skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where is that definition from?

The 2020 census proposes using "385 housing units per square mile as the primary criterion for determining whether a census block qualifies for inclusion in an urban area". Previously it was 1000 people per square mile (or equivalent to the above with 2.6 persons per household).

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/02/19/2021-03...
Are you using Jitsi meet or the lib? I've been trying to work with the API to integrate into a solution and it hasn't been pretty.
Insurance companies in general and it's also the case in Europe. You often get a better deal just by switching to the current offering even at the same company after a couple of years but they don't tell you.
> Women do it all the time and quickly learn the intricacies of dating at a young age. Friendship and courtship are two different beasts and I bet women would like to be able to go on great dates with men who know have at least done a minimum of research in this area.

Women also have those intricacies thrust upon them, and often at a young age.

Most of the reasonably attractive girls I've known, as friends or more than friends, have been getting creeped on since they were like 12. I can think of at least one girl who got pregnant in 8th grade.

For women it's more of a survival strategy, while for dudes it's more of a hunting strategy.

> Sure, there are many snake oil dating "gurus" out there but I think many men could genuinely benefit from _some_ form of this.

In theory I'm okay with this, dudes could use a lesson or two, but in practice as you said there are a lot of snake oil types, and the culture that comes with it is often toxic as fuck. I used to bartend in college and a lil bit after and I saw some shady behavior come out of what were clearly PUA bros. Plus I don't want any well spoken, put together, respectful competition.
> Wouldn’t trying to make a small change in your community have more impact than all the comments posted in this thread?

No.

Some problems are rightly solved at the government level and anything that serves to distract from that is propaganda.
There are a few forces that govern behavior, from Lessig:

Money, markets - the cost of things regulates behavior, more money = more permissive behavior

Physics - the rules of the world regulate behavior, and the better our understanding, the more lax this regulation is

Norms - mutually agreed upon and generally, widely enforced "rules" that are not laws, but do impose rewards and consequences for behavior.

Laws - like norms, but more formal, and with real teeth beyond being shunned or praised.

Norms and laws act post fact. They do not actually prevent behavior, but can reward for it, or punish for it.

Physics and markets, money do inhibit behaviors. The rules of the world are the rules. Violations = failure. Inability to bear costs = failure.

A few entities trying to set new norms, and play against the generally running market, can do that to some degree, but money and markets are very strong forces compared to norms. And what Dan Price is doing with his $70K minimum wage at Gravity Payments is an excellent example. Price is establishing a norm. Weak sauce in the scheme of what regulates behavior.

Law needs to bolster those ideas and it's law and norms that can change how we value things and with those changes come real market dynamic changes, IMHO.

And this is why "be the change you seek" has limited power and cred. In the niche Price is in, it's possible, and he's doing that and arguably doing it at what others who do not value things like he does, would say he's doing it at a very significant opportunity cost.

And given the current state of affairs, they are RIGHT!!

This does not invalidate an effort like Price is making, nor the ideas, nor the potential for things to operate differently and to a much different overall effect for the population and it's elite members. Not to mention Price himself valuing things in ways that clearly make it all worth it for him to operate how he is. He talks about this all the time too.

But, scope and motivation are sharply limited. It's hard advocacy, and again as the opponents of Price would argue, very, very expensive advocacy.
And that's a meaningless reframing. It is not a fundamental logical rule that you can change one side of a relationship in order to demonstrate its irrelevance. For example, "Did the chicken come before the egg?" can't be refuted as a useful thought experiment just by showing that "Did the monkey come before the egg?" is nonsense.
Hmm, I tried it once and iirc I couldn't see commits/branches of the other workspace without pushing and fetching so I really didn't see any difference. With different checkouts you can also easily do that by adding the other checkout as a remote.
Southwest BC has been hit pretty hard by remote-working easterners deciding to move west due to the pandemic, and restrictions flying south. For example in Victoria the average price for a house has gone up 40% in the last six months alone(!) Crazy stuff.
What's the point of anecdotes? By definition they're irrelevant to the big picture.

Surely there have been studies on the effects of caffeine on the things you list?
Congratulations on English being the one and only language you use to make quick notes, then. I personally mix in words from my native language wherever I need an extra bit of semantic precision, and I'd rather not have to switch between editors to do so.
> deserve a livable wage

Is a "market wage", supplemented by payments from public money to reach decent living standards, acceptable? That's what UBI would be, in theory at least.
Maybe they just use services more. Frankly, the math probably pans out. Let them.
> Nearly every animal has language

Yes, I elided that bit, in the aim of brevity. I think there is a difference between human language and animal languages, in that human language is "creative" - we can freely create new utterances with new meanings, and expect to be understood. We know this of human language, but I would be very interested to learn of evidence of it in other species (chimps come close).
A Simple Overview of Signal Distortion
I mostly quit a year ago:
Less anxious, less insomnia, less diarrhea, less headaches when I don't have caffeine.

Didn't seem to affect me negatively in any area.

The only times when I used caffeine in the past year was when I was sleep deprived(I rarely am now), and in that case modafinil is way more effective.
Thanks for pointing this out, we'll get it fixed (the desktop version is the correct one).
Isn’t inland Greenland mostly ice?
> I've been seeing a suspicious amount of mentions of Hetzner on HN lately. (Just an observation.)

I never get tired of praising Hetzner. Their prices are remarkably a fraction of AWS's equivalent products,and their pricing model is completely rational.
Hetzner has been around forever. So maybe it's a bug in the sign up form.
Yeah it's not great. They made a lot of good "could be this" points, but nothing to really back it up.

Kinda like Freud, enough kernels of truth to be kinda accurate in certain situations, but nothing that would stand up to any real scientific rigor.
Actual article.[1] This gives more of a sense of the required conditions.
This apparently works in the 1-12 pascal range of pressure. Earth is around 100,000 pascals at sea level, and even Mars is around 600pA. This might be useful for keeping low earth orbit satellites going. Is the effect powerful enough for that? Could a microsat with solar panels generate enough thrust to equal the drag from the near space atmosphere?

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abe1127
A ton of minimum wage jobs simply cannot be exported or automated at this time.
I went from 4-5 coffees + energy drinks to zero caffeine in 2018. When I was a teenager I abused caffeine but developed anxiety as an adult and caffeine turned into a major trigger for me.

So I quit entirely for medical reasons. No caffeine + medication has entirely eliminated my physical symptoms of anxiety. I definitely miss it sometimes though, I feel like I am still more groggy in the mornings than I used to be.
Okay? So keep the car-centered infrastructure where you genuinely need it, and you can still have the huge net benefit of reliable public transit for the other 80% of people.

A solution doesn't need to be 100% perfect for every situation in order for it to still be worthwhile.
When you say architectural changes how do you mean? Most of the memory stuff isn't particularly exotic there's a lot of different syntax/Functional programming influences but I'm curious why it would be wildly exotic compared to most C++ code or have I misunderstood?
statistics are saying that caffeine users are less productive

but statistics are only part of the story
From a business/investment report, most of what's in books is going to be pretty much historical at this point. Doesn't mean not worth reading though--e.g. Andy Grove's Only the Paranoid Survive. Industry analysts (both financial and IT) can be good sources for current information--although a lot of that kind of thing is expensively gated. There's also just talking to people. After all, that's a good part of what analysts do--though they may have a greater level of access than you do.
They increased prices recently because of the increased electricity costs.
This could be good for consumers if implemented reasonably. If Intel can save money having just one product line, selling i7s at Celeron prices with cores just disabled in software, it could be good for everyone. Their method of disabling will probably take some time to crack, so people who buy these at Celeron prices can sell them as i7s, flooding the used market with good-performing CPUs.

We already see this with other hardware... Think Dell iDRACs and HP iLOs, which just need a few tricks to get all those licensed features once they're out-of-support and the vendor isn't keeping track of them as part of the support contract.

I'd also like to think this will lower the bar on upgrades during sales negotiations. HP, Dell and Lenovo are trying to get you to buy 100+ servers from them instead of their competitors, one of them might offer a free software upgrade for the CPUs as part of the deal, since it really doesn't cost anyone anything to do so... We've all seen deep discounts on software sales/licenses because their per-unit cost is nominally $0, now that model may be extended to hardware.

Of course the counter-point that comes to mind is IP-KVMs. If you've seen them being sold used for $20, that's because the hardware is useless without an ongoing subscription from the vendor. I suspect that only persists because IP-KVMs are too small of a market to attract the kind of effort needed to crack the mechanisms.

We'll have to wait and see.
This site will be the first stop for anyone wanting to harass another person online. Some times a little friction is a good thing.

I love projects like these, but they're the digital equivalent of "dual use technologies". They can be used for good or evil.

That said, nice work.
It isn't as simple as that.

New ideas that are valuable to the market are by definition worth rewarding so that more of them get created.

Some valuable ideas, however, have difficulty translating release into reward simply because despite their originality and value to society, they are easily copied.

This creates a problem for everyone. Something we all benefit from encouraging, and that pays for itself (in terms of value that it creates), is being disincentivized.

To overcome this hurdle, and achieve a higher economic maxima for both creators and consumers, we have limited (in scope and time) protections for different kinds of valuable but easily copied ideas: patents, trademarks, trade secret, and copyright.

Any situation where valuable creations are being disincentivized, is worth consideration of whether that situation could be changed to everyone's benefit.
> You could say that I want emacs-like behavior everywhere, but not everything inside of emacs.

I think you really hit the nail on the head with this statement. It's why I hope projects like NYXT Browser continue to improve.
>> That doesn’t answer the parent question. Yes the jammer is dangerous and bad. Putting the father in jail doesn’t fix that or particularly help.

> A fine, community service or something like that seems more appropriate.

First of all, a fine doesn't hurt everyone equally. A thousand dollars is huge for me. It is nothing for someone who makes lets say thirty eight million dollars a year. How do you say we do fines? Based on net worth? Previous year's tax return?

(Allegedly, Steve Jobs paid a fine to drive without a license plate.)

See, there is awareness that jail and prison are horrible places. Yet, our "solution" seems to be people like us should not go to jail or prison for things people like us might do. That is not a solution. This "tough on crime" nonsense needs to stop.

1. Jails and prisons should not be able to charge for necessities like food or hygiene products. If we can commit to keep someone locked up, we can afford to keep them clean, fed, and read on taxpayer money.

2. Nobody in jail or prison should ever have to work without their consent. No more free prison labor.

3. No for-profit private services. Phone calls from jail or prison (excluding common sense things like premium numbers) ought to be free of cost, not collect. Public libraries coming up with services like free video visitations is nice but it is not enough. It is also not available everywhere in the country.

4. I cannot believe I have to say this but zero tolerance to sexual abuse or physical in prison. If that means there can only be one person in one cell, then so be it. If it means maximum occupancy of facilities are lower, so be it. If we can commit to keep someone locked up, we can afford to keep them safe from abuse from others there. If not, we have no business locking people up. It is insane that otherwise "good people" joke about "don't drop the soap" in prison.
"Fuchsia implements some parts of Posix, but omits large parts of the Posix model."

-- fuchsia.dev
I like that this is not "a dvcs written in rust" but rather "a dvcs with these awesome improvements over git." which incidentally happens to be written in rust because of course it's the right language for this.
>For example you probably wouldn't say that Crash bandicot[sic] is a clone of Mario Bros, even though both are 2d platformers.

Ehm, I don't know whether this supports or hurts your argument, but Crash Bandicoot is 3d (or at least 2.5d) and has an entirely different type of gameplay than either the 2d or the 3d Mario games.
You made my day a good day! Have a cigarette...
Rebuilding Babel: The Tokenizer
Yes rclone works. Either through ssh or WebDAV I think.
This is such an absurd stretch, I'm not sure if it's meant as satire
Tassili has been on my list for a long time, can’t wait to get there sometime soon.

My family is from Béjaïa and I can attest to that as well, it’s a beautiful old city.
This is a case where a Lisp might be an appropriate suggestion for a beginner - specifically, AutoLISP. [1]

On the other hand, Python appears to have good libraries [2][3] for CNC-control related programming.

Finally, if Julia is what you're most comfortable with and enjoy, don't underestimate the importance of that either.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoLISP
[2] https://pypi.org/project/bCNC/
[3] https://pypi.org/project/pycnc/
Something probably got messed up on your setup (or maybe you checked out a commit instead of a branch?) because you definitely can see all worktrees' branches from inside each other when using git worktree.
I'm pretty sure there are examples of at least (1), (2), (4), (6).

But "go it at alone, and hope it catches on" is not how this would (or should) work.

It should be made as automatic to do, as paying your taxes, getting police to arrest a thief, or passing a sanity inspection to open a restaurant.

That's how society progresses as a society, when it makes what it wants the future to be either law or an custom/ethical thing that doing otherwise is frowned upon.

Not when things are merely left up to each individual's goodwill to set an example.

Doing it the formal way also e.g. makes it easier for an employeer to pay a good minimum wage AND still compete with other businesses of the same sector: since they all have to pay the same, it's a cost of doing business for everybody, not just for the "good heart" that opted to enforce it on its own (and is driven out of business by others undercutting him and paying worse).

>Hasn’t this traditionally been the American way? People going out and trying to experiment and build the things they wish to see in the world?

I don't know.

For example, from my understanding of Us history, it took a whole civil war, riots, and federal laws accompanied with police intervention to e.g. force the end of slavery and deseggregation. Some good white souls going out and doing it on their own didn't manage to get far...
I quit for about a year and I recommend everyone try at least one in their life. The withdrawals took me about two weeks to fully get over. (Only a few days with the full symptoms and then a longer tail of mild symptoms and psychological withdrawal).

I felt very relaxed for much of the time, though anxiety never fully left. Much more productive in the late afternoons when I'd normally crash. Probably a bit less productive but not worried about being less productive.

In the end I went back. I guess for the taste and the ritual, but partly I think there is a net productivity gain when one consumes mild caffeine and isn't too anxious in general.
No geo redundancy and they don't backup your stuff.
I wish I did, it was at a university biofeedback lab in about 2000. I'd guess anybody who works with biofeedback devices could recommend something better by now anyway.
Back in the day when I rented a server from their auction, the prices indeed did drop by 1€ every 24h or 72h or whatever. But not below a minimum they had set per computer type, perhaps that is still how it works. And yeah, it doesn't make sense to get an old Xeon for a higher monthly fee than a recent Ryzen, only some of the auctions make sense. (But then they might make a lot of sense: I got 6T of disk, 16G RAM and 8 cores for 27€/m.)
the potential effects of rising water levels are pretty clearly outlined in coastal areas like california. most of silicon valley, as well as LA, would be underwater and the central valley would become a large inland sea.
I' don't think the real question is “how feasible is it to rewrite everything in Rust”, because as you say, the answer to this question is clearly “not a all”. But “rewriting all parsers and media codec implementation” is a much smaller goal, and so is “stop writing new codec implementation in memory unsafe language”, yet none of those two more achievable are being pursued either, which is sincerely disappointing.
There have been countless studies on the subject to be sure. But everyone’s experience with caffeine is different. I’m interested in hearing directly from THIS group (HN) and can’t exactly fund a full blown study. So, asking for anecdotes!
Using Zero to Attack Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) Plonk
Wish I could. It makes me anxious and angry. But if I drink /exactly/ the right amount, it really helps with focus and motivation.
Yeah I'll try too out of curiosity, I could see how one could mistake a pinot for a cab or really any one grape for another, since winemaking/climate/soil can make a lot of difference.
I would try that but I'm in Europe so I don't have easy access to American wines, but I think I know what tou mean!
> Scientific code is often write-once, run-once, done.

I don't buy that in the sense that you mean. In my experience, code generally lives on no matter what, and code that remains write-once is often because no one can read it and thus update it (i.e., write it again). I've seen a decent amount of scientific code, and although it was never meant to be ran more than once by anyone other than the original author, it almost always was done so. And because it wasn't designed well, written well, or even commented well, code like that basically becomes this immutable artifact that people simultaneously don't want touched but also want it updated and keep on running.

I did an REU in mathematics back in the day where I wrote a decent amount of MAPLE code. I wasn't even a software engineer at the time, since I was a math and EE major. I honestly had little concept of what computer science even was and was not a programmer. It was not hard at all to write decent code that was commented and organized.

The problem is that most scientists, in my experience, view software and code as somewhat below them. It's like a hammer and a box of nails to them.

I inherited someone's Ph.D. dissertation Python code that had lived on across several labs. It had basically reached the "needs a rewrite" state because it was impossible to get it to run. It was stuck on Python <2.7 and basically couldn't be upgraded without replacing a lot of it because the Python distribution it was based on had become deprecated and none of the packages could be upgraded without changing a lot of the code. I'm not sure I ever saw a single comment. The person who originally wrote the code actually ended up working at one of the major scientific Python shops, somewhere I once applied to and was unceremoniously turned down. An interesting turn of events.
Powerful corporate and government actors have massive surveillance and data warehousing capabilities that aren't going away. At the very least, putting those powers into the hands of the public helps to level the playing field.

Society will have to change to accommodate the digital panopticon. I don't see the digital panopticon going away, though.
I think it's been tried too many times before. IMO too much friction to make a video when I already have tons of photos from the last year. It reduces to who can do the best videography which is a less level playing field than photos. I also swipe when I'm in public which isn't possible if there's an audio component
I'm DS and glad you asked! I find DS work similar to writing an academic paper. Generally, I work with a PM to define a question and set a deadline for an answer. I then work backwards from the deadline ideally using Asana and draft docs to provide insight into what is happening in real time.
FDA warns consumers not to use certain Family Dollar products in 6 states
There are public court records (criminal, civil), and there are non-public court records (e.g. sealed - juvenile, divorce, etc.)

As far as I can tell, all of this data is of the public nature.

While it may feel weird to type in someone's name and see their history with regard to legal filings... that is the society we live in: an open society.

Aggregating a number of disconnected data sources for search I think is absolutely a legitimate usage of the data.
I think it's from Black Mirror: Bandersnatch:

https://transcripts.thedealr.net/script.php/black-mirror-ban...
I tend to think internationally, so when I refer to "we" I mean pretty much everyone. I'm Italian anyway so I also live in the "socialist" Europe, nevertheless this year we gave away €50B in companies' subsidies and less than €10B in subsidies to citizens. At the same time the class divide grows wider, while most people this year struggle to even pay the bills. Perhaps you live in northern Europe, in that case your country definitely has higher standards of life, but I don't think north Europe is really representative of the world's situation.
I want to post this photo of Stockholm airport. Some people have very wrong impressions about what the not-lockdown there was like. Why issue lockdown orders if you can make a gentle request to to the populace and get this result?

https://i.imgur.com/Fc0Kc1L.jpg
Don't lawyers already have access to case law like this? I feel like this is not a new thing, but giving access to everyone is novel.

I could be wrong on my facts.