skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their outgoings aren't particularly low. I guess early on they were, but that's "living with roommates". Their current col is very much in the "rents a two bedroom apartment and spends whatever they want on food" category, but they probably don't own a car.

My personal expenses are a tad lower than theirs, and I rent an apartment in San Francisco that I live in alone.
I was curious and tried a bunch of other searches, with similarly disappointing results. My searches were a bit more esoteric than Closi's.

"langlands program" (pure mathematics thing): yup, top result is indeed related to the Langlands program, though it isn't obviously what anyone would want as their first result for that search. Not bad.

"asmodeus" (evil spirit in one of the deuterocanonical books of the Bible, features extensively in later demonology, name used for an evil god in Dungeons & Dragons, etc.): completely blank page, no results, no "sorry, we have no results" message, nothing. Not good.

"clerihew" (a kind of comic biographical short poem popular in the late 19th / early 20th century): completely blank page. Not good.

"marlon brando" (Hollywood actor): first few results are at least related to the actor -- good! -- but I'd have expected to see something like his Wikipedia or IMDB page near the top, rather than the tangentially related things I actually god.

"b minor mass" (one of J S Bach's major compositions): nothing to do with Bach anywhere in the results; putting quotation marks around the search string doesn't help.

"top quark" (fundamental particle): results -- of which there were only 7 -- do seem to be about particle physics, and in some cases about the top quark, but as with Marlon Brando they're not exactly the results one would expect.

"ferrucio busoni" (composer and pianist): blank page.

"dry brine goose" (a thing one might be interested in doing at this time of year): five results, none relevant; top two were about Untitled Goose Game.

"alphazero" (game-playing AI made by Google): blank page. Putting a space in results in lots of results related to the word "alpha", none of which has anything to do with AlphaZero.

OK, let's try some more mainstream things.

"harry potter": blank page. Wat. Tried again; did give some results this time. They are indeed relevant to Harry Potter, though the unexpected first-place hit is Eric Raymond's rave review of Eliezer Yudkowsky's "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", which I am fairly sure is not what Google gives as its first result for "harry potter" :-).

"iphone 12" (confession: I couldn't remember what the current generation was, and actually this is last year's): top results are all iPhone-related, but first one is about the iPhone 6, second is from 2007, this is about the iPhone 6, fourth is from 2007, fifth is about the iPhone 4S, etc.

"pfizer vaccine": does give fairly relevant-looking results, yay.
You could try coppiced trees:
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/09/how-to-make-biomass-...

They grow faster since they already have a root structure, the size is consistent and the wood is generally straigter (the japanese have a similar technique for extremely straight cedar logs)
Sure, and it's hard to detach from the idea we must have a purpose - which I would even argue predates and exists outside the christian sphere. I'm an atheist and I still think life should try to expand outwards in space for the sake of structuring the chaos...

Look having no goal, purpose or calling seem to work now that we organized process-heavy societies where one dilletante wouldnt hurt too much. But let me remind you not so long ago we did what our father did and his father before. And also, that if we jump back into natural nihilism to live as free of purpose as animals, we'll miss many of the intellectual wonders that the group managed to accomplish, maybe through the illusion it has no alternative, I concede.

Probably not important to you, after all, since there's no inherent rule nor purpose, but sad a bit to me.
Then again who needs 600 hp in a passenger vehicle? Other than heavy truck or machinery operators, racing cars and generators for hospitals or banks I see no use for such an engine.
I recommend checking out Juan Browne’s video [1] that contrasts studies from the aviation world and one from the telecoms. Spoiler: the former brings more technical analysis than the latter.

I’d love to know why the FAA is ‘rolling over’ to the telecoms / FCC on this matter. The spectrum was in use for RADALTs before 5G and safety systems like autoland, used when visibility starts coming down to minimums, rely on them.

Seems to me that, like Canada, the US should just not allow 5G cell sites near critical areas around an airport.

[1]: https://youtu.be/942KXXmMJdY
Merits of the paper are already been discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29692303
conveinience.

one less click, one more minute to consume, one less step to negotiate.

do every thing for them, and make any benefit you receive invisible.
Season 1 was okayish - the "A plot" was as strong as I remember it from the books. The "B plot" about Takeshi's past, however, was massacred.
Half face silicone (3M 7503) with P100 filters (#2297). When/where masks are mandated, I disable the valve functionality by removing all the check valve flaps and sealing up the output with gaff tape. When they're not, I wear a second one without that mod because breathing is much easier.

I'm aware this isn't perfect and I'm not invulnerable - it's not a bunny suit with PAPR. I coast on my glasses taking care of most face droplets (similar to how I coast using many power tools), and admittedly haven't done the work to go beyond that.

It's definitely an impediment to appearance and speaking, and in medium-engagement social situations I do have an N95 I fall back on to not be too obtuse.
Researchers forecast a hard-to-imagine West – one without snow
Instrumenting water usage I think is the more important task that would fall under a national water grid. California uses an incredible amount of water that can be blamed on maintaining habitats, scenic views, and landscapes as well as agriculture respectively [1]. When states can't get enough water from the ground, they focus on redirecting rivers [2] which destroys other habitats and extracts value out of other states.

[1]: https://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-california/

[2]: https://disappearingwest.org/rivers.html
> If we can't have discussions of mises.org articles

We can't? Does HN block articles from there?
Endless Legend / Space2 / Humankind too.
What's Napster?
This invites much more opportunity for speculation on the person hunting a vulnerable person that you’re trying to protect. This is precisely what someone would say if they were avoiding lying but are trying to cover for a vulnerable person.
Sorting Number Strings Numerically
I tried this back in 2006 - mozdex (only a wikipedia article survives) - it’s not cheap. I was a fan of lucene which led to nutch and eventually hadoop. so lots of servers running hdfs doing map reduce jobs to compile and update indexes. No one in the end cared about open search… duck seems to do alright under the guise of security but most non major searches are just meta searches these days because of economies of scale being highly disadvantageous to any upcoming search - and people just don’t search like they used to either.

i was spending 2500 a month just on indexers and had query traffic taken off my costs would have shot through the roof since you want query nodes to all be in memory cache and that was expensive back then. today i would have used some modern in memory distributed doc dbs instead of query masters with heavy block buffer caches. i learned a lot but lost my shirt :)
But ads in real life do mar the landscape, the real world, with their presence. You can drive through the countryside, and have the idyllic rolling hills scarred by a giant poster for the nearest McDonald's.

Even in cities, they're visual pollution.
That's a really terrific article, thanks for sharing. I wonder if Linux will eventually tie the CPU scheduler together with the cgroup cpu affinity functionality, and some awareness of cores, smt, shared cache, etc. Seems a shame that you have to tie all that together yourself, including a solver.
How could the 200MHz spacing between the frequency allocations be insufficient? I can't imagine the oscillators in either system are specified for deviations as high as +-100MHz over their lifetime.
Looking at the article and all the points & counterpoints, it is seeming more like Japan government wants companies to keep inventions basically as trade-secrets and work out a financial arrangement for the promising ones. This arrangement is quite similar to The Invention Secrecy Act of 1951 in US

Reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_Secrecy_Act
Street musicians. Draaiorgels (youtube it but keep your finger close to mute). Protestors. Homeless. Tourists. English tourists. Pigeons.

Why do we live in a city again?
I think you mean chaos rather than anarchy. Anarchy involves maximizing freedom for everyone, not just one's self, among other things. The strong doing whatever they want is the exact opposite of anarchy.
The problem with most of the advice is that hindsight is 20/20 and some decisions or circumstances are extra hard to invert or redirect.

People change, we do not have infinite time and over time actually making lasting acquaintances takes ever more energy. And if you change, so may your circles of friends, or even family.

Few people make themselves available later on, everyone is busy or sapped, either by work or other obligations. A decision to change and go against the flow can easily become a lonely one.
> SendBank sends $X dollars, ReceiveBank receives $X dollars. Imposter then cashes $X out of ReceiveBank (usually giving fake info).

Would this be fraud against ACH or just fraud against ReceiveBank?
If economists disagree about this particular thing, I've missed it.

Which scholars are you referring to?

Putting "Economists" in quotes and comparing them to blood letting doctors doesn't really shake my impression that you don't really respect this field of science :)
That sounds interesting. Iirc inertial navigation systems are also a key component in missiles that don't enable radar (and so reveal their presence) until they're right on the target ("pitbull"). I don't know how much of a limiter the INS is there, but it could possibly lead to more precise missiles with less warning time.
> CPU is cheap, network speeds are fast and increasing and microservices are a mess.

Is CPU cheap? I can literally host a static site or SPA on GitHub Pages for free. Where can I get free CPU time for an htmlx application?
> so they blame workers for not having enough training thus shifting the labor shortage cause to workers, not to themselves.

Do you recall when the pandemic started I think it was the state of Illinois blamed their inability to process employment checks on a lack of COBOL programmers?

It was a really interesting statement. As you say-- blaming people who don't exist for their failure to maintain their systems or create a training program/incentives to ensure that there's a supply of programmers.

I'm sure if it payed well, someone would learn COBOL.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/business/coronavirus-cobol-pr...
This guy has a pretty awesome channel and you can probably rabbit hole from there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50wQBUX-Lbs

It is an interesting feeling when you are truly bugging out or off the grid, almost a primal kind of thing, because instances where self reliance is the only thing left is becoming less and less of an occurrence. If you ever go camping in the wilderness by yourself and set in for the night alone, you probably know the feeling!
From the article:

> This is, unfortunately, part of the culture of front end development right now: sky-high levels of complexity are tolerated in application frameworks, in build tool chains, in deployment models and so on, and, when problems arise due to all this complexity, more complexity is often offered as the answer.

> "Simple" is disparaging and "sophisticated" is high praise.

So, rather.
Sober drivers kill people too, not just drunk drivers - yet we have no problem prohibiting driving drunk.

But even that analogy breaks down because it’s been 1 year of vaccine’s existing, and in most places much less than 6 months of vaccine-only rules. This is a health crisis. Nobody wants or intends this to be forever. It’s like crying injustice because of a temporary ban on drunk driving.
Why not use the engine of the trailer to (also) charge the batteries while driving? My campervan does that.
> Since profits are a portion of the value generated by labour

That's simply not true. Profits = revenue - costs. Revenue, what buyers pay, is based on perceived value. That perceived value may come from labor, but it can also come from some mechanical transformation (ie automation). It can even come from something else, such as color. (I'm assuming that red paint costs the same as blue and takes no more labor to apply.)
I fail to see the irony. I've gotten as many sizing and placement problems in LaTex as I've had in Word.
Nashville was an extremely pleasant 75, was fairly surprising!
Yes that's obvious, and I wasn't speaking to the pattern only being applied to bikeshedding cases but rather as a resolution mechanism in cases of uncertainty or disagreement in general. If it works to get things moving, what's to prevent it from being regularly used, especially if commonly used in other areas--could be a slippery slope if it's not already policy. It would be better not to have these concerns by not having one person's personal preferences dictate things that are small now, and leave room for doubt.
The question is, is someone allowed to make that choice for you, ever? I think not, and it's still a question much in debate, which we have made an excellent demonstration of here.
You can host an htmx-based site on Github Pages for free as well.
Future of Money: The Weaponization of Central Bank Digital Currencies
Here’s a few little tricks I use. These may seem trivial and silly, but given that mimetic behavior is rooted in a very basic level of existence, I believe these counter mimetic attitude exercises are useful in maintaining the foundation of a anti-mimetic Maslow’s hierarchy.

When I know I’m going to be exposed to a video advertisement I summon all of the rage and contempt I can to make my mental state as unlikely to retain the ad’s message as possible.

I take perverse pleasure in letting my devices alarms/notifications ring without rushing to attend to them. Similarly I talk back to the maps directions voice.
Missiles yes, but it is more practical for submarines. More accurate submarine navigation means they can navigate closer to the bottom/coast without using sonar and can fire ballistic missiles accurately without surfacing.
This is a problem in theory, but not really in practice for a well designed AD system. We wrote a bit about this here: https://juliadiff.org/ChainRulesCore.jl/dev/maths/nondiff_po...

The gist of it is that we endeavour to provide ‘useful’ values for the gradient at non-differentiable points, even if the traditional derivative is not defined or infinite.

You could imagine it as us smoothing out edges or discontinuities, ideally in a way that that makes things like gradient descent well behaved.
IDK, memory and a check in Wikipedia confirms that things were still pretty bad in '86 and '87.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_in_South_Africa it's a litany of explosions and killings, and the turnaround may have been in the works, but it doesn't surface until December '88 when "Nelson Mandela is moved to Victor Verster Prison" (from Robben Island)

I don't recall school in integration in '86 near me and yes, I would have noticed. If you had that you were lucky.

I wasn't assuming that Mr Tutu was taking any great personal risk, but he was driving progress with cheerful good humour.
I imagine you also have no Apple products, because everything you listed there is identical if you swap out "tesla" for "apple."
I really appreciated reading this, and found it useful and insightful. Would you be willing to share some of your "autistic" behaviors which you successfully mask?
""I don't think mask mandates are appropriate," Ricketts told reporters. "I think they create resistance. Masks are just a tool, not the only tool, (and) they are not a panacea to solve all the problems.""

It will be most interesting to see how Ricketts spins mask mandate == bad / forcing people to work == good.
>You’ll never find me reading a book I don’t like

Some of the best books I've ever read I didn't like at first. Love in Time of Cholera was an absolute slog for the first 89 pages, I didn't actually get through those pages the first time I tried to read it. It's one of my all time favourite books. First 30 pages of Dune were similar. Found the same with another book by Dostoevsky.
Mojo Nixon and I both disagree. Each and everyone of us owns every bit of land on the planet. The seas too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERXgL9hLuzQ
My wife and I were talking about this a few weeks ago.

I've basically stopped listening to terrestrial radio because it seems like the majority of it is ads.

A trend I've noticed over the last few years is that gas stations specifically. As gas stations have replaced older pumps with newer ones, the new ones feature LCD screens that, as soon as you are done selecting the myriad of options it now requires just to put fuel in a car, you are suddenly bombarded with videos and very loud advertisements.

I have been walking away and sitting in my car but, a few weeks ago I got yelled at by a pump attendant that I had to stay next to my fuel door while it was filling for "safety reasons." So now I have to stand there and be bombarded by this thing screaming at me about what is for sale while filling up and it is very, very annoying.

Another one is a restaurant here in town that has one of these new LED signs that is so bright at night that it actually hurts my eyes. It is so bright that you can't make out what is in the road beyond it. Multiple people have complained about it my city's subreddit and it has lead to at least one traffic accident that I know about. I even went to file a complaint with the city zoning board about that one but was told there was nothing they could do as there were no regulations regarding the brightness of signs. They suggested I complain to the owner.

And it's so manipulative. "Hey, you're not good enough because you're too fat, or your hair is thinning, and no one will ever love you." "Look at these starving abused puppies, just LOOK AT THEM and donate now."

In the ever increasing war for our attention, it really does feel like physical advertising is becoming louder, more aggressive, more insulting, and just so much more ubiquitous that it is almost impossible to get away from it. We have got to find a way to start to reign in some of the more annoying - and dangerous - advertising going on out there.
The only things you really need are food, water, oxygen, and medical care. But life would really, really suck if you never had anything you didn't need.
> Quantum accelerometers theoretically enable hyper-accurate guidance systems immune to external jamming

Can one jam normal accelerometers? I don't see how.
The Current and Future Impact of Deep Fakes
One of the worst examples is we (still) have PLANES flying with banners behind them in California. They make noise, pollute the air, and assault your eyes when you could be looking at a beautiful blue sky without them. And I don’t know why it’s OK to “rent” this “space” to advertisers because, unlike something like a billboard, it’s not like someone went to the trouble of erecting a sky board with limited ad space.
The entire premise revolves around the toxic topic of Ron Paul's alleged racist newsletters. If I recall correctly, this was an election season gotcha trotted out to stymie Paul in the 2012 season?

What is his concept of freedom here? That photographers, bakers or priests should be compelled to service weddings they find offensive? Freedom is loosely defined here and the sleight of hand does the heavy lifting.

>The modern American libertarian ideology does not deal with the issue of local bullies. In the world envisioned by Nozick, Hayek, Rand, and other foundational thinkers of the movement, there are only two levels to society - the government (the "big bully") and the individual. If your freedom is not being taken away by the biggest bully that exists, your freedom is not being taken away at all.

>Therefore I see no real conflict between Ron Paul's libertarianism and his support for the agenda of racists. It's just part and parcel of the whole movement. Not necessarily the movement as it was conceived, but the movement as it in fact exists.

There's a deliberate conflation of freedom of association and outright support of racism here. Generally discussions of race and ID politics don't do well here.

Taken to the logical conclusion freedom of association would allow one to discriminate against who uses your business or private property. In the libertarian tradition these businesses are usually described as being at an economic disadvantage to businesses willing to cater to a wider audience.

Additionally, the freedom of association argument also cuts both ways. If I have the freedom to associate with whomever I choose, then businesses also have the freedom to hire workers from wherever they choose, without regulation from (racist? xenophobic?) immigration enforcement.

True to his style, Noah Smith chooses only one aspect of the debate and narrowly presents the issue to fit his partisan ends. He deliberately misleads the reader, because he is unable to engage with Austrian economics, voluntaryism or libertarian theory on honest terms.

Not only is he misleading, he is flat out wrong in his characterization. There is a sea of literature on private law societies where what he characterizes as the "local bully" and the incentives therein are explored in depth. In my reading, it has never been presented as a utopia where "freedom is never infringed" as Noah suggests. Instead the theories are advanced as less horrible than state coercion.
Can somebody explain what 5G is actually good for?

With 4G you get fast enough coverage at long distances for basically everything. Maps for sure, but even streaming video as long as not everyone on the tower is trying to do it at once.

With 5G you get more bandwidth, but you're not going to get it in the middle of the woods because it also requires more towers closer together. So it's for high population density areas. But those areas are the places where it's extremely cost effective to install fiber, and cellular will never ever be as fast as fiber, and installing a million towers everywhere is just about as expensive.

If 4G is about all you're going to get in the middle of the woods and fiber (with the last hundred meters over Wi-Fi for mobiles) is the thing you actually want in the city, why is anybody even wasting money installing 5G towers anywhere?
Master of Magic, Master of Orion II? XCOM?
ranks top 15% of public stock pickers
In LaTeX it's difficult to get it right first time (to me not true if you know it), but when you do it's there, you can add 1000 pages and it didn't mess the positioning of you images, like in Word where you add one word and you have to start all over again.

Also when placing and deciding sizes of images to me it's easier a declarative language than sizing things with the mouse, where it's very difficult to get them right.
Or it is the way to be milked and shaved to the skin while not saying no.

Any act of opposition can land you on a blacklist or worse, even small one, even if you do not expect it.
The best way to get over somebody is to get under somebody else. Or over them. Or behind, or in front, or over cam, or whatever position and/or food/substance does it for you.
Shadowbanned last I checked.
What a complete garbage paper. They can’t draw those conclusions from their data. The data is not representative of real world use.