skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Politicians listen to the people who talk to them. NIMBY’s are highly organized and politically active, so politicians listen. Generally there isn’t a counter group or they are poorly organized and don’t hold much political weight.

You’d be surprised what you can accomplish if you’re organized. A prof I worked with was able to introduce a bill to congress (that he wrote with the congressmen’s staff) simply because he built a relationship and then proposed something the congressmen liked.

The issue is the vast majority of voters do nothing more than vote.
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My understanding is that a factor in making EVs seem like they have lower top speeds is because of increased safety standards/laws in some countries. Those countries require speed limiters for speeds too far above highway speeds. Many ICE engine designs were grandfathered in without needing to be updated with such speed limiters, but EVs are new designs and don't meet any such "grandfathering" criteria.
> I thought insulin was typically around 5x that price in the USA

Insulin comes in several different forms. It's the patented, long-acting forms that are currently expensive in the United States.

Regular generic insulin is $25/vial at Walmart. You actually don't even need a prescription to get it in most places. The low price of regular insulin is actually unknown to huge numbers of Americans, who are only familiar with insulin analog prices talked about in headlines. There's even a Snopes page confirming that Walmart sells $25/vial insulin because so many people think it must be untrue ( https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/insulin-walmart-vial/ )

WalMart also sells a long-acting insulin analog (NovoLog) for about $75/vial (1000 U total): https://www.walmart.com/cp/relion-diabetic-care/3769564

There is a major problem with insulin education among healthcare providers, IMO. A lot of them will write prescriptions for expensive long-acting forms because they don't ask the patient's financial/insurance status. A lot of patients aren't even aware that they are on a specific patented insulin analog. They just know they take "insulin", that it's expensive when they fill the prescription, and that all of the headlines say insulin is expensive and therefore their experience is normal. It's a dumb situation.

Even dumber: Many Insulin analog manufacturers will actually reimburse low-income patients for their out-of-pocket costs of buying insulin. If you do some research, even the expensive insulins can become very affordable or even free by filling out the right forms. Again, dumb situation, but it's out there.
Yes it could. But lenses offer much more than that. They are sometimes called "functional references", because a lens can be used for both reading and updating; and can be passed around. They can also be composed and combined in arbitrarily complex ways, e.g a lens into a map, option or a list.
I had been working from home for a year and a half already in a very comfortable WFH setup, and knew I would have one going forward.

That, obviously, makes a huge difference: I didn't need an office to work in, I just wanted one.
This is for the country of Sri Lanka. The headline should (IMHO) have reflected this, because it is otherwise click bait.

I am aware there is a .lk domain, but there are thousands of domains out there and I don't think most people would know it of hand.
> Another was for storing ~100M rows of data in a table with ~70 columns or so of largely text based data. Workload was predominantly random reads of subsets of 1M rows and ~20 columns at a time.

Kimball's dimensional modelling helps a lot in cases like this, since probably there is a lot of repeated data in these columns.
I heard Daniel on a podcast, so I will summarize my understanding of the theory for potential readers: technology is a tool which leverages resource extraction and control, and the people who wield that tool define what values are normative within society; those who disagree do not control resources, and so the value system reflects (and rationalizes) those who control the tools.
And as another note, if you qualify for aid programs, and they are not oversubscribed, then you should sign up even if you can afford not to - if you feel bad, donate the difference to an appropriate charity or cause.

Because the number of people using aid programs is a major factor in getting them identified and improved.
> 4 In 5 Americans Who Need Insulin Have Taken On Credit Card Debt To Cover The Drug's Cost

This smelled fishy to me so I looked a little further into the numbers. The page linking to the study says that it involved 1,000 insured participants and 1,000 uninsured. So right off the bat, unless exactly 50% of the population is insured/uninsured, you can't really extrapolate exact numbers from this survey, unless they gave you results broken down by insurance status.

According to https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/data/statistics-report/diagnose..., about 46% of diagnosed diabetes cases are in people >65, meaning covered by medicare. I'd assume that at least a good chunk of people <65 have insurance, meaning this survey is completely unrepresentative from the start.

Don't take any of this to mean that I don't think the price of insulin is too high. It certainly is. But this survey is misleading at best.
From what I've seen in Toronto and after having spoken with a local councillor, the thing is that those NIMBY show up to all consultation meetings.

Any new bike lane require a community consultation (which is a problem in itself!, but let's forget that for a minute)... but who comes to those? The working class families that have to take care of their kids in the evening? Or older folks that have no other plans on a random week night? Before COVID all those meetings were in person at some community center. Of course for any cyclist to get there, they'd need to bike on a street with no bike lanes. So who shows up? People in cars!

Things are slightly easier now because lots of those meetings moved online with Zoom, making it more accessible to a bunch of new people. But I'd recommend (if you're not doing it already!) to keep showing up to all consultation meetings, because that's the only way things get done.

Concillor was telling me it was hard to make a case to the civic servant that they should keep pushing for bike lanes when ALL consultations kept only getting opposition. Even thought they all knew it was likely more popular, but it's hard to argue with the "democratic" process.
SPACs wipe out 50% value as investors lose appetite for risky growth stocks
50 Years of Smalltalk
Just like TNG, sometimes it was brilliant, and sometimes it wasn't. That's the risk with actual creativity instead of fistfights and non-stop action. Discovery looks good, but very thin on the meat.
To confirm, my article focuses on benefits to business based upon their (In my opinion/understanding) misrepresentations/misunderstandings of their licenses, not business benefits of Open Source in general. I am a big fan of Open Source and realise that there are indeed many benefits.
I'm sure this doesn't apply to many here here, but: Do not trust leverage-trading crypto banks. Do not trade on leverage. These systems just recreate our current system of debt-based money that will inevitably collapse when the easy money dries up.

If you believe Bitcoin has a future like I do, then buy some Bitcoin and hold it in cold storage for a long time, or try to jumpstart a circular economy where you use Bitcoin to buy and sell goods. Don't try to recreate the current system with fake decentralization.
Not really anecdotal, Bernie Sanders did "lead" a "caravan" of US citizens into Canada for cheaper insulin.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220521183320/https://www.nytim...
Globalization is apparently good in all contexts except medicine and law, the two most common fields of employment for a congressperson or senator. The AMA would scream bloody murder if someone seriously proposed hiring foreign doctors to stem the shortage they caused by limiting residency slots for decades.
Government housing can work, but it needs large, sustained amounts of funding, which is not really a reality with cash-strapped local and state governments and extremely low federal appetite for such a program.

There isn‘t a realistic path to a solid, pro-public housing bloc of 60 senators.
The air pollution from gas stoves is a fraction of a percent of cars. I have not done the math on wood fireplaces.
> Your management style sounds like it would rapidly kill creativity and innovation, psych safety, and codebase quality.

Couldn’t be further from the truth. I ran an applied research team for years. We had hundreds of patents, multiple publications, a growing open source project, multiple presentations a year, delivered a couple of the highest priority projects, and were consultants company wide for deep learning.

I was always fine with delays, but you had to discuss them and collaborate. Come to the team, explain, then we could prioritize accordingly (5 min). It’s not a big deal, but always required high communication. That’s difficult in a remote environment, but that’s why you have regular meetings & have to be more strict than normal about planning.

Perhaps it wouldn’t be an environment for you, that’s fair. But a project isn’t about you, it’s about a deliverable; often a team effort. If 10 min of communication a day is too much, idk then.
Indeed. When somebody is a true YIMBY it's major news: https://piedmontexedra.com/2019/07/piedmont-resident-terry-m...
> Using cash, for example.

We are literally back to what I said a few comments ago:

> And in the cases of unbanked areas that exchange needs to be physical and able to give out physical cash. It doesn't need to be the same exchange, but both those exchanges would still have the same issues as a traditional exchange, right?

So again: Why would a physical bitcoin exchange be easier to operate than a physical traditional exchange?

If your reason is laws then I'm guessing you'd also need to explain why widespread bitcoin usage wouldn't be subject to those laws too.
You can buy generic novolog at Walmart for 75$ for 1000 units vs. 550$ list for the same of branded humalog.

But basically you are correct that regulation is the largest barrier to price reductions. Patients pay the price of FDA regulation (for better or worse). That’s not really the drug companies fault.
They are implemented in a maximally safe way, which generally means they leave files / folders / etc lying around when you least expect it which goes on to cause later annoyances, because doing otherwise could mean deleting data you didn't know would be deleted.

Say you're git, and someone has a submodule that goes from having:

sub/
.gitignore = a/ignored.txt
a/
tracked.txt
ignored.txt

to this, when they `git checkout` some other newer or older or totally-separate-history branch (possibly several layers above this submodule):

sub/
b/
tracked.txt

what do you do with sub/a/ignored.txt? What if the whole submodule was removed?

Git's answer to every single question like this is to either fail to perform the submodule version change, or leave a now-untracked-and-not-ignored sub/a/ignored.txt file in the directory, which leaves you with an un-clean checkout that it'll warn and complain and possibly conflict on.

It's highly unergonomic, but reliably avoids silently doing anything that might cause you to lose data. The awful ergonomics are what people generally hate about it. They'd rather it made some consistent decisions so it Just Worked™ in nearly all cases. But that's not Git-like.
In this case it seems more like a country that is severely mismanaged is now falling apart completely. I feel for the people in it, but this is not indicative of the real state of the world.
Isn't it OK to think that some of those questions are just boring or the "answers" won't affect our actions anyway? We've got limited attention we can give to issues and choose to focus on something else we can affect. Ok, so we're living in a simulation... do something about it!

Now, if you're saying, "I'm going to spend all my resources to build a 500 year roof on my house so that nobody has to worry about that again", that has definite consequences on your other decisions going forward.
One thing that intrigued me is how courteously the German Navy officers treated their American-officer captive as a fellow professional — in part no doubt because they didn't realize that as the son of German immigrants, he spoke German. (His treatment on land was less felicitous.)

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edouard_Izac
Really nice guide.
Why would I let the marketing team have any say in the site I'm working on?

It would be completely inappropriate.

If any of the sites pages appeared in any search engine I'd probably be fired, possibly be talking with lawyers....

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My point here is that not all sites are the same. SPAs don't work for content sites like blogs or a restaurants home page, or whatever. But for internal line of business stuff, they can work well.

That's not to say a shitty site isn't a shitty site. It's not ok for any app to take minutes to load
Fortnite creators are making studios to build ambitious – and branded – worlds
This is something you might end up regretting later.

It’s annoying adding another foreign key later and then having previously working queries fail at runtime due to an ambiguous join condition.
> Mark Karpelès only received suspended sentences and spent no time in jail

He was in jail from August 2015 to July 2016, if his wikipedia article is correct. The suspended sentence came after that.
Read this guy's past posts, you will save yourself a lot of time. He does a lot of this sort of thing.
I argue many Type 2 patients do a VERY POOR job on average on monitoring their diabetes. Many Type 2 still have moderately functioning cells that manufacture insulin...Type 1 have no choice.

I argue the opposite in that Nightscout and other initiatives that predominately serve the Type 1 community help push the advancement of monitoring, etc. that benefit the rest.
Try optics. See their error message comparison:

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/optics-0.4.2/docs/Optics...
My personal setup is:
/home/eric/repos/

All git repos end up in that folder - it's basically my project folder.
Before explaining more, I should specify that this setup works well for me, but I could see how others may not agree with it.

Let's say I have 2 projects called prj1 and prj2. In that case, I would have the following directories:

/home/eric/repos/prj1
/home/eric/repos/prj2

Both of those would be git repos. Now, let's say that both of those repos rely on a shared repo, which I'll called shared-repo. In that case, I would have this:

/home/eric/repos/shared-repo

Then (and here's the part that probably won't sit well with folks), I just reference the parent directory from either prj1 or prj2 to access shared-repo.

Down sides: I'm forcing a hard coded directory hierarchy and directory naming. Up side: it's simple.
If symlinks worked just as well on Windows as they do on Linux, I could just create a symlink in both prj1 and prj2 that points to my shared-repo directory and that could solve this whole mess too.

Having said all that, submodules have worked for me in the past, but I use them so rarely that I always need to look them up - so I've gotten in the habit of keeping things simple for myself and just doing things the way I mentioned above.
Added: https://github.com/prql/prql/pull/697
Epic's 95/5 Split for Fortnite Content Creators
I'd argue that there are legitimately decent reasons that Apple is doing this, besides the selfish, monopoly-protecting, reasons that are also nicely aligned with it as well. Besides the security thing mentioned elsewhere, I think performance and battery life are a huge concern as well. A big reason that Apple products (usually) work so well is that the vertical integration of both hardware and software can lead to compounding gains WRT performance and battery life. i.e. iPhones have excellent battery life and are pretty snappy for most of their life. A web browser is such a core (frequently used) experience for a smartphone that any tradeoffs made in the browser engine in favor of faster performance at the cost of power efficiency can have a big overall effect on the battery of the device.

The vast majority of users don't know or understand why they see decreased battery life when they do, they just see that their phone doesn't last as long. Google has such a complete monopoly in the browser market that one can argue that there's a pretty good incentive for Google to make tradeoffs in Chrome that decrease battery life on the iPhone to hurt the iPhone's battery life, and most people would not realize or understand that its not the iPhone's fault but Chrome.
Related:

LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30720301 - March 2022 (217 comments)

LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29106155 - Nov 2021 (306 comments)

LibreWolf: A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26034774 - Feb 2021 (1 comment)

LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23901130 - July 2020 (5 comments)
On top of all that, You also have to solve for the structural inefficiency of public sector pay and benefits. Public sector employees make tons more than than private sector counterparts when you account for pensions and benefits, but those only really accrue if you “put in your 20” - making government service basically a non-starter for someone that doesn’t want to be a lifer…
Maybe that is the problem - you should not use them for stuff that needs to be actively changed all the time.

We keep only DTOs in sub-modules so you really update it if you change property on some communication objects.

This way you also don't want them to be invisible - you really want to see and have people notice this was updated and actively choose what to do with it.
It's hard to find evidence that his statement is false. How many miles of tracks have been laid, and where?
We just moved our little family of four from Sri Lanka where we planned to make a home. My wife is Sri Lankan but has not lived there in the last 10 years. It was a rough decision because her family is still there. The situation on the ground is "stable" but food, medicines and of course fuel are becoming scarce. The crazy part is that the government seems to have no real plan but refuses to step down even though the public clearly wants them to.
Ask HN: Are Emojis valid CSS selectors?
Browsers seem to support it fine, but the W3C CSS validator ( https://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/#validate_by_input) fails. The W3C HTML validator is also fine with emojis.
> they didn't keep hashes, so they could go off and use all the various algos (sha, md5 etc) then see where else those users were members (by looking for password if they were dumb enough), I wonder how often that happens in the corporate world

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

Indeed, it's a major problem.
"119 mile under active construction" does not disagree with "the state has not laid a single mile of track."

Under active construction could simply mean the land is being graded and prepped, or with modern weasel wording it could mean a dozen different surveys are under review. But given there was a time with rail was laid at a mile per day, 119 miles being "under construction" for the last 4 years does seem to make the author's point.
> drywalling is notoriously a stoner job in north america

I thought dry masonry was a stoner job? (OK, I'll show myself out...)
They did that, but others have pointed out that it wasn't so much to be green as it was to be curb imports. I actually think the strategy could have worked much better, but it would have had to be phased in over a long time and not in the middle of the planting season.
Say what you will, but HTTPS did kill http compression.
Yes. So if you have to do micro services. Better do it from a mono repo.
With CHIP[0], Medicare[1] and Medicaid[2] that isn't really true. The US taxpayer foots the bill for the majority of medical costs in the US. If you are a child, elderly or disabled (ie. most of the people with high medical costs) it's very likely that you fall under one of those programs.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Health_Insurance_...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_(United_States)

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicaid
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> I also don't really believe people claiming they are losing productivity in WFH, its most likely that they were never productive to begin with and its becoming magnified.

Often such comments frame their productivity in terms of impromptu discussions, or over-staffed meetings. I suspect they're the sort of people who feel jointly productive so long as they're engaged with the productive people during the process. Y'know, the sort destined for middle management. ;)
> You seriously think that the EU is am oppressive regime?

Yes. I think so because EU economy is ruled by some private crooks, the ECB, witch is formed by member states central banks, who are equally private. They equally loan money fully knowing that's mathematically impossible to pay interests and economically a nonsense and a scam since money are not a value, a substrate of anything but a unit of measure of nearly anything. A scam that's very old and well known, you can read for USA well described here: https://www.heritage-history.com/index.php?c=read&author=car...

Such private banksters are also those who steer the EU commission and all decisions basing/justifying most of them out of McKinsey made scenarios. No public consultation happen. No one vote for ALL EU policies.

France is no different: last year the still actual President have got a refuse from the Parliament for covid pass a day. He phone those who vote for to be ready in the night, he send the regular message to re-vote the very same proposal a midnight for 1h30 of the night, obviously almost only those pre-alerted were been there to vote and the no became yes. In Democracy this is a clear coup but no one have arrested him and his co-conspirators. Almost no one protest PRETENDING his arrest.

Long story short: actual France is a formal, not substantial Democracy, in reality a neoliberal dictatorship, the very same who rule others EU countries and USA. The sons of those liberals who have created nazifascism in the past to fight them when they grow too much, in the same way they have create ISIS to destroy their previously created dictatorships when those dictators became too independent, the very same who have created the Ukraine wars, because yes Putin act formally, after 10+ years of nazi-UK-USA ops, formally published just recently by the NYT [1], formally published by RAND [2], formally declared by the EU [3] and so on.

BTW dictatorships does not hold power if they do nothing for their subject, they have to keep them obeisant in some ways, the stick does the job, but the carrot is also need.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/25/us/politics/commandos-rus...

[2] https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10014.html and https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_briefs/R...

[3] https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/e/7/233896.pdf