail to address the costs of medical care for middle class and even upper middle class. There are programs for low-income but once you reach middle class levels all these programs no longer qualify.

We all work hard for our money (ok maybe not all), but my mentality is let me accumulate as much wealth as I can (I'm better at investing and returning yield on money) in my younger years. I'll make the decisions which programs/charities and people I wish to support.
I'm open to the possibility that infiltration by white nationalists was a significant contributing factor to the widespread anarchy and destruction coincident with the BLM protests. There are a small number of unsubstantiated reports and rumors of right-wing agitators, but so far there's been no adjudicatable evidence. There haven't even been any arrests to support the rumors.

You're the one who seems to be selecting anecdotes to support your preferred narrative. Your narrative might well be true, but I haven't seen any good evidence one way or the other, an it appears you don't have any to offer.
Ask HN: How will browsers for the Web3 be different from current browsers?
I think we are both getting a little away from the original topic of what generates "hype" or in other words "excitement"

Take steak (common) and lobster (rarer)

Both are good, and I would rather live in a world without lobster than one without steak. That said, if you asked me what which I wanted for my next meal, I would pick lobster.

This doesn't mean you can't eat good food with variety on a thrifty budget. But even someone doing so might be especially excited to have something expensive that they don't normally have access to.
I think this is exactly what it is.
San Francisco could learn a bit from Pittsburgh and put in some public funicular railways.
It doesn't change your point, but the way you cut quote was misleading.
"character of the neighborhood" is hollowing out the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy of needs to decorate the top.
Ask HN: Why aren't all students using the WYSIWYG TeXmacs for math assignments?
TeXmacs isn't based on TeX (nor emacs) but compatibility with TeX/LaTeX isn't an issue for math assignments.
Does your "Toddler's Guide to Economics and Taxation" say anything about freeloaders who leverage public services in a stable republic to build a fortune and then refuse to pay their share of upkeep on those services and that republic?
Damn, that was the first time I didn't manage to exit vim :D