skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard this so often yet we left the UK for no other reason than the healthcare. My wife was pregnant and the experience from 0-7 months was so terrible, we flew to the US to have the child.

Post-operative outcomes and survival rates in the US are far better than in the UK and many European countries. Statistics about better birth outcomes or higher longevity is best attributed to healthier lifestyles in Europe/UK and to lower stress (shorter work weeks, etc).

While healthcare in the US can be very expensive, we paid 8k GBP for our NHS immigration surcharge and an additional 5k GBP in NHS-specific taxes (for 2 people, 1 year). A 1k/m health plan in the US (for two of us at the time) gave us 10x better health care.

Yet Americans and Brits alike sing the praises of the NHS vs US healthcare. I chalk it up to shoddy journalism and folklore.
Yes. Everything I don't like is socialism. Socialism is almost as bad as terrorism.
This reads as more of a Google App Engine problem than a robots.txt problem.
French people are rich enough to be proficient English speakers, as are people in Tokyo. Seems like it'll probably work out.

I spent about a week in Japan, split between Tokyo and Nagasaki, and had no problem, having not even tried to learn any Japanese, except that I couldn't get the right train stop because I couldn't even recognize the characters, much less read them.
That is a great example. I've been bounced between different sides in that exact field myself, on various topics.

Everyone has an opinion about food too, I find. Diets and science and morals and ethics. So, when I meet someone who has their feet firmly on either side of some issue, and are more knowledgable than me about their viewpoint, I can usually get a good talk out of it. Since I know a little bit, I can ask good questions as if from the other camp, and we can challenge eachother's statements. In the end I might yield the debate to make peace and show that I'm not really in opposition, though I may secretly still remain unpersuaded. But I'm sure to have had my internal debate enriched with food for thought! And it might even have turned into an enjoyable and memorable social encounter.
Database? Text file?
Solaris had separate libc, libnss, libsocket, and libpthread, I think?

Unlike many languages, Go doesn't use any libc on Linux. It uses the raw kernel API/ABI: system calls. Which is why a Go 1.18 binary is specified to be compatible with kernel version 2.6.32 (from December 2009) or later.

There are trade-offs here. But the application developer does have choices, they're just not no-cost.
From experience with immediate family in the US, hospitals can be quite scary currently. Reasons range from staff that doesn’t communicate to surgeries that are counter-indicated and scheduled without patient knowledge. Then there is the whole opaque billing process where you learn that the minor medication (like Advil) costs hundreds of dollars after the fact. Personally, a hospital is the last place I want to end up right now.
As someone who was saddled with around $150k in college loans in a major I couldn't use (flying; that career was aborted in September of 2001), yeah... Bad deal sums it up nicely.

Took me into my 40's to buy a house, and for my area I got a steal at under $200k. At which point my dad (born '38) chewed me out for not saving money and building it myself like he did for only $10k (~$100 in today's dollars for 5 acres of land and 3,000 sqft).
It's so ironic that this is the end game for a company that thought they were saving the earth by making you buy a charger for you cell phone separately
The fact is, Apple is generally one of the best support experiences you’re going to have today. But there are also 1,000,000,000+ iOS devices out there, millions of laptops, and a lot of customers. You’re going to have plenty of bad experiences at that scale
You certainly can, and more technical folks will have an easier time with it. A happy medium is an independent repair shop (not Apple affiliated.) Check Yelp near you for one with good reviews. Try to avoid franchises.
380 devices / minute would imply Signal is adding 547,200 users / day, or 199,728,000 users / year. That seems way too high. Granted some could be multiple devices per user, but still...
We all had external keyboards, mice, and multiple monitors on our desks. The only time we were ergonomically constrained was when we were mobile. But we could be mobile at a moment's notice, and with all our stuff still running.

Now what I really would like is a high quality, low latency complete remote system. I got pretty close to this with a recent experiment, but it took a good bit of effort (and I still had some weird issues). It was great in that I could go to any computer with enough power to drive a browser, remote into my server "desktop", and continue right where I left off.

If that could get perfected, I would probably switch to an iPad Pro with optional keyboard.
> - Doesn't pick up the operating system PKI trust store.

Mozilla has to ship its own cert store to have any sort of political power over CAs (which has almost always been a good thing).
I also tried it (and even sponsored it) as it showed potential, but using it simply didn't fulfil the promises: it took a lot longer to achieve what I wanted (deploy a simple app with user system) because there is always stuff like "you can't have a different database type locally than in production", you can't simply build the application, so you can upload it to any VPS, you have to use railway, and stuff like that which ends up costing A LOT of time, not even mentioning how long it takes to understand how to use it and how it works.
By Alan M. Dershowitz.
Just in time for a congressional election too!
What other business books have you read?
Okay but two wrongs don't make a right. If there were actually methodology changes that caused CPI to be not representative of purchasing power then accounting for CPI twice doesn't really fix anything, it just adds more noise into the result. To do it properly you need to explain what the methodology changes were, estimate their impact on the "real" CPI, and use your revised CPI to account for inflation. The author hasn't done that, so it's far more likely she has no idea what she's doing.
Australia, and a town of 200-something people.

I'm not sure what social role bars play in a small US town. When I was over there I went into a few in some smallish west coast towns, but tourists don't get a full understanding of a culture, and the areas I was in are so densely populated that they'd probably be very different from e.g. Idaho or Texas.
Same. Won't miss 1 hour daily comute.
I'm glad that the project is moving along nicely, but I don't quite understand why so much time and energy is still being put into Synapse instead of Dendrite.

I mean... don't get me wrong, it's pretty impressive how much optimizations were able to happen, but wasn't Synapse initially meant as some sort of MVP that was to be replaced by a next-gen homeserver implementation like Dendrite?

IIRC Dendrite was intended to be out of beta (and pass 100% of the tests) like... a year ago, right?
I assume your friend had Apple Care, in which case it would be expected to receive a replacement device if they cannot repair it or cannot repair it in a timely manner.
He does write like a crank. He deliberately misquotes the "Panic!" title of a research paper, and misconstrues what Kirkpatrick is referencing when she talks about being kept up at night - her original quote is just her speaking broadly, not about The Big Bang possibly not being real.

That's two things he's bent to support his position within the first two paragraphs of this piece. Right out of the gate he's shown that he can't be trusted with data.
T480s 3.5yrs old, out of warranty, ex-corporate cost me USD$430 running ubu 22.04 on a 4 core 8th gen core i5 & intel gfx is getting me 10 hours of battery life without having replaced the battery. (power settings set to Power Saver in the very obvious gui menu above shutdown). I did shove in more ram and a bigger ssd. Meh, 8G & 250G would have been enough fwiw. Gnome desktop is a thing I now find really polished and lovely to use.

In all it's just a beautiful thing I'm very, very happy with.

Use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad_T_series

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad_X1_series

& Ebay. But it's also a very reasonable & justifiable decision to buy a new thinkpad imho. When it's a couple of years old the hardware support is usually perfect on first install - but I guess I don't use garbage like fingerprint readers so ymmv on that kind of silliness.

Thinkpads, T-Series, X1 carbon are the best laptops on the market by a good margin and have been there in that spot consistently for a long time. Buy apple if you really want/need to run apple software. I'd say just about /any/ distro will place nicely with the kernel-hackers laptop of choice. I'd bet fedora, rhel/centos, debian, arch would all be just terrific if you prefer one of those (and why not?)
Me too! Though yours looks fancier, is that jumping to a branch? lovely.

glo () {
xdg-open https://git.thecompany.com/$(git config remote.origin.url |cut -f2 -d: |cut -f1 -d.)
}
If you get hit by a bus on a second crosswalk that doesn’t mean the chance of it was 50%.
Your numbers don't take into the age bands (you include older, wealthier families).

However, the comparing CPI to inflation adjusted incomes (as the article does) doesn't work either. Clearer explanation of the error I think the article made (and that I think you're pointing out):

For the sake of argument, say CPI is always proportional to income (which it would be if purchasing power was constant). To make arithmetic easy, say the CPI and median nominal income were both 1 in 1970, and are now both 8.

The inflation adjusted income in 1970 would be 8. (If we assume CPI moves with inflation, we multiply the 1970 median income by the ratio of 2022 CPI / 1970 CPI.)

So, by the author's calculations, a median family would have had 8 units of purchasing power in 1970, but only 1 unit of purchasing power in 2022, even though, by construction, CPI and nominal income went up in lockstep, and real purchasing power should be the same.
It shouldn't be a "and the design means that they can't access it" that should be the only behavior?

I agree with your other points

Assuming the LastPass encryption key is a separate token I would say LastPass wins, but that is solely assuming similar architecture, obviously you can make design decisions that mess up everything.
Typo here, too: "the applciation".

And "Gooble App Engine" near the end of the article.
I see Google is getting a spanking in this thread and I wouldn’t suggest for a moment that they don’t deserve it.

However, I hadn’t seen anyone mention the specific Enterprise API / product designation they rolled out over a year ago to deal with this kind of thing.

If I understood things correctly when they launched it [1] the plan was to start by saying which parts of the GCP platform you could confidently rely on with the implication that the other parts you should understand you’re using products and services that haven’t proven their long term value inside of Google and as a result things like this can happen and you should plan accordingly.

As far as I know this is the first thing to go since making that announcement but I’d be happy to be corrected as well.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/new...
It seems obvious that the cost of living is much higher today than it was in the 1970s when a family could be supported by a single income while today given the cost of house, car, and commodities even two incomes does not compare to the buying power of a single income then.

The dollar has inflated to the point that it will soon be worthless. I wondered how the fed planned to pay its massive multi-trillion dollar debt once the dollar crashes but the Inflation Reduction Act has answered that question. Democrats are planning to extract the wealth of the American people at gunpoint held by 87k new militarized IRS agents.
these illiterate countries are not well equipped to produce their own tech so they behave like a mafia state
Wait what? That’s like the opposite of what everyone here says. Like, Google has a bad reputation for doing this.
Ask HN: Any Experience with Pioneer.app?
So I got cold emailed by someone from pioneer.app about a side project I’ve started back up. Does anyone have any experience with pioneer.app? Would anyone suggest applying to their program? If you’ve teamed up with them how was it?

Looking through their website their proposition looks interesting.

As a decade long lurker on HN I’m interested in hearing your thoughts. Thanks!
There are also more single person households now[0], and the average household size has decreased by about 15%.[1]

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/242189/disitribution-of-...

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/183657/average-size-of-a...
>Wait, so basically no more filesystem access? So it's the end for third party file managers? Wow...

Third-party file managers never had full filesystem access. Without superuser, they've only ever had access to external storage (what you may know of as /sdcard, /storage/emulated, or /data/media). When Google started enforcing Scoped Storage in Android 11, they disallowed apps from accessing files in external private storage directories, ie. the /storage/emulated/{user}/Android/data and /storage/emulated/{user}/Android/obb directories. Each app you install can create its own directory here, and they're only intended to be used by the app that owns them, not by other apps.

The MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission introduced in Android 11 gave apps like file managers access to all of external shared storage, which excludes the /Android/data and /Android/obb directories since those are deemed external private storage. However, file manager devs figured out a loophole using Storage Access Framework that let them ask the user to grant them access to those external private storage dirs anyway.

Said loophole has been closed in Android 13.

>No more log access either, so that also means no more automation apps.

This one is a bummer. Apps can still read the logcat, but they have to ask for permission every time. So yes that definitely kills any kind of automation you can do.

>And dns over https is hard-coded to cloudflare or Google with no way to chose another provider.

For now. Google never said they'd keep those two as the only DNS-over-HTTP/3 providers.
Some models have little to no clearance and if you close the lid with a grain of rice and apply pressure it'll break the screen. Closing the lid probably isn't enough, but picking it up could be.
Working with my finance team, we guessed, minimum, three persons per component team, for very narrow definition of components. There were roughly 50 components we identified (poorly) and some overlap but...we were looking at (again min) 150 good (expensive) devs and like 30 to 50 eng-managers. And still need to fill roles for vision, finance, architecture, etc.

So, at this point...millions per year.

However, I've been maintaining a small fork, with just small tweaks by my self, and LibreWolf has some patches too - for very little money.
This is cherry-picking.

Your interlocutors have already stipulated that on occasion, the scientific establishment has been wrong, and the cranks have been right.

Their point is that this is almost never the case. There are and have been cranks who dispute the scientific consensus on almost every point since the scientific method was first developed.

Are you also suggesting we should believe the anti-vaxxers who still back Andrew Wakefield's paper?

Are you also suggesting we should believe the people who say climate change isn't real?

Are you also suggesting we should believe the people who say the earth is flat?

Are you also suggesting we should believe the people who say that our current trees aren't "really" trees, and all the "real", giant, trees were killed long ago? [0]

All of these are cranks who disagree with the established scientific consensus—sometimes in bizarre but harmless ways, sometimes in extremely damaging and disturbing ones. If your point is genuinely "we should listen to cranks because they have a good track record", why not them, too? Why not all of them?

Or is there, in fact, something specific about this one that makes you think it's got something going for it besides "they might be actually super smart and seeing something the rest of us are missing"? If so, maybe lead with that, instead?

[0] https://www.inverse.com/article/21098-flat-earthers-trees
Don't hesitate to join the NATS slack group and reach out if you need any help, we're a friendly bunch
There is also oathtool:

https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/oathtool.1....
Neat project! I use a tool called taskfile.dev for managing tasks like this in projects but I've always thought it would be nice to have a more global tool like this.

Right now what I do is write functions and add them to my profile but this leads to adding helper code to do stuff like handle errors, handle vars, printing out index of commends with documentation, etc. This makes my profile just messy so I think a tool like this could come in handy.
1Password?
The tech community is not only not smarter than most other communities, in many cases tech workers are less capable and intelligent than the average person.

Half a century of conformist education and a financial machine around scaling companies has made tech workers soft. And their choice to insulate themselves in specific metros/social circles has made them unable to see this.
How is that you even need 1700 people to run a domain registrar?
Yeah, but what happens if you explicitly state that your art/images must not be included in AI training?
Computer-generated content may pose an essentially insurmountable challenge to human practitioners of most art forms, but not all of them. The forms of art that are at risk of being overtaken by ML are those in which individual works of art can be faithfully represented in some storage format (which may be anything from a video file to a piece of paper with things printed onto it), which is used to transmit the work of art to an audience via inanimate means.

Those art forms that feature the physical presence of an actual human being, such as theater, dance, stand-up comedy, musical performances, etc, will presumably remain somewhat safe from the flood of computer-generated content, and people might even flock to such art forms in pursuit of authenticity. Things like improvisational theater also add an element of genuine human reactions to the mix, which will no doubt attract some interest in the age of AI art, which has no direct human will behind it. Of course, AI could produce imitations of recordings of such performances, but not the actual physical performances themselves, and people already seem to very strongly favor actual performances over recordings.

Ironically, mass-produced AI art might conceivably cause a cultural shift from our status quo of having an abundance of inanimate mass-market art with essentially global reach to a culture favoring local performative arts (which, aside from concerts, have no real mass appeal at the moment), which would essentially foster a unique local art scene with some limited number of performers for each city that mostly stay in that city. Such a scenario wouldn't result in hyperindividualized art, quite the opposite.
It looks like Google's persistent networked disks perform worse than AWS's. I typically see sub-1ms latency on GP2 disks even under load. GP3 is usually a little higher but still under 1ms.
I got a new MacBook Pro 2 years ago whose screen got black lines after a few days of use, went to Apple support, they changed the screen and didn’t charge me a cent. The guy told me since there’s no physical damage, nothing would be charged
Having seen this up close, it's mainly a combination of a strong growth mentality and willingness to adapt, plus survivorship bias.

For the former, a lot of company scaling isn't really that hard - it's hard because it's busy, varied, and relentless, but it isn't like quantum physics where most people just can't neurologically handle it. You also have to do it if you want to keep your job so obviously there's strong incentive to learn.

Basically if you're willing to learn and adapt (often requires many humbling or embarrassing moments), you just figure it out.
Juice of Sapho?
[..] in the Google world, deprecation means: “We are breaking our commitments to you.” It really does.
That’s what it ultimately means. It means they are going to force you to do some work, possibly a large
amount of rework, on a regular basis, as punishment for doing what they told you to do originally — as
punishment for listening to their glossy marketing on their website: Better software. Faster! You do
everything they tell you to do, and you launch your application or service, and then, bang, a year or
two later it breaks down.

I didn't know Steve was a Kubernetes admin!
TechURLs – A neat technology news aggregator
Or maybe we can just have interoperability and open systems so all users can be happy, and don't have to choose between being obnoxious social outcasts or bow down in total obedience to the surveillance capitalists?
What the author describes is not shifting goalposts. Shifting goalposts is only a useful concept in a defined project or where someone has set a criteria for acceptance.

E.g “I will wash the dishes if you clean the kitchen” becomes “oh I meant you also needed to clean the fridge and take out the trash” is shifting goalposts.

If someone had said e.g. “I will consume one pound of aspartame if limited trials show it not to be a carcinogen” and then that came to pass and they didn’t, that would be shifting the goalposts.

What people are saying here is “I don’t trust aspartame” and scientists are saying yeah, we should really check some
obvious areas where it seems to be connected to health issues since it is an evolutionarily novel substance.

Author is maybe over extrapolating from interactions with their own friends or family.