skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never really thought about it, but you could effectively use sick people to import money into your desolate community.

In the same way that tourists bring tourists dollars, sick people bring government dollars.
> largest political donors

You pay politicians, and you get the outcomes you want.

Every other country in the world calls it bribery.
Still waiting if all of this will be another Swift for Tensorflow, or actually make a difference.
I think desktop app and native app get used interchangeably, not necessarily offline app. There are also plenty of desktop/native apps that are very much not offline.
Elevating enterprise deployment: Introducing an enhanced monorepo experience on
> Unless we nuke ourselves into oblivion [...]

Don't jinx it, please.
Elixir still gets limited use at Pinterest. I think there's only one significant system still actively developed in Elixir, though it's pretty non-trivial both in terms of cost and complexity.
Just look at Wall St and the ramifications of 2008 when you starting thinking in terms of your post. How many people/companies were held accountable?
Abstraction is not just about hiding code - its about reducing options. You purposefully reduce options to make the system easier to reason about. A "function" in a programming language is an abstraction over machine code. It looks like variables have scope in an isolated environment, and it looks like the braces mean something, but it's compiled down to machine instructions that have no such concept. Goto considered harmful, but compiled machine code is littered with jump instructions (of course). You can do a lot of funky tricks with machine code that the higher abstraction of a programming language doesn't let you do. When you create an abstraction you reduce options for the user of that abstraction. So abstractions tend to gather cruft over time because users want those restrictions relaxed to do their special thing.
This is just the SC project, honestly. Lots of "we will have this" and "we will do this" that never pan out because the scope is in perpetual and constant creep, with shifting priorities.

It's a cool project though, and I do enjoy the game, I just find that their plans and announcements should always be taken with a liberal grain of salt.
I think they are using PPP-adjusted values? If you click through to their definition (https://ourworldindata.org/higher-poverty-global-line) they say that incomes are expressed in "international dollars" and "One international dollar has the same purchasing power as one US dollar in the US".
Keystroke timing has been a concern for terminal I/O since the 1980s and folks were using primitive encryption with stelnet and kerberos.

Most terminal applications use buffered I/O for password entry, which is still an important security feature. In that mode, nothing is sent to the other end until the user presses return. A MiTM only "sees" one packet no matter what, and with padding they can't even infer the password length.

For a time, there was rich pickings in applications that accepted passwords in unbuffered mode. Many of them doing it so that they could echo "*" symbols, character by character, as the user typed. That simple feature looks cool, and does give the user feedback ... but would leak the keystroke rate, which is the last thing you want on password entry.

I hope we preserve buffered I/O for password entry, because it's still better than what ssh can do with some obfuscation. But it's great to see ssh add this, and will help protect content that can't be buffered, like shell and editor input.
Boy, those easy answers are right there! Can't miss 'em.

A guy could wonder why so many of us do not use those answers.

Could it be the details complicate things just enough to take the easy answer off the table?

Perhaps it is just me. What say you?
Capturing at Speed of Thought
Great/inspiring leadership and VSOPs come to mind
Thanks, very clear :)
In fairness they've had a good culture of whistleblowing.
Git users with complex login needs should use OIDC. In order to do "enterprise" hardware SSH credentials, you already have the rest of the "enterprise" "OIDC" (not really OIDC, but part of the sales meaning of it) infrastructure. I believe you can wire it up that way, and not deal with SSH agents at all.
That’s terrible, sorry for your loss. Thanks for sharing.
Install an A/C socket in your kitchen. Then buy a British 240 volt 3 kilowatt kettle from eBay and wire on a US A/C plug (NEMA 6-15) - hooking the brown and blue wires from the kettle to the two line pins, and the green/yellow wire to ground.

This would be both code legal, safe and functional.

It would also be possible to use a clothes dryer socket (NEMA 14-30), but you should install a smaller than usual breaker for the circuit (15 amps), since the british kettle normally has a 13 amp fuse in it's plug, but a NEMA plug does not contain that.
Sure. I'm the elitist, the coder who can't keep his job for longer than 2 years because he doesn't have any soft skill.

At the moment I am literally considering quitting (my second job), working at a phone repair shop instead of programming, exactly because people at work prefer your kind of coders than enthusiasts like me.

Thank you for convincing me. I will become a phone repair technician instead. Have fun with your amazing programming career. You will do great. (This is the sarcastaball moment for me. Seriously I'm not even being sarcastic. You will do great)

> guaranteed to be faster

That's good for you. I still prefer to just write `pbpaste | base64 -d` into my terminal.

Sorry for wanting to solve problems in a different way
There are two extremes I'm familiar with:

- sticker shock from the bill - like, holy fuck, I was supposed to have insurance. Why is my provider taking back its coverage a year later? (May be called a "takeback" as customer support told me over the phone)

- Called customer support about the bill, and they were mostly supportive and believed what I said about being covered at the time. This was a relief to speak to nice people, but at the same time why make me fight an uphill battle? Why force so much confusion and fear on the patient at once?
Not a great time for other species though.

Also, just because today is good, doesn't mean tomorrow will be. You could be singing your favorite song rolling through an intersection on a beautiful day, plenty can still go wrong. Some caution didn't hurt anyone.
> China was sealing apartments in 2020 to enforce quarantine.

This is whataboutism.

> The worst that happened in the west was that we couldn't get dinner and beer at one of our many corporate restaurants that willingly shut down.

Do you even remember 2020/2021? Schools, daycare, workplaces shut down, people not allowed to leave their apartments?
looks like this gets posted every year

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=airfields-freeman.com
> "saving the planet as a hospitable environment for humans and/or animals"

Well i do think that's partly the point - the animals _will_ be fine. Viewing "the animals" as the set of biodiversity that we currently like and deem correct seems narrowly scoped. Diversity could be set back, but will definitely not go anywhere as long as evolution exists - right?

So what does our interpretation of animals really matter, especially if we're not around to judge it? Which isn't an argument to destroy everything to be clear. But i think "the planet doesn't care" includes life, not just a rock.

Ie, species have been invasively killing and replacing each other for all of time. Every time a closed ecosystem was breached (islands/etc) by some new foreigner it was chaos, expansion, evolution, etc. I don't think we change much in the long run.

But to stress, i am here, and i do enjoy the plants and animals of my habitat so i want to preserve the environment. However that's my selfish desire imo. The "planet and including life within this evolving biosphere" doesn't care.
Wow, looking at this with a red-team cap on, there is so much human "messiness" to exploit here. It shouldn't be too hard too be able to pass a bit or two of information.
Cockroaches are not a welcome addition into your house's ecosystem, but they are still very useful in the global ecosystem, same as mosquitoes, etc. There are waste products that only cockroaches digest, there are plants that only mosquitoes pollinate, etc.
https://histre.com/ - Automatic productivity-focused knowledge tool
Kaiser keeps sending me bills for a pair of non-emergency visits that happened 6 months ago. They're small amounts, but it's crazy that it seems to take months for Kaiser's insurance to decide how much they're going to pay for various labs.
Another thing Americans miss out on - the "boost" function on modern induction stoves. Since the oven usually gets one phase and the cooking fields get two dedicated phases of the 400V lines, you can use "boost" to steal power from the other phase. Water boils even faster than in a tea kettle!
The Singularity. At some point dots will be connected, and tech will start to converge. It's too spread out, it needs to be more tightly coupled, and also in the right hands.
I know it's been extremely suspicious of this extreme poverty metric, because anyone who earns a wage but can't afford sufficient food and shelter is "non-extreme poverty" , while subsistence farming is "extreme poverty".

It seems to play into the global capitalist scheme of luring people into debt servitude with a false promise of high wages in a distant city / country.
> universally recognized as a traffic warning

Except a real driver can recognize when a cone should and shouldn't be there.
I wish more people simply were happy with using themselves whatever set of beliefs/techiques they deemed best (abstraction, duplication, whatever), preaching nothing, and arguing less.

Which is to say, there will never be a single truth for these topics. So why not build a mindset that is ready for encountering differing opinions, diverse code?
It's not insane. Open markets work for every other type of commodity, and there is little reason to think it won't work for water usage as well.

Also data centers don't use water for cooling. They primarily use air cooling, and last time i checked air conditioning doesn't require a constant supply of water.
There are different kinds of friendships, with different levels of intimacy. I have three "true friends" -- as the saying goes, a true friend is one who will help you bury a body at 3am with no questions asked -- and we've been such through thick and thin already. Those friends do not distance when times get really rough.

But most of my friends aren't that close. They are the ones that are more like "fair weather friends" -- coworkers, activity partners, and so forth. Friends, absolutely, but situationally dependent. I would not expect them to be attentive when I'm going through a dark crisis. They just aren't that sort of relationship.

I don't think this is a problem, I think this is normal.
I was part of a project that did some analysis of OpenWRT firmware at scale. It was a lot of fun. The firmware is ( obviously ) publicly available. If you're interested in finding some cool results, you should try out FACT:

https://github.com/fkie-cad/FACT_core

It's a super neat tool that does lots of interesting things.
> I couldn't disagree more. In fact it's an incredibly "junior dev" mindset that sees 2 pieces of similar (or _even identical_) code and is compelled to abstract it. Unless there are at a _minimum_ of 3 implementations I think it's always better to duplicate. I've watched too many "common" functions grow over time with way too many arguments, too many conditionals, and way too confusing for anyone to easily follow. The most egregious is different return values based on arguments passed in. I'm not talking "array of strings" or "null" but "array of strings" or "single string" (or worse).

I agree with you here and tend to rather, if possible, deduplicate subsystems or sub-functions of similar looking/identical code and keep the duplicate public surfaces.
Is this any more clear than an elif expression?

I suppose the condition coming first is nice
Simple farmers... The salt of the earth... The common clay of the new West!

(kidding)
this. At least with the current example and even the surrounding chatter in this thread, I don’t see any benefit and plenty of room for downsides. Some of which haven’t even been mentioned yet (e.g how this will play with IDEs)

I don’t mean to poo poo on it. I really do like learning new patterns, but I haven’t yet grasped this one’s utility.
Per the NYPost article on this,

> During the meeting, which is known in internal Amazon lingo as a “fishbowl” meeting, Jassy declined to share data that motivated his decision to require employees to return to the office. The CEO told his charges it was a “judgment” call.

Could some brave soul please leak whatever data these guys are seeing? Reports, statistics, even just emails where they whine about empty offices? Something tangible that gives us mere mortals actual perspective.

The conversation is dominated by conspiracy theories about real estate investments and 'CEO vibes', it feels untethered and fact-free.
I don't think this was in the article itself, but the description of the article on the NYT morning newsletter email had this interesting note:

> Several of my colleagues — led by Mira Rojanasakul and Christopher Flavelle — have spent months compiling data on groundwater levels across the U.S., based on more than 80,000 monitoring stations. Chris and Mira did so after discovering that no comprehensive database existed. The statistics tended to be local and fragmented, making it difficult to understand national patterns.

That reminds me of the situation that came to light a couple years ago during the controversies over police killings of unarmed black people. There were no national records kept of police killings, and often no state records.

The first decent national level data had to be put together by going through local news sites, individual police department records, filing tons of requests under state public record laws, and many I'm forgetting.

This makes me wonder how many other things there are where we might have a national problem but don't know it because we mostly only have local records?

Also, I wonder how many things there are were we only have local records but we think we have a national problem because people assume what is happening where they are is happening all over?

For those who have not read the article, the newsletter has a good TLDR:

> The trends in this new database are alarming. Over the past 40 years, groundwater levels at most of the sites have declined. At 11 percent of the sites, levels last year fell to their lowest level on record.

> The U.S., in other words, is taking water out of the ground more quickly than nature is replenishing it. “There’s almost no way to convey how important it is,” Don Cline, the associate director for water resources at the United States Geological Survey, told The Times.
Escape Velocity delivered on the fantasy just fine.
The ruthless forking of Terraform [video]
I'm very dissatisfied with the quality of the replies to your post so far, a lot of them are deepities about corruption and class. The actual reasons involve a whole bunch of factors:

- principal-agent problems - health-insurance and hidden cost mean the people paying aren't the people getting the product

- concentrated benefits, diffuse costs. There are tons of actors (pharmas, hospitals, insurers, doctors, etc.) each skimming off the top. Each of these is a small enough effect that it's not worth anybody's time to stop it, especially when it's worth it for the skimmer to fight to the death to protect their cut, and together they all add up to massive amounts of waste.

- the US healthcare system is a Frankenstein's monster of public and private elements, and has ended up with the worst parts of both

- the US healthcare system probably would be better (at least in terms of cost-effectiveness) if it become either more libertarian or more socialized, but since moving a little in either direction would be seen by half the population as the top of a slippery slope towards a dystopia they hate, everybody fights hard to keep it in the local minimum
Degrowth = anti-humanism
> the Netflix Prize [1] competition was supposed to make it better

Was supposed to, but the winning algorithm was unusable in production.
> I love living in a nation where I can get an MRI for myself and my dog in the same day

You love living in a nation where millions of people can't afford basic healthcare for themselves but your dog can get an MRI same day.
Not worth it. A temperature controllable kettle that shuts itself off and can keep water warm is both incredibly convenient and far more safe.
Funny, when Firefox still does not have "add to desktop" support, while all major (and some minor, like GNOME Web) browsers are shipping it for quite a while now. And there won't be a better solution to run web applications safely, other than browser that gets regular updates.
Yeah but if I'm doing research online I'm going to stick with sources I consider reliable, written by real people and not a text generator. So I'm not sure I understand the comparison you're trying to make.
Thank you, yes. I think my phone was messing with me. Too late to edit now. I appreciate it.
To be fair, Tor costs too, it's just that someone else is picking up the bill.
The reason you have those things is because others don't have access to them.

You being able to get an MRI in a week might have the social cost of 3 people not being able to get an MRI at all.
Thank you for saying this out loud. I thought I was the only one.

I’m doing grad school right now, while working full-time while maintaining family responsibilities.

My ways of working and achieving during undergrad (mid-afternoon to late evening sessions) are not mapping well to grad studies. Getting up early is hap-hazard and working late at night leaves me dead tired for the next morning.

However, I’m glad that my kids are getting the best of me during my peak productivity time.
Research team leverages power of ribosomes to develop chemical libraries
I blame government AND fossil fuel companies. Harder to blame individuals when they're just trying to survive in a system they didn't build and have little power to change and they happen to be targets of PR campaigns to make them doubt reality. Funded by fossil fuel money.
FYI. The article author has a political agenda.

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

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

(Edit, since I got downvotes. I am not saying he is wrong, but I still think the information is relevant to be aware of when reading the article. His bread and butter is not necessarily seeking the truth but to choose the narrative and facts that supports his political views. And of course getting views fornhisnarticle in a place like this is like hitting a home-run)
Corporate regulatory capture.
And? Comparing apples and oranges?

I'm running seven Elixir/Phoenix apps (one of these is umbrella with 12 apps) on shared CPU cheap VPS with 1gb memory. I actually ran out of disk space recently than anything else so far.
> I love my quality of care in the US. My insurance is quite reasonable

Does it matter to you that 27.6 million of your countrymen have no insurance? [1]

Does it matter to you that 66.5% of all bankruptcies are due to medical bills [2] and that Almost 1 in 5 adults with health care debt either lose their homes or declare bankruptcy ? [2]

Do you simply not care that the people in your community and society struggle to get the bare minimum?

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2023/...

[2] https://www.retireguide.com/retirement-planning/risks/medica...
> the streets are full of single-occupant cars with drivers who just don't want to mingle with the plebs

I assume the "comfortable" public transportation still requires one to occupy same space with many other people, perhaps even sharing personal space during rush hour?

If my assumption is correct, I'd say that public transportation is not nearly as comfortable as it needs to be to replace cars. Not many people like having to share room with strangers, especially when there is no requirement of personal hygiene or quieteness.

And that's not even mentioning the issue of safety - how safe are you from getting mugged and/or killed on your public transportation? The risk is drastically lower when you're in your own car.
The worst part is: Once an airport gets torn down, it's lost forever. It never gets re-built. And we basically don't build new airports in the USA anymore. Can anyone remember the last time a new airport was built (outside of people building private dirt airstrips on their 20 acre ranch in Idaho)? As population centers shift and housing gets built, people move in next to noisy airports and then say to themselves "Holy shit, I moved next to an airport and it's loud. How could I have known? Surely this is the airport's fault!" and they go complain to their city.

A little public airport with a nice asphalt runway in my hometown recently went up for sale, and the price was within striking distance of what I could afford as an investment, but I chickened out and failed to pull the trigger. It would have meant moving across the country to manage it and convincing my company to let me work remotely (this was just before COVID when WFH suddenly became normalized). Sadly some shitty developer bought the plot and promptly closed the runway and facilities so he could build whatever shit he's going to build. Big regret.
The mistake was paying anything. If you paid anything on it, it then becomes collectable.
The chart says it's "adjusted for inflation and for differences in the cost of living between countries."
> it's impossible to do anything not en masse at 8b population

you are missing some simple arithmetic here. yes, x times y can get arbitrarily big if x does (and y is non-negative), but then changes in y would just have even more of an impact. take x to be population and y to be emission per person and you should see your mistake.
It's not getting close to GPT-4. It's getting closer according to synthetic benchmarks but spend any non-trivial time with both and you'll quickly realise GPT-4 is still leagues ahead, especially for writing code and more complex reasoning. Which makes sense since the model is orders of magnitude larger parameter count wise.

Don't get me wrong, it's still remarkable that we already have LLMs that can be ran on consumer grade hardware that are anywhere near GPT-3.5/4 levels. But if you want the absolute highest quality of output GPT-4 is still way to go.
GP literally said start by reserving water for residential and sustainability use and only sell the rest on the market (i.e. the portion currently used for commercial activity such as power and agriculture). If you demand extreme pedantry, you can expand the reserved quantity to whatever arbitrary domestic carveout usage you desire as profit-seeking, commercial water depletion is >80% of water usage, so any non-commercial carveout is largely irrelevant to depletion.
Oh we're so back
If the average voter hadn't been the target of PR campaigns by fossil fuels companies to make them doubt the science I might agree with you.