skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One useful framing is to ask not about the mechanics at the individual level,

but at the level of society (and by extension, sustainable civilization).

There is strong signal everywhere that strong signals deeply shape not just individual behavior but individual understanding of it. This is in significant part what we mean when we examine "cultural difference" which many of us here know is very real and sometimes seems unbridgeably deep.

A question to ask then, aligned with the concern, is, "what do we want our society to be like?" I.e. what culture do we wish to live in and inculcate in ourselves?

This converts readily in to the question facing societies since before Aristotle, and this is why he was interested in the related question, "what is 'the good'?"

This problem–the problem of our consumpation-based, demand-manufacturing, resource-consuming culture–has been explicitly analyzed and critiqued for several generations now; and there are reasonably contemporary, reasonably sound models of how we might change course without e.g. wholesale Marxist revolution.

Of these I have always been fond of Paul Goodman's communitarianism, which is recent enough to address the real systemic pathologies of contemporary America, albeit of decades ago; but is in need of a total reboot wrt its reliance on hard data, and the language formal and "on brand" for the mechanisms it proposes for us to pivot.

TL;DR: communitarianism proposes humans find deepest satisfaction and contentment in contributing to a community in a tangible way, to the betterment of their fellows as well as themselves; isolation, cynicism, tribalism, and alienation are hence considered primary targets; the premise is that addressing these requires systemic (legal, political, economic, and infrastructural) change, not the "personal responsibility" which however drives that change.
Wordle helped save an 80 year old woman from being kidnapped
This reminds me of what the Death Stranding team presented at GDC regarding the pathfinding. They had LOTS of new issues for a game due to the unique nature of Death Stranding (obstacles, tripping, balancing) and they do an excellent job at outlining their approach.

Video (51 mins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqZE5O8VPAU
Relevant to interpreting M1 and its sudden jump in 2020:

https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2021/05/savings-are-now-more...
about intelligence, being in post agricultural has benefits, but it removes the constant stimulation and challenge of wild life indeed. The former allows for slightly more explicit and abstract thinking, the latter for intuitionistic skills (ability to find quick solution that work for critical situations). I'm interested in this topic because spending time in the woods made my brain operate very differently. Also crafting with no evolved tooling is very hard.
I like that this challenges some assumptions, but it does very little to discredit the AMPLE research in the area. Other than to say, let's not trust old research, which is kind of a gas-lighty way to look at it.
Why are you including [past sensing costs] in g(x)? The sensing costs aren't part of the cost of following the path; they're a cost of calculating it.
An ebook with Easy EdgeDB (https://www.edgedb.com/easy-edgedb)?
Hah, but this time _they_ have the dollar printer. They can actually take the convertibility of 1 dollar = 1 dollar all the way to the stratosphere if they want.

Greetings from a fellow neighbor
It’s called a Ponzi scheme. It works until it doesn’t. See Robinhood and Peleton.

All five of the Big Tech companies were profitable before they went public. Even Amazon had positive margins and they were plowing money back in to the business. Most of the former unicorns don’t have positive margins.

“Growth” is okay if your funneling profits back into your business. But see DoorDash. How do you not money delivering food when everyone is afraid to leave their house like in 2020?

It’s not about growth, it’s about attrition. Every VC is hoping that they can
pawn their money losing investments off to a gullible public.
I don't see my "true" desires as some platonic ideal, but I prefer to thinkmit it like the fast and slow thinking idea - what I would like my desires to be and what I can be manipulated into in the moment.

I would like to plan my purchases (and time allocation) ahead for a week, it would involve more fruit and vegetables, more time in the gym and less buying snacks on the go.

Advertising tries to divert me from those "planned" goals. Yes that's what advertising is for - and as such it is antognistic to my "true" desires. Of course my true desires will chnage over time but the adverts for pension planning and kids ISAs line up with my "true" desires. Even if I don't particularly care which provider I use
When losing one's research partner is like losing a part of oneself (2018)
I'm talking about the one-time initial setup of the Tailscale client software.

Can you download and run Tailscale on a Windows client without Administrative access to install the software (setup the virtual NIC)? An SSH client is just a user-space app.
Came fur cute kittehs.

I am disappoint.
It depends on the org and how they approach remote work.
your frustration is justified. azure/aws is the entire environment. i dont think you could have implemented the suggested magical suggestion in any relevant or practical way.
I keep hearing from people who think nuclear's a bad idea that "France is ramping down its reliance on nuclear power, so what does that tell you?"

I wonder whether any will change their minds based on this news.
PNW black ice. I’ve lost count of the number of times that I ended up on the ground with torn tights and a bleeding elbow, wondering what the hell just happened. Now if it is between 30F-39F, I’ll just skip that ride.
Warren and Sanders are centrists. Centre-right and centre-left respectively.
We already had two (I don't remember the order, but they were called Privacy Shield and Safe Harbour) and somehow US and US companies "forgot" to upheld their part in any meaningiful way, so there's some mistrust on the whole idea at the moment...
Ads also eat up a vast proportion of your monthly data allowance if you're on mobile.
> You don't think lowering healthcare costs, keeping sick people at home, and straight up giving parents of children cash resulted in fewer of the most vulnerable people in US society dying?

I think this is a very nice theory which, unfortunately, doesn't seem to be borne out in the data. See below.

> there absolutely was a substantial dip in deaths after the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 was passed in March of 2021.

First, the money didn't magically appear in everyone's pocket the day the act was passed, so if you were going to look for any effects, it wouldn't be right after the act was passed. You would have to allow some time for the effects to propagate. How much time? Of course nobody has any answer to that; anyone who claims to is just waving their hands and pushing an ideological position.

Second, as I've already said, all the variation we see in the data can be explained by seasonality and the times at which various new variants appeared. So Occam's Razor says there was no significant effect due to all the additional money being printed.
I use it to send and receive pictures all the time. If I'm documenting something for a client the I sure as hell won't start trying to find the client on social media.
You are mistaken: Apple is not submitting that data, that's not how these products work. These data products are collected via scraping, other software integrations (e.g. payroll), or sometimes calling for employment verification, not from first party submissions. An accurate org chart of a company is valuable private knowledge, no company is just exporting it so that anyone with a few thousand dollars can get a copy.
It gained traction on Android thanks to Google pushing it over their creptic Java implementation, while pretending anything beyond Java 8 never happened.

It will follow the path of every other JVM guest language.

I will care when the JVM gets a single line of Kotlin commit.

Google should just buy JetBrains and rename ART into KVM.
Wait, it stores the data in Postgres? So this is essentially a data model on Postgres?

FWIW, I do think there's a space in the market for a thin wrapper over Postgres (or MySQL) which would automate certain optimisations such as whether to index a particular table. It always struck me as perverse that that optimisation was delegated to the developer, when it's no more subjective or application-specific than a thousand other automated optimisations the engine makes. I'd be really interested if your project covered that.
Look at it this way, if x = number of total users, routing nodes will grow O(log x), not O(c^x). The users can grow exponentially, the routing nodes won't because the marginal cost of processing an extra transaction from an end-user is very close to 0.
> Financial motive

> Political motive

Certainly will raise doubts in the mind of any rational thinker.
How do you handle backup and restore on a system like this? If the snapshots are at the OS level, and there is cross-app commingling of data objects, how can you restore the state of a particular application or object (formerly "file") without breaking everything? How do I restore a single document or a single contact in my address book?
Mising – An app to find missing people
I certainly learned to do the bare minimum required to get a 4.0. It was pretty easy in the end.
I don't see how lottery tickets yield the isoperimetry result, even in a heuristic or handwavy sort of way. Yes, a larger network is more likely to have good-scoring subnetworks; sure. But that's all it says. What does that tell me about how efficiently I can construct an adversarial example? For that, I need something else, like, say a geometric argument about what sort of network will interpolate between high-dimensional datapoints with properties like "not changing much in response to small input changes"...
My dealer is offering me 5k over what I bought my '19 Fit EX for and that's with a pending 1.8k repair (infotainment screen is broken). Anything with adaptive cruise and lane keep has had its price sky rocket.

I'm not selling as the only thing comparable size wise would be a Focus or Fiesta but those are in crazy demand too due to being discontinued. It sucks for long car rides (stiff as hell suspension) but it's so much fun to drive.
Dgraph.io?

How you guys compare yourself to dgraph database?
The free credits are nice, but run out quickly. Azure is expensive, but has a lot of nice tools from key vaults, log analyzers, CDN, databases, pipelines, to firewalls. I mean, yeah, you can implement similar stuff on a DO platform but you're going to be wiring it all up yourself, taking on the liability for keeping it all secure, and providing the warranty for its availability and effectiveness. The value to AWS/GCP/Azure is far beyond free credits. They've commoditized services - it rarely makes sense to pay for in-house expertise in managing those services yourself.

Also, the offline version of Office is going away, to my knowledge. I think the current boxed version is the last boxed version they plan to sell.
Easy! I dont tolerate finicky tech.
In 1000 years people will see most of our current internet the same way we see the pyramids at Giza, and they will wonder why we spent so much effort on something with no obvious value.
I'm probably not going to get a reply, but let's try:

Source ?
If you look at the graph of the share price since IPO it doesn't exactly look as though Twitter is suddenly doing badly.
If it's a general course, you can even pay a udemy course to each employee for 15 bucks each (or even less for companies?) like https://www.udemy.com/course/security-awareness-training/? Haven't tested it, but for box ticking it may be enough.

If it's for developers or engineers, I've been working on the approach that you get security awareness when working with security engineers. The idea to have a security person close to your team that will teach in practice what it's hard to absorb with some courses out there. Not a replacement for a course, but another way to learn. For more details on this, the info is on my profile.
Having been a recipient of those programs “staples” are not what is being subsidized. The largest “food” producers are, like General Mills and Coca Cola.

I could get soda but not fresh fruits or vegetables for my kids.

We somehow have to keep discussing what real nutrition for children looks like and the impact it has on their ability to become productive citizens. It’s really not that much of a mystery anymore, plenty of reproducible studies have been done, but our systems are still not designed to achieve it.

Yes, it makes a massive difference what the goals of food security are.
They did not hold the house very long :)
Apparel makes sense.

It’s very high margin and the company is in a great position to market to fitness conscious people. But I don’t see it ever being more than a side business.
Hey, I read this exact same story two weeks ago https://sylviavanos.nl/blog/2021/12/24/google_play_hell.html
That's why I like StimulusReflex (and Hotwire). Stimulus offers a very nice pattern for adding the small bits of additional JS you need without ad-hoc JS spaghetti, while letting you push the vast majority of the rest to the backend.
I don’t agree with his comment and sure in a theoretical round cow in a vacuumed sort of way sure workers and managers incentives should align with company profits.

My point was economists spend a lot of time investigating the mismatch because no company gets this completely correct.
I took some pretty meticulous notes in the last couple of years working for myself. I found that 2x2hour chunks of active mental effort 5 days a week is very sustainable. Add another 1 hour a day and burnout starts to become a statistical risk, but with very low probability. Each half hour after that and the rate goes up exponentially. Burnout starts with high distractability. It takes an hour to do what should take 15 minutes, which leads to the feeling that you should effort more to make up for the “lost” 45 minutes. And from there the spiral begins.

I’m not at all surprised at the 4 day movement that’s starting to gain momentum. I suspect if I could have boxed my time differently I could have fit my 25hours of effort into 4 days given the breaks necessary to really concentrate, and still had time to update, meet and coordinate with clients, while maintaining the rest of my output. I think we do spend a lot of time spinning our wheels as we get more fatigued throughout the week, and that can encompass an entire workday’s worth of effort.
They're more complex in biological construction and in signaling mechanism, but no proof that they are more complex in function.
It always seems weird to me how people think of inflation as a single number, when it is made of made of many different components, some prices might be going down or constant, while others are rising. Energy prices rising are definitely the most impactful ones cause they affect every sector.
I've been using Firefox + uBO on Android. But I also run NetGuard from F-Droid as a local VPN ad blocker. I used to run Blokada, which does the same thing and is good too. But I like the more granular control over each app in NetGuard.
The cookie banners are a byproduct of companies still wanting to abuse your data, when was the last time you saw a cookie pop-up on HN? Logged in or not.
The Birth Certificate in Your Mouth (2019)
Sorry I wasn’t clear. The reason there are no competing products isn’t because it is hard. It’s because they keep getting bought as soon as someone does “good enough”
Do you also treat an artist's work in creating game assets as something that shouldn't be considered art?
Does OpenTTD not have A* track laying yet? It's such a bore doing it by hand all the time.
You're missing Microsoft: MANAMA
Right - I understood that it was the walking tree from Lord of the Rings. But, what does it mean for Consul to hold a walking tree?

Is it something like: "Consul bears a heavy weight (has a lot of responsibility and so responds slowly)"?
Adipose-tissue plasticity in health and disease
But we are already at low unemployment before COVID and all the spending; we don't need inflation to drive jobs growth. It would be worth debating the tradeoffs if we were sitting at 10%+ unemployment with no path for improvement, but if anything, it is the job market starved for labor, not the other way around.
Doulas may or may not have midwife training, they aren't the same thing

https://thewell.northwell.edu/pregnancy/doula-vs-midwife
Latvia to Reimburse Jewish Community for Properties of Holocaust Victims
Maybe that's true for the Microsofts and Google's of the world. But for smaller companies trying to provide SaaS or PaaS it totally keeps them from entering the market. So in the end it only increases the difficulty to compete in EU and increases the power of these mega corps.
Affirm shares plummet 21% after accidentally tweeting financial results early
> One way is a LLC where stock grants rights to single apartment.

That is literally "corporations buying residential housing."

It may be different than the ones in this story, but that's where the challenge in the law will be - how do you forbid/discourage one type of corporate ownership vs another type?
Sure, but the demand for these things didn't exist _until_ you saw the ad, and the value add becomes that much more abstract: i.e. what if there's a movie you would've liked more instead?
What are you considering anecdata? The US's two largest employers (Walmart and Amazon) and Marriott use "associates." Target, Hilton, Qdoba and other companies use "team members." Starbucks uses "partners." Hyatt uses "colleagues." Cabela's uses "outfitters." Cringe for sure, but not using "employee" is more common than many think.

I certainly understand that this context may be less familiar than the different use of "associate" at perhaps the more familiar VC firm or law firm, retail store, etc. But it's my educated guess that this former context is the one in which Apple is using associate.
I've worked with government organizations and military organizations where titles are "analyst" or "specialist". It even lists such on the business cards and pay stubs.
So you go from saying what I claimed "isn't born out in the data" to saying there's no way of knowing when the effects kick in (though you do give some sense of timelines, which happen to line up pretty well with what is observed), to saying the effects we do see in the data (contradicting your first point) "can be explained by seasonality".

Just sounds like you're making up whatever excuses you can to avoid giving credit where credit is due.

Occam's Razor here says that the dump of money helped people, as that is by far the simplest explanation. It's your convoluted mishmash of viewpoints that is objectively more complex.
NASA's ELaNa 41 launch possibly failed
On board cameras showed 2nd stage spinning just after separation, then the live stream went dark.

Recorded stream here - failure starts at 1:02:30 with separation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jlQmW7mnYM&t=3740s

Edit: updated link.
https://archive.is/jwy9Q
>Monero is technically superior to Bitcoin in basically every way

I see how this is true from a privacy perspective, but how does monero solve the issue of the blockchain eventually becoming too large for an ordinary person to run a node on their pc? the bitcoin blockchain is already several hundred gigabytes
But it infringes on my freedom to get spied on by shady companies and their government!
I agree, that one should be more worried about how Google uses the data.

I think I wrote about the US intelligence thingy, because it was closer to the topic. The question, why the court ruling went this way and what it rests on. If there was no possibility for the US to access the data, then Google could probably simply pinky finger swear, that they are not doing anything evil with the data and EU law might be fine with it.

Does it matter, whether the scenario is "exaggerated"? If it is possible, it needs to be considered by the law. Otherwise it might soon become less exaggerated and more reality than we would wish.
Being a provider was the purpose, not is. And I acknowledge that it's restrictive.
Tantivy – full text search engine library written in Rust
Original title: “ A daughter worried when her 80-year-old mom didn’t text her Wordle score. A man was holding her hostage, police say.”
> European startups will not be able to use standard SaaS or PaaS tools (like AWS, Azure, Mailchimp, PayPal etc) if they are based in the US

PaaS and IaaS providers all have a presence in the EU or is that still not good enough to pass the regulation that's in place?

SaaS I get it, they'd have to create a presence in the EU but I don't think that's a bad thing. They will, at least the big ones you mentioned. And if that's a problem for smaller SaaS providers then the market will have a solution for that emerge over time.
I can't recall the last time I bought something I didn't want.
Most languages are quite tough to get into. And they require some real learning if you want to do anything trivial. JS is easy to get started (only the browser you already have) and you can do quite a lot without understanding anything about computer science. But it catches to you anyway. I've seen on Twitter someone repelled by the MDN documentation, describing it as not intuitive. I realized that the documentation assumes you're familiar with the basic tenets of programming (data types and structures, function signatures, ...). Which bootcamps often conveniently ignore.
https://archive.is/DIphj
IIRC, some far-left African American groups were working with the KKK to promote the "Back to Africa" movement through the civil rights era. I forget if it was the Black Panthers or Black Hebrew Israelites / Black Zionists or something along those lines... but there's a significant amount of uncomfortable overlap there.

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There's also the famous pact between Hitler (far right Fascism) and Stalin (far left Communism).

Some people like to say that the left-right spectrum is a horseshoe. The far-left and the far-right start to get similar ideas and the "spectrum" bends back around like a horseshoe, meeting back in the middle. In many ways, its the moderates who disagree on the most number of subjects.

And while the language of the extremists (either left or right) are different, the extremists are more alike than their philosophies seem to indicate.
Jack saw this coming and hightailed it outta there as fast as he could!
There are places in Wall Street that hand out "Vice President" titles as candy.
> The US Federal debt is currently $30 trillion USD. This is never getting balanced, ever. There's only one possible eventual outcome with this system.

The US debt to GDP ratio is currently slightly higher than it was at the end of WWII. It is significantly lower than that of Japan, who has a debt to GDP ration similar to those the UK ran during portions of the 19th century.

There are very good reasons for governments should be prudent in their spending and high levels of debt are to be avoided. But no, it will never be balanced, the national debt is permanent and exists by design.

> There's only one possible eventual outcome with this system.

I don't think that's true, and I'm really not even sure what you're ominously hining at.
I mean they just disclosed a 1.6mil hack 40days ago.

I like polygon and unfortunately feel like hacks/stolen funds are part of the maturing process for blockchain projects but im not yet ready to say they are building a reputation for solid secure code.
I curious if the type of work or how much your interested in the "work" effects your burn-out.
RE: Monero, I agree. One shortfall - how do we verify no one on the network has found and exploited an inflation bug?