skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to use Mendeley, but after the evil empire bought them out and added anti-features like preventing export of the DB (or something like that, I don't remember exactly what it was anymore), I switched to Zotero. I was on the verge of exiting academic research at the time, so I don't have as much experience of Zotero, but it seems very solid. Strongly recommended!

(Occasionally I wonder about how Zotero development is going. IIRC they were planning to switch from XUL to Electron many years ago, maybe that plan got shelved or they just don't have the manpower to do it..)
Note that the city of marseille ( actually the firemen of the city) in France have been doing monitoring of covid level since summer 2020 via sewers water.
This is the argument not to use computers at all. It is not persuasive.

There is never a reason to use C.

But C++ is a language for engineers. If you don't have the patience to do engineering, then you should not. If you have a need for engineering anyway, hire one.
well, executive function issues are quiet heritable
Why are they out of the car? They seem securely parked at a gas station.

Do chains require getting out? Seems oddly staged or captioned.
You might need to review your monetary history.

Fiat required trade to be based on gold first, a peg which was then broken.

Central banks can create infinite units arbitrarily. "Enforced by the legal system" perhaps means controlled by the FOMC, a dozen central bankers who make decisions behind close doors, nominated and chosen by congress I believe.
Russia 'likely' to invade Ukraine without 'enormous sanctions'
It's true that we're drowning in shit, but at the same time there has never been more useful content online. Google is just incapable of ranking it, or it doesn't suit their financial interests.
Now imagine if you could get the same value without using significant energy: it's called PoS.
The $200 Logitech cameras have 3-exposure HDR support with high frame rate and sensitivity, including IR. No one knows what the specs of the sensors are in the car but there are physical limits on what you can do with pure electronic exposure control (fixed iris).

If the sensors on the Tesla were really that good, why did they blame them on the accident where it could not distinguish between a white tractor trailer and the horizon? In that case, plenty of light was available so it points to saturation or low dynamic range. If the sensor is saturated and has no way to physically limit the amount of light incident on it, there is no amount of clever software or filtering that can provide anything other than noise, but I’m sure you know this. It’s also a function of heat, all that light heats up the sensor and has to be removed and dissipated some how (and quickly) before the next reading is taken. The more heat, the more noise and depending on the noise process model, the less overall range. High sensitivity and high range are conflicting goals and subject to design trade offs that when both are necessary increase the overall system complexity.

The whole “humans can drive via vision” thing is a misnomer because human eyes are extraordinarily sensitive, ultra wide angle, stabilized (basically like having a gimbal), accurately temperature controlled via your body, and don’t have a fixed iris. It seems that in order to make that claim, you’d need to first develop a sensor that at least meets or exceeds the specs of the human eye, which no one has really done yet, at least not in an economically and reliable enough package to put on a car.

Given enough time, money and equipment it could be done but the sensor would look (and cost) more like something you’d see on an expensive astronomer’s telescope.
> In the UK, if your shed is less than 15m^2 and is not used as living accomodation, no building regulations apply, and you can build it with screws, nails, or corrugated cardboard and PVA glue if you're so inclined.

In many US locations you aren't required to pull a permit and get inspections for sheds below a certain square footage either.

But that's not a free pass to build an unsafe structure. Using (non-structural) screws instead of nails is not a big deal for something this small that won't see snow load, but other things like mixing high voltage wiring and low-voltage wiring in the same conduit are a problem regardless of code.

Connecting something to the electrical system will also invoke code regulations, regardless of the size. There's no free pass for ignoring electrical regulations just because a building is below a certain size in the US, and I doubt there is in the UK either.
Depending on the currency you deal with and how it is acquired, it could turn out to be calculated more effective not to have accumulated the currency in question to begin with rather than to donate it afterward, which does amount to a somewhat indirect approach.

You would have to do the math for your own particular situation.
How can it be that they earn enough to make the monthly payments, then?
Hah, yeah I don't make any money from it. I think I'm like currently $300 in the hole from experiments and queries with it until I had settled on the current ramen architecture.
I've learned Clojure. Tried and failed to see this unique power of macros.

Truly asking for help: can you help explain what can I do with macros that I cannot do with functions? Or, maybe, cannot do with high quality or low complexity using functions?
It was the start of modern computing, before the Modern Computing Ecosystems took hold.
No, with out those buyers the market could not support the MASSIVE increase in prices many multiples of inflation in some markets, they "HAD" to start offering alternatives or sellers would have to seek only reasonable profits on the sell instead of exorbitant profits... the horror
That's a mini version of a piece of telephone central office equipment called a Dimond ring translator.[1] From 1945. ROM, the early days.

[1] http://etler.com/docs/Crossbar/articles/30-AMATranslator.pdf
> One of the big ones was whether he crossed state lines (with a gun). How is that one complicated?

It is pretty hard to call the dark patterns by the name when (1) they match with a person's political alignment; (2) the gives them a lot of money; or (3) both.
This group formed a couple of years ago...
https://worldwarzero.com
> If a car needs monitoring, and they will probably need it for a very long time, you should as well drive it.

This is the crux of the intractable problem of AI/self-driving marketing vaporware, and why until this nonsense is shut down, the situation will probably have to get scandalously worse before it gets better (better meaning regulating fake "self driving" off the road as a public safety travesty).
Crew Resource Management should have kicked in and the Pilot Monitoring should have taken over on rotating the moment the Pilot flying did not steer after V1.

That this did not happen, and nobody actually concentrated on flying the plane, while the other party went through the corresponding checklists and diagnosis - thats cultural rot and a major issue.
It's danger because the concept of polite has remnants of frontier culture, and just like the commonwealth doesn't have "nobles" anymore america doesn't have gunslingers, but I'm saying the origin of the etiquette that forms the culture is related to them.

Americans are very formal with very strictly observed social protocols, you're just not allowed to talk about them because then it would acknowledge class, which is the last great taboo there. If you want to see what breaking American formal rules and social protocols looks like, tease them for crossing personal boundaries or poke fun at uniquely middle class aspirations, and it can make you an enemy for life.

Recent American etiquette requires that you just "get it," in terms of who has the power in a situation because they very-officially don't use formalisms, and this tacit alignment and sensitivity to its shifts in particular is a big class signifier there. Most of them don't have a cultural abstraction for relating impersonally, where in other cultures you would acknowledge you are relating based on implied rules. Sometimes it's a relief, and sometimes the cringe is almost fatal. A personal example would be that to me, west coast culture is a lot like being around revolutionary marxists who make a point of being rude to wait staff because they think civility is bourgeois oppression, so as an outsider with normal adult boundaries, I can find it a bit alien. The culture I'm from emphasizes relating to service by learning to be worthy of it, which is probably equally bizarre to someone not familiar with that kind of interaction.

You don't get a lot of "americans are weird," perspective these days because the internet just assumes everyone has been educated by television shows that were written to entertain people, and mimicking actors is normal behaviour, but since we're into accents and culture, yes, americans can be pretty weird. :)
Very true I am taking the opposite bet. I refinanced last year 30 year 2.85 apr. In California so prop 13 means property taxes won't go up to fast. I have no plans to pay it off earlier. But we are kinda stuck we can sell our house for a nice profit on what I paid 5 years ago. Then I have to pay for another house that is expensive in the current marketing. Not really looking to relocate to cheaper place. So I am just hoping all the money I am putting in the stock market ends up being the right call. Who knows though. Either approach could be a good choice in the right situation.
Hey I was looking for something like this. Thanks.
Ask HN: How can I use my time outside of work to improve the world?
I've been working as a software engineer at big tech companies for about ten years, and while I've made a lot of money, when I look back on what I've built during that decade I don't see a lot that I feel has improved the world. I see a lot of products that have been shuttered and features that cause people to spend more time looking at ads. This doesn't make me feel very proud of how I've spent that decade.

In the meantime, I look around and see a lot of 'real' problems that need solving. And it occurs to me that the skills I've chosen to develop, while lucrative, aren't positioning me to make the kind of impacts I'm itching to make.

(As I write this I see this post bubbling upwards https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29757049 so perhaps I'm not alone in this sentiment)

I'm not ready to leave my job, or perhaps I just don't know where I'd go if I did, so I make a point of donating extra income. In the process I've learned there are organizations like givewell that provide guidance on how to maximize the impact of a donation.

And it got me wondering, have there have been similar attempts at providing guidance for people who would like to maximize the impact of their time? This is probably an orders of magnitude harder challenge, because money is fungible and skilled labor is not, but if such a service was available it would be exactly what I'm looking for.

If there is no such thing, I'd love to hear what ideas HN'ers have on ways to spend spare labor in ways that makes them feel like they're contributing to important problems. (Improving their community, fighting climate change, supporting the underprivileged, ect)

Givewell has a feature where some of its suggested donation targets list approximately how much money they need to save a human life. Wouldn't it be fascinating if there was a volunteer opportunity, that anyone could participate in, that could promise a human life saved after a certain number of hours of labor?

For those that don't feel this itch, I'm curious what skillsets you've developed and where you've taken your career?
I personally do not like paywalls. I had Google ads. I discontinued them.

For a long list of reasons, I want my writing to be freely available. I got my very first Amazon payout of like $16 or something a few months ago. I also got an email reminder that I am legally required to very prominently display information telling people I have Amazon links on my site.

I took the links down and thought about updating my sites to comply with the requirement and so far haven't, in part because I suspect the $16 was from some local asshole unqualified for his job (the job I applied for) buying ugly bike racks and plopping them down in bad locations all over my lovely downtown area like little piles of manure as a daily reminder of how corrupt these people are, how much they have shafted me for no real damn reason other than pathos on their part and they are ruining the town I hope to improve.

I was unable to readily find (affiliate) links to bike racks I would like to see in this town and I'm angry at what is being done to this town by these immoral, incompetent cretins and it causes me to think that I might actively encourage their shit behavior ruining this town because I'm so desperate for money that $16 on that day meant I could afford a fucking coffee which put an end to my splitting headache.

I do not wish to make the world and town I live in a worse place because I'm so desperate for money and I think taking the Amazon solution potentially pushes me in that direction.

Anyway, I don't know how to fix this. I try to tell people what it looks like from where I sit because I know HN has a lot of coders, etc and they aren't daily exposed to the reality that "If you choose to not be a sell out, you go hungry." basically.

I just want my life to work. I don't actually want to make what sounds like "political" commentary to other people. If my life worked, I would likely be all "Meh. Not my problem. I don't want to fight with these fools and trying to point this out is not worth the drama. Moving on."

But it does impact me. It impacts me to the point where I literally fear for my life due to my intractable poverty and sometimes I feel compelled to comment, though I don't really expect it to help me. Maybe after I am beyond help, people will stop wondering what's in it for DoreenMichele and think "She had a point. Let's find a solution that incorporates these observations."

This is possibly rambly at this point. I'm posting it anyway and then will try to stay out of this conversation.
From the article:

> For the individual, the fact that encouraging 30-year mortgages is a bad policy does not imply that getting one yourself is a bad deal.
This gets into First Amendment tangles.
That's a lot of analysis. I couldn't hang on that long because OP had so many arguments.

However, something has to put the breaks on rising house costs like OP says, or we're heading back to pre-1930's where 60% of the population rented.

OP is right, 30 year mortgages are a way to increase prices, like what's happening in car loans: 48 month used to be the norm (80's, 90's), but now I've seen 120 month loans. 10 years to pay off a car. Yeesh.

Mortgage deduction elimination for non-primary residences is a start: that's gov't subsidy of investors. Once mortgage interest rates go back above 6% that might at least flatline prices instead of this crazy exponential.
Zotero works with LibreOffice as well. It helped me tons while writing my thesis!
Were any of them actively exploited?
Since you opened the whatabout game, have you looked at setting up time locked multi-sig?

We do need a military to enforce our borders from illegal invaders.
maybe its because I'm Canadian but no one I know would consume anything but real maple syrup, I never encountered anything else until I went to the states.
Classic example https://scienceornot.net/2012/04/27/classic-example-of-gish-...
I find a lot of the grief with these protocols is driven by which wifi router is in use. When using the old Apple wifi routers I never had trouble with homekit, airdrop, handoff, airplay or any of the zeroconfig network stuff: as soon as I switched to other brands the issues would pop up (including ones that oddly seem to persist even after disconnecting from wifi - but then disappear when using a different user account on the same machine).

Because of this I feel Apple could do a hugely better job in all of their wireless protocols, as it stands the only truly stable networking appears to be between two iphones.
What laws should be written to address this then?
They're already paying more than that much in rent. They just can't put together that and 20% of the full (greatly inflated) valuation at the same time.
Who has concrete steps to make this better? Seems like one or two people are making their own engines, but moving the needle is going to take a lot more than that...
The difference is the self-reflection on the other side of that pain. While you were in it, it was pure experience. It is only by reflecting on those moments that one transforms pain into suffering. If you are able to experience only pain, excluding selfhood, then perhaps ignorance really is bliss? Can you really say there is anything "bad" if there is no lasting trauma borne upon a sentient (self-knowing) being?

"Metaphysically meaningful" is a bit of a copout, agreed. It can be tautologically defined as "that sentiment which describes the satisfaction derived from the quasi-optimality of outcomes with respect to the consensus moral framework". Concisely, "meaningful vs consensus morality". Of course there will be interplay between what morality the consensus achieves and what can be considered meaningful. But I think few would disagree that more closely analyzing the various kinds of negative experiences will inform our collective morals "for the better" (again tautological here, but to deny evolution of morality is simply reactionary philosophy and shall not be tolerated).
Great job! How are the ads implemented and do they cover the costs? I'm thinking of building a similar search engine for a completely different domain. I am a bit concerned about paying for it though.
Moving your family every 2-4 years sounds awful. And unless you are moving to a lower COL area each time, you’re reducing your purchasing power with each move because the prices for all the other houses went up too.
Just think about it. The lay man definition of rent seeking is making a profit without putting any effort (i.e. letting someone else carry the burden of earning the profit). Who doesn't want to earn a profit from doing absolutely nothing?

All you need to do is tax the rent seeking and it goes away. The reason why that hasn't been done is that those who would be impacted have good connections with elected politicians. The most humble example is a homeowner who is involved in local politics at the expense of the renter.
I don't disagree he needs a source code control system. But it's his intellectual property and right now he has some protection through redundancy. At least I certainly hope he keeps some USB sticks with a friend because if not one house fire and his livelyhood is gone.

If he goes online he has to worry about someone hacking his account, if he keeps it at home we're back to what is his backup strategy, what does his redundancy model look like, and that's just not losing anything he already has. Next he needs to git's enough to be effective. Not that it's hard but if you've never used any sccm before it can be intimidating, and all of it takes time.

It may just be easier to say later, later, later because you don't want to take however long it'll be to move and you're thinking of all the lost development time. Of course if he ever really needs it (house fire, tornado, hurricane) the price will the seem quite cheap.

In the meantime I'd at least find a way to backup off-site even if it's scp'ing passworded zip files to an Azure VM.
If the agreement doesn't say that, then why are you calling her tweets breach of contract?
I just bought with 5% down, though I have good credit and income.
It would take mere months to open back up those plants recently closed. Back in the 70s they could construct plants in 2-5 years. Chernobyl 1 began and completed construction in the same year!

Has our technology gotten worse since then? Or is it just permits and bureaucracy impeding us?
Optimization of brain and life performance: Striving for playing at the top
> I've thought about this a lot over the past few years, and I've come to the slightly sad conclusion that Google isn't to blame.

I don't know about that, at least in the realm of programming-related searches. It's ridiculously frustrating when I'm searching for a standard library function and the top 3 results are geeksforgeeks, w3schools, and tutorialspoint, while the canonical documentation for the language is only 4th or 5th in the results.
Well, they're probably paying rent before buying. And in many places in the country a monthly mortgage plus tax and insurance payment comes out well under rent.
Gamma is one of the greeks. They are used in finance to describe derivatives related to options.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/greeks.asp
>Do you know what the sides are? Because it's rather shocking that you would say that, esp. about Portland.

I'm from a communist state where my family was oppressed for being part of a "colonizer/capitalist" ethnicity. I know first hand that many leftists have adopted these narratives and view me in a hateful and dehumanizing manner. I'm well aware of leftist/postmodern narratives. The question is how many of you are and do you care?

>PB's come to town and occupy blocks regularly, they aren't fighting for social justice, the are simply fighting against social justice.

I realize there are multiple sides which I've implied in the original post. I don't think it's accurate to say they are "fighting against social justice". They have their own sense of social justice even if misguided.

At the end of the day both sides have a common root cause for their grievances. Millennials and Gen Z have been screwed by the previous generations and are operating in a regressive state as a result. Something like communists vs fascists in pre-war Germany but not exactly. Point is neither side is the root cause of the others issues.
I'm in a bizarre place financially. I'm single, in the Bay Area, and work for a FAANG. I have enough saved for 40+% down for a lot of decent things, so I'm limited by my salary, not my down payment. It's extra weird because RSUs don't necessarily count towards salary for mortgage purposes, but they're (for now) a significant chunk of my net pay.

I'm also a little worried about putting a lot down because prices might go down when interest rates go up.

I realize this isn't normal. Most people are somewhere cheaper, lots are married, and most have nowhere near as much cash.
Aw man. I just signed up for the $59/yr magazine + online access. I believe the bulk of what you're saying, and that CR's methodology has value. That said the following was also part of my experience on consumerreports.com -

In the bottom footer, I click on "Ad Choices". I'm presented with a list of advertisers in a TrustArc-branded dialog. To opt out of being retargeted by consumerreports.com, there are checkboxes for three vendors: Microsoft, LiveRamp Inc. and Google Advertising Products. For seven other vendors, there's no checkbox, just instructions to visit the website: Amazon Advertising, Bidtellect Inc, Comscore B.V, Facebook, Google Inc, Kibo Commerce, and Twitter.

Also in the footer (maybe only for California residents such as myself?) there is a "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" link. It opens a OneTrust-branded dialog with the option to disable "Share My Information with Third Parties on Digital". It also declares that "If you are a Print or All-Access Member and receive Consumer Reports magazine or Consumer Reports on Health through the mail, we may share your name and mailing address for direct mail purposes with selected companies offering products or services that we believe will be of interest to you." I followed a link to a separate page, which required me to copy-paste in my just-received membership number, to opt out of this.
> Understand your house is a leveraged investment and you'll do well.

Your primary house is not an investment, because if you sell it you are now homeless. This is literally the first thing any RIA or CFPA teaches you.