skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the "having exhausted their resources already" which is the problem.

Suppose the IRS can audit a thousand small businesses and they recover more from this than their own costs. But at the same time most of the small businesses are innocent, and the audits collectively cost them several times as much as the IRS "profits". This is not a socially beneficial undertaking because the net costs across society exceed the net benefits, even if it has higher margins to the IRS than auditing large companies.

If you specifically want the IRS to target large companies then you can have them do that regardless of whether the margin of that to the IRS is less lucrative than the behavior that imposes more uncompensated costs on smaller businesses.
When they removed XUL, Mozilla promised to provide relevant APIs to support at least some top extensions.

Obviously that never happens, And TabMixPlus (the top1 extension) died immediately.
People who use it at home will buy the corporate plans in work.
That's true. But it's not about democracy, rather it's about the laws written down under a democracy. Two different things. You can have a democracy, but wrong laws. It's up to the legislative to find the proper laws. If it doesn't do it, the majority will choose another legislation members in elections and (may be) they will do it then..

If there's a bad treatment by the police, then it's a sign for bad police and weak laws.

please, do not mix up democracy vs rights vs laws. Because the people of color also have same constitution rights - after majorities will forced this through election of legislative members, who introduced the change with laws, somewhen 50y ago. But the mindset of a few people hinders the change now (like the racists in the police..) and the laws are to weak to hinder them on doing so: the punishment is not scary enough.
If we're being literal, America can't be a third-word country because it's the very definition of a first-world country per Cold War allegiances.
If they don't want to be poor why are the poor though?

No it isn't "opportunity", there has never been as much opportunity in the world to move up the social hierarchy as it exists now.
Viral persistence is one theory that may explain a subset of long covid and other postviral cases (mecfs example [1]). There's lots of theories including itaconate shunt [2] and metabolic trap [3], glutamate toxicity [4], cranio-cervical instability and infections causing breakdown of tendons [5], gut biome imbalances [6][7], endothelial damage, and others. I'm not sure what the most promising ones are but the search for biomarkers continues.

What we call long covid or mecfs or chronic lyme or fibromyalgia etc etc are all umbrella terms for symptom clusters so they lack some specificity and are likely multi-causal. There are many overlaps in LC and mecfs patient populations in studies (vs controls), so its likely a fair-to-significant amount of LC is actually what we call mecfs.

Much of the mystery and suffering of long covid would have been avoided if we'd invested anything in investigating these conditions pre-covid (mecfs has the least funding to disease burden and the worst quality of life of all major diseases), but the medical community generally didn't want to believe these diseases were real. Same thing happened with autoimmune conditions like lupus and MS before their mechanisms were discovered. All of these conditions predominately affect women.

[1] https://me-pedia.org/wiki/Persistent_infection_hypothesis

[2] https://me-pedia.org/wiki/Itaconate_shunt_hypothesis

[3] https://me-pedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_trap

[4] https://me-pedia.org/wiki/Glutamate

[5] https://me-pedia.org/wiki/Craniocervical_instability

[6] https://me-pedia.org/wiki/Microbiome

[7] https://www.remissionbiome.org/
And if you're too lazy to do any of that, there are about a million complete meals you could decide on which are both easier and cheaper than making a burger, let alone buying fast food.
Yes, at the end of the 1400s Spain and Portugal were regarded as the "periphery" of Western Europe, they had just gotten "in" more or less as a result of La Reconquista and of the Aragon kings having started doing their thing in the Southern part of Italian peninsula in the 1400s (especially Napoli) but nothing more than that.

And I was referring to the 14th century not in connection to 1492 (because, as a fact, I do know that 1492 was in the 15th century, even though I do like the Italians calling it "il Quattrocento", but I digress), but to the Spanish 14th century being outside the civilization of Western Europe, which it was, because in the 14th century most of Spain was still civilizational Arab in the parts that counted. During that time Granada was the 3rd largest city in geographical Europe, while Cordoba was 9th largest (going by wikipedia [1]), and yet you don't see that many mentions of them when it comes to the history of the European Middle Ages. Which is to say that back in the Spanish 1300s, when the Jewish presence was still of importance in Spain, the then territory of Spain was not civilizational European.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_European_citie....)
Their response in the past about their free tiers has been that it's low cost to offer and it results in larger sales (devs use it themselves, like it and bring it to places they work).
Maybe it’s different in Switzerland, but when I took our baby to baby swimming, it did not involve just suddenly throwing the child into the water.
YouTube to start blocking third-party apps that don't show ads
> ground invasion that has used only conventional weapons thus far?

And chemical.
And has violated most other rules of warfare (as does every other war). Rape, genocide and murder of civilians is a bit too common in this conflict.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/06/russia-accused...
The bar to merge a patch that would break on-disk format is so high that it’s really impossible to reach it ;)

More seriously, we care a lot about the format of the 8k pages to ease upgrade paths as much as possible.
They have a blogpost about it: https://tailscale.com/blog/free-plan

> TL;DR: Tailscale’s free plan is free because we keep our scaling costs low relative to typical SaaS companies. We care about privacy, so unlike some other freemium models, you and your data are not the product. Rather, increased word-of-mouth from free plans sells the more valuable corporate plans. I know, it sounds too good to be true. Let’s see some details.
Actually the problem could be that zinc deficiency causes paranoia, or alternatively perhaps causes conspiracies.

However one paper said:

This study does not provide a clear answer as to whether the observed differences represent a causal relationship between zinc deficiency and psychiatric symptoms

Which could imply that psychiatric symptoms cause zinc deficiency.

And clearly a conspiracy already exists to feed zinc supplements to paranoid people: that's why we should support the zinc supplement psychoindustrial complex.

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IMHO unfortunately (but I'm no EV owner) not. But enough to suddenly cost you at least a thousand euros/year extra.
> ah yes, just call regulatory agencies "fascist", that makes total sense

People were fired for not taking a novel pharmaceutical product, warp-speeded by Donald Trump and sold as a cure-all. They lost their livelihood over exercising a fundamental human right.

In places like Canada they could not use public transport or leave the country. In some countries they could not enter supermarkets. Austria decided to fine them steeply and monthly. In the US 60% of one political side agreed with throwing them into camps and discussed it openly.

Across all media and in society they were labeled and treated as pariahs.

Meanwhile they observed obvious carnage in their friends and family and could only watch.

What did you do at the end of 2021 while all of this happened?
Collection of notebooks showcasing some fun and effective ways of using Claude
Do you not see the difference between a suitcase bomb on an airliner and an accidental shootdown?
Could you give more explanations about how you’ve been using ChatGPT to get better?
I don't disagree, but I doubt anyone's going to use this website called the 'wall of shame' to get pricing info rather than look at the pricing page.
In the fine art world, definitely I agree. That’s when Gagosian etc. really started taking off and making the fine art market a thing for billionaires.
For me it was my swimming instructor in school that just pushed me into the water when I was afraid to jump in. I can swim, but I never got any of the swimming badges and I'm to this day (30+ years later) very uncomfortable with my head under water or even water in my face.
Can you make nested menu hover-to-expand-able again in Firefox (instead of having to click)? This is the change I hate most and I still can't get used to it (due to the fact no other software on my computer does this).
What do you do once everything is nuked? You just come out and hold your breath?
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Bay Are is better for money, progression, network, capital, and all things related to big tech and startups.

It also gets boring. Everything is now way more expensive. Disposable income gets consumed way faster now than before. There's not much diversity compared to other metropolitan areas that American expats have moved to.

Make filthy money there first, then live the life you want elsewhere.
> How many frames a second does this webcam do? What's the quality like? Shit.

A product isn't bad just because it's old and has obsolete specs.
That webcam review is 14 years old and has to be interpreted in the context from that time, just like the Humane Pin will inevitably be compared to current smartphones and obviously looks inferior in almost every way.
Also there is to consider if those savings will vaporize at some point when government starts to search for more revenues. With ICE they are likely to stay static or go some up. With EV taxation and usage fees anything can happen...
I want to be a bit contrarian here. I buy books on my Kindle all the time. I always download a sample before buying. I do recall a couple of occasions where I got a sample that was one of the garbage books that this article is talking about. So yes, I've experienced it. But I don't experience it often. Nearly all the time, a search for an author or a topic brings up real, relevant books. Nearly all the time, Amazon's recommendations are for real, relevant books. So based on my own experience, I'd question how big the problem really is for the end consumer of books.
Bruh I am this exact same person. I am mediocre enough at everything I do to impress laymen but leave me feeling like shit because I know anyone who knows the craft will think I suck. I have the ability to learn up to intermediate stage of pretty much anything way faster than most people but I just stress myself out and there's always other fish in the sea for me.
> Culturally we may want to imagine intelligence as something constant and innate to somebody’s soul, but in reality it’s innate to a fragile and fickle organ inside your skull.

Which is also my issue with IQ tests and the relationship of the tests and what they measure. But that changes nothing: IQ tests are not supposed to measure _that_ variability of when you get sick. Or you wake up. Or you are drunk. It makes no sense to use a psychometric test completely out of the context of which it was validated and meant to be used, because then the results are not interpretable. People with that kind of post-covid syndrom have an illness and experience cognitive deficits because of that, but using IQ to measure intelligence in that case when what you actually (want to) measure is brain fog is absurd. That should require a brain fog screening, not an IQ test.
They get paid to work on a product. What the employer do with the product is non of their business. They can always quit if they don't like something.
I am working from home and the first thing I want to do when I stop working is going outside. I also, and as do many of my coworker, go for a walk at least once a day.

WFH doesn't mean you are chained to your desk from 8am to 5pm
The tests themselves are misleading.

If I do one sober, I have an IQ of 110, if I do it with my ADHD meds, it goes up to 120.

Is that because the meds make me smarter? No, it's because I don't lose attention after 10 minutes of test and can concentrate until the end. However, the numbers imply otherwise.
You see negligence of that magnitude as just an accident? And if so, accidents of that magnitude are ok but suitcase bombings aren’t?
Ohh this is an interesting case. You could abuse the hell out of Etags, Urls and DIFFS to get a much better long haul response.

https://csvbase.com/user-name/table-name/ would return you an etag. The etag needs to be a hash of the file (sha256).

https://csvbase.com/user-name/table-name/etag could return a 204 for an unchanged document. If the two dont match then return a diff + new etag. Apply the diff as a patch, and check the etag.

Yes you still have the latency, on 204's but the moment there is a change you might be getting a 200 from cache, and only a diff at that. Smaller payload and potentialy faster response.

On the server side the only thing that you're adding in is the diff of the last change....

If the data is faster moving then "cache" should let you catch up. If the caches are stale then the first response will give you a patch and new etag that wont have the correct hash value and you know to grab a fresh copy as you have no path forward.
Why is it so that every so often one of these feel-good LinkedIn-style posts make it to the front page? Is there so much demand for banality on this site? I come here to read good tech articles or articles that stimulate my curiosity and it is sad to see these articles upvoted to the top when so many other good articles at https://news.ycombinator.com/newest continue to languish.
Yeah. I've been a lone programmer for a long time. It's very difficult to maintain focus and motivation. Sometimes it feels like it doesn't matter and that there's just no point to it all.

Yet people somehow find my work and tell me what they think of it. One day I came to HN and saw my project on the front page. At first I thought someone else had had the same idea as me. Then I started getting emails about it, about my website. Every time it happens it's incredibly motivating. It feels like I finally reached out to someone.

Making things just for yourself and your own enjoyment can be a very lonely activity and you might find yourself with some kind of audience anyway even without trying. That experience can change everything.
Nvidia T400 – Nvidia T400 4GB [pdf]
Does that mean they’ll work with any wireless USB adapter? I have a 360 controller but haven’t been able to source a USB dongle to use it with my computer.
That is deeply incorrect.

EDF as hugely profitable and brought back billions to its main stock holder (the French state) for multiple decades.

The recent debt crisis has mainly two causes:

- The state has used EDF to shield consumers against the 2022-2023 energy price increases. EDF has taken the losses directly for the state.

- The results of terrible energy policies the last decades (attempt to reduce nuclear at 50% and mainly the infamous ARENH).

What happened is pretty typical of when you have a state is directly managing a private actor: Incompetent politicians swiping their foots on the company to satisfy their own demagogy.
Nvidia T1000 Full-Size Features. Compact Design [pdf]
When I was about 8 I was walking on pond ice, fell in, swam out, walked home.
That's a million per year, not the usual definition of "net worth over a million" which is a rather lower bar considering plenty of quite normally-salaried or even retired people are sitting on a million in property value.
Can someone be racially biased and not racist?
Yes, I mean it's been shown how people with a loss of hearing have an increased risk of dementia and it's natural that this would apply here as well. It's just another form of lost stimuli. But there might also be medical reasons behind this and this serves to show how complex this is to research.
That is offtopic no? people driving/walking/cycling to work face the same climate and hours with sunlight.

One of the nice things that usually comes from WFH is a bit more flexibility in work time schedule. I usually go for a walk at least once during the day, usually to get groceries, and every other week I have to pickup my smallest daughter in primary school. And when the weather is nice and the days short in winter I would often do a 2 to 3h pause during the day to go for a cycling ride.
Companies tend to be amoral, but nothing precludes from codifying a set of morals in their documents.
It's a community project, you can just update it :-)
No, it's more coercive. If I own a bagpack, that means people can't break into my house and beat me up to get my bagpack. If I own a song, that means I can stop anyone else in the world from publicly singing the song at my leisure. One is much more coercive than the other.
What feature should pay salaries, if any?
It may sound crazy, but I have never felt nausea with a computer. The only issue I had with VR was my hair trying to cover my eyes, in the middle of a race, and that was it.

However, once I rented a plane to go over the Nazca lines, and it was in a tiny plane, that was capable of changing direction very easily.

That day I felt nausea. By this, I mean you can't ignore it, it is a strong sensation. So much, that the guides will advise to do the flight on an empty stomach. And it was overpowering, one girl in the plane did not watch anything because she was focused on a paper bag close to her mouth.

Not even fast turning karts or anything else has been able to reproduce that feeling.
Equating judaism with the state of Israel is quite antisemitic.

Being of the opinion that the state of Israel is illegitimate or should stop colonialising its neighbours isn't necessarily an antisemitic position, though some antisemites might surely agree. Many others will however stick to the mainstream zionist opinion that jews should be relocated from their home countries to an israeli territory in the Middle East.
Telegram Founder Pavel Durov's Interview
That article needs to be interpreted with caution.

Firstly, as they say themselves, their data is misleading because it's comparing with Feb 2020 which was the start of the COVID crisis. Of course news outlets are going to have less traffic in Feb 2024 vs Feb 2020. And although they start by saying there's a bloodbath specifically in right-wing publications, later they admit their dataset yields huge drops also for left-wing publications as well e.g. Slate and The Washington Post are both down ~40%.

Secondly, when they do a quick reality check by asking the owners of one of the sites whether the number for his site is true (a 90% drop!), he tells them it's "laughably inaccurate", feedback they then just ignore rather than trying to work out why there's disagreement.

And although the authors assert that the drop is worse on the right, they don't really show that with data.

They also point out that (assuming they effect they're talking about really does exist) it's probably driven by Facebook and Google manipulating their news feeds to suppress conservative news, not an actual drop in organic demand.

So I think the article can't lead to many conclusions about market strategy other than don't trust Facebook or Google, which everyone on the right knew already.
> whether these deaths were concentrated in the vaccinated or the unvaccinated

Sweden let Covid go through their population in 2020. New Zealand allowed Covid to spread only in 2022. Both countries vaccinated their population during 2021. Sweden had a wave of excess deaths in 2020. In New Zealand, excess mortality started to increase in 2022. Excess deaths are correlated with the times of Covid waves, not with vaccinations.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-excess-mortali...
> I can't imagine him doing a video like this for Pinephone

Especially because they set realistic expectations - last time I saw their Pinebook product page it basically said "if you expect no dead pixels and a perfectly smooth experience please don't order this". They make it clear what their target audience is and aren't even trying to do the shiny Apple-style marketing seen from Humane.

This AI pin's marketing set high expectations and the review should take that into account.
And some people might be faking it.
> and "child drowning videos" is a very risky google.

A bit less risky than throwing your own kid into water (and publicly telling the story), no?
But that's how languages evolved and will keep evolving. Whatever you take now as rules and whatever you write now thinking to be correct, was probably a mistake, shortcut or misunderstanding ages ago.
I don't know at all. Happy to look at peer-reviewed studies that publish their data, though.
> and should probably be replaced with independent oversight

I don't think they said this at all.
That would be an extreme case.

At the risk of stating the obvious, the reasoning for that sort of self-destructive lifestyle doesn't make sense on 2 fronts. First, living an extremely unhealthy lifestyle will of course shorten your life, exacerbating the tragedy that life is short / YOLO.
Second, it will significantly degrade your quality of life during that time.
One factor you aren't mentioning: EVs are a better experience overall. I love the way my EV drives (Model Y) and, there's no engine noise, and finally (this is a much smaller point) I can sit in the car and run the heat or A/C w/o an idling ICE powering that.
Working from home doesn't mean you are forced or even have any incentive to stay at home all day long.
A customer had the worst performance issues after switching to postgres. Weirdly it only happened in the docker and test server setup and not on the developers machine (he ran postgres via homebrew).

Turns out homebrew installed postgres without JIT support and one query on the developer machine ran in 200ms, while with JIT the query took 4-5 seconds. Took some time to figure out, since I'm not a heavy postgres user, but since then I've always disabled JIT and never looked back.
Ask HN: What software sparks joy when using?
I've spent my last few hours working with Jira-Align. I am beginning to hate computers at this point. To up lift my mood I'd like to use something which sparks joy. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Interesting to see that these kind of posts don't to gather any attention at all. Seems like we're too busy with AI, crypto and longevity.