skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On the other hand, many people in China doubt that the US is significantly better as China because of how much better they see their life compared to the past. So, they don't understand why people in the US are confident about their conflict against China.

Are you refering to military conflict? My guess would be that the Chinese people are very misled about the military prowess of their country. It seems like a weekly occurrence that a PRC military propaganda video is shown to actually use footage of foreign military exercises.

On the other hand, the US military (one might argue government as a whole) seems to be slipping in basic competencies. The navy has had three very public ship navigation errors in four years, and continues to be absolutely clueless about drones. ("UFOs") The air force has a new fighter which is still not functioning at design capabilities, and the withdrawl from Afghanistan was less organized than the 1970s withdrawl from Saigon. At least in the US the failures are public and might inspire change.
I think you are correct. For example in https://www.rch.org.au/kidsinfo/fact_sheets/Brain_injury_Eye... look at the graphic under the title "Visual field defect"
What is the test for deciding whether a policy is “genocidal”?

And are “genocidal” policies somehow different from policies that can be shown to have caused harm? And if so are they somehow worse or more deserving of recompense than this category of “harmful” policies? They are in some sense, double harmful?
> France is self sufficient

Actually, not currently. A combination of regulator-mandated nuclear plant stops, scheduled nuclear plant maintenance and fossil plant closures means that France currently relies on importing a lot currently.

Your statement is true generally, but France's situation currently contributes to high energy prices.
On a related note, the tab stop/indent marker/ruler in MS Word (and the related ruler/guidelines in Photoshop and others) are sorely missing in the generally available UI elements. For text on the web I get it, since it's all markdown and/or html, not exactly WYSIWYG-emulating-paper. Guidelines for the purposes of snap alignment are relatively easy to implement and have tons of use, but I have not seen any good ones in the wild yet.
So tomboys get special treatment?
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I kind of disagree about the language. Not because I wouldn't want an implementation in a fast language, but because I think a well designed chat system must be performant even if your language is an order of magnitude (or two) slower than it has to be. If you need to start throwing brute force at it, something's up with the design. Get the design right first and demonstrate it is right by showing that even a slow system has no trouble with it.
The Amd APU's would be interesting although under powered. They give you the option of setting "VRAM" size to almost any percentage of system memory.
> I like the utopia you're describing, but it's definitely not American suburbia.

Id definitely have to agree, over the last decade Ive seriously tried committing to life in the suburbs, megalopolises and extreme rural areas.

Walkable to downtown in a midsized city is the only thing that even remotely works for me personally / my family. You do have to be "rich" but it was worth getting a dayjob for.

Theres just something that feels really unsustainable and backwards about other types of spaces unless youre actually a millionaire or are growing your own food? Idunno again just my experience / opinion.
Agreed with your sentiment. It's scary easy to fall down and go from ok living style to becoming homeless.

But on the other hand, healthy debt is what grows the economy and it's a necessity. There should be more regulation / laws toward loan grants and far more regulation toward APR.

One thing for sure is that the system cannot favor lenders over borrowers or vice versa because failure on either side results in collapsing the system.
I can give an example of a proof of concept app I created for a hackathon -

Frontend hosting, I decided to go with a traditional hosting solution (vercel). Nothing changing here.

Backend APIs - Was able to replace the need for dedicated backend APIs by using RPCs and GraphQL queries using a project that allows for indexing smart contract event data in a GraphQL queryable format (https://thegraph.com/en/). I also created a smart contract which lives on the Ethereum chain and allows for users to achieve the interactivity that I desired for my app (which was essentially an escrow for a scheduling application). The events are indexed by the graph, so I could efficiently query this subgraph to retrieve relevant data to display on my frontend.

Authentication - Just use web3 packages to connect users wallets to the website. No need to use OAuth+OIDC or similar approaches for authentication, just connecting wallets on the frontend works.

If I wanted to take it a step further, I could have hosted my app on permaweb (https://www.arweave.org/) which will host the content in a distributed fashion with a one time charge.

For a different example, I'm creating an NFT project that uses the NFT ownership to grant access to specialized services (launching the user's NFT in a specialized application I created in an open source gaming engine). I use similar techniques as above, still hosting on vercel, but I use the innate ability to use NFTs as proof of ownership to act as an auth token into my service. This allows for me to distribute the interactive art I've created in a way that fully grants users ownership over the art, and also allows for them to access these specialized services only available to owners. Furthermore it's trivial to detect forgeries so even if someone does the horrible act of right click saving the art, they won't actually get any of the actual value from doing so. And if someone attempts to forge the token by minting an exact copy, it still will not grant access as it's easy to detect forgeries.

It's pretty exciting imo and has been a very fun project to work on. So by leveraging the similar approach for authentication (connect wallet), and NFT proof of ownership for authorization, I've been able to create a unique project with a lot less complicated of a stack tbh.

I personally think there's value in mixing centralized services (like traditional hosting of applications) with decentralized services (like using blockchains as a database of ownership, such as with NFTs).
Today I degraded
I've been to some of the more highly dense populated areas in southeast Asia, and in that environment there's definitely a strong dystopian feeling of living in a "factory farm".
> Try Glaswegian.

I'll put the Western Pennsylvania/Appalachia accent up against Glaswegian.

The Pittsburgh Penguins faced with Pittsburgh-ese:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07W9kCK6Q4

These are comedians making fun of the accent, but they don't do it justice. The accent itself can be near unintelligible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrJnIxrtB4w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_u122kFO2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJfNI9DppP4

We once had an employee from Westinghouse from the Netherlands over at our house for Thanksgiving. The poor man could understand everybody in the family except for my grandfather. He finally asked us what he was doing wrong. We all laughed and simply pointed out that the problem was my grandfather's accent, not his English and that a significant portion of America wouldn't be able to understand my grandfather, either.
> it’s entirely believable to say that omicron could go on to infect fewer people than delta due to the past two years of vaccination and immunity and die off

While this does appear plausible, doesn't this depend to some degree on what exactly is the immunity conferred by vaccination or past infection? If vaccines and past infections are effective against severity of case/symptoms but ineffective against new/re-infection, then you could still see greater numbers with omicron than even with delta. No?

Still not forever exponential, of course.
I was surprised that the ‘you only use x% of your brain’ canard was not discussed.

Whenever I read articles like this I feel the field is about 150 years behind other sciences. What I fail to grasp is whether they are marooned at this point, will always lag a distance, or rapidly advance. I hope it’s the latter but I read little evidence.
"Not Just Bikes" did a video not too long ago talking about how unsustainably expensive suburban infrastructure is maintain long term that I found fascinating, especially as we start to property taxes rise throughout the country.

One of the biggest problems our society currently faces is a lack of knowledge and interest in understanding why things like infrastructure cost so much, and that channel makes an interesting case as to why suburban infrastructure is prohibitively expensive to deal with long-term, and we're already starting to see that. Cities like Austin, with major suburban populations, are struggling to deal with public transportation expansion because everyone is so spread out, so meaningfully increasing access to transit becomes much more expensive. Suburbs are a perfect example of "make the next generation pay for it, I'm gonna enjoy this now."
A shame is how agriculture in Japan isn't cost competitive compared to America.
That study shows the exact opposite of what you're claiming. The third figure shows that the vast majority of women's messages go to men they rate as less than 4/5 attractive. The last figure shows that even the least attractive men still got replies to their messages 22% of the time.
In not very long WWII will be a century behind us.
Given it's more than twice as contagious, this is not such great news - and this is ignoring the immune escape, which makes it much, much worse than Delta!
I wonder if this has to do with they way taxes are spend. Does NYC generated taxes get spent on NYC? Or at least a decent percentage of it?
Even when true, deadliness is just one part of the problem. The second part is transmissibility.

Flu is not highly transmissible, it has R0 = 1.3 only. This means that 75% of the population will be not affected by. It can only kill 0.025% of the population.

If Omicron has R0 = 9 as has been claimed, it will infect 90% of the population.

When it had same mortality as flu, it could kill 0.09% of the population - that is 4x difference. In US it would be roughly 750000 deaths because of flu and 300000 because of Omicron.

Now this probably will work in setting where the speed of the transmission is slow enough that hospitals can manage the requirements put on them. If they could not because of too many concurrent cases, number of deaths can be higher.
You're correct, I should have said codified bigotry.
HVDC brings that down to about 3,5% per 1000km even.
Well maybe I’d say that by “our”, I mean the people who self-describe as “fans” of at least one of those teams, or people who have been to a live match featuring at least one of those teams in the last five years, or something like this.
I'm using markdown and https://docusaurus.io/

And, yes, please bookmark for easy sharing.
The article mentions electric vehicles several times as a panacea for suburbanism, but I think a lot of people fail to realize just how _miserable_ owning and commuting in a car is. I spend half an hour every morning and evening alternating between white-knuckling the steering wheel on the freeway while fearing for my life and being stuck in traffic on some God-forsaken stroad[0]. My daily routine would be unimaginably more enjoyable if I could step out of my front door and simply walk to the places I need to go, or take (reliable) public transportation. Because the only affordable housing in my area is in single-family housing developments accessible only via the nearest freeway exit, walking would be suicide and there's not enough density for actual public transportation to be efficient/financially feasible.

[0] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/3/1/whats-a-stroad-...
That seems to make sense.
Yet people in neighboring Czechia, while being closer to Chernobyl, are generally pro-nuclear.
Ikaruga belongs in the hall of fame. Not only mechanics are well researched, the execution (the engine) was breathtaking at the time.

When I visited Japan in 2019, I visited all arcades in Akihabara until I found ONE cabinet running it. It was magical.
“loans distort the clearing prices for …College tuition”

Does it though? I thought the same thing until I started paying tuition for my kids private elementary schools. It’s almost as much as college and no loans around to distort prices.
American Express never forgets. 20+ years after declaring bankruptcy and I'm still not able to get an AmEx card, because they have their own records. (I have an 820+ FICO score.)
That wasn't the point I was making.
I wish they would have doubled down on the 2d games.
No citations are provided for the myth of triune brain. Too bad. What’s with the cerebellum? That never fit, anyway.

“It continues to hold public interest because of its simplicity. While inaccurate in many respects as an explanation for brain activity, structure and evolution, it remains one of very few approximations of the truth we have to work with: the "neocortex" represents that cluster of brain structures involved in advanced cognition, including planning, modeling and simulation; the "limbic brain" refers to those brain structures, wherever located, associated with social and nurturing behaviors, mutual reciprocity, and other behaviors and affects that arose during the age of the mammals; and the "reptilian brain" refers to those brain structures related to territoriality, ritual behavior and other "reptile" behaviors.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triune_brain
There are towns around Utah and elsewhere in the US, with very high cancer rates from open-air uranium/vanadium/etc mining, and working in the mines.

I've visited this place and they have like historical monuments dedicated to the handling of the health issues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monticello,_Utah#Uranium_minin...
You forget the biggest issue with a highly-contagious RNA virus - the more people it infects, the more mutations we'll see!
Russia Today (RT) has been sanctioned as a propaganda service by international journalism organisations for years.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty does not have this reputation unlike Russia Today.
var _ = ThingerInterface(&Struct{})

Creates a compile time error if Struct is not a ThingerInterface.
That’s … basically the defining feature of why I personally hate suburbs and want mixed residential / commercial. I want to walk to the grocery store and diners.
Are those 2019 numbers or 2021 numbers?
Yes, I've heard of this for the SEC.

Where I'd really like it to be done is minimum wage law violations. Of course, that'll never happen.
How to Be Exuberant
Dibs on Web3 if this Web3 has the same fate as the semantic web.
Wow, great offer and a great project. I also have 0 time and I'm dealing with extra obligations anyway. I'm afraid I need to be disciplined to keep my primary life goals - things that take a decade or more - on course. I am really thrilled by the energy you are showing, though, and hate to contribute anything negative. Please don't stop for me!

You made my day.
> Capitalism is merely private ownership of stuff.

No, it's private ownership and trade of stuff. That seems nitpicky, until you contrast it with other economic systems, in which case trade is strictly regulated, and it becomes obvious that's a large part of it.

> the generations of economic nuance we have developed

You mean the nuance that takes us further from a pure capitalistic and free market system into a hybrid system where there are regulations and communal (government) efforts to counteract the portions of capitalism and free markets that are not palatable for a modern society because they fail to lead to outcomes we want?

There are reasons why the poor of today are better off of the poor of a century ago, and many of those reasons are not much in line with capitalism and the free market, while others are. Minimum wage, regulations on predatory practices, etc account for a lot of that, while advancements in technology and medicine much of the rest.

Without regulations, which are a restriction on private trade, we'd still be dealing with the things Upton Sinclair chronicled so long ago (whether embellished or not).
Lizards offer new possibilities for artificial lungs
It can be valuable to take a step back sometimes and evaluate whether or not you’re strategy is appropriate for the army you have or the army you want. Yes, old world metropolitan areas are wonderful, but it’s not realistic to assume the US has the political will to build like that. A better strategy would be to figure out how to make suburbs work in a better, more efficient and convenient manner.
Thank you and congrats! I took a Python course on codecademy and it led to a career change and basically a complete life transformation. You convinced me, and I’m sure a lot of others “Yes, I can do this.”
Just on a superficial analysis it's clearly easier to increase the density of existing very suburban/exurban places than it would be to increase the density of nearby real urban centers. Think of suburbs that already have all the streets, highways, railroads, water and sewer they need. Think of a place like Orinda, CA. It could easily be ten times more populous in its existing boundaries and with infrastructure already built. It makes way more sense than trying to grow a city like Berkeley by the same factor. Berkeley could easily double, but there's no way it could be a city of a million people without ripping up and replacing a lot of expensive stuff.
That hypothesis, which is usually referred to as proliferation, doesn't work in practice because meteorological events are often Europe-wide.
Maybe a court isn't needed, but strict effective regulation is in my opinion.

That would probably involve payment but not prevent others from entering the market.

Where I am located there is one designated electricity provider who must service everyone (and is usually more expensive). People are free to switch if they want.

I feel like the free market is not doing particularly well in basic digital services like file storage or communication. While there is some competition on price, all providers reserve themselves the right to cut you off for no reason at all without due process. Their rules are intransparent and are inforced by dependent employees.
Numbers from 1 hour ago... From the UK, and assuming UK climate for COP figures. ~True with both retail capped prices, and wholesale market prices.

There are still people in the UK installing heat pumps. Either they have a very rose tinted view of the future direction of electricity prices Vs gas, a rose tinted view of future government taxes/incentives, a rose tinted view of the environmental benefits (eg. By looking at aggregate CO2 emissions instead of marginal CO2 emissions), or they have been misled by installers/builders who make substantially more money if they install a heat pump.

Either that or I got my maths wrong. But I don't think I did.
Maybe you should, I dunno, ask why your government hasn’t built up healthcare capacity instead of forcing some dystopian “new normal” nonsense on people?
Except that you forgot the key element - this is in the long run and not so applicable to RNA viruses! A lot of people will die until covid becomes the new seasonal flu!
> Much of Europe is following in Germanys steps I am afraid.

There's still hope, it is to be expected than the gas price surge and geopolitical implications of dependencies will make people realize than it's not conceivable to shut down nuclear power. That's not even taking into account the global warming considerations.

After closing a reactor to please the greens, the French government will hopefully come back in it's right mind by finishing it's EPR and building more (complete nuclear plants replacement is needed right now to anticipate the end of life of the current fleet).

The United Kingdom is expected to have a new EPR to enter service. Finland finally powered theirs two days ago. Nuclear phase out of Belgium seems unrealistic and The Netherlands is evaluating the possibility of building two plants.

France, Poland and Hungary are in favor of including nuclear power in the green taxonomy. It's a big deal because nearly all of Poland's electricity production is from coal.

Since building new plants is expensive and takes time, it should starts right now and be subsidized like new renewables, as Europe will need to replace it's old reactors in just some decades, while committing to CO2 emissions reduction.

Germany seems like a lost cause, though.
Wait until 2100. We’ll have 99% of species gone, and we don’t even have to change what we’re doing.
I agree that this is a problem, but the problem is not that interfaces have multiple kinds of nility. The issue here is that you’re putting a pointer type into an interface and it’s easy to forget that the runtime type is effectively a reference to a reference, both of which can be nil.

Any preferred solution (which will never happen due to compatibility guarantees) would be to eliminate zero types altogether and use Rust-like enums instead.
> You're confusing civics with history.

We don't have a civics class where I'm from.

> What, specifically, is the radical subjectivism of LGBTQIA+ groups that you object to that the article says is happening in schools?

Well the article doesn't say because that's not the focus of it.

If we ignore the explicit requirement for it being included in the article, And look at what's happening in wider society.

There are two such notable cases, the shaming of J. K. Rowling, for daring to base gender on biology, and not just subjective feelings.

the 2020 Toyko Olympics inclusion of Trans-women, who very clearly have an advantage because of their male physiology.

So it wouldn't be surprising if these alliance groups were pretty radically deep in to the subjectivism, since it's already being institutionalized in places like the IOC.

I don't see grade 6, a time where 99% of students haven't even hit puberty, mixed with secretive practices, a good sign for things to come, if teachers were promoting any sort of political club to my 12 year old child I would be very worried.
I agree with the premise that the suburbs won't be radically transformed ever, but I do expect them to be or remain compromises instead of the lifestyle dream they were sold as and failed as.

I will continue to pay a premium for space in a city (relative to the local population). I'd go as far to have a less comfortable shitty place in another part of the city just to be more relatable to some people.
Ask HN: How did you teach your baby children to count?
Dad here, young baby, crowd-sourcing tips and insights.

Happy holidays everyone.
Yes, really. The price of electricity is set through a controlled market mechanism at "Nord Pool", the electricity producers exchange for the Nordic countries. Nearly all producers and sellers have pages showing these prices, here's an example:

https://www.vattenfall.se/elavtal/elpriser/timpris-pa-elbors...

and another:

https://elen.nu/dagens-spotpris/se3-stockholm/

Timpris på elbörsen (on the first site, "vattenfall") means "hourly rate on the electricity exchange". Have a look at the rates for area 3 - Södra Mellansverige (south of the middle of Sweden) and compare with the same day last year ("jämför med - Samma dag föregående år"). You'll see that the rates average some 500 öre (5 sek, about $0.55) per kWh excluding taxes, levies, surcharges and value added tax. At the same day last year the rate averaged about 20 öre, i.e. a difference of 2500%. The rates fluctuate hourly and the last few weeks they've broken all records. The increase for the last month was +245%, averaged over the whole year rates have doubled.

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Nord Pool have their own reporting on prices:

https://www.nordpoolgroup.com/Market-data1/#/nordic/table