skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"sheltered homelessness" is an important metric, but it's not the one I would to differentiate between levels of income/wealth redistribution, precisely because it affects such a small part of the population.

the metric(s) I would use need to be ones that are meaningful (and meaningfully different) for more substantial parts of the population.

So, some suggestions could be:

* medical care induced bankruptcy

* personal bankruptcy in general

* percentage of income spent on housing costs

* disposable income after housing, health care, education and transportation costs

* some measure of "timely" access to medical care

* inter-generational economic mobility

There are certainly issues within the EU with any and all of these (worse in some places than in others), but overall my understanding is that the US generally does worse on all of them.

I am originally from the UK, and I would argue that while there are aspects of quality of life here in the USA that are vastly better than the UK or the EU, most of those things are primarily the domain of those who make median or above median income. I certainly don't think that the economic system in the USA is better than those found in the EU, even though there are some metrics where you might make that case. But mostly what the USA has a lot of that the EU has much less of is economic churn - businesses constantly starting and almost all of them failing, followed by more businesses starting etc. This gives the impression of very prosperous, active economy, but I would question whether we really do much better out of this model than the EU does with their much less entrepeneurial systems.

> if you go too far with redistribution you remove the incentive for people to do difficult or unpleasant work

The people who earn the most in our system are not the people who do difficult or unpleasant work, and it just seems preposterous to me to suggest that there is a link here.

> In a less extreme example we just witnessed France default on its pension obligations!

This is not an example of what I think you're claiming it is an example of. Defaulting on pension obligations is about a failure to honor past labor contracts, not income/wealth redistribution.

> How can we honestly consider expanding wealth distribution programs when we can’t even afford what we have now?

Same way we can afford a war whenever "we decide" to fight one. Same way we can "choose" to spend more than the next 10 top military spenders combined. We are a rich country, and we could choose to place substantially more emphasis on the quality of life of all our people. But we "choose" to do otherwise.
The internet is a safer but sadder place

Read Ghost in the Wire as a young man and it inspired me to get into computers

Rest in Peace, brother
From a cursory glance, the animal.
If you discovered that Snowden was actually the patsy for a limited hangout operation designed to protect the sector from declining regulatory and congressional will in a post-911 market...still a hero?
"10" is the binary for "2"
Hrm. Wonder if the high temps were because the plane was only running its APU (auxiliary power unit - a small, non-thrust-producing turbine) (to conserve fuel, presumably), and so was unable to provide HVAC to the main cabin.

FlightAware says Delta 555 is usually served by a B757-200, not sure how the HVAC is laid out there, but given the power draw of HVAC systems, seems unlikely that just an APU can provide enough power to deal with 111°F (and likely higher, since the plane was on a nice hot tarmac, with heat reflection not helping matters any).

It would be interesting to know if the pilots were aware of the conditions, requested guidance from the company, and were told to conserve fuel. (This os pure speculation on my part).
Headline in 5 years: “Endowments from alumni down 50% and no one knows why!”
+1, thanks for the link
You're constantly throttling a steam turbine by admitting more or less steam.
Reading is selfish, elitist, and anti-social
For those curious:

"And now it seems that a new behavior has been identified—"phubbing," or "phone snubbing"—in which people cut off conversations with others in their vicinity as they talk or text on their phone."
I'm not convinced that ones identity can be described as an introvert or extrovert. Regardless of what I read or what people I trust tell me.

I think you can _feel_ "introverted" or "extroverted" sometimes.

Not a topic that overly bother me, I personally find it hilarious watching people describe themselves with so much confidence. As if they know how the human mind works, and are so capable at it they can perform some meta-analysis looking from outside in.

(If you haven't figured I also think Meyers, Big Five etc etc is all garbage too, "I'm cynical" </joke>)
Thank you, we put a lot of effort into providing a good user experience and a good developer experience. Feel free to jump in on Github issues!
> One of the interesting parts to me is that most of her work seems to be completely manual. She seems to have an eye for seeing photoshop [...]

Brings to mind the skills of the 'super recogniser'. Perhaps her manual work involves similar aptitude.

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

--

Later edit: Indeed, the NYT article mentions -

"Since childhood, I’ve been “blessed” with what I’m told is a better-than-average ability to spot repeating patterns. It’s a questionable blessing when you’re focused more on the floor tiles than on the person you’re supposed to talk to. However, this ability, combined with my — what some might call obsessive — personality, helped me when hunting duplications in scientific images by eye." - Elisabeth Bik
Thanks for questioning my reasons (anonymously).

As such things tend to be, it was the last straw. I was an angry, shy, lonely young person. I didn't know it at the time, but I was 1 year in to 6 years of ~writing-my-way-out of the worst two of those.

I came to school thinking I'd study writing or programming. I started with the one likely to pay more to please my dad, but only found one of the intro CS projects remotely engaging.

Yes; we were sitting in technical writing (second semester) discussing what we'd done for the first assignment and why. Through the lens of the only thing that I really found engaging (and catharctic, and joyful) in high school, I could see that my heart wasn't in it. Any of it.

(I would later return to programming through art projects.)
> Mini is a man-made language designed to be as simple as possible.

Okay. Now I want to know about non-man made languages.
> because it happened once (to Pinball)

Honestly I don't think pinball is a similar example, light reading indicates the market for pinball was in the 10s of millions. Inflation adjusted it sounds like the pinball industry was 1% of what modern video games are and, IMO, that kind of difference in size is a difference in kind.

A better analogy might actually be liquor and prohibition, but we're not seeing anger anywhere near that level
Probably true for any other researcher. Building tools (even hardware) is worthy or a researcher resume. During my Ph.D. I worked on adding python bindings to a few simulators. One paper is still pending over a decade and other one was published but never cited even though people use python bindings, they cote the original.

I am no longer in academia but have promised myself not to engage with an academic open source software. There is simply no incentive for development. Well, when you think about it, most academic work is publish and forget: maintenance is not a strict requirement.
Ah yes, to have flashing marquee text scroll across the screen. The good old days :D
Indeed, compared to the number of fusion startups, which IMHO will be many decades if ever to be practical, and will never be economically viable, EGS could be operating economically, and deep/supercritical geothermal could be proven, in a decade or less.
Not like Microsoft has ever lied or breached trust
Which is why many have stated it’s hardest to get into university if you are a non wealthy, legacy white or Asian male. I totally see that’s institutions all issuing apologies for the past discrimination.
Human trials are underway. I’ve been taking it for 2 months. It’s very powerful. If it were my relative I would try everything (lions mane, fasting, dihexa, etc). Neurodegenerative diseases are horrifying. If you’re waiting for human clinical trials of the peptides that are up and coming it will be too late for people already starting to decline to benefit.
I've kind of wondered what the value proposition is of Loom as a business. On mac I get native screen recording and can just toss the video straight into any chat app or any video hosting platform. If you want to build a video hosting platform though, that's a different level of commitment.
> Downvotes should be used for bad comments, not comments that you disagree with.

I disagree with this. But I can't downvote this comment because it is a reply to my comment. This restriction specifically exists because downvoting to disagree is how HN has always worked.

> highly upvoted comments don't get bolded the way that downvoted comments get grayed.

Highly upvoted comments float to the top and therefore have more visibility.
Yes! https://app.twenty.com . It's still very early but we are happy to share it and to get feedbacks. We already have a few users that are using it on a daily basis and we are trying to get as much feedback as possible to prioritize our roadmap!
> revealed preference of most HN users, because it's quite rare to see a comment that is downvoted, just because lots of people disagree with it.

This does not match my experience at all.
No one’s going to sell you just a UI
Doping in sports is so much more complicated than most people think it is.

For starters there’s so many performance enhancing substances, and entire underground industries for developing and producing them. All of these drugs would be banned by the blanket prohibition on unapproved substances, but in practice many of them don’t have any screening procedures, so won’t turn up in any tests.

There’s also the fact that many performance enhancing substances are biologically identical to substances your body is naturally producing (like bio-identical testosterone for example). The only way to test for these is to test the ratios of certain metabolites (with a margin for error to avoid false positives). In practice this basically means any athlete can do steroid cycles, as long as they are only boosting their test levels up to that of a genetically elite outlier.

You also have the therapeutic use exemption, which allows for legitimate therapeutic use of banned substances. Testosterone replacement therapy is a legitimate therapeutic use of steroids, and some sports are known for abusing TUEs for this usecase.

Testing for PEDs is way less precise than a lot of people think it is, and any motivated athlete can get away with PED use to some extent, no matter how much testing you subject them to. There’s good reason to be suspicious of a lot of athletes. One massively suspect category of athlete is all of the ones in/near their 40s who somehow manage to maintain physiques as good as/better than they had in their early 20s.
I've got a painstakingly crafted neovim config that approximately works how I want it to, most of the time, and I'm happy with it. But it's taken a while, a lot of nights inevitably spent mucking with plugins and LSP and gluing it all together instead of working on more rewarding things.

I'd be lying if I said I'd never thrown something at a wall in frustration due to vim acting in some bizarre, inexplicable way and not knowing why, although that definitely happens less nowadays with nvim.

I hadn't heard of lazyvim until the other day and I doubted I'd really need it, but now that I know it's something new from folke, I'm gonna have to give it a shot. Always quality stuff from him -- dude is a machine, when does he sleep?
Could you please stop posting flamebait? We've asked you several times already.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I really enjoyed the book Takedown, about Shimomura's pursuit of Mitnick - I must have read it three or four times. I always wondered what happened to Shimomura, since he just seemed to drop out of sight after that book came out.
> Thanks again for posting and replying. Pleased to make your acquaintance.

Likewise!

> I use a Front Matter header to pass structured data

The impetus for developing that shell script (ergo KeenWrite) was using variables in documents. KeenWrite injects structured, interpolated YAML strings back into documents by replacing Moustache syntax (or `r# ...` syntax for R docs). This means that the same structured data can be reused for multiple documents, allowing for single sources of truth and a clean separation of content from presentation. Also, variables can be used in diagrams.

As for Front Matter, data can be passed in from the command line[1]:

-v metadata.yaml \
--metadata="title={{book.title}}" \
--metadata="author={{book.author}}"

Under the hood, KeenWrite places the metadata inside the intermediate XHTML document as <meta> tags inside the <head>. These are parsed by ConTeXt using an XSLT-like syntax that converts them into TeX instructions[2].

Do post any questions you may have on the discussions forum[3].

[1]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/main/docs/cmd.m...

[2]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes/blob/main/xht...

[3]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/discussions/
What is intermediate-advanced SQL and how to learn it?
Non-DBA advanced part:

For me subqueries, HAVING clause, GROUP BY clause, CTEs, Indexing, Optimization etc are advanced sql queries. This is mostly used for data analyst, data scientist etc type I mean.

For DBA part:

No idea

What is advanced sql and how'd you learn it.

For data analyst roles? I'll ask in next post about for DBA roles.

I've learnt basic sql. I can write subqueries, but I'm no expert at it. I can do joins and feel pretty confident at it. I am still confused with group by clause which has been my biggest hurdle as a data analyst.
Just so you know, you can now have Fi and Voice on the same account. Historically what you saying true, but it changed a couple years back.

Source: I had Voice and Fi on the same account.
How did you acquire a job in Japan? How difficult was it to obtain a residence? Was a guarantor necessary?
GPUs notionally - I can't speak for truly "modern" GPUs but I recall older GPUs having language level "char"/"byte" implemented as a float (presumably with some minimal support to get expected semantics like clamping?)
And so it is said in the book.
I remember talking to someone who had done a postdoc in Japan and he said that their labs had computers that had been budgeted as a consumable. At the end of a year some admin guy came with a small hammer and smashed the machines to make sure they were 'consumed'.
https://www.alzforum.org/therapeutics/fosgonimeton
Interesting! The mention of California made me think that was likely but Florida had the opposite effect. In terms of culture trends, Utah seems to lag behind California by 2-3 years (from my lay-observations) but I’m not sure about Florida. The geographical distance had me thinking it was a more-likely national phenomenon.
Google Tests A.I. Tool That Is Able to Write News Articles
> I'm not going to downvote you

You can't downvote me because my comment was in response to yours. It's not an appeal to authority. It's a statement of fact as also seen in the implementation itself.
Better TweetDeck, a Post-Mortem, Part 1: Frequently Asked Questions
>>> Honestly, I have to say I do not understand the obsession on Hacker News and more broadly on music theory.

I'm an amateur jazz bassist. I've also learned relatively little theory, but have a reasonably active gig schedule with 3 bands plus whoever calls me. I handle my role well enough, including extensive soloing.

But I offer some caveats to younger players when they're given a chance to learn theory:

1. What I've learned by ear and intuition has taken me 45 years. And there were more opportunities to learn by immersion when I started out. A young player who studies theory can get there an awful lot quicker. And there are a lot more college trained jazz players competing for gigs.

2. I compensate with some other strengths, including knowledge of the standards (rarely bring fake books to "standards" gigs), and fluent sight-reading. Even pro's who don't maintain their reading chops will have a hard time subbing for me on my big-band gigs. Some jazz follows the written tradition.

3. Players who go beyond just playing standards and canned arrangements, by writing their own compositions and arrangements, are almost exclusively trained in theory. And unlike the rock scene, playing high quality "originals" seems to enhance the audience appeal of a jazz band. Two of my bands have fairly prolific composers. Unfortunately, neither band records, or I'd share.

4. There's a fair amount of modern stuff that's over my head, and I'm forced to find ways of soloing and harmonizing that are work-arounds.
My assumption has been that planes mostly don't have air conditioning. I was stuck on the ground due to technical issues once and so they brought in an air conditioning truck to keep things comfortable (this was in South Texas). I thought they brought in bleed air from somewhere in the engine which would be pretty cool at altitude. I'm sure someone who actually knows about airplanes could chime in and correct me.
I think this comment oversimplifies gambling addiction. Yes, chasing losses is a behaviour common to many gamblers, and yes, winning money provides an incentive to gamble in the first place, but many (most?) gambling addicts have different motivations.

Here are some quotes from _Addiction by Design_, by Natasha Dow Shüll -- a book I highly recommend if you're interested in this subject:

> Julie explains: "If it's a moderate day - win, lose, win, lose - you keep the same pace. But if you win big, it can prevent you from staying in the zone." [...] "You're not playing for money," says Julie, "you're playing for credit -- credit so you can sit there longer, which is the goal. It's not about winning, it's about continuing to play."

> [Pete says:] After sitting at the machine for fourteen hours, so tired I can barely keep my eyes open, no money in my pocket, no gas in my car, and no groceries at home, I still can't leave because I have four hundred credits in the machine. So I sit there for another hour until it's all gone, praying for me to lose: "Please God take this money so I can get up and go home." You might ask, "Why didn't you hit the cash out button?" That never occurred to me -- that was not an option.

I don't think the importance of the monetary payout is particularly clear-cut. The payin is what does the financial damage, by moving money out of the player's control. The incentives and reinforcement are what get the player hooked -- but perhaps those don't have to be financial? I won't discount the importance of the payout entirely; maybe it's critical to get hooked in the first place? But I also wouldn't be surprised if gambling addiction can arise in games which don't provide to ability to cash out.
Do you think that Delaware or Wyoming's economic systems are substantively different from those of the USA as a whole? Obviously, the specific industries/service sectors of these states are quite different from one another, and from other states, but they represent applications of "the American way" to very small populations (1M and 600k respectively, massively smaller than Denmark).

The Danish way of things is clearly an entirely adequate model for populations of up to 5M or so. Claims about culture, geography are red herrings (they are almost always overstated, and sometimes just outright lied about).

Whether it can scale to, say, 40M larger (as in our biggest states) is a valid question, but given the much greatest similarity between Denmark and Germany than Denmark and anywhere in the USA, despite Germany's 84M population, I'd suggest the burden of proof there is on those who say it can't scale.

Of course, the Nordic social democracies do have their own problems, and there's no shortage of people from those nations who will fill your ear with complaints. Some of them deserve to be listened to, but if you think that society is better when modelled around collective self-improvement, broad social interdependence, and a general sense of shared responsibility for everyone's welfare, they are mostly noise.
No incentive is too extreme - users can still switch search engines.
Yeah, pretty much. I don't even think it was that big a secret. any studio running a Games as a Service would love to be a middleman taking in money from their biggest players. Crypto not being bound by any one country's monetary laws helps a lot as well.

It's not necessarily so they can get around gambling laws, but that could be one other side effect. Hell, for an NFT game like this you don't even need lootboxes to financnce the game. Just your 90's MMO style grinding and maybe some community functions.
Just leaving this here (typed without having to look it up) for anyone else who's ever maintained large Angular app which got to a certain size and complexity before anyone _really_ understood what they were doing:

ExpressionChangedAfterItHasBeenCheckedError
> The idea of user configurability is nice but most users have no idea how to do that or that it’s even possible

No need to baby users. In the context of Hacker News, a lot of the websites built here are demo sites/documentation where the audience is definitely technical enough to not need this.

In the case of libre, Free Sans is a clone of Helvetica (as is Nimbus) & they are usable if a user decides to set them as their preferred font (or a fallback in fontconfig).
lol what on earth are those colouring-in characters
Whats next CIA? Assasination and coup simulator?
It’s not uncommon for people with dyslexia to use Comic Sans because some of them find it easier to read.

However pretty much every website specifies which font to use. If you want your own font, you aren’t going to get it by complaining about one particular CSS framework. There’s a way of overriding fonts in every browser; find that and you’ll get what you want.
What is the Kore cult?
I use dumb questions a lot as a manager - although my hiring intentions are to try and make me the actual dumbest person on the team anyway.

I don't use it so much for the teasing out agreement or highlighting problems angle though - one of my goals is setting the accepted threshold for dumb questions low enough that junior/newer or less confident team members aren't afraid to ask their own "dumb questions". Those questions are usually more important than mine, and teams that don't have that "no question is too dumb" culture are often dysfunctional or heading that way.
Don’t feel bad for the Moderators of Reddit
> Yes, and it is extremely important. The monetary payout is what ruins lives instead of "just" wasting time and disposable income.

The actual bug is that some humans get a tremendously powerful positive reinforcement for success in their brain, no matter what form the "success" takes and they're addicted to that feeling. You're thinking it's about money, but money is just one possible form of success. Winning at a video game is also success.

These people were very useful two thousand years ago, because you can set "Find out what's on the other side of that dangerous mountain pass" as the success criteria. They were somewhat useful a hundred years ago, though there were fewer opportunities, in 1923 nobody had gone to space, but they had gone to the South Pole (although only fairly recently, and one group all died on the way back because their strategy was bad and they got unlucky). Such people are not needed in anywhere near the volume they're available today. So they're going to get addicted to things with success - e.g. video games, and we should try to ensure that the game publishers don't exploit them too much, just as we prevent gambling firms from exploiting this same defect.