skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even in rural France, outside a few picturesque places and views, the reality has become pretty ugly in the last 30 or 40 years (and it keeps accelerating). In many villages (even small ones with less than a couple hundred inhabitants, even quite remote from cities), private housing development have spread around the historical village, generally in an anarchic manner (one can mock some forms of very organised housing, but anarchy is worse, it just pops up here and there with no thought for infrastructure, openings, or future development). Meanwhile the historical village is dying, houses are crumbling. Shops close in the centre and are replaced by shoebox monstrosities in the surroundings, made for cars.

Often the population is not growing, it just wastes a lot more space, and does it in a relatively ugly way. As the condition of the historical village degrades, it also becomes ugly. At my place, the population keeps decreasing, it is down to only one fifth of what it once was, and yet the spread accelerates.

For foreigners: just fool around Google Maps and StreetView, to have a look at the spread around many village kernels, and at the village entrances.

A random starting point (one in many thousands): https://www.google.fr/maps/@43.4947119,0.923205,1184m/data=!...

Look at the spread (as more or less organised areas, but also along roads). Then try to find the historical village limits, see how small it was compared to now. Well, the number of inhabitants was about the same as now.
What proportion of bitcoin mining is done in places which have either built new renewable power plants specifically for mining bitcoin or already have a surplus of energy and have no options to sell it to anyone else?

The only example I know is Iceland, but according to https://cbeci.org/mining_map it's not even in the top 10. Over 85% of all bitcoins are mined in these countries:

- 65% is mined in China with 721.2 g/kWh

- 7.2% in US: 417.305 g/kWh

- 6.9% in Russia: 517 g/kWh

- 6.17% in Kazakhstan (couldn't fine specific figure but around 80% produced power comes from Coal plants so gCO2/kWh must be very high)

The only country in the list which close to 0g/kWh is Norway at 0.48%.
Certainly the power to decide whether laws are “correct” in a specific, rather than general sense is far too much power for any one party to have?

If laws could be so easily ignored, we might as well do away with them.
Interestingly the same techniques are applied to the fishing industry to monitor for illegal fishing in protected areas.
This is the incisive observation on this topic.

No society with numbers north of somewhere in the two digits works without some kind of rules, administration, and enforcement. I'll bet you there are at least half a million people staffing courts in the US, maybe even a full million, and probably an equal number of law enforcement officers, and that doesn't get to public and private attorneys which is probably another million.

Which means something like 1% of the population of the US is probably involved in just administering the laws of society.

Now, maybe for a society where the limits of how people interact is communication you could get away with lower overhead. But that's going to be a constant factor of the same underlying dynamic.

Also, we've done the same damn thing with freedom of discourse that we have with almost every other liberty in the US: we turn it into a thought-stopping cliche and glide on treating it as an indulgence rather than investing in thinking about the limits, edge cases, and responsibilities.
I don't get it. If wages are stagnant and prices are stagnant, isn't that by definition zero inflation?
I don't like the idea of having a verb in the name of a pure function. I think it reads better to simply name the function after the result it returns.
A helpful approach can be to manually put each target boot device on the Critical Device List with Start code 0, placing its vendor & device code permanently in the registry for whenever it is needed after that when you want to boot from that particular controller again later.

Some related info:

https://www.remkoweijnen.nl/blog/2011/06/18/switch-sata-oper...
https://backyourstack.com has you covered! (it's still in beta and has only basic functionality, but at least it's a step in the right direction).

It scans your dependency file (e.g. Gemfile in Rails).
Your point is accurate that true borrowing isn't really an apt description since they just alter the effective supply of money but technically they do need to borrow because they don't have complete control of the Federal Reserve. Granted congress could change that if they wanted to if the Fed angers them enough. But exactly how such a drama would play out is complicated.
I'm aware, I'm saying that using (a few singleton) services for managing state plus RxJS to effectively propagate (state) changes into every other component/service provides a comfortable development workflow/mindset. (I find redux-like patterns unnecessarily complex.)
We split up Standard Oil, and many other trusts, without resorting to authoritarianism. I'm not saying it's trivial, but it's probably not harder than breaking up AT&T (also a network to connect people) was.
SDE in a very non mission-critical org at Microsoft. Best work/life balance ever. As a bonus, my coworkers and managers weren't stressed either, and so were pleasant to work with. My friends in Windows couldn't understand how I could leave at 4 to go snowboarding. They were probably more than a little contemptuous about it, but I was getting roughly the same comp, so...
DC's gun ban is very strict so I assume most did respect that to avoid prison.
> students

I have funded a couple issues at like $25 that were marked "Good First Issue". And I had a couple people reach out saying they were excited to have done their first pull request.

So I think that even with small bounties, rysolv can have the positive affect of introducing more people into OS contributing.

And if the site ends up making money, I think there should always be a list of "First Time Only" issues.
@MGWVc
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If your hobby is building wood furniture, a wood shop helps you do that hobby into the future. It will improve your projects, and help your enjoyment of your hobby. The tools also hold some sort of residual value.

If your hobby is building AI/ML models, a one-shot trained model isn’t going to really help you on an ongoing basis. It’s an amazing single shot project, but if your hobby is actually ML then you probably aren’t going to be happy just looking at your completed trained model - you are going to want to train a bigger, better model.

And if your hobby is building software, you can just download a pre-trained model for free.

I don’t think the analogy holds the other way.
I second this, the paper they use is much better.
A McDonalds double cheeseburger meal costs $8.

I remember when that was 3.99 not too long ago. Somehow I doubt that price difference is captured by the official 1 - 2% inflation rate.
Not really true, one is that games are more optimised for the specific hardware but generally pc game versions are almost always superior than console counterparts
> Gradle is only a thing in Android circles, thankfully.

It's the standard Java build tool at this point. I don't know of anything better.
Ask HN: How to continue to grow as a high-schooler?
Hello HN! I'm a high school student (and I noticed there's more of us in the comments). I have a year and a half of high school remaining, but I realized I'm not really pushing myself recently, and I'm very unsure what path should I take. I know that "everyone's path is different", but I still wanted to ask for general recommendations, what options do I have for growth?

Specifically, there's two key points I'm considering:

Learning more tech: most of the work I did so far was web, Python backend + quite basic JS frontends. I've been contemplating learning kotlin for android, some ML or learning something low-level (that didn't sound very intimidating though). What will I benefit from the most?

Getting a part-time job/internship, something I can do whole studying, to get a sense of reality and some money. I'm not aspiring to be an entrepreneur (yet), none of my projects were built with a business model in mind at all. Where should I look? Linkedin shows mostly stuff for graduates/etc. What pay should I expect (i have absolutely no idea)? Is remote a bad idea?
Prices are not stagnant. You can see that quite clearly from the average price of a big mac over the years.
It was based on their previous VisualAge for Smalltalk product, which was a really amazing and solid product as well.
Because you are seeing frames once every few milliseconds of atoms moving back and forth at speeds a fraction of the speed of light. It's only when they happen to be in very fixed positions that you have any hope to notice a definite image of the NaCl molecule.

In general, the very fact that you can see something should be a clear indication that you are not observing quantum behavior: particles whose properties (such as position) are measured DO NOT behave according to classical physics, they no longer display quantum effects. And while we have yet to understand what exactly counts as a measurement, something which allows you to have a picture of the atoms certainly counts.
Predictive Policing is already a thing. It was in use for a decade by the LAPD in the US. See:

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-lapd-precision-pol...

and

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-21/lapd-end...
Photons, electors, and protons all have exponential drop-offs in energy as they pass through the body. (Obviously much flatter for protons or x-rays than for visible light.) If you're going to go very deep, you're going to want to use at least X-rays if not electron or proton beams. Even with UV, it's just not very efficient to lose such a high percentage of energy near the surface.

But, you're right, probably 20 years ago I saw photos of a device for converging proton beams on brain cancer. It just doesn't work very well using anything weaker than X-rays for anything very deep.
Nakamoto: A new Bitcoin light-client in Rust
Sure, the labor would be a big part of the cost. You have to remove the engine, the gas tank, and exhaust system, and probably the transmission and swap in a motor, route battery cables, install some electronics, probably replace the engine ECU, and so on. Probably a several day project for someone who knows exactly what they're doing and has all the right tools and has done it many times before.

I think that's okay. It employs mechanics, who are going to have less to do as low maintenance EVs replace high maintenance gas cars. It's scalable in the sense that someone just has to make a kit available and if someone wants it in their car they can hire their preferred mechanic to install it.

Considering that we currently have a $7500 federal tax credit for new EVs and some states add a couple thousand more, if that were extended to conversions as well as new vehicles it could cover most of the cost. If batteries get significantly cheaper such a subsidy could cover the whole cost.
This looks really cool. I currently track my workouts with the Strong ios app but I’ve been thinking lately about a few things it lacks. One example is missed reps (which Traindown looks like it supports!)

I’m a weightlifter that used to be a powerlifter and have also done more bodybuilding-style programs previously too. One thing common in weightlifting programs that I’m yet to find any tools that support natively are complexes. These are typically notated like “Exercise+Exercise” or “Exercise Exercise”, with the set/rep notation normally being “3x2+1”.

For a concrete example, a program might have a complex like “Snatch Deadlift + Hang Snatch + Snatch” for “3x2+1+1”, which translates to “perform 3 sets, where one set is 2x deadlifts, 1x hang snatch, and 1x snatch”. I suppose from a data perspective it’s like nesting sets within a set.

I looked through the guide and the spec, but couldn’t figure out how I would represent complexes in this notation. Any ideas?
Lekker bezig hoor!

Not a founder myself, so no tips on that. Not super clear what your website does (if it's the one in your profile).

If you're ever looking to security / pentest your platform reach out to me. For the rest good luck and keep it up!
They've been doing this for years. Chicago has a list of everyone that will get shot (or shoot someone) over the next year or so. It's like 2k people with 90%+ recall. St Louis has something similar. But it hasn't exactly stopped crime.

Sci Fi is fun, but crime is a social phenomenon of the type that tech is deeply unsuited to actually solve. Privacy is a legit consideration in the short and long term, but AI taking over isn't really.
My guess is that this being possible would be the norm, rather than the exception.
And that keeping track of individual queries is not.
Mine some bitcoin with them :)
Hey there, I'm founding a SaaS in the Netherlands also. Congrats on your success! Would love to chat sometime and build a community, you can DM me on Twitter (@j4yav).
Because institutions like pension funds are mandated to buy them.
Technological stagnation: Why I came around
This index doesn't pass the sniff test. 10% annual inflation would mean that someone making $100k today has the same standard of living as someone making $40k in 2010.
Asset price increases and inflation are entirely different things. The former represents growth, the latter is a dilution (sort of "good" vs. "bad", but not really, economics is complicated, yada yada).

Education costs are indeed part of inflation, as are car prices. And yes, those are rising, but they're being offset on balance by other things (phones, say) getting cheaper.

Look, inflation indexes are complicated and there's room for argument about exactly how you want it computed. But statements like "inflation is not low" don't really capture the truth.
I didn't have facebook before coming to college, but its pretty much required in my school, and that's what I'm mostly focusing on. First, groups are the most important thing: for creating spaces where students can advertise events, look for advice, list stuff for sale, and post other random stuff that you want other students to see. Organizations also have their own pages with event calendars and also advertise on these groups. Event pages are the second most important thing: a page with all the details, whos coming, etc. Both groups and events are able to be public or private. Marketplace and messaging are nice-to-haves. Not essential, but messenger is widely used simply because everyone has facebook.
I thank our generous corporate saviours for this reality :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RSruvBJdrM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muxJxNl0IK0
There's no such thing as neutrality. Usually when people talk about neutrality, they really mean status quo, or worse giving equal weight to "both sides" (implying the major US political parties are the only possible views on a subject), without even trying to assertain the truth of the matter.

Journalism isn't simply putting facts down on paper, but it's also interpreting how it affects the reader. Even if you pretend to simply write the who what when and where of a story, you still have to choose what to cover. That in and of itself has no right answer, you inevitably make an idological choice.
Long way from that, and quite likely never going to be viable for printing actual parts.

There already is a “low cost” desktop metal 3D printing technique via sintering, you can buy filaments with 90%> copper and a sintering forge while expensive is can still be done on a relatively small budget <$2000.

Yes there is shrinking that needs to be adjusted for but that can more easily be done in software.

Electroplating requires a clean environment, high voltage and usually rather odd and sometimes nasty chemicals.

FDM metal printing on the other hand can be done on a $200 printer just as well as on a $3000 FDM one.

Beyond that it would be interesting to see what SLA can offer since there are already ceramic resins that need to be sintered and I don’t see a reason why metal resins can’t be also fabricated in the same manner.

I don’t see powder deposition laser sintering becoming a consumer product either but there are already desktop printers that do that too they are just rather expensive.
The US free economy produced a better military and plenty of high quality consumer goods.
Reminds me of castlezzt (which is, alas, gone)
I wrote profitability exactly for this reason. Revenue in itself is just as meaningless as profitability, I agree. (That's what aggregates like NPV [net present value] and other indicators are for.)

RedHat is big, it has a lot of revenue, but it also has a looot of expenses too. Hence it's profitability is low. Whereas Amazon is a lot more profitable (even if it had no accounting profit), and that's exactly how it grew this big.

If RH were this profitable it would have probably also grown bigger too.

Of course some business models, sectors are truly niches, and you can't grow arbitrarily big. RH probably suffered from this to a degree. Selling Linux support is a niche market compared to selling almost everything that can be shipped in boxes. Of course both Amazon and RH are survivors of the early 2000s big boom-bust cycle, so probably there's a big survival bias and chance/luck at play here, so it's probably not right to say that RH should have expanded to bigger markets. (How come "AWS" is not a RH thing? It's likely that Amazon's extreme "black friday" scaling challenge it not unique to them, yet they were the ones able to successfully capitalize on this.)
The big deal here is not the technology, it is that the FBI is involved in tracking participation of a protest.

For the past year we have had not-always-fully-peaceful riots with many deaths and tremendous amount of property loss. Through all this, the FBI never breathed down the neck of the protestors- not even those who could have been actually committing a crime.

Most of the people who went to DC did so peacefully and lawfully. The fact that all protestors are being tracked - and are being told they are tracked- will send quite a chilling message:

Don't ever, ever admit that you are visibly or loudly on the "right". We are watching, and we are powerful, and you cannot prove innocence.
China's Digital Currency Explained
There are a lot of people who left white-collar jobs for trucking; engineers especially. Something about wanting to be more or less your own boss, control your own schedule, and not be in an office is appealing.

So your stereotype for "trucker" has to be resilient to the occasional former nuclear physicist or mathematician showing up.
> How is the current "notion of IP for software" not sustainable?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/06/stupid-patent-month-st...
And the point of most of the US-centric replies to this subthread is that ...drumroll... we usually don't have 1.
Another set of heavy wings and landing gear to push up.
For those requesting a link to the company of OP, it's this:
https://schoolyear.nl/

I assume it's ok that I post this, it was easy to find (2 clicks from your profile snerual)!

Good job, I think it's cool what you're doing! If I may ask: how do you prevent students from cheating on a test by using their phone for example? Or is your service for in-class tests where phones are forbidden?
Show HN: Smiley vs. Karla, a Pen and Paper Game of Espionage
> I socially engineered them to believe

You lied, which is totally fine, but trying to obfuscate that behind word salad is just silly.
I would shed no tears if FB profits went down, but...I think you're underestimating how big they are. Two BILLION users, in ~100 countries (each with its own standards on what is acceptable, legal, repulsive, etc.). If you had one moderator per 100 users, that would 20 million moderators. I don't think they could hire 20 million high quality moderators (there's only one dang, and we're not giving him up), and certainly not with 18.5 billion.
The law of nuisance isn't about 'people fitting each other'. It's about securing the rights of property holders. If someone is running a train yard and hasn't obtained encumbrances on surrounding properties to allow for permitted noise, that's on them.

Do your due diligence when developing industrial properties, folks.
The article is from last July.
I am not certain this is the actual problem though. It is not about misclassification. It is about the underlying system.

Would you argue that a person accused of crime X should be told nothing about the nature of their transgression? To me it sounds very problematic.
That's quite a generalization, and not really the case going off people I know. Most aren't cheering on the surveillance state. Many are mocking the people who attacked the Capitol with their phones in hand, but that's not the same as approval of the big electric cage we're in.
"our parents and grandparents, basically."

I now feel officially elderly, Cheers for that. Lol.
> I think you obsess with the official numbers a little bit too much.

Maybe but that's because it was that particular statement that started the discussion. The only reason I mentioned it was in response to OP's statement:

> [hybrids] they are about the only way to comply except pure BEVs

Of course it warranted the addendum "on paper" since in reality and according to all studies and data from any source they do not comply as a fleet, it's a mathematical trick.

Saying that I obsess over the particular point that started the discussion seems a bit unnecessarily dismissive. You obsess about your very particular situation and your neighbor's even if we can both agree it's not generally applicable to the vast majority of people out there.

> if you see somewhere that the fleet average for the XC60 T8 is just 7L/100km then that's frankly fantastic

I simply googled for websites that collect user submitted fuel consumption data and picked the median rather than the average. This data is of course very limited. And it may very well be fantastic but again, the whole point of my interjection was that official numbers are fake and from the data I do have access to fuel consumption of PHEVs is marginally better than the equivalent ICE (despite being a bit heavier). As a fleet they barely make a dent in the emission problem. But people either see this as being different from their particular situation and assume it must be wrong, or they realize it's exactly their situation and don't like it being pointed out.
I find email far superior to messages for general communication, and think it should be the default. People tend to abuse things like slack. Sure YOU want your issue/idea addressed immediately, generally I don't have the bandwidth to handle issues immediately and tend to queue them up and I'll get back with the person. I am a very focused person and constant interruptions turn me off, so I turn slack notifications off and kind of treat it like email as well and check every few hours unless I'm working with someone on something in the NOW.
I've never seen one of these that could handle accommodating resistance (bands and chains) or partial range of motion. This would I think have then be different movements, same as using Strong on iOS.
> One thing I noticed is that the YC batch tend not to post or comment much here.

They're on BookFace, YC's private forums.

HN is just YC's public ad server.