skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know some people with IBS for who that would amount to discrimination.
How much money do they have? Yeah it's crazy. But tbh are they even enjoying life without anything hard to occupy their time?
It also has impacted what Russia exports. Some Russian exports are rather important to much of the EU.
There are plenty of narrow car seats that will fit 3 across in any car. I ran 3 Diono Radians in the back seat of a second gen Prius and there was plenty of space. Car seats and cars are the least expensive part of raising young children.
There are varying degrees of "toxic." Red blobs painted on a map may or may not be relevant to your health. Toxicity is an arena rife with controversy and dispute. That they (EPA IRIS, ATSDR, or the like) take a "Lowest Observed Effects Level" and then straight line it back to zero, and then apply myriad "uncertainty factors" to derive an "X in a million" chance of getting cancer -- in many ways, it's all make believe. Many toxics have non-linear toxicity thresholds (like table salt or tylenol), and there's plenty of reason to believe humans may be more resilient to toxic exposures than animal surrogates, and not less. These Pro Public efforts, or those by the Environmental Working Group, use data produced by public agencies to paint a picture of hazard out of context, and they can sometimes lead to very expensive policy prescriptions with very low return on investment in terms of human health.
I know what I'm calling my next exploit ;)
Looking at certain EU members friendliness towards Russia, several other states shall be kicked out...
It is also a response to handful of people who (rightly) want to get paid for their 3-5 minutes each clock in to open a shop. When you are negotiating 5 minutes this way, then the corporate negotiates 5 minutes that way, and pretty soon it is a legal contract. Of course the corporate should pay for the minutes to open the shop, and some would fix this on the first discussion, but others would pull in the lawyers, because hey that's our culture.

Extrapolating here ... employee wants 5 minutes of bathroom breaks because it was not in contract and the manager abused it, so when the 5 minutes gets written into the contract, then the manager can still abuse it by writing you up for a 6 minute break, or just refuse to help you out today because he did not have a good experience with you or someone else yesterday.

We are losing the human touch due to both-sided legalese in everything.
> Antidepressants continue to be the most commonly prescribed of these medications in the United States, and their use has become only more widespread since the pandemic began, with an 8.7 percent rate of increase from 2019 to 2021, compared with 7.9 percent from 2017 to 2019, according to Express Scripts.

They seem to use a pattern of introducing an idea with an anecdote and then providing more objective information that supports the idea. It makes the article longer and gives a human touch while still remaining factual. I don't see the issue.
We could solve a lot of our problems right now if people were prepared to change how they live and accept a decent amount more responsibility (e.g. sort waste by hand, etc.). Scaling up problems typically hasn't helped, and you get novel issues at large scale (e.g. parasites and diseases thrive due to monoculture in huge farms). As Bill Burr noted, we could all drive tanks to work if there weren't as many of us. It's cynical, but there's more room for largesse at small scale.
Ironically they've already been in pain since 2008. But within the eurozone they can't escape the trap of having a strong currency (relative to themselves), combined with a terrible economy with massive debt.

The euro just cannot work in the long run. The sooner people up top admit this the better for 300m europeans. But they will never admit defeat.
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I'm not going to waste my time if you refuse the read the study.

> The above report does not break down anything about "left leaning media" vs. centrist media vs. FOX news

It literally does. Read the study...

"When critics have accused journalists of fueling the Trump bandwagon, members of the media have offered two denials. One is that they were in watchdog mode, that Trump’s coverage was largely negative, that the “bad news” outpaced the “good news.” The second rebuttal is that the media’s role in Trump’s ascent was the work of the cable networks—that cable was “all Trump, all the time” whereas the traditional press held back."

"Neither of these claims is supported by the evidence. Figure 2 shows the news balance in Trump’s coverage during the invisible primary. As can be seen, Trump’s coverage was favorable in all of the news outlets we studied. There were differences from one outlet to the next but the range was relatively small, from a low of 63 percent positive or neutral in The New York Times to a high of 74 percent positive or neutral in USA Today. Across all the outlets, Trump’s coverage was roughly two-to-one favorable."

"By our estimate, Trump’s coverage in the eight news outlets in our study was worth roughly $55 million. Trump reaped $16 million in ad-equivalent space in The New York Times alone, which was more than he spent on actual ad buys in all media during all of 2015. In our eight outlets, the ad-equivalent value of Trump’s coverage was more than one-and-a-half times the ad-equivalent value of Bush, Rubio, and Cruz’s coverage, more than twice that of Carson’s, and more than three times that of Kasich’s. Moreover, our analysis greatly underestimates the ad-equivalent value of Trump’s exposure in that it’s based on only eight media outlets, whereas the whole of the media world was highlighting his candidacy. Senator Cruz might well be correct in claiming that Trump’s media coverage was worth the equivalent of $2 billion in ad buys."

They only included positive/neutral coverage when analyzing ad-equivalent purchases.
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Most graphical markdown renderers seems to convert markdown to html and then render that html using a browser engine. This includes basically any based on electron (vscode, atom, obsidian, roam) and a lot of others that do it via platform web views.

The point of the browser-less claim is that it converts the md to html the same way most existing engines do, but then does not use a browser engine to render it, instead using something faster and more purpose-built.

As for the GPU-thing I'm not sure, but for example terminals are sometimes written to take advantage of GPU's (kitty for example: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/#design-philosophy ) so why not this?
Not a very astute reading of the article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
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One thing that is unique about Estonia is its corporate tax system. Specifically, a business does not pay any tax on profit that it does not distribute as dividents. Meaning that any profit that you re-invest into the business (or just save for the rainy day) is not taxed. It's hard to appreciate what a game changer this is unless you've experienced the traditional system with capitalization of assets, depreciation, etc.

BTW, if anyone else knows of other countries with a similar tax system, please share (I did a bit of research but couldn't find any).
What a strange way to word the headline: "refused consent". This would normally be, "denied permit".
There are 65k H1-B visas issued every year. The FAANG all have offices in Europe so they can put grads to work there until the visa comes through. Of course some companies are ramping up their dev capacity in Europe due to the shortage of grads in the US, that's why Facebook announced thousands of the devs they're hiring for the Metaverse will be in Europe.
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> Enthusiasm for these laws has not been curbed by studies showing that child car seats are no more effective than seat belts in preventing death or serious injury for children above age two (e.g. Levitt 2008, Doyle and Levitt 2010).

Like many of the other Freakonomics conclusions, this one is at best oversimplified, and at worst actively dangerous. To simply quote it as uncontested fact is ridiculously incompetent.

For convenience, I’ll just link to the breathless (but sourced) assessment of the earlier study by a pediatrician at https://thecarseatlady.com/freakonomics-fallacy-an-economist...
...and they'd pip you out in a few months, and you'd leave without a good reference.

In reality, you'd realize it was horrible, but orders are orders, so most people would do it. If they found it particularly objectionable, they'd just look for another job in the meantime, but most folks who are not financially independent wouldn't take a stand for it.
Pyramids were built with slave labor. Poor sanitation lead to the black plague. Imagine if they all stopped having kids, because they thought Egyptian slavery would never end and the black plague was insurmountable?
Nice quote. I’m happy we can get close to the heart, however dangerous.
Yeah it makes perfect sense that they don't want to expose any of that complexity to 3rd parties and risk constant breakage with new models. I'm just really curious about what sort of complex logic they have going on in that silicon.
I mean, this would be the case in every country. I face similar Issues in Germany but decided to join a political party and drive the change by myself - it won't change overnight but at least it is a beginning of a long process.

Without constantly talking directly to politicians in a political party, it will be very hard to change political topics.
Small farms have a role to play in our sustainable future (2021)
Even back in the day, those technical notes would not cover private APIs like this, because they’re subject to change or are for internal use only.

These are the same in any closed source OS
Startup people do their best to convince others that their startup is the best and that things are going great.

It might not be true.
> I’d say it’s just a different kind of evidence.

No, it isn't. "Evidence" means something the real world tells you when you run some kind of experiment or make some kind of observation. Simulations are not the real world.

> it can provide useful information we can use to refine our theories

"Refine" in the sense of "improve the machinery our theories use to make predictions", sure. But predictions are not evidence. Evidence is the information from the real world that you compare the predictions to to see if they are correct.
How do you currently make your living if you don't mind me asking?
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It's not even over-measuring, it's measuring the wrong thing, because the thing you actually want to know isn't (easily) measurable.

The whole thing is down to poor management(-culture). Good managers already know who their top performing team members are. They don't need these tools. Measuring LOC or time spend sitting at the desk is in my view attempting to compensate for lack in management skills. It's like advertising agencies that can't sell ads without AdSense. Boss-ware is an attempt by poor managers to make up for a lack of skills by applying something that looks science from a distance.
>they do not see how it is affecting them

I'm an adult who understands tracking tech and in particular Google's level of tracking quite well (I used to work on AdWords), and I'm one of these people -- tracking doesn't seem to negatively impact my quality of life at all but it keeps the many free services I value greatly running.

Visual or audio representations of the amount of data they're collecting are hardly an argument for why it's bad, as the logic goes "see, they're collecting a lot of data about your browsing... ...and that's bad" but it doesn't fill in the logical leap in the middle. You are going to be a lot more persuasive if you can fill that in instead of making fancy graphs.
> The headline is "Gas crisis sends euro back below parity against dollar."

> Yet the article does not explain how a "gas crisis" leads to a weaker currency.

It wasn’t clear (at least for me) why gas has such an impact on the economy as a whole because many articles concentrate the debate on the private households heating only.

But currently, most of the gas is used in the industrial sector (chemicals, power supply, food preparation), also for electricity generation and for producing materials such as ammonia, plastics, methanol and hydrogen.
The enabling of not just workplace monitoring, but their ability to associate it with your career data via LinkedIn is next level spooky but no one seems to want to talk about it. What do they provide employers on your behalf?

Forgive me, a small thing but I don't think Microsoft is a FAANG. They're more like IBM 2.0. Every now and then their drones try to jam an M in the acronym in a sad 'how do you do, fellow kids' kinda way.
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That one of the richest cities in the world continues to exhibit such acute human suffering and allow it to fester is horrifying. These people need help - but it's easier to write them off as addicts and pretend to wonder why they're filling up the sidewalks.
I'm not sure there's much of a phenomenon begging for explanation. As the article itself says, this is a more of a great reshuffling than people just deciding not to work any more and mysteriously managing to not go broke. US labor force participation was 63.4% immediately before the pandemic shut down and it's 62.1% right now. That isn't a drastic difference and roughly in line with long-term downward trends. Whatever excess drop that truly represents is likely explained by some combination of excess deaths, early retirements, and second income-earners that didn't really "need" to work but either did so anyway because it was sufficiently worth it or they had nothing else worth doing, and they changed their minds.

You're not going to find out the exact breakdown with a self-selected sample of a few hundred Hacker News readers.

As for an explanation of why churn rates went up so much (that is, people are quitting jobs at a much higher rate even if they largely are not completely leaving the workforce), that seems pretty easily explained by the move to remote work. I'm not meeting your criteria here because I didn't change industries, but as soon as it became possible to work for a Silicon Valley software company paying much higher rates than any local company without being required to relocate, I absolutely did that. Labor has far more options now that they aren't limited to only working for companies with an office within commuting distance.
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I believe it would be the H1-B.

Australia has the E-3 visa and Canada and Mexico have the TN visa.
While I feel we need to be gradually reducing the number of people on the planet (can anyone point me to the number of humans earth can sustainably support?), I agree with what the article is saying.

It seems to me one of the biggest things is the pace of change and potential for criminal charges. Especially considering that many people are likely breaking the laws (not just car seats, but supervision, etc), with no ill effects, and the laws are only selectively enforced. Is there an actual net benefit? And all the while parents have to keep up with increasing and changing laws, which I doubt many do. There's a risk of civil or criminal penalties related to children, and increasing costs (including mental) associated with compliance.

I have a truck. You cannot have more than one rear facing seat in the back if you have two adults in the front. When I was a kid (not too long ago) I was riding without a booster seat well before age 8 and we'd occasionally ride with a friend's family in a station wagon or SUV with the add-on cargo seats. It wasn't unusual to occasionally ride in a pickup bed on private roads, or pile 8-9 people in the old Caprice for short (< 1mi) trips. Safety was a relative term and left to the discretion and best judgment of the participants. I guess it's being increasingly codified, like many other areas of life.

Another thing to point out that many might not know is that the state has an interest in your children and they merely entrust you to raise them to their standards and can take them away if you don't. Many people feel their children are their own to raise as they see fit, but it's more akin to a title of a house - the government owns the rights to the property and merely gives you title to use is so long as you comply with their will/laws.

Edit: why disagree?
Apple Platform Security: May 2022. 242 pages.

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The schools have already received money for this loans. Anything you do with them doesn't affect the school at all. It doesn't affect whether or not they got paid 10 years ago and it doesn't affect the loans that will be taken out over the next 10.
Very funny: we had a hard time finding a car wide enough to accomodate three child safety seats without being too long to park..
Now our children are getting older so this is less an issue, but (Europeans) car are still quite bad for three children: the one in the middle has often a reduced place and/or an unconfortable seat.
Glare, very high or very low temperatures, and humidity have all been known to mess with displays of various types (and touch itself as a way to interact with the screen), so while i understand that car dashboards have likely been spec'd to account for these factors I can't help but feel like touchscreens were never going to perform as reliably.
It's not obvious to me that they're trying to stop you. This reads as "AWS/GCP/Azure don't steal our work" while otherwise trying to be as wide a license grant as possible.

I'm sure they'd love to sell you support services, but many of these database companies do that by convincing you there is additional value, instead of trying to use licenses. I think because licenses create a scary risk that the db company might increase prices or even stop offering them altogether and you have no real recourse.
Biden Admin just cancelled $3.9b debt of students attending ITT Tech school. What I gleaned from the news is ITT did a bunch shady stuff. Like steering students towards high interest rate loans and jacking up tuition prices. Reminds me of the subprime loan crisis.

Insult to injury, ITT didn't actually teach students much. At least with the scammy mortgages, you sort of got a house.

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It seems to me the Biden Admin is doing triage, reviewing the student loans very deliberately, cancelling categories on a case-by-case basis.

I have no dog in this fight and only a shallow understanding of the issue. I expect that Biden Admin continue to cancel and reduce the most egregious loans. And then provide some kind of relief to the remaining borrowers who are most pear shaped.

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Our society and government forgives debts all the time. Bankruptcy and bailouts. Crucial to keeping our economy healthy.

I don't see why individual's debts, like student loans, should be treated any differently.
I use PureSleep, a boil and bite style device, and not the best for adjustment, since it only has three settings (each about 3 mm apart, from 0 to 9 mm). I had to cut it apart to adjust it after the first fitting.

Better options may be SnoreRx Plus (1 mm adjustment, from 1 to 6 mm) or VitalSleep (1 mm, from 1 to 8 mm) which allow for easy adjustment, no cutting required.

Note that none of these devices are rated for sleep apnea. However, the cost is $60-100, whereas a fully FDA-approved device runs about $2000. And not everyone who has sleep apnea can benefit from an oral appliance. You don't know until you experiment with one, and it can be money wasted. So I felt justified in trying a cheaper one out off-label to see if it helped alleviate my problem before investing a lot of money. I'm still considering paying for the more expensive one since they are FDA approved, seem less bulky, and may be less likely to cause tooth movement in the long run.
My hybrid LSM/Ext. Hash system may be of interest actually. It's purpose built for tracking historical data similar to Datomic's data model, but emphasizing constant-time read operations for current data while keeping the read speeds for historical data reasonable. In short: 2 level LSM tree (log file, immutable page files) with a extendible hashing to index into the page files. The identity of each record is the key + tx instant (time of COMMIT, or some other monotonically increasing number that is unique to a transaction set). Optionally you can index over historical data by having a record per-key that just appends a new tx-instant + offset for better longitudinal query performance.
> It's pre-evidence.

No, it's pre-dictions. That's what the rest of your post says. Yes, simulations are one way of finding out what your theoretical model predicts. But evidence is the information from the real world that you compare the predictions with. There is no such thing as "pre-evidence".
Sorry, cannot read articles with horrible type setting like that. Unsharp code examples, missing symbols in the text, ...
Because Vulkan, despite the mystical reputation it has in gaming circles, actually has fairly low adoption vs OpenGL .

Very few applications in the grand scheme of things use Vulkan, and a minority of games do.

Therefore the ROI on supporting OpenGL is very high.
i'm sorry but this is plain ignorance. chalking up the performance of a collection of european economies to just "it's cultural" is being, at best, ignorant.

is the cultural problem an important factor? as someone who's also from the south, yes, i think it is. is it the only one (that matters)? no.

the eu (and the euro) works mainly to provide a cheap-access market for the stronger economies to a series of other countries. it's extremely difficult for poorer economies to compete with the stronger ones (due to regulations, size and how those two interplay). it's even more difficult for those economies to provide the same quality of life (i.e. higher salaries, same level of social care, etc.) when they themselves don't have full control of their economy/market.
Yeah I think that type of policy is mindlessly impossible by Legislative branches under the guise of eliminating "waste" no pun intended. When in reality all those policies do is eat into the mental bandwidth of government works and contractors. There are good regulations and than just dumb ones. And you might ask what law exactly is the Legislative passing but its not laws its appointees to executive positions that run larger organizations with an agenda with actually understanding the organizations mission or purpose
Hi hiyer! We've got a single-node storage implementation using RocksDB coming this week. With regards to running in distributed mode, TiKV (and soon FoundationDB) will be able to be used for storage.

In the long run we would like to build our own single-node key-value store (based on a Concurrent Adaptive Radix tree), but this is a little way off still!
It’s also very simple to manage and optimise so less DBA or DevOps type manpower.

Then of course you can perfectly right size your instances and pay by the second for compute and by the byte for storage.

These two are connected vessels.