skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a great question ("What can they do?") and the answer is a lot.

As you may or may not know, legislative bodies have a whip. The current Democratic Senate whip is Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL). The job of a whip is quite literally to whip votes. It is to get legislation passed. Betwen the whip and the Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer (D-NY), they could:

1. Remove Manchin and Sinema from committee chairs;

2. Remove them from committees completely (eg Dianne Feinstein was effectively removed because she's basically a billion years old and senile);

3. Investigate the links between Manchin, his actions on the Energy Committee and his brother's coal company in West Virginia from which he personally profits.

The counterargument is that they'll switch sides and either join the Republicans or simply caucus with them to retake the majority (eg like Tom Daschle did with Jim Jeffords). Let them. You cannot allow people to hold you hostage like that. They probably won't either because currently they enjoy a disproportionate amount of power. As soon as the GOP doesn't need them, they'll just be relegated to being junior Senators with little to no power.

The Republicans unlike the Democrats know how to whip votes. Take the fascinating case of Madison Cawthorn who found himself the subject of an organized hit campaign after making off-the-cuff remarks about Republican sex parties (seriously). He got dragged into Kevin McCarthy's office and came out looking like he'd been physically beaten. The GOP primaried him and he lost. That's how you get your caucus to toe the line.

So Manchin and Sinema could (and should) be primaried.

Biden could create executive orders to advance his agenda. He's too much of an institutionalist to worry about separation of powers and doing anything "too divisive". You know who doesn't worry about that? Republicans. Republicans care about winning. Democrats care about fundraising off how terrible Republicans are.

Even if such executive orders are struck down by the Supreme Court as overreach then at least you tried.

Example: The Senate could raised the minimum wage to $15 as a budget reconciliation process. They didn't. Why? Respect for some outdated notion of norms, rules and procedures. You know what the Republicans did when faced with pushback from the Senate parliamentarian on passing Bush's tax cuts? They fired him and found someone else [1].

Remember that keeping Roe v. Wade enjoyed wide public support (eg 64% according to [2]; I've seen other figures as high as 70-75%). Even if legislation cannot pass you force politicians to put their vote on the record. Votes on the record matter. Hilary's support for the Iraq War came back to haunt her (in 2008, mostly).

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/05/08/k...

[2]: https://www.npr.org/2022/05/19/1099844097/abortion-polling-r...
Exactly. We should 100% expect the same inflation narrative to be reused for recession:

In chronological order of what I expect the White House, Treasury, and Fed to say:

By most definitions we are not in a recession.

Our exports agree we are not in a recession.

We are in a recession by most definitions, but it is mild and transitory.

We are in a recession, but it is mild and transitory.

We are in a recession but it is transitory.

We are in a recession, but not a depression.

By most definitions we are not in a depression . . . and so on.
Can someone explain to me what value there is to allowing an online book store to use their funds gained in completely different industries to strong-arm itself into the healthcare business?
I don’t think OP is denying that there are differences between the parties. But the first two years of Biden’s administration was a win for the McConnell wing of the Republican Party. The only significant economic measure that was passed was covid relief, which republicans were for (because Trump did it) before they were against it. There were no tax hikes and no expanded social programs (apart from temporary expansion of the child tax credit).

It’s hard to deny that the result of the current democratic strategy is not meaningfully different from what Mitch McConnell wants, whether it’s deliberate or not.

And I do think it’s deliberate to a significant extent. The current Democratic coalition has a lot of people, especially in the donor base, that are basically socially liberal Republicans. If forced to choose between issues, they care more about legalized abortion than labor unions. Of course these folks avoid any acknowledgement that these goals are in conflict, but that’s obviously wrong. Politics is about assembling a coalition that can command a voting majority. Political capital is a finite resource. Obviously spending significant political capital on an issue like abortion—where about 1 out of 5 democrats disagrees with the rest of the party—will mean less political capital available for making the child tax credit permanent. It’s math.
Notion transitions to faster native mobile apps, and introduces new features
If you have old infrastructure with low overhead (old tunnels and bridges for example) you can't run that and you need to use rail yards to assemble/disassemble container stacks. It gets expensive fast.
Doesn’t go through app review when it’s side loaded, so it can have features that go against the ToS or app guidelines
>> but if you use an external service you really have to write specifications

90% of my job developing software is figuring out what the boss wants since he only has an outcome in mind, and doesn't really know what he wants. He couldn't go with an external service.
That brings the rate to 0.5% right?

The interesting thing about leaving the low interest regime is that this chance is BOTH only 0.5%ppts in absolute terms AND infinite in relative terms...
Mental Illnesses, IMHO, are primarily an immune disorder.
Don't spend it all in one place! ;- )
The courts are the last resort, you shouldn't use them unless you cannot resolve your issues via negotiation. Embarrassment can be a very useful tool in negotiation.
Unlimited budget? A million years? That 2-year old is probably going to fill in the channel.
Forward went from being great in 2020 when it launched in Washington DC to absymal these days. Lots of MD/DO turnover, really poor follow-up, and you have to argue with them to get an appointment within a reasonable time (no, I don't want an appointment 5 weeks from today for what is a very painful ear infection today, thank you very much). They've also dropped the ball several times for me when referring to specialists.

Forward's 'body scanner' thing and 23andMe results interpretation are both embarrassing farces, imo. The former much more so than the latter, but even the docs will admit that their use of genetics information is basically a dog and pony show that rarely if ever impacts how they approach care.

I've given up and joined a concierge medical practice attached to a local hospital instead. It's only ~25% more expensive than Forward.
4% is roughly "Lizardman's Constant", i.e. the percentage of people who will answer "Yes" to poll questions no matter how ridiculous the question is, so I would hope most of them don't actually believe that they will shoot someone soon.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...
I was just thinking about how I haven't heard from them in a while...
Honestly the only thing I want is gecko for IOS and alternative payment options.
Is this a bucketlist, of sorts?
Europe definitely missed out on computers but I suspect it's not that easy to judge if missing out on tech and does mostly textiles.

Market cap doesn't mean people are making money or shows the economy it creates. Musk sends funny troll tweet or says something that will result in a fine few month down the road and instantly billions of dollars of market cap is destroyed or created. This doesn't exist in Europe or anywhere else, at least not at that scale. The amount of money in the USA is just on another level.

Secondly, that crazy ecosystem in the US sucks all the high potential companies. It's very common for an EU startup to incorporate in the US to tap into that consumer market and that VC ecosystem. The work is done in NL, FR, RO, BG etc but it is a US company. As a result, you have a situation where the EU part of the operations doesn't make any money because it doesn't have to but does all the salary processing and the Silicon Valley HQ makes ridiculous trades and the EU part looks like a loss center. Lots of lots of games are Europe-made, like European talent created the concept, the graphics, the code but if the publisher is American on the books you'll see it as American success.

Europe has this investment culture where investors invest into stuff that make profit, in US companies don't have to make a profit as long as the owners of the stocks can trade them and make profit.

It's just different, I don't think it's fair to say that Europe does oil and textile and not much more. That wouldn't explain the living standards that are on par with the USA.
Down the caching‑hole: adventures in ‘HTTP caching and Faraday’ land
Amazon will buy primary healthcare provider One Medical for $3.9B
Framework Laptop (2022) review: the repairability dream
I wouldn't exactly call Go hipster. New maybe, but it fits squarely in the 'easy boring tech' and is one of the main complaints from detractors.
That site didn’t let me link straight to the chart. I’ve seen that chart for years (decades) but that was the only one I could quickly find on the web.
Technological Change
I am an APL-fan specifically because it's like a parallel universe where evolution took a different path: what are often considered anti-patterns in main stream languages is best practice in APL. It's a welcome relief from the strait-jacket of "the Zen of Python". No libraries? It's a feature. Single-letter variable names? Of course. Terseness as a virtue? Oh yes. Right-to-left flow? Why not? Precedence levels? Who needs them? Tacit? Bring it on. APL is easily the most productive tool in my chest.
Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia steps back from leadership role
Why can't God take care of that himself?
I suspect it will be much more popular than that.

<Insert rant about how I miss my Windows 8 phone because it had less crap on it here.>

The only thing I saw in the writeup that I can imagine normal people over 25 missing is web font icons, and maybe emailing PDFs around to sign with iMessage. (Though those come in as jpegs from cameras or PNG screenshots half the time anyway...)
This is why i can’t pass simple interviews. Whenever they ask this question I start talking about how the keyboard works, or, once, how my teletype model 33 works.
Funnily that gives me an argument to buy an iPhone next year. This is a hit - great hardware without their terrible services.
This opens so much more possibilities for everyone!
Thanks for reading!

I think design improvements can help even if styles change. For example, if you look at Apple's ads from 20-30 years ago[0], they look dated, but they're still better than what I'm capable of creating today with my limited design skills.

[0] https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2020/01/09/photo-essay-apple-a...
> No prosperity = no democracy.

I'm not sure how you're measuring "prosperity", but democracies tend to be richer per capita, and I don't see prosperity "disappearing".

Do you mean that countries are facing the risk of recession due to Covid, and this will make some voters temporarily vulnerable to populists? I suppose that's true, but on longer time scales, economic growth remains positive.

What is decreasing, though, is equality, with the Gini coefficient of rich countries getting consistently worse over the past few decades:

https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/industries/public%...
Zendesk competitor ServiceNow ($88B Mkt cap) has stated their long-term strategy is upselling to massive customers who will use their more mature features (Operations Management, Security Operations, GRC). If ServiceNow is willing to leave crumbs on the table, I could see Zendesk marketing itself as the go-to firm for smaller IT departments.
I'll be greedy when others are in abject despair. Or in other words, I'm waiting on the sidelines for a while longer. Call me a doomer, but I believe the economic turbulence we are experiencing right now is just the beginning of a far more significant downturn.
Show HN: Pg_jsonschema – A Postgres extension for JSON validation
pg_jsonschema is a solution we're exploring to allow enforcing more structure on json and jsonb typed postgres columns.

We initially wrote the extension as an excuse to play with pgx, the rust framework for writing postgres extensions. That let us lean on existing rust libs for validation (jsonschema), so the extension's implementation is only 10 lines of code :)

https://github.com/supabase/pg_jsonschema/blob/fb7ab09bf6050...

happy to answer any questions!
[Various roles] Consumer Reports’ innovation lab is recruiting for 6 full time positions https://digital-lab.consumerreports.org/2022/06/23/new-oppor...
Being paranoid and acting on it will always be enough to make you a very shiny bright glittering target. Perhaps being really paranoid is all about being discovered and exposed, which would make sense.
I believe you're alone in using that definition
The index will come back. SP500/QQQ.
As always, I'm happy to answer any questions anyone has on this!
Ireland was in the original PIIGS group[1] after the insane bank bailout in 2008, which skyrocketed debt levels. They've fallen since[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIGS_(economics)

[2] https://tradingeconomics.com/ireland/government-debt-to-gdp
And many mainframe (IBM et al) terminals worked more like HTML forms — typing modified only the local screen, with a key to send the entire current state to the host.
>Speech-to-text is quite good and cheap nowadays. So, why not?

It's gotten comparatively good. But my experience with podcasts was that if I wanted a professional transcript I'd put online--as opposed to this is the general gist of the thing that's better than nothing, possibly just for my own reference--I'd get it done by a person. Wasn't worth my time to do the extensive editing that would be required to polish it.
An Opinion on Early Medical School Learning
Decades on, the man who puts the Red Baron in the bay (2014)
The biggest problem with the ARC GPUs is the inconsistent frame times.

Even with ReBar enabled, there's something wrong with the scheduler, firmware or driver.

AMD and Nvidia have had a lot of years to optimize their stack and get better consistency.

Averages are useful, but they don't tell the entire story. Hopefully the next iteration of cards from Intel resolves these issues.
This essay will help with tone and format: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r...
I Was Wrong About Inflation
I know, but it has nothing to do with the clickbait post that isn't about inflation.
> People wanted cars because, for most of the US, they are the only practical transportation method.

And that's because government zoning at the time prioritised suburban single-family house zoning, which in turn created the car-dependent culture. It didn't have to be this way, Rotterdam isn't built this way for example.
This is a point you can make, but it's distinct from sovereignty being infringed. If Parliament is sovereign, it can decide to give away powers, no?
It is different, the glue with glitter is hardened and adhered to the seal, making hard to replace that specific seal with another like seal. The vacuum sealed package compress and lock the beads (but could be glitter) into place, if the seal is broken, the random pattern visible through the vacuum sealed package is broken.
Do you have any work for iOS?
This seems somewhat shady. Are the numbers obtained by legitimate means or are they using 'residential proxy'-style malware? [1]

[1] ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32139986
What does this even mean?

Are you saying as a freshman student you had insight into the statistical modeling of micrometeor impact probability and impact?

The design of the optics was more or less finalized around the early 2000s. The exposed optics were kind of the entire point of the entire design.

A very low quality post.
How does Tesla fit in this, building a factory in Brandenburg against "some" public resistance?
This case did not seem anti-competitive at all.
An active oil well produces oil every day, whether you want it or not. When demand abruptly dropped, crude started piling up at storage facilities, leading the price of oil to drop below $0[1]. Cutting production is a rational market response when wholesale prices are negative.

1 - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil-crash-explaine...
> You nuke the Eurozone, and suddenly German goods become massively more expensive for hundreds of millions of people, which will tank their income.

Yeah, but the imports then also become massively cheaper, so it might even out: Germany will just start importing more stuff e.g. from Poland instead of producing it locally.
> I think gas/oil prices going up like this needed to happen.

Maybe. But you can do the same thing with taxes on gas and not induce a famine in the process.
Still waiting on the great Beanie Baby bailout too.
This guy writes about strange things in finance

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...

he frequently points out that most insider trading scandals are obtuse, it's hard for people to understand exactly what happened never mind get angry about it.
Yeah.

Random glitter pattern recreation simply doesn't seem that hard to duplicate given NSA-level resources.

1. Lay down a blob of nail polish that's color-matched to the original. Use a 3D or inkjet-like additive printing method that allows you to closely approximate the shape of the original blob along all 3 axes.

2. Physical glitter can be inserted into, or printed onto, the replica blob during this additive printing.

Given a budget of tens (hundreds?) of millions of dollars, it seems extremely do-able.

The results would of course only withstand a certain level of scrutiny. The recipient would possibly (likely?) need some kind of microscopic analysis to detect this fraud. However it certainly seems possible (given aforementioned state-level backing) to have a high chance of fooling the victim, especially if the victim does not have state level resources.

The best bet might be for a company like Librem to employ a variety of these cheap antiinterdiction methods. Glitter polish, colored vacuum-packed rice, etc. Layer them when applicable, and randomly alternate the ones that are mutually exclusive. Each method, while defeatable, poses a fairly significant time and resource burden on the interdictor.
> medical care

> boutique experience

Man, Americans say the weirdest $h@t
I checked and it mentions 50 basis points and a basis point is "is equal to 1/100th of 1% or 0.01%", so for 50 bp 0.5% seems right.
Hard to know what is pandemic disruption, and what is genuine OM deterioration.
Correct, and with South Tyrol that region has a disproportionate share of Italy's manufacturing industry (I suppose it is Austrian, not really German).

Again though, what is the perspective...Turin is a famous manufacturing city but is still in decline, and is fairly grim overall...and that is supposed to be the part that works for citizens (same is true of Milan, which is a services hub so even more insulated from the decline that hit Turin...still grim, still in decline).

Btw, I think out of any place in Europe, Italy has the most economic potential. They have the financial markets, they have the universities, they have the people...but it is unfortunate that the only context in which they are presented as economically successful is within an agenda that attempts to further the status quo that has served them so poorly. If Italy stops believing in ordo-liberalism, they can grow.
At the end of the day, humans roughly fall into the sexual binary of either male or female.

If gender is separate from sex, which seems to be the consensus these days, we can still identify a skeleton as "most likely" a male sex or female sex skeleton, while the gender is essentially unknowable because gender seems to be a neurological characteristic not a physical one.

Yes, some people are intersex, and that is a physical characteristic, but also likely unknowable from a skeleton.

So what's the problem? Are we seriously worried about mis-gendering a skeleton? Are we worried about saying "this skeleton is most likely male sex with a small margin of error that implies it could be intersex or even potentially female"?

We are talking about long dead skeletons here right?
The term equity is always used in the context of equal outcomes though. It has nothing to do with "lifting all boats" it's just ensuring all outcomes are equal.
The security is enabled at the WebKit layer, not the Safari layer. Otherwise it would be trivially defeated
Cool idea. You mentioned combating allergies and sleep problems, could this be utilised in future to monitor patients with other more serious medical conditions or post op recovery?
Then maybe someone come with a platform that is agnostic. Like Humble Bundle - they offer in many cases both Steam codes AND ability to download directly from their servers with no need to install any additional platform software.
The Next Generation of Queuing: JetStream for OpenFaaS
Kerf Time Series Lang and Columnar DB Open Sourced
The UI is so bad. The whole interface feels like some borderless desert. The list of channels is a jumble of bold and not-bold text, free-floating in space, with no icons or colors or meaningful sorting. And then 20 "hidden channels", which... why are they hidden, and why do I have to unhide them individually?? And why is the "Chats" window literally a jumble of random chats from random Teams and individuals??? Why are Teams and Chats the same content but in different panes?? Why is the "Feed" just a new view of the same Teams / Chats windows?

I feel like they had to try hard to make it this unintuitive and ugly.
The decision matrix is missing a section related to income.
Is it possible to get paid in cryptocurrency in Upwork? If not does anybody know of a platform that would allow that? Register using stunt crypto wallet, do the job, get paid in your wallet.

I'd really like to avoid all the bureaucracy of banks, government etc for my side projects.

Ty
These are often called "champagne liberals" or even "champagne socialists" and is very much true.

I saw this in the 2016 election. What Demorats failed to understand was the groundswell against the status quo. This is why Trump won and Hilary lost. Hilary was very much a vote for the status quo and an increasingly large number of people are angry about the status quo. To be clear, Trump didn't deliver on any of his promises (other than on judges) but it explained a lot of his support, particularly in the Rust Belt. It's also why Bernie Sanders nearly clinched the nomination.

Hilary apologists like to blame her loss on any number of things (eg Bernie spoilers, Russia) but ignore the compltely obvious and actual reason: she was a terrible candidate. No one made her choose an anti-choice running mate. No one made her no campaign in Wisconsin.

I remember having a conversation with someone who is liberal about the estate tax. He opposed Bernie because Bernie wanted to lower the estate tax from $10 million. Huh? Clearly that affected him and this is of course an encdote but I found in illuminating as an example of how much momentum for Hilary was about protecting the status quo.
U.S. weekly jobless claims hit fresh 8-month high
"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent".

Don't bet the farm this early in the cycle.
Build a profile that says as much on Hired.com and see who reaches out. So far a handful of companies that fit this bill pretty closely have shown up that I don't think I'd have found otherwise. It couldn't hurt and I'll be watching this thread closely for tips because while I don't mind interviews/ritual I just love small B2B shops.