skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there's so many corproate & legal things pushing towards owning our own shit, becoming king of our own castles. we have such tailwinds from fantastic & cheap hardware, good connectivity, better ops infrastrucutre tban could have been dreamed of. we have a good many years of exploring p2p under our belt.

but twitter is still the only via le public commons on the internet, we still have so few next gen ways to co-communicate.

you're right on. we keep missing the real good moral work though.
Yeah, but in my experience, DB query optimizers are terrible. Ideally you'd be able to write "select * from A, B, C where A.col1 = B.col2 and B.col3 = C.col4", but in practice, you have to hold the SQL interpreter's hand by using inner joins and carefully choosing which table to start with and what order to join them, in effect doing the query optimizer's work for it.
> I'm always completely open about attending conferences and meeting with customers and no one over decades has batted an eye.

Attending conferences is usually ok, but it's a complicated topic because it depends on the traveller's passport, the visited country and how strict rules are enforced.

As a foreign national, for example a U.S. B1 visa allows attending conferences and close business deals. But it doesn't explicitly allow working remotely for a non-US company.
> Most of you should expect to gather in person every quarter for about a week at a time.

Yikes. That's a lot of travel.
I agree with most of that, I think. Especially that the correlation between masking and protection isn't supported (I don't agree that it's zero; it looks to me like there's scant evidence either way). I agree that a counfounder can't reduce effectiveness below zero.
I'm a firm believer that the only way to stand out in the B2C world is to have a VC backed marketing budget. You can't bootstrap a positive CAC in a reasonable timeframe without going bankrupt as a solo founder.
Thanks for the suggestion! But I actually much prefer a low-key hike with gorgeous views (or gorgeous lake/waterfalls) to a strenuous hike.
I will grant you it must be difficult trying to voice your opinion as a conservative in a liberal space, but there are countless examples of conservative safe spaces and running away from those platforms, or they just never join them in the first place.
That's the rationalization given. But expressed preferences definitely does show that salary drives large numbers of people into professions. With the aging boom, lots of people went into nursing with the expectation of easier money. Tech salaries have sucked oxygen out of the room for people going into maths, physics, and other engineering professions just like FinTech salaries have also sucked talent out of those professions. This has knock-on effects.

Worst case there's fewer doctors, their salaries increase (steady demand + shrinking supply), and the quality of care increases as does wait times and access to care for the broader population worsens. Realistic case, I don't know if it'll impact doctors numbers as the field isn't particularly related - the overlap of people who are equally considering between SW and medicine is small. Maybe in the longer term it has an impact on students making career choices in high school? Hard to say.
this is super cool. can you share what you use to build the front end? I love the data layout and graph plotting.
Yes I agree, perhaps a focus on growth makes the system too fragile to disturbances which leads to human tragedy. We're already seeing fertility rates decline so the growth is slowing.

What's a better way to do it?
I use Ctrl+u if I think I might have added a typo in a password and have not yet typed enter
They can unwind it regardless of any contractual obligations. State can simply pass a law and dissolve any contract with stroke of a pen.
> Also why are you optimizing for lower rents... What about the homeowners who benefit from having more things they can do with their property?

Because basic shelter is WAY lower on the hierarchy of needs than rental income, and shelter is not a need that the US is adequately meeting even for its middle class.
From one example..
I spent a summer hacking a great last.fm server together & oops i deleted the damned thing by accident. This was a decade ago, but still pains me. Idiot.
Discussed at the time:

Spreadsheets are dreams - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10569155 - Nov 2015 (12 comments)
Microsoft $3.16
Instantaneous change with compensation is extremely expensive. I noted in another thread that it's quite possible for the costs of compensating affected parties to reach $30.5 trillion, the current size of the US national debt. This assumed compensation had a needs component to it and only half of the US property market was compensated.

The basic issue is the current US property market is estimated at $33.6 trillion. If you assume 80% of that is land value you end up needing to compensate 26.88 trillion. On the other side of the market you have mortgages you put under water that people will walk away from. The mortgage market in the US is $17.6 trillion. If you assume 80% of mortgages are walked away from and the mortgages end up 70% underwater you end up having to compensate $9.856 trillion dollars. So solving the residential portion of compensation potentially costs $36.736 trillion dollars. If you have compensation in the commercial and industrial land markets as well that makes things even more expensive.
We maybe get to find out if they keep fighting with each other and it lands up in the judicial branch.
Yes. This is true of any environment. That's why I ask new hires to write down every WTF moment, every question and every idea for improvement they have as they get up to speed on our systems. Just because I'm used to avoiding a problem doesn't mean the problem must exist.
I've been to many nations including for months and including illegally overstaying. No one gave one fuck to ask whether I was working not. The only people that have ever grilled me like this is my own country, the USA, where returning as a citizen the last time I entered I was forcibly taken to a hospital to be anally probed (with even a warrant, although after 16 hours they could not find a doctor to execute it) based on a wild and false accusation they thought I was a drug smuggler. Only the USA and a few other insane nations are dumb enough to pull these kind of stunts.

Somewhere like Brazil/Paraguay/Mexico/Philippines/Iraq no one is gonna ask you if you worked remotely while on your way out. No one. Half the time they don't even bother to ask what you're doing while entering, they just stamp your passport and you're on your way. Japan may be different, but there is no way they're gonna deport you on your way out.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I learned something new via this!

So, it seems like you would prefer if many of the businesses that currently choose an advertising business model choose another one. Is this correct?
ikr, me too, which is why I built http://ikomi.space/ , wip tho
The "build time" graph is missing a time unit on its y-axis.
The issue isn't who is staying there, it's the fact that they are just random people that don't have any stake in the surrounding community except for their 2-night stay there.

Comparing this to redlining is absurd.
ToS is not a law.
For those learning French who might be puzzled by the spelling, the correct french word for something underground is "souterrain" (it is also a noun for an underground tunnel). Probably they chose that spelling to suggest that it is not cargo buried underground, or something illegal (there's that meaning too, like "underground economy": économie souterraine).
Variation in temperature between days (summer vs winter) is larger then variation between morning and afternoon.
They're funny(ish) asides which is pretty normal for lime.
>You might not like it, but Boomers took their hoard and pulled the ladder up behind them. It is what it is.

And what mechanism did they use to do this exactly?

>I've met enough Boomers that there is nothing wrong with generalizing Boomers as a whole. Just like a huge percentage of my generation totally gave up and resort to 'UNFAIR MEH WON'T TRY NOW'. Am in that camp? No. I don't get upset when people generalize because it doesn't pertain to me as an individual. There is some truth to prejudice

Its an unwillingness to understand the predicament or situation and just blaming it on a group of people. It's pretty common throughout history; a weapon wielded by the powerful.

>I'm sorry you didn't reap the benefits of the most benevolent time in America's history but plenty of your Boomer counter-parts sure as hell did.

I'm not a Boomer.
Yes, there is a good chance there is already a 10 digit hash collision in the Linux repository.

But if you pick an arbitrary commit to cite in a research paper, it's still 1 in a million that that particular commit has a collision. And this is for a repo which has to be in the 99.999th percentile of number of commits.
A government body can't just legislate away its debts. Courts exist for a reason.
im more responding to parent comment, talking about ignoring is better than yelling, you cannot just ignore it. In a given day if you spend time with your children there are situations where that would not work. For example, my wife goes to work early, so it's on me to wake them up ready them and drive to kindergarten before i go to work. I cannot ignore them because im on time pressure, and we have to go. Im not hitting them but threating to take the toys and take them if they wont do. I scream if that does not work. And they still sometimes won't listen.

it's a lot different then what i imagined before i had kids. And the thing is most of people have the same problems. It's just that we all fake it in front of others. Like we are great and so on. But im in the years, where a lot of out friends have children with same experience.
Facebook people invading hackernews :(
Cool, thank you for connecting the dots for me :)
It costs a lot of money to buy a home. I don't know what it costs in a place like San Fransisco, but it could be something like 5-10 thousand dollars in just closing costs.

Because of this it doesn't usually make sense to buy a home unless you are planning on staying there for at least 5 years or so. It'll take that long to effectively break even over just renting.

Keep in mind that instead of feeling bad about losing possible equity in a house you could invest that money instead of spending it on closing costs. So in a short term situation you can potentially earn more money by NOT buying a house, even if the monthly payments are the same.

Housing prices are in a bubble right now. But it's impossible to know when that bubble is going to burst. It could be 10 years from now. It could be next week.

Also keep in mind that 1 million dollar house in Bay area gets you a reasonably nice place. While a 1 million dollar house in the country in the mid-west gets you a small mansion, acres of land, and horses if that is your thing.

So really it boils down to first deciding were you want to be in 5-7 years. Then doing the math.
I recommend that as well. I played as a guest and went on to have 2 victories while still having no idea what I was doing. The execution of the game is good though, feels very playable on a phone, if I knew how to play ;)
> The fact that people might argue over where to draw the line is never, by itself, justification for not drawing a line at all.

Wow, this is a great quote. I'm using this in the future.
>It’s forcing the Democratic Party to start making 180 degree public shifts of some of their classic positions on things like [...] limits on free speech/censorship. [...] Its driving liberals out of the Democratic Party

I'm unclear on what you're trying to express here. "Free speech" is a liberal value, and the topic at hand is an anti-free-speech, pro-censorship bill by the opposing party. It seems one of these two things don't match.
Every non-European country I visit very specifically asks me ‘are you going to be working’ every time I visit.

I think they do this for the quite clever reason that then if you work they can get you for lying to an official rather just for working.
> Good To Great" (Jim Collins) was published in 2001

It was completely different social landscape, people participate in culture at a much higher rate today.

The time people devote to catch up with latest social trends, celebrity news, rivalries etc. is unprecedented.

Say if a culture icon like the Beatles were in their prime today they'd have something like 1.2B instagram followers.
I don't know anything about building a POSIX OS from scratch. I don't know much about Rust as well. That said, Redox code base is clean and very approachable. Kudos!

I do see a lot of unsafe keyword, are they inevitable?
If you think this is one of your stronger arguments, I think my point has been made.
I would start by researching all of the "suggested" products that Amazon links to, near the bottom of the product page.
The mess is mostly the result of the mismatch between the classic database transactional model and kafka transactional model (G0 anomaly). If you read the documentation without the database background it seems ok, but when you notice the differences between the models it becomes hard to understand if it's a bug or property of the Kafka protocol.

There is a lot of research happening around this area even in the database world. The list of the isolation levels isn't final and some of the recent developments include PC-PSI and NMSI which also seem to "violate" the order. I hope one day we get the formal academic description of the Kafka model. It looks very promising.
He made some good points in the article but this particular paragraph stuck out as being hypocritical. The entire motivation of him writing this was because he felt people dismissed his previous article out of hand. And then he makes a remark that preemptively dismisses any rebuttal out of hand (and as others have pointed out, can equally apply to any language so hardly a point worth complaining against Go specifically).
rustup is available in your package manager's repository
https://github.com/FiloSottile/passage :)

That's exactly the use case I set out to replace for myself. I'll put together a guide at some point. The part I don't use and so can't really own is the mobile app, I would love a community solution there.

I am also planning to integrate https://github.com/FiloSottile/yubikey-agent which makes the SSH authentication part very easy, so that you only type your PIN once and it stays cached.
Lignin-based jet fuel could oust aromatics
It seems to me like your current challenge is the path to happiness. Is this correct? What is your next step on that journey?
USSR has fully collapsed, and the few years after its collapse were almost total anarchy.
Thanks! I got the idea from the Prelude of "Do it! Let's Get Off Our Buts" by Peter McWilliams. You can use my version but please give Mr. McWilliams the credit.
same. I think something along those lines might be happening with projects like Janet, Fennel and Clojure. But I’d love to be able to experience that so talked about CL teaching a system how to behave in CL/Small Talk
There has to be some sort of cognitive bias that because someone says that one particular political decision is posturing that they therefore must be advancing the idea that "a majority" of political decisions are posturing.
Does anyone have a decent break down of the cost of masks? I've never really gotten a good sense of what's actually COGS of the actual mask set, and how much is NRE costs that's subject to disruption if chip making is commoditized as we get further up the s-curve that is Moore's Law.
I mean they could just keep it in existence forever by issuing new debt, apparently.

Everyone is excited about Disney 'beating' the Florida government but: is having some weird corporate carve-out of US territory that essentially must legally exist forever really something good?
You're missing the forest for the trees here. AirBnB only makes problems because we're all forced to work in designated commercial zones, and they "subverted" zoning laws.

Now we're "subverting" zoning laws by allowing people to work from rural areas or wherever. People can then use market pressures to live wherever is cheapest and has the amenities they want! That will decrease demand for hot cities and should make it easier to live in them.

Of course, that is presuming that our current demand craze has anything to do with residency at all, and isn't being driven by corporations like Blackstone buying up properties as investments, and Russian/Chinese oligarchs buying properties as wealth shelters. Funny how the Canadian market has suddenly chilled a little since the government banned foreign buyers. Must be a coincidence.
Thanks for your article. I hope you can ignore all the vitriol. It's embarrassing to see what I thought was a generally intelligent community having a collective tantrum because someone was mean about its favourite toy.
> Why do children have to be taught about relationships in school? They have home and families, even extended ones, for that.

Why do children have to be taught about $anything in school? They have home and families, even extended ones, for that.
I work in Fintech. Our company has never done layoffs through the recession. It is not a FAANG company, but if you want stability, it has that.
A - masks reduce aerosols as well: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-021-00385-7
B - They do: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7169241/
If the local area has a subpopulation with enough political power to ban the teachings of things they don't like, such as basic science, should they be allowed to do that given the harm it will cause the kids and society?
If you can get to solid growth and PMF in the pre-seed and seed round, you're better off taking $20m-$50m in an acquisition than trying for a series A. Reason for this is that once you raise a Series A, you're pretty much on the highway to hell (billion dollar valuation) or bust. There isn't much room in the middle for investors in the B+ rounds. They want companies that are going to be massive.
Yup.

In Iowa we put porous pipes in the ground to drain rain into the rivers faster because otherwise about half the state would have standing water on the surface.

Water consumption of Iowa cows does not matter at all, water consumption of a lot of cows doesn't matter at all. There is very little irrigation in Iowa.

There are places where water is a limiting factor, and places where it isn't.
The fact that the leadership of a major party has chosen to not show restraint is certainly part of it. But there is a reason that their message is resonating instead of the voters just turning away in disgust and the party replacing those pressing that narrative with someone else in the party as leadership. Instead, the party is bending towards that messaging because it is resonating with voters.
Alternate link - https://web.archive.org/web/20220429155234/https://www.newyo...
Many would feel safer in southern tech cities in India such as Pune, Banaglore, Hyderabad, then some US cities. Fewer police around but also a lot less guns, and open drug addicts.
cooler and more sensible notion of underground transit than that promoted by mr musk!
> it says sexual education to kids should not happen before a certain grad

No, it doesn't. It says material addressing sexual orientation or gender identity cannot happen before a certain grade level. Applied strictly on its face, it would ban a lot of routine, uncontroversial content that no one (including it's sponsors) would want banned, because lots of material for kids implicitly addresses/displays orientation and gender identity, and pretty much no one cares except that cultural conservatives care if the orientations or identities involved do not fit their norms of exclusively heterosexual orientation and cisgender identity.

This, as well as the overt comments by the sponsors about the specific content they have pointed to as examples of concern, leads too concerns from others that the intent of the party whose base is culturally conservative and that dominates the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of Florida State government is not to apply the law strictly and even-handedly on its face, but selectively to suppress material according to culturally conservative values.
My point is that its supposed to feel good but that verbatim reading isn't really whats happening.

Over the past two years lots of people left the SFBA, Seattle, NYC etc. They didn't move to the US Bible Belt they went to islands, Miami, Austin, Southern California....

so to keep talent and get some of the other talent back, they released this statement. about nomads.

It's not about people with feeble parents and health issues that get them stuck in the midwest, or those really there by even easier choice. Maybe it will never be about them.

Its not charity, its a reaction to their own workforce.
Soda is absolutely addictive. Test it easily by drinking a few cans every day for a month or two and then stopping cold turkey.
I think this makes sense, but luck is a weird way to put it. I'm sure Bill Gates' family had plans to create generational wealth; at the very least they didn't ignore the possibility. The question of whether or not Bill is lucky because he wasn't responsible for starting those plans is the same question of if I'm more lucky to have been born in this body or in one 500 years into the future.
Israel is a nuclear power supported by the West, there is no almost losing.
Chart: Renewable energy beat out nuclear in the U.S. in 2021
Love that. My first thought was: but what if you did not think the consequences of your wish through? But then I guess, since you have all the power in the world, you could just correct any of the inconveniences that you did not see coming in the first place, right? And all of this in real time - love it :D
Yeah, I didn't realize there was that additional prompt. It certainly makes more sense that if the prompt includes the description that the agent is playing the role of an AI, it would be able to deduce that it would not be affected. I was assuming there was no such indication, and so the system would be implicitly trying to predict what a human would say in that situation (since the training data is largely human-written text).

Still, you could imagine a parallel version of Flamingo which performs the same reasoning, but is artificially slowed when shown Stroop images. Obviously, there would be no way for it to deduce this fact from the training data, and it would not be able to say that it is also affected as humans are.

I don't mean to say that this is some great failing of the system or anything - just that a casual reader might infer from the Stroop dialogue that the system had some way to inspect and reason about its own performance, when in fact it's just estimating what it thinks would be true for AI systems (since it was told that it's an AI system in the prompt) in general based on the training corpus.
What is OCaml mostly used for? Like Ada for aerospace or Erlang for concurrency, does OCaml has a niche like that?
Suppose a person is your average overweight middle aged sedentary American and they die of a stroke and happen to test positive for the virus.

There's a pretty good chance they died of COVID-19-associated immune thrombocytopenia, even though they may not have been symptomatic when they died.

A lot of those cardiac events are going to go uncounted if a country isn't testing for the virus, or isn't attributing CVAs to the virus when the person didn't really have any respiratory complications / pneumonia.
== should do the obvious thing. But with operator overloading, it's not clear that it does, unless you need to read the implementation of == very carefully.
As always it depends on the context. I worked in a company where we streamed video to millions of end users and it was 10x cheaper to operate our own datacenter instead of renting cloud things for that. We also used hosted cloud offerings where it made sense, for other applications.