skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I voted a bit sad, but really it's a mixture of mostly good and very bad. I live in a safe place, have affirming friends, and don't expect any legal, housing, income, legal precarity.

At the same time it feels like people like me are being targeted, scapegoated, and played as unwilling political pawns all whilst being told that we're over-reacting, can't take a joke, monsters, perverts, and all other manner of degeneracy. I just want to be treated like everyone else. I don't want to be genocided, please.
Steam's VR controllers and the Steam Deck play with a distinction between "touch" and "press" with buttons/joysticks, for more intuitive multimodal controls. For example, various Steam Deck control schemes have gyro aiming, but only while you have thumb touching the stick. It's one of those things that's very intuitive in use but hard to explain the "why" to somebody who hasn't tried it.
Excuse me sir, you may have missed the memo. We like those movies now.
Agreed. I am a front-end developer on a Mac. I am learning the .NET backend code on a Mac. All of the 12 backend devs on this project are on Windows. When I tried to screen-share and get help (using VS for Mac), they are all like "WTF is that?". VS for Mac is not like the Windows VS. I also had to run MS SQL Management Studio, and it only runs on Windows.

So I ended up running a Windows machine on Parallels on my Mac. Now I have a consistent work environment as the other backend devs, but it's not a good developer experience. Sometimes it's extremely slow. The context switching from a Mac to Windows is distracting. I feel very disconnected from the code I'm working on. I'm going to try JetBrains Rider based on suggestions here.

It makes me reconsider if I really want to go down the .NET path in my career if I probably have to use Windows (with about 95% .NET job opportunities using Windows). Java looks like a better option for fullstack web development on a Mac.
> Pretty sure the "monstrous" part is trying to denounce the idea

An idea which was not present in the comment originally replied to, but OK.
I feel for you. If you did in fact "just" get out of the relationship, I strongly recommend taking a while off dating to just be single and rediscover who YOU are, on your own. I don't mean you can't go out/on dates or have a sex life, just that you should keep an eye out for the temptations of a rebound relationship that isn't actually a good fit or happening for the right reasons. It's a real hazard and one best avoided. Source: went through it myself after getting out of a long non-marriage relationship some years ago.
Is there subsets of common crawl anywhere for individual sites. E.g. YouTube for example?
I thought it was because the obnoxious rise of sequels, reboots and overdone cliche series.
DuckDuckGo's infrastructure is owned by Microsoft? The servers that serve duckduckgo.com are owned by Microsoft? This is news to me.
I'm working on revolutionizing medical education in developing countries with my team of medical students and doctors. While we've grown massively and relatively quickly and have thousands of customers, one thing we're looking to do better in is engaging educational institutions and securing contracts with them. How one can more effectively navigate bureaucracy, red-tape, corruption and so forth would be helpful.
The patents in question are a new level of terribad. So bad that they can be trivially invalidated by prior art. Nikon's going to spend a lot of money on lawyers but is likely to win (if they don't settle out of court...)

(When reading patents, skip to the claims, they are the only part that actually matters).

7,830,967's independent claim is a 2k+ resolution video camera that records sRGB or rec709 gamma. That's it.

8,174,560 is even more ridiculous. It's a 2k+ resolution camera that records at a 6:1 or more compression ratio. No actual method or anything, just the concept of compressing at least 6:1 compression ratio. Check out indepedent claim #1.

Both of these are very likely to have very easy prior art available. Finding any camera that records high resolution video, made before the priority date would do it.
Financially ruined. Exercised stock options at a premium last year just to have the market collapse when I'm finally able to sell resulting in a larger tax liability than my equity is worth. Been taking a huge toll on my mental health lately.
On average that is true, but certainly employees who make minimum wage contribute a higher percentage of their salary than someone who earns 6 digits, to the point that the weapon who earns 6 digits may actually come out ahead depending on how many employees there are
I actually know several people who used this as an opportunity to move into the Bay Area. The sudden drop in rents made it more attractive and they jumped.

They both work in industries where face to face communication is a competitive advantage. It’s easy to forget that not every job is naturally compatible with remote work like it is for those of us who type on computers all day.
I don't want the companies providing essential goods and services to run as inefficiently as governments do. It would be disastrous.
If you've done a calculation like his I'm interested in reading it. It is hard to evaluate your argument against his since you've made no quantifiable claims.
To be a fair comparison would need to include the AC-DC power supply that you keep outside to power that thing... it's double the size once you account for that.
New Apple Leak Reveals iPhone 14 Price Shock
Tend to swing between extremes but mostly just frustrated. There's a new crisis every five minutes following by politicians handling it extremely poorly with zero integrity. Why do we put the most greedy and foolish people into power?

For once, I just want to know things are getting better in the world. It's not doomscrolling that's done this to me. It's just being conscious of what's happening. There isn't much good news going around. I might be a nerd but I couldn't give a fuck about SpaceX launching a new rocket or something, that doesn't constitute "good" news in my eyes.

I'm working hard, doing what I do best, and earning good money. But I'm still being punished financially and it feels like my goals are moving further away, not getting closer. What's the point anymore?
Teeth puling wasn't the worst thing that happened either. Electroshock therapy, immersion therapy, lobotomies... the list of inhumane experiments trialed on the mentally ill to "rescue" them from their subhuman status is horrifically incalculable.
> Essentially, by compressing the raw RGB data coming off the sensor (where each pixel only has R, or G, or B) you avoid the data explosion of interpolating color values at each pixel. It's a technique for compressing raw files, and Red was early to the game.

So the novelty is that they separate R,G and B planes before compression?

There are other compression algorithms that work with other colorspaces, giving even better compression. E.g. splitting luminance and chromatic components. I think these algorithms might also be older.
It's the lack of conviction that will lead to burnout.
This too shall pass, and don't forget to speak to a friend
Climate change is a political problem, not a technology problem.

The technology to move beyond fossil fuels has existed since the 1950s. No new inventions are required. If our leaders decided today to migrate primary energy to nuclear power climate change would be "solved" within 20 years.
They must need to raise $
Yep... woke up, and couldn't see my nose from my right eye (the dominant one!)... IMMEDIATELY called my ophthalmologist and got an emergency appointment, then told my Wife. She was impressed and happy I took initiative.

It seems I was lucky, and my quick action delayed further damage.

My mom had the same thing happen years back, and she waited a few days, to see if things would get better on their own. I learned from her experience not to wait.
Anyone know stats on NYC? I'm having trouble understanding the current true state wrt to apartment rental pricing: many people left during Covid but I'm not quite sure if many of those in fact returned.

Furthermore, it would seem as though rental inventory is quite low or at least demand is through the roof (typically one needs to be ready to sign on the spot) with little to no room to shop-around. Prices are also quite high, I understand we have been in a recent high inflation regime but I just can't help but think the apartment rental market isn't as transparent as it was say, 3+ years ago.
People do like contemporary movies though. You might not, but if people didn't like them they'd lose money and studios would go back to what made money.
I appreciate this, thank you. I have quite a few friends that went to Germany for graduate school and really cherish that lifestyle, to the point where they're hesitant to come back and are considering starting a family there.
If I understand right, it's fine for commercial use as long as you don't modify it. If you do, you have to publish the modified version under GPL. Your lawyers are probably right to be so paranoid though, it's very hard to track and if found it can cost millions...
The total lack of any reasonable support anywhere online outside of an IRC channel makes this a tough thing to justify. Guix is already a niche solution in a niche area of distributions and package management, and finding solutions to problems is hard enough. The fact that there's an actual social stigma to even mentioning the non-free repo dramatically reduces the chances you'll find any meaningful help online.

Heck, I recall hitting Google and trying to search for "Guix stock kernel" and finding zero meaningful results beyond some hints of a non-free repo that no one could point to or talk about in any of the "official" project venues.
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Or, an even more telling variation:

You pick door #1.

The host goes and, in order, one by one, opens doors 2-52, conspicuously skips door 53, and then opens 54-100. Would you like to stick with your original choice?
Nope it is not. It should be terminal thing in general. On a much more abstract way, Microsoft tries something similar by embedding apps (as in Excel) to be hosted in Teams (aka chat).
1. You think people in developed countries don’t have kids because they’re too stressed? I’d think it more stressful to live in extreme poverty as many do in other parts of the world. I don’t think you’ve done any homework on this one.

2. This has been a popular theory among the far-right and white nationalists lately. But I’d be interested to see any evidence that immigration has a negative effect on society, because it sounds fundamentally racist and wrong to me.
Who says it's considered normal? It reads like unproductive catastrophizing to me. In the unlikely event of a school shooting, I doubt "metal doors" or "barricade procedures" will make any difference.
Mostly good here.

Living in BC and trying to rationalize the insane housing market while needing to upsize our current accommodations is a very stressful process. Our family isn't poorly off, but trying to afford 1-2 million for a house is unreasonable on most Canadian salaries.

Additionally we've got an adult child with severe developmental disabilities (and several other complications) that is a constant source of unpredictability.

But, you know, you keep doing.
Honestly, I can't blame 'em. Expecting full effort always is re-testing the students you already know to be smart over and over so the bean-counters know how to rank them. Once you have your certification of "in the top of the smart bucket", classes should mostly be pass/fail past that point instead of monitoring for minute differences in behavior.
The author uses several analogies which are rather cutesy, but doesn't address the main issue in a salient way.

All consumption comes from some combination of raw resources and the addition of technological input. In real prices, as the cost of raw resources increases over time, this means that technological innovation is not making up for how much of those resources are being consumed as compared to the population as a whole.

At it's most basic we can calculate the rate of change as the amount of time it takes the average worker to buy a gallon of water or food and shelter for a single person. These are resources that aren't substitute-able, and are required for life. Other costs are rather nebulous (how much does a college education cost and what does this say about society now versus how much technological innovation is necessary for the continuation of the species)?

So then the question then becomes, does the real rate of return for any particular company or the stock market as a whole assume that a potential future exists in which that real rate of return is actually possible to exist?

Let's assume, in a model as simplistic as possible, that there is one stock (or market) that represents all of the world's companies that has a real rate of return of 2.5 percent per annum that is compounded once per year. As a sum total of world wide growth this would seem rather modest. The worldwide initial capital we'll assume is $100.

So the growth rate is given by A = P(100 + r/n)^(nt) which would be in our case
(for an investment of 100 dollars) -

100x(1.025^10) = $128.

So for the real capital stock of $100 to increase to a real capital stock of $128 some combination of things must happen - the amount of capital stock in terms of raw resources must increase in real terms and the amount of technology must increase in order to make the use of these inputs more efficiently.

If technology remains constant then there must be an increase of 28% over ten years of capital. If capital remains constant then technology must make the current use of capital 28% more efficient.

Compound return over time is concerning in the long run, and hand waving it away is either ignorant at best or disingenuous at worst.

And capitalism is still the best distribution system we have come up with. Most of the world is working with a single overall social model, because it has been so successful, and we don't have a backup that's been shown to work in practice. My concern isn't in favor of Das Kapital or Marxism - who owns the product of labor and historicism over labor rights isn't as concerning as compound interest over all.

Most economists I've worked with don't seem to think that this is a problem or that technology will magically free market a utopian future of plenty for all. This is an article of faith.
Risk evaluation is a matter of tradeoffs. Since I can easily avoid this particular danger and I don't benefit from engaging in it, it isn't 'brave' to get rid of my masks, just foolish.

I'd rather spend my risk budget on things more interesting than showing my chin off at the grocery store.
It's both insane that we have so many school shootings, and insane that we've spent so much money fortifying schools and traumatizing teachers and kids (find some teachers and ask them how people react even to pre-announced active shooter drills—people break down shaking and crying, have actual fight-or-flight responses kick in, et c., when those fake gunshots start, and that's the adults) in response.

The former is part of a broader sickness with our country, and the latter is part of an entirely different sickness in our country (must "do something", even if it's not justifiable and is net-harmful)
He doesn't live in San Francisco but is claiming that if he commuted to work he would always see human feces on the ground. He provides no evidence, not even a personal experience
I see far more California vehicle tags in Central Florida than I would've expected.
Statistics aren't reflective. They're aggregate.

It's not a 50% chance of being on the date you chose, but that any two dates are the same.

If you pick a random date, Alice has a 364/365 chance of not having a birthday that day. Bob has a 363/365 chance of not having a birthday on that day or on Alice's birthday independently of whether or not Alice's birthday is on the random date. So we take Alice's chances and Bob's chances and we can multiply them together to get our odds that none of these people share a date. And of course, if we know the odds of something not happening, the odds of it happening is the opposite.
Side note: taxes do not fund spending in countries that issue their own currency and that currency is not pegged to something else. In this sense, the US does not need taxes to fund spending on healthcare, in the same way it does not need taxes to spend nearly $1 trillion on the military.

Modern monetary theory describes taxes as primarily tools to reduce some effects of income inequality (and that is not done anymore) and, most importantly, provide the value of money. In essence, taxes (and the threat of imprisonment if you do not pay them) is what makes paper, and now numbers on computers, a thing you will die without.
I cannot think of a better way to actually impede humanity's progress than to put up artificial barriers to techniques developed to help spur innovation and growth. The patent system is mind numbingly stupid as it absolutely STIFLES innovation.
Pretty much all the reasons I left in 2018 after 10 years. Expensive, filthy, and dangerous. I live in Boston now and my quality of life has soared. Make just as much too.
> I voted for Shellenberger for Governor of CA. Felt right.

Same, but note that this was only the primary... it's entirely possible we'll end up with Newsom and some other random Democrat on the actual ballot.
It's the people paying $3000 for a bunk bed who bailed on the city.
> There are other platforms like Sound.xyz, where artists can sell many different NFTs tied to one track.

That sounds a lot like a fungible coin.
Shitting in front of liberals' homes to convert them into conservatives.
I have known multiple Stanford students who still bring up the fact that they "also got into Harvard." It seems that if you get into Harvard, you should just go. The brand name is too powerful.
Same with high schools: some weight an A+ in an AP class as a 5.0, which means HS GPA needs to be normalized by each university's admissions committee.
Very Bad.

* Preparing to work/move to US from CA (as a Canadian) as a SDE with 10yr exp

* Grinding Leetcode (quit hobbies to do so)

* Improving but not at the pace I want

* Failed easy-medium coding test at $SHOP

* Demoralized, rethinking career choice

* Thinking when I can stop leetcoding..when I eventually
stop being SDE?

* Thinking about what happiness is

* Met with mental health mentor for the first time. Cried. Not b/c of Leetcode but b/c of future suffering of immigration yet again.
(I usually don't cry)

* Grinding Leetcode again during work

* Fear of failing yet another interview

* Exhausting thinking leetcoding forever

* Envy other jobs that doesn't test you with riddles on interview
Hey don't downvote this person! Pharmaceuticals, dental, vision are all things Canadians still have to pay for. It's a real shame.
Completely agree. Lots of people are blind to it for some reason. It's worse than some 3rd world countries. Absolute shithole. Glad I left in 2018.
It feels like there is a cultural difference here.

If someone tells me something in a one on one or small group conversation, my default assumption is that I should not share that with anyone else. The idea that I would have to tell someone to not share details of a private conversation is crazy to me. Unless stated otherwise, respect people's privacy.

Obviously there are people that gossip, which is kind of the same thing, but also is very much frowned upon.
You can also use Websockets and long polling, so it’s probably not accurate to say “SQS” is polling only.
IANAL, but if you have (or could easily get) any sort of trademark on "App", then the squatter may have to give you the domain for ~free (or face a slam-dunk-lost legal case, penalties, etc.).
Got it for free 5+ years ago, used it less than a dozen times. It's still one of the first apps I install on each device, the different knots are just so cool
A lot of people - most of the ones I end up arguing about overpopulation with in fact - are worried about it because they think growth is still heading for the skies and are arguing about it from a resource depletion and environmental angle.

I can't recall the last time I came across the arguments you put forward, and I've hardly ever discussed this with someone expressing worry about overpopulation who has argued the problem is just that it's not flattening out fast enough. In fact, I often face people who insist I'm wrong when I point out projections show us heading for population decline.

I'm not suggesting people believing what you're saying don't exist, but in my experience at least they're not the ones yelling loudest about overpopulation.

That said, with respect to people worrying about it not flattening out fast enough, we'd face far worse problems if it rates started declining faster. We're already seeing pressure for higher pension ages to offset the coming decline in a working age population in many countries. Pressure for higher tax rates, longer hours, later pensions will come in short order if the demographic shift happens fast enough, and it will be massive unpopular.
Well, considering that every homeless census of SF shows[1] that the vast majority aren't long-term residents of San Francisco and that SF has some of the most renter-friendly laws in the country, I'm going to say "not many".

[1] If you understand how statistic work, and how to read critically. The censuses seem to be written by someone who thinks "How to Lie With Statistics" was an instruction manual, not a warning.

Edit:

Here's the latest pre-pandemic census: https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2019HIRDRep...

On page 18, we learn that fully 30% of SF's homeless became homeless before moving to SF.

Of the remaining 70%, only 55% (so 38% of all homeless in SF) are long-time (>10 years) residents of SF. 27% of SF's homeless lived in SF between 1 and 10 years.

On page 19, we learn that only 30% of SF's homeless had a home they owned or rented immediately prior to becoming homeless. The rest were couch surfing, institutionalized, in SROs or subsidized housing.

We probably shouldn't assume zero correlation (but we don't have a better prior, because the crosstabs are not available, so...). But if we do, this suggests only around 11% of SF's homeless population were long-term renters who were kicked out.

On page 22, we learn that only 13% of SF's homeless cited "eviction" as the primary reason for currently experiencing homelessness. In contrast, "lost job" is the the most common reason, at 26%. Substance abuse is #2 at 18%.

On page 21, we learn that 65% of homeless people in SF have been homeless for more than a year.

That's an interesting statistic because that's the same percent homeless who became homeless while in SF and whose total residency in SF was more than a year. Again, the crosstabs are not made available to us, but it is suggestive that many of the people from page 18 who reported being long-term SF residents were not long-term SF residents at the time they experienced housing loss.

Not to sound conspiratorial, but my points above could be easily refuted with crosstabs from the census. The silence is deafening.
Updating the title. Thanks for correction.
I'm in a large US city.

I pay $70/mo for 1Gbit up/down with Google Fiber.

I also pay $135/mo for Starlink for traveling use. I usually get about 125Mbit down and 10Mbit up.
I can relate that I feel a lot like this too and the strange part is, I can work and perform as if nothing is wrong. Once I leave work, I want to do nothing, go no where, just stay home and think as little as possible until I have to do it all again the next day. Further, I've started in the last month to have episodes where I lose my memory and I go a few minutes without reacting to verbal commands to even answering questions not being aware that I'm out of it. CT showed no issues, blood no issues, cardiac so far no issues. Next step is neuro.
Wow that looks quite cool indeed
Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Does giving people health insurance help?