skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I can't think of anything less middle-class than a Denny's?

American middle class means $40k and living paycheck to paycheck.
Said services could be charged as accessories to a crime and their directors and executives may be jailed if they ever step foot in the wrong state. This is not a matter of failing to do KYC, they are knowingly sending these pills.
> here in C. Europe, mince and sausages became basically inedible

Are you referring to frozen, processed meat? In North America you can find fresh ground meat at most supermarkets and the store-made version is generally made from the butcher's trimmings e.g. steak cuts. Fresh in that it's labeled with an expiration date, at most 2-3 days from production. USDA guidelines and all that.
> an attack against democracy

This reminds that when Judge Aaron Persky was recalled, some rejected it because Persky had been elected. Well, that's what a recall is, folks. And in this case, that's what impeachment is. There are rare cases where an elected official is removed, but that doesn't invalidate the democracy, unless something more is going on. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Persky
What about shinrin-yoku? I would’ve thought the popular idea of “forest bathing” would’ve been mentioned somewhere. Not just an article about watching films and finding beauty in comparisons.

Nature is cool in that the more you get attuned to it, the more
mysterious it is.
I mean, in business contexts at least, Excel is what we end up using nearly all the time because it's ubiquitous. This doesn't mean there aren't issues with it; obviously it's nonFree, and it's notorious for making assumptions about data (see recent coverage of scientists literally renaming a gene (I think?) because Excel kept assuming it was a date or something).

But Excel as a tool is on so many desktops that you can assume access, and so it gets used.

I have a strong sense that this may be the biggest reason why no other format has taken over. It's "good enough" that it steals oxygen from any competing idea.
I don't think the most perverse behavior we've seen in the CDC has a been a result of political pressure from the executive branch. They seemed to be fairly effective at maneuvering around the Trump administration's attempts to influence their policy. Like most people, at the beginning of the pandemic, I was on the "better safe than sorry" side of things and was generally supportive of their recommendations.

Some of the rules have never made much sense, particularly in regards to masking in restaurants and who was going to have to enforce those rules, but also the insistence on vaccine mandates that filtered down in very logically inconsistent ways to the local level. In an effort to prevent anti-vax conspiracy theorists from having a thread to pull on, they maintained public messaging that was borderline deceitful about the efficacy of the vaccine in preventing reinfection and encouraged ridiculous local regulations like showing vaccine cards to enter establishments. This mirrored the deceitful nature of the "only medical staff need masks" messaging at the beginning of the pandemic to prevent a mask supply shortage.

The turning point for me was Omnicron, as it was very quickly apparent this was a distinct, new disease that had a different risk profile than previous variants. But for what appears to be face-saving measures, no guidance was updated and it took months for them to concede that there were other metrics more important than case counts.

The insistence of continually extending the federal travel mask mandate is a case in point: I don't know of anyone who believes that the loose paper and cloth masks worn by most of the general public (sometimes covering nose and mouth, more often not) are actually producing a substantial effect in reducing transmission in indoor spaces, and AFAIK it's well understood that anyone at high risk of serious infection is well protected with a properly fitted N95 mask, especially in a well ventilated space like an airplane. At no point has there been a focus on educating people on the efficacy of different types of masks, just a continual hammering of the "mask up" narrative, treating people as too stupid to understand the difference.

For what appears to be ass-covering behavior on their part, they have focused on maintaining a consistency of messaging that ignores new data and and discredits any opposing points of view, even from other qualified members of the medical community. They are more focused on projecting authority and consistency than honestly handling nuance and it's become pretty obvious that is not the key to building trusted institutions.

I'm not saying disband the CDC, tear down the building, and exile Fauci. I'm simply saying that we need to recognize that the approach that was taken here did not work correctly and has resulted in less institutional trust than we started with and that we need to learn from our mistakes.
Great comment!

As your link shows, when both annual payout and lump sum are taxed at the same rate (the maximum in PowerBall’s case), the NPV of the annualized payout is less than the lump sum (working backwards) or the FV of the annual payout invested conservatively and compounded is less than the FV of the lump sum invested on the same terms.

But if we’re talking about $25,000 a year for forty years versus a lump sum,
it’s considerably more complicated when dealing with a sliding tax rate. $25,000 is taxed at far less of a rate than some huge lump sum, and if it’s invested and compounded yearly, the tax rate on the interest is not going to hit the max for quite a while.

Whereas if the lump sum is something like $500,000, the tax rate on the lump sum is at the max, and within a decade the interest on whatever’s left will hit the max too.

I should set up a spreadsheet. It may still be true for the 40x$25,000 example we’re discussing, but I need to run the numbers against a specific tax scale.
Well I definitely want to get you on board!

Would an "upload your current CV as a PDF file" feature work for you?

I might implement that.
The CDC doing this (or any public agency for that matter) doesn't bother me, to be frank I think it's expected in order for them to make well-informed policy decisions.

What bothers me is that if this data is not anonymized properly then that's one really bad leak waiting to happen. For example: if someone has someone else's location patterns they can plan a robbery on their home at the optimal time.

Not only this, but I think that if we as a society are going to collect data en masse there has to be a legitimate opt out for the people who aren't interested. I think forcing blanket surveillance on everyone is just going to sew further trust issues down the road and a good compromise is letting people opt out, but providing additional services and conveniences if they opt in.
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I don't see it :(
Weird name choices in official translations are often mandated by the Japanese publishers. They do actually oversee the work that gets put out, but that has good and bad sides, because they don't know what they're doing either.

Sometimes it's for other unpleasant legal reasons - if a story is being published in novel and manga form, the translations might intentionally use different names from each other because they don't have the rights to the other translation.
Using web components makes your forms instantly inaccessible without JS. Browser APIs evolved over time and albeit most are pretty good nowadays, a lot of stuff is still bad in HTML world and frameworks like these solve that painpoint. The framework still allows usage of FormData and whatnot, there's even a new framework ontop of React now that aims for form handling without any JS at all in the browser so there are good reasons to adapt them.

And the fun part is that when you are going with the browser APIs like a responsible developers, do aim for backwards compatibility and browser support and all that jazz you will at some point also be annoyed to write a lot of imperative code to add a modal, add this field dynamically, handle class toggles and make another button somewhere change something else in the UI that it's inevitable that you write a poor-mans version of React that now no one knows how to maintain and onboard people.

React didn't come from PHDs in some university, it came from the real needs and desires of developers to just think in "I want my UI to look like this, get it done" and not in "Aight, I add a class here now, but update the value here, this button also needs to be disabled now and then make the request and if it fails then add this element for the error in this spot and enable the button again but if it works yeah just throw all of these away and replace it with a success message"
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> Also if walking alone, people should try calling friends and family.

Ah, this is such a good suggestion too! I've been doing that more lately too and it's really valuable.
This looks like statistics being wielded poorly to arrive at the opposite conclusion from reality.

Consider if the whole of media were an iceberg: It seems to me that in 1977, almost the entire iceburg was poking up out of the water. Today on the other hand, while there is a much larger visible chunk sticking out of the water, it's just a tiny insignificant prick compared to what's going on underneath. The number you actually want is the size of the rest of the berg in 1977 vs today.

Because it seems to me that as popular as the things I watch are, if I went and asked random people on the street about them, 99% of them would have no idea what I'm talking about. But if I were to do the same thing 50 years ago, more people would be familiar with the same smaller set of shows and movies and books.

To me this is most evident based on the viewership of tv show finales. To this day, the most watched tv finale of all time is MASH at over 100 million viewers. Modern shows, even GoT don't even come close. I believe this is because there is so much content out there being produced that our attention is much more spread out. The "top 20" means less and less as the proportion of people who actually consume that stuff goes lower and lower.
Computers have not become boring. You have become old. Kids these days are having more fun than ever with today's computers.
Altogether far too much computing happens in far off mainframes. Aka the cloud. Far too little computing can genuinely be engaged with. The potential has been coopted & occluded & we're left chainrd to the cave again, starting at megacompany's shadowpuppets.

It's worth admitting the formative years are often a lot of fun. Some come-down is expected.

But I also believe collective discontent slowly grows in this deeply consumerized computing climate & eventually we'll push for new terrain, grow tired of this technostratifocation.
I am very aware of all of that.

The idea that web assembly is not meant to be the platform to run primitives on stems from the political and technical approach initially used to get web assembly inserted into browsers. The basic concept is that it was much easier for people to accept if it was "only the compute part" and also practically speaking only made sense to leverage the extensive UI and other functionality of the browser. Which made it very easy to say it's just for compute.

It's amazing that people are still stuck on that. That just goes to the power of PR and poor adaptability of the average brain. Even Brendan Eich was in a web assembly issue wondering when they were going to add some kind of minimal UI functionality.

Look at for example the web assembly shell and WASI to see how input / out has reluctantly been added to make it so these systems can have some utility on the server.

The only real reason that there hasn't been something like a serious extension to WASI for UI things is because people accept the status quo. We will forever ship a large monolithic overlay operating system controlled by a single megacorp and everyone will use that.

Except for one "competitor" which actually is also mostly controlled by the same megacorp.
The cat was long already out of the bag at all of those points.

There's a small chance it could have been contained in late 2019 when Wuhan doctors were raising the alarm, but they were silenced and punished by Chinese government officials
Whether or not that's true, the government should ban this type of business. Not support it with our tax dollars.
time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond) could also be: <-time.After(100 * time.Millisecond) so that an imaginary timeout can be easily handled with a select.
You can compile a high-level language down to a byte code which looks like machine code but which does not correspond to any actual hardware. Instead, the byte code is interpreted. Python and Java both work this way.

You can also compile a high level language down to machine code that runs on actual hardware, like an x86 or an ARM. For languages that run on more than on processor, the compilation process usually consists of an architecture-independent phase which produces some sort of intermediate representation (which may be a byte code, or it might be something else, like LLVM) and then an architecture-specific pass that transforms the intermediate representation into machine code for the target architecture. The code that implements that second pass is called the "back end."

I have no idea whether Erlang compiles to native code or byte code.

In addition to all that, there can also be a run-time environment that is required to run the resulting code. For byte code, this environment necessarily includes an interpreter for the byte code, and might also include other things. For native code this environment might include things like a garbage collector or a standard library that provides an interface to an operating system or something like that.
In all those cases there was a pre-existing, widespread social bias and open bigotry against the groups being targeted - which of course doesn't make it right, but does explain why such things were tolerated and even thought to be good ideas in those societies. But in most of those cases, I would argue that the intentions of the leadership enacting such policies did not do so out of pure-though-extremely-misguided intentions. They acted in various ways to disenfranchise and disempower (gross understatement in the case of the holocaust!) the groups being targeted, playing to the gallery and entrenching their own power.

As I read the sentiment in the US (as an outsider), I find it hard to believe the CDC are playing to the gallery here. I think there is a genuine intention on the part of the CDC (despite the CDC being a key bogeyman in many flavours of fever-dream). The problem is that the culture of secrecy and "for your own good" in the US is so entrenched (because it's soooo much easier than trying to educate folks), that combined with past mistakes, trust has been irrevocably eroded to the extent that everything is doubted by everyone.

My own view is that this is symptomatic of a huge malaise in the US and to a lesser (but growing) extent in the rest of the world. Can the idea of "society" function in the face of such mistrust in instututions? I doubt it. We are increasingly voluntarily partitioning ourselves into tribes/bantustans and shrinking the circle of trust. To my mind that model doesn't scale well with population. Bad times ahead.
Yeah, but sometimes friendly looking dogs aren't so friendly. There are some general signs you can look for in a dog's body language and behavior, but unless you've spent a lot of time with that dog you just don't know for sure.
No, they don't secretly like scanlations, they just can't afford the lawyers to take them down. English manga publishers frequently won't license a series if it's been scanlated because they think nobody will buy it.

It's only because the market is so big now that places like Seven Seas can afford to try and do it anyway.
I don't. But so could elementary school teachers, the National Black Caucus, or the sanitation workers union. It's much more productive to talk about actual concerns. Do you have any to share?
It's breathtaking to see the pendulum swing so obviously and definitively back in favor towards HTML-first and SSG/SSR-first solutions—to the degree that even the JS-framework-hotness-du-jour braintrust is going all-in on SSG/SSR.

I'm still a bit steamed from being gaslit all throughout the mid-2010s years when we were told <div id="root"></div> + SPA was The One True Way of building web applications. Even now, I run into this mindset _in the Rails community_ of all places. But thankfully we know now how this story will end, because the advantages of wildly simpler stacks which work better with modern web specs AND offer improved performance in many cases are undeniable.
maybe but I regularly do that x<space>y oh no I hit xny and the auto-corrector will not split wordx and wordy. And I am pretty sure I have managed to add andnthen to my auto-correct dictionary.
> Computers as a whole seem so boring nowadays.

For most of us everything becomes less exciting as we get older compared to our youth. Our minds are less responsive to novelty and there’s less novelty to be had. Kids still get enthralled by computers these days.
Dispute over coronavirus genomes is threatening a tool for tracking variants
ITT we learn that making intelligent decisions that require sacrifice is somehow "privilege"... but whining about making bad decisions isn't.
Making a business out of selling stored energy has weird incentives. Storage is better integrated into a system along with generating and transmission capacity. A business shaving peaks has been shown to work, and to favor maintaining a few minutes' worth of battery at high wattage capacity.

Green hydrogen will be getting very cheap. It makes no sense to assume prices for everything will stay the same as the world changes around them.

Natural gas generation equipment is easily retrofitted to burn synthetic hydrogen or ammonia, along with compressed air, so such purchases are not wasted. Burning along with compressed air yields more energy than the sum what you would get just burning, and separately running compressed air through the turbine. (Compressed air storage is really cheap to build out.)
VR is not a disappointment imo. A lot of people are having a lot of fun with VR chat. The hardware is just still very expensive and has the huge requirement of needing a 3x3m space to play in. The average person doesn't have an empty VR zone ready just to play specific types of games in. 3D TVs only failed because they never worked out how to do it properly without glasses. People will accept a clunky solution for the early adopter version but once it became clear there was no path forward, they just become discontinued.
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Your first citation doesn't resolve.

Your second one refers to "black sludge" in Mongolia... but doesn't actually say anything about Solar or Wind production.

Am I missing something?
versus the alternative of giving birth and raising a child you don’t want, which also doesn’t include mental health services and lasts roughly 18 years longer
Trying to judge the translation by this kind of accuracy implies it was well-written in the original language which sadly is, uh, not often true.

Japanese isn't actually a great language to write Western settings in. In particular Final Fantasy games have surprisingly boring scripts in Japanese; the FFXIV pirate city doesn't sound piratey at all, just kind of military.
Wow, I hadn't come across that before. It's so close to being what we want, but not quite right. They've even considered this specific use case:

> 3. The sqldiff utility is not designed to support schema migrations and is forgiving with respect to differing column definitions. Normally, only the column names and their order are compared for like-named tables before content comparison proceeds.
>
> However, the single-table comparison option, with "sqlite_schema" named, can be used to show or detect detailed schema differences between a pair of databases. When doing this, the output should not be used directly to modify a database.
I was going to write up a lengthy reply arguing each of your points and then I realised your argument is just sophisms and nitpicking.

If you have to argue that:

- you actually need a PhD in dog psychology(or whatever "understanding dog behaviour" means) to have this specific breed

- that pretty much "yes breed determines traits and behaviours but also doesn't!"

- conflating play fighting with very pit bull specific action of biting down and shaking(a technique bred into them for bloodsports) to prove that no, pit bulls are actually not so dangerous and just like any other breed

...to prove that pitbulls aren't potentially inherently dangerous then I can't take your argument seriously.

Just the fact that pitbulls being a minority of the dog population in the US and UK and still causing the majority of maulings and dog attack fatalities should be evidence enough that something's fishy.
> So, question to all -- how have you found success at locating the fruits of this "vibrant anarchy?"

I've found that live music offers one of the best mechanisms for this. You start out with interest in <major band>, and go see their show. They're on tour with <midsize band> opening for them. You like <midsize band>'s set, so you go see them when they headline a show a few months later. Since they're a smaller band, it's a smaller show, so they have <small band> opening for them. You like <small band>'s set so you later go see them play with <local band>, and so forth.

As the shows get smaller it becomes more common for there to be 3-4 bands on the bill, so the rate of exposure increases. Combine that with the greater sense of community that's common at smaller shows as well as mechanisms like Spotify's related artists and it becomes easier and easier to find new music the deeper you get.

It would be cool if a similar thing was more common with other art forms. What if more movies were preceded by a short from an up and coming director (like Pixar tends to do)? Trailers fill a similar role, but not quite the same. Or what if books included a few recommendations from the author rather than just a list of other books from the publisher?
Indeed, a number of states have passed laws to make abortion and accessory to it a felony, immediately upon the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

In Texas, providing a service may be a first degree felony with a life sentence.
I'm not sure if that is entirely true, historically, I can explain..

The emission schedule was changed when the tail emission was added, however that was early on, to your credit. Smooth was the one who proposed it iirc, then it was added shortly after. It was not part of Bitmonero originally, as Smooth, Fluffyponyza, et al did not arrive until ThankfulForToday abandoned the project.

Maybe someone with less gray in the beard can put some dates on that, I'm just going by memory.
I am Swedish and very much enjoy the meatballs at IKEA. They do not taste significantly worse than homemade or those from a fancy restaurant.

Just as a counterpoint to all the negativity in here.

(To be honest, I have never had a bad meatball. So the problem might be with me. Edit: actually, I tested plant-based meat(?)balls once. They were not good.)
The dogs are banned but the bans are flagrantly flaunted and because of that, the dogs are still killing people.
> The library has a gigantic developer share..

So did jQuery, and that google framework used to create Gmail, what was it called?

Oh yeah, nobody cares anymore because they're irrelevant in 2022.
Castle Shikigami 2 and Chaos Wars are classic examples of that one.
The limitation is the inventory of the library you chose (bizarre and stupid) but why he recommended adding more libraries. Not sure if you have friends in other places you could borrow their card?

The app I use is called Libby, but I imagine it is pulling from the same inventory.