skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At first I was like: “this is easy!!”

Then suddenly it wasn’t.
Making Child Tax Credit Permanent Would Have 1k% Return on Investment
You should check out Ryan Jenks on How Not To. His rope swings are pretty safe but also just insane at the same time.
That's tricky, though -- if you just query the acceleration structure for the nearest lights, you might discard some that are important but far away, and that introduces bias into the results.

The unbiased thing would be to use all the lights, but use some kind of weighted random sampling where you pick nearby lights most of the time, but occasionally you pick one that's far away and give it's results a higher weight to counteract that it's not chosen very often.

In a lot of contexts, though, I can agree that the pragmatic choice might be just to cull the number of lights you have to deal with by defining them to have a maximum range, and if you store them in an acceleration structure it'll be easy to query just the ones that matter.
One person's idea of a "side step" is another person's "refraining from making assumptions" but point noted.

For me, in my position of refraining from associating life with particular types stars, I at least feel a bit more reassurance to think of us as in the company of stars writ large, by which measure we're not so close to the end of the cosmic span of time.

That said, I think sun-like stars is a perfectly legitimate measure to put alongside the others when casting about for intuitive ways of assessing where we stand on a cosmic timeline.
I think antifragile theory is needed to really understand anti-intellectualism.

Engineers love to convince themselves that older and simpler is always better.

So, you might have someone who can solve a differential equation, but seriously looks down on anyone with an Alexa, and thinks we will never be able to transition to all electric cars cleanly with future tech.

They are sometimes biased toward their senses much more than numbers. An engineer could totally still say "Metal is always better than cheap plastic crap" and make a power drill with a solid steel case or something. The technical analysis only matters if you actually do it.

They can do tech on a personal level but they don't trust the large scale process of technical improvement.

The other commenter mentioned disregard for the humanities and I think they are related.

"My intelligence is more valuable than your education" is a common belief. People seem to see life and work not as a series of projects, but like a sport, where the goal is to test yourself in a pure way, without "cheating".

The humanities often don't have objective success criteria, they are seen as nonessential, and often have lower barrier to entry(Some people can learn to draw from zero in a few weeks, math takes months to years before you can do anything you can't do with an app). These people judge value by amount of challenge.

It just doesn't fit the "Living off the land, surviving on your own skill, being practical instead of academic, trusting your eyes not math" kind of paradigm as well.
> Hell, adjusting the 70's minimum wage to today's dollars puts it at like $24...

Bullshit...the unqualified assertion doesn't even pass a ballpark sniff test using Department of Labor's historical federal minimum wage rates[1] and Bureau of Labor Statistics' CPI inflation calculator[2] against Feb 2022 buying power.

| Eff Date | Rate | Today |
|----------|------|-------|
| Jan 1970 | 1.60 | 12.01 |
| May 1974 | 2.00 | 11.68 |
| Jan 1975 | 2.10 | 11.44 |
| Jan 1976 | 2.30 | 11.74 |
| Jan 1978 | 2.65 | 12.03 |
| Jan 1979 | 2.90 | 12.05 |

[1] https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage/history/chart

[2] https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl
Exactly, yes, a hundred times yes! This is the major flaw in our system. But I don't see a way of rebalancing to saner priorities. And apparently, neither do our supreme leaders.
Gas price stimulus checks proposals head to Congress
That's the problem with trying to do ANYTHING in our current system: It's going to turn into a circus of definition abuse and loopholes. Not to mention the IRS would be sued to high heaven and this shit would take years to implement, if it were allowed at all.

Our system is completely fucked.

But we're all stopping shy of having THAT conversation, so to address some points:

> All that's going to do is cause companies to jettison their lowest paying employees. For instance, Apple would outsource janitors to another company (i'm pretty sure they already do that) and spin out apple stores/genius to another company. That way, the only people you have left are tim cook and other highly paid engineers/designers making 6 figures. Yay we fixed the pay gap!

True, but this would still overall be beneficial because the CEOs of those janitorial companies are now paid more in line with the janitors, which means that the working conditions are more likely to improve.

> Sound like that would push employers into moving more of their compensation to year-end bonuses, which can be arbitrarily raised/lowered without being subject to "COL raises". In other words, "good news, you have received a COL raise of 5% this year! bad news, your year end bonus has dropped by 5%"

Probably, but how many employees in America get year end bonuses? Because I've gotten like...2 and I've worked a decent range of jobs. They're way less common than you think. Yes, this would probably mean the people at the top would start taking from the middle instead of the bottom to retain their profit. It's not ideal, but I'd rather someone be stuck renting longer/have to cut their grocery bill (middle class) than end up homeless (lower class).

You're right about the enrichment programs, though, now that I think about it. There's a reason I mostly saw that in universities, I'd imagine.
Ukraine will lose the war is an example of a wrong opinion.
I don't think that's what's happening, I think these quality niche creators are just flooded out by the views from videos that get much wider audience adoption. Stuff like "Win/Fail Compilation 246" that gest 10mil views with a new release every day is more profitable for YouTube to show than a science video that gets 1m views with a release once a month, which is high for a science video.
I disagree. Spotify is practically a monopoly and is a rent-seeking entity. The reason artists can't go somewhere else is not because Spotify efficiently operates at cost (their gross margin was 26.5% in Q4), but because it's the only brand most customers know.
One row of that, two colors, has 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 permutations. Now do it for 63 more rows. Now write that to disk.
I think the problem Gnome, and Microsoft, have is they keep throwing money at designers. So designers keep making designs for the sake of designing. They should stop designing, stick to the design they already have and only do incremental updates when new widgets come out.
I hire alot of people, I pay them based on the value of what they produce.

One guy I work with has 8 children. Another is married to a partner in a law firm and lives in a home likely worth >$5M. I don’t pay them any different.
You mean it would cost you one coffee every 2 weeks and that's too much? Or for your 2 days it would cost one coffee a day.
This seems to be a purely US phenomenon? It seems a great idea to scale retirement communities to the point of having their own hospitals and theaters etc. but I don't see it happening here. Just smaller groups of houses with maybe a few carers and an on-call nurse. And our aged care system is officially horrific and an election issue.
> Questioning your own beliefs is absolutely terrifying

I don't think it's terrifying at all, it's healthy. "Wrong think" is bad in your words.
In men?
And the most frustrating thing is that even if I don’t actually use Reddit I find myself ending up on it just because a lot of times it happens that a lot of dev related interesting material has been posted on it: so a call to any dev out there, can we stop posting stuff on Reddit please (and also discord )

Make forums great again please
Is macOS 11 a lot different than macOS 12?

I'm using macOS 12 right now and there are a lot of 3D elements especially if you compare it to Windows 10 or Gnome in the screenshots of this post. It seems to be a mix of both approaches (similar to GTK 3).
>Not hearing enough about this reminds me of the overly cheerful propaganda, the same sort as mentioned in these headlines.

I am cautiously optimistic for Ukraine based on reports over the past month. But I am also aware of the history of war propaganda.

The front pages of US and UK newspapers during the Battle of France, for example, were filled with headlines talking about French successes in repelling the Hun. Anyone paying attention to the details, however, could see that the successes were constantly occurring closer and closer to Paris.

If Russia wins, there is going to be a lot of cognitive dissonance among those whose worldviews are entirely shaped by Reddit headlines and Twitter takes. I'd hope that having their worldviews shattered so abruptly and violently would cause such people to reexamine all of their preconceptions, but given how previous such cases (notably Brexit and Trump's election, both in 2016) mostly caused them to double down rather than seriously self reflect, I am not hopeful.
From the headline:
"ULTRA FIT™ MASK Filtration like an N95 Breathability of a 3-Ply"

From the FAQ:

"Are ULTRA FIT™ masks rated as an N95 respirators?"

"No. N95 respirators are intended for healthcare workers and, if used correctly, must be fitted to the user’s face in a specialized process called “fit testing.” A professionally fitted N95 respirator will provide more protection than an ULTRA FIT™ mask but will be much less breathable and much less comfortable than an ULTRA FIT™ mask. N95 respirators are designed for front line healthcare workers looking after COVID patients. N95 masks are not suitable for general community use, because most people will not reliably wear an uncomfortable mask in low risk community settings. ULTRA FIT™ masks are designed for comfort, compliance, and better protection than any other mask for general community use."

But then they go on to show some decent results from their ASTM testing!

They desperately need a copywriter, marketer, or someone else who's going to put a little more thought into what they're communicating.

If you dig deep, it looks legit. On the surface the claims are impressive. But right below the surface— where many scam-averse PPE shoppers will be lurking— you start to see warning signs. They're comparing it to an N95 too much but the qualifiers are awful. That FAQ answer is both condescending in the way scam copy is, and fails to offer any justification for why THEY made the comparison. They don't mention the ASTM certification, let alone the impressive tests results. The only efficacy numbers they show are at the bottom of a linked PDF.

Seems like a good product but a great example of how communication isn't making something look and sound nice. A mask made by two doctors, one also a medical engineer, working in two of the best hospital systems in the country, will look no different than some random factory pressing stuffed animal batting into the shape of KN95 masks without the proper communication.
Does the browser allow sites to check for installed extensions?

If yes, is there an extension to block extension checking
Thank you, you took a dour thought of mine and turned it into a very hopeful one.
Yea "backwards-compatible GitHub replacement" would grow, gain traction and ... it would be bought by Micr0s0ft anyway. Welcome in corporate world.
It's the cycle of GNOME. Every few years they introduce something new that causes lots of regressions. Some of these regressions are then being worked at, some are defended as "design decisions" (no theming, Nautilus opening a new window for every folder, broken filechooser dialog, desktop indexer you can't turn off). Bugs are worked on and thing stabilize. People learn workarounds for their issues. Then another iOS-inspired thing comes and things break again.
There seems to much more concern about side effects than is exhibited for women’s birth control.

The unwillingness to even try to sell a male birth control because if fears about a side effect profile that matches what women can deal with is a good indicator of just how fragile the drug manufacturers think men are.
Do these issues not still apply? Have they been fixed?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllTrials
The truth this article touches on is that it's not even really about citation counts anymore, it's about dollars. Via drug companies, private grants, federal grants, any sorts of money coming in from outside the university or hospital. I've sat on promotion meetings where people aren't publishing, but are bringing in 2 million dollar grants and "it's all ok".

This incentive structure distorts research. What to do about it? I'm not exactly sure but having university administrations who see research as a means to make money, rather than an end in itself, is not the way.
> For example, if you want a crisp 1px border on 96 dpi, you could specify it to be a 1px border at 96 dpi… but then what happens at 1.5x or 1.75x scale?

The border width should get snapped to the physical (sub-)pixel resolution as part of rendering. Typically, this should come with changes in contrast too, such that if a line is forced to become thinner it also gets drawn with higher contrast wrt. the surroundings, and vice versa. All of this stuff can be made to work.

Also, if you are forced to render a canvas at a resampled resolution because existing APIs give you no other choice, at least do it right using a proper Lanczos-style resampling. This might end up with a quaint "watercolor" effect but guess what, that's a lot better than a blurry, eye-fatiguing mess.
I always do compilation on a web server after running "nice bash" to avoid disrupting other processes.
You might enjoy this as an alternative: https://www.locserendipity.com/NYPL.html

You could also download the books using the list on my website and extract all of the images with these instructions: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Extracting_imag...
> There's an obvious difference between trying to hurt people and not trading with them yourself

Ah yes, because seizing Russian assets overseas is the same as "not trading with them".
The short version: There is no particular reason to expect governments to be bad at this. Sure, they won't be able to roll out new features as quickly, but there's a lot of private-sector BS and necessary evils that they won't roll out, either, because they won't have to. The state has been in the business of establishing standards since the dawn of time for good reasons. Tech companies are incentivized to constantly release new "U"SB standards, for example, all of which improve on their predecessors in some way, but are a lot less Universal as a result. At the other end of the adapter, on your wall outlet, how many new standards for that plug have been released in the same time frame? Sure, the outlet could be a lot better, but we gain a lot in exchange by just not having the churn.

The long version: https://web.archive.org/web/20200222053906/http://slatestarc...
Pâro!
Ah, shoot, no, sorry, my paws slipped on the keyboard and I accidentally typed that out. Crap. Weird that it's so coherent, but I guess, hey, it's not impossible that /dev/urandom could output that exact string.

(Of course I did it on purpose. Because I do things with purpose, and you can figure out what that is once you figure out how "purpose" works neurochemically! The problem is, if you're fucked up enough, you then immediately use this to turn yourself into a weird queer internet creature thing like me. Make up a weird identity because you like being weird. And then none of the silly nerds out there on the lower metalevels want to listen to you, because they're scared of being weird. You can grab 'em by the hindbrain and absolutely snow-crash 'em, but that's something you realize would be absolutely horrendous to do without them coming to you first.)

It's okay to be afraid of this speech pattern, btw. A lot of media conditions you to ignore it. Just learn to enjoy being scared of yourself, and you'll do alright.

At least in my experience, so far. We'll see.

Same as it ever was.
I don't disagree, but I think it's likely only so much as to make them more receptive to the message of superiority.

I've actually been wined and dined quite a few times at pharma-rep presentations as a guest of an M.D. so it was interesting to see the process. In general.... it's definitely a sales thing, but the message wasn't ever "Here's how much money we'll give you" and always was "Here's why you should be prescribing this new drug to patients". Typically it would involve a presentation that first offered a bit of review of underlying mechanisms and disease processes, then high-lighted the need (how, why, and how severely condition X leads to bad outcomes and why it should be addressed aggressively in patient population Y, and lightly considered in population Z, and isn't needed in A), then discussed the current standard of care (Options B, C, D, etc.), then discussed this new drug (How it works, Why it's better than existing options and to what degree, Side effects, contraindications) and then a nuanced discussion of weighing issues related to the drug (e.g. it's excreted through kidneys... is untreated condition X worse in renal patients than treated X with sideeffects? ) etc. and a long Q & A session. Rarely if ever were costs discussed except perhaps whether it would be covered by insurance carriers.

Everything was pretty factual (as far as I could tell) and to the point and aimed at treating patients better.

Now.... the wining and dining I think definitely could make humans more receptive to the message, but the vibe wasn't at all that of an exchange. They just needed to do something to get the ears of the M.D.s, and so treating them to a nice fancy dinner with some guests allowed was a way to do that. A nice gesture, but not nearly of an order of magnitude where someone with Doctor earnings would even remember it too much.
My thoughts are same as above, and also -- if the app that you're hosting only runs on Windows -- then Windows VPS are really ridiculously expensive. Some providers charge around $30/mo for a key. You save a lot of money being able to buy/manage your own Windows keys.

ATM we're running Windows under KVM and the performance is great anyway. But if you have to run a lot of Windows boxes, it seems like the cost effective way is to buy a Windows Server DC license ... then all the guest VM licenses are free, and with the right server hardware you can probably cram like 20 VMs on a single box.
Funny, I usually have the same opinion of iOS user interfaces.
Keep in mind that programmers also gave us this

You're basically proving the point. That is so much clearer and obvious to use than the screenshots in the original article, and it doesn't treat you like an idiot.
Chance the Rapper won 3 Grammys without ever working with a major label
At least in the UK, they might not accept it. I believe there is a limit to what you can spend in cash at places like car dealere, art houses, jewellers etc. I believe it's about £9000.
1) Start a lucrative career much earlier. Money solves a lot of problems and makes life of much broader horizons.
2) Go out, date men/women as preferred, have as much exciting time and adventures as possible.
3) Move on from relationships that didn't work out as quickly as possible. Nothing is ever learned by crying over what is not there anymore. There is always something better waiting for you. And yes, you can let go of feelings.
4) Spend as little time as possible with friends/acquaintances who annoy you, conversations that aren't fun/interesting and go nowhere, attempts to convince or change other people's minds, especially partners and family.
Oh dear. If I've ever seen literary onanism... this goes in the gallery.

Meanwhile, nobody argued that the writer should kill himself. What I said was that the things he does despise prevent the consummation of his expressed desire. Not acknowledging that is unsound.

But, as the kids say, "he probably can't hear himself over the sounds of his own talking".
> Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT)

> Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)

News to me

Okay, I'll avoid telehealth.

No idea what the conversation prompt would be, I just want to hop on the trend, and tell people, mostly women, that I hopped on the trend. People are like "more men should have therapy", okay sure can't wait to casually mention that. If there is some silver lining of actually having something "unpacked" or introspected, then ideally I'll be a beneficiary of that too.
Possibly I'm over-thinking it. but, I see a tendency to "we'll do it for you" thinking. I think Gates and his friends are attracted to solve "the problems only large, centrally managed capital can solve" by deploying things which work, but also which make them profit. The choice to say "we'll fund local initiative which reduce the dependency on centrally managed large assets" is there.

I agree that SMR, as a midpoint to the old behemoths and fully distributed, is a good bet: once it works, it keeps on working, and it can be plugged into the distribution network simply. PV and Wind requires balancing, more thinking, intermittency calls for overbuild.. its not like the alternative is problem free even if I like it.

And there is a compelling energy-density story too. I suspect they like the law of big numbers: capital costs being equal, GW for $ you get more from SMR. Minus lawyers, time delay, lawyer-induced excess safety build, more cowbell (sorry Lawyers)...
Same. There are so many websites which don't work with Firefox (even without any extensions), it's not funny. Who'd've thought interoperability would actually regress now that basically all the frameworks support all the major browsers.
For those who haven’t clicked through yet, this was done in cooperation with the Archive:

> Flickr and Internet Archive were in agreement on this because:

> (1) The account was largely comprised of scans of book images, not photos.

> (2) The account was no longer being actively managed by Internet Archive.

> (3) The book images tended to show up in irrelevant search results of Flickr Commons photography.
Our primary application is a CRUD-ish desktop application, serving a niche. We have large corporations with hundreds of active users down to single-person entities.

Key factor is nobody really wants to host anything anymore. Server updates, firewalls, backups, user access managment, SANs, networks... nobody wants to deal with that stuff. They just want to enter their data, send and receive some messages, get some PDFs.

So, we're trying to get a cloud-based version of our application going. Certainly won't be easy given the abysmal state of web app UI design compared to what we're used to.

But that's where our customers are pushing us.
And 99.9% of artists still won’t get paid squat.
It’s a bounty for firing any employee who falls on hard times.
Nah, you have to have the push for "niceness" (which is always selectively applied). Pre-dang-era HN actually did find new insights, not because of different algorithms but because the community back then (as steered by the moderators) put a higher value on being right than on being kind.