skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It also effectively pays for itself through reduce utilization of other social services: medical, police, legal, food, etc.

No study offers anywhere close to proof of that. First of all by definition of course it’s not paying for itself. These are massive tax expenditures at work. At best these amounts are reduced somewhat. Second, the studies rely on lots of assumptions all down the value chain that a responsible person wouldn’t normally make. The gaslighting by the government, NGOs, and charities feeding at the trough is staggering.

I pay a shitload in taxes. Despite my libertarian leanings, I am not at all adverse about a lot of those taxes going to people who genuinely need it. But there is simply no transparency and no good faith presentation of budgets by any of these organizations.
Most food is produced in rural areas with infrastructure, not remote areas. Farmers frequently live in town. Agricultural production costs are sensitive to logistics, so doing any kind of intensive agriculture in genuinely remote areas is expensive. You don't want to be too far from a rail spur if you are a farmer.

The only agriculture on remote land at scale is cattle ranching, which has the advantage that cattle can move themselves.
Would that people could be trusted to not discriminate in any way...maybe some subconscious personal bias, but then surely a group could even out the biases.
That's why I didn't say "regulations", I said "regulations and enforcement".

Corruption has generally gone down significantly over the decades, and knowledge and training have gone up.

I'm not saying there aren't problems, but you're presenting a narrative where bureaucracies are "collapsing", when the reality is that things have actually been improving in general, and quite a great deal.
I remember fondly this paragraph from the famous google platform memo:

> Jeff Bezos is an infamous micro-manager. He micro-manages every single pixel of Amazon's retail site. He hired Larry Tesler, Apple's Chief Scientist and probably the very most famous and respected human-computer interaction expert in the entire world, and then ignored every goddamn thing Larry said for three years until Larry finally -- wisely -- left the company. Larry would do these big usability studies and demonstrate beyond any shred of doubt that nobody can understand that frigging website, but Bezos just couldn't let go of those pixels, all those millions of semantics-packed pixels on the landing page. They were like millions of his own precious children. So they're all still there, and Larry is not.
I eventually was able to get well priced insurance same day through “toggle” which is a Farmers subsidiary, even though Farmers is no longer offering online applications and has 14 days waiting. AAA also was available but like you quoted me 3x the price.
Please explain why deflation is worse.
The problem when someone is killed by a car and their family gets $0 of the $100,000 per person payout is not the lack of auto insurance. It's a crooked hospital who decided to cheat everyone involved.
A brief history of the U.S. trying to add backdoors into encrypted data (2016)
Medical care is too expensive, and risk of getting in an accident is too high
If anything, it should be the opposite: The people who don't know history--such as the difference between an absolute monarchy or a tyrannical theocracy or a modern fascist state--are more likely to blithely want something terrible in the near future.
> Why do you say that?

Your post gave me the impression the compiler generates initializers for static globals and calls them during program initialization. Is this not correct?

> A freestanding environment will still enter through _start and execute the compiler generated code to initialize globals before main.

Freestanding C generally implies not linking in any standard library code though. It doesn't make any sense to choose the freestanding C dialect only to link in the standard hosted C library.

The _start symbol is provided by the C library's so called standard system startup files. The standard _start calls all the initialization functions that the C program expects. If you override it with your own _start, then none of these functions will be called. I thought you meant the static data initialization was handled in one of these functions.
Language Server support isn't nearly as good as building a native plugin for the IDE.
No EVs are to reduce CO2 emissions. Not particle emissions. Particles are tires (and to some extent diesels).
The first shipment was around that.

Every battlefield company in Ukraine has at least two.
Using TamperMonkey (or similar) to write user scripts is probably the simplest thing that might work (because HN is unlikely to implement that kind of functionality server side).

Good luck.
Is there a precedent that suggests there must be a reasonable expectation that if you are contacting someone over the internet or phone and giving them money, that person has some duty to ensure their internet/TV/professional/social media etc. persona is the person on the other end of the line? I'm sure many have experienced calling phone support for a product you subscribe for, the associate is "Brian from Wisconsin" but clearly someone in another country. Bit different case as you were not calling "Brian" specifically, but still someone that you are ostensibly paying pretending to be someone else. There were also countless fortune telling/psychic phone lines were clearly Miss Cleo et al. were not fielding the calls, these businesses ran into other legal troubles but was having people essentially play their character on the other end of the line one of them? I assume on Onlyfans creators can assumed to be "characters" to some degree, don't most go by pseudonyms to begin with?
Few lightyears is something like a hundred stars. Probably zero chance to nurture more than one unprobable life.
We had a homegrown store lib that was very similar to pinia, so migration was basically minor renaming.

Like others have mentioned, the biggest fear was other libs we used. We are quite conservative with that though, so want a big deal.
Standard OTC doses of ibuprophen combined with acetaminophen (aka paracetamol) is an effective treatment for all but the most severe chronic pain.
I agree that there's a huge documentation and user awareness gap, but NixOS is obviously possible to configure this way so it's definitely possible.

Might be room for a tool that exposes just the configuration management side of Nix in a more approachable way... on the other hand it would be a bit silly to use nix for conf files and not also for the underlying packages.
As unexpected this was to read for me as well, it's actually good to keep in mind.

Because someone saying "but I'm not fascist" in a political debate may well be technically right, and still be authoritarian.
I see quite a few searing LED headlights that don't blind me because they're angled low enough, I think the biggest problem (so to speak) is when they're on towering pickups and SUVs. I suspect there's no good way to angle the beams on those to allow their drivers to see the road without also frying the retinas of normal-sized vehicles, cyclists, and pedestrians. There also seem to be quite a few iffy aftermarket LEDs, which apparently don't always allow for much fine-tuning when they replace halogens.
wait what? London streets are streams of cars moving very. very. slowly. it's definitely discouraging to have and use a car there but its not like there isn't a ton of traffic.
Sure it does: college admissions and air traffic controller hiring are two recent examples.

https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-faas-hiring-scandal-...
Wine is watered to a standard strength. Also grapes can absorb many chemicals from what they are watered with. Thats the point of regional wine differences.
Objectively false
Hi Lars,

I really enjoyed this and look forward to seeing what comes next.

And well done working-in an accessory dwelling unit!
It begunstiget because you now have countries on both sides of the economic scale pushing to ban them. Norway being on the other side of the spectrum.

EVs could be hugely beneficial to developing countries as it’s a path to energy independence, and with cheap LiFePo batteries there’s a path to make EVs much cheaper than ICE could ever be.

So EVs start to eat at the ICE market from both sides of the spectrum. It’s like cell phones vs land lines all over again. Many poor countries never even built land lines and leapfrogged straight to cell phones even though that was the more expensive technology to start with.
If you're insisting on 3rd party software, there's plenty of that for Windows, too. And yes, it do be working just the same.
SpaceX messed up their application
The metaphor isn't quite right, because in a lot of cases for #2, the docs still are searching for an underlying reason, but there has to be some treatment in the meantime while research is ongoing. It's like dismissing the same alert that is repeatedly popping up. You know about it and are hunting for the reason, but you can't work if it keeps appearing over and over again.
Let’s hope they also promise this is non-addictive for years and have little accountability besides a financial slap on the wrist /s
Currently using Cue in a major project. It can be a puzzle. But, we like it a lot. Wish it had a bigger community.
There are always niche alternatives to anything, here and there. But unless we're talking about a new technology or some other fundamental change in circumstances, they are alternatives rather than the primary choice for a reason.

Cork has a little overlap with a few plastic use-cases, but only slightly. It requires far more effort to produce than a plastic equivalent, and is simply not suited to most use cases.

I do look forward to some cork alternatives to plastic where it makes sense. But I hardly expect it to make any meaningful difference to overall plastic use.
Everywhere, apparently, other than the US. You should fix your banking system.
Richard is most concerned about injustices toward people that take
away their freedoms. I am most concerned about the security of people
and how software makes them insecure in order to profit from, or abuse
them. These are proximate but different.

It is a bit worrying that both freedom and security are thought
'fanatical' by some.
Doesn't 8 bit of just mean the size of the possible address space.

When you encode something more complex then ascii you use 1-4 consecutive bytes, the encoding in the byte tells you if you need to look at the next.
Yeah: when I see "mail-in rebate" I just think "low-key scam". It also now tells me the "real price" of the product is cheaper, and so I feel screwed if I don't intend to put in the effort to deal with the scam, which is a rather different mechanism from coupons.
To be pedantic: the cell phone is required to have this capability - the network just doesn't have to accept it.
Rockets are not the only way off a planet. If humans had spent space program amounts of resources on railguns or another method of locomotion there's real possibility it would have been successful too.

Rockets are most convenient for Earth's variables so engineers optimized for them.
Launch customer yes. Investor no. That's Google and Fidelity Paying above the regular rate. Definitely
That’s false. PG&E is the largest provider in the state and their outages are caused by poor quality controls, lack of line and pole maintenance, vegetation overgrowth, poor resilience to weather conditions, and carelessness, primarily. This -results- in fires at times, and they are in constant litigation. They have a dysfunctional-by-design relation with the cpuc.
I'll try to be as nice as possible:

Are internal combustion cars one of the main cause of Ethiopia's problems?

Let's pretend all-electric cars are the solution and nothing else for a moment, these transitions require an immense allocation of resources, so either they are swimming in money or ICE is their main problem... or their politicians are out of their fucking minds.

As in 20 years ago with the whole "cloud computing" thing, the "EVs are green and we must ban ICE now" is a very strong marketing campaign and cannot be reversed because above all people don't like to be wrong and someone saying "EVs will solve nothing other than your superficial perception of being environmentally friendly is" might as well tell them to f themselves.

Remember kids: only a fraction of the World's population can afford to play these urban upper middle class games.
No, while the Mendenhall order 1893 defined all US customary units off of the Metric system, in SI "Derived units" are defined as products of powers of the base units.

If you look at section 2.3.4 in the link below you will notice that there are no scalars in those derived units.

They will all have the form:

x^n * y^m * z^o

Also note how they define a 'degree Celsius' which is equivalent to a degree K, but then invoke a T_0 to include it to avoid breaking the above rule.

https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/41483022/SI-Brochure-9-...
Basically, see other comments. We simply followed the migration guide. Very painless. We use few external libs, så that helped a lot. You can find me on LinkedIn with the same username as here for DM.
That right there is the main problem with python dependency management - too many damn ways to do the same thing.

And to think "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." is in the Zen of Python...
Not really, we've always had a mix of great software, terrible software and everything in between. Take the gaming world for example. There are definitely a lot of buggy messes being released on Steam and modern consoles (like many titles in early access), but there were also about as many car crash level disasters being released for the NES or Atari too.

There's not much of a quality difference between say, The Day Before and King Kong the Rise of Kong vs Big Rigs and Superman 64. They're all poorly made trainwrecks that fail miserably at doing what they set out to do.

And the same goes with most software. CMS systems and things for web sites? There are about as many great and terrible examples now as there were during the 80s. Same with desktop software, mobile apps, web browsers, etc.

The thought that things are getting worse likely comes from the nostalgia filter, and how terrible products/art/whatever tend to get forgotten by history. Over time, the only works that stand out are those that are either amazing (and seen as classics to this day) and complete disasters that gain a certain amount of infamy. So you'll see the standouts compared to the flood of mediocrity around at the moment, and think the olden days were better. There was probably about as much mediocre crap released then as there was now, it just kinda got forgotten like most mediocre things are.
You are basically loosing on ~15 years of evolution in the way GUI are programmed.
The "reactive programming" pattern that QML introduced with its property binding is really powerful and is what every new UI framework do nowadays. QtWidgets library only got the minimum of updates to be still relevant.
Sadly, the story of QML on desktop is not really optimal.
That data doesn't seem comparable. See https://www.ncemch.org/suid-sids/statistics/ for a direct comparison. The U.S., overall, has some of the worst statistics for infant health across developed nations.

Is cosleeping more dangerous than a crib? Yes. The question is by how much given precautions, bed arrangement, health and age of the baby, and several other factors. Of course that's up to the parents to decide, and it's usually an evolving situation.
Plenty of average models use OF agencies.
They're quite prevalent! Maybe your circle is more random people hacking it on their own and doing it as a side gig but they move little money and little followers.

It's a simple model for agencies:

1. Get broke girls to produce photos and videos

2. Post some content to free account

3. Post some more content to paid account

4. Post some teasers on reddit nsfw subreddits

5. Get 3rd worlders as chatters to upsell some of the content

6. Ask girls for the occasional custom request
Well yeah, Venus is in our solar system.

Thanks, though - I wasn’t sure if we always use a local reference but then au is as local a unit as possible at these scales.
APC has gone downhill in the time I've been a sysadmin. Eaton is the way to go for commercial units. Don't purchase anything without a bypass or else the UPS will be dead when the battery dies, as decent UPSs operate in on-line mode.

I am concerned about newish implementation of li-ion cells in commercial UPSs. They are not designed to stay at capacity for a long time. That coupled with the volatility of li-ion, means there may be more datacenter fires in the future.
> I just think that at some point we will find out anyway and why not quicker then?

Because you and the corporations you support are making the lives of people worse now, and you are trading their wellbeing for your very minimal, personal comfort, and rationalizing it away with Pascal Wager-style of technocracy where "tech" could save you from dying.
It seemed deliberate to me because it happened more than once. But he apologized, and as far as I'm concerned, that's that.
> Sime further explained that efforts to establish charging stations for electric cars remain a high priority

Oh, wait. It's a "high priority." That should take care of it /s
I love a good necroscopy (incidentally, R.I.P. Brian Lumley) on communities as they wither and die. I've been watching since Usenet and IRC. There's a rhythm to this kind of thing, a kind of hype cycle for communities, but overall, I have one ur-metric which outshines them all: look for the hubris.

Communities, once they reach a certain size and collective history, gain a kind of self-reflectiveness. They get meta. And right around then, you will find someone at the helm who will not remember the earliest days and fail to grasp what brought everyone together. They've forgotten the face of their father and left the riddle of steel on the battlefield. What they'll decide is, well, it's me. I, or rather what I represent, make it great. The moderation team, the steering committee, the management. This is never true in any community I have seen. It's always the individuals, maybe some interesting weirdos, or the ones with a lot of time on their hands, the lonesome lusers. They will ultimately be regarded with disregard, viewed as churnable units, cogs of cognition, replaceable. This is always wrong, and it is always a lesson learned in slow motion, after the egomaniacs have fled toward their next call to greatness.
This feels like an over-simplification.

For bucket #1, you still may be covering up new problems. Just because you have reason A for pain doesn't mean reason B won't crop up later. You need to watch for changes and get them checked out, hoping you aren't covering up anything new. For bucket #2, those in that bucket still need to find a way to make their life better. Opioids are not ideal. But living in pain isn't ideal either. I think most people try to find non-opioid medications or coping mechanisms, but at the end of the day you gotta find a way to live your life.
Haha you've never been to San Francisco. The tap water there is this nasty opaque sludge. It comes out of the faucet looking like bathwater after the bath has been used. Knowing the way things go there, they probably turned their water treatment facilities into Roman style bathhouses that could serve as shelters for the homeless.
> The FCC has spent tons of money on rural and underserved broadband. Search and ye shall find.

I did a search for "fcc rural broadband funding" and all that showed up was a bunch of programs from the post-pandemic era, and those have specific targets attached. Moreover, the programs in question are only a few years old so it seems a bit premature to conclude that the ISPs are not building out broadband. Finally this meme predates the pandemic by years, so I'm still at a loss as to whether the claim of "FCC gave a bunch of money to ISPs and they didn't do anything with it" is actually true or not.
But maybe it is a big deal? You shifted from your previous statement.
It's not the pollution, it's that they have enough sun for solar, enough energy from a 5mw dam, but what they don't have is oil. So it does make sense for them to go electric
Fair enough! Your levelheaded response gives me hope.
"Summer of '69" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFjjO_lhf9c

o/~ played it till my fingers bled o/~

"Summer of '85"

o/~ hacked it till my hand flesh grilled o/~
"The researchers point to several factors as driving the expected increases in cancer rates, such as obesity, tobacco use and alcohol use, as well as environmental factors like air pollution."

It's interesting to see alcohol use lumped in as cancer causing as tobacco use and air pollution. I wonder what kind of cancer risks it introduced?
You put the headset on. You wake up in The Veldt.
I don't know, I was little when Thatcher was around and not British, but I do remember her being criticized for stuff like "Margaret Thatcher had a deal with Rupert Murdoch to get elected in exchange for granting him more media control".

The Bush administration was deeply criticized for the Iraq war which was considered just a big money grab for friends and family.

Or consider JFK, which is now rated as one of the best US presidents and his actual legacy.

I am Italian, and people are now saying "you know Berlusconi was bad, but at least he had some business knowledge and charisma, compared to the idiots today".

Just give it ten years and people will say that Boris Johnson was pretty honest compared to these guys..

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/201...

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/06/jfk-accomplished-lit...
This is great and it would be nice to see it done sustainably (and hopefully supporting small businesses to do it).

But there are risks: https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PDIS-03-16-0408-F...

Another interesting option in this realm is mycelium, which could be better scaled on an industrial level.
The problem is that there are so many layers between someone's code and the bare metal that optimization often gets completely lost.

The mentality is that computing is cheap and developer time is expensive. Write an inefficient function that wastes several thousand compute cycles but saves an hour of developer time is given priority in most cases.

This mentality works great when the function is only run a few million times (or much less) over its lifetime. But when it gets added to some popular library; distributed across millions of machines; and used thousands of times each hour on each machine; those wasted cycles can really add up.

What percentage of worldwide compute (with its associated wasted electricity and heat) can be attributed to inefficient code? Spending a few hours optimizing some popular code might actually do more to help the environment that driving an EV for an entire year.
Casey is right about the seamlessness of the experience. If you loved iPad kids you’re going to love Vision kids! When these cost $100 dollars and are as easy to wear as glasses or contact lenses, what will the purpose of the smartphone, laptop or desktop computer be?
Good, avert your eyes. We must only behold beautiful things.
I don’t own either, but modern midsize SUVs and Minivans (for instance, a Honda Pilot and Odyssey) are essentially the same thing with different styling. I don’t get why folks think minivans are significantly better from an environmental, safety or utility point of view.
oh dang, dive is really a nice tool, per layer diff and/or accumulated changes .. really nice
While true, when you live with the kind of pain they're talking about sometime you just need the pain to go away because you can't live your life otherwise. Doesn't mean you ignore the cause but the pain itself is destroying your life.
Finally got around to getting a Benno boost last month... Dropping the kid off at school has never been more fun!

Love the cargo bike