skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Especially since the people responsible, more often than not, remain extremely well off while the rest of us get to pick up the pieces.

This is equally true of Wall St and the government, except that neither has shown they’re capable of managing the company — while the founder has.

I’m not seeing what the benefit is in removing control from someone successful to give it to people who are routinely not - eg, Wall St running Boeing into the ground, to the point their planes self-crash (737), can’t be certified because the doors blow off (777), or be manufactured to spec (787).

> supremely unimaginative to believe that we couldn't easily come up with a situation where Jeff Bezos owns 0.01% of Amazon but still maintains full control of the company

Your only argument for really complicated legal structures, including having to constantly change the ownership structure, is that you don’t like people who are wildly successful can parlay that success into other efforts?

Okay — but I think that’s dumb.

Why is it a problem that Jeff Bezos can try his hand at rockets now that he’s demonstrated success at leading Amazon? — or that Elon Musk can try fixing Twitter now that helps demonstrated success at Tesla?
Accents affect job prospects
We disagree, a little. I feel like that if you have multiple apps writing to the DB, Litestream is pretty close to making sqlite viable for a lot more apps.
It really seems to be one of those things where depending on who you are, you are better off under one system or the other. I have an aunt who was handicap from birth. Her care in Canada from birth to her death in her 70s was far better than what she would have received in the US under Medicaid, which is what her disability likely would have restricted her to as her ability to work and access quality health insurance would have been limited. On the other hand, there's no shortage of Canadians who end up coming over to the US to get timely care that the Canadian system treats as low priority even though it has a large quality of life impact and even in some cases, a life expectancy impact. There was a case recently of a Canadian YouTuber living in Japan who ended up in Florida for treatment because both the Japanese and Canadian systems failed her. The comparisons between systems aren't anywhere near as clear as many would have us believe.
Agreed. I had a friend lament to me recently that he hadn't got into NFTs early. To me, that just sounds like someone wishing they were born retarded.
A lot of games list nvidia something or AMD something as "minimum" requirements, but I haven't had a dedicated video card in about 8 years and many games I want to play actually work just fine (I don't play many 3D shooters and the like obviously), and my laptop is five years old.
IIRC it's not really the build quality, it's the new limitations around chemical composition inside the battery. I'm not sure about non rechargeable lithium batteries, but I think alkaline leak more and last less due to mercury getting phased out. Some newer Li-ion cells might also suffer from having less and less cobalt inside, due to high cost and supply related issues. Both are good trade offs, especially since alkalines are probably on the way out and manufacturers are getting better at making lithium batteries without cobalt
Silkscreen was my go-to font choice for my blog back during the 9rules network days. Lots of memories just came back to me designing my site and using that font.
Medicine is great because once the loans are paid down doctors have plenty of job options to get the right fit.

That being said the system of training is a ridiculous and discriminatory waste of human potential. Eight years of study with giant amount of vacation is just abhorrent. 18 year-olds who want to be doctors need 48 weeks of school per year like a military medic or any normal adult. What a joke college is in the US. And the residencies are flat out nonsensical illegal discrimination. If a woman wants to have a baby every year while she can, there are many types of medicine where there is zero reason to require 24 hour residency shifts, yet they basically coerce it anyway. Similar for a disabled trainee or just anyone whose training need not include such things. Heck, even a trainee with a bit of sleep apnea or a sleep disorder should not be forced to destroy their cardiovascular and mental health unless shift work is a necessary component of training for the respective discipline.
It's not though. We have have ACA plans you get independent of employment and Medicaid for the unemployed.
Ask any lottery winner what the secret was to their success. I bet most of them have theories!
The Atomic Design book has a lot of good recommendations for setting up a design system: https://atomicdesign.bradfrost.com/

It does take a lot of work. But the idea is to build blocks (atoms) of elements, combine them into bigger blocks (molecules and organisms).

Design evolves too, and so these blocks should also be made to evolve accordingly. Bootstrap is a good example of doing this, but you don't really want every site to look like Bootstrap, which is where engineering comes in.
But then who would they blame when the train derails?
LOLOLOL. I worked on economics policy in a prior life. I've forgotten more about economic policy than you've ever known.

Inflation is not a bad thing; in fact, low-to-moderate inflation is desired. High inflation is not because it generally means that base or fixed cost growth (i.e., food and oil) is outpacing productive growth (pretty much everything else).

The option in front of politicians wasn't do these bills in this exact form or nothing at all. Why act like it was? It's a false premise.

No it wasn't, but it was the best package they could put together, and it took months to get that far due to ideologues blocking better/more efficient options.

It's for armchair economists like you to debate the theoretical perfect relief package that they should have passed, in the non-existent fantasy la la land where that would have been possible. Of course, in that fantasy land, COVID wouldn't have happened, and our economy would not have become dependent on JIT inventory.
Spot on

And meanwhile, can we also junk all those massive steaming piles of cruft code attempting to personalize web & app experience? What an enormous waste of every user's time, and many coders' creativity. Ugh

Over the decades, I've seen a literal handful (as in <5) adverts that worked for me extremely well - brought me relevant news of something that I didn't know about and was useful, and sometimes even lead to a purchase. Those were ALL clearly based on the context of what I'd been reading, and not some "personalization". The other 99.99999% of the adverts I've seen browsing in the past 25+ years is utter trash.

Remember that old saw about "half of all marketing dollars are wasted, but no one can tell what half"? Wrong number - it's 99.99999% wasted.
The same procedure costs magnitudes more in the USA. It is true for everybody.

An adjacent issue is that certain groups don't receive preventive care due to financial issues leading to increased long term costs.

But note, even in all cases we're paying way too much.
Tech YouTubers are stepping up a war against Indian scam call centers
Honest question: What do you expect? For me, as an example, "Prove me wrong" sounds a little bit hollow if you have not tried yourself and described the process. I've grown up and was educated to "self-falsification": You should proove either the opposite or find the strongest arguments against your cause. And it taught me to be cautious about polar arguments/postions (like yours).
I've yet to see any hardware decoder supporting AV1. And while you can decode with software, at the cost of using obscene amounts of CPU cycles for extended periods of time which not all devices are designed to sustain, forget about software encoding. Encoding is just not going to happen without a hardware accelerator.
well it depends on when the next bull run is going to be, these crypto coin are driven by speculation you can't deny that even if you don't think they will die.
So does skin colour (of course), last name, schools attended, ... All sorts of proxies for "where you came from" and "are you different?".
Data point of n=1: I think this effort by NY is exactly where the experiment of single-payer health care in the United States should occur, as per the 10th Amendment. According to Third Way[1], (which advocates for federal-level universal healthcare), three other states which have tried single-payer health care have ended up discontinuing their programs: Colorado, Massachusetts, and Vermont. Perhaps New York has identified where those states have failed and its proposal will address those shortcomings.

[1] https://www.thirdway.org/report/single-payer-health-care-a-t...
> (to the extent that anyone can "buy" a FOSS project, of course).

Does this mean that, in addition to offering a salary / options, you provided some sort of additional one-time compensation for copyright assignment?
> This doesn't work well for something which is required to support life and a scarce resource.

Actually free markets do very well for that. Free market farming in the US in 1800 was the first economy to provide a consistent food surplus.

As a counter-example, no country or society has ever managed to feed itself with collective agriculture. They always wind up starving and eating each other.
The chip achieved a maximum operating speed of 71.4 kHz (at Vdd=3V/Vbias=6V) while consuming a maximum of 134.91 mW.

That's a lot of power for 0.072 MHz. Compare [1] It's nice that it's flexible, but for a wearable, you'd only get a few hours on a coin cell.

[1] https://www.st.com/content/st_com/en/products/microcontrolle...
I have come to realize that NYT is considered the newspaper of record, not because it is likely to be correct, but because they eventually change their stance to match the consensus. Their shift in reporting on the Rittenhouse case and LabLeak Hypothesis are the most recent examples of this.

Using NYT to figure out the truth while an event is ongoing is usually no better than other NYT-esque media outlets.
I did the same thing! For the 1970s awards. One is about a black bartender and the racial tensions of the Civil Rights era. Another is about the experience of womenhood and loneliness. One about Gandhi and the Indian experience. The biographical piece was about Huey Long, an advocate for wealth taxes and redistribution.

The thing is identity is so broad that you can fit anything as being 'identity' media, especially the kind of emotionally compelling/captivating works that would win a Pulitzer.
Give it time. HEVC hardware support was available before AV1 hardware support. I think thats the only reason - realtime encoding of these modern codecs necessitates hardware support on a device like a security camera.
They do punish you. If you fall outside of the formula you will lose a lot of traffic but posting too much pushes your older content out of the formula so posting too much means any one video won't get scale.
> - Covid stimulus going to people who didn't need it

You couldn't talk about this when it was taking place. Speech was stifled completely and universally.

We need to really think about how to allow dissent. Without it, society will spiral out of control by people that want to control it.
> What's exactly the problem? Aren't people free to spend their own money any way they feel like it? Or are we now held accountable by a righteous capitalism police to determine if an expense we make is kosher?

Yes, they are free to spend their own money that way…evidenced by the fact that they weren’t prevented from spending their money that way. Other people are also free to call their choices stupid.
Note that despite being the OP, I would like to attract attention to the harm of purity thinking. AV1 is legitimizing in the head of the dangerous dogmatic thinkers (e.g. browsers) the non support for h265, which incurs a doubling of size on current videos which dramatically reduce user experience and more importantly, incurs an extremely consequent ecological cost and therefore, those proponents are responsible for many deaths because patents bad.
As a reminder a lifetime license of h265 cost a symbolic dollar.
But that is not my main point, my main point is that h266 was released a year ago and no browser supports it. I don't see signals of browsers adopting it in the future. Again much more harm made by the mere existence of the much inferior AV1.
I hope AV2 will come soon and be on par but I don't have high expectations.
Also the same applies for you know this concept called images.
JPEG XL and AVIF are inferior to a HEIF updated for h266, except nobody has created such a codec..
If there's any fabrice bellard in the comments, I hope you know see the missed opportunity of making the best image compression algorithm of the world via a naive h266 port, like was done for heif and bellard's version
> personally i like the idea of per-tenant databases with something like this to scale out for each tenant.

So do I. And that type of architecture has come up a few times now in this comment thread. Given that Fly has the lead developer of the Phoenix web framework on staff, maybe it would make sense for him to work on integrating this type of architecture, with Litestream-based replication and the ability to have different master regions for different tenants, into Phoenix.
My wife's small store (two owners, no employees) was unable to figure out the PPP paperwork, threw up their hands and said 'screw it' and just got on with figuring out how to reopen. I think the smaller the business, and the more they depended on that business to pay the bills, the less likely they had the time and resources to navigate the paperwork.
Re: #9 Adonis.js is basically a Laravel clone in Typescript
People need water to live. Letting the price rise seems like it would price many people out water.
You are I’m afraid.

It’s small money considering that the solution used in the article was an order of magnitude more expensive.

You’ll also need the console. An N64 console is going to cost you $100 on eBay, a GoldenEye cart another $20.
You’re also going to need four controllers for about $20 each. And displays…

The key bit you need to get a digital signal is just $20 but you can pay more if you want and I linked such an option. The upscaler is entirely optional. The video splitter is the most expensive part but you’re really only looking at closer to $250 in extra gear to get this working in addition to the cost of the console, so yes, a few bucks.

I’ve my old N64 sitting in a box in the attic. I could imagine setting it up for some students to play at work.
> We still need our English, History, and other majors out there in the real world even if we don't expect them to make a great ROI on their degrees.

I agree, but getting them from an expensive private school is a luxury.

> I think my approach to change the system would be to put a cap on the maximum loan that the government will back, and have that cap be influenced by major. This would be similar to the conventional loan situation for mortgages.

Some kind of cap is a really good idea. Especially if that means state schools are covered, but not the entire 80k/year of a private one.

The way student loans are difficult to discharge in bankruptcy means a lot of kids make a mistake they'll spend the rest of their life trying to get away from.
For temperature, I can see it working... though I don't see how it would actually be _better_ than tapping in the number.

For the microwave time, it was a horrible experience pretty much every time I interacted with the device. A keypad is simple, intuitive, and easy to use.
Bezos and Musk take far too much credit. Most of the work, including the intellectual work, the vast majority in fact, was done by other people.

Those are the people who should be celebrated, not the guy who happens to own the organisation, and nudges it now and again like some tinkering monarch.
I'm HOLDing! I never intended to make a quick-buck, all my investments since 2020 have been long-term (10+ years) in my mind.
WebForms is an unrepresentative example because it needs to carry all the view state between the front end and backend and was enormously complicated under the hood to make the programming model easier. Nothing else works like that, the state is stored in session storage in memory on the server, and the client just sends a cookie containing the key for its session.
I've been valuing my GitHub stars at $0. I think there are a lot of open source authors who would be happy to "sell" their project for $100/star while getting a salary to continue development under an open license. Litestream is a well-suited project for fly.io, and there's a missing factor here I still don't understand. Anyway, congratulations!
"People often claim there will be some kind magic "visual editor" that can produce the same level of visually styled web pages as an actual programmer,"

The wrong bit there is the word "programmer".

I'm 52 and own an IT consultancy. I've used Wordperfect 4 onwards, Wordstar, manual typewriters, MS Word from 2.0 onwards, Quark Express, Word Star, Open Office, Libre Office and many many many more. I'm very familiar with the notions of leading where you put lead shims in between words to pretty things up and avoid widows and orphans and kerning for a similar reason but between letters (or is it vv, can't remember - don't care) I also run a fair few Mediawikis and I note you picked on the phrase "Visual Editor".

The content should be king, the way you display it should always be second but it should be fairly decent. In my opinion.

FWIW: VE on mediawikis, in my opinion, is quite an enabler.
Scalable Video Technology for AV1 (SVT-AV1 Encoder and Decoder)
>"Once again, the truth has a liberal bias."

This is one of those glib memes which I absolutely detest. Reality has no bias, it simply is. When liberal people report "reality" they do so through the lens of their worldview and like-minded liberal consume it with little skepticism because it lines up with their expectations.

Also keep in mind that 'spin' is not a new thing and there are hundreds of ways to present factually true information in a misleading or non-contextual way. Anyone skilled in rhetoric or propaganda can do this to great effect.
But do we need to eat almonds and avocados grown in a [REDACTED] desert?

And whether we are talking factories or mansions, it’s behind the big walls that you find big resource use.

Blaming “consumers” for climate change, if they are not also material stakeholders in major emitting entities, is borderline gaslighting.
the funds were limited so only the wealthiest banking clients made the cut. PPP was a perk for people with premium business bank accounts.
It's dead easy in fact.

On Mac, if you want to find something it's Command-F. In Finder this opens up a dropdown, set Kind: Image, now you see all images in the folder, and nothing which is not an image. Command-A for select all, drag or right click to preview.

I explain it the way I do because I had never had occasion to try "let's find all the images in a folder of mixed file types" on Mac, so I started with "Find" and yeah. Quite simple indeed.
Does Fly give some magic around splitting reads vs. writes to instances? In a typical Django/Rails app I’m not sure how I’d mark some API endpoints as routed to the single node which is allowed to write to the DB. (I know you guys have some sauce around how you route requests between regions, maybe this falls out of your existing infra here?)

I’m just not seeing how I can operate my traditional Django app in this model, other than just having one instance. I’m probably missing something though!
Thanks for the answers Mark, however I'd steer clear of commenting in public like this.
Fastly, GcoreLabs, Akamai, you may also have other built-in options available from your hosting provider.

Can't edit the previous comment now, but it should say "you don't need to stay in that mode".
1. It’s just a fact that if all reimbursement was currently Medicare-level, the existing hospital systems in NYC would run a massive deficit and couldn’t provide the services they do now. They wouldn’t be in business barring massive reductions in staffing, hours, services, salaries, etc.

I don’t know what you read in the NYT but this is well-known in healthcare. Hospitals lose money on Medicaid/Medicare patients in general and make it up on private insurance (also in general) in order to hopefully pull in a surplus each year. Look up the idea of “payor mix.” Private insurance reimbursement varies widely but is typically a multiple of Medicare/Medicaid.

2. Yes - it is already happening. I think it would likely get worse. I don’t think single payer insurance is going to cause a renaissance of PCPs, especially if the overall reimbursement for that kind of service goes down. Probably the other direction. Maybe I’m wrong.

3. I’m not exactly sure what happened at UCSF with your ultrasound. Not familiar with SF really. But you can look up mean wait time for most elective procedures in the USA vs. Canada or USA vs. the UK. Or access to new therapies.
Don't know why you were modded down (well I do but I don't want to start a fight), this is exactly how it works in Canada. I know people who have been told to wait years for tests or consultations. Those who can afford it go to the US.
That's cool :) I think it would be a lot easier to inject the payload at runtime though - the only problem I had when doing this was I got the wrong instruction set initially (thumb vs non-thumb).
Yeah definitely not a startup.

Most places don't pay FAANG money, hence why FAANG's are so popular and hard to get into.

EDIT: The more I think about this, the weirder this comment is. Did you not see the bit where I mentioned some staff have been around for 20 years? What kind of startup is more than 20 years old?
That’s not what I’m saying. The norm is that a fairly substantial part of your comp in the US is healthcare provided by your employer. If this suddenly becomes worthless (or rather much less valuable because there’s a single payer system in parallel) but your salary stays the same while your taxes go up, you will lose out big time.

It could work just fine if everyone did it. But seems very hard to do just Ny.
My impression after reading a lot of blogs by Emacs users is that they spend more time thinking and writing about how to make Emacs do something, than the actual thing they are doing.

For example, there will be more posts about how they mimicked most of the functionality of VSCode or a Jetbrains IDE than about any actual code they wrote (other than elisp).

Given that I am naturally drawn to polishing my tools rather than actually using them, I am afraid that if I try Emacs my time,attention, and productivity will be sucked into the black hole of optimizing my Emacs workflow instead of actually executing my workflow.
I've had the opposite problem. I was reading a lithium battery package many times, frustrated that I could not find the expiration date. I finally realized that "2032" was printed as a year and was not an alternate size code.
>Then the market will allocate it to the most productive use.

The market will allocate it to the most profitable use, as markets do, which isn't the best use of the resource for people outside the capitalist class, who are the people who most need access to water.
I think the question here that might lie at the core of the disagreement here might be: what advantages do you think a 'properly' walkable city has, that a city designed for both walking and cycling does not have? (i.e. if walking is not a goal in and of itself?)
Why are they listed?
I have same doubts. Looks like some kind of April fools to me.
I assume f5 knows who they sell to and has access to the fortune 50 list.