skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> renting location should be a revenue neutral activity

> Renting something that is the product of your labor or capital investment … should of course be compensated.

Land ("location") is a scarce economic good, with different locations being valuable for different purposes. Rendering it revenue-neutral would lead to misallocation. Land is also capital—a durable good used to produce other goods—so land ownership is a form of capital investment, and a tax on "ground rent" is a tax on capital.

All economic value is the result of human action. When the scope of "improvements" is properly understood to include all human activity relating to the land—not just obvious things like builidngs but everything done to deliberately or incidentally increase the value of the land—there is no "unimproved" value left to tax.
Parsing ad-hoc text formats always seem very fragile, as single spacr character (or even newline character) could easily break the pipeline. Using a proper data structure could make scripts works more "properly" when encountering these edge cases.

Which format to use a as representation of data structure might be debatable, but I think JSON is a reasonable choice. (Formatted) JSON is readable by human and could be easily parsed by programs.
> Meanwhile, speech recognition seems to work extremely well by now (I am a little bit older, so I remember when it didn't work so well).

*provided you speak English or Mandarin, the former preferably of a continental US variety

It's astonishing how bad things get again once you mix in an accent, local dialect (e.g. Swiss German) or a less frequently spoken language (like Croatian).
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurolaw

> The rapid growth of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) research has led to new insights on neuroanatomical structure and function, which has led to a greater understanding of human behavior and cognition. As a response, there has been an emergence of questions regarding how these findings can be applied to criminology and legal processes.

I hope they have a more solid foundation of evidence than fMRI.

Eg from https://www.fastcompany.com/90520750/duke-university-researc... :

> The researchers reexamined 56 peer-reviewed, published papers that conducted 90 fMRI experiments, some by leaders in the field, and also looked at the results of so-called “test/retest” fMRIs, where 65 subjects were asked to do the same tasks months apart. They found that of seven measures of brain function, none had consistent readings.

Also https://www.pnas.org/content/113/28/7900 :

> Functional MRI (fMRI) is 25 years old, yet surprisingly its most common statistical methods have not been validated using real data. Here, we used resting-state fMRI data from 499 healthy controls to conduct 3 million task group analyses. Using this null data with different experimental designs, we estimate the incidence of significant results. In theory, we should find 5% false positives (for a significance threshold of 5%), but instead we found that the most common software packages for fMRI analysis (SPM, FSL, AFNI) can result in false-positive rates of up to 70%. These results question the validity of a number of fMRI studies and may have a large impact on the interpretation of weakly significant neuroimaging results.
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My (late) parents had all sorts of ivy in their garden for about 40 years (that I know about) with few problems. Ivy is great for birds - home for insects for them to eat, berries to eat too, and places to nest.
I would say it's not "clear" at all, you're putting the cart before the horse.

The long range model S can drive from SF to LA on a single charge.

Even taking into account a supercharge stop, it takes <10 minutes to charge enough to extend your range to make it to grandma's house. In practice, that's faster than a stop at a gas station.

Obviously grandma will need charging at their house to do this^, but if you're driving 400+ miles you're usually going to stay the night which means you can plug into a normal outlet and charge over night.
I completely agree with you.

Honestly I don’t about an E/C ideal ratio. My only fear is an ideology becoming so popular to the detriment/exclusion of anything else.

One slightly distressing example is our belief of the inherent value of all humans while our naturalist view points towards natural selection and the survival of the fittest. Say, in a plane accident giving preference to the weakest, i.e. disable, goes against the natural selection scenario that would benefit the species, given that those that are being giving preference are the ones with the least probability of survival, and from a purely naturalistic point of view, it should be the strong and healthy that should exit the plane and survive since that would equate to the greatest net benefit to the survival of the human species.

This is, for example, one of the things that bothers me.
The thing I want most from a notes app is a web API that lets me programmatically fetch my notes data.

Evernote's public API uses Thrift, which is really weird. Usually it takes me a couple of minutes to start getting data out of a web API - in Evernote's case I gave up after an hour.
On the other hand, judging people for actions/justifications like these makes it easier to postpone or avoid making demands for systematic changes. Blaming individuals is easier, and has a higher chance of getting results. The fossil fuel industry is great at utilizing this, placing blame on individuals of the general public for pollution.
That is usually called an asset.
New, 800V, electric cars, will recharge in half the time
The excess mortality for the past few years in Sweden:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-raw-deat...

Better than most, not as good as some. Certainly not the catastrophe predicted by some.
Some hard requirements that go beyond occupancy rules and forbidding hedge funds from buying houses.

What are your suggestions?
What almost invariably happens in cases like this or the cell phone surveillance boxes (Stingrays) is that if the underlying technology or behavior is challenged or questioned strongly enough, the evidence introduced by them, if not the case itself, will be withdrawn, in order to try to avoid any negative precedent against the device or technology being set.
"Toni Crowe retired as the Vice President of Operations to pursue her dream of being a writer."

Sounds like she got laid off herself next go round.
Mind expanding? Keeping my eye out for new things to work on: if there’s scaled-down autonomous navigation problems that might be both immediately useful and more generally useful when solved, that sounds interesting.
I use FCGI with Go programs. FGCI is an orchestration system. Each worker process has a subroutine that's called when there's an incoming request, so the FCGI processes are reused for more than one task.
The FCGI server will fire up more worker processes when needed, and ask them to exit when there's no work for a while. If a worker process crashes, a fresh copy is started. Every few minutes, each worker process is told to exit, so if you have a memory leak, the problem is contained.

Once you've switched to hard-compiled Go, vs. some interpreted language, you've obtained most of the possible speedups.

That's really all you need. I have a moderately busy server that's been up for over a thousand days without a reboot or restarting the FCGI service running under Apache.

You have to have a huge load before FCGI, multiple servers, a load balancer, and back-end database machines are not enough. Wikipedia used to run on something like that, until they hired too many people and had to keep them busy.
How do those web frameworks gain the ability to process things in parallel? What prevents a ‘single process’ from adopting those same methods?
The reason most Python folks moved away from CGI more than two decades ago now is that the performance is terrible. The interpreter startup time (plus any time executing module imports) has to run per request. This is much less of an issue for shell scripts which startup very quickly.

The programming model does have its advantages though. Persistent servers risk leaking information across requests (seems to be a particular risk in async programming systems where requests execute concurrently in the same thread) so there's a definite advantage to isolation between requests. I'd love to see a server that used per-request v8 isolates (with snapshots for fast startup time.)
Yes. I never understood why JSON over s-exprs. The absence of maps is not a negative. S-exprs can represent maps. There are no maps in JSON, really anyway. It is just text. How that data is represented in memory is the output of parsing. You could just as well parse (dict (a 1)(b 2)(c 3)) into a hash table if you wanted. You could also have sets (set 1 2 3) or whatever other data structure.
I know they have had fabs, but they decided to go with TSMC recently, and that's what I was wondering about. Going with TSMC doesn't mean TSMC does their designs too, does it?
The science and societies of the past were always flawed, and mistaken, they just didn't know better. The science and societies of the present never are wrong or flawed in their thinking.

Always was true always will be.

I think it's cause:
1. Arrogance
2. Dead people take blame very well, and can't really argue back.
If it's a criticism of the video in isolation, then that holds merit. It sounded to me like it was a criticism of his technique and how he does things. That he acknowledged that as a mistake to rectify makes it less valid as a critique of that as long as he actually changes.
In most jurisdictions, your property taxes and insurance costs always go up year-over-year.

Once in a great while, you might get a reduction, but it's really rare
Transcription Factors in Deriving β Cell
See also

My Mistress Melancholy: Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy - https://aeon.co/essays/robert-burton-lived-and-died-for-his-...

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22430219 - Feb 2020 but no comments)
> great communication isn’t just about what you say, it’s about what other people hear

This is very smart.
I strongly disagree that Go and Rust are "exotic", "obscure", or "rarely spotted".
When playing video games becomes a full-time job
Super helpful - AWS changed their documentation a few years ago and I struggled to find IAM actions.
Fire scientists fight over what western forests should look like (2012)
I would assume this LEO works in a relatively low-crime area. I know that where I am most murders remain unsolved and and the shootings that I’ve witnessed appear to be premeditated.
And don't forget complex numbers or higher dimensionality.
In the mountain West of the US, there are semi-frequent major highway closures due to weather conditions, serious accidents, etc. It is not uncommon for the shortest paved detour to add 120 km to your trip. That's not a big deal in an ICE vehicle, since every one-horse town near the detour route has a gas station. That fact has saved my bacon several times even with proper planning. People who live out there are accustomed to this reality. Adventurous people can sometimes find much shorter alternative routes using ranch/mining/forestry trails but those don't always exist and you definitely won't be driving your Tesla on those roads.

The worst detour I've experienced in recent years was a serious accident in the middle-of-nowhere Utah, which closed the highway in both directions for almost 24 hours. The shortest paved detour around the accident added 150km of nothingness to the trip.
Obsidian really is a great choice if you are looking for Markdown. Windows, Linux, Mac, Android/iOS mobile apps soon. It's polished, fast, and all around a great experience. Flexible inter-note linking (wiki style), visualization, backlink discovery, handles images and embedded documents well. All around a good product.

I'm still looking for something with a cross-platform GUI that I like as much as I liked Obsidian.md - but with the same sort of arbitrarily nested hierarchy (with TODOs and the like at any level) and the ability to adhoc rearrange my notes like org-mode provides. The Emacs/org-mode level of customization would be nice, too.

Trilium Notes ( https://github.com/zadam/trilium ) was also a good contendor, but not having a text-content-first focus made for some frustrating experiences of data corruption, and testing data export of my initial trial run was messy as a consequence as well.
This text seems like it is stuck in time. I wouldn't be able to do most of the stuff I am doing without libraries and frameworks. It would simply take so much time redoing the same shit that others have done before so I couldn't finish my task at hand and solve the problems I actually care about.

Plus, just look at this dudes website. Sure it works just fine but it's nearly impossible to read on my large screen. It feels like it was designed for an older CRT screen and has never been updated since.

I wonder how people like this can survive in todays world with the requirements people have on web software. You will sooner or later be out competed by a guy using a web framework.
https://archive.is/k5jeP
Except for specifically following personalities/celebrities, I can't see the advantage of Twitter over Reddit.
The only downside of CGI that I know about is the fact it starts a new process to handle each user request.

When you're saying it's preferable to serverside web frameworks you probably ought to point out that it does far less for you. I started out in web dev working on Perl CGI scripts and they were great (once you got your FTP app to use the right CRLF encoding), but you really had to do everything yourself. Some devs might see that as a benefit but I don't.
The (IMO) "right" way to do an unprotected left is also somewhat situational. If there isn't a lot of traffic generally on a country road but a somewhat bunched up group of vehicles is coming, I'll be patient until the bunch has cleared (unless someone flashes their lights at me). If on the other hand, I'm in a busier urban area and I can see there aren't a lot of openings, I'll be more aggressive including at traffic light changes.

In general, my expectation--which may be completely wrong--is that we'll see autonomous driving on sections of highways in good weather long before we have door to door almost everywhere. Which is useful by itself for long highway drives.
Yeah, messing with free markets. That has proved to work really well.
> You can run the code on GitHub Codespaces

I think this would fall under "use" which I dispute the GitHub TOS allows.

> and you can dynamically link ended the code in other projects on GitHub through git submodules.

Sure. As long as you do not compile and run it, you can link it until you turn blue in the face.
See the other comment thread about https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5...

-7 IQ points is not terrible, but not insignificant.
"Good" in what sense? Police and prosecutors don't necessarily care about their evidence being good in the sense of accurate. It just needs to convince a jury.

There is a very, very, very long history of police and prosecutors using bad (in the sense of accuracy) evidence to put people in jail.
it is the key right next to homicide on the keyboard.
I’m all for simplicity, but I don’t understand why the author treats CGI as a beacon of simplicity. In the example of teaching students, I wouldn’t start with dynamic websites at all. You can introduce requests, pages, urls, etc., in the context of static sites or front end development. Then it should be fairly easy to see the patterns that flask is abstracting away.

Most websites are either primarily static, with no server side code, or they’re fully dynamic, where every page is generated. CGI shines when sites are a mix.

One other alternative to CGI that the author doesn’t mention is reverse-proxying a single page. I find that to have more practical use than CGI.
Help 30yo “boomer” fit into hipster working culture
Please do not dismiss me as a bad person right away, here is the thing: Not sure if I am just old-fashioned or a boomer in the body of 30 year old, but I have trouble fitting in modern IT hipster working environment. I tried to solve this by working in the companies with less progressive approach to work, but it is inevitable that hipsters will start joining my present company too. Note that I do not hate them. I just feel I have problem to fit in, because my mindset is different. And it's not just about the age, I've met many people that are older than me with the behavior described in the following points:

What I like:
- Supportive mindset
- Flexibility, willingness to use latest technologies
- Easy to have small talk with

My struggles:
- Massive amounts of soy lattes, excessive friendliness that seems almost fake.
- MacBook obsession aka "I think we should all use MacBooks, they are best and it creates nice unified vibe..."
- They want to change the world, engage in activism but are less willing to change their own toxic behavior and/or character.
- Seemingly random working time, daily alcohol or drug consumption that affects work performance => mood swings
- Unable to use email, if someone (client ,colleague) refuses to use Slack it's insurmountable problem.
- Spending lot of money at Barber's and for avocado toasts, complaining about no money for rent (I think here I have some common ground :) )

Note that I don't judge someone for being like this, I understand that world is changing and so does the work culture. I am just honestly looking for a way to fit in and find a way to effectively cooperate with these people. Any suggestion are welcome!
I was bullish on Cymer back in the mid to late 90s. The stock did nothing (well maybe doubled) until ASML bought the m, perhaps then doubling the stock price. I was so frustrated because Cymer’s light source was the enabler of smaller and faster chips. Anyone have a theory why Cymer never had a great ROI, compared to other equipment makers? Nikon and Cannon were already enormous, and Applied Materials, KLA-tencore, and others were already big and faced competition.
Ah yes - this one was clearly a follow-up to that one, which makes it less interesting (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).
It's about costs: both energy and economic.

Those are BOTH non-negotiable facts.

I agree: there are NICHES where hydrogen could be right. NICHES!!! Not everything or even most cases.
Fabs are just a wee bit more complicated than buy the machine and plug it in. Everything is very tightly integrated under insanely precise requirements. Changing equipment is akin to redesigning and reconstructing a non trivial portion of the fab. And that's just integrating these lithography machines, which are but one piece of a huge puzzle.
Not all forensics disciplins are created equal and some of them, such as hair forensics, are definitely junk science.
My street is lined with Norway Maple and barely any seedlings at all come up.

The Siberian elm next door and oak down the street end up with many more seedlings in the yard than the maples.

I can see it being a different situation in a yard adjacent to a stand of more natural trees though.
You'll find that the isolation goes out of the window when you need sessions; they need to be stored somewhere that persists across requests.
CGI really is a beautiful abstraction.

The reason we stopped using it 15+ years ago was performance: forking a new process for every incoming web request just didn't make sense on ~2000 era hardware.

I wonder how true that is today, given that our machines have vastly more RAM and CPU?

If you squint at them the right way AWS Lambda functions are pretty similar to the CGI model.
> No, we vote to elect parties and party representatives to take decisions on our behalf.

Kind of, but only to a limited degree. We vote for administrations that should deal "in our interest", but there's e.g. no legal mandate for them to decide to give up democracy and choose a King. Many EU-states recognized that and went for referendums on large items, e.g. on the European Constitution.

A large-scale change of the nation is certainly not within the mandate given to them in any normal election.

I understand the hesitance regarding direct democracy, because it's inconvenient. You have to actually convince people, and not broker a deal behind closed doors where you bribe people and they say yes "on behalf of everyone who voted for them". It works great in Switzerland though, they're peaceful and happy and free, and have been doing it successfully for quite a substantial amount of time.
Why are fires getting worse? These scientists explain
The resolution is probably already there now. AI can do gait recognition based on video, and sensor traces from accelerometers are accurate enough to detect individual footsteps. Are they precise enough to recognize gait? I don't know. But they can easily distinguish between walking, jogging, running, and riding a bike.
This guy doesn't sound like he's qualified to be giving advice to be perfectly honest. He failed to set up any other kind of web server?
I don't know why I think so much about crime (not murder, but larceny, and safe cracking), but I do.

I have come to the conclusion that because of the proliferation of cheap tech (Mainly cameras everywhere), pulling off successful capers in exponentially harder than it was 15 years ago.

It used to be getting away is lighting up the tires, and you are gone.

Now--cops that aren't just Revenue Collecting can get a treasure trove of info just asking for cam footage.

Hell, even carrying around construction tools can arouse suspicion if pulled over.

I guess it's for the best? There is still a bit of me rooting for the clever thief.
I assume that, once you get vehicles driving autonomously on sections of highways, you have some sort of beacon/alerting system that cause the vehicle to tell the driver that it's going to be dropping out of autonomous mode.
Given the way US election systems and campaigning requirements operate all parties are parties of the rich. The only difference is which block of poorer people they claim to pander to get some of the votes. Neither actually makes a significantly major difference to their preferred lower income demographic. That said though, I don't feel the two parties are interchangeable. Just the support for lesser restrictions for women's health and reproductive services makes Democrats a superior option.
Think of these machines as being what a paint brush is to an artist; it's just a tool. Anyone can buy a paintbrush, but it takes much skill and experience to paint a masterpiece.

Even if you have a masterpiece in your possession to try and copy, you will fail.