skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having had my sleep interrupted by a toddler bed wetting situation, I just spent 2 hours typing a novel about the human condition on my phone rather than sleeping, and then slipped and accidently swiped "refresh". Long story short, the reason why Americans buy excessive amounts of consumer goods is because they can and have for 3 or 4 generations and it's culturally normal. There's fleeting happiness from the small reward of dopamine in your brain from spending money, and an economy optimized for it built on top of unprecedented abundance since the late 1940's.

A lot of Americans are uninformed about quality, and are well enough off not to need to be. As an extreme example, a few weeks ago my young nephews were really excited because a "$400" drone was "on sale" for only $100 in limited quantities! "Daaaadddd we HAVE to buy it. We'll use our own money!" Luckily I was there and, as their uncle, have no problem crushing their hopes and dreams. I work on autonomous aircraft professionally, so it was pretty easy to explain thoroughly and painfully (for them) why it was junk. I made it a point for them to understand that despite the fact that they had the money, they couldn't really afford to buy it. If they did, they would have fun for about 90 seconds until it crashed and broke, and then they would have a pile of e-waste and no money.

Adults are generally wiser than children, but still frequently irrational (not to imply that that's a bad thing). My wife orders and returns clothes often times as a way to cope with stress and anxiety. It's several orders of magnitude cheaper and easier than therapy (which is a rather unfortunate state for our society), and her experiences as a child led to her developing a scarcity mindset. She also hates clutter, and will tend to either pack things away never to be seen again or readily throw things away on a daily basis.

I'm fairly opposite. I rarely buy clothes; the average age of any item of clothing I own is probably 10 years. I'll hand sew holes to keep my favorite shorts on life support. My experiences as a child lead to developing an abundance mindset. I appreciate order but don't mind clutter, and like to know I can find something within 10 minutes of looking, even if it's been a few years, because it's exactly where I left it. I don't throw things away without some premeditation, because I bought it with some premeditation.

We have fun together!
I worked in ATS company and 7k seems like an exaggeration. Most companies would only get tens of candidates, some of them hundreds and only a tiny minority would get thousands. I would also confidently say that the vast majority have sourcing issues, and that’s why they ask recruiters, agencies, etc to fill more applicants to their open positions.

And yet, all these companies would have complicated hiring pipelines to hire. I have seen examples which made me laugh; like receiving tens of cvs and asking almost all of them for take home exams (felt sorry for the reviewers and the candidates who lost their time), multi stage technical reviews for companies with less than 10-20 employees, final executive level interviews with more than 5 candidates in parallel, time to hire times of 3-6 months, etc.
It's also meaningless unless compared to the population.

"90% of the people in this hospital for COVID today are unvaccinated" is a very different statement when, for hypothetical examples,

- 90% of the people in the local area area are unvaccinated: Hospital population is same as general population.

- 10% of the people in the local area area are unvaccinated: Hospital population is mostly drawn from the unvaccinated.

And points in-between, and the other way (what if - for sake of example only - 95% of local people are unvaccinated?).

And then there are further confounding effects - what if unvaccinated people are younger and than average, as vaccines are given preferentially to older people who are more likely to require a hospital visit in normal times.
To go with your shipping metaphor, a sinking tide sinks all boats...the best you can to is try to stay diversified in different asset classes.
Should’ve named the company and not redacted the doc.
It also didn't help that after two years of being called "essential workers" and constantly exposed, hospital staff were told to get the vaccine or take a hike. The principle of the matter pissed off a lot of nurses my wife knows, whether they were vaccinated, naturally immune or not at all.

To top it off, healthy unvaccinated nurses can't work, but capacity is so low some hospitals are asking covid positive nurses to come back to work before they fully recover or had the full quarantine period.
So in summary, there is no way around higher food prices. Either through higher fertilizer prizes or a more sustainable, albeit slower, food production.
To be fair, that poster injected “and were cheaper” in response to a suggestion that subsidies should be moved away from substitutes and toward these practices, which probably wasn’t done in bad faith, but doesn’t exactly rebut the suggestion that subsidies would need to change to make this economically sustainable.
The CHERI extensions for the ARM architecture allow for compilers that achieve this effect by making all pointers "fat", with bounds, and doing pervasive hardware bounds checks. They've been playing with FPGA versions and emulators for a while, but the first actual SoCs just got shipped: https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/21/arm_morello_testing/ -- software for it includes tweaked versions of BSD and I think Linux which use bounds-checked pointers throughout, including in the kernel.
Puts on the SP500 is the purest hedge there is.
In sexually reproducing organisms, much of the epigenetic modification within cells is reset during meiosis.
So built-in std::span? https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/span
I find it helps to be cynical in these situations.

> I felt bummed out nonetheless.

Why? Don't get emotionally involved with work done for the company. They want to toss it? Why give moments care. Your time wasn't wasted. It was done doing what they asked in exchange for pay. That's it.

>_That_ I could live with, but getting dinged for "being unproductive for a month" during performance review, now that really stung.

And that's why, you shouldn't care or get emotionally involved in the work you create for the company. The company clearly, demonstrably doesn't care about you. They do not care about you. Why should you care deeply about work you create for them?
djb has

https://cr.yp.to/lib/stralloc.html

and

https://cr.yp.to/lib/array.html
Indeed, Slackware still defaults to LILO/eLILO and it works perfectly fine on modern hardware, older hardware from LILO's heyday should be no issue at all.

I still hang on to a PIII based Dell Latitude laptop from 2001 and Slackware -current runs surprisingly well on it (along with BeOS 5.1 from my original disc, QNX RTOS, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and a few other obscure OSes from its generation to today).
> Old article.

That doesn't make it inaccurate. It's also still true according to Spains own budget so, I don't understand the point.

> Please, be advised that the push for independence referendum in 2017 was illegal, as the autonomous communities can’t organize referendums (as per the Spanish Constitution).

This has no relevance to the discussion.

> Note that the nationalists have made no proposal for a Constitutional change in that way.

And this is actually a lie. They did, they compromised to something that could be passed, it got approved, and then it was completely ignored anyway.
Nope, you're right, I need to apply the following diff (wrapped in a fn main() {}) to avoid rustc complaining:

# diff -up test.rs test.fixed.rs
--- test.rs 2022-01-22 16:03:57.302742242 +0100
+++ test.fixed.rs 2022-01-22 16:03:27.766250377 +0100
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ fn main() {
// pretend that this was passed in on the command line
let my_number_string = String::from("42");
// If we just want to bubble up errors
- let my_number: u8 = &my_number_string.parse()?;
+ let my_number: u8 = my_number_string.parse()?;
assert_eq!(my_number, 42);
// If we might like to panic!
- let my_number: u8 = &my_number_string.parse().unwrap();
+ let my_number: u8 = my_number_string.parse().unwrap();
assert_eq!(my_number, 42);
// If we're a good Rustacean and check for errors before trying to use the data
- if let Ok(my_number: u8) = &my_number_string.parse() {
+ if let Ok(my_number) = my_number_string.parse::<u8>() {
assert_eq!(my_number, 42);
}
}
I find Typescript to be a huge blessing even for my solo work. It's just better than vanilla JS and I can't be convinced otherwise at this point, the evidence is overwhelming.
> Then I tried another distro,and another, distro after distro, until I found one which never pulled this type of crap on me, and I'm sticking with it.

Which is? Gentoo?
That’s quite far fetched.

> Chinese were first to rely on fermented grains to be food at least 6k years ago.

Not really. We found vessels that are that old, and that contained fermented grain, the rest is extrapolation. There is also evidence of some kind of beer making in Egypt not that long afterwards. Fermented things are present in almost any culture you could care to have a look at, even the remotest Amazonian tribes.

> solution? favor those who could consume it to avoid starvation, but would not touch it otherwise because it is so unpleasant (instant hangover).

6k years is awfully short for evolution to drive out a bit of genotype in a whole population. Also, again the same thing was happening in Egypt at around the same time, and we don’t have any proof that it did not happen elsewhere as well.

Also, a pet peeve of mine: evolution is not sentient. There is no being that “favor” or drive to extinction according to a pre-existing plan.

> Meanwhile brewing alcohol only started maybe 3k years ago in north western Europe so they are still figuring it out.

It does not work like that, there is no line in the sand for evolution to have worked instead of being “figuring it out”.

For some versions of a gene to be selected, you also need a driving force, in the form of either improved fitness in some environments, or the number of children. Alcohol causing a tiny increase in absolute terms of some specific types of cancers, that are not all that likely to kill someone before they reproduce, seems quite unlikely to be that driving force.

OTOH, alcohol is well known to increase social contacts, which is likely to result in more offsprings (see e.g. studies on alcohol consumption and teenage pregnancy rates).

Overall, this theory sounds truthy and consistent with a pop-culture understanding of evolution, but is not quite consistent with our understanding of history or biology.
> most of the energy in plants comes from the sun, but it is fossil fuels that power most of the nitrogen fixation needed to unlock that photosynthesis

Just to build on this, we expend (at least) 7.3 calories of energy to produce 1 calorie of food (https://sustainability.emory.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/...).
The substance of the article is overshadowed by its unfortunate tone.

> But wait! The C++ apologists are still talking! What are they saying? How have they not been completely flummoxed?

is just one small sample. I came out of the article liking Rust a little bit less than when I went in (irrational, I know, but true).

The quote from The Big Lebowski comes to mind: you're not wrong, author, ...
RSS feeds which specify comments (like HN) now show a comment link. So as new HN posts show up they will have comment links.
What do you think is illegal? This posting refers to several positions (none of which say that men can't apply), but the posting itself is targeting women. If there was a posting at $ALUMNI school, would you say that was illegal?
That's a false choice. The number of applicants is mostly a function of time, so if 7000 applicants is too overwhelming then just throw out 6900 and focus on evaluating 100 of them. To weed through thousands of candidates is to believe that you can find the one that's exceptional, yet if the position being advertised doesn't need to be filled by a genius then it's strange to scour the earth for the right person. If you are at the point where a genius is needed then hiring through personal connections is probably the better approach.

But if I must write code as an applicant, it better be similar to real world tasks and not some bullshit, especially if my chances of getting hired are still slim. Having to do work in order to get hired is literally sucking the lifeforce out of me, so don't suck even more out of my via the agony of glorified brain teasers.
I'll believe it when I see it. Economists have predicted 10 of the last 3 crashes and all that. Seems like a total crapshoot these days.
There might not be any hedge. If everything on market is over heated then there is really not much to avoid it.

Maybe best bet is to choose some less overheated areas which are stable enough to carry through any type of upheaval.
As cynical as it might sound; Maybe that much population, at increasingly higher living standards, was never sustainable to begin with.
Robert Anton Wilson would be proud
Some internet service providers, particularly in UK, fail to provide service where Sci-hub is involved. You may need a VPN. Or, contact someone at a university (library staff are usually eager to help) and get them to retrieve the article by the usual means. Or, a regular internet search on the DOI gets you to the regular publisher, who will be little help, but e-mailing an author identified there will likely get you a PDF.

Academic journal publishers are the scum of the earth.
This is such great news, very happy for them and of course happy that omnicron is just a weak flu. Finally the world can move on.
In 2021, I made my first WASM experiment, an editor for LODA. You can try it here:
https://loda-lang.org/edit/?oeis=2487

Getting the Rust code to output wasm was easy. Getting the wasm run in a separate web worker was difficult.

The outputted wasm file is around 1mb. I'm not sure if the outputted wasm file can be compacted. This is the script I use for generating the wasm file. Any ideas?
https://github.com/loda-lang/loda-rust/blob/develop/rust_pro...
I don't really understand the US systems very well, but I'd probably start with putting a maximum term in place, instead of membership for life.
Married to my wife, I straddle both worlds. You, and the people you know are unlikely to have suffered like them.

Let me assure you that they, with their back history of oppression and menial jobs, are happier than the average “privileged” person I’ve met.
Sunk cost fallacy. Yeah we sunk two years into it but wasting another two doesn't seem worth it just to make the previous two not be a wasted investment.
> Those referendums were about constituting the regions as Autonomous Communities (what in USA is an “state”), or about updating their “estatuto de autonomía” (declaration of state)

First, comparing the autonomous communities to states is ludicrous. The legal standing is very different.

> updating their “estatuto de autonomía”

This is technically part of the Spanish constitution, not that it matters because they're never uphold.
>>so why not

The 'why not' only matters if you care about the planet, buying and replacing things that don't need to be purchased in the first place is horrible for the planet in every conceivable way.

I recycle things when I can, but I am a firm believer that not buying things that won't last or that you don't need - is much much better than separating your plastic and cardboard in the recycling bins - most of which just ends up in the landfill anyway.
I think Chrome does an excellent job actually. For example the error if you try to resolve a URL that does not exist has: An error in plain english ("<domains>’s server IP address could not be found."), suggestions to help the user: "Try: ..." and an error slug to help search for more info: "ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED".
And this speed is making both them and the land sick — cows are meant to eat grass, not the grains used to fatten them quickly.

Do also keep in mind that there are wide swaths of land which can usefully be occupied by ruminants that cannot be farmed without piping in almost all the water and dumping fertilizer on it. Such marginal land is counted as arable so as to further attack animal husbandry.
Learn how to build desktop applications in Lazarus targeting WebAssembly.

Also: Build a secure WebAssembly host for Windows in Lazarus/Free Pascal
No one starts cults any more. The lack of drug cults is proof! I'd love to go to some chill temple environment on the weekends and connect to ultimate reality.
"The only thing I'm dreading is the smugness of the antimask/antivax crowd who will ignore the herculean effort that avoided complete collapse of the health system and just claim they were right all along"

Well, there has been at least some change. While in the beginning, those people negated the existence of covid alltogether. Only after many of them did in fact suffer from the real virus, I heard those stories less and less and rather now many recommendation of chlordioxid and ivermectin. (Without ever hearing anything about being wrong for once)

In other words, those people rather take something, that is usually used for desinfection and bathroom cleaning - instead of the vaccination. You cannot reason with that.

That being said, I can very much understand, being sceptical of a brand new proprietary genetic technology to be injected in my system.

But I cannot understand completely misstrusting worldwide efforts of so many people - and then rather trust someone on the internet. So, why care, what they think? They can be wrong a million times and you can proof it and they can ignore the facts, a million times more.
The posting refers to "f/x". So yes this is illegal in germany.
I don't know what you mean by significant problem. But the market is a bet on future global growth. If you can buy and hold (e.g. hold for 20-30 years in a retirement account) then I personally wouldn't worry. I'm still putting as much as I can in to my retirement which is 98% stock and 2% bonds (I'm in my early 30s).
> I am only moving the goalpost back to its initial position. Vaccine mandates are draconian - at least when the data is so weak as for SARS-CoV-2.

No, you're conflating two separate things to try to make a weak case appear stronger. Part of living in a society is accepting restrictions on your personal choices which impact those around you. Vaccination mandates are one of the big public health success stories since they reduce spread, load on the medical system, and the cost to society of having to care for people who are no longer as productive. Polio was significant asymptomatic, too — 70% of people had no symptoms and 25% had only mild symptoms, with a fatality rate under 1% — but we almost eradicated it by using public health measures like requiring vaccination to attend schools.

The key difference is that these restrictions are linked to the activities which vaccines make safer: prior to the Republican Party choosing to politicize the issue, ~95% of American school children were vaccinated against common diseases. Someone who objected to that didn't have a paramilitary squad track them down, they just had to homeschool, not travel to many countries, etc. so they bore the cost of their decision rather than everyone else. That's a pretty important difference compared to what allegedly happened in some parts of Rwanda.
Conversation with doctor
"hey I'd like to cut down drinking by replacing it with benzos, can you write me a script"

And going the darkweb route is a nonstarter due to fentanyl being found in a variety of Xanax

Or you can use a friend I do they have a legit prescription
The issue is labeling and some people like yourself have label this as sociopathic. Others see your label and think less of anything you say for trying to find the most cutting label vs the more accurate.

Why stop at facebook. Throwing chairs should make Microsoft a dead zone. Steve behaviour at Apple in the 80s should force you to return your iphone. Oracle, Amazon are not angels either.. Many of those small places are much worse..
A lot of alcohol culture centers around this sort of vague FOMO that you will miss out on all the fun and regret this when you are older. But what is it you are actually doing? In order of increasing inebriation: Mostly sitting around gossiping, possibly making an ass of yourself dancing like a tube man, some occasionally hook up with a stranger for some mediocre to disappointing whisky-dicking.

Weekend drinkers, while terrified of having a boring life, are some of the most boring people I know. They never read anything, they never do anything, they never build anything or have any interesting ideas. They're too busy sleeping until noon to have time for that.
> Employees of local producers are great too, the theory I always hear is that people getting paid in an area stimulate more economic activity. So I mean you should take that idea apart more as it is pretty much established wisdom.

The "established wisdom" you cite is a long-lived natural propaganda campaign. It begins with politicians, people who succeed or fail based mostly on their image, not on the quality of their governance. Why would they do the hard work seeking out the causes of prosperity, help organize that prosperity, and seek ways that collective action can make things better? That's a sucker's game. If you rip off the population at large — just a little bit at a time, mind you — then you gain political allies in the industry who benefits. Of course they'll market you as the champion of prosperity: you've made their success possible. It's not strictly cynical; it's quite easy to believe, if you're not the person paying for it, and motivated reasoning is strong. It's a win/win deal, because you ignore the people who actually pay for things. Welcome to public-choice theory. It likely won't ever change. Hooray!

It should be painfully obvious to anyone who thinks about the facts of the matter that having access to nearly-free clothes — not the obnoxious piles of waste or anything, just the bales of clothing the article laments being imported into South Africa — having access is strictly better than not having this access. These people, after all, are always free to buy different clothes. It's not hard: Americans have access to similar, and can buy stupidly cheap clothes at an American thrift store, but in practice, they mostly don't even look at such an establishment. So why don't the people of South Africa buy locally made clothes right now? Because given their income, they much prefer the nearly-free clothes.

Common sense does work here! As an individual, you don't become prosperous by looking for ways to do things that are more expensive. As a society, the same principle applies. Yes, yes, someone will conjure many promises: if everyone just spends more money, we'll have more money! But you know, if you spend less money on clothes you can spend more money on literally anything else which you'd rather have. It's like a perpetual motion machine: the energy does actually come from somewhere, you just might not be looking at it. The prosperity they propose society will gain from protecting garment industry is stolen from everyone who buys clothes, and everything that they would have bought instead, and you lose some of the prosperity in the process, because you expend effort and capital and materials.
PASemi was stopped by an acqui-hire. I don't like counterfactuals, but that was a huge transfer of expertise from Power to ARM
You're right. And if we look at other bubbles that burst then we can reach other conclusions than 2009. Who knows what the 2025 crash will be like; will the central banks be able to buy everyone out again? How do you do it if inflation is high? And also - if the Nasdaq takes a massive hit will people be so eager again to go in or will they prefer companies that actually have earnings?
> [2] ironically, a person who doesn't understand that doesn't have much to live for.

What's the point of concluding with such a cynical and subjective-at-best remark?