skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The standards have to change, and they may be “less” by some measures, but many people can still have a wonderful existence. Maybe you have to eat more vegetables and less cheeseburgers. Maybe you can’t drive your Suburban seven days a week to Starbucks. Maybe life will slow down and people will enjoy a higher quality of life with family and friends.
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The risk of heart failure is much higher with the actual disease. 8X higher for some population segments. This is correlated from data from 40 independent health care systems.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7114e1.htm
Correct, I deal with "difficulty" as a spectrum. The consensus so far here seems to be that this is "hard". I disagree, I think it's not "easy" but surely not "hard" either. Somewhere in between, leaning closer to "easy".

Mostly it takes the willingness to learn and patience to recognize that it's a whole class of knowledge, separate from actually writing a javascript app.
The idea that government management of the economy can do better than private management and allocation of capital is utterly preposterous. This has been proven many times over by 20th century history, and is also immediately obvious if you've ever been to the DMV. Or if you know anything about the inner workings of a complex modern state apparatus, such as the US federal government. You might as well be calling the sky red.

(And I know that's what you're advocating from a different comment you just made about the New Deal.)

In a free market, the best allocators of resources are rewarded with more resources to continue allocating; the worse allocators are punished by losing their capacity to allocate. This is called capitalism.

Contrast that to a system where goverment eliminates inequality: Government allocates resources, meaning the worst people, people who are best at graft and pull, are rewarded. This is a disaster. We can already see this happening in the US. One egregious offender is the Dept. of Homeland Security which is siphoning off more and more national resources and growing like a cancer. The university system (which is in reality Federally managed) is an egregious offender. The medical system (which is Federally managed but run for profit through graft) is an egregious offender.

The latter system---the system of "government management," where the government doesn't let people receive unequal rewards for unequal success---is a path straight to the butcher's block.
On removing APIs – Linux status bar, GNOME system tray and ElementaryOS
You're right, Datasette isn't the right tool for sharing billion point datasets (actually low-billions might be OK if each row is small enough).

I think of Datasette as a tool for working with "small data" - where I define small data as data that will fit on a USB stick, or on my phone.

My iPhone has a TB of storage these days, so small data can get you a very long way!

Using it for unstructured image and video would work fine using the pattern where those binary files live somewhere like S3 and the Datasette instance exposes URLs to them. I should find somewhere in the documentation to talk about that.

But yes, I should probably take "of any size" off the homepage, it does give a misleading impression.
If you consider nuclear a renewable source, we could easily cover our current costs with it.
I agree that this is really not a good experience. I prefer js projects that don't rely on build tools at all for this reason, but most devs, frameworks and libraries don't support such a use-case.

When I have to use build-tools I usually go for esbuild.
Fine, so what's stopping you from starting a business that does exactly the same thing Amazon does, except you make less money and you pay your employees more, and then you go ahead and poach Amazon's entire workforce? If that's actually possible, you should do that, because if you only end up half as rich as Jeff Bezos, you'll still be rich and all of your employees will be better off. What's stopping you?
Aha! I was wondering…
> C assumes a single hardware stack

No, it doesn't. C does not even assume a stack. A platform where function call frames are allocated on the heap would not be incompatible with C.

You could say that some C code assumes a stack, but that's pretty exceptional.

> Although I imagine that currently, in most cases, you'll want to avoid C for software reasons,

Yes.

> rather than hardware reasons

Hard to imagine hardware on which C could not run. Maybe a JVM chip, but even then, you could compile C to bytecode.
Are there more Qanon-ers or Coursera users though? Even if the risks are overstated (which I'm not sure about) it seems like the amount of quality learning happening online rounds to zero. Even narrowly, I'm not sure that more true information about vaccines is spread online than false information, partly because I think it's actually pretty low amount of true information being spread.

Ten years ago there was a lot of optimism that moocs we're going to bring education to the masses, make $40k/year tuition entirely obsolete, but that seems to basically have entirely failed.
We use Doppler and some other custom built tooling, and it works really well. The Doppler pricing is really fair IMO, and their tooling adds a lot of value for us so I'm OK with paying for it.

Software security is rarely free (even with an OSS tool you've got infra and management costs), but the cost is almost always cheaper than a major breach that could stem from something like this incident, which fortunately was pretty contained.
Tissue fibrosis has been a leading factor and cause in mortality in developed nations far longer than covid has existed. Neither what you said or your parent said is false, but there does seem to be an awful lot of exaggerating the effects of covid.
Fizz has Internet too and it works pretty well although their tech support is non-existent and their website is awful and misleading.
100x perf sounds too good to be true in practise.

At least in my experience, most of the time the analytical queries to generate some kind of business report or display statistical graph UI on admin dashboard or whatever, need not be run few times a second. If you run ad-hoc analytical queries all the time, no matter how advanced is the database, you will bring it to its knees in some way.

You can use old age tricks to enhance both OLTP and OLAP performance, master-associate (3NF or maybe 4NF) table to distribute columns across various tables, individual table partitioning, advance indexing feature of Postgres and periodic refresh of Materialised View to get decent performance.
The virus mutated and became more resistant, nobody should have to explain that to a grown-ass adult. The General Public deserves an F for civic-mindedness, being able to ascertain good sources of information on the internet, and scientific literacy.

It's a miracle the vaccines were available as soon they were and it prevent hundreds of thousands if not millions of deaths globally. And you are mad about 3rd party marketing. We all collectively deserve what's coming.
"You don't have to be nasty because I suggested you might be privileged in some way."

it is always external factors isn't it? He's privileged, I went to the US for years because i am privileged.. Everyone else who has done this is privileged?

This is sort of the "everyone thinks they are above average which is impossible" problem.. Not everyone can be "privileged".. maybe that isnt the issue after all?

what have YOU done to make YOURSELF admissible? No one will do this for you... there isn't any form of "Affirmative action" program to enter a foreign country.

They admit based on your skills and abilities and their needs to fill those roles. Look at the requirements, find out what you are missing..
I loved the idea of Guix and considered experimenting with it on my laptop, but unfortunately their insistence on free software purity makes it tough to adopt. The Linux Libre kernel is totally unsuitable for use on any modern equipment due to the unavoidable need for proprietary firmware, and in general any use of non-free software isn't just avoided in the community/ecosystem, it's something no one is even allowed to talk about.

I can certainly admire and appreciate that level of idealism and adherence to principles, but unfortunately, at least IME, it limits where Guix could be adopted.
>they question if CPI is the best metric for measuring inflation, not whether or not durable assets should be considered consumables

Right. Inflation is supposed to be a measure of erosion in purchasing power. Why should we leave out durable assets (which are purchasable things) from that measure and only consider consumable things? I get that's not CPI's intended purpose, but then why do people use it for defacto inflation?
> Else there would be no deers left here.

In the US, the hunting practices are very sustainable.
why didn't the great god progress save many of the past fallen civilizations? were they running out of Oxygen?
I was immediately reminded of a meme I saw yesterday that said 'corporations during June' and featured logos from a handful of fictitious but wholly evil companies like SkyNet, Umbrella Corp, inGen; etc, but painted with rainbow colours for Pride.

I have a bit of a crisis of conscience about this stuff. On one hand, especially with the oppression the LGTBQ+ community continues to face worldwide; any and all additional awareness and acceptance we can get is obviously so important.

On the other hand, it's obviously pandering, and a lot of these companies that fly the flag during Pride month have serious issues within their companies like fair treatment of employees, or whatever-have-you.

I'm actually more grateful, I think; for mandatory sensitivity training modules in most corporate businesses these days that essentially explain flat-out that homophobia and transphobia is not tolerated, and also help people who might genuinely not fully even know about things like proper usage of pronouns for trans people, for people who identify as gender neutral, etc.

My Dad is one of those homophobic/transphobic Christian nuts who thinks it's cool to use the name of God in order to belittle us, etc - he actually disowned me for a year when he found out I was transgender.

But - he had to undergo some sensitivity training through Microsoft, where he works - and eventually told me he had to work with transgender people at a couple points.

It helped him come around and decide to treat me like a person, too. So that kind of thing clearly helps, and I think it's awesome that companies are legitimately proactive on LGTBQ+ issues - not just during Pride month. :)

link to the related meme (I think it's actually pretty HN-suited):
https://shorturl.at/aioqM
Kotlin as a gateway drug to Java. Once you're in the Java ecosystem it's hard to go back because you realize that 99.99% of problems have already been solved and you have no excuse not to focus on your business.
> We are currently funded by donors including Patrick and John Collison

This message brought to you by individuals who have a vested interest in seeing growth continue.
IIRC that’s exactly the approach China is taking. It seems very sensible. The only immediate downside that I can see is that it eliminates the “skateboard deck” advantages of a stiffer, but lighter, design. The immediate upside, otoh, is that a failing battery pack no longer requires a big servicing job; indeed, no battery pack should ever reach a failure point while in the car, because it’ll be detected during a recharge cycle.
Brief (15m) daily meditation helps with this as well
On the flipside, nowadays the school matters more than the degree. Saying you "went to Harvard" is far more prestigious than having a bachelors degree from some forgettable school. And most employers don't care about whether or not you have a specific degree from any school, they care about whether you have any degree from a prestigious school.
I think you're overestimating the fraction of the wall street population that is on the algorithmic or technical side of the game compared to the traditional side that simply provides no value to their clients.
The working class has never had it better than they have it right now, except for a brief period of a few years in the mid 20th century. You wouldn't know it though, from all the complaining. Sure, society "should" keep improving, but in the meantime there's plenty of ways for someone to improve their situation, and none of those ways involve complaining about rich people.
I propose that non-political organizations have always gotten entangled with local politics, when it mattered to a specific demographic, historically.

You might be confusing the fact that non-profit organizations are banned in the US by the IRS from endorsing candidates or engaging in political campaigns. Outside of those organizations, politics has always been intertwined with sports, with the performing arts, with extracurriculars (e.g. Scouting and nature hobbyist activities), schooling, businesses in unrelated domains (e.g. the outpouring of businesses in support for renewing the Voting Rights Act 20 years ago, musicians against the Vietnam war/Iraq war), and so on and so on.

The only people who do not get politically entangled with politics are ones who are used to politics leaving them alone.
>there’s really no such thing as a natural resource. All resources are artificial. They are a product of technology. And economic growth is ultimately driven, not by material resources, but by ideas.

I think this bears repeating. It is counterintuitive and maybe even repulsive to some people.
I've literally never coded in Windows. Seems like a weird choice.
You seem to be referring to a general cultural attitude in the south ("violent toward LGBTQ+") than the particular laws which perhaps are a legislative expression of the southern population's animus? In which case you treat the south on the same spectrum as say Afganistan where the cultural and legislative environment is so hostile you would refrain from even visiting?
> I am logical as they come

> the (clearly engineered)

Yeh. No.
Interesting article, thanks! Yeah, the move to electrify everything will have absolutely tremendous resource impacts-- I have been doing quite a bit of critical mineral policy work in the last ~6 months in the U.S. and the mining co's I talk to are all saying that the world needs to wake up and quick to just how many minerals need to be pulled out of the ground and that it'll take a whole of world collaboration to do it. Right now wealthy countries seem to prefer to let extraction happen in the developing world and processing in China because it's dirty and environmentally fraught, but something will break sooner or later because the demand is just astronomical. Maybe new mixtures will catch on (e.g. more high-end car manufacturers moving to LFP because of issues with the cobalt supply chain despite lower performance) but there's still going to be a lot of rocks that need to be dug out of the ground (or from space but no legacy mining co I've talked to believes that's realistic).
So we are saying that Harvard and Yale are overrepresented when it comes to leaders of superlative moral depravity, perfidy, and mendacity?
At the end, the author says:

> In fact, the greatest threat to long-term economic growth might be the slowdown in population growth. Without more brains to push technology forward, progress might stall.

It should be noted that the vast majority of human brains do not today get the opportunity to work with ideas or push technology forward. Many people don’t even get enough to eat or drink.

We have a loooong way to go on the basics of organizing human society before we need to worry about the intellectual constraint of total population size.
That's not really applicable to this theory, is it? In this case the attributed and recorded cause of death would be heart failure.
Because this time it's different, and we can safely expect that yet-to-be-invented technologies will save us.
The article is missing a crucial point.

Not only do we need more brains, but we also need robust knowledge transfers between generations (between current and new brains). I.e. for new brains to be effective, they must start from the point that the old brains stopped.

As I see it the opposite process is at play. For example, cloud computing decrease the need to understand hardware/os. Or, outsourcing remove new brains from entering the knowledge accumulation pipeline.
Thank you. The higher up you get the more mountain there is to climb.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OQQFVLZddw

I find this to be helpful to listen to sometimes when things seem bleak
The post focuses on countering the strawman-like argument that resource shortages are the primary threat with overpopulation. However, it is overwhelmingly clear that climate change is the biggest threat related to overpopulation, unless we are able to get carbon emissions per capita below 0 globally.
> Public health establishment deserves a D- for their handling of the pandemic starting basically on day 1.

D- for clear communication and providing leadership to the public? Definitely!

D- for the vaccines though? Definitely not!

The vaccines have dramatically reduced the death rate from the disease. The disease mutated to bypass the vaccine -- yet the vaccine still provides a lot of protection despite that. What more can you realistically expect?
You're so right. I strongly dislike the argument put forward by Bezos and others (paraphrased, "imagine how many Einsteins we would have with a much larger world population"). Completely ignoring the billions of human brains that are full of scientific potential but forced to spend their efforts trying to figure out how to survive.

I find it almost aggressively misanthropic. That most people on the planet are basically there to serve an (unchangeable) percentage of those who have the luxury of thinking about abstract concepts all day.
Feature-wise, it's about 3 years behind the features in ES. Although you have to pay for the higher tiers in ES, there's a much richer feature set. The Elastic cloud offering is much nicer than the AWS hosted version, for a similar price.
Believe it. I've spent almost my entire career running Python applications in production, as have many of my friends, and many large companies that I've worked for or worked with.

Given the number of terrible, buggy sites I've seen built using Java or .NET I personally have trouble believing companies run those in production, but evidently they do!
I use Rider on a M1 Max Mac along with .NET 6 for professional and personal dev - it’s boring in that it works well.

Developed mostly on Mac, deployed to Linux hosts packaged in Docker containers.

The non-windows .NET ecosystem is quite strong, imo!

edit: my personal advice is not to use VS Code as I found the .NET/C# integration to be quite buggy.
Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC?
The archived page is unusable (article text is blurred).
I believe someone has rigged one up to work with Elite Dangerous. There is no broad support, however. I would love to see a game designed specifically for the SpaceMouse
Definitely! I'm encouraged by the growing number of zero-JS-shipped-by-default frameworks out there. Really nice to see that course-correction within the industry.
Did he offer to pay strangers on the street or business staff for the phone calls he was intending to make from their mobile phone?
just one more app!
So, yes, it'd be nice to have an implementation of SQLite3 in some non-C language. However, that's a tall order.

And here you're proposing Zig while someone else will prefer Rust, and someone else Go. So you'll need N>1 rewrites.

This is why SQLite3 is written in C then, because for all the ways in which C sucks, it is the most common (lowest) denominator that ticks the portability checkbox.

Language runtimes that want to not have a C runtime embedded are the hardest hit. The best thing to do for those in the short-term is to talk to a C-coded IPC service that runs the C-coded thing that otherwise can't be run.
I quit smoking earlier this year. I still haven't found something to replace those breaks. I can go out and sit in the same spot for 10 minutes, and look around outside... but it's not the same. I just get anxious sitting there doing nothing, and want to go do something else. The end of the cigarette was the natural conclusion to my break. Without that, I just don't sit there very long. It's a gap in my life that I have yet to figure out how fill.
There are also many hobby subreddits where the moderators are jerks and have zero clue how to manage or grow a community.

There may be some "goldilocks" subreddit size, but IMO there are approaching zero Reddit communities that are "healthily" run, probably because most of the people involved (users, mods) are literal, actual children.
Didn’t know that was possible just using SQL. Thanks for the tip!
I take it you're referring to artificial intelligence by human standards? Homo sapiens have only been around for ~300,000 years. Should there be an intelligent species/civilization that's been around much much longer, then it's likely they've advanced to develop true artificial intelligence.
Everyone on earth has a vested interest in seeing growth continue, whether they know that or not.
> But very soon we saw “breakthrough infections” (not even written about anymore as they are so common) and the goal posts started being moved.

It's almost as if we learned new things as time went on and more observations were made, and adjusted expectations and actions based on that new information. I know, total crazy talk.