skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge."

The landlords don't need to conspire - they know what's good for them and the politicians either own property themselves or are connected enough to landlords to help them out.

None of these parties have an immediate interest in the lower class affording housing or maintaining the community fabric in the long term - especially the faceless incorporated ones.
There is a #nonguix IRC channel on the same network (as well as a Guix Channel containing packages), and you have the option to install regular Linux instead of Linux-libre. I am lucky to not need to do any of this, but the option is there, and several people take advantage of it.

They simply do not wish to discuss non-free software in the main official channel. If this is your only holdup, I hope you'll give it another try.
> Furthermore, we're unlikely to ever encounter life outside our solar system anyway.

Eh idk man. If what's been spoken about for decades by seemingly credible government, IC, military, and private officials across the world, and if what Chris Mellon and Luis Elizondo have continuously been hinting at/breadcrumbing/speaking to over the last few years comes out, we already have.

If you're interested, check out the historical clips gov and military (US, UK, Russia, etc) interviews on this channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrxesxFeskSt6TMMm9rnqfw/vid...

Would also recommend the documentary The Phenomenon, as well as recent Ross Coulthart and Luis Elizondo interviews on youtube.
What do you figure is coming?

It sort of seems we now have more tame variants than the first several, at least. This news about long term effects even after vaccination is pretty concerning, though.
I'm doing insanely well. Figured out that I could travel abroad while working my day job and that has completely transformed how I look at "vacations". No more checking if I have enough PTO. Currently exploring Spain, get up every morning and explore town and do touristy things, then sit out on my balcony and work from after lunch till around dinner time (like 10PM here), go out with friends. Rinse and repeat.
> People definitely report it and genuinely believe they have it..

This alone is not convincing, since hypochondriacs have never been rare in the first place and for the past few years have been encouraged and doubtlessly felt very vindicated.
I can only provide verification of the counter example.

Having worked on some VERY large web services, the session was tracked on the back end and instantly and trivially revocable.
Selling my home would give me and my family incredible relief - we don't like living there for a variety of reasons. But I don't have the money to buy a home until I can pull the money from this one, and I can't sell this one without finishing up some improvements, and I can't get those improvements done on a sane timescale, because everyone is busy (including me). I'm at about a point where I wonder "Would someone go for a house without any closet doors? How much would that potentially harm the selling price?" because I don't really want to deal with it anymore.
that's just 1 date that has to be matched, so you get a lower probability of matching, comparing 22 dates to 1... in the 23 person scenario, you have 23 dates that can match with any of the 23 dates.
Especially if podcasters will bring their audience a free tier can boost growth. Then charge for power tools. Find the things that professional podcasters need that amateur podcasters don't and charge for those.
This is why I dislike the popularity contests we call "democracy" today. If you so much as hint at the complexity of questions, if you happen to admit that something is a trade-off, or that there are risks with a policy, you're out of the system in seconds.

Not that I have a better suggestion, mind you. Maybe sortition with an advisory panel of experts? But how would the experts be chosen?

It would be easy to draw from the top ranks of some guild system -- but probably also highly inequitable, as guilds tend to restrict the profession to their likes.
This strikes me as someone that wanted to invent a new acronym. :/
genuinely curious here: when was the last time rms contributed anything other than bad takes or toxic behavior to the fsf?
This would be more comforting if Qanon-ers weren't getting elected to congress. And a small number of anti-vaxers is more than enough to undermine herd immunity.

The anti-vaxxer case is quite illuminating actually because anti-vax sentiment has seemingly only increased as the internet has become more popular. Good information does not win out in all cases.
> There were a lot more sudden deaths in football in 2021 than in any other year.

That's a claim not supported by your link. Recency bias (and perhaps a greater media and Wiki-editing focus following a player suffering non-fatal cardiac arrest on the pitch in the World Cup) means there are more listed names in 2021.

But the article also points out that FIFA investigated 617 deaths over a previous 5 year period, which implies far, far more deaths in regular years than itemised on Wikipedia...
Then you can look at the excess deaths statistics from the time the pandemic started, but before vaccines became available.

It paints a similar picture. A lot more people "than usual" dying in 2020 (before vaccines in US).
Anyone who uses this, is it used for remote system management, or as a way to “remote” expensive operations?
Pharma profits handsomely whenever government subsidizes more boosters.
> COVID has been the #3 cause of overall death in the US for two years now

And yet two years into this I've yet to hear a solid answer to "is it 'died with' or 'died from'?" It's kind of funny that there is no answer to that because it dramatically changes how to interpret your figure.

All these "experts" just skirt right around that question and asking it gets you labeled as a horrible alt-right grandma killer (which isn't hyperbole either, I've literally been called this multiple times).
As the second sentence says, it's a cat and mouse game, so there's no incentive on either side of bot vs anti-bot to share information.
I would limit the purchase to be a percentage of the company’s profit. A good thing about a domain, however, is that it’s not really a sunk cost. You can recover the price of the domain if you ever decide to sell it.
Most of Europe outside of large metros is the same as well.
No and yes. Long covid is nothing special. All virus infections can cause the same symptoms. The Epstein-Barr virus for example can make people tired for months.
Honestly I'm having a very hard time and every day it seems less likely that things will ever get better. There's no golden age I want to harken back to or anything I'm just really fucking sad and tired.
When I first moved to the US from Canada I couldn't believe the difference in the internet and phone prices. Now whenever I visit from friends and family back home I stand on my soapbox and preach the problem. Anecdotally, most aren't even aware it's bad.
Yet it's impossible to imagine a nation with electric vehicle charging stations, and no more 'gas stations.'
The idea that private management and allocation of capital can do better than government management of the economy is utterly preposterous. This has been proven many times over by 21st century history, and is also immediately obvious if you've ever been to the airport. Or if you know anything about the inner workings of a complex modern commercial apparatus, such as any investment bank, or Enron.

My local DMV provides dramatically better customer service than most private companies I've interacted with lately. Government entities are also required to at least pretend to account for efficiency, whereas private companies have an unknown - but known to be massive - amount of waste, corruption, and outright fraud.

In any case, nobody is seriously advocating for a full socialist/government-planned economy. Looking at basic workers' rights and throwing a fit about OMG SOCIALISM is such a ludicrous level of libertarian delusion it borders on self-parody. In reality, it is very well known - by psychology, by statistics, and by empiricism - that societies that don't allow the most powerful to make unchecked decisions based on their current level of resources do better than those who do.

There are a few pretty obvious reasons why this is true. First, "currently having resources" is not a good indicator of skill in resource allocation. Second, there are problems of misaligned value functions - what is "efficient" for one actor may be extremely inefficient for society as a whole, requiring action by a government (or some equivalently collective entity) to properly account for externalities. Third, mismatched negotiating power (because employees must agree to some employment or else starve) mean that even those actually party to any given agreement might not be maximizing their own resource allocation by doing so. And fourth (not finally, but finally off the top of my head), there are problems of diversification in the face of uncertainty - resource-havers can take maximum-expected-value actions even when they have low probability of payoff (e.g., risky business ventures that will pay off 10x 20% of the time but go bankrupt the other 80% of the time), because they can afford to make those bets enough times to even out the variance; non-resource-havers must settle for lower-expected-value but lower-variance options, which limits their success even with perfectly skillful allocation.
First you say "we should compare COVID to the flu" and now you say "look there's no way you can compare COVID to the flu". And then top it all off with the classic, "well you just can't trust any science in the last two years".

You clearly are not arguing in good faith or of sound mind.
I don't think Delta is meant to compete with Big Query, although it's been a long time since I've used Big Query, I recall upserts not being something you were able to do within BQ and that's essentially the main selling point of delta.
I consider my passwords public knowledge at this point. My NPM is secured with 2FA, which should be the minimum default requirement for any service.
I wonder how much residential property is still under Prop 13? My guess is that it's declined quite a bit in the last 20 years or so.
Key for me is that since I don't spend most of my time in Canada, I need plans without insane roaming fees. Nothing like that there.

I would get into detail about what plans I'm on but it feels too much like dropping my own dox.

Again this is two separate phone lines from two separate countries which work fine in Canada, costing less than one Canadian phone line would.

I have only one specific proposal - ban banks from giving horrible financial advise by changing one letter. If you want to understand where I'm coming from it's this [1]

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/marketplace-watchdog-advise...
Europe even has cheaper electric cars. Like the Opel Rocks E or the identical Citroen Ami.
And rig their gear.
Have you considered Raleigh NC area? I hear the winters are warmer, more favorable tax situation, and good jobs. A lot of young New Yorkers are moving to that area.
A slightly less snarky answer: the thing I care about isn't the language, it's the process and environment around the project.

If I'm going to put something in production, I want it to have:

- Comprehensive tests, protected by CI

- Thorough, up-to-date documentation

- Code that lives in version control, with good commit messages that help answer "why" questions about how it works

- Good development environments

- A robust deployment process

The language influences these in as much as different languages have different cultures and tooling around them, but conceptually they are pretty language agnostic.

I know how to do all of these things well in Python, which is why I tend to continue to spend my time in Python land.
> US system is far from perfect, but at least I can always find a doctor when I need one.

You can easily find this, and basically every other problem and horror story from countries with universal care, in the US. Long wait times, trouble finding doctors who are taking new patients, trouble getting appointments with specialists. All that stuff. It varies by location and by which healthcare "networks" you have access to.

And on top of that we get the how-the-fuck-is-this-still-a-thing nightmare of US healthcare billing.
> Most of the issues in the world today are caused by our current monetary system, from wealth inequality to consumerism and environmental problems.

Of those three points, consumerism is the only one that bitcoin fixes, as it’s nigh useless as a currency right now, but excels at concentrating wealth[0] and burning carbon.

[0] 0.04% own 63% of bitcoin; 2% own 94% https://medium.com/coinmonks/bitcoin-and-the-concentration-o...
It might be helpful to read something like

DB2 with BLU Acceleration:
So Much More than Just a Column Store

https://db.cs.pitt.edu/courses/cs3551/16-1/handouts/db2BLU.p...

or

Real-Time Analytical Processing with SQL Server

https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol8/p1740-Larson.pdf

to get a sense of the gap between postgres/open source databases vs something designed (at least partially) to better support analytical workloads.
Does technology facilitate in person meetups?Enter Dabl
People with such vehicles already naturally pay more in fuel taxes. An actual productive solution to any safety concerns would be mandating some kind of sensor or camera retrofit, optimally with a tax credit for anyone who has to do it.
I am 2021 college grad who experienced how daunting it has become to meet new people and am trying to solve the problem with my startup Dabl.

Dabl is a free friending app focused on connecting people individually. Approaching this generation of people heads-down, earbuds-in, and disconnected from those around them has never felt more daunting. We believe the world needs technology to bring us together, not divide us. Dabl makes approaching people easy and comfortable by focusing on what you have in common, putting the emphasis back on the awesome people around you.

I would love feedback on the app, please.
If Earth were directly in the path of high powered radio signals sent by EI long ago, would it all be undetectable to us if it were encrypted?

It didn’t take long in our tech evolution for SSL to become ubiquitous. Surely the entire SETI program and decades of effort is not premised on aliens not having HTTPS?
This is really cool thank you for sharing.
Interestingly — these call boxes are still prevalent along highways (along with these odd S.0.S. Pull offs every km/ half km or so) throughout much of northern Italy (and if my memory serves.. also in Germany, as of this past fall).

I think there may be a a divide between toll/non toll roads tho — curious if anyone knows why this is.
Sounds more like a general memory allocation bug in some patch level of Windows XP SP1 than a change in OOM behavior.
I am surprised how this hot take still has legs. World's biggest site's use Python.
I agree but I think this also understates the importance of just how messed up SF has become. I don't want to come into contact with human feces as part of my daily commute. I'm going to leave no matter what once that is the case. Especially when the equity in my two bedroom apartement is enough to buy the nicest house ever built in some other smaller city.
The best part of Sprout was the "turntable", which allows auto-positioning an object at various angles relative to the structured-light 3D camera. I was able to snag a couple and use them with our other 3D acquisition systems.
A world where the public was told getting this one vaccine will prevent you from getting covid and everything can go back to normal if 70%,80%,90% take it so pressure others.

Mysterious heart problems are being reported after the vaccine and those mild cases can persist months/years. Not rarely.. unexpectedly often.
I will preface this with the caveat that the advice I am giving is easier said than done.

Take vacation. Even if it feels like it will hurt the team, the real thing hurting them (and you) is that there isn't a system of trust between everyone. Take a week off, when you come back, figure out what people were blocked on, what broke that only you could fix, etc. and then work on improving those single points of failure. Driving yourself towards burnout is not doing yourself or your team any favors.
Is having a bike shed/bike parking spot accomodating?

I thought that was default, given how dirt cheap they are per employee vehicle stored.
> 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.

The problem is not with call frames being on the stack or on the heap; even a spaghetti stack would be problematic. One of the problems is that return addresses and data are interleaved in C-style frames, whereas multiple stack machines require them to be separate. It's not that you couldn't write an implementation of C for a stack machine, it's just that it would be probably very primitive and slow. Yes, you can run C at the very least the way it was done on Lisp machines, by allocating a large byte array and treating it as your physical memory, but surely you would want to avoid it if you could. There really is a reason why stack machines historically ran somewhat exotic languages like Forth.
You could check out https://www.envkey.com (disclaimer: I'm the founder).

Our goal is to simplify this as much as possible. We use client-side end-to-end encryption so you don't have to trust a third party, and pricing on our paid plans is based on number of users, not number of secrets.
Sort of similar situation, I moved to Spain and am currently working from a small off-grid farm in a rural pueblo. I’m in the middle of building the bathroom after installing a pump and water heater
>I wonder if covid screws with oxygenation machinery - either lung function or in some anemic like way.

Covid messes around with the oxygenation machinery in multiple possible ways including botching up the lung ability to restrict blood flow to damaged vessels in the lungs, formation of micro-clots in the blood vessels and severely disrupting the normal air-blood flow ratios.
This also assumes you feel safe talking to police in the first place.
With respect to Dayan Goodenowe and his Plasmalogen theory, I think the Rush study should be reproduced by other groups. I am no qualified to judge it either, but thinking critically, unless some glaring statistical mistakes were made, or error measuring the levels, or simply that plasmalogen deficiency is a biomarker more than causative (he goes at length as to why he considers it to be the latter), we are talking about natural compounds (Plasmalogen precursors, or IV plasmalogens) that do not require FDA approval, so it should be fairly straightforward to fund, develop and test.

“The clinical implications of this study are obvious. This is the first reported evidence of a metabolic phenotype with the same clinical characteristics as the APOE ε2ε3 genotype. The probability of dementia in participants with either a high PBV or an APOE ε2ε3 genotype was indistinguishable”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6523320/
> And economic growth is ultimately driven, not by material resources, but by ideas.

Ideas are an abstract thing. To realise an idea, one needs material resources.

The problem has nothing to do with either finite material resources or ideas. The problem is what those material resources get converted into. What we do is we transform one type of material into another during any activity. How we can limit ourselves to not transforming these useable material into unuseable material is what is the challenge for growth. We should only be promoting those ideas that have a better opportunity to transform one usable material resource into another usable resource without taking much time and without harming the ecology.
Citation needed for both of your claims, especially the second. What do you mean "it's the culture?" There are democracies everywhere, white people everywhere, protestants everywhere, people speak English everywhere, what is magically special about "the culture" that makes America a powerhouse of innovation?

How do you know it doesn't have a lot to do with having two oceans to protect it, and bunch of things that happened 400 years ago to federalize it and create what amounts to a massive economic union?

How do you know it isn't one of those things where a little bit of growth magnifies over time if not disrupted by war, just as what makes SF special is that a little bit of growth started there, and the concentration of intellectual and financial capital attracted more intellectual and financial capital?

Both of those explanations have nothing to do with a hand-wavey claim of "the culture."

And what do you mean that immigration is "a monstrous suggestion?" It sounds an awful lot like you're equating high rates of immigration with genocide. What on Earth is "monstrous" about immigrants? And why is that monstrous, but gentrification of SF by techies not monstrous?

Really, this comes across as generic nativism.
> it can't be taken away from you

Eh? Almost every single day we see a HN headline where a rugpull, hack, or other scam has taken vast amounts of bitcoin away from owners.
As long as the sellers are exposed to the consequences of being wrong, I don't see anything wrong with it.

I'd rather have an expert saying "I am so convinced of my opinion that I'm willing to risk facing ruin over it" than some academic guiding the implementation of key policies as large-scale experiments, where the population has no other choice but "trust the experts" and see these very same experts walking away scot-free when their ideas blows up in the face of reality.
Walking through even the financial district these days, it's not at all unusual for people to be stepping over unconscious bodies on the sidewalk, and to see homeless people walking around with syringes tucked behind their ear. In fact when I was in a higher-end office building a few weeks ago no one was wearing a mask indoors, and they put masks on to go outside, presumably because of the smells and things you're exposed to there. It's like COVID isn't even the dirtiest thing they're afraid of anymore.
Kill the z-index properties entirely on `.toc-wrap` and `.toc` to make it play nicely with full width desktop images :)

(or maybe make intentional with e.g. a big blurry box-shadow)

Also: thanks for the resource! I felt incredibly lost doing system design interviews over the last few months, this seems like a fantastic site.