skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Once you have estate planning and complicated tax issues, human advisors provide a lot of guidance to people that is hyper specific to you and your location / niche, which Robos just don't cover. Wealthfront, for example, won't arbitrate a dispute between beneficiaries of a family trust.

I agree fully that estate planning/making a trust is something most people would benefit from a human advisor, but this is something you can target with an estate lawyer. I don't think this is something you would need advice on regular basis.

For taxes, I am guessing vast majority of people, even wealthy people, never need human advice nowadays. Anything that is just combination of W2+1099DIV+1099B+1099INT+1099NEC is handled well with robo tools. Tax loss harvesting is pretty simple (even without robo advising!) as long as you know wash sale rules and distinction between long/short term capital gains.
isn't bottom of ocean == bottom of food chain? the whole system could collapse
Arizona became a hotbed for EVs, microchips and self-driving tech
Soviet Union fans are probably very proud of Soyuz safety record.
>that is appropriate for them to be exposed to.

Once the idea of dangerous speech becomes aknowledged, censorship just becomes a game of degrees.
>Whereas I am aware of no mainstream Democratic politician who stated a blanket opposition to anything Trump might do

They literally tried to impeach him before he took office. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efforts_to_impeach_Donald_Trum...
In other news, water is still wet.

I recall a talk describing a study to evaluate how the sleep-deprived lifestyle of college students was affecting their grades. Unfortunately the researchers had trouble finding a non-sleep-deprived control group at the school. They ended up paying students to (try to) sleep 8 hours a night (self-reported, though presumably somewhat accurately.) Unsurprisingly the less sleep-deprived group had better outcomes.

Another study observed high school students found that in any class at any given time around 1/3 of them appeared to be asleep (not merely "not paying attention" but actually unconscious.) The effect did not appear to depend on the teacher or course material.
Why not allow businesses (and concerts and plays and etc.) to decide if they want to allow unvaccinated customers (or not)? That's their business. If you don't want to visit businesses (and concerts and plays and etc.) that allow unvaccinated customers then don't go to those businesses (and concerts and plays and etc.). That's your business.
I actually believe in Institutions with a capital I and want them to succeed, build trust and help educate people of their reputation, historical significance and their importance in society. I’ve worked with NIST for many years - brilliant people doing good work.

But when they continue to lie to public, suppress facts, have a political agenda, and media is along with it, it’s becoming harder.

I still think CDC does good work. Just that the leadership needs to come out clean and apologize the public for being partisan.
My daughter and I went to an art supply store in December and we were surprised at the variety of paint bases. I had no idea. Many of them would be mistaken for sculptural material, almost like play doh or some like that, if you didn't know what they were. I had no idea.
Ideally you work remotely for a US company and get US rates while living abroad. And avoid the places where girls approach you on the street.
My 2 cents from working in IT

Where I work now, we do issue developers better laptops than the usual we give out, however they are all the same make and model with no one offs.

It makes keeping track of equipment and inventory easier, and if ever someone needs a new one we just load up one with a pre-built image we made with all the programs and settings pre-installed, and its good to go with little hassle. My guess is other companies have similar reasons, except maybe they want a standard laptop model used by all employees who need one, regardless of role. Sometimes its because an IT department may have only a shoestring budget to work off of due to execs wanting to save money.
The simplest, most direct explanation is that debt markets are an auction. Low bond prices are equivalent to high interest rates. If the Fed wants to lower interest rates, it buys bonds using money it creates, pushing up the price of the bonds, and effectively lowering interest rates. When new money is created, it dilutes the value of existing money, causing inflation. If the Fed wants to lower inflation, it needs to create less money. To do that it needs to buy fewer bonds. Less bond buying causes bond prices to go down, and therefore interest rates to go up.

Now, the real world is a lot more complicated than this, and it depends on what exactly is happening with all of that extra money, but this is the first order explanation.
They put the complexity in to the dongle which if done right, just works. It's why I choose to use the usb dongle for my mouse/kb even when they support bluetooth. Because bluetooth works most of the time while the dongle works all of the time and doesn't have compromises like "It doesn't work here because the OS bluetooth stack isn't loaded yet"

Bluetooth almost needs to be lifted from the OS and become part of the higher firmware so it works everywhere.
Normally, you would not support the trend. When a whole society but only a few support it - by buying, adopting etc. - there is probably little to be done but hanging to the escape routes you have.

You can (and in a way should) also wake up the sleepers, but it will be hard or less feasible to properly reach the masses.
I've never worked anywhere that didn't give me my choice of the latest top end Apple hardware. Is this more of a corporate thing?
Can you explain more about the 'turkey shoot' in brainstorming sessions, and the value it adds? It's not something I've heard about before.
hopefully increased payload capacity provided by rockets like starship will make this requirement moot.
Well, in my case, I have been using laptops for development for at least ten years. I can easily afford a real powerhouse desktop, but I have deliberately chosen laptops.

Most of the time, I don't need a huge amount of power. I'm not rebuilding the Linux core, every time I compile; usually an app.

For my server work, all I really need, is an FTP connection, a browser, and a text editor.

The reason that I prefer laptops, is that, every now and then, I need to take the show on the road, and it is very convenient to just yank my main device out of the dock, and drop it into a backpack, without worrying about syncing. I tend to do native Apple work, in Swift, using Xcode, so it is important to have a lot of local files. I can't really do the work remotely, on a cloud.

When I was still in my "day job," the company issued me a laptop (because I was a manager, and traveled a lot). I brought a laptop for my own work, because that was all done in "nights and weekends." I often threw my personal laptop in with my work laptop, when I traveled.

Nowadays, I have an M1Max 14-inch MacBook Pro. It is pretty much maxxed. Every bit as powerful as any desktop I've ever used. Xcode is still fairly klunky on it, because the code in Xcode is ... classic. I don't think a Mac Pro would be any real help.

But when I'm docked (which is most of the time), I'm running on an LG Ultrawide (49-inch, 5120 X 1440) monitor. Even the 16-inch can't hold a candle to that, so the 14-inch is better for me.

But that's me, and my workflow. YMMV.
OSS system breakdown: Deep dive into Verneuil providing SQLite replication
One advantage of L2 is that it's a point of gravitational metastability when entropy inevitably hits, your satellite will slowly fall away from the point, and either depart for a long, initially slow, fall back to something rocky, or spiral out from the Earth-Moon system into interplanetary space.

An L2 swarm isn't bound together by gravity, it actually has to maintain active control to stay there, so it's a "self cleaning" area.
Maybe it's time for a class-action lawsuit?
Yeah, but the fed stopping buying would cause a huge shift in demand. You can't really depend on any other variables in the market holding steady when such a large distortion is removed.
How many pepper grinders do you need? Lol.
It's not actually up to the Census. They're following OMB Directive 15 on race reporting standards for all federal data collection. You can read it here: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1997-10-30/pdf/97-286...

This is the latest version, but it was originally published in 1977 and based on the idea that humanity consisted of only four races. The reason it asks what "kind of white person" you are is the 1997 update was in response to criticism that this wasn't fine-grained enough, so they split Pacific Islander into its own group and split white people into Hispanic and Non-Hispanic. The idea of there only being four races in the world comes from Carleton Coon's publications from the early 60s. He had a theory that human races all evolved independently from Homo erectus to Homo sapiens, in contrast to the more widely accepted "out of Africa" theory, and that this accounts for why some races, according to him, are "more civilized" than others. That is, humans left Africa in a savage state and evolved into sapiens form and developed civilization much earlier in Europe and Asia, again, according to him.

I think it should be obvious why making a theory like this the basis of US official federal standards for race is somewhat controversial, but as we know, laws and regulations change slowly, if ever, so the Census is kind of stuck defending work they're legally charged with doing, and this data is used to assess things like racial equity of federal spending and assessment of the fair housing act and what not. It's kind of a relic of our shitty history, but it's there.
> In the US we don't have "capitalism", we have "crony capitalism"

The real world system for which the term “capitalism” was coined, was, is, and always has been crony capitalism; the idea of a non-crony capitalism is a utopian fairy tale that was invented to justify real-world capitalism which has never resembled it.
It's also kinda hard to measure how much a bit of hardware helps or hinders a user.

I guess it's something like cost vs average needs.
If most people can do most things without too much difficulty then you're mostly good?
How hard is it to get a visa ?

1k a month isn't bad at all. I imagine if I had a million dollar saved up in 10 years, I could just move there.

And then live forever off my investments, plus as you've already mentioned, many younger people know
some English.

I'm guessing for an American Eastern Europe would be less of a culture shock than say Thailand
I have found for years that Linux offers the best Bluetooth experience. Does Android use their BT stack or do they have their own?
Do you think more people are going to hospitals because of the fear porn being broadcast nonstop by the media?
Mithenge – when the sun crosses the infinite corridor at MIT
> then says masks don't help

Actually, they said this:

Masks don't help

Masks do help, but save them for the healthcare workers

Masks do help, get one, a cloth one is fine.

Masks do help, double-mask

Mask do help, but you need N95 masks

Given that even with a properly fitting N95 mask that is form fitting you can still smell everything right through it, I think a properly fit, and negative pressure tested N100 or P100 is likely the actual protective standard of solid protection. Unfortunately, I have a few P100s sitting around and I can tell you that sleeping in one, or wearing one reguarly around town makes me feel I am living in a post apocalyptic dystopian future. Think 12 monkeys(1) minus the full chem/bio suit and crazy decon procedures.

This whole ordeal has greatly shaken my faith in technocratic government.

(1) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114746/
Amazing that we went from this potato[1] for $12 in 2013 to that Redmi 2 in 9 years. Now, you said that you buy the Redmi second-hand, but still - the leap is amazing.

[1] https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=3107
SF successfully evaded the crypto crash
Having a proper database for note systems isn't necessarily a bad idea. For large knowledge bases, it lets you do arbitrary queries at least somewhat efficiently. Many apps just limit the kinds of searches/queries you can do, but eventually you end up needing to have an ad hoc query optimizer and planner or for users to have control over query evaluation so they can do the optimization themselves.

However, you could probably still use sqlite for analytic queries by just creating an in-memory or temporary database at startup then watching for file changes to keep the database consistent. Creating this database probably won't take that long unless you are trying to store all of Wikipedia in your knowledge base.
Quebec is a test ground because they've got a language barrier, so it's not like any resistance will register or trend online or make mainstream media.
This has nothing to do with safety either. Knowing some people who work in Walmart corporate, I interpret it as pure cynical and radical politics. The Waltons have shown they are very much on board with the WEF/ESG agenda, and they are as out of touch with us as Bentonville is to the rest of Arkansas.

It's an abomination, but if I were to make a prediction, judging by the size of the truck convoy crossing the country, this will be the least interesting news about this topic over the next couple of weeks.
Search engine: geminispace.info

Protocol homepage: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/

Feed aggregator (one of many): gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/

Curated Gemini directory: gemini://medusae.space/
Thanks for the feedback. Ugh I really wish there was a good enough common notes format standard that would make these decisions less difficult. I'd like to be able to easily take my data with me to whichever note taking app I wanna try out
The substantive criticism is clear: discounting is questionable when it comes to human lives.
I hate those dropdown things that say "How to change gamma values in gimp" and they lead to a YouTube tutorial.

Please stop serving me YouTube tutorials; they all suck.
Let me add something here; Zim feels the most personally extensible (except for, of course, org-mode, I must admit)

I see a bunch of people here with laundry lists of requirements, and when I see them, I'm like -- yes, a lot of those seem reasonable, but I've also had the same, and I've just built them myself, with some very hacky Bash. But any language will work.

Examples..lets see. I add todo items from anywhere (including phone) with email. I use Blitzmail on the phone and an IMAP script on the computer to send myself a tagged email, then I have another script to check and parse and add them to Zims "Journal"

My personal website is in Zim. I have a short one-liner to update it to my server; but I also teach at a college. I learned just enough of the Canvas API to also update certain pages of it to my class webpages. Also another one to update the Slides I make in Zim as well.

Etc.
When I started a new job at a NOC, I was pranked with one of those. I didn't know what to make of the odd recurring ~12khz beeps, and figured it was some old device slowly dying. So I pulled out a stopwatch to see if I could suss out the interval on the beeping. I was too focused on timing the beeps to notice my coworkers exchanging glances with each other after asking them, "Does anyone else hear that?"

I found a pattern emerge. It repeated itself every 10 beeps or so, with irregular intervals between those beeps. Armed with that information, I could effectively predict the next beep within 3-5 seconds (intervals ranged between 3-10 minutes, if I recall.) So I started walking around the room, standing in different locations as I stared at my stopwatch. The farther apart the places I stood, the better chance I'd have of triangulating the source with each beep.

I got within 3-5 feet of it in the ~300 square foot room before the coworkers came clean about what they had done. I wasn't even mad, I was having a blast!
> The effect exists but the data shows it does not matter.

You may have been right at a time where almost nobody had a previous infection. However, estimates by reputable sources https://covidestim.org/us show that a large percentage of people have been infected by covid at least once. The data are by state, I see ~75% for MA, 80% for CA and NY, and you can pick your favorite state.

At this point it is more correct to say that the vaccine does not matter, and immunity by prior infection is the dominant effect. Either that, or the Yale school of public health, the Harvard school of public health, and the Stanford Medicine institutes who run the covidestim.org site are full of shit.
Yes, column storage is great, specially when you only need a small subset of columns as there much less reading operations. I have experience working with Parquet files, so I can see the benefits of CTFs, even if we don't take into account summary metadata and so forth.

In its current version, SPyQL only reads from the stdin so it could only read a single column (a single file), unless you had an util merging the required columns beforehand (which could very well eliminate any performance gains of CTFs). I am planning to support reading from files/directories (as an argument) and in that case it's a matter of extending the processor class to deal with CTFs (column names = file names, etc). For taking full advantage of CTFs we would need to only open/read the required columns/files, but that seems very doable.

How often with CTFs would you have your column files (individually) compressed? What would be the most popular compression formats? Thanks!

BTW, nice R lib, I also love R :-)
That looks freakin awesome!
Ask HN: Which companies have full stack roles with heavy exposure to Infra/SRE
I would like to move an SRE role in the future. Currently Full stack developer with 9 YOE.

Any tips on finding roles that can leverage full stack experience and have a heavy SRE exposure(Public cloud)?
I've been stuck with a older, underpowered dev machine but in compromise I've also been given a VM in the cloud to work with. It has way more horse power for way less cost than any comparable laptop. At this point it feels like they just don't want to manage physical devices anymore and want the flexibility of renting whatever compute resources are needed for development.

Edit: The actual day to day experience is not so bad with vscode and the right plugins.
A standard nursing degree in Europe takes three years. That's not a scientific law, it's not like it takes 365 * 3 * 2/3 = 17520 hours to learn how to be useful in an ICU. An LPN can be done in a year. We trained mechanical engineers in as little time during WWII.

If we're to treat this like an emergency, why aren't we treating it like an emergency?
I seem to recall reading "You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28684250

I hope substack can really change the game here because their business model delivers content you paid to receive rather than competing for your attention. More on that here:
https://on.substack.com/p/substacks-view-of-content-moderati...
Oh, but they do!

The cost of cheap tools can be a fraction of a well-made tool. On paper (ie. the only way in which a manager can compare them) they have identical functionality. So why spend 100x more?

Even if you then have to replace them more often, it's not likely that they need to be replaced 100x more often. And even if they do, that's not in this year's budget, so you can deal with that problem later, while saving a bunch now.

The intangible cost of crappy tools is very hard to measure in a way that can compete with the dollar cost in a manger's mind.

And so similarly, you get two extremes of developer culture: Aeron chairs, standing desks, subtle lighting, and good machines or crappy desks, left-over chairs, 7/11-style lighting, and cheap laptops.
3 hours? In the best of times it's an 8 hour wait before covid.
Here is the interview in question https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yUMIFYBMnc
A forth env fits in 64x16. Nethack has a patch somewhere for low resolutions, from the zipit z2, based on the 3.4.3 release. If it works on Nethack, Slashem
should be easily patchable, too.
I'm currently working on getting a retired Broadcast Electronics 2100C cart machine from my old college radio station and as I expected the parts appear to be very hard to come by. If anyone has a suggestion/lead I'd be grateful.
fwiw, I put myself on the King County (seattle, wa area) booster waiting list months ago and only got an email the other day that my turn was up. They wanted me to drive ~30 minutes out of town for a booster, and I don't have a car.

The situation is not great. I have no idea how a poor person would navigate this system.
But we don't do it with every other vaccine. There are vaccines targeted at specific groups and vaccines that are optional regardless of group.

And there are zero mandatory vaccines that require 6-month boosters for life.

And zero mandatory vaccines that have efficacy rates under 90+% (probably more like 99%).

I think it's ok to acknowledge we're in totally novel territory with covid.
I think a lot of this is down to the fact that all issues that the user could resolve have already been fixed and when you eventually hit an issue, its some low level problem you have no hope of fixing anyway. While on windows or linux you often run in to situations where its just "Oh don't press that button, thats the button that makes it blow up, press the one next to it" while apple removes the button that makes it blow up.

That isn't always the case, but it tends to be.
I agree with your sentiment - longtermism as a term needs to be tempered with a dose of reality. When does longtermism become another word for "fantasy"?
I mean, of course it's a boondoggle? Isn't everything NASA does, outside of maybe climate science, a boondoggle? There was no real reason to put someone on the moon or build a space station. The Hubble has taken some pretty pictures, but doesn't really make people's live better in a measurable way. There's really no reason to want to see if you can fly a helicopter on Mars. The point is to do something challenging and cool and get some funding for science that isn't directly related to the military.
I really hope Apple decides to improve things for their ecosystem within the framework of Bluetooth rather than go their own way as some people here have suggested. That route would almost certainly lead to a proliferation of proprietary PAN standards and allow cell manufacturers to tax (or just acquire) consumer audio companies, many of which are struggling to compete with AirPods already. Anyway, we're going to find out soon: Apple has all but confirmed that they're working on something to solve their Bluetooth bandwidth problem [1]. Could just be a new Bluetooth profile, and I feel for the Apple users because that would almost certainly just multiply these annoyances rather than fixing them (wider audio quality gap = more people notice when the connection is inexplicably stuck on the ultra-low quality voice call profile which happens all the time, causes the OP's Annoyance 3 and is one of the causes of Annoyance 4). But I think we'll be better off in the long run if Apple and others in the industry work on Bluetooth improvements that everyone can use without paying up to Qualcomm.

[1] https://www.whathifi.com/features/is-bluetooth-holding-back-...