skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can't. "Parties" are just agreements.

That seems unimaginative. The agreement to create the party is recognized as some sort of incorporated being for the purpose of receiving and spending money. This could be shaped in various ways by taxing authority, or by retroactively changing the pay structure of officers, or by optimizing the valuation of different asset classes for the purpose of taxation. I'm sure others can think of even better ways to pursue abolition without expanding the already expansive controls on how people express the freedom of association.
How do you reconcile a patentless world with things that require massive R&D budgets? Like it or not many industries require very complicated ideas that are extremely expensive and labor intensive to generate the idea.

For example, new pharmaceuticals (of which there are very few being discovered) take over 10 years of R&D and cost multiple billions of dollars to whittle down ~10,000 candidates into a single government approved drug.

But once that single drug has been identified from the haystack of failing options, and rigorously tested, and trialed in humans for years, recreating that molecule is quite trivial. The actual production is very cheap compared to the fact it took thousands of people billions of dollars over 10+ years to get there.

This is just one example of how ideas can be very expensive to develop, but very cheap to copy.
No, this is the correct interpretation in a lot of countries, you are performing paid work there regardless of who and where the employer is.

Emergencies are all well and good, but turning up at the immigration desk and saying you don’t plan on working when you actually do will lead to trouble in a lot of places.
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The parent is claiming "the US won until they lost", which I guess doesn't contradict your post lol.
i guess this is a +1 for vim and emacs!
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I took one look at Zachtronics' TIS-100 and similar games and decided I'd rather learn actual ARM assembly language. At least I'd wind up with a usable real world skill at the end of it.
Not if you're on the opposite end of a shitty job market attempting to find any way to get a foot in.

The market sucks, and cynicism is growing among all parties.
Stop generating your hiring questions with LLMs first.
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or the closer my wife's birthday gets, the more notifications I get;

or randomly, sometimes I get notification in 8 days, sometimes it's 23 days;

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True, but maybe a little idealistic?

Every parent can use a little help. There's so much that your child sees and hears, you want to be there to help explain it to them when they have questions.

Hand them a device that shows anything happening anywhere in the world? Maybe a little help there, limiting what they can easily stumble upon, is a good thing.
The fed was created to prevent the boom bust cycles we’ve seen for the past 100 years. I don’t think “making it hurt less” when your entire purpose is to avoid the pain is praiseworthy.

But who’s to say - maybe the rains do actually keep coming because we make all those sacrifices to the gods.
> Housing costs haven't dropped enough IMO to declare a win.

This is a fundamental misunderstanding about inflation. If inflation goes to 0%, housing costs will stay exactly where they are now. You are looking for a deflation in housing costs, where inflation is < 0%. We had that in 2008 and it caused...collateral damage.

The only real way to lower housing prices is to build a lot more housing. So yes, it's a government problem in that we don't let private actors build housing to meet the market's demand.
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Counterpoint:

- The cost of running a warehouse like BigQuery is pulling in Google Cloud, or whatever 3rd parties like the ones you mentioned, and integrating with it somehow.

How you gonna get the data in there and back out? What should the ACL be? Sure might be a trivial amount of data, heck, could be 1GB. Depending on the type of data (and company) there's potentially a lot more busywork involved here than just shuttling files around and trivial scripting.

"Postgres doesn't scale for analytics" and "you should not spend money on an internal guy/team to run a database, you should blow it on Google and data consulting companies instead" is a bit of a blanket statement.

Seems like teams with great DBAs will go with what they are familiar and teams that are cloud-all-the-things will go with what they are familiar. But the real choice here isn't even technical in the narrow sense, it is strategic.

You wouldn't recommend anybody use Postgres, really? Man, so many teams are doing it wrong I guess.
> I'm genuinely curious; this, on the face of it, makes no sense to me at all. Is it because he's rich? I don't get it.

For me, it's because I can remember many times when I've done something wrong or stupid and others have forgiven me. Nothing as public as this, but that's frankly more due to lack of an audience than a difference in character.

I can see a part of myself reflected back, the same part that's been a little too honest during a long happy hour, and I can empathize with how he probably feels.

I don't see myself as different at the human level, and I'd rather live in a world where we both deserve forgiveness than neither of us.

He seems genuinely remorseful. He knows he fucked up. He knows he fucked up bad. I don't see the point in beating a dead horse.

He'll probably lose his job. That's fair enough to me, you reap what you sow. Can't have that public or a role with outbursts like that. I don't see a reason to hang this around his neck for forever, though.
Imo it can go both ways;
What You are saying isn't wrong, but on the other hand, AI tools will make the job of generalists easier, as they can learn/use new tools faster and can have reasonable performance without the need of having to 'get used to' the given tool.
While having a 'general knowledge' isn't something you will get from AI, in the sense that you at least need to know what to ask/look for.
I find it easier to set up voicemail. Unknown callers that care will leave a message. That message is speech to text processed and I can decide if to play it or call back. Anything important enough gets through even from unknown numbers. Never have to answer a spam call.
Biggest potential weakness seems like the ability for the merging party to strategically collapse districts such that two legislators from the opposing party are made to reside in the same district, creating a new district with no incumbent. Not all legislatures require that representatives live in the district, and there would be real trade-offs to doing so, but it would be a pretty powerful hammer to wield against up-and-coming opposition candidates.

It doesn't matter at the abstraction of proportional representation, but it potentially matters quite a bit when you get into the nitty-gritty of actual elections.
> This entire write-up is more than most companies obligations or responses.

The thing is: What standard of security would you expect of someone who was decrypting 1/3rd of your internet traffic?

I would say "better than most companies" is too low a bar. Hell, I'm not sure any organisation could be secure enough to be trusted with that.
You can eliminate those "unconscionable"[1] laws and it won't eliminate the parties though. Those are just regulations to prevent new parties from getting a foothold, but the existing parties predate the laws and will survive their passing just fine. Consider: there are no Whigs left, but the two party system hasn't changed.

[1] Again, why the ridiculous hyperbole? It's not like this is some new evil plague; "parties" have been with us for thousands of years!
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>Many urban areas saw an increase in crime starting around 2020

AFAIK crime statistics do show a small uptick during the pandemic, but people thinking crime is on the rise predates that (ie. during the 2000s and 2010s, despite statistics showing otherwise).
We collaboratively write screenplays in markdown (actually fountain but its markdown plus some screenwriting stuff) and save them into Dropbox.

pandoc and some other tools turn those scenes into a full screenplay.
If we let Markov model mean a probability distribution over a sequence defined as P[ X(t) | X(t-1) ] , then a transformer is specifically not a Markov model. The Markov property means each element is conditional on only the previous element ("context length" = 1).

A discrete table based probability distribution over possible words, as in the link, is a Markov language model, but not a meaningful contestant among Markov models for language modelling. The latest contestants here are things like RWKV, ResNet, SSMs, and so on which might be better thought of as HMMs.

An HMM is a Markov chain of hidden ("latent") states, rather than over tokens or words. Variations have been used for speech recognition and language modelling for 20-30 years.
I get what you mean, looking back that sentence reads like a tautology. I guess what I should've said is "FPTP leads to far more silliness than PR and therefore countries using PR have healthier political discourse and systems"
I think the networks actually get more reliable not less, because they're designed to be redundant and you have so many nodes one failure is tolerable. That's how it is for us at www.careweather.com.

I guarantee Starlink isn't using components from the 1990s.
Well, the digital nomad doesn't spend a lot of money. Some on accommodation, some for internet, some for food, and that's it. He spends his time remote working on his laptop. His income is paid offshore.

Apart from the tourist aspect of it, the point of a digital nomad is to save money on rent, food and taxes, not to spend all your money in a foreign country.

Of course, a business hub, or a technological hub can attract digital nomads punctually, even if accommodations are more expensive.

Now Japan has a problem with its age pyramid and desertification of its country side. So it should be possible to attract digital nomad for longer and cheaper stays, even if they don't have a lot of money (to spend in Japan), at least that's good for the young body count, and perhaps they'd eventually fixate and have families. But again, this wouldn't be a six-month thing, they would have to add more incentive (free or $1-house in the countryside with minimal occupancy, good internet connection (I don't know if Japan has 100% territory fiber coverage) (that said nowadays there's Starlink), etc.
Hiring accelerated? Isn't that... the opposite of what's happening?

I don't know anyone whose having an easy time switching jobs right now. Where's all this "robust" hiring happening?
You missed a zero with the 1921 figure, but it is an interesting question to consider: what exactly is the optimal size of a national assembly? Does it scale best to the square root or cube root of population? Or some other exponent? What are the constant factors? Do larger multi-regional blocs like the US and EU require different styles of representation, and if so does that change the scaling factors? The US could probably do with at least 600 though, minimum.
> It's not surprising that housing is the main exception: high interest rates make housing more expensive.

Use the slider at the URL to see different years: this has been a growing trend, and not just a recent (1-2 year) phenomena.
If you haven’t run into it, the keyword you're looking for is "world schooling". I have some friends who home school and they decided to travel while doing it. They move to a location for a few months and use a "world school" in the new location. The school is global and has a ton of branches in different countries so there is continuity in philosophy and assessment and whether the kids are curriculum-wise.
Correlating to the link of the post, and it's number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered per 100, so it's pretty close to ranking of the vaccination rates.

High administration of vaccines doesn't mean high excess mortality like claimed by koqoo.
I wish I had more to offer, here.

I don't think there are, but I'm not a doctor.

It's usually tested for genetically or with an ekg. It doesn't have any outward physical signs or traits that I'm aware of. There are several different subtypes and each has different triggers; so diagnosis usually happens in response to an event. For example, passing out when the phone rings because you're surprised. I don't think a lot of doctors know much about it. In my case, I didn't find out I had it until I was in my 40s and that was because I made contact with my biological family (I'm adopted) and they told me I needed to get checked for it.
There is this idea I see from jerks all the time, that being a jerk is about "the survival of the fittest", that their jerkiness is a strength that helps them succeed.

But humans didn't evolve to be the fittest organism through strength or individualism. We're in our position through social cohesion and cooperation.

The most successful people I've seen got there through cooperation, coalition building, and community development. Some jerks also succeed, and are used as examples of why being a jerk is necessary or easier, but it's fallacious to think every local jerk is following the footsteps of bezos or musk.

So the next time you find yourself thinking, "the best engineers are jerks, because it's a social Darwinian landscape", remember that the strategy that seems to be winning today is "strength through social cohesion".
If you have multiple frontends seperating frontend logic from backend makes a lot of sense.

I've been building/maintaining a SPA for the past 8 years and have no regrets and am unconvinced by this article (or the one it mentions).
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As sometimes silly and campy as it was, Farscape was a speculative fiction masterpiece. Outside of hard sci-fi books I’ve never experienced more engaging world building. Even if the individual characters sometimes weren’t engaging, the backdrop was rich enough to make up for it.
I wanted to add some additional thoughts on what the problems of PR might be...

- Clusters of minority populations tend to not get as much representation, because they are but a small voice in a bigger ocean of voices.

- Representatives can't focus on representing a smaller geographic area, including field offices, outreach, constituent services, etc as easily, because they have to represent a much broader geographic area.

- A lack of community ties, as representatives are representing a broader geography, the representative is less likely to know the names, places, and small cultural quirks associated with the communities they represent.

Please feel free to add comments of your own with additional downsides. I am generally a fan of proportional voting systems, but I think it is important to have an honest discussion of the pros and cons, as there are ways to build representative systems that balance these concerns- but we have to be aware of and acknowledge them.
> Any idea how GDPR works for EU citizens who reside in the USA?

It doesn't. The cases it applies to are given in Article 3 [1]. It applies to these cases:

• Processing of personal data by entities that are "established in the Union", regardless of where the processing takes place.

• Processing of personal data of "data subjects who are in the Union" by entities not "established in the Union" if it is related to those entities offering goods and services to data subjects "in the Union" or those entities are monitoring behavior of those data subjects that takes place "in the Union".

• Processing of personal data by an entity not "established in the Union" is they are somewhere where Member State law applies "by virtue of public international law". (Anyone happen to have a list of such places?).

GDPR does not even mention "citizens". Every place it talks about data subjects it uses "in the Union".

Note that this works both ways. People who are not EU citizens are covered if they are "in the Union".

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/
Can you share the tourist visa regulations for Japan that say this? I haven’t been able to find any. Thank you :)
You certainly select for a particular kind of candidates by requiring a video. I think it's likely intentional.
CDC has always provided estimated excess deaths throughout the pandemic. They have correction factors for each jurisdiction by week, according to the typical delays in reporting.
GDP is a monetary measure, it measures market value. So most of regular infrastructure does not add anything to GDP, public schools for example. Positive GDP is an important measure on Capitalist system but it does not reflect fully in the life of most poor people.

> Depending on the lifestyle (or parts thereof) in question, this may not be a bad thing. Certain lifestyle (aspects) may be imprudent,

I guess he was talking about people that cant afford a 70000 truck at first place. Some people on rich countries like Brasil, 11th GDP in 2022, were just not able to afford food.
I completely disagree with any attempt to merge the front end with the back end by obscuring the boundary. It's a horrible idea and leads to security vulnerabilities.

The front end is a public resource, the back end is a private resource whose access needs to be controlled according to clear and consistent rules and with proper authentication checks.
There was a good (ish) book about this, called Breaking the two-party doom loop.

* There's been an increased focus on federal (vs local) governing. People "over there" now need to adopt the solutions we have "over here". Since federal gov cannot possibly be in tune to all voters micro-needs, a successful federal-first party needs to focus on high-profile outrage-fueled issues.

* The main focus is on proportional representation, where votes for legislators are in proportion to the people who they represent. This avoids winner-take-all elections at congressional level, and removes the need to both pander to moral outrage and gerrymander.

* Another huge factor is increasing the number of seats elected, and pinning it to # of people they represent. This allows minority groups to have their say in congress, rather than having to jump on the bandwagon of "least evil" candidate. Congress has not expanded in a long time.
Sure, lack of government control is a main selling point, they just did not mean the term "control" in the way that both of you appear to be interpreting it.
I installed the Juice browser plug-in back then and remembered how Juice applets "loaded" much faster than their equivalent Java counterparts. Once loaded, Juice and Java applet performance was similar. Over time, Java benefited from a larger network effect and market share and I stopped seeing Juice applets on the web.
There's a subset of the finance world thats very fond of both "commercial support" and "security by obscurity." OS/2, Alpha servers, they kept hold of lots of stuff 2 decades past its peak.
https://archive.is/9Bktc

previously - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37060054

related - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37182828
I would assume the kids would go to private schools.
Probably necessary since they're traveling so much that they need to follow a foreign curriculum or an international one like IB.
Is it? I know that legally they could deport you so its not a great idea, but how often does someone actually get deported for doing remote work while spending a few months in another country?
I wonder, what the best practices for supporting offline mode when the backend drives the frontend?
The tech industry is not the whole world.
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Many years ago, I saw in the Washington Post help-wanted section an advertisement for somebody with a master's degree and fluent in Chinese, for wages that were about secretarial level. Much later I understood that this was work-visa stuff--hey, we can't hire locally for our needs!
You do still need the controlling party to agree to enact this solution, which is a form of compromise. If you're willing to do that you may as well be willing to cede control to a nonpartisan third party. In either case the outcome will be a reduction in your party's power.
Someone working in a foreign country for a few months is a tourist for all practical purposes.
From my perspective (having tried headsets since DK1) the weight is the pivotal barrier that prevents mass adoption. I have never found any combination of strap/headset that I'd want to wear as an all-day or even half-day device.

I wonder how much weight could conceivably even be reduced. I look forward to someone doing a teardown in the future.

But hey - maybe this is finally my old-man moment in tech?
The analogy of pouring the water into the soup is really catchy. Oligarchs spending money to convince society that the society should absorb various costs and accept increasing fiscal pressure. You will not receive any certification or credibility from institutions controlled by them if you're not a believer.
Web is not a primary target of Slint.

> Web: In Progress. Slint apps can be compiled to WebAssembly and can run in a web browser. As there are many other web frameworks, the web platform is not one of our primary target platforms. The web support is currently limited to demo purposes.

- https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/blob/master/README.md
“Television” doesn’t have strict laws and restrictions.

Over the air broadcasts do. The broadcast spectrum is considered publicly owned and is leased to television operators.

I guess you could say the same about the cellular spectrum. But how deep do you want government regulation to go since Google operates over the internet? Do you really want the government controlling internet content “for the children”?

And if they regulate app stores, especially on Android, do they also regulate what you can distribute from your own website?
What are those though?
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