skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went to germany a cuple of years ago, and my experience was delightful, here in chile in the years of the coup, the rail system was almost completely dismantled in favor of trucks and buses, I dream the day I could travel in train to the north of the country in a moderate modern train :)
That's the sort of thing they teach you in school because few actually do it, like using "were" for hypotheticals.

In my experience, most managers will try their hardest to sandwich bad news in a sea of platitudes.
Depends on the country. In Sweden, mostly yes. Entirely fossil-free, with some nuclear in the mix.
I believe the most prescient military analysis we can make is that Ukraine got invaded because it was not in NATO.

Until Russia invades any NATO
country I have a hard time to dismiss this analysis.

If NATO fails to defend any of it's members then it is nullified. Hence I have a quite high trust to the security instilled by the alliance to any of it's members.

You are pretty good at repeating Russian talking points, by the way ;)
You cannot manipulate people via the electricity network and the power plugs in you house.

But you can, via Twitter and Facebook.

Communication is its own different animal
Loyalty bought by incidental prosperity and fear, over a long period of time.

Not sure why you'd believe the Chinese state ever had a chance to avoid a personality-cult dictatorship. They might have adapted to block another Mao, but dictators arise in every system as do the suckers who believe in their self proclaimed righteousness.

The best way to deal with them seems comedic humiliation as they challenge others to serve for a bounded period of time.
While the app switcher is highlighting the app with minimized windows, press cmd+1 to switch to those windows.
Except they're not a good investment. They pay inflation. So they're approximately equal to a 0% return. Better than keeping money under the mattress but not if you want your money to grow.
Next : dropping a cat in 0g in a wind tunnel
> But they will sell you homeowners insurance in areas prone to wildfires

And in areas with wild fires, tar roofs aren't legal for new construction! Roofs have to be built out of something non-flammable.

Lessons to be learned perhaps.
If by "battery", you mean "a primary or secondary electrochemical cell or cells", as is its usual meaning, then it's not.
> I wonder if those Modern Monetary Theory people will start pushing to increase taxes to combat inflation.

Probably, but (1) MMT support among people with any political relevance is already in the faction known for supporting higher taxes, and (2) no one listens to the people who support MMT, anyway.
Ah, thanks, I wasn't careful enough.
I've taken Eurostar from London and changed in Paris for Grenoble and Brussels for Amsterdam (before the direct train.) It was completely fine. No different from any other train journey with a change.

I think it may have taken a while to get from Brussels to Amsterdam because that line hadn't yet been upgraded at the time but the journey time wasn't far off what it would have been getting to and flying from Heathrow/Gatwick/Stansted.
This. Rail lines don’t need much maintenance once installed. Compared to a hwy which starts to fall apart immediately. Trains are a relatively simple and robust transportation method. I wonder what the insurance costs look like between the different methods of transportation
Why not:

- check if a variable called "help" is in scope
- if not, call help().
- otherwise, print its value.
Why is climate change incomparable? I would compare it to the technology that was developed in response to CFCs and the ozone hole. Don’t call me lazy as an insult, please.
> Did you really expect...

Err, nope? I just posted that link to show you that it doesn't have to be like you said, especially not for the device in question.

> ISPs hold monopolies...

They did, and sometimes still do elsewhere too.

I don't give a shit, since I don't live in "free 3rd-worldistan with nukez, carz, and screaming lunatics on crack, or whatever else".

> Is this a joke?

Not at all. Totally serious. It's the thing to do, to escape learned helplessness.
I use JIRA and confluence every single day, I have to, it is everywhere - but imo it is such a horrific toolset in every way (even before this outage), I can't for the life of me figure out how it got so much market-share.
> and you hire as many as you can within your budget

If you believe this then what's your explanation for why Google hires a smaller number of expensive engineers, rather than a larger number of cheaper engineers? They could hire 10x if they went for only lower-tier college new-grads!
This assumes every customer has that discernment. No shortage of potential buyers end up on Etsy because they saw something cool, asked the person where they got it, and the only answer they received was "Etsy".
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Even with good insurance, medical costs in the US can exceed the savings of even the most thrifty.

My uncle spent $1.7 million in 3 years to care for my aunt, and that is with excellent insurance.
In the US, if you buy specialty hardware from Amazon you probably are going to pay a markup on the markup because McMaster Carr is probably the previous source.
The Brightline is probably the nicest railway experience in North America, and it is 100% private. (South Florida)
This is pretty popular from Karpathy https://arxiv-sanity-lite.com/
I'm pretty sure Finland and Sweden are basically inseparable in terms of foreign policy... where one goes the other will go, and they'll discuss with each other in depth prior to any decision.

They may still forgo NATO, its absolutely their choice, and every NATO member respects that, being the primary difference between NATO and Russia. They can leave at any time too.

What disturbs me is that there is a lot of appeasement rhetoric floating around in the comment sections.

If people want to let Russia get away with wrecking Ukraine because Russia has nukes, then we may as well drop the bombs now - once you legitimize that strategy you are going to have massive nuclear proliferation, and even if appeasement worked (it simply doesn't), every other aggressor is going to view nukes as an easy win.
> or maybe it's my aging Macbook

on an m1 pro: its slow as molasses

sometimes i have to switch to the "old ui"[0] to get any use out of it (not sure what the cause is, but sometimes its literally unusable)

[0]
https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Re-How-do-...
Yes. This is not sustainable.
This feature is indeed amazing, but my biggest complaint is that it's not easier to access. Roughly speaking, the worse the website, the less I trust it with my email, the less likely their HTML is well formed and will trigger iOS to prompt me to use Hide My Email.

Way too frequently I have to dig this feature out of the settings menu, copy the address to the site, copy the site back to Hide My Email as a label, and then usually do the same hoop-jumping with my password manager.

I would welcome this feature to be more front-and-center on the keyboard somehow.
Skate towards where the puck is going to be. This is a wise investment for the future of mobility.
I’m not unaware of the problem but there are other solutions besides “let’s have a dictatorship.”
"The navigation stage was released about Jupiter, as planned. They will ask for centuries who threw that rock, bhahaharaH!"
> I would like to get the same tax break myself, or at least eliminate the tax break altogether so I am on an even playing field with businesses. This would allow me to purchase my own health insurance at rates comparable to what I'm offered at work.

Maybe not. Businesses have more negotiating power because they're bigger buyers, so they would still have access to more competitive rates. Unless you got together with a lot of people to negotiate together (and this might be a startup opportunity).
> Not if that is what the buyers want. Evidence suggests they buy low quality low durability items

Low quality/durability items are not what most people want most of the time. It's sometimes all they can afford, or they think they found a good deal and feel ripped off when the item arrives and they discover that it's low quality/durability, but either way they aren't happy about it. What people want is high quality goods at prices they can afford.
Wait so let me read this properly:

People bought food and therefore cost of food went up?

So, following this logic, we have enough people who are regularly not getting enough food that when they can, it kills the economy?

I...honestly if that's the actual reason this is happening then it seems like we should be looking at seeing how do we make it so everyone has food and produce food with that metric. Not with a lower metric and be fine with people hungry.

Fascinating.
What plans are available to you will depend on which state you are in.
Sorry but that is inaccurate. The deck is stacked in favor of Bezos and others. Your choice to not buy from Amazon is rapidly decreasing when alternatives just can't complete in an unfair market. People are giving their money to Amazon or Walmart because they have no alternatives left or can't afford what alternatives still exist.
I love how you gave advice in your parent post as if you knew what Excel's current features are, then admitted you haven't used it in 10 years.
I can't imagine they would be able to 'blind' their experiments for participants though? I mean, when you start tripping balls it becomes clear you got given the LSD and not something else... Unless they use like sub-threshold / micro-doses.
That exists, it's a plan called medicare for all.
Maybe not for UBI, but definitely for Modern Monetary Theory.

2 years ago, Stephanie Kelton was doing lectures about how fears of inflation are unfounded. Now she is reduced to sharing every conspiracy theory about price fixing.

Even if you believed that there was some amount of free money the government was able to find before reaping the penalties of inflation a) it ended up being a lot less than they promised and b) high inflation is much more painful and politically toxic than people remember.
That quote is about planning a terrestrial road.

This quote is about planning an interstellar invasion: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5942504-the-mighty-ships-to...
Mentioning that they're a tax write-off goes towards explaining why employer-subsidized plans can be cheaper than purchasing your own plan: the employer is buying it with pre-tax dollars, where an employee can only buy that plan with post-tax dollars.
It's good to complain and improve things but having moved to the US I now miss even British trains!
Was social media the cause of the division, or did it merely allow people to exploit existing problems?

Assuming that social media is a primary factor, for the sake of argument, the solution to this problem isn't regulating the platforms via Haidt's proposals (which I should add seem to be too limited in effect). Instead, we should decentralize the platforms into protocols. While this will still allow stupid people to go into echo chambers (like with any forum or blog online) it will also limit their reach by depriving them of a singular place for a giant number of people to hear them all at once.
China's leadership structures were revamped considerably (term limits, defined processes for succession etc) after Mao, precisely to prevent something like that happening again. And they worked well for a while, but unfortunately Xi managed to amass enough power to circumvent them and set himself up as dictator for life.
This was my experience, as well, with the individual market. It is virtually impossible to replicate an employer-provided plan at all with market plans. You, as an individual, do not have the leverage to buy what most would consider good health insurance plans on your own.
15 seconds may seem like not much, but it's enough to go from “I have an idea, let's code it up” to “okay, I've cooked some tea in the meantime… what did I want to do again?” And Neovim's instant startup enables a workflow where I can just shut it down when I don't need it.

Good for you that you're not a student having to use a cheap laptop for everything and sometimes not having access to it at the moment. Not everyone is so fortunate.

Look at the first screenshot in the official VSCode repository, for example: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode Only about 20% of the screen is taken up by code. That may still be somewhat usable if you keep it fullscreen, but I prefer to have a 50/50 split with the web browser.

Most Vim binding plugins are a complete joke. I've heard that Emacs gets it right, but that's not what we're talking about.

I forgot to mention, Vim can be used for every language, including very obscure ones. With JetBrains, you need a separate IDE for each language — if there even is one.
> I pickup the one and only container of honey

You don't have at least forest honey and meadow honey? That seems rough.
> Saturday... video message? WTF kind of cult is this BS?

Sunday. The store closed an hour or two early on Sundays. They had the whole staff come in at 7pm, even if it was our day off.

It was around the time of the Kmart merger so could have been about that. The only thing I recall now was the CEO telling us how important "family" time was, while my dinner got cold at home. Of course "Sears is a family" or somesuch. So yeah, a cult, at least in the c-suite.
No it isn't, because these are all anecdotes, and I never made a claim anyway, I asked you to name one.
The jump in 2020 is explained by a footnote saying that the definition was broadened in May of that year. Other than that, the rate is unprecedented in absolute terms only in the way that any chart of exponentional growth will always be.
https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
I'm pretty sure the enemy gate is down.
At least they're speaking into a culture that wants to hear about investment in rail, regardless of whether the work being done feels like it's yielding tangible improvements or not.

Here in Canada, it sometimes feels like they're almost ashamed of what little they're spending and even try to hide it away, or spread the big capital expenses over multiple years to make it look like even less.
I remember going to Crimea one summer some 20 years ago, it took almost 40 hours but boy it was something I'll never forget! Especially the babushkas with local produce, pelmeni and so on at every stop so you could buy them (so cheaply) just grabbing them from their hands through the window. Delicious food, great views and an excellent company.

On the other side of the equations are superfast trains like the TGV, this one is expensive but in my humble opinion it is faster than plane on routes like Paris-Lyon and I'll take train over plane on any day at distances shorter than 500-700km.
I haven't taken European trains, but Amtrak in the US is often atrociously late. They pay to rent tracks from freight companies and have to cede right-of-way to not block them.
Re stock market, at least there are many neutral-bearish options strategies. They come with other risks of course and you sort of need to know what you're doing, but the concepts are not difficult.

Currently I have a bunch of QQQ credit call spreads, and much of my long share losses have been tempered by selling ATM calls.
Parent: people often complain because it’s the worst they’ve ever had, take it with a pinch of salt.

You: well you can’t complain about anything then can you!?

——

You can complain, but it’s good to have an understanding of what you’re complaining about, the parent is right. We are quick to complain about imperfection when a lot of what we have is truly quite good.

Sometimes it’s legitimate criticism, sometimes it’s being spoiled.

Any criticism that is not specific can (and probably should) be dismissed outright. Complaints and criticism should always be specific.
I think auto insurance is a good indicator of how it would play out if you made everyone do individual insurance. Insurance would still likely need to be legally mandated, like auto insurance, so that the insurance market would be solvent.

From there, insurance would likely break down into high cost / high coverage, mid cost / mid coverage, low cost / legally mandated minimum coverage.

The poor would end up with the low cost / minimum coverage plans as cost would likely end up being the main motivating factor. Given that 6-in-10 Americans can not afford an unexpected $500 bill (https://www.cbs19news.com/story/34248451/6-in-10-americans-d...), this would likely be the coverage level chosen by about half of Americans. These policies would be affordable, but I expect the deductibles and co-pays would be high enough to make it prohibitively expensive for policy holders to actually get much utility from them.

The other half would end up with the better plans, unless they were more comfortable with risk and elected for the cheaper plans. Their lot is probably pretty similar to today.
It is pretty simple: now there can be investment in companies that make money from reducing carbon. If the products don’t actually reduce carbon, their customers flee them and the investment fails. Does that make sense?
How many people realistically go into COBRA. Have you seen the premiums? For family coverage it can easily be thousands per month.
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Spotlight is a really good search tool, and it's worth occasionally letting it build its index. You mostly only notice this when you've changes a whole bunch of files or setup the computer for the first time. It really is short-term pain for long-term gain, because Spotlight is phenomenal at finding anything on the Mac in a really short amount of time.

That being said, if you're in the dev-space, I'd recommend using Raycast instead. I've dong some cool things with it, like format my commit messages, generate UUIDs, and search my bookmarks with a command (/w dev -> my company's development application with a really long URL).
It would be far better to generate synthetic gasoline from atmospheric carbon, if such a thing were possible. Then you don't need to replace all the cars or all the fuel (energy) delivery infrastructure.
To elaborate, Linear is probably the best business app I have used for software management ever. For engineers it is fast and fluid and simple with outstanding keyboard shortcuts. For managers it is strongly opinionated with an agile methodology that requires no setup and just works. For teams, Linear makes it fun to stay in sync and track progress towards goals.

One of the best features of Linear is that it inspires my team to build better software, not just tick feature boxes.
LOL. Does it include Turkey and US currently occupying sizable chunks of Syria? Also calling Turkey democracy is questionable at best considering current regime and multiple military governments before whole Turkey was in Nato.
That was my thinking - anything of value is product-specific and behind closed doors. It's not my field, but something I see come up from time to time that seems weirdly over-represented in ML articles.
This is exactly my point, trains can't compete with point-to-point travel at 500mph. So injecting a bunch of padding on either side of flights is the best way of making train travel more appealing.
Deutsche Bahn is a disaster. Extreme delays up to 2 hours more often then not. Rude staff. Forcing moms with kids out of the train by police. Travelled for 3 summers through germany, now just take the plane.
Did you miss the wires strung above the tracks? They're working on it:

https://www.caltrain.com/about/MediaRelations/news/Caltrain_...
Dafuq did I just read here?!

Could you please get your shit together and implement basic features we had for decades. The current state is an insult to accessibility.
> This should be the nail in the coffin for UBI. The consumer demand created by the last round of stimulus is nothing compared to what UBI would create

Unlike deficit-funded stimulus, paid-for UBI is redistributive and this has less of an inflationary effect (not none at all, because marginal spending and where it is directed differs across the economic spectrum, and downward redistribution has some stimulative effect.)
However, it's moving to electric, with the first electric locomotive undergoing testing now, and the first electric fleet arriving this spring, with fully electric service expected to begin in two years.
Thanks! These types of comments make my day!
P.S. Don't worry about the content being too long and frequent. I do this because it is fun, the moment it doesn't feel that way I don't want to continue. So, I want to take my time researching a concept and give myself room to edit it - which takes a minimum of 10 days. Plus, I really like making things simple, long-form content tends to deviate from that way of thinking :)
The challenge I have when someone calls something racist or sexist, or even good or evil or beautiful or ugly, is that a person seems to be taking how they feel about a thing and labeling that thing as if everyone feels the same way with regards to that thing, which I think is rarely if ever true.

Which can lead to this:

Person 1: That thing is beautiful.

Person 2: No it's not beautiful.

Person 1: Yes, it is beautiful.

Person 2: No, it is not beautiful!

or slightly better, this:

Person 1: For me, that thing is beautiful.

Person 2: Well, for me, that thing is not beautiful.

Person 1: Why don't you find that thing beautiful??

Person 2: I just don't see it as beautiful.

or much better, this:

Person 1: I feel so much joy when I see that thing.

Person 2: I don't feel joy, I actually feel disgust.

Person 1: I'm confused, why do you feel disgust when you see that thing?

Person 2: It reminds me of this one thing that caused me a lot of pain before.

So while yes, I don't think labeling something as universally X necessarily ends the conversation, I think it can lead people to a binary debate about universals instead of open up the conversation for people to share their own experiences and more personal perspectives.
This journalist really wrote an entire article about facebook. Why is an essay needed to descibe obvious behaviour that everyone sees and can intuitely understand with their eyes.
"In the 20th century, America built the most capable knowledge-producing institutions in human history. In the past decade, they got stupider en masse."

???? People didn't get stupider in the last decade. There is access to more information and education then ever has been. We are slowing coming towards ultimate prosperity. Just look at the response to the Russia-Ukraine war. With technology education has slowly reached every human and everyone is aware of corruption and how war is merely a tool used by the powerful that only results in the rest of society harmed. Look at the reactions to things like abortion or taking rights away from people. There is so much progression yet the author lets his jaded view of Mr.Zuck's actions and his own obsession with social media to recreate this misguided world view. A view where access to political information that doesn't fit his point a view is a world where humans have become stupider.
"It would be helpful if everyone stopped this lying and just said it how it is. Russia wants weak buffer states around its borders that it can abuse however it wants."

This 100%
Someone about to die from a medical episode will bear a surprising amount to not die.
> It continued to be an okay way to do group insurance without facing major problems with adverse selection.

This is sort of a hot take, but there are plenty of examples of things like this in the US that have the unstated parenthetical "(because poor and minority populations were ignored by the system completely)"
What kind of artifacts, if you're willing to share?
Nice succinct todo/checklist.