skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If politicians hasn't done that then there wouldn't have been a risk of an economic crash in the first place.

This is naive and ignores the real sequence of events.

Things like conferences were getting canceled before the first official government actions in the US. Groceries were being hoarded. People were paying attention to events. The government sticking its head in the sand or just repeating "everything is fine, stay calm" messages wouldn't have prevented any impact.

Uncertainty is an economic killer. And if you remember early on, that uncertainty also led to a lot less controversy over the canceled events and restrictions than arose later. (Though in retrospect, even many "paranoid" estimates back then were far less than a million US deaths...)

Some level of stimulus was almost certain to be necessary regardless of official Covid actions in March 2020 unless you wanted to just let those companies and workers drown as people chose to change their behavior.

(The "restrictions should've been loosened earlier" argument is a much more reasonable one, but IMO still ignores how much of this was already local by winter of 2020, and also that at that point the initial economic damage was done.)

(That's before getting into the recklessness of assuming future severe novel diseases won't be even more deadly on limited early data...)
There's not any real pricing model that I know of. I think it comes down to a question of what value an acquisition brings and that's always kinda fuzzy. If you want specific numbers, the project was at ~5k GitHub stars at the time of acquisition so I guess it's a hundred bucks per star. :)
Awesome, there are some really cool ideas here. Are you planning on adding any sort of license? Would love to use some of the feature ideas in another github repo.
I enjoy the irony of calling the author “ tone deaf”.
Maybe "western world" was an oversimplification but what I'm getting at is the contemplative, reclusive life is the privilege of a few. How can anyone retreat entirely, for example, if they have committed to a job and a family? Life is about activity. Without drive, passion and activity in the world we would be nowhere as a race. A little retreat from time to time is probably a good thing but as a life-path it can only be for the few and is therefore irrelevant to most of us. Listening to someone drone-on about their spiritual path is like watching paint dry. Give me a cricket match any day. That's my kinda Zen.
It is becoming very clear from your comments you have not seen the thing you're criticizing, bur rather argue from a paradigm you're familiar with. So I am going to join the chorus here and advise you to visit a dutch city, so you can yourself experience that there's more than one design paradigm that is valid, when it comes to urban planning.
Bit of an off-topic hot take, so sorry in advance, but:

In my experience with hiring, the only reason it has become easier to move a lot of logic and state to the frontend is because frontend developers are plentiful and easier to hire. I'm not dissing them: it's very easy to find great frontend devs that know their tools inside-out and also know the fundamentals of software engineering.

On the other hand, good backend developers are becoming rarer and rarer, and most of the new breed struggles to do virtually anything beyond a cookie-cutter REST API. Very few are knowledgeable about databases, for example. Very few know about deployment. Some of them aren't even familiar with HTTP as a protocol. Any backend dev that I interview that is as knowledgeable about their niche as the frontend devs I interview often gets two or three other offers and we have to raise offers very very often.

I'm pretty sure there's lots of great backend engineers who could do SSR like we did back in 1990-2010 with one hand behind their backs. But there just isn't enough of those. Most of the ones you see will have no idea how to deal with it.
I agree. People will be quick to say that that’s just your nostalgia talking, but taken to an extreme, that argument would entail that culture and patterns of behavior never change, which is equally implausible.
ITT: Software developers mad at farmers because they don't understand that their sustenance comes from farms.
Numbers, please. This kind of claim is just mythology unless you have numbers to back it up.
One new: billionaires are de-facto kings in their small domain, because companies are authoritarian, not democratic. Such concentration of power and wealth makes monumental things possible.

If the Egyptian elite didn't have such concentration of power and wealth, only very small pyramids would exist. If Elon Musk only was allowed $100 million, he probably wouldn't have the most advanced and cost-effective rocket company in the world, the insanely cool Spaceship, and the goal of a Martian colony.

On the other hand, few billionaires are working towards a lofty goal. Most just to make even more billions by whatever means, to put their initials in the high score board.
the floyd tragedy triggered a lot of anti-police protests in western Europe, where police brutality is thankfully rare
It would be overgeneralizing to say they are all just there to sell testing that allows vendors to check a box on RFPs or contract requirements, but in my experience they mostly exist to generate a testing report and include with it a pitch to sell a product or service that (how convenient!) can solve the problems found in their pentest report.

I've had to wave off a few managers who got unsolicited emails from vendors saying they found or know of vulnerabilities in their site(s) and for just $MANY they can fix them.
Interesting read. I have never played Diablo 2, but might have to try resurrected now.

I found Diablo 3 boring, but hearing about some of the differences maybe Diablo 2 will be more interesting to me.
The comparison to desktop native is interesting because you could also just not style everything to hell with css and...there you are, you are native styled with the web
EV conversion after 10 years and 90k miles
The man has to keep time, and has the money to throw at that... Ever seen the dude all distracted starting into an iphone? He has clearly done away with such worldly goods and isn't making a dime on that at all! [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-wOoXijqZE
I never needed/wanted covid stimulus money, but it was practically jammed down my pockets by force when I did my taxes.
If someone got a stimulus check they didn’t need, and put it all in GME, then it seems like everything has worked out great.

Someone who did want the money (enough that they were willing to sell some GME stock to get to) got the money instead.

And now the person who didn’t need the money hasn’t got any money.

Justice served?
Do you have any concrete Trump-era examples of widely celebrated mainstream reporting that turned out to be falsified, or credible well-sourced journalism that was incorrectly categorized as fake news by mainstream news outlets?

The only examples I can think of revolve around sloppy science reporting w.r.t. non-peer-reviewed covid studies, but the press got the big picture right on that, eventually.
You can make webapps using exactly this approach, with json in localstorage as the client db, and occasiona, asynchronous, writes to the server. I'm now building a simple webapp exactly like this, and the server db is sqlite. So far it works perfectly fine.
Probably not. It seems to me that Telegram doesn't care much about this type of data access and it probably won't cause any problems especially if you are using it for your Telegram projects. Another of their services, telegra.ph, has a public API where anyone can upload an unlimited number of media files.
> Would you rather Google police content and not allow native ads that the content producer includes?

Why not downrank such videos a little bit - just like Google attempts to downrank pages that look like made by content farms?

Since a lot of YouTube creators are very concerned about their ranking, this should decrease the problem of sponsored segments/videos a lot.
Are you sure it's "not just browsers"? With the current popularity of embedded browser engines, there's a good chance that these clients are actually browsers in disguise, or at least that they embed a browser for the frame which shows the camera streams.
The specification for the format (which is what is patented) describes the mathematical relationship between the binary payload and the uncompressed picture data. The actual implementation of the encoder / decoder is copyrighted and may also be patented, (which seems to be what you are alluding to), but with patent encumbered formats, the real issue is that the specification itself is patented.

Practically this means that every encoder / decoder for patent encumbered formats has to have some form of licensing just to interact with the format even if they somehow reverse engineered the specification and built a cleanroom implementation (at least as far as I understand it, IANAL)
Archive link: https://archive.ph/2mAj1
Thanks, now I can't ever unsee it being "AVATA R"
You continue to play with words. You are using words to obscure your meaning, rather than reveal your meaning.
This is how it worked in canada.

Saskatchewan decided they wanted single payer health care so they did it. About a decade later the federal gov made it national.
I would do the SSE version slightly differently. No need for bitwise tricks, SSE2 has an instruction to compare bytes, which saves 1 instruction and one constant vector.

int luhn( const char* s )
{
__m128i r = _mm_loadu_si128( ( const __m128i* )s );

// Decode ASCII
r = _mm_subs_epu8( r, _mm_set1_epi8( 0x30 ) );

// Double every other digit
__m128i m = _mm_set1_epi16( 0x00ff );
r = _mm_add_epi8( r, _mm_and_si128( r, m ) );

// if( digit > 9 ) digit -= 9
const __m128i nine = _mm_set1_epi8( 9 );
__m128i gt = _mm_cmpgt_epi8( r, nine );
r = _mm_sub_epi8( r, _mm_and_si128( gt, nine ) );

// Horizontal sum
r = _mm_sad_epu8( r, _mm_setzero_si128() );
r = _mm_add_epi64( r, _mm_srli_si128( r, 8 ) );
return _mm_cvtsi128_si32( r ) % 10;
}
Why is _right now_ a time when they're more worth talking about than any previous time?
If >$400 is "a few bucks", then I'm seriously just out of touch
Great points. Yes those are the major barriers. If you have all those, things can go well. Obviously heaps of people in the USA do not.
This is really nicely put: "purity ratchet", "redemption hustle", "disease of politeness".
My Mom, the CEO who should have been
In his talk "Agile is Dead", Dave Thomas (one of the creators of the Agile Manifesto) speaks about how distorted and perverted the manifesto's intentions have been by the "Agile" industry.

Striving to be agile, flexible, adaptable is a very valid and useful principle.

"Agile" as a noun, the cult-ish process-training-industrial-complex is not at all agile.

Link to the part where he recalls the creation of the Manifesto https://youtu.be/a-BOSpxYJ9M?t=384

It is immediately followed by the difference between agile (adjective) and Agile (noun).

Agile IMO has been perverted by business and middle management to facilitate bean-counting.
Only for the "soziale krankenversicherung" or basic plan.

US has a massive free healthcare system called "Medicaid" which is similar to the basic plan for low income individuals and families, the scale of which is unknown to many:

> Medicaid is the largest source of funding for medical and health-related services for people with low income in the United States, providing free health insurance to 74 million low-income and disabled people (23% of Americans) as of 2017, as well as paying for half of all U.S. births in 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicaid

In addition, each state has other provisions. For example, California's Medical system is used by a third of California's population:

> Benefits include ambulatory patient services, emergency services, hospitalization, maternity and newborn care, mental health and substance use disorder treatment, dental (Denti-Cal), vision, and long term care and supports.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medi-Cal
White Fragility is an awful book. Even as baby's first guide to thinking about how you treat POC, it's a net negative and that role would be better filled by something like Ibram Kendi's books. Still fluffy and lightweight, but at least not as harmfully neurotic.

That being said, you've hit on the actual shortcoming of "woke culture" these handwringing articles miss. It's admirable, not outrageous, that white people becoming conscious of racism feel compelled to do whatever they can about it. But most people (in the US at least) are so depoliticized that their ability to effect systemic change is virtually nil. The project of rebuilding the necessary political capacity is hard, boring work and we probably won't live long enough to see its fruits. If you want gratification, making some rando on the internet bend the knee is much easier.

One definitely gets the impression from critics like the author that they're less interested in seeing that energy redirected than in it dissipating entirely.
I pay 100k+ in taxes, if this happens I'll be actually happy even more.
DM'd you on Twitter.
Absolutely perfectly well put. It's always seemed to me to be a way to derive a narrative of plausible deniability, and nothing more.
I believe that number is even higher in California: ~80%

How much almond California produces? Given the fact that "one ounce of almonds requires ~23 gallons of water", do the math!
No that totally makes sense. It would be a small fraction of the defense budget. And having an educated and informed populace is just what we need to remain competitive globally.
The ads you're complaining about are not Google's ads. When you pay for YT Premium you don't see ads from Google on YouTube. End of story. Other people can still show you ads, even in videos they upload to YouTube. That's between you and the creators of those videos. You are free to watch them or not. But Google is delivering exactly what they promised. If you don't find that the service is worthwhile, just don't subscribe. There's no point complaining about it here.
I have a very cheap plastic one with a dial, which works amazing well for the cost (<$10). I don't remember where I bought it, but it looks like this one:
https://www.summitracing.com/parts/sum-900003
Quebec has one of the higher tax rates in canada. You still get a similar safety net in the rest of canada for lower (albeit still high if you are a high earner) taxes.
Arguably, the 2022 Editorial Writing winner came from those stories, though it’s not the outcome any of the involved authors would want:

Lisa Falkenberg, Michael Lindenberger, Joe Holley and Luis Carrasco of the Houston Chronicle

For a campaign that, with original reporting, revealed voter suppression tactics, rejected the myth of widespread voter fraud and argued for sensible voting reforms.
its would be interesting to see a deep-blue state coalition single payer system. that might pave the way to a national version of it.
Very much agree. I can think of a number of very specific examples in the past year where a lot of middle-of-the-road folks just said "Enough is enough - this is bullshit." In particular, I think that people are taking a stand against being "cancelled" when they are engaging in good-faith discussion or disagreement, and they are fed up with people taking anything that doesn't 100% comport to their world view out of context and themselves using it to make the worst kind of bad faith arguments.
Isn't this basically the case at the end of the day? Just about everything seems to eventually get passed on to the consumer.
makes sense, if you think the bottom's gonna fall out of the economy, energy usage usually goes with it.
> And all reports are that YouTube is still barely break even…

A company can often tweak business metrics to give the message that the company wants the world to believe.
It almost always is "their" water. California was founded in 1850 with private water rights, where individuals owned the water, like the surface land or gold and oil under their property.

The fact that people now wish that the water was collectively owned by the state, does not make it so.

If people want water to be collectively owned, they need to collectively purchase it and buy out the farmers.

In the past, cities did just that. Like in the California water wars when LA went to the owens valley and set up shell companies pretending to be farmers and used them to purchase all the private rights, then turned the area into a barren wasteland. [1]

In some instances where farmers are not using their own water, they have contracts with the state to provide X gallons at Y prices. If the state wishes to break those contracts, they need to pay for breach of contract.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_water_wars#Obtainin...
Right, because a sarcastic strawman is the best way to prove a point.
I meant that in the other direction. The speed and flexibility of personal vehicles encourage suburban development in the city. Cars created the low-density suburban sprawl. Bicycles seem to encourage moderate-density mixed-use areas where the services are spread out all over the area.
No one is making an argument in favor of ignoring one specific problem. On the contrary, the complaint that all the books getting pulitzer prizes are about the same topic, is not against that topic, but about other problems being ignored.
The Great Resignation, Meet the Great Reset
I agree, I wish WebStorm did more than autocomplete and color picking.
How widely used are they ?

Any stats to back up their claim of used in 48 of 50 fortune 50?
Yes…unless the value continues to go down.

If you’re being deliberately disingenuous to try to keep your scheme going, more power to you, I guess. But if you were being sincere here, please consider the possibility that you’re not financially literate enough to be gambling on this stuff and you’re going to lose your shirt eventually.
AMC is up 3x if you bought it before the meme frenzy (Dec 20) — and 20% from where I bought it during the meme frenzy (Apr 21).

S&P500 is up 25% if you bought it before the meme frenzy and 33% if you bought in April, like I did.

People who spotted it early are still well ahead of S&P500 — and honestly, I wouldn’t be mad at 20% vs 33% returns… because that meme frenzy saved AMC.

Of course, I sold when it was 5-6x what I paid… so that’s far and away my best performing stock of 2021.
You don't have a yearly physical with your GP under NHS?

Also, I just spent a total of seven hours last week making calls just to get insurance to even process my prescription that they had previously approved.
"To some economists, the question is moot: Americans already pay a massive “tax” to fund health care, they say. It just happens to go to private insurance companies, rather than the federal government."

...

"Health insurance costs raise the average effective tax rate on American labor from 29 percent to 37 percent, they said."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/16/americans...
Are they buying anything at this moment?
Former Communist states in Eastern Europe: it is very common. If you don't have it on you, you get fined and you can be detained, transported and held at a police station until your identity is confirmed, but this part does not happen very often.
Why would you even mention "the right" in any conversation involving the governance of San Francisco? What level of control does a party need before accepting responsibility for their governing instead of looking for an exiled boogeyman to blame?
Yeah, I think I'm the same. For years I kinda awkwardly put up with it, semi-understanding the dynamic (revolutional paedophagy?), but I've got bored of it over the last couple of years. I've seen the same in people I know, and even just people I've seen interacting online. Your characterisation of "a subtle but very significant change" is apposite, imo.

People are starting - albeit unevenly and at different stages and with considerable pushback – to realise that they don't owe an account of their morality to any old person on the internet, that they can be non-racist and not have to agree with (and genuflect to) every other self-styled non-racist trying to sell some wacky opinion to them, etc.

And - what makes me most happy of all - they are doing it, at least many of them, without falling prey to the "I disagree with someone from Not Racist FC so I guess all that's left to me is to sign up to Racist FC" non sequitur.
If the PPP was intended to help struggling businesses, but your business wasn't actually struggling due to the pandemic, then you didn't need it. It has nothing to do with fairness.

> Do you see any problem in anyone spending their own money in any way they'd like?

"How dare you tell the bank robber to return the money he stole. Who are you to tell him how to spend his own money? That's awfully moralistic and judgmental of you."
> Having that baked into the language and the default channel data-structures really does pay dividends over a library in a case like this.

Kotlin coroutines have the bare minimum in the language, and implement the rest (e.g. channel, select, `go`/`launch`) in libraries. Could you explain what the dividends for Go are?
It definitely is. Church Turing thesis basically states that all systematic procedures can be encoded as math. So, software can be encoded as math yes, but also music can be encoded as math. Life can be encoded as math (which is what our DNA is).

Rather than providing a basis of not allowing software to patented, I think it makes the statement "X can be encoded as math" trivially true - and therefore uninteresting.

In so far as there is value in patents on any systematic procedure at all, the position that "software should not be patentable because it can be encoded as math" is completely untenable.