skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see these charter city posts pop up with some frequency now but I really want to know how this differs from the utopian city failures of the 20th century except that we've bolted more tech on it

The fundamental failure of this logic of trying to go somewhere and built a new city to escape the policy failures of the old city, is that those conflicts are intrinsic problems of large scale human organization. If you bring people, you bring the politics.

It's just the same dream that any anarchist commune has suffered from. Works okay if you're in a Kibbutz in Israel, doesn't work when you have a million people.

These startup cities always describe their policy solutions in consumer terms. 'Come here and you get yimby-ism and social services and x, y and z'. Okay what if the good people of your city turn into nimbies though? Do they have a say? If not how's anyone going to stop them, police with batons? Police you curiously enough never see on any of the concept art of all the diverse, young people sitting in front of modernist coffee shops, which is weird because I have to assume the city has some.
You make a good distinction there and perhaps politicians act as a bit of both. And I also think it's not scalable to vote on all issues that come up, that's why we have politicians full time. But for specific big issues direct democracy might work (thinking of Switzerland now).

So for the general case where we have representatives doing the voting, we should have a mechanism where we can switch representatives in cases where we don't agree on specific issues. And that's where principles from liquid democracy could bring solutions to the current coarse system that we have.

But I don't think there is a silver bullet.
This implies that there were a couple of AI systems that actually beat a radiologist, which I take as extremely promising for the field of AI radiology.

Like any domain in applied AI, there will be a lot of approaches that miss the mark, or are simply stepping stones to better approaches. There are thousands and thousands of papers on language modeling, but we only needed one superior approach (GPT) to change the game entirely.

The search through any cutting edge problem space is messy and full of failure, and that's fine. You only need one breakthrough.
How do you propose San Francisco adds 2 extra stories to most Victorians in the city? What would this process even look like? How do you get homeowners to do this and who would pay for it? Where would we even get the engineering and construction expertise to do this?

You would call an endeavor like this not building “that much”?
This was a civil case. What prosecutors are you talking about?
Some updates from Israel (based on Wednesday Sept 01 data)

"Some 11,246 new cases out of around 145,000 tests that were performed on Wednesday were diagnosed with the virus, the Health Ministry reported on Thursday evening, with 7.9% of those screened testing positive – the highest percentage since the start of the pandemic.
Israel is in first place in the world in the number of daily cases per capita in the last seven days, according to international reports."

Source: https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/coronavirus/israel...

To put it in perspective: 11246 cases in Israel, in proportion to the population, is roughly equivalent to 400K cases a day in US.
One rhyme demonstrates the palpable similarity between Frisian and English:

"Bread, butter and green cheese is good English and good Friese," which is pronounced more or less the same in both languages

(Frisian: "Brea, bûter, en griene tsiis is goed Ingelsk en goed Frysk.")

Interestingly, English has become a world language, while Frisian must fear extinction. 10 centuries ago, neither development would be predictable.
> Apart from one-off costs for building the line...

That's where the majority of the cost is. It may appear to be a one-off cost, but it's a capital expenditure that's huge, and such capex is financially equivalent to an ongoing cost of capital (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_capital).

Since individual connections each have some peak bandwidth capacity, that ongoing cost is proportional to peak bandwidth usage. So ISPs need to ensure that they have sufficient capacity at peak time. That's where their costs are.

One way to achieve this is to ignore the problem and effectively throttle customers at that peak time by under-provisioning. Another way is to discourage customers from maxing out their connections over peak times using monthly transfer limits.
Maybe. But golang is probably okay for the kinds of things people run on a Raspberry Pi.

There is also TinyGo for microcontrollers. https://tinygo.org
"Follow the money where your preconceived idea takes you"?
Pre-installed Ubuntu and Arch desktop images for LXD
I’m getting old I guess. That’s a Heathkit HERO-1 personal robot from the 80s.
"Blue Lives Matter" went around telling press that they choose that name as deliberate attack against Black Lives Matter, so it would be unfair to their wishes to not treat it as what they want it to be?
Seems like HN is eventually going to need some sort of better filter / moderation techniques.

PG has written extensively about spam

http://paulgraham.com/spam.html
> I know uid 0 in container will always map to uid outside the container

I don't think that's true. Have a look at Podman's --userns=keep-id and related options.
The death penalty would be laughed out of the court. I can present you with just one argument that would seal the deal, and it's in the form of a Socratic question: when in the several decades have we not understood that opiates (as painkillers, I am not talking about Loperamide although one could make that case as well) are often addictive?

You know it. I know it. Every doctor knows it. Every nurse knows it. Some people just have problems with that whole arena of medications, and we stopped selling laudanum at the corner store some time ago. OxyContin not addictive -- whom are you trying to kid? Everyone just nudged and winked each other, then wrote the scripts. The culpability is diffuse. Everyone going "Shucks golly, we had no idea!" is not convincing.

They made it, but we all bought it: hook, line and sinker. And we wanted to. And we knew better.
> Putting a trio of portrait 24" 1080ps gives you 42" of almost 4k (3240x1920 as opposed to 3240x2160).

As opposed to 3840 × 2160, no?
Are we using the same website? Twitter is none of the things you mention for me.
Read the reviews on the GPS tracking charger... either the people who bought it couldn't figure out how to use it, or its another scam product from china we see flooding amazon.
Our simple simulation had a 1-second time resolution, so it evaluated the formula for all link positions over the submission's lifetime. But there was no pagination.

We're working on a more accurate simulation that will have many features of real Hacker News, like pagination, new-pages and so on.
I think the French would fight English being the official Lingua Franca in the EU as hard as they can.
Heh, I wrote the SCSI BIOS for the first SCSI "little board" computers. Amazing to have that be state of the art at one time.
> defeats the purpose

Based on his testing, it looks like it achieves purpose just fine, and slightly better than the more expensive option.

> and is a waste of energy and money

His setup has over 5 times the filter area (1,400 cm² at 5 cm thick vs. 300 cm² at 4 cm thick), for $10 more on the filter replacement. Energy use is higher, but it's not clear that it exceeds the savings from cheaper filter replacements.

And by having those gaps in the filters, the fan motor is probably being saved from overheating. Plenty of air still gets entrained through the filters, even with some bypass.

It's kind of like premature optimization when writing a program. Where you think improvements are needed isn't necessarily where they should be. Test your code, find the hot spots, and improve those. With a filter setup, it might see obvious that a good seal is needed between filter and fan. Turns out, that's not always true.
I don't believe Gab and other alt-righters really are being honest about the issue. They're only raising alarm because they're a small segment of society that doesn't get along with the rest of us so they don't have many or any lifelines to call on. For the rest of us, it's just a Tuesday, we've been acclimated to the sad reality that the State can and will infringe on rights whenever it sees fit to do so. This doesn't justify what the Congressional committees are doing but that the alt-right in general would be completely fine with having Congress sending out subpoenas to Food not Bombs or the IWW because they're looney leftists or some other spiel. But the moment the mailed fist of the State decides to smash them they squeal as loud as possible. I'm not taking their bait. They're not the good guys. When they universally agree that the rights of life and liberty are to be respected for all parties including leftists like myself then I might consider helping them. Otherwise, I'm not going to waste my time with them nor should you.
Absolutely. Winamp is still the best mp3 player also.
Wirecutter pretty consistently produces spurious results, and bad recommendations.

Ben Kuhn and Dan Luu have written about this, Cf.
What about the ensemble of multiple AI systems, compared to a single radiologist?

In my mind, many AI systems will still be faster than a single radiologist (though this assumption is a completely random guess from my part, I don't know how fast these analysis robots can work.)
I'd be more concerned that 100% of people are vaccinated and that's still not enough to stop transmission.
A Plan for Spam – Paul Graham
> and that breakthrough cases still are as contagious as without vaccine (same viral load),

I would _not_ assume that this is settled science.

This out today:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.30.21262701v...

> These data indicate that vaccination shortens the duration of time of high transmission potential, minimizes symptom duration, and may restrict tissue dissemination.
I really want to buy a Honda ebut, the range is so underwhelming. A Zoe isn't that much bigger, but gets 400km. It would be out only car do I don't think I want to take the risk on something low range
The single greatest thing government affiliated groups like USDS, 18f, etc could do to boost hiring is to stop requiring employees to move to DC.

Matt Cutts did a pretty decent job given the circumstances. I'm looking forward to Mina Hsiang bringing in a new wave of changes.
The author is a vector & numerics expert at Apple.
Wow. SCSI ...

The memories!

PS. Hat off to you, sir. That must have been quite the undertaking, the BIOS ...
PREP Act grants broad immunity to Covid face mask manufacturers (2020)
Agree 100%. A friend of mine shared the article this morning and I basically said the same. By itself the 60% is a meaningless number and says nothing about the vaccine efficacy.

> An embarrassing failure for science.org

Yes. Looking at the author's bio, you would expect a more nuanced comment and not this kind of fear mongering.

Meredith Wadman

Meredith joined Science as a staff writer in September 2016, after covering biomedical research and its politics from Washington, D.C., for 20 years. Her current beat includes biology research, policy, and sexual harassment . She has been a staff writer for Nature and a contributing writer at Fortune. She has also written op-eds for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Washington Post. Her first book, The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease, was published by Viking (U.S./Canada) and Transworld (U.K.) in February 2017. Meredith earned her B.A. in Human Biology at Stanford University and began medical school at the University of British Columbia in her native Vancouver. She completed her medical degree as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, and earned a master’s of science at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Sounds like a fun, capable little machine ... :)
> 94% of 36 AI systems evaluated were less accurate than a single radiologist

Today 94% of 36 AI systems evaluated were less accurate than a single radiologist.

FTFY

In the beginning of the eDiscovery industry was here too. Lawyers read through insane amount of PDFs, TIFFs, emails and they were better than the AI/ML software presented.

Today most courts will reject human eD if AI/ML was available, and no proper legal team will use lawyers to search through terabytes of data 'manually'. The false negatives/positives are significantly better with AI/ML.
You should be fine, here is the comparison

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE4qmN_EOXw

edit1: exact time of the result https://youtu.be/zE4qmN_EOXw?t=250
Outside of criminal consequences, it is genuinely wild that no one is talking about the completely garbage process that the US Military uses to acquire technology: when an auditor asked reasonable questions about Thernaos he ended up called on the carpet by general Mattis

https://taskandpurpose.com/code-red-news/mattis-theranos-que...
Do you not think that there are demonstrably far more situations where regulation prevents adverse outcomes than situations where deregulation does? In my opinion, certain parts of the economy should be carved out and regulated carefully - even socialized - so that it can foster a thriving free market in the rest of the economy. Banking being a core aspect should be as boring, regulated and measured as humanly possible in support of this goal.

Do you not agree that the average individual is not an expert in what makes for a successful banking system? If that's the case why would you leave it up to them?

I agree I overstepped when I said it "never" works - generously, I was being hyperbolic, however cherry picking a few good outcomes doesn't a blueprint make, IMO.
OK OK everyone - not a perfect analogy ... but I feel it's worth defending.

No I don't want the cops to change my locks either - but imagine you lived in an apartment building whose rules that prevented say, adding a second lock. Even if you changed your lock, you could not give yourself the comfort of two-factor doors.

If there were tens of thousands of such apartments being burgled each day I would be surprised if the answer was not requiring landlords to raise their security standards.

Ultimately it frustrates me to find (yet another) area that criminal activity trivially siphons off cash to the extent we may as well call it a subsidy.
Do you know where there is more info on that?
I recalled the PG has written about spam as I see increasing numbers of HN spam posts and accounts over time, like these

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28396918

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28396909
> A crisis that was caused by the US government doing cheap "gain of function" virology research in Wuhan.

China was performing the research, not the US. Which was precisely the problem. China's lab incompetence (which was documented prior to the pandemic) may have released the virus. The US apparently provided a very modest amount of funding to the lab in Wuhan toward gain of function research.
In stock at CrowdSupply: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/fomu
>Vaccination is heavily correlated with age

not really https://eu.boell.org/sites/default/files/2021-06/IL%2004.jpg

Except for teenagers as it was pointed out, though i usually didn't consider them because of being outliers wrt. history of vaccination. Well, lets consider them too. That is new cases by age http://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/25295.jpeg

Let's look at opposites:

60-69 - 90% vaccination, 8% cases, 0.5M population

10-19 - 25% vaccination, 40% cases, 1.4M population.

I.e. almost 3x population, 5x cases with 25% vs 90% vaccination rate. Simple arithmetic - vaccinated chances to get infected are ~35% that of unvaccinated. Whatever way you slice and dice these numbers or the available numbers from other well vaccinated places like MA, UK, Singapore you always get in the 25%-40% ballpark.
I think the science always knew this, but they mislead the population because being vaccinated is still better than not. The whole vaccination thing is a white lie.

We have never eradicated the flu, it mutates too fast. Same is true with Covid-19. The medical establishment has always known this, yet they spread propaganda because, again, being vaccinated is safer. The numbers about 99% effective were a lie, they knew it would mutate and that would see a drastic drop.

I would argue this is a dangerous game they are playing with public trust.
You clearly misunderstand. That's not what you proposed initially. Doing so would also not have an impact on GDP. Everything in moderation, as they say.
Seems there are special drill bits for removing stripped screws…
> We call all sorts of soups soup even though they contain different ingredients, so why not Milk?

Because soup is any kind of liquid food. If you had made a soup that was made entirely of Milk, it would simply still be soup.

Milk is specifically produced by mammary glands of...a mammal.

Not sure why I have to explain how words and definitions work on HN, but there it is.
Tks for this wellwriten, fact driven comment.
It's not conjecture[1] -- what is misinformation is the assertion "...has been categorically shown to be untrue". Citation?

I find that when people use "categorically" in an assertion (denial), then there's good reason for doubt.

1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/08/25/vaccine-p...
My reading is that they are not asking "give us your disinformation" they are asking for their policies and data regarding the moderation of disinformation. Their response to the request seems to more or less answer the request by saying "we don't have any because we consciously don't try". This request appears to also be just a request. Nor a subpoena. But that being said, Congress isn't law enforcement. They're allowed issue subpoenas for information relevant to informing legislation. Mark Zuckerberg wasn't under indictment, nor was a material witness when he testified to Congress. They just wanted a public forum to understand how social media functions, how it could function and if additional oversight was warranted.
It isn't reality.

But if it was, I would suggest using a different phone. Maybe a fairphone running /e/ - that's my setup, with almost exclusively open source software. I can recommend it.
It appears to target "GPGPU" APIs like OpenCL and CUDA via translation, making it more like Xeon Phi in that its architecture and instruction set is vaguely GPU-like, while it lacks video output or fixed-function pipeline hardware for graphics stuff.

Also like Xeon Phi, I'm guessing you could add that hardware, it just hasn't been done because the other priorities were more interesting, and the practical performance would be "disappointing".
Does Japan still have the issue (compared to a US perspective, though it happens here to) where workers are expected to work very long hours to be seen as productive or a team player or whatever?

If that was still a problem and I could get a remote job for a Western style company with better working hours that would be a serious decision point.

Not to mention the salary issue others have mentioned that I wasn’t aware of.
I wonder how much of Reddit Condé Nast still owns. I never thought Reddit would IPO at this point.
>https://www.ebay.com/itm/223990414124

From lrvick's comment.
> ...and my current podman use on my workstation is to run rootful podman containers inside a VM...

This makes me feel that perhaps we're slowly moving in the direction of a full circle, to how Docker Toolbox worked inside of VirtualBox, at least on Windows: https://docs.docker.com/toolbox/

Here's an example of someone's experience with setting it up: https://medium.com/@peorth/using-docker-with-virtualbox-and-...

The industry seems to be slowly advancing, with Podman, Docker with HyperV and now with WSL2 integration, all just to solve the hard permission and runtime problem, whereas the actual OCI standard and the tooling that Docker provides for getting things up and running (environment variables, resource limits, exposing ports etc., with a few warts here and there) was sufficient from the beginning for the most part.

> I think though, you can't really replace docker with podman (without docker API) in a general sense.

With this, i agree, but perhaps i've ended up with a different set of conclusions. Docker and the tools like it are good for deploying applications in a mostly reproducible way and essentially solving the dependency management issue in a sub-optimal yet passable way.

Because of all of the tools solving this problem and it oftentimes being a chief concern for it being chosen, all else becomes secondary, short of pressing issues like exploits and such. To that end, Docker inside of a VM, with separate VMs for separate apps and separate clusters for separate environments seems like the least painful option - decent security, somewhat limited attack surface, not relying on just one technology to be secure (even Podman has its exploits), but with the wide support that Docker has.

For example, you could have your project, which has a few front end containers, a few various services for the back end and a few databases, also in containers. You could essentially have 1 VM per environment with all of those running (development, testing, accept testing) in the less important deployments, but have as many VMs and servers as you need for the important ones (staging, production). Then, have separate container clusters (with something like Docker Swarm) for your development environments and the production ones and you should be good.

Sometimes the path of least resistance isn't all that bad. At least until Podman is stable enough to be a daily driver, be it in 5 years, 10 years or never.
That is an insane, alarmist claim if I ever saw one. The death rate is absolutely not 2-3%.

What percentage of the population do think has been infected?
This sysctl `kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone` doesn't even exist in upstream kernels: the feature can only be disabled at build time.
>Salaries and prestige are relatively low for developers in Japan

Yeah, I was pretty surprised to hear that a Senior Engineering Manager at Rakuten, the "Japanese Amazon" and one of their top software companies, only has the TC of somewhere around $100k USD. And the position was in Tokyo, not exactly a cheap place.

Many senior engineers at "top tier" domestic software companies get paid somewhere around $70-$90k, which is pathetic for even LCOL areas in the U.S.
I think years of <div> only development has destroyed most developer's knowledge of semantic HTML elements. There are over a hundred elements with various meanings, but to a visual user, they all look the same. With a renewed interested in A11Y people are still starting to rediscover these, but it's still slow.
exactly, what prevents anyone from doing anything, really? haha!
Zone all housing in the United States such that two and three families can be built anywhere a single family house stands and all housing problems will be resolved within a decade.

It's that simple.
How can you claim with the CC company because the price dropped? Or is this just a chargeback?
My only complaint about Twitter on desktop web is that the feed auto updates itself. And it always happens just when I'm watching a video or I'm about to click on something...
Tidbit: UK, being 0-17 and unvaccinated bears a smaller risk of covid related death than being >40 and vaccinated.

https://twitter.com/kerpen/status/1420401034376224775
The insight here is more the application of fast integer division by a constant (to generating random numbers) than work "in" it.