skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The experts are living in first world countries and their expectations are pegged to continual improvement in quality of life.

When my dad was growing up in Bangladesh, one out of four kids died before age 5. He nonetheless remembers a happy childhood in his village. Today the childhood mortality rate is under 1 in 30 (about where the US was when he was growing up, but three times higher than the US is today).

Experts say climate change will cost Bangladesh double digit fractions of its GDP by the end of the century (which will still be much higher than today). Are we going to go back to a quarter of kids dying before five? Do the folks in the US not having kids because they worry about climate change think the US is going to get anywhere near what was common around the world a generation ago?
>This is exacerbated by an aging population and restrictive immigration policies.

Sans the covid anomaly, immigration has never been higher in Western nations. The issue isn't restrictive migration. It's that we're not treating nurses well. That means fewer people pick this career, and more nurses leave prematurely. Suggesting that we need to import more nurses is only admitting that migrant nurses are willing to work for worse pay and worse working conditions, and I don't think that's fair to anyone.
the author is conflating expressing the infrastructure (the definition) with materializing the infrastructure. Materializing the infrastructure is an implementation detail.

there is absolutely no reason why you shouldn't be able to express your definition in python, or ruby or json.

anyone remember Vagrant? Where you could write your config is a Ruby DSL and could drop into Ruby whenever you wanted to do something "special"?
"Pause".

It sounded strange, somehow not Danish, so I looked up the authoritative site. https://www.sst.dk/da/corona/Vaccination is the authoritative source, and if you want to be vaccinated during the pause, what you need to do is find one of the sites (they all stay open during the pause) and show up during opening hours. There are no additional requirements.

The pause just means that the relevant authority won't contact you to say e.g. "Hi, 140 days have passed since you were vaccinated, so you're now eligible for the second dose." Duh.
I’d imagine JavaScript heavy sites are pretty miserable on the Pi even the latest models.
The US economic growth rate plunged in the first quarter
it's classic NIH. Our problem is special (spoiler alert: it's not) and we will invent a great solution that solves our special problem.
> Presumably Apple deemed it too much of a legal risk to use zfs even with the CDDL, because of how litigious Oracle is.

Kind of surprising given how close Ellison and Jobs were: Steve was the 'official' photographer at Larry's wedding.

* https://petapixel.com/2010/10/08/steve-jobs-the-wedding-phot...
You can just view/copy the titles and search for them on whatever service you're using to find music?

But here you go, some of my favs from that playlist:

https://saoir.se/track/tidal/108030305

https://saoirse.kvm.vufuzi.se/track/tidal/83981884

https://saoirse.kvm.vufuzi.se/track/tidal/109311763
Discovery of the one-way superconductor without magnetic fields
It’s not really worth it nor likely. Plenty of places in the US with excess water closer to the dry regions. Ie desalination in California makes more sense.
I grew up in west Michigan probably about 40 minutes from Lake Michigan, but my favorite memory of the great lakes is similar to yours. While we were camping on Lake Superior a big storm rolled in, and I got to watch waves just roll right over a massive stone break water. The sheer power of that is certainly something to behold.
The color updates are about 10x faster, and there's a 300ms black / white update mode too.
I use to be a shareholder of Rocket. Then I tried to get a mortgage with them.

I'm self-employed. I make about 200k/year. I had 0 debt (I paid off my house the prior year). I had 20% for up to 350k. I had an 812 credit score.

When I applied they asked for my P&R statements for 2 years. The current year showed a $400 deficit (which was due to charitable giving). They said that I was losing money.Therefore I was too great of a risk.

I explained to them why the numbers were $400 lowers. I told them that I already had another $20k in receivables. I told them my present house was on the market. All to no avail. I was too great of a risk.

It was at this point that I knew they had little idea how to work in the industry. If they turned me down, they were turning other stable individuals down. I promptly sold my shares and moved on.

The realtor of the condo I eventually purchased recommended a broker. They looked at the same info and laughed at Rocket. The new broker gladly took the loan.
Please do name these tragedies and their unfolding consequences, somehow majorly different from the other, previous unfolding tragedies that have been predicted for many, many decades by all sorts of people.
> People are dying every day due to fossil fuel caused pollution.

You don't dive into this in a single sentence, but I do want to raise the point that fossil fuels, while they are bad are better than the alternatives for many countries, especially developing ones. Let's consider some alternatives.

Wood and animal waste: for developing nations that need any energy they can get, they will burn these 2, which are massively worse than fossil fuels, and no where near as energy dense.

Coal: massive step up from the above. Yes it burns dirty, but there are capture methods to make coal cleaner.

Natural gas: one of the best out there. Low emissions and again, energy dense. Turned into LNG, it's easy to transport and use elsewhere.

Nothing... This is the point that I think lots of people miss. Having access to energy dense materials like coal or LNG are a major factor in bring developing nation people out of poverty. Not having these "dirty" energy sources that kill some is way worse than not having it at all (more people will die without the energy).

People need to be reasonable and realize that rich nations can go nuclear and renewable, but we still need to allow developing nations to have access to the others, even encourage it. That means first world nations need to produce more LNG and supply it wherever possible. Sadly many want to stop all fossil fuel production.
I use ffmpeg on command line most of the time for conversions, removing audio tracks, trimming. If I only need to trim I use the windows Photos app which suprisingly lets you trim videos!

The Photos app sometimes crashes when I try to trim large video files but it usually works on the second attempt, it's good enough for me.
Not GP, but I solve this problem by pip freezing a requirements.txt with specific package versions and using that when I do a pip install. I don’t use docker, but probably should.

This is pretty reproducible across my own, co-workers, and external collaborators to get the exact version.
But this is way more cool though.
Angela Merkel’s nuclear folly fuelled Putin’s ambitions in Ukraine
How is a macrostate TTTTxxxx different from having the information about the TTTT part and not about the xxxx part?

Talking bout the entropy of the macrostate TTTTxxxx makes sense only conditional on the TTTT information.
> The true demand from people with the intend to actually live in the estates has been constantly decreasing since around 2000; the real salarys dropped since then, so did the buying power.

> When 90 (?) percent of people simply lack the buying power to participate in the real estate market, but the other 10% happily sell each other estates, that's not a bubble, the real estate market just stopped interfacing with the vast majority of the population.

Nonsense. The home ownership rate is 65%, in-line with the long term average and the same as it was in the year 2000

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N
Ask HN: Which magazines do you recommend?
Hi all,

I'm interested in anything (computer) science / mathematics related, however, I'm a Software Engineer and would not consider myself a scientist or mathematician.

I currently have subscriptions for "Nature" and "Communications of the ACM" but I won't renew my subscriptions for neither of them. Most of the articles in Nature are too specialized for me, only the first part of the magazine is readable, where the gist of the content is presented. CACM on the other side seems a bit too high-level and I have the impression it's mainly about A.I. and inclusiveness these days (nothing against these topics, just don't want to read about it all the time).

Any recommendations?
that refresh shimmer is brutally bad, is smooth refresh completely unsolvable for e-ink?
Is 300ms fast? I thought Remarkable and similar products had it down to 40ms.
Heck, Alexandria was in Egypt. You can't get more Hellenic than that.
It's very clear that the quality of life for the average human is better than it has been at any other time in history, and that we've been on the upward trend for a long, long time.

The mistake is looking at that historical trend and falling for a whig history belief that this trend is the unstoppable march of history and things will always get better, when it's very possible that we are the generation that is approaching the peak.

These gains have to be fought for and protected. The principle issue is that this past century's gains have been built on borrowed time - namely on limited resources that sow the seeds of global environmental catastrophe with every extracted Joule that allows for the next temporary marginal gain in quality of life.

Things are better now than they've ever been. But if someone sticks their head in the ground and ignores the problems that are already starting to manifest they might be in for a rude awakening.
These results have to be sandbagged right? Is there any reason this stuff wasn't rolled out years ago except one company sandbagging technical development so they can sell 2008 technology at 2022 prices?
The market cannot solve all problems magically, and that's where legislation comes in.
You seem like an engineer, so you should be able to start up a spreadsheet, put down a bunch of reasonable numbers, and project forward 20-30-40 years and see what makes sense for you. If a loan is involved, read up on the IPMT Excel/Google Sheets function! [1]

I don't know how things work where you are, but here in the US if you are renting, you are essentially helping someone else pay their debt. And they can kick you out when they please. The main benefit is that you can stop paying on a much shorter time scale (1yr lease contract?) or take time off, but if you don't rent you should require a smaller cash flow which should be possible to save up for.

One last thing, don't forget that you can sell the property in the future (or even rent it out, hence letting someone else pay YOUR debt). That should factor in your cost/benefit calculations. Even if it does not appreciate at crazy rates like the current insane market has led us to expect, it will very likely be a lot more than zero.

[1] https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093175?hl=en
Do we have a healthy marketplace? Specifically for nurses?

I certainly doesn’t seem it.
But the discussion of whether something is renewable is also a complex topic that is only true to some extent. Renewable energy sources (Wind and Solar) are technically not renewable - the production of the equipment uses raw resources that we (today) cannot renew indefinitely.

However, for both Nuclear and Solar/Wind energy we do know, that the energy sources are sufficiently abundant to sustain us almost indefinitely without us upsetting other ecological balances.
Please add endianness (little, big and mixed) to the list, relevant to but field packing, while IEEE floats should not interfere with bit fields.
You could say this about any other network people take part in. The majority is always stupid from the point of view of someone above average intelligence. Does that justify exploiting them though? Are people fair game to be ripped off because they're naive or too busy with other stuff to be able to care?

I can trick a child into handing over their proverbial candy too but that doesn't make it mine to keep.
Apple has made every new iphone and MacBook pro larger than the last generation to fit larger batteries.

"Many people would be happy with a larger phone, if it meant you could access it a little easier to repair it — or replace the battery, which most people wouldn’t consider a “repair” — yourself."

Apple did just that, and you're still not happy. They made the new iphones larger with a bigger battery. They now sell you the parts directly so you can repair it yourself.

They have made it as easy as they can to repair, while still having the device sealed and waterproof.

They literally have done what you are complaining about right now.
And also nearly a million people died in the US. Even though most of those were elderly and probably not working, it's not insignificant.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
I think he’s saying that in ten years he can stop renting and shove everything into a storage unit and go travel.

The rent/but dichotomy really comes down to what axis of “freedom” you want to optimize for, and if you want to stay in the house and area more than 10 years.
Can you tell me an area where average house prices have doubled in the last 5 years? I can't think of one. Most expensive areas have gone sideways since Brexit, and risen a bit since the pandemic. Most cheap areas have grown slowly since Brexit.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/property-prices/london/ shows the median as having gone up around 6% in total since 2017. Trying a mix of neighbourhoods in that tool, I can't see any which are close to 100% up.
"brand-aids"
Strategically Thinking Through Coding Exercises
That revision is probably expressed in Lakatos's view on "research programmes" that may have core non-falsifiable theories and that continue being useful even when scientists know something is off about the model as a whole:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lakatos/#ImprPoppScie
I mention eglot in the article: the reason I'm not using it is it's not packaged in Debian (yet?). Apparently, it should land in Emacs core eventually (as mentioned in the article too) so I'm basically waiting for that. In the meantime, lsp-mode is fine for the light programming I do on a daily basis.
Which is remarkable given how many older systems and software the pi can run natively or emulate at full speed. The web really can be embarassing in terms of performance.
> How hard would be to abstract the Hauku-specific bits into their own part?

Hard, as I mentioned to other commenters, Xlibe makes heavy and direct use of Haiku APIs everywhere to do just about everything. However...

> It'd be neat if it was possible to use this not only to target Haiku but also other window systems like Win32 and Cocoa.

Using Xlibe as a starting point to write an equivalent library for Win32, Cocoa, or even Wayland would probably save you a lot of time, effort, and hassle in that a lot of Xlib general architecture, some behavioral oddities, etc. are already worked out in Xlibe as a matter of course. I'd be happy to guide others through what that process might look like if there was interest.

> Does something like Gtk1.2[0] (which AFAIK does more heavy use of xlib than modern GTK) work?

I didn't try it, but modern GTK actually makes pretty heavy use of Xlib; and Xt/Xaw do as well, which also work, so I imagine it would; or if it didn't, improving Xlibe so that it did would not be too hard.

> How about Motif?

Motif relies heavily on strange and implicit behaviors of X11. I was advised by one of the Emacs developers that it was probably inadvisable to try and get it to run under this. However, I did build it and it at least starts and does display things, but there are drawing artifacts and events do not work quite right.

So, it's probably theoretically possible, but I don't think it's really worth spending the time and effort in doing so. It is probably a better use of time to refactor/rewrite whatever software still uses Motif as its UI toolkit to use something else instead...
> If anyone can point to a sea that's not salty, I'd be happy to know. Until then, these are just lakes!

That feels a bit circular. If you define sea as having to contain saltwater, then how could anybody point you to a sea that isn't salty?
>> But given the time we live in know it seems like something you don't want to wear with pride or without a disclaimer

I disagree (although 'I fly lots' would be a strange thing to ever be 'proud' of imo, regardless of the climate issues). While we should all be mindful of our individual impact, asking people to restrict themselves personally (or shaming them) on such an important and positive freedom as being able to travel widely just sits wrongly with me.

There are much lower hanging fruit as regards climate change to tackle first at a much higher level (e.g. government, multi-national business). I feel our focus should be on that. If you want to make personal sacrifices that's noble but shaming others for not making the same sacrifices is petty and makes it seem like your reasons for making the sacrifices are for appearance rather than because you care. NB: I mean this more generally, it's not wholly directed at your specific comment which wasn't super judgemental.
GDP: -1.4%

DOW: -8.36% YTD

S&P500: -12.22% YTD

NASDAQ: -20.17% YTD

Inflation: 8.5%

Interest rate: 0.5%(increasing once by 0.25%)

Balance of trade: $-89.2B

>they still think the Fed will be able to rein in inflation without triggering a recession.

It was raised once and everything is collapsing underneath. Don't know how you look at all this and think 'it'll be fine'.

There's a general rule that this kind of behaviour like this and this is obvious enough. What's more important is the reality of civil unrest.
Because it's not easy to monetize a Reddit post. If you attract people to click on your garbage article, you can display ads and extract value. Meanwhile if you post the same bullshit on Reddit, you get nothing.

This is not to say that there are no bots, paid shills and other issues on Reddit, but it is definitely a good filter. It's the same with Stackoverflow vs most coding sites that just rip them off.
A Field Guide to Elephpants
I mean the folks that bought homes in Detroit in 1960 probably feel a bit different in 1980.
I always felt that if you want big sandy beaches you go to Lake Michigan, somewhere like Grand Haven or Ludington.
No assets.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/ninja-loan.asp
As a javascript dev myself which write javascript heavy websites, I think all of my sites would perform just fine on a raspberry pi, at least on the newer models.

What I am most afraid of is the editing experience mostly.
I don't know about theorem provers but computational algebra systems work a bit like a blockhain. At least they both use a merkle tree to store their graph/tree/list, but somewhere in your description there is a reformulation of the halting problem. It is impossible to know what rule is going to be useful next, CAS systems will often just use the length of the expression to decide this order. Like knuth said once, maybe P=NP but P is just impractically big.
Seems like some in the comments are having a hard time calling the author's income "passive".

Just an alternative - if you can find a profitable niche, you can have the book ghostwritten. A non-fiction book of around 30k words (~110 - 180 pages, depending on trim size) can be produced for $1000 (or less, if you can find a diamond in the rough on upwork). The cover can run anywhere from $100 - $800 depending on the quality you want.

So, from $1000 - $2000 you can basically have a book written for you. Choose a pen name and sell it on Amazon.
> while their military is cunning, evil and violent, despite somehow being incompetent and incapable at the same time.

That's not a contradiction, in case you were trying to make that claim. A terrorist group still doesn't have to be militarily efficient.
How Paxlovid came to be: From the germ of an idea to a vital tool against Covid
I have a startup idea --- collect validated email addresses and sell them to spammers.
What kind of an investor wouldn't use leverage when rates are this low?!?
Yes simpler panels have even faster BW update. But the old 7-colour panels took 15s to do anything... so being able to do partial updates in a region at 300ms is a huge upgrade for them.
Neither do the Straits of Mackinac
Such an "AlphaZero approach" will only knock Gowers's GOFAI approach out of business if the AI can also "justify" its proofs, in the sense that Gowers explains in his blogpost.
Do you think that will happen in 5 years?
> Sadly, it's typical of Apple to want special treatment from vendors.

If you're going to put a third-party's technology into your products (i.e., the file system that everything is built on), having extra assurances with regards to support and development is not crazy.

Apple tends to buy companies that make the technology they based their products on, but wasn't really going to happen with Sun. At best they'd have to poach the entire ZFS team, but there could still be things like patents and such (which they're allowed to use via the CDDL).

Yes, they incorporated Dtrace, but that wouldn't be a big deal to rip out if things went sideways legally-speaking.

Changing and depending on a file system is a BFD.
The person is describing a bond loan. They're not offered in most countries.
Is 8% referring to Rocket Mortgage layoffs?

Over the last two or so years, mortgage rates hit historic lows, which meant the demand for cheap mortgages increased significantly, both from people wanting to enter the market and those refinancing. Consider that the $500k mortgage that would have cost $2300/mo in 2019 suddenly costs like $1600/mo in 2021.

Absolutely I jumped on that train, as many others did. Lenders were overwhelmed and had to hire a lot to meet this demand.

If you missed that window, well rates are above what they were pre-pandemic, looking back at least a decade, so refinancing for lower payments no longer makes sense for most borrowers. People still are buying homes, but high prices and that disappeared “once-in-a-lifetime deal” are going to suppress demand.
The idea attracted me once.

The reality is that a used laptop is more affordable by the time a screen, keyboard, pointing device, power supply and clock are added and provides orders of magnitude better experience.

Or to put it another way, using an RPi as a daily driver was not a hill I found worth dying on. Linux is Linux. Good luck.
I think, I understood you very well. The flushing of the toilet is of course also a liability. But my point is, nevertheless to take it serious, even though its impact might be small. I think we should not only focus on where it matters the most, and ignore the rest, but try to improve the situation across the board, including the smaller things.
I don't think spending $6,000 less in property taxes each would justify a $500,000 increase in price.
I just wanna know where the heck I can buy the newest mid to topend models!
I'm in Australia. There's several projects that I've been wanting to kick-start.
House prices are kind of attached to rent, but not entirely - especially in areas where there are few rentals, or lots of them.

Actual rental revenue received can be significantly lower than calculated if there are vacancies, etc. It’s much easier to do on an apartment building with many units.