skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But unskilled union labor dictates that it has to be them or those whom they approve of "around to do the actual work" ("actual" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here) or else the business that they don't own can't be a business at all.

It can't be anyone else, even when it could easily be.

Businesses that employ unskilled labor aren't the equal partnership that you want to make them out to be.

See the fact that the trend is toward international outsourcing. Unionization will increase that trend, even if the cashier that the public sees is now making $20/hr (now at half-time hours and much of her family has now had to move out of the area to find work, due to a downward trend in job availability: aggravating the gentrification or the depopulation trend, depending on the area).

I think that Unions are economically and socially useful, but not in the case of what is essentially unskilled labor.

As beyond the rational nonsense of such a proposition, the existence of non-unionized unskilled labor plays an important economic and social role. For one, these jobs maximize job availability to a lower class that is growing for reasons other than job availability and average salary trends. The alternative being unemployment.

And unskilled unions should especially be discouraged when other wage control issues are both not addressed and frankly aggravated by the generally pro union side.

In summary, unskilled labor wages should be buoyed by measures other than unions: reasonable minimum wage law, labor supply control at the population level, etc. As unskilled Unions otherwise distort the economy and social sphere too much. Last, one can't rationally justify the existence of such Unions on profit margin. If they are justified for one, then they are justified for all. And vice versa.
Unjust content moderation at the request of Israel’s cyber unit
I imagine picking people from one particular religion or culture is bound to introduce statistical skews.

Mormons do seem to skew toward abstinence from a lot of unhealthy habits, but the stereotype is that they drink a lot of soda, right? That’s bound to do something.

Plus if a group has a strong stigma against alcohol you’ll probably get some members with an unusually high incentive to miss-report whether or not they drink.
This NS piece is complete misinformation. This below is by a writer who has been writing about this sort of thing for years.

"Tim Stockwell has been up to his old tricks. In a study that was widely publicised this week despite being published in January, he claims - yet again - that moderate drinking does not confer health benefits. The study is largely a rehash of his meta-analysis from last year (which I wrote about here) so there isn’t much more to say except to note the extraordinary amount of cherry-picking that is required to come to such a conclusion.

He and his team started with 3,248 relevant studies of which 3,125 were immediately discarded. This left 123 cohort studies to which they added 87 relatively recent cohort studies. They then discarded 103 of these because they didn’t meet Stockwell’s increasingly stringent and somewhat arbitrary criteria. This left 107 studies, but there was still work to do.

In the new study, he introduces yet another filter for “quality” and reduces the number of studies down from 21 to 18 and then 15, but these still show lower risk for moderate drinkers, so he introduces some more criteria until a vast literature built up over 50 years is whittled down to just six studies. This gets rid of the apparent benefits of moderate drinking. He then removes one more study and, voila!, moderate drinkers are now at greater risk than teetotallers."

https://snowdon.substack.com/p/cherry-picking-the-evidence-o...
I don’t actually think urbanism is antithetical to convenience, it’s just another form of achieving convenience by having more amenities close by (“15 minute cities”). I personally live in NYC despite being fully remote, because of how accessible literally everything is, it’s instant gratification paradise.
> According to scientists, 4 million tons of CO2 is roughly equivalent to the total annual emissions of 140 commercial planes.

Stopping fossil fuel use remains far and above the most important thing we need to do.
I have cherished memories of boozing out with friends but I would not link this to ”mental health” benefits given the documented onset mental health issues including depression and alcoholism is directly linked to alcohol consumption.

Drinking occasionally can be ’fun’ and it can have social benefits but in large scale studies of populations increase in alcohol usage don’t show ”mental health benefits”.

I would state ’studies have not found quantifiable benefits of alchol use’ and that can still coexist with claims that the benefits of alcohol to yourself are not quantifiable - which is sort of fair, many aspects of human life are beyond reach of clear metrics.

The adverse effects, however, are quite quantitifiable by healthcare statistics. While outcomes vary in different populations, the outcomes are never positive (per current resarch).

”I find a few drinks per week with friends enjoyable” is not a claim that would be in contest with the above. It’s just not a population argument.

Some people like it, some can sustain a lifetime of boozing, but there is a non-trivial amount of people who develop depression or alcoholism - and this is not a flaw of character or culture but simply a fact of interaction of alcohol with human biology and neurology.
That’s right. Studies will say that they “control for age and income” but even doing just that is probably not possible, unless

a) you break a number of laws and ethical rules

and b) you have a population of hundreds of billions of humans to study. Humans are very different from one another in important but subtle ways.
both my cousins have a similar condition, one of my cousins cannot live without these drugs/transfusions. his prior insurer cut him off once he hit 1m lifetime care, he had a rough childhood
Yep. Probably people who are on drugs that cost very little to make but are being sold for enormous amounts of money.

The medical industry seems to operate a lot like gambling where outsize profits are available from a small percentage of "whales". These whales have the combination of some condition, the treatment of which can be made very expensive, combined with access to the financial resources to pay for the treatment.
Yes. Thankfully we're not all seriously ill. And when someone does have that misfortune, we should spread the cost around, so that whomever needs care can get it.
True - but then the simulation will have human rights
Yet coffee consumption is correlated with longer life. Probably the Quercetin and Trigonelline in coffee offsets the supposed damage.
Spotlight on Sig Node
Yeah there was a bridge mode on the combo ONT + router we got during the previous food install, ~7 years ago. Worked fine.

The new place I recently moved to had an ONT unit in the house. Verizon sent us a router (cr1000a, godforsakenly DNS server but otherwise pretty good) but just unplugging it and plugging in our own world fine.
I hope the CIA will try to warn congress and the White House and be more convincing.

Or maybe there are not enough benefits for the US to fight climate change?

The US sees itself as a "force of good" through its influence on the world with its military.

But the US is very bad about CO2, and sometimes I have the feeling that climate change will probably be the reason why the US might lose its superpower status.
The way I like to do it:

- use a config library (or write your own) it should read the settings.config from the root home folder.

- This library should also read settings.local.config (or equivalent.) make a git IGNORE rule for the settings.local.config so you would put credentials here and they won't be checked in to the repo.

- This local config should be read and merged into the base config by your config library (deep merge).

- Further, I like to pull additional config from the DB (for user level settings.) the fs is necessary for bootstrapping into the DB, which then may load additional preferences.

- This config format should be whatever you're comfortable with, JSON , YAML, TOML, .py/js, etc. your stack will have its own selection (and behavior) for config libraries.

And now, make sure that config is loaded and made available at the earliest point in code, and everyone can use it EASILY.

You could have this stashed into a user or system cache which your tools can then spy on to see what settings are available whichever place in code.

Settings, access control, preferences, etc. can all fit this format.

By using the git excluded '.local.' layer you can ensure API keys are never checked into git.
I'm taking this to work to show an executive who is desperate to integrate AI into the day to day operations of a college.
It is bigger. You meant greater?
I doubt it's much different in other more social health care systems.

Some people just need a whole lot more aids and meds than most people. Take wheelchairs for example, they are as complex as single speed bicycles but easily cost 10k because reasons.
As I age I find myself increasingly becoming a healthcare spender. For a lot of people that's just a part of the chromosome shuffle and not so much about their life choices. But I can't say that. I've made very bad choices, over and over and over, knowing the consequences, across more than five decades now. My chromosomes are far from perfect but they would have done fine without my indulgences. Therefore I don't think it's right to impose my higher spending on the rest of you. I should just suck it up, walk it off, or suffer and die early, because it isn't fair for me to charge you for my pleasures. You don't owe me. I identify with the Inuit grandma choosing to drift off on an ice flow. But she has a much better claim on the support of her tribe.
it's really great being a reality denier, you can just pick one unqualified person's worst mistake and use it to dismiss an entire field of thousands of people who've spent their entire adult life investigating and understanding something.

it's like quoting those scientists who believed that heavier than air flight was not possible and deciding that you don't need qualified engineers to build them - afterall somebody somewhere got something wrong, didn't they!
The big thing that happened to these people was the pension crisis. They were told, while working they would get a decent pension early in their career Plus when most started, it was expected you would be with the company your full lives.

Then the 70s and 80s happened, people did not realize there would be a paradigm shift in the work force. So here we are, and back then IRAs were limited on what you could save and I think there were no 401k's at all.
Go ahead and share the language, it is good etiquette for HN :)
You can put the use statement inside brackets (i.e. `{ use xyz ... }`) to limit the scope of the use statement.

I fully agree it's unexpected that everything after the use statement becomes part of the body of the use statement.
Show HN: Gaps – Ear training tool that listens to what you play on guitar
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There's a free online version for desktop browsers in the URL above. If you try it out let me know what you think!
JEDEC Plans LPDDR6-Based CAMM, DDR5 Mrdimm Specifications
Sadly plugins don't seem to work on the mobile app.
I think it would be preferable to fuel your brain with something that isn't also a carcinogen.
Yeah; I'm on a biologic for psoriasis. $25k buys me a single milliliter of fluid that I self-inject once every twelve weeks. It works wonders, but yikes.
> Remember when the US was pro-free speech and criticised dictatorships for blocking social media?

Outside congresspeople pushing for re-election I feel like I haven't heard this at all. Not since the Snowden leaks has the US been so happy-go-lucky with their denouncement of surveillance.
None of it.

https://daniellakens.blogspot.com/2017/07/impossibly-hungry-...

The original effect was known to be spurious on publication.
The two sliders at the top are the best. The most customizable calculator to my knowledge.
I mentally translate these headlines as "journalist discovers yet another thing follows a power-law/pareto-ish distribution".
I think that may be a moot point if you move from an individual level to a societal level.

Like, the positive effects that their success in baseball has on the Dominican Republic would likely also be there if they would commit that hard to basketball, or chess (and maybe that would come with less knee injuries). Yet, it's still correct to say that baseball is hugely beneficial to the DomRep.

My larger point being that we have to disentangle "what should you do on your evenings" and "what is a good cultural approach to this issue"
Most plugins do afaik. I am using plenty!
I agree with you. It comes down to risks vs benefits, and I feel that for a huge number of people that aren't predisposed to addiction, that don't need to drink to the point of blacking out, etc., it may very well be worth it.

I know that my "principled" refusal to drink in my younger years made socializing a lot harder and just generally put a barrier between myself and my peers. Of course, a stronger person could overcome those challenges without alcohol, but that seems like a Herculean task for someone who's already shy and lacking self-esteem.

I guess I just don't see it as black and white.
Even if you take it at face value, answers to the questions shift over time - is food a chore?
interesting! acetaldehyde is liebig's original gangster aldehyde, before even formaldehyde. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetaldehyde also says, 'acetaldehyde occurs naturally in coffee, bread, and ripe fruit, and is produced by plants.'

can you use acetaldehyde to crosslink proteins and polysaccharides to make thermosetting bioplastics? apparently you can use it to crosslink urea, just as you can with formaldehyde

looks like the answer is yes, at least if the polysaccharide is chitosan: https://www.mdpi.com/2313-7673/7/1/10

there isn't enough acetaldehyde in bread and fresh fruit or alcoholics' livers to be a practical source for this purpose, but one traditional acetaldehyde process was catalytic dehydrogenation of ethanol on a copper-based catalyst at 260°–290°, which seems like the kind of thing that john plant might feature on the next episode of primitive technology
The problem is that there’s nobody I trust to do the deciding on whose choices were bad.

So I say we just save them all, and let god sort ‘em out.
People are working on it, but its a long way from being complete. See, for example, https://www.quantamagazine.org/with-digital-twins-the-doctor... on modeling the circulatory system.
Frustratingly, we came very close to getting a study that should have come pretty close to giving a conclusive answer to this. It was funded and approved and started. But then it was cancelled after people found out that the lead researcher lied about his ties to the alcohol industry: https://dynomight.net/alcohol-trial/
This has popped up a lot this week. There are at least mental benefits to participating in group activities, some of which include alcohol, and of those that do the vast majority end peacefully with a fruitful, long, and happy life - devoid of any aliments listed. Human makeup is so much more complicated than saying alcohol has no health benefits.
Great idea. You can also add a static website form to your site with fabform
I think about half the country is feeling that their life is tough. The national minimum wage is still $7.25.
Not a drinker. As a person who makes their living using their brain, it's never made sense to me to not protect an important asset. Over the years, most of my peers have stopped being able to do any sort of intensive brain work because of (a) drinking, (b) sugar, or (c) smoking or some other drug. Over the years, the decline in ability due to these things is obvious. I regularly outperform people 20 years younger than me because of poor lifestyle choices they're already making.

Society wise, alcohol is the the direct cause, or a major factor in heart disease, cancer, suicide, gun deaths, car deaths and injuries, etc.
Well, i have family connections to pre-visa middle eastern countries and yes, alcohol is a problem. Thats why they have the rule. Are drugs also not a problem also in many countries despite national bans? Remember too that about 30% of people in western nations are essentially dry (<2 drinks per year). So the asking questions approach has merit.
The compelling case, as you say, is simply that we can find ourselves for various reasons choosing to resist conditioning and conformity. And this resistance can be enlightening to the individual and to broader society.

The personal search (self-examination) can of course be beneficial. There's no need to slip into nebulous metaphysics to understand that any challenge to a power structure may have an enlightened outcome or a disastrous outcome.

The article is hagiographic and is reaching for something deep, but this passage is perhaps the essence:

"But for Arendt, the will was the means to our freedom [...] The will is a space of tension inside the self where one actively feels the difference between where they are and where they would like to be. [...]

"Willing is the mental activity that goes on between thinking and judgment. It has the power to shape us by drawing us into conflict with ourselves. Without inner conflict, there is no forward movement. These are the basic principles of willing:

Willing is characterised by an inner state of disharmony.
Willing is experienced as a felt sense of tension within the body where the mind is at war with itself.
Willing makes one aware of possible decisions, which creates a feeling of being pulled in multiple directions at once.
Willing can feel very lonely. Decisions and choices are shaped by one’s environment, by the everydayness of being, but ultimately the responsibility for deciding is up to oneself.
Willing makes one aware of the tension that exists between oneself as a part of the world, and oneself as an individual alone existing in relationship to the world.
Willing is the principle of human individuation.
Willing relates to the world through action.
The will is the inner organ of freedom.
"
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not sure why you had to prefix.. :)

Thanks for the PKD tip!!

(EDIT: this is the only dried bark PKD in my possession, which suggests that while PKD admired the schizos he might have selfdiagnosed as OCD?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_a_Crap_Artist)
QLDB was proposed by Amazon's DistSys experts as a replacemnent for Private/Permissioned DLT/Blockchains.

Now they're suggesting to replace it with Postgres.

Conclusion: you don't need a Blockchain - use Postgres ;)
And you can just go to its github to avoid the product side.
> The US sees itself as a "force of good" through its influence on the world with its military.

> But the US is very bad about CO2

You should probably drop the "but". The US seeing itself as a "force of good" doens't make it one.
And I'll be damned if Tanta isn't having his tweets used for training Elon's AI. The parochial circle regresses as it goes around, I'm done acknowledging the make-believe barriers we pretended the internet clung to.

You post it, others consume it. Same as it ever was.
> Lead was added to gasoline since the 1920s...the last was Algeria in 2021.

Right, so we figure these things out within 100 years or so at most. We've been dealing with hunger for millions of years, you'd expect there to be something in the Torah about how no man shall act as a judge before he's had lunch.
No, plenty of investors still willing to gamble on them. Saudis love a stupid Silicon Valley investment, for example.
That’s an interesting chemical.

One stereotype I’ve heard is that people quit drinking and then become addicted to coffee. Coffee apparently can have acetaldehyde in it.
Democrats should put that on billboards. Trump couldn't get much clearer than that.
Mongols invaded Eastern and Central Europe several times, but they always turned back. There are at least two common explanation for that.

First, European countryside was infested with castles. Defeating the king and sacking his capital wasn't enough to pacify the land. Mongols would have had to deal with every local warlord separately, and Europe wasn't worth the trouble.

Second, Mongols were getting too far away from the steppe. Their armies could not stay in Europe in the long term due to the lack of large enough pastures.
What do you think is the future of Smart Shopping Carts?
Smart Shopping Carts like Amazon Dash Cart, Caper, and soon. Are they $1000+ expensive per unit?
> Developing that sort of expertise requires getting clear and—ideally—timely feedback on the quality of your decisions. Do parole judges get that?

The expertise in question is predicting, from a short summary of the case, what's going to happen in the trial itself.

So yes, every judge gets clear and timely feedback on prediction quality.
Is this year by year? I’ve heard that we use something like half of our lifetime healthcare spending in our last years life. Which explains the numbers in the headline, but also shows why it’s misleading.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_Up_With_That%3F
But probably has greater benefits too.
Probably another Pareto distribution.
Plus,
no tyres. It turns out that tires cause a surprising amount of pollution.
Created by dbt Labs, it's a hugely popular tool that "enables data analysts and engineers to transform their data using the same practices that software engineers use to build applications."

Last I checked, their Slack community had 50,000+ members.
Ctrl+f for completion, ctrl+b to warp the cursor back to the prompt.
Careful. I smell inadvertant eugenics arguments approaching.

<1% of people commit 99% of all murders. <1% of people cause 99% of fatal trafic accidents. <1% of people are responsable for 99% of tax fraud. <1% of people ride those stupid three-wheel bikes. If only we found and isolated 1% of people, all our problems would go away!
When I saw it was a chart on X I thought the same thing!
Wow, that’s a lot. Just think how much money we could save if we stopped caring for them.
Nexus Aurora – A global organization croudsourcing human space settlement
With the internet, so can a night in.
Graph Retrieval Using Postgres Recursive CTEs
The article is a bit doom and gloom. The debt to GDP levels are fairly middling against other developing countries. Also historically what usually happens to government debt is that it isn't really paid back but sits there and is reduced in value over time by inflation. That will probably happen here.
I mean you can personally refuse care, but the subtext I get is that others should martyr themselves similarly. That's not a choice you get to make for them.
> you’ll probably get some members with an unusually high incentive to miss-report whether or not they drink

As a former member of such a group, this is exactly right. Even if it's completely anonymous, there's a strong and absurd sense of "God is watching me fill out this form, better make myself look good".
“And bear in mind, if you go to a one-man cockpit, you might as well go to a zero-man cockpit. Because it all needs to cater for the eventuality that this one guy just ate a bad oyster and is incapacitated and the aeroplane has to take over. So one pilot or zero pilot is effectively the same thing.”
Right, the outcome is not guaranteed. But the possibility of a confidence vote might surface in a psycho CEO's brain from time to time.
Or you have a nice bucket of RSUs that have been jumping in value and figure it’s just another project to pass time.
Even within tech circles surprisingly few people are aware how ubiquitous power law distributions are.