skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of the "Principle of Least Power" and variations [1, 2] in relation to the design of various languages of WWW. Although that is supposed to describe languages that are not programming languages. E.g. [1]:

> Computer Science in the 1960s to 80s spent a lot of effort making languages which were as powerful as possible. Nowadays we have to appreciate the reasons for picking not the most powerful solution but the least powerful. The reason for this is that the less powerful the language, the more you can do with the data stored in that language. If you write it in a simple declarative from, anyone can write a program to analyze it in many ways. The Semantic Web is an attempt, largely, to map large quantities of existing data onto a common language so that the data can be analyzed in ways never dreamed of by its creators. If, for example, a web page with weather data has RDF describing that data, a user can retrieve it as a table, perhaps average it, plot it, deduce things from it in combination with other information. At the other end of the scale is the weather information portrayed by the cunning Java applet. While this might allow a very cool user interface, it cannot be analyzed at all. The search engine finding the page will have no idea of what the data is or what it is about. This the only way to find out what a Java applet means is to set it running in front of a person.

[1] https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Principles.html#PLP

[2] https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/leastPower.html
One of my favorite college classes was called "Prose Boot Camp", where we basically practiced all the types of writing you don't usually learn in school. Assignments included writing an obituary, a restaurant review, a termination letter, a letter appealing said termination (subtle threats included), and recipe intros for a fictional cookbook called See Dad Cook!.

A majority of these assignments had specific word-count requirements. The appeal letter, for example, had to be exactly 800 words, no more and no less. The requirement irked me at first, but it ended up adding to the value of the class. The professor wasn't an easy grader, so you were forced to really consider how to use the space. A 100 word blurb needs to be approached differently from an 800 word letter or a 2,000 word article.

My point is, there's nothing inherently wrong with length targets, and maybe the author needs to find better videos!
If you dismiss any evidence that shows that social democracy doesn't work, including the evidence I provided about Scandinavia, which clearly shows how unsuccessful social democracy has been there, then of course you're only going to see the evidence supporting your pre-conceived notions. It would be impossible for any amount of evidence to cause you to change your mind when you take it as a priori that such evidence is from "market fundamentalists" and thus not credible.

"as usual",

the only thing "usual" is how reluctant those conforming to the mainstream ideology are to examine evidence that contradicts their narrative.
Beyond the clickbait headline, even the article didn't say it was.
NASA's Mars helicopter soars past 1-mile mark in 10th flight over Red Planet
It's basically a feature rather than a company. Unless they offer something drastically different, Twitter Spaces will (has?) periscope them.
"but many don't have mental disorders or drug addictions, many people are just down on their luck"

Be out of luck for a while and chances are high, that you develope mental disorders as well as drug addictions.
This is a list of open source tools to do this https://open5g.info/

Something important that may be overlooked in the blog post is that for most bands you need licenses to transmit over the air. ISM bands are unlicensed but may come with other limitations (e.g., in some countries regulators require a listen-before-talk mechanism that is not always implemented in cellular stacks).
Hmm, I've got a friend who won the German championship in their sport (watersport, individual) and went on to get a PhD in math, so maybe that's why the idea of both being a successful sportsman and following an academic career was not exactly foreign to me. Thanks for replying!
Another way to think about this is ratios of budgets to departments, ratios of "core" vs "experimental" spend, and ratios of IC's to managers. If you map those constraints out for the system that you're building you can tailor things a little more to your business while making intelligent trade-offs.
I don't see anything on that website that is measured as result achieved / $ spent.

And I'm supposed to spend my own money on FOIA requests to see if my tax dollars are being spent wisely? Fat chance it is.

Edit:

> If you're not willing to put in time (a basic search engine query)

I went straight to the official ASPR website as you suggested.

> auditing government records probably isn't a good fit for you

That was never the question.
Generation of ovarian follicles from mouse pluripotent stem cells
Plus here in Finland the city owned apartments etc. are distributed around the city (not the Manhattans but the rest). Thus there are no slums in Finland and thus there's practically zero gang problems: there's exactly two city districts in the entire Finland I would not feel safe walking at night. So individuals renting to NGOs, city buying apartments etc. benefit both the community as well as the individual who gets out of the crayfish trap.*

*There's a popular analogy with crayfish traps here in Finland wrt. one individual finding their way out of the trap, only to have the other crabs pull them back in.
> To that, they add chemical toilets, a water supply and (I'm not sure why) 24/7 security staff. For this, the city pays around $60k per tent site per year.

This is ridiculous, it's more than enough for annual rent of a very decent apartment.

The fact that a mighty country of America can't fix such a trivial problem shocks me.

With countless billions thrown onto the problem, they can equally well build a few blocks of luxury skyscraper apartments, and give them away.

Literally, for these money you can build an apartment block somewhere in Dubai.
Cached: https://archive.is/BlwjM
You lost me. Are you saying that the people who make Android OS can't reprogram Android OS? That is all this person is saying.
I’ll go back to what I noted in my original comment: “why should I subsidize the comfort of people who are so aggressively antisocial?”

This group has generated so much negative goodwill with the general public that any “logical” solution that requires public $ is going to have a difficult time prevailing.

The easiest and intuitively cheapest solution in the minds of most people is: make them go somewhere else.
I read an article about the native inhabitants of Australia and their very low rates of heart disease. It turns out that the males walked an average of 9 miles a day, the women 5.
He also has an unhealthy relationship with money. Withholding money from being spent is immoral because that money is needed to pay debts and saving money causes unemployment. Spending all the money you get is moral. Of course you are allowed to spend your money on stocks and bonds to maintain real savings.
Do you live in SF? It’s quite apparent that a huge percentage of the homeless, if not the majority, have a mental disorder, drug addiction, or both.
Like I said, UBI would be funded by large tax increases, so instituting UBI would directly fuel those inequalities.
What's more is that there appears to be a huge overlap of UBI proponents and anti-border proponents. So it is 100% a realistic scenario that any experiment should take into consideration.
Yes, programmable SIM cards.

https://www.smartjac.biz/mobile-telecom/sim-cards/4g-lte-sim...

Buy pre-programmed or invest in a programmer + a bunch of blanks.
(Coburn, rather)
This has to do with the lack of economic mobility. When 100 million poor families try to their get kids to 500,000 spots in top schools, this is an expected result. The 'how' of getting to these spots varies: test prep (in China and India); well-rounded ness, volunteering in Africa, exotic sports, (for kids in the US); etc.

When one path is made harder, the problem (of poor people trying to move up the economic ladder) does not disappear.
But people who FIRE today do depend on things that are publically funded. If you read blogs about it, people talk of free library programs, subsidized public transit, tax credits where you get more back than you paid in - net profit, etc. I didn't include Social Security or Medicare since they are supposed to be single payer systems, yet the way they are funded today doesn't exactly jive with that. All I'm saying is that they would FIRE sooner with the extra income.
This was what I came into the comments to find out! I like that the faculty is 'celebrating her result,' a phrase we often use for new discoveries and theorems, rather than race placements.

I got excited when I saw 'Catalan' in the original article, but, sadly, as she's in PDE research, she's merely from Catalan, not studying Catalan numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_number
The wooden dumbbells cracked me up. I guess they appeal to people who need to feel like they're lifting more than they are (10K metal dumbbells don't look nearly as impressive)?
Not for housing. Protection yes, but landlords are not required to not evict a paranoid schizophrenic that has threatened violence on other residents (and the eviction sticks when they try to rent later). The ADA also doesn’t prevent landlords from ignoring drug convictions from someone a substance abuser. They can’t ask you for your status, but they won’t ignore any other signals that are a consequence of that status.
It’s also a healthy correction for the nerds-versus-jocks dichotomy which was so common for years. There are a non-trivial number of people who actively questioned someone’s technical competency if they were athletic or assumed that the only way to be a successful academic was to grind everything else out of their life.
Who is they? The original authors have little to do with the administrative state that’s been wrapped around our agency.

Anarchy is no good.

Haha.

Your efforts are constrained by physical science, social objectives.

There’s plenty of structure to prevent anarchy.

But you would further impose problem solving constraints on others thought work.

Shit n hellfire; what a dumpster fire of a culture.

Would you say something as minimal as “E=mc^2” promotes anarchy? It hardly illustrates the full meaning of relativity.

Perhaps where you perceive emptiness and anarchy, others perceive correctness and order.

Like religion; one mans abstraction is another mans insanity.
Series A feels top heavy to me. Having a director or VP of Product at that point feels like a mistake. I also think you could do more delegating under the CTO. 12 reports is too much.
> my development was really early. I resented losing my childhood. At 10 years old, you don’t want to not be a child any more.

interesting
Develop product engineers to be better. Have empathy and communicate with the target customer more clearly and understand the landscape better.

That's pretty much all you can do. How you organize it only matters insofar as it makes your team effective - sprints, waterfall, XP whatever... is kind of a toss up and context dependent.
Fastest growing occupations
The real epidemic in the USA: diabetes and obesity
The fact is, the USA leads the world in two of the leading factors correlated to bad coronavirus outcomes — obesity and diabetes. The epidemic has been here for decades, with even CHILDREN experiencing both obesity and diabetes — largely as a result of the US food industry, with its genetically engineered crops, putting sugar and high fructose corn syrup in everything. The government actually subsidizes this crap. And to top it all off, the health insurance system in the USA is worse for these people than almost all developed countries in the world. In other countries, people go to the doctor when they feel like they should. In the USA many people don’t even get preventative checkups! 25% of diabetics report having to ration their insulin. This is the highest rate among any developed country. Yet we are also among the richest per capita.

Despite being mega rich, the USA has failed its population in terms of public health. Everyone, including children, is fed a diet that produces the highest rates of obesity and diabetes on the planet. And don’t get me started on the factory farms and the overuse of antibiotics, to save a buck. The superbacteria this can lead to will represent another health crisis in hospitals that might dwarf this pandemic — I hope I am wrong.

Using Capitalism for everything is short sighted and bad for public health. Polluting your drinking water (I’m looking at you Michigan) or putting lead in pipes and asbestos in walls (Trump still loves the material) or switching to producing all your bottles from NON-biodegradeable plastic to save a buck, have long term consequences the market doesn’t worry about.

Under a capitalistic system, we have very few incentives to investigate generic drugs as treatments for pandemics, compared to resemdivir and other patented drugs. With something like Ivermectin that can kill 99.9% of the virus in vitro, you’d think governments should want to push industry to investigate it in vivo. You’d be wrong.

https://c19ivermectin.com/

Here is the largest compendium of studies on Ivermectin in one place. How many take place in the USA? All we see is small studies planned in clinicaltrials.gov and few results. But around the world, the results are finally coming in.
Yeah, yet another reboot on the GNU/Linux desktop stack, I lost count of them.
> The worst for me is when they catch the breakaway mere miles from the finish line. Sometimes a person stays away all day only to end up finishing in the group, or at least beaten by all the sprinters.

Yeah, this is why I (and most others, I believe) find most of the sprint stages in the Tour pretty boring. The break vs. peloton dynamic is critical for road races to work (e.g. if there's no one up the road, why don't we all just ride along at 25kph?), but in those flat stages, the sprint teams are so good and care so much about the sprint finish that it's almost a guarantee they catch the break.
> Money originated as a way for kings to pay troops, who operated outside these village economies.

That’s one theory, and it’s not even the one Graeber preferred. According to him (and supporting evidence) money originated as a way to “keep score” of debts.

The question of the origin of money is an interesting one, but that will be probably be unsolvable, since some of the alternative theories (like barter) would leave little to no evidence.
wood is softer than metal
Doing 1 or 2 features at a time to make 1 client happy or win one deal is called consulting. Not that there's anything wrong with consulting: consulting can be quite lucrative and fulfilling but mistaking it for "product" work is responsible for some large X% of small/early startups failing.
Except of course they are being sued right now......
While fiscal conservatives in the USA are fearmongering about how we are all going to pay for universal health insurance, most countries already do so. Hong Kong and Singapore — the two countries that top economic freedom lists every year — have publicly run hospital systems. Preventative checkups alone can save a lot of lives, not to mention improve the economy.

In this case, if it ain’t patented, there is no money in investigating it. Billions are spent to promote patented drugs and vaccines, of course, in the name of public health. But you want a real libertarian policy recommendation? How about starting an open source movement in drugs, where people are FREE to build on each other’s ideas without fear of the government coming in and enforcing “intellectual property” for helping save people’s lives? Jonas Salk gave away the polio vaccine without a patent, and now it is nearly eradicated!

Imagine what we could do if our scientists freely collaborated, instead of competing to extract rents and using the govenment as the enforcer. We don’t have to imagine — it happens in every scientific department except biochemistry, where big pharma has it on lockdown. Public funds are used to discover treatments, then private industry slaps some patents, uses the government to enforce them and neither the NIH nor any other public agency receives anything back from their massive profits.

And what do we get from this strictly enforced system of “intellectual property” in pharma? Drugs in the USA are vastly more expensive than the same exact drugs distributed in other countries, including countries with the same cost of living. This happens because we enforce the scarcity on researching ideas ourselves. And then turn around and prevent our existing single payer systems from negotiating the prices. I’m looking at you, Medicare Part D, written by pharma execs and implemented by aides to congresspeople who quit right afterwards and went through a revolving door to work for big pharma. The regulatory capture is real.

Our society needs to be based less on competition and desperation from the lower class, and more on collaboration and plenty for everyone. We would all be much better off.

Here is my policy proposal I wrote 10 years ago:

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=93
It has been for months. This was the number 2 downside of the Uk approach of maximising how many people were infected at any given time.

Number 1 was lots more dead. Number 3 was a lot more time in lockdown.

Australia are a good alternative model.
Raising real income for workers by taxing capital holders and high income individuals does not necessarily cause inflation.

One could argue that many ailments of the US economy are due to the skewed income distribution. UBI schemes are a blunt method of altering the distribution.
At this age (well, at every age) it is imperative to get enough rest between exercise days. The heart rate variability (HRV, there are apps for that) is a good indicator.

For muscle growth I can from personal experience highly recommend Glycine (available from vegan sources). It can be used as sweetener while helping keep blood glucose down. One study found it can boost muscle growth 400% in young pigs.

Glycine study performed on young pigs: https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/144/10/1540/4575112

Here’s one on mouse muscle cells: https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/146/12/2461/4589973
If you're not willing to put in time (a basic search engine query) or effort (an FOIA request), then auditing government records probably isn't a good fit for you.
ah thanks for tankiesplaining
You going to put a parking lot full of people into an apartment?
A "fair share" simply means that you have contributed to the society more than you got back. Money is not an absolutely perfect way measure this contribution, but all other measures are even worse.
The monks of old (Eastern and Western philosophies) would live off the largesse of others in terms of food, clothing and shelter. They gave back in the form of teachings and wisdom or a temporary place to stay for travelers, without judgement or payment.

This man is just taking, and not giving anything back. That makes him a mooch, and little more.
My point is you subsidize them or the issue is not fixed and the issue persists including the aspects you don't like. Making them go somewhere else doesn't work because somewhere else will make them go back to you.

I get that it's not popular with the public, that's why we have these debates, because the public needs to figure out whether it really wants to solve the issue by partially getting over itself or it doesn't and prefers to live in the bad situation that current exists.

EDIT: usually these arguments from the progressives appeals to morality or whatever, but in this case, it's literally an effectiveness argument. It works, regardless how one feels so it should be done.

Now, if one argues "well, it might not work here," that to me is a more interesting and worthwhile discussion. But if one's point is "well, I don't dispute whether it works or not or whether it won't work here, I just hate the homeless so much I don't want to do the thing that would actually fix it," leads me to question whether one hates it enough to actually address the issue or not.
Liquid retail stocks follow Benford's law because there is a notion of intrinsic value from the company and an army of quant traders trying to exploit any price inefficiency caused by the retail traders.

With cryptocurrency, the market is less mature and the intrinsic value largely comes from people believing in its value. So really, it would be surprising if we didn't see some Benford's law anomalies associated with people picking numbers.

Anyway, thanks for the discussion; the links above have given me stuff to chew on and calmed the red mist after I got so many drive-by downvotes.
This was fairly predictable. There's a good thread by Shaan Puri about how it would all go down that I found amusing: https://twitter.com/ShaanVP/status/1371972261004070913
NYC shelters are notoriously bad places to be. I've heard and read many times that the streets tend to be safer and more comfortable. Maybe things are good if you time it just right and get a hotel room during one of those overflow periods.

I'm not sure what the solution to that issue was, but it seems to one of or the main reason why the shelter system does not work like you'd expect.
That’s just for the visible chronic homeless. There are plenty of homeless people living under the radar in their cars and such that really are just down in their luck, and don’t get noticed them because they aren’t chronic cases.
> maybe the author needs to find better videos!

the YouTube algorithm significantly increases the recommendation weight of the 9-12 minute videos, though, and decreases the weight of everything else. it's not like 9-12 minute videos are in short supply, either.

I'm trying to say that it is often difficult to "find better videos" in any real quantity without a long YouTube watch history demonstrating a preference for them. this results in a situation where it is somewhat easy to find them if you've already found a lot of them, and not so easy otherwise.
This guy isn't living without money. He's just living with other people's money.

If he was living off the land that would be cool but that's not what's going on here.
The touchscreen interface is indeed a design decision, and it was a polarizing one. Many people did _not_ want a touchscreen interface in 2007. They insisted that the physical keyboards of their blackberries were more usable and more practical. In 2007, the iPhone was a polarizing product.

The comment I responded to implied that the cybertruck is awful _because_ it's polarizing. I gave two examples of wildly successful products that were also polarizing designs.
Yeah, maybe I am enjoying less sunlight; but I am certainly enjoying all of the negative freedom — the freedom from abject destitution, dysfunctional society, having to own a car for rudimentary things, significant pollution and environmental degradation, illiberal democracy, etc.

I’m an American, and the feeling that it was a precarious house of cards bugged me enough to leave a decade ago. :shrug:
All the examples in the blogpost is areas where you own the property, and in most countries can deploy this if you are careful not to interfere with areas outside of your property. With 5G this is easier because you can use ISM bands within the “core” and WiFi closer to the edge.
How much does a set of bullet proof window for a tiny one-bedroom apartment, and a security door cost? Guarded tent-site sounds like pouring truckloads of money to the sea.
People who use trucks for work have reported that they won't be able to use a Cybertruck because they can't load anything from the sides, a major inconvenience.