skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We could bicker about what “quality of life” means but if we define it as: “the most people have the most opportunities to live the life they want” good luck finding that being done at scale anywhere other than the US.

I really don’t see how you can compare the incredible success of that system to some homogenous euro country with 5% or the population of the US who considers bike lanes to be some great achievement for mankind.

More homeless? Maybe. But it isn’t due to lack of effort on our part. The incredibly generous social safety nets exist. We can’t force people to take advantage of that.

Remember that we’re not just trying to get one or two cultures to live together productively. We are successfully organizing all the cultures under one system.

Feel free to point out the gaps, I would expect no less. We will just keep on achieving and building the future. Doing it all while also paying for the military power that keeps the western world safe.

Compared to US cities, European countries feel old. Dead. Antique relics occupied by museum keepers who’s pastime is pontificating about “social justice”. Prioritizing morality only so they can maintain some small feeling of superiority because the rest of the world has left them behind.
Windows Forms for example?
When I need to test C I just use D unittest blocks.

You can import the C header file directly now so it's literally trivial.
Easy to build a company out of a genius product/IP some other intelligent team built. I grant that Elon is a decent salesman (even though all the false promises are chipping away at that title), I haven't seen proof of much else.
It doesn’t say what Lightspeed et al get for their $200m investment - does anyone know? Did they take a stake of the company?

There’s a lot of deals being announced in crypto recently and the details are never clear.
An older comment of mine https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30049522 fits well here. I'll adapt it to your question ;)

Basically: medicine as a whole is already some sort of expert system.

- Data collection and cleanup: Researchers conduct experiments to produce meaningful data and extract conclusions from that data.

This part isn't more automated because we have strict rules that prevent medical data collection and analysis without a clear purpose. Otherwise we'd be able to collect a lot more information to try and extract results from it using more inference-oriented techniques (deep learning and the like).

- Modeling & training: Expert panels produce guidelines from the results of that research. These panels are the "training part" of the system.

As a sibling comment said, replacing these panels with ML-based techniques isn't trivial because the data produced in the previous step is fairly noisy (p-value hacking, difficulty of capturing all the variables, etc.). Furthermore, the techniques that yield best results nowadays also produce them without clear explanations on why they hold, which is not something we are prepare to accept in medicine.

- Execution: Doctors diagnose and treat following said guidelines. In fact, they use decision flows that they themselves call... algorithms!

The main reason why execution is not automated is that we do not have the technology for machines to capture the contextual and communication nuances that doctors pick up on. There can be a world of difference between the exact same statement given by two different patients or even the same patient in two different situations. Likewise, the effect of a doctors' statement can be quite literally the opposite depending on who the patient is and their state of mind. One of the most important aspects of the GP's job is to handle these differences to achieve the best possible outcomes for their patients.

All that being said, there are companies trying to produce expert systems to help doctors diagnose. See https://infermedica.com/product/infermedica-api for instance.
"Good idea to build and consume renewable energy"

A deeper dive: they aren't renewable, they're at best rebuildable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYeZwUVx5MY&t=2682s - (Dr. Nate Hagens - Earth and Humanity: Myth and Reality - Myth #21: Renewables Can Power THIS Civilization)
It is great seeing devs getting offered better pay and benefits, but I think I just became tech lead at the worst time :D

We're trying to hire for an entry level full stack position, but the candidate pool is not ideal: only one bootcamp, dabbled in Java or Python while in high school, only want to pick one side to develop in (frontend or backend, not both).

We are not going to hire any of these people. I can't teach them programming while also trying to fix bugs and add features. We'll most likely be taking the job post down and will try again in the summer.
On the contrary, it's incredibly common for people to want to believe that the ancients were somehow better or wiser than we are, or marvel over supposedly impossible feats (see: pyramids, Greek fire, occasionally semi-correct guesses about the nature of the universe).

They were just people like us; right sometimes, wrong much more often, but in their case, lacking the tools to verify most ideas.
Maybe that 6 days is a metaphor.

Metaphors taken literally. Literality taken metaphorically. Esoterica interpreted conventionally. Guiding the hand of the translator. Mistranslation compounding over the iterations.

Any useful knowledge must get lost like dust in the wind.
The Bible is a loose collection of different books written by different authors over a period of thousands of years. We shouldn’t be surprised that some of them say different things.
The building could collapse, be condemned, there could be any number of natural disasters. You can end up in a situation where you owe a lot of money on the mortgage, interest rates move up, and the value drops, so now you can’t move.

If something major fails with the building, a repair bill could be so large that you have to take out another mortgage to pay for it, no matter your current financial situation.

Plenty of significant problems with condos that can force you to be kicked out.

Most of all, incentives are misaligned. Condos are designed to be marketed and sold. I’ve lived in several high end condos, as well as high end apartment buildings, and the apartment buildings always were built better and didn’t have weird custom made shit breaking.
DNA is continually regenerated.
Joan Didion didn’t deserve that.
It's OK, if it gets too cold in Texas you can always fly to Cancun for a while, as shown by the example of some notable local politicians who espouse a "the free market will fix everything" philosophy.
This is the real answer. casual users just want to Press button->Receive bacon. If anything looks lame or hard, their limbic systems will direct them right back where their freidns are.

"Matrix? Dude just get on Discord we're forming a party right now."
> No, it doesn’t. Or at least it depends on where. What the Bay Area needs is more genuine family housing, not small 2BR condos

Presumably, if there was less exclusive single-family-home zoning, there’d be more incentive for family-suitable condos to be built.
Oh boy do I not like this blog post! It’s well written and entertaining, but painfully unaware of itself despite thinking it is self aware. Rich guy from LA buys a house closer to nature and experiences the life most people live but thinks it’s some transformative magical experience. Goes back to LA to eat escargot with friends but finds the city not as relaxing.

It’s like he’s cosplaying as a normal person. Although if the article is written like this on purpose, it’s a work of art.
For context, the author of this piece passed away recently: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/books/lars-eighner-dead.a...
Believe it or not, animals can take care of themselves for the most part.
The bullshit spin from both the Gov's and Prosecutor's office is pretty hilarious. They simply had no case but just couldn't bring themselves to say so.
My prediction is that the only ones of these that will survive are the natural gas ones that also sell to the grid.

Texas has so much gas and methane being thrown into the atmosphere for decades. The regulator rubber stamps pollution exceptions to allow sites to continue doing it. Crypto miners can and are cleaning that up, since they have a simple usage converting that gas to energy with a simple catalytic converter. Low infrastructure, light weight, and doesnt even need much of an internet connection compared to a data center.
Yes. Condos are like a hybrid of apartments and SFHs, with mostly the downsides of both. In terms of affordability, they are often are the first opportunity for those wanting a SFH. But like you say, their risk/reward scenario is skewed heavily towards the risk.
There's a "Report something wrong" function under "cog" icon on top right. Might be worth a try.
I believe this thread was created to shill simplelogin.io.

This is the first activity of OP on this site, simplelogin seems to be new company of 4 young cofounders.
No it doesn't.

It's just a lie.

BTC provides demand for cheap energy not for renewable.

And it consumes the demand. It doesn't create this demand for others.
Isn't that already protected? How would a union change this?
Bash has one major advantage though: it’s core libraries and and commands almost never change which mean your scripts are most likely going to work forever. Python core library development is filled with asshats who like to deprecate naming conventions in later versions rather than just improving the existing libraries and keeping the method names the same. Python is great for a lot of reasons but if you know bash well, it is far more reliable in the long term.
Still is.

Trying to outperform Fortran relies on C developers putting the right annotations on the right places and never get them misplaced, otherwise it will trigger UB.
That's called a ligature[1], and clasically used for joining for example ff or fi into more readable symbols.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(writing)
Whoop-de-do, you spent five months somewhere.

>Former Trump voters are the people who drag your car out of the sand when it gets stuck, or help you fix your bathroom, and they are extremely nice, and don’t turn their noses down at your fussy jute rugs or purple sofa.

Yeah... This is going to be highly dependant on your race and ethnicity.

I'm really sick of this holier than thou attitude, and it's not even true. The implication is that people who vote Democrat won't help you when you break down and give a thought about your interior design choices. It's just not true, grow up.

I spent 20 minutes listening to someone from Mississippi talking about how much better she is than "people around here" because she once helped "a Dominican or Puerto Rican" who broke down in front of her house. ... Except every single person I personally know around here would have done the same, except nobody I know around here would think to brag about it or pat themselves on the back.
Oh interesting! Good to know
Why are you so rude? I am a hardware engineer and I’m explaining how you establish trust with hardware devices. This information isn’t contained in a single data sheet, it spans an entire global supply chain.

A SIM card is just one way to do exactly what I described. It’s expensive and probable not a good choice for small, cheap devices. Not to mention brings along a whole host of associated security complexity.
Was recently reflecting on this excellent piece comparing and contrasting p2p/federated/centralized systems: https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10216-the-hidden-dra...

The drawbacks for p2p and centralized systems seem to be mostly inherent to the technical requirements necessary for things to function.

The downsides of federation are more practical (who/how deploys and maintains the servers). Good reminder that organizational structures like technical "communes" need more emphasis!
> I'm not going to pick a choice I've got enough information to determine I'll dislike.

You've been duped by the loud anti-HOA crowd and their scary stories, then. For most people, living in a condo is hassle-free. It's cheaper to be many when doing repairs. And someone else coordinates everything so one doesn't have to think about maintenance.
> Maybe that 6 days is a metaphor.

If it is up to the reader to decide which is and which isn't a metaphor that should not be taken literally, than the text is no better than the reader's capability to distinguish metaphors from facts to be taken literally, is it?
see also, historical Bell System and other recordings/error messages:

https://www.thisisarecording.com/Bell-System.html

https://telephoneworld.org/telephone-sounds/modern-north-ame...

Fairly easy to download and use on your own voip system if you want.
Damnit. I use a fork of FF that has all the (worthless) Pocket stuff removed. So, now I'll be stuck refactoring my patches.

I feel like every FF related post reminds me that Mozilla has lost their way. What can be done to bring it back?
Consider the recent studies that show that people's attention is reduced by their phone, even if its under their bed, even if its turned off.

Try it, purposefully leave your phone at home the next time you go to the grocery store and see if you feel anything weird.
The article says that's the plan. We'll see if it works out that way.

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“When you can consume 20% of your electricity on site and sell roughly 80% back into the grid, and can shut down our miners in a minute if we need during peak hours, that offers a massive benefit with regards to smoothing our supply and demand across the energy grid,” Ward said, describing the benefits of building on-site solar panels.

“We can still make money [when bitcoin miners are turned off] by selling our leftover solar energy back into the wholesale system. This won’t hurt our profitability, yet the relief it could provide to the end consumer could be massive,” he said.
I'd love a replacement shell with threaded screw holes so that, when the joysticks eventually drift / battery starts to die, I can feel safe opening/replacing things.
That response is basically "nothing he said is strictly speaking wrong, but we value freedom above everything else." Well, they're allowed to take that position, but I prioritize being able to use a free / open source messaging application with as many people as possible over being able to choose exactly which federated client I can use to talk to the two people I know who go to PGP key exchange parties. Sometimes I want to make a video call with two other people on my phone without using software written by Google, Apple or Facebook. Signal does that. I don't even know how feasible that is with Matrix.
All blockchains are just databases that anyone can write to by paying in the transferable database units. People are willing to do that.

Don't worry about the sales pitches for why other people hoard the database units. It periodically fits their risk profile, or it doesnt. Who cares.

I like using the database, I expect to continue being able to.

Other platforms don’t have the same features regarding the tradability of the unit. Dealbreaker.
Why? Russia only looses and they know this. They would also be firing on their own separatists in the east.
How do you develop it (having the extension enabled in the browser) with this strategy? Are you just continuously re-building on changes and the browser picks it up?
> "Bitcoin Experts"

What does that even mean?
What sorcery is this?! Object oriented bash? Incredible.
I have a longtime friend whose uncle is from Burkina Faso, who insists -- quite emphatically, and with a lot of hand gestures -- that mangoes are "The King of Fruits".

Someday, I hope to taste a real mango.
Have to agree. I grew up in rural areas, and my experience was that everything around me was oriented around paying quite a lot of attention to making sure that everyone thought and especially behaved in the expected way. Moving to the city as soon as I could probably saved my life, since I was able to find a place where I could be my weird self without endless bullying from adults as well as children for being different. The part of the country I lived in, people were exceptionally (unbelievably in retrospect) cruel to Mexicans or anyone else who appeared foreign, and anyone who came across as non-straight.

I don’t think there is anything wrong with rural places or people, and I know many people can find happiness there (just like they can in cities). Many people are wonderful, just like many people in cities are wonderful. Many people in both places are not.

That the desert is filled with noble savages, uncorrupted by civilisation, is a fantasy though.

All that said, this article reads almost like a parody of something? I’m not entirely sure it’s intended to be sincere, or if it is mocking a certain kind of city person who idealises the countryside.
Go to Toronto during first week of May. Ask for Gujarati Indian grocery store. They should have Indian kesar.

There is this store owner who also owns farms in India. They grow mangoes just for Canada.

While you are there, try different mangos likes Desi, Langda, Hafus & Rajapuri.
I don't get why people are so afraid of goto. I looked into Dijkstra's original invective against it and it was an argument for structured programming. People may not be familiar with that term because it won so thoroughly that only assembly programmers work outside if it. It means constructs like loops, functions, if statements, etc.

In dijkstra's world, people just jumped to any code anywhere in the program, leading to insane spaghetti code that was impossible to read. In C++, goto can no longer jump to anywhere in the program, only within the function. This severely limits the potential damage of goto if the functions are otherwise well constructed.

goto can be used for high performance decision trees, loop exiting, and in C (less so in C++ due to RAII) for freeing memory at the end of a function. I used to fear goto, no longer. However, I would advocate using it only in those situations (possibly others) as in excess it will lead back to the same problems identified by Dijkstra.
> I accessed a paper from late last year not so long ago. I think it's working fine.

It is not. A large batch of new papers was added manually, but the old service of typing in a DOI and having a paper be retrieved automatically is not working. Pick 10 random DOIs from 2022 and see how many Scihub will return.
by using aliases we (me and wife) can use just one paid google account with two mail adresses
Too cold weather.
Simple Keyboard is back in Play Store, assuming developer account was reinstated
I assume we will continue to use renewable energy and mean what you describe.

Interesting to hear rebuild able haven't heard that before.
I think there really is a market for special fruits but the problems that prevent them from being ubiquitous lead to them being extremely local. In my area, we have a specific type of strawberry that sells out as quickly as they can be harvested. They are unlike any other strawberry available. Super juicy and sweet. Bright red throughout. Extremely perishable and delicate. They are only available for about 3 weeks in June and they tend to get moldy within a few days of harvesting, so you really only see them at farmers markets and a handful of grocery stores that specialize in local produce. If you want the best ones, you need to buy them within an hour of the opening of the farmers market. By 90 minutes, even the lower quality ones are gone. You get 2 more tries the following weekends and then they are gone until next year.

Since they cannot travel or be kept in inventory, they will never be available fresh more than about 50 miles from where they are grown.
Condos have all the downsides of apartments and home ownership combined. They're the trolley of homes. Where the trolley has the downsides of the train and the bus combined.

With a condo I pay to own it, but also pay a monthly HOA fee forever, and I can only do approved modifications, but I'm also responsible for anything that breaks.

If I own property I should be allowed to install a giant mailbox on a whim, or break a whole in the wall because I dreamt there was treasure in it.

If I have to pay monthly and follow someone else's rules, I shouldn't have to finance and organize maintenance on my own.

As for the trolley analogy, it gives up the capacity of the train, but can't drive around an accident like a bus.
The alternative is to tie up a significant amount of money into a home. In Germany, ~12% of the purchase price is lost to fees. A lot more is lost to interest. Some more is lost to things that are normally included in your rent. Oh and you need to pay for maintenance. You need to take care of maintenance.

To illustrate my point, most German landlords fail to beat inflation. Some 20% are losing money.

The homeowners I know chose a slightly worse location, because they couldn't afford to buy in the places where they actually want to live. Since a mortgage is a 30 year affair, they bought more than they currently need. They end up paying more and getting less (for now). Inflation and rising rents will work in their favour eventually, but it's far enough in the future to make me question the move.

I meant to write about buying a home in Germany (I write about adulting in Germany), and the conclusions from my extensive research are the following:

- Buying a home is not a financial decision, it's a lifestyle decision

- Everyone who writes about buying a home has a financial incentive to recommend buying a home

- Home ownership is also throwing a lot of money away: closing fees, taxes, interests, maintenance, opportunity cost...
Nope. I'm pretty sure you understand it perfectly.
Somewhat tangentially related.
Pocket seems like a dead product. I have been using it since it can out but it feels old, slow and quite behind.

I use it extensively to capture a reading list and then trim it occasionally.
Any recommendations for alternatives?

Offline web-rendered article views are a must - something pocket can’t do. And their text mode misses quite a few important details when there are equations or illustrations in the content.
Yet another unconvincing set of tweets as to why one should believe in a bright future for cryptos... so... tiring...
Yep, there were definitely some fun commercials. There might be now as well, but I'll never know :-)
Reporting these as spam does actually help and will solve the problem over time.
Your source is a Texas-secessionist rant with no citations? Do you have any actual objective reviews of why the power grid issue happened?
I would think more teeth. Whatever the current situation is does not seem to hinder company’s actions much judging from the HN commentary.
If you think about it like gambling it makes sense.

It takes about $14 billion per year to maintain the current price given that new bitcoins are "mined", so that's the theoretical supply inflation right now not subtracting deflation from lost coins.

The gambling industry worldwide revenue is $219 billion.

That's just one theory of its value if its purely used for speculation. That said I still believe it could totally collapse at any time or perhaps hit an all time high and slowly decline from there, with several smaller rallies on its way down.