skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bullet train: despite earthquakes and mountains, Japan runs a pretty decent network of high speed trains. Politics, well documented by the papers, show how a high speed train had repeated stops added to it, and was slowed down in California to the speed of a regular train while costing much more.

Despite adding an additional 1.0% tax to fund mental health, homelessness has only increased in California. Efforts to reduce prop 13 inflated property values are feeble at best. Senior and junior water rights, where senior land holders can extract as much water as they want over juniors, based on an arbitrary date chosen in law, have not been reformed. CalPers is very poorly funded compared to other states.

Don't get me wrong, a lot of California's success is due to government. Banning non-competes and funding a strong system of community colleges and state universities for example. But other states are 'kinda' adopting non-compete bans and the state has cut funding years ago to those institutions, which makes me question the value of my tax dollars when a house built just after WW2 costs over a million dollars, K-12 is below the national average, and the public universities here cost much more than well regarded ones in other states. The state is not dealing with it's problems.

I left a while ago and I feel better for it.

Edit: grammar and a few words.
One of the darker reasons I've been pulled into an operational call about order drops in a region's marketplace...
Re: (partially) 1: looks homemade https://twitter.com/Mesuiki_aaaaa/status/1545247925990993920...
Sorry for the ignorance but what's an order drop?
In a libertarian world, you're right. But in the USA today, those "stupid investors" are often pension funds who will just tax you more when they lose it all.
Something I've oddly noticed more than once in forums is some negative mention of China, some random person (bot? slave?) will show up and tell people to stop being racist.

Maybe with unrivaled manpower that kind of stealth campaign is possible but it would like fighting the incoming tide.

But really, who thinks anyone has any say over China, they are going to do whatever they want, when they come for Taiwan nothing will be done in the end.
He hasn't been pronounced dead, but they are saying it seems he has no vital signs (心肺停止か).
I imagine having children who want food, shelter, and healthcare is pretty motivating. People do a lot worse for much less.
While there are many problems with public education in America my experience as a parent in a "good" school system suggest that more teachers should be pushed out of the profession than are likely to leave on their own.

This is a school system where every classroom has a $20k smart board ( at time ourchased) yet less than 1 in teachers seem to know how to use them.

At the same time we're constantly fed the low pay for teachers rhetoric as a prelude to increasing funding while both the median and mean incomes for teachers are well above the state averages.

I do know teachers I respect which go well above and beyond the minimum for thwir students. Sadly they're the exception rather than the rule.
non-competes is huge. I've personally been involved in a couple of startups in another country that got hammered by non-compete issues (once even just an implied non-compete). The fact that smart motivated folks can just up and leave a sinking ship and start a debt-free competitor next door relatively easily is a gigantic advantage that is absent is most jurisdictions.
With regard to insulin 3 companies control 90% of worldwide production. I'm not aware of a third party manufacturer that can actually produce modern insulins at scale. Even if they existed, they still have to work around the issues previously stated. It is unlikely that you would be able to partner with the big players as they have no incentive to help a competitor and they are already running at full capacity. You probably don't have any other option than to build it yourself.

Medical devices are frankly a lot simpler than making new drugs. (I know they are still exceptionally challenging)
My position is that it is good that most people are capable of employing more nuance than your position (accounting for violent insurrection, for example), and do so
Government has no profit motive and the existing sellers are not competing on price efficiently. The CA Government can sell at cost plus and force the other players to lower their price.
"Safest countries in the world" is casting a pretty wide net. Yes, there are hundreds of countries worse. What is your point? Remove those worst countries and the US and it is pretty average compared to richer countries in the world.
The other one is when there's some urgent problem in the lego-strewn area - when you need to remove the block from the hand of the kid who's whacking the window or the toddler, there's no time or attention to spare for walking carefully.
No, it's not completely illegal, although it's heavily regulated. You can have a shotgun or an air gun with an approval and periodic check up from authority. And the suspect is known to use a shotgun for this crime.
Yeah this kind of thing was common when I worked at Twitter (where AFAIK pex/pants was developed) on an infrastructure team. It's a cool tool that few outside of Twitter seem to be aware of.
Yes it does. What I can see of it.
NHK World livestream here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0lYkdA-Gtw
It is a hell of a statement to think that the police lost the trust of the public unfairly. The police lost the trust of the public exactly by their own actions.
timeanddate.com has a great weather viewer. Just wanted to say that. wunderground.com has turned into an awful mess since IBM bought it, did a poor web 2.0 treatment on it, and now I think accuweather (who effectively has a monopoly on weather data) bought them? weather.com is full of ads, as is any other weathre website these days. for whatever reason.

timeanddate.com has a clean, fast interface, and if you don't like ads they have an ad-free option
A dip in the rate of orders being placed, often signifying some part of the checkout flow having slowed or broken.
Parent poster most likely works at Amazon. When the rate of purchases falls below a threshold, many engineers across the company get paged to find the issue. As you can imagine a news event would decrease activity on Amazon for a while.
1) NYC and SF are symptoms of runaway gentrification caused by a grossly overpaid tech and finance sector. The housing prices there are artificially inflated, a bubble built on top of the speculation-driven advertising economy we find ourselves in in 2022. They are not at all representative of the typical American's lives and shouldn't be used to make public policy.

2) The professional classes already have way more mobility and options, in terms of where to live, where to work, how to work, etc. They/we don't need the same degree of protections that the working class does. To even be in the professional caste is already a rarity in today's America.

3) Tax brackets are already marginal anyway. If you earn $400k, that means you pay 32% of the first $215,950, and 35% only on the the remaining $184,050. If you just add more brackets at the top, you wouldn't much affect your typical upper-middle-class professional or business owner.

4) The politicians don't care about working conditions at all. We're too busy being distracted by the culture wars to pay attention to class at all =/
So some things do depend on what the meaning of"
is" is!
The last time we "reformed" CPUC so that energy markets could be more competitive and reliable, we essentially rendered the whole thing subject to the free markets. Immediately, both PG&E and SoCalEd teetered on the edge of bankruptcy due to corrupt energy traders (e.g., ENRON, but not just them) manipulating the markets. Sometimes, regulation is a good thing.
> if you delegate your SOC2 to a person who doesn't deeply care, they'll eventually agree to put ClamAV on all the hosts

Bingo. Just spell out the consequence: you no longer can optimize your compute costs by switching to a managed Kubernetes, because there is no ClamAV there.
Wow I just looked up Sunset Valley, population 700 and a median household income almost double that of Austin. They get fire, EMT and education services from the larger Austin area, but provide their own municipal police. Obviously all this requires a mayor and 5 city council members to manage.

There is even an enclave within the enclave that carves out a single medium density housing complex. Can't have the unwashed masses using any of THEIR community resources.
I've never interacted with a Zainichi Korean but as a foreigner who's reported a crime I can assure you that it was dealt with.
You do the realize that the tech industry (us) and the financial services industry are largely responsible for gutting of this. Disrupt became the buzzword for the last few years. Everyone should code, laptops in the classroom, defund the police and all of that is largely responsible for all this. But we are never to blame because the tech industry are like Swiss bankers. We are just the means.
You mean in the land of the yakuza?
Yes, I know it's time to clean up the playroom when they stop playing with toys and start doing constant mischief instead.

Toys become a lot more attractive once there's space to play and the pieces that belong together are not mixed up with a bunch of random junk.
If it was a shotgun it certainly looks modified if it's a shotgun.
Teach him or her how to properly use sissors. Its a life skill teachs restraint and paitence
a flat panel phased array still has considerably more gain in the direction it's aimed, vs a randomly oriented omnidirectional (physical) antenna in a phone. i can guarantee you starlink doesn't work well when the array elements aren't aimed correctly in the general direction of where the satellites are.

the path loss and need for more gain at LEO satellite distance is considerably greater than talking about terrestrial cellphone networks in bands <2500 MHz.
sure thing buddy
if people could "just stop" before the creep happened, your job of eliminating said creep would be extraneous
Newsom is quite close to that dynastic wealth, too- https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-gavin-newsom-san-...
In other news (Japan to start jailing people for online insults) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32011600

I think this is not a coincidence. We are back at mid 30s.
> The health care package is gold plated.

Health care is gold for "health care providers", NOT the person receiving the services. I've a submission about how health insurance pays for the most expensive medical interventions possible, but not for things people actually need: meals, transportation, etc.

Which Interventions Can Be Paid For: The Explanatory Power of “Prasad’s Law” (hcrenewal.blogspot.com) -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21728864
Moat of this "living below the poverty line" rhetoric has been debunked. In most states it's only achievable when combining the starting wages for inexperienced teachers and combining them with extra hours and personally purchased classroom supplies few teachers actually partake in. They also prefer to take the wages of teachers who choose to be paid an annual rate rather than for the months they actually work and present that as some sort of injustice.
FWIW, the current world record holder for barefoot lego walk is [0]. Funny enough though, nothing on the text says that the legos can't be pieced together so it's all flat.

[0] https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/469467-fa...
Unless there is a fundamental breakthrough in science somehow, these kind of techniques to detect deepfakes will in turn be circumvented in the deepfake algorithm itself. It’s almost impossible to use these techniques properly because of the adaptive bandwidth techniques in video streaming. In the interim the only way to use these techniques is to not reveal them, make them proprietary and only keep them to verify. I am sure nsa will do that exactly.
There are regular efforts to discredit Japan, and I think it has to do with them being the model for "done differently and to better success". Better birth rates, very very few cesarians. Far fewer health mandates, better health outcomes. Cash-based economy, fully functioning without being subject to mass surveillance. Even better litter outcomes despite no public trash cans.

They're testament to the successes of a homogenous society at the very least.
I hear you, and I think it lines up pretty well with my point below, everyone is going to have a different opinion about what they require to create that trust. To some, it might be a SOC 2 report, and to others it's having an understanding of the technical work that is being done behind the scene through whitepapers, meeting in person at conferences etc.

It is unfortunate that the SOC 2 process has become so mainstream because to your point (and I agree) there are a lot of weak audits. However, I feel like if you are putting in the effort of taking extra steps to be a better company and treat your customer data better, it is worth putting those controls in the SOC 2 report so that readers can know about it. Especially if you work with a recognized auditing firm. It doesn't mean that it is absolutely fault-proof, but it helps create trust, which is what it's all about.

On that note about trust, it can also go either way, as you've mentioned some SOC 2 reports will do the opposite of creating trust and will only result in more doubt and questions.
I really don't think this is correct. It is possible that you're just not able to notice the blurriness due to the scaling method used, the resolution of the display and the fact that text rendering tends to be blurred nowadays anyway [0], but I'm 95% sure that you'll be looking at blurred output, as documented [1]:

> An integer is recommended, but fractional values are also supported. If a fractional value are specified, be warned that it is not possible to faithfully represent the contents of your windows - they will be rendered at the next highest integer scale factor and downscaled.

I've just tried it again myself and can observe the downscaling. I can provide screenshots later demonstrating the scaling artifacts if anyone is really interested.

[0] I configure my systems to perform crisper font rendering using `FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35`, along with some extra fontconfig options. This results in glyphs being aligned with actual pixel boundaries, reducing the need for antialias blurring.

[1] https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/445bc2a943d905a0e5b1dc60...
Thanks for recommending this!
So remove hundreds of countries, and then you’ve got what left?
I was wondering if he might be JSDF.
>Virginia did all the investment to attract tech companies to the area

Aren't these tech companies all there to do government services contracting? Seems more like DC is providing industry / jobs to Virginia
Wow, recession has really hit Matt Daemon hard if he is working at Amazon now.
So basically Wayland/Nvidia is works pretty well, just no gaming?
Have you ever heard the one about the missionary and the tiger?
Trying to both sides conspiracy theories about teachers?
Where do you think you're going to find replacement teachers?

At any point in your life, did you find yourself thinking "I should be a teacher?" and then not dismiss that thought based on pay?

Have you considered that the "smart board" or whatever might simply have been a very poor classroom investment?
My goodness, what is your point? Japan is unequivocally one of the safest countries in the world. This is a well-known fact and you can look it up yourself if you need a source. Top 10, there ya go. I mean, really, what an odd opinion to stand beside.
As I recall, pex doesn't package up the runtime. It essentially packages up your venv, code, and resources and runs them under an installed runtime. It makes use of a relatively unknown bit of python functionality, which is that CPython will try to treat a zip file as a valid python script.
It’s also in the states interest to bring businesses into its tax basis.

Those local manufacturers will hire local, spend local. Each dollar the state provides will cycle through many local businesses.
Are the odds still good at 3 children? /s
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Did anyone really expect a private equity guy to prioritize safety?
Thank you! These are great resources. I've started skimming through them and will learn more in the weeks to come. Just created my budget for the year, which is a great start, but I have a lot more to learn.
Do you have some numbers (of course, only if you're willing and allowed to share them)?

Curious to know what's the usual on a normal day, and how much it dipped.
I think the problem isn't about intrinsic complexity, but simply that the tools we have to manage the abstractions we need to do complex backend work are better understood and further developed than the tools and abstractions we have to deal with complex UIs.
I don't know what you're trying to imply here? Yakuza aren't know for guns or political assassinations.
No offense, but just listing out of all of the US energy sources used across the country does not mean that every individual local area derives all of their energy in the same percentages as you specified. You call the “coal powered vehicles” description a “lie”, but you obfuscate the data by choosing to look at it from a generalization point and low data resolution.

So like I said, (and I just checked my utility for these numbers and updated them for accuracy) where I live—EVs are presently being fueled by 86% coal (however, during peak demand periods, natural gas fueled turbines will come online and change the mix to 61%/25% coal/natural gas), and 14% solar. That is 86% of EV power coming from non-renewable fossil fuels with most of that fuel being coal. That’s not a lie, it simply is what it is.

If other areas are doing better with renewables, great. Here, EVs are running on mostly coal.
Sometimes you just get outliers. For example, there were some methods taught to my kids in elementary school as part of an emerging common core math curriculum that I disagreed with quite a bit.

I didn't take it to the school though because they were stuck in the middle of a state mandate and pissed off parents. I just helped my kids differentiate some of the more fundamental methods from helps/shortcuts (like sections on estimation).
People say stuff all the time but tech speaks for itself. Capitalism has always been on Joe's side, wanna know why? Because unlike the alternatives, it doesn't try to hide the "means of production" AWAY from them and in fact it does quite the opposite.

"...the power is so imbalanced towards wealth." really? Never ever, in the history of mankind, had the poor have as many opportunities to earn money (and earn money HONESTLY) as today and yet there are still claims like that.

"...no way i can endorse the status quo in any fashion." I would love to hear what the "alternatives" to the "status quo" offer, other than creating government enforced monopolies, unmotivated workforce, punishing innovation through "the plan" or devoiding the people of property rights.
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Also login requirement is not certain. e.g. Google doesn't need to login to index those pages, neither do you for first few profiles. Only after your identity (ip or fingerprint) is know instagram starts locking public content behind login gates.
This is a false equivalence though? Technologically speaking, nothing actually practically useful has been proposed since the original Bitcoin paper. Artificial intelligence is just by its very definition of the two words the future of mankind whether we like it or not. Of course much can be said about our current interpretation of what AI means but “crypto” (which is annoying since the bros have usurped an acronym that should belong to all cryptography) is literally just a fad.
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>when they could be making double just by picking up the phone and talking to a recruiter?

I am getting so sick of people saying things like this. Of course, their companies never happen to be hiring at the moment...
I've long thought there should be a easily-discoverable, secure way to register yourself as doing (2) with the local authorities.

Take the bribe, pay the income tax, set up some email forwards, then kick back and relax...
Okay so you like Bill Gates can design the right curriculum over teachers who have trained and worked in their field for years. Lets hear a breakdown of how you will implement the modern education curriculum and structure. Then I will bring a 25 year old Harvard MBA to explain how your tech job can be completely updated for the modern world.
Year(s) long spy operations and social hacking is a thing. You used to have to give away your API keys to your corp so they could verify you don’t have any alts in competing corps. Then the free to play disaster. It’s a free for all now.
hard disagree.

value based care is another iteration of "pray for alternative" to non FFS model, aka the APM.

This is the road of the HMO, the RVU, the QCCS...and i could go on and on. Its the road that we have traveled on since the late 80s. Its the road of the wanderer in the desert.

It doesn't lead anywhere but more profits for the road-builders.

40 years of history with 0 decreases in healthcare costs is all the evidence you need to put this one to bed.
California has plenty of amazing public schools. But California is also highly segregated by both income and ethnicity. Fremont High School, for example, rivals some of the most expensive private schools nationally in terms of achievement, but it's a majority Asian school, especially South Asian, many of whom are middle- and upper middle-class (notwithstanding that by Bay Area standards the Fremont area is considered "working" class. You can find schools like Fremont all over California, but especially in the Bay Area, coastal Central California, and many places in Southern California.

OTOH, just a few miles from some of the best public schools in the country you can also find some of the worst. While California is segregated, most Californians nonetheless live in relative close proximity to people living in vastly different circumstances, so disparities are very evident.