skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read and/or skimmed a few papers. I can point people to the literature, I don't claim to understand much of it well myself.

That said:

- The pilot projects are essentially small-scale deployments. The principles are being developed at what's effectively "personal scale", plus or minus.

- I expect that there would probably be economies of scale in several regards, including in operations, maintenance, and training.

- At small scale, if you want fuel, growing it may be the more robust and reliable option. This gets back to the fundamental problem that fuels require considerable energy inputs. For an off-grid site, a firewood-fueled stove, possibly driving a generator through some mechanism (turbine, steam engine) or a biomass-based oil (olive, corn, canola, algae, ...) or alcohol (via fermentation) production serving needs for which liquid fuels were absolutely essential might be more reliable.

Keep in mind that a little over a century ago, the US was effectively biofuel powered, with a principle prime mover in the form of the horse. Horsefeed consumed roughly 20% of total US agricultural output at the time. When I first started looking into alternatives to a fossil-fuel based world, my assumption was that biomass would be a readily-viable substitute. In reality, there simply is not enough net primary production (plant growth) to reasonbly support present levels of human energy consumption, let alone projected growth through economic advancement and population increase through the 21st century. If humans are to live on biomass (as we once did), either standards of living, or population, or both, will have to decrease quite considerably. (This give rise to some of the more modest suggestions of a maximum viable long-term human population, ranging from about 500 million to 2 billion, suggested by some experts on the topic.)

One of the prime positie attributes of hydrocarbon fuels, especially the slightly heavier grades (kerosene, diesel, fuel oil, etc.) is that they travel and store exceedingly well. So long as 1) a synfuel capability exists and 2) your off-grid site has some commerce with the outside world, trading for fuel would likely be your best bet.
This is the question that ties into mine — if the economic incentives have changed (i.e. there is no penalty for renters of containers to not get containers back to their primary shipper) then this is a perfectly reasonable response to the change from Covid to today — i.e. the new game is moving the ship as fast as possible with no downtime. If the demurrage is still incurred, then there’s some other alternatives that do not appear to be completely without nefarious intent.
Desktop is dead?
Can you clarify what "2x/3x salary increments" means? Are you saying people are tripling their salary? Or do you mean, like, 3x a normal (~3%) raise, or whatever?
It used to be that youtube-dl worked, but on that CIA video I now get:

[youtube] _2khAmMTAjI: Downloading webpage
[youtube] _2khAmMTAjI: Refetching age-gated info webpage
WARNING: unable to download video info webpage: HTTP Error 410: Gone
ERROR: Sign in to confirm your age
This video may be inappropriate for some users.

Meh.

The following content has been identified by the YouTube community as inappropriate or offensive to some audiences.

Was it really "the community" though?

Anyway, that video doesn't seem very out there at all to me. That the CIA has committed various things most reasonable people would classify as "crimes" and "terrorism" seems like common knowledge to me.
This is highy logical and so very sensible.

It would be intersting to see the converse in its failure version for comparison.
> hate speech and harmful misinformation

Both undefinable terms that are increasingly being used anytime the current Western establishment wishes to censor speech and silence their opponents.

When the Chinese or Russians do it, we call it out for what it is: censorship and abuse of power. It's even more insidious when it's done in supposedly free societies, because we wrap it up in a bow with these nebulous terms and feign noble intentions.
More even handed article than most, but if the author was aware of, or acknowledged, the many ongoing real world official uses of Ivermectin for
COVID at scale in many large countries, I missed it. I can understand that if one is only focused on studies that result in papers, one could overlook the mass scale uses. My understanding is that data from such large in situ deployments of a drug trumps the significance of studies which are generally by necessity much more limited.
Like everybody else here said, YouTube is the wild west with zero content curation and shit moderation. My 4 year old loved this gaming channel on my one smart TV with a YouTube app, I saw a few episodes with him and it was all normal gamer stuff with reactions. Now I banned him from watching YouTube because that channel started doing reviews of games inspired by Squid Game (if you haven't watched it, it's essentially violence porn)

I had the same problem with my elder kid, YouTube is to kids what Facebook is to the aging population and Tiktok is to teens, an uncurated poison. But kids lack the ability to filter their own content, and YouTube makes no effort to curate. He complains he can't watch it anymore but when I stream kid-appropriate content from the other streaming platforms he'll watch it without further complaint
Slight historical note: most Japanese auto manufacturers started off making motorized bicycles and small utility vehicles, then pivoted up into retail cars.
There's no such thing as hate speech, only free speech and speech you like or don't like.
Catch-22:

Top cited primary cause of homelessness: "Lost Job" (26%)

Top cited obstacle to obtaining employment: "No Permanent Address" (28%)
In what way ?

Jet brains makes a free open source product and has a paid for product with extra features

Ms makes a free open source product with a paid product with more features (thou different code base)
Every tech company was forced into remote working, suddenly now every tech worker is (really) competing on the global job market, and the market is adjusting to the new offer/demand. That’s my theory.
The phrase "spice trader" has such a lovely old world charm to it! Or maybe it's because I am from the GB.
Tech debt is lack of infrastructure maintenance.

Metaphor that leaps to my mind: bakery thats in the bread business, but delivers product with trucks... not maintaining the truck fleet would be an equivalent to technical debt; when the trucks fail so does the business, even though the cause might be arguably unrelated with what they do as a business.

Another useful one is "capacity is like a dam, the load is like the lake behind it" and then talk about storms surges and boat wakes slopping water over the edge of it, starting erosion, and then everything falls down catastrophically.
The article itself says that 30% of the homeless people say that they were already homeless before they arrived.
Shout out to Illegal Pete’s Big Fish and Potato burritos. Try those instead.
And it's also available as a VST plugin!
nice quick read : )

synopsis: we are all playing the squid game except we get to try again if we dont win
I looked into using them for construction as I am building a office / workshop, roughly the size of two 20ft shipping containers. As much as it may be glamourised on social media, it has a lot of limitations.

In my case it's actually cheaper and much more flexible to build it as you would a traditional building. I live 300 miles from the nearest port, so that doesn't help. I also looked into the container sized temporary buildings used on construction site, and they are made from scratch (not from old shipping containers).
Just looking for people’s personal experiences here.
They intentionally are opaque. Whenever it is advantageous for them to do so they disclose more proven Reserves.
Facebook Gaming Expands Its Cloud Gaming Platform to 45 Games
I really don't think "gentrification of a very small area" is at all the reason for SF's astounding rate of homelessness, robbery, violent crime, and low rate of prosecution for crime.

There's plenty of info online on Chesa Boudin, who is largely responsible for accelerating this (whereas an opposite DA could have tried to stop the descent into lawlessness).
Spoiler, it does!
There is more money chasing fewer workers.
License plate scanners didn't bring peace of mind they tore a neighborhood apart
This article is fascinating, and surprising:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...
Spoken like a true Brit.
> I'm fully vaccinated but am not sold on getting a booster because I'm not in a high-risk group and understand the current science to indicate that the initial series I received continues to significantly reduce my risk of illness, hospitalization and death.

Well the problem is that this ship already sailed. You can be “not sold” on getting a booster all you want, but give it a few months and for employment/entertainment/etc venues you will be considered unvaccinated, period. This is what most “got vaccinated but not sure about passports” crowd don’t seem to understand, there is not gonna be a middle ground, you either have your nth (and go figure the value of n if they want to establish 1 or 2 a year…) booster or you might as well be Andrew Wakefield.
I’ve had to “restart” my social circle after moving to new places (SF, LA, and now Taipei) here are some tricks:

1. Get roommates. Not for everyone, but moving in with two other people even though I could afford my own place made it really easy for me to jump into tgeir friend circles quickly.

2. Meetup.com, Eventbrite and similar sites. Just pick a couple of things you’re vaguely interested in (for me it was language exchanges, salsa dancing, board games, and startup meetups) and show up every week. Even if you’re shy, you’ll naturally start chatting to people after a couple of events.

3. When you meet a couple of people, make your own events and invite them. E.g. If you meet someone at an event who likes rock climbing send them a text the next day saying “Hey, I’m going to a new rock climbing gym on Wednesday, do you want to meet me there?” Once you invite people to a few things they‘ll start inviting you too.

Does all this take effort on your part? Yes. But its worth it. And you’ll get better. I was bad at this when I was in LA, but after working on these skills I built upba friend circle in Taipei (arguably harder because of language barriers) within a couple months. Good luck and don’t give up!
Obvious solutions like "just give them houses" are discussed in the book, and previous attempts are evaluated. As you might expect, stuffing severely ill people into apartments without addressing the illness results in poor outcomes.
Not only do containers not pay the same, but containers to the same location often don't pay the same. So many variables and often the driver is the one that ends up getting screwed in the process. I completely understand why so many simply refuse certain loads. And getting assigned a load you know nothing about before it's on your truck is a no go for most drivers.
The author argues that housing prices are not a significant factor:

"Throughout it, they emphasized that the homeless were just like you and me, just poorer. Today, many of California’s leading homelessness advocates insist that the current crisis is due mostly to the housing shortage. Homelessness experts and advocates disagree.

'I’ve rarely seen a normal able-bodied able-minded non-drug-using homeless person who’s just down on their luck,” L.A. street doctor Susan Partovi told me. “Of the thousands of people I’ve worked with over 16 years, it’s like one or two people a year. And they’re the easiest to deal with.'” [1]

[1] https://www.studentnewsdaily.com/editorials-for-students/why...
This is really good advice. Thank you!
I'm sympathetic to a leftist solution here, but let's not ignore the reality of what happened when we built huge public housing buildings in the 50s and 60s. They were a failure for everyone involved, and there aren't any easy solutions.
He admitted no such thing. He said there was a mistake in the "execution" of the decision, when it's the decision itself that's the problem, not the way they executed.
> People get large checks from the gov and are not pressured to find job. -> Irrelevant for tech workers

Want to mention here, even though it may be "Irrelevant for tech workers", employment did not rise again when these checks ended. This line of reasoning is false.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_usage_of_the_United_S...
Yes, it's real. IMO it's the following - 1. tech has flourished during the pandemic, and that plus money printing means there is a ton of demand and money floating around to attract talent. 2. after 18 months of working from home and being miserable during covid, people are ready for a change. that's why we see a lot of new home purchases, job changes, moves, etc. It seems liek covid has basically accelerated people's timelines by several years because they realized life is short, things can change in a flash, and they reassess whatever it is they're doing and whether it's something they want to keep doing, and a lot of the time the answer is no. Increased demand/$$ plus increased supply = ton of movement between jobs
Or when they are being paid by the government, which is indeed the case with covid messaging, just like they do all other MSM. Hence the lawsuits against Facebook for censorship because they are acting as agents of the state.
Mostly no - if you look back more than a year, you'd see that quit rates are modestly higher than normal, but balanced out by the very low quit rates in 2020. If you do 2 year averages, the past two years looks the same as 2018-2019 or 2016-2017.
San Jose, and the peninsula don’t have nearly as much petty theft or shoplifting crime. And yet the laws are nearly identical. Only difference I can think of is the local community supporting the police.
"A culture of permissive lawlessness"? A studio apartment in San Francisco starts at what, $2k?

> Mr Shellenberger thinks they are on the streets in part because of a “housing-first” approach, which holds out for permanent, individual homes at the expense of building enough temporary accommodation.

So his approach is that San Francisco should have third world-style slums?

The solutions are simple: rent control and public housing. There just isn't political will for these policies: wealthy real estate investors fight them tooth and nail.
UK: Students could be prevented from taking university courses deemed low value
So what should we do? Locking everyone up seems like it would be even more expensive with even worse long-term results.
This is literally the same argument for why Uber/Lyft/Doordash drivers need to know the details of a fare before accepting, but a couple of orders-of-magnitude higher.
I worked for a university, lifestyle job with bad pay but plenty of time off. But when a plan to fix pay schedules was shelved and replaced with furloughs due to the pandemic, I took the first thing I could find, which was with a local company that's a total cultural mismatch and where my skill are underutilized.

Which is to say I'm applying like mad to find remote work since I like owning a house and having room to breath instead of paying multiples of my mortgage to share an apartment in a tech hub city.

But I also need to make up for the long-term damage the university job did to my earnings/early retirement potential.
Barcelona has a functional public transit system, including fairly far reaching metros. It's pretty unusual to find a trip that's more than a hour at any time of day.
To paraphrase my reading, he noted a problem of waiting trucks with empty containers that can't unload the empties, thus can't pick up new full containers.

Stacking empties higher will (in his opinion) allow getting more full containers out of the port.
> There's indisputable evidence that the vaccination is impacting R.

I think you are misusing the word indisputable, since clearly, people are disputing it.

> While it's true that the accuracy of estimates for R depends on many factors and certainly there have always been some cases flying under the radar (though that has been studied extensively via antibody studies and other means) proxies like the number of people dying, the number of people hospitalized, while controlling for things like vaccinations are accurate enough to detect this.

You just listed a number of proxies that are inaccurate, and/or, generally missing.

Why?

Simply because Covid is highly dangerous to the advanced in age, those that express ACE2, and those with multiple co-morbidities, in particular obese diabetics.

For example, a white male 6' 200 lbs with no comorbidities nonsmoker has the following mortality rate by age:

18: 2.1 per 1M

30: 2.1 per 1M

45: 1.6 per 100K

60: 4.3 per 100K

75: 2.2 per 10k

90: 0.7 per 10k

So, while covid may move through a retirement community like the Death Angel, across a team of 16 year old soccer players most will be asymptomatic, and a few may appear to have a cold.

As someone that has had access to a regional hospital system's covid counts, I can assure you that this is not a disease of the very young and fit.

Our surveillance numbers around covid antibodies is incredibly low because it is only a tiny percentage of the population that is getting tested for antibodies. There are more people being tested for active infections, than there are for antibodies.

Indisputable this is not.
But almost no one is "excluding themselves for non-medical reasons." They're excluding themselves because they're at very low risk from Covid, the adverse event rate for these vaccines is about 30-50 times those of the flu shot, and they have no long-term safety data.

Before the stops were pulled out for Covid, previous attempts at using these platforms foundered because waning effectiveness necessitated repeat dosing (hmmm...) and cumulative toxic effects were observed over time (hmmmmmmmm...)
For which country?

Source on these quit rates?
Interest rates have been low for long time though. Seems you need another explanation to explain the recent increase in resignations.
Is it possible China is subsidizing creating the new containers exacerbating this problem?
You are probably swamped with comments already, so you probably won't read this. But I think one of the issues that I had with making friends was the feeling that nearly everyone I was talking to and trying to make friends with seemed to be doing better with it than me (ex: the acquaintances I made in my classes having too many friends already, so they don't want to hang).

I think a part of that is due to the average person you talk to and try to make friends with has a lot more friends than the average person. I think it's kind of like how the average YouTube video you watch has a lot more views than the average YouTube video.

People with more friends hang out more and are more social, they meet more people, and they meet more people who want to be friends with them.

Factors like that might cause you to feel less confident about how you're doing with making friends and socializing, and which cause you to want to try less and put yourself out there less.

If you're trying (and thinking how I was thinking back then), you're probably doing better than you think.

The most important factor in becoming popular is luck.
IIUC, this is actually a general deficiency in the type system for variable-width tuples. Consider:

f1 :: (Bit,()) -> Int
f1 (0,()) = 3
f1 (1,()) = 3
-- f1 (0,undefined) is undefined
f2 :: (Bit,(Bit,())) -> Int
-- and so on. Conversely
g2 :: Bit -> Bit -> Int
g1 :: Bit -> Int
g0 :: Int
-- doesn't have this problem but also doesn't work well for busses.
-- The 'obvious' approach
h3 :: (Bit,Bit,Bit) -> Int
h2 :: (Bit,Bit) -> Int
h1 :: (Bit) -> Int
h0 :: () -> Int
-- doesn't work generically; (Bit) isn't a tuple at all,
-- and n-element tuples are totally unrelated to m(!=n)-element tuples
-- (they're literally declared as:
data (a,b) = (a,b)
data (a,b,c) = (a,b,c)
-- in module GHC.Tuple)

You can actually fix this by (ab)using types of kind `TYPE 'UnliftedRep` and unboxed tuples (type `(# Car, Cdr #)`, value `(# b7, b6543210 #)`), it's just generally not worth the effort.
It’s probably more efficient to use a fuel like methane as opposed to oil as a medium-long term storage, e.g. for turbines used to address peak power grid usage, or winter storms (especially as more homes electrify HVAC).
> also well-established scientific consensus is not an ideal goal post

Genuinely asking, how should I evaluate truth in a subject matter that I myself don't have a doctorate in if the standard of "what is general consensus among the people with doctorates in the subject" isn't reasonable?
“Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups — and the electronic hardware exists by which to deliver these pseudo-worlds right into the heads of the reader”
Most websites work fine with third-party cookies disabled so there's not much to manage either. Those that break are usually owned by companies that monetize with ads (some of yandex's services), which is telling, or are just very poorly made (aliexpress).
IntelliJ does not have a long history of abusing its monopoly positions to the detriment of its users and developers, nor does it own the biggest default open source code collaboration platform. I think anyone who is not heavily skeptical of Microsoft’s long term intentions here (whether they are explicit goals or just natural outgrowths of being a monopolist) is either shockingly ignorant or willfully naive.

Things will get ugly sooner or later, to the dev industry’s detriment. Insisting that one of the biggest tech companies on earth, with a history of abusing its power, go further than smaller companies is not unfair. In order to retain trust, Microsoft needs to put restraints on its own behavior and be open about it.
F-35 Lightning Walkaround [video]
Correct. Atherton isn't a great example. There's literally no downtown, so any homeless people would have to set up camp right outside some (very rich) person's (giant) single family home on a street with no sidewalk. Even in less affluent parts of the Bay Area unhoused people typically cluster in business or industrial districts rather than residential neighborhoods filled with single family homes.

You see unhoused people in downtown Menlo Park, Palo Alto, and Los Altos which are almost as wealthy as Atherton, and there was temporary outrage last year when it was reported that Menlo Park PD had paid for a one-way cab ride for one of the regular unhoused residents up to Pacifica (they claimed that she asked them to get her there so she could get her hair cut by a friend).
> but desktop is dead

People keep saying this, but they obviously have no idea. Desktop isn’t dead and nowhere near it. Just because web and mobile app developers think so doesn’t make it true.

There are several industries in which desktop applications are a must. Any application with the needs of multiple windows automatically rules out web and mobile stacks, even if they happen to work on desktops.
> an ability to concisely express the algorithm doesn't relate to an ability to actually understand it.

Exactly! Computationally, Kahane's algorithm is only a few simple steps. It's easy to write the steps down in a few lines of any language, and equally easy to understand what the individual steps are doing. The hard part about it isn't that it's too long and needs to be compressed into 8 symbols to be understood. The hard part is understanding why it is correct.
Especially burglary. The scariest stories of post-Chesa SF for my money are the home invasion ones when the owners/tenants are present in the home. Burglaries in Texas don’t happen unless the thief is 100% certain nobody is home.
Only someone with zero experience with San Francisco in the 70's, 80's and into the 1990's could say that with a straight face.