skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very good point.

In general, the way I understand it is that most of what the ancients believed about the universe was based on empirical observations. They didn't just come up with some arbitrary theory, they had observations and they were trying to explain them. The epicyclical model persisted all the way to Copernicus (whose model also had epicycles) just because it was so good at predicting future observations.

I think their main axiomatic assumption that was based on their metaphysical beliefs, rather than actual observations, was the assumption that the luminaries must move on circular orbits. Again, to my understanding, they had a mechanistic view of the universe that demanded order and symmetry, and they just couldn't imagine how a planet would move in any other orbit than a circle- hence why they were mystified by the apparent "retrograde" motion of the planets and had to come up with epicycles to model it.

The combination of their axiomatic belief in a mechanistic universe and the limited observations they could make with the naked eye conspired to keep them from a better model.
It was before the IPO. Now the point is to make money. Hence the problem.
This entire service ended because there weren't backups.
The problem may be that his advice is a defeatist "never do this". In the referenced article about exit interviews, the advice centers entirely around not providing feedback. Be as bland as possible. The workplace is presented in a combative manner where you cannot ever win.

While that article mentions game theory, and describes one situation where it seemed safe to provide feedback, it then focuses on that feedback being unproductive. The author could have offered advice on /how/ to provide feedback. If enough people leave for the same reasons it may start to turn the ship - so let's consider why the feedback was not well received.

Providing negative feedback to the company follows similar patterns to the company providing negative feedback to employees. We're still talking about humans communicating with each other - emotional, flawed, egotistical (aka fairly normal) humans. Decide which one or two points are most important to communicate. Offer genuine positive feedback to make it easier to accept the negative feedback, and try not to present other topics in a negative manner. Let the 1-2 negative points stand out among other positive language.

Some companies care. Some bosses care. Some don't. Some are combative, dysfunctional, or selfish. Some care but are misguided. Rather than blanket "never do this" advice, let's focus on learning when to offer vs withhold feedback, and how to offer negative feedback when it is warranted.
From provided links, 33% of US population is exposed to >70 dBA whereas only 20% of EU population is exposed to >65 dBA noises, and US average density < EU average density. So from this small resaearch I conclude there are better solutions than single-family housing.

Like subways in cities, it makes zero noise but it needs population density.

And more bikepaths, more walkable streets, less car lanes.
> the only significant danger from taking mushrooms comes from the police

If you have a history of mental illness in your family, it is not advised to experiment with psychedelics as they can waken up latent mental illness you never thought you even had.

Psilocybin containing mushrooms & truffles were once legal in Ireland and you could just walk into a headshop and buy them like cigarettes. They were banned after someone jumped from a balcony to their death[0] after taking them, presumably after having an acute psychosis.

[0] https://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/how-tragedy-led-...
I think you are framing it as a top down objective, but I think it's the opposite. Employers themselves offer healthcare because it's a way to attract employees. You can get other health plans (e.g. Obamacare) but they are not as competitive as employer-sponsored plans. To not have employer-sponsored plans, you would have to either 1) ban employer-sponsored plans 2) offer other plans that are competitive. #1 seems unrealistic, #2 is possible but would have to probably be done by the state, which the US doesn't really love.
Every single one of those programs comes with a laundry list of asterisks that make them far worse than any employer provided insurance I have ever had.
Can someone remind me what tool I use to convert markdown to man pages? Even better, anyone have a good way to embed a man page into my README?
> Don't know what you'd do for the litter box though.

pray
> It's not usable as a currency except in the most dire circumstances and no one is working to fix this.

I've pushed two different crypto companies I've worked for to focus more on African payment systems, supporting one of the top 10 chains to look at light wallets for just this reason and another to support PoS validators in African countries because it's a very high income for them. I also do some work with philantrophic organisations looking at using crypto. There are several billion dollar organisations involved in this space.

> If the only use case is as a currency alternative for people in a failed state

1) A currency alternative is massive! That's such an insanely awesome use case that if it's "just a small thing" to you then I'd love to know what you're working on!

2) Failing states? What a pessimistic approach. I prefer to see people getting access to financial tools that they'd otherwise not, giving people the opportunity to get out of poverty. Gates Foundation did some research on M-Pesa and access to simple financial systems had huge benefits for people.

> No one is using crypto for anything other than speculation on the price of crypto.

Maybe that's the common view but again it's not the case. If all you see is NFT shit online I get it, but you're wrong.

> Dotcom...

Yes there was a bubble but some stuff survived and look where we are now. There's no reason that this can't be similar. It's been going for a decade.
> The simpler explanation for prominence of flood myths over all others regardless of proximity to recent flooding events is universal experience, in place, continued over millennia

The simpler explanation is that intelligent people saw sea shells on the tops of hills and mountains, and independently concluded that there used to be a great flood which covered the world.

Here are examples from myths which explicitly contain that explanation, copied from http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html :

] A flood once covered everything but the summit of Mount Wawom Pebato (seashells on the hills are evidence).

] Proof of their deeds may be seen in seashells embedded in high rocks

] An unusually high tide caused a global flood. Shellfish and such things in the mountains are evidence of it

] The shells and bones of many shellfish, fish, seals, and whales were also left high above sea level, where they may be found today.

] The sky fell and hit the water, causing high breakers that flooded all the land. That is why one can find shells and redwood logs on the highest ridges

] When the flood subsided, it left the lakes Titicaca and Poopo, and it left seashells on the Altiplano at elevations of 3660 m.

] The flood destroyed all animals left on earth, including the Prince of animals [some say it was a mammoth], whose bones can still be found.
Is this because doing nothing is "popular", or because non-industrial societies don't produce enough calories to do more? There's an interesting blogpost[0] about extreme poverty in 20th-century Africa:

> He describes the narrow alleys of his neighborhood being packed with bayayes who just sit and stand around all day. Like, for the entire day. They have no jobs, no money, no goals, and they eat so little that they have no energy for leisure activities. The closest thing to an objective they have is keeping out of the sun, so they slowly move around the alleys to stay in the shade. Their highlight in a day might be some sort of public commotion, like a thief being caught, which will cause an enormous crowd to swell and watch the proceedings. [...]

> Kapuscinski constantly describes much of Africa’s baseline climate as so hot, humid/dry, bug-filled, and generally insufferable that even passive existence is too taxing to be productive. Ie. the people of Abdallah Wallo can’t work hard because it is literally dangerous to do so.

Doing nothing is the most common activity, but not exactly by choice.

[0]https://mattlakeman.org/2021/07/27/shadow-of-the-sun/
Taxing at the point of extraction or consumption should be equivalent, right? No one extracts for the sheer fun of it.

It seems to me we could take a page out of Europe's VAT book which is ultimately paid by the consumer but tracks the "value added" throughout the supply chain from raw resources to finished goods.
Run of the mill lab tech. Wish I had the privilege of remote work so I could focus on family instead of being gone for 10+ hours a day.

But that's a dream for other people who know how to make it happen. I take work where I can get it.
Yeah even the food industry agrees. Just throw some powders together and call it food.
How many tickets do you have in your non-Jira ticketing system? I count 100 tickets per person per year.
I saw an etsy tv ad the other day. My wife is an etsy seller so I thought this was interesting. They pitched it as a place where you can find someone to put your logo on a sign. The interaction with the seller was minimal, their name was even shown as anonymous "etsy seller". This seems like a use case that a bigger co could easily support and downplays the value prop of etsy as a place to connect with a craftsperson/artist to buy their work or commission a unique piece. I guess they are trying to move away from that model to more print-stuff-on-signs/shirts/etc.
Then one could also say, they only thing that worked was educating members of congress. I'd say he is forcing them to consider another perspective, in the hope they learn something.
The bit about help as a subcommand and having to edit it out in a cumbersome way really hits home.

I'm looking at you, otherwise-excellent wp-cli. :-)
Very nice! By the way, I love that you explain everything, including how console commands can be run! :D
What stops that is the incumbents destroying or acquiring upstarts in their space. Etsy has already purchased Depop, Elo7, A Little Market, Trunkt, Reverb...
Marvelous example of the bikeshed effect
In my experience it's just a repeated line to excuse companies for not thinking longterm or about anyone/anything beyond immediate revenue. It's very silly and not what the term means at all, yet as you pointed out, we see it all the time.
You are free to buy your own (expensive, much worse) health insurance rather than through an employer, sure.
Interstellar object exploded over Earth in 2014, declassified govmt data reveal
I knew an individual named Ron Hillhouse, he sold life insurance and built a large insurance company in Texas twice.

He sold it each time to a group in NY (MetLife each time if memory serves). He told me that his insight was that construction companies would have variable revenue and compensation requirements across TX building contracts (private vs government mostly) and to avoid discontent they would dump the difference into life insurance and other alternative compensation because as long as the take home paycheck was the same no one really complained about being put on lower compensation jobs.

Not sure if that was a similar origin for health insurance but I've always assumed it was.
A buttered piece of bread would be cheaper
Thomann started out as a small music/instrument/stage tech store, too - but unlike their competitors, they fully embraced the future instead of showing the typical German skepticism towards change.

I mean, I get your pain. But on the other hand I'm just sick about the Mittelstand complaining that online is eating their lunch... they have all sat on their wealth and glory and thought they had carved out their forever niche guaranteeing themselves profits without having to do anything any more, and every single one that collapses fills my heart with a bit of joy.
What is hard deletion? You can restore rows from database files before vacuum runs. You can often restore data from disk sectors. Some people say SSD can remap sectors under your chair and you won't even know that your deleted data is there.
> If you'd self-hosted you'd be fine.

Maybe. But you're counting on your sysadmin(s), who are also managing dozens of other things, to keep up to speed on Jira and its quirks, and apply patches and new versions as they become available without missing any steps or screwing something up.

On average, you're still probably better off having a company that knows the product also host it for you, but obviously they can make mistakes too, and the downside is that when they do it might affect all clients, not just one.
Actually, fuck you, got mine _is_ my attitude.

It just turns out that getting mine involves helping others
Etsy is also for curators, though (at least a specific kind). You have always been able to sell vintage items on their platform, and antique sellers are curators and restorers.

Before manufactured goods were on the platform, you were basically browsing items that were either handmade or hand curated. It was a much better experience.
The question is, are we seeing that bad behavior because there is something inherent about the platform that encourages it, or are we seeing more with Node just because that community is enormous.

Because people love to bring up is-even as a reason why Node & NPM suck. What exactly did NPM do to create the is-even situation? (other than making it super easy to publish). What should they do differently?
Last time I checked, a perpetual JUCE license was priced similar to 3 days from a C++ freelancer. I've never heard it being called out on price before.
You should really fix the initial impressions you make from the site to get that front and centre though. Experienced audio devs are going to dismiss this unless you make it clear very quickly.
Is Google Spying on Your Conversations?
The expanding photos make me queesy.
I guess you've never heard of stablecoins.
Not GP, but:

historically Protestant work ethic
+ unrestrained pursuit of profit
+ weak labor protections and domination of corporate interests in the halls of legislation
= predictable outcome.
Cool.

OS level code, realistic discussion of issues and approaches.

Thanks for the contribution.
Not trying to steal your thunder, but here is another nostdlib clang -> wasm example with malloc, a few math functions, rand, and writing to a canvas doing animation.

=> https://github.com/robrohan/wefx
Still lots of people in the developing world. The grift still has legs.
Therefore it should be clear that the rise in fees is a reasonable tradeoff, for access to more potential customers.

I understand the desire to make sure that goods are authentic, but that is the only reasonable argument in the whole strike manifesto.
That's a nice write up, bookmarked to share, thank you.
To add to this - they do this regularly, multiple times per week. While they do link to and acknowledge the source work, they do not make clear their writing is quoted or nearly quoted.
For me, if I go on holiday into the countryside, I basically can't sleep unless I put something on. I can hear all my random body noises, creaks, leaves, whatever else.

Obviously that isn't complete silence, but apparently complete silence (as in, an anechoic chamber) is a horrible experience.
>When you think about having the taskbar on the right or the left, all of a sudden the reflow and the work that all of the apps have to do to be able to understand the environment is just huge.

I have literally been running Windows 11 with the taskbars on the side for 6 months
Those who need coddling are also the ones most affected by gaslighting.
In the 80s my dad worked in 'Data Processing'. I can remember taking the pickup truck down to his office on a Saturday a few times per year to recycle a truck load of continuous tractor feed paper. We recycled tons and tons of paper over the years.
The last point reminds me of the frustration of quitting the Python REPL.
Of course NATO is a threat, or at least it is credibly perceived as one in Moscow. Do you think the US would tolerate the Warsaw pact on its own borders merely because it has nuclear weapons? (Cuba knows the answer to this question, the US does not).

There's plenty of examples like the deployment of missile defenses to Eastern Europe (which contrary to the name is strategically an aggressive move, as they're first strike enablers, diminishing strategic deterrents. The one thing Russia is supposed to rely on). The basic point is, no country on earth has stopped deploying its military in the pursuit of national security merely because it is a nuclear power.
Running Clang with WASI requires compiling LLVM to WASI first, which unfortunately currently requires a fork (because of the "hackyness" of it, as some syscalls are mocked or certain code is just skipped).

This talk from Ben Smith goes into a bit more depth on what was required to change on LLVM to compile to WASI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N4b-rU-OAA
Why can't you build a business around selling "industrial-scale" artsy/customizable stuff?

In a different context, someone made a great point that your first million users don't necessarily need to be included in your next 20 million. Maybe Etsy has or will cycle through all their early buyers & sellers. But that doesn't matter if the group cycling in is more valuable.
Can a cat barf from disorientation?
In zero-g there is no such thing as "landing on your feet" because there is no such thing as "landing". There is no "down" direction so of course cats can't detect something that doesn't exist.
So the fundamental premise of the article seems to be "offsetting via avoidance can't get you to net zero, so it's a bad idea". I agree with the premise (that it can't get you to net zero), but I wonder if it can hep with resource allocation and efficient sequencing? For example we currently don't seem to have a good plan to reduce the carbon emissions of the aviation industry other than "fly much less". And whilst I can certainly get on board with that, it seems unlikely there's going to be the necessary big shift in behaviour (and corresponding shrinkage of the aviation sector) over the next five to ten years.

Meanwhile we do know that things like reducing the carbon emissions of dwellings by improving insulation is relatively straightforward. But individuals often don't have the capital to make those changes themselves (even where it would provide cost savings in the medium term). So if aviation companies were providing money that was redistributed to projects which are short-term viable but lacking the necessary funding, that could make an impact now, even though it doesn't fully solve the long term problem.

Make those contributions mandatory and we have something that looks like a carbon tax used to fund decarbonisation programmes.

Of course, in the end you still need to tackle the hard problems. But artifical carbon sequestration still seems to be very much at the "reasearch project" stage, and whilst creating natural environments that can sequester carbon (forests, bogs, etc.) is undoubtedly a great idea — not just for carbon, but also for habitat creation, biodiversity, staving of desertification, and a host of other reasons — it seems problematic as a form of offsetting for the reasons identified in the article, plus the fact that it operates over a period of decades, so it's almost impossible to create any accountablity if the carbon is not in fact sequestered.

More than that, the fact that increasing tree cover and restoring natural habitats is so important means it's worrying when the funding plan is based on pennance for carbon emissions. We don't want to create a situation where resources for these incredibly important projects start to dry up just because more companies have successfully reduced their corporate emissions (even if they still have product-usage emissions which are usually unaccounted for).
Etsy has somewhere on the order of 100 million active buyers, searching Etsy for goods to buy every month. If you set up a storefront on Square, you start out with 0 active buyers, searching your storefront 0 times every month. Marketplaces bring tremendous value to small sellers.
The real problem is how expensive healthcare is in the US.

Compare Cignas global plan with and without US coverage. Somehow they can easily cover essentially all of the rest of the world for far less than the US.

https://www.cignaglobal.com/
Lizard brain. Triggering fight/flight response overriding neocortex trying to keep things calm. Defensiveness, possible insecurity.
> Did you do any of those things, or are you just pointing fingers at people for not doing the same things you did't do?

I protested, donated, wrote letters to voters, and contacted a local politician.

But that isn't relevant to the original comment, which was a person claiming that "everyone I talked to said it was horrible" is equivalent to gun rights activism.
And he's possibly done more than any other European politician towards shifting Europe off fossil fuels.
I’d try VSCode with Remote SSH. Maybe it’s because I’m 10ms from my datacenter but I experience no lag and things have always felt just as speedy while on random public wifi.
I want to point out that the above analysis is completely ahistorical and does not track the path dependence and latent contexts of the development of the modern US healthcare system. The above is not an explanation, it is a post-hoc rationalization.
Also, medicare doesn't kick in until 65, which pretty much guarantees that most workers won't be able to retire until then; even if they're otherwise eligible / able.
Reddit Down?
Looks like it; https://www.reddit.com
Personal computers cause all kinds of harm (in addition to the benefits).
There are competitive plans on the individual market. (Your local insurance market may vary.)

I could get approximately equivalent insurance for about 40% cheaper if I went on the individual market. But, my employer pays 75% of my employer sponsored plan.
Do we know it's visual? If you drop a cat in darkness (onto a pillow of course), will it right itself? What if you put it in an elevator that accelerated downwards at 1G so the cat fell to the ceiling? How does it know which way is down? Is it the horizon, or the bright sky, or does the cat remember the scene before it was dropped? Or is it the air rushing by?
Etsy is really for everyone, but the brand image is that it's really artists sales channel.

Based on my experience, curators add an extra 50%+ to the price of a product. Which is the cost of well curated storefront.
You seem misinformed, this is 95% of ratings.

https://www.etsy.com/seller-handbook/article/your-star-selle...

https://www.etsy.com/seller-handbook/article/introducing-sta...
Yes. See https://redditstatus.com/