skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Huge quantities of COVID money were pumped into companies that absolutely did not need it (...)

Since when is revenue and profit dictated by anyone's sense of fairness? That's an awfully moralistic and judgemental take on everyone else's needs and desires.

Sadly this blend of judgemental view of everyone's money already hit small things like buying groceries. Damn the have-nots for generating inflation by actually stocking on the decent food that the well-to-do used to buy.

Do you see any problem in anyone spending their own money in any way they'd like?
Show HN: A Spatial Environment for Python
Hi all! A little background: I've been working on natto.dev, a spatial environment for JavaScript. I'm really excited about new interfaces for code (leveraging metaphors we're good at, spatial reasoning, making state visible, design tools, etc). With all the buzz around PyScript, I discovered Pyodide and got it working inside natto. This Python version is a stripped down version of https://natto.dev (eg interactive outputs, multiplayer) so please check that out if this interests you.

I'm excited to share this spatial environment for Python. Imagine Jupyter cells arranged on a 2D canvas.

Some key differences from traditional Python notebooks:

- By default, cells rerun whenever its code changes or an input reruns, like a spreadsheet!

- Dependencies are explicit. There is no parsing or global scope.

- Duplicate panes by option-dragging. This is a core interaction in design tools for exploring ideas.

- State panes add interactive elements. Check out this scikit demo https://python.natto.dev/example/de5cae3dfbcb43919981cc14203...

- Python execution happens in your browser as WASM via Pyodide (implementation detail, not design choice). This is currently a demo, not meant to replace your production ML notebooks.

I would love to hear your feedback on any of this and your thoughts on new programming interfaces!
Long tail costs are things like freak car accidents, hail, etc. Reckless drivers should and are charged more because their costs are higher as a result of their own choices. Obese smokers should be charged more than healthy people but they're not because ACA says you can't discriminate based on pre-existing conditions. That means healthy people end up subsidizing lung cancer treatment, heart disease treatment, insulin, etc. for fat people.

edit: correction, ACA permits charging tobacco users extra. But not, for example, weed users.
Add one more: 0DTE options and gamma squeezes.
So what do we do with the sick and poor elderly folks? It provides a benefit for the younger as well in that junior doesn't have to worry about grandma dying of an untreated illness
Really awesome to see Quanta Magazine and Natalie Wolchover win a Pulitzer for Explanatory Reporting! They do great work.
As an Elixir noob, I'm reading these comments about performance and coming to some conclusions that I'd like to ask ya'll to idiot-check me on.

First, let me establish that there are at least two ways of thinking about performance in the context of a server-side HTTP application:

1) Per-request speed ("from receiving the request to response, single-threaded, X ms")
2) Throughput-based metrics ("We can serve X requests per second with Y cores spread across Z nodes")

I think both ways of measurement have value, but in this context I'm operating under the assumption that we're focused on option 2. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Now, with that understanding in place, it sounds to me like Elixir/Erlang performs "pretty good" in terms of that overall throughput if you leverage the multithreading capabilities in building your apps and thread scheduling isn't terribly contentious (hopefully not a lot of other processes/threads competing for execution time on the same machine as your Elixir app), but measured on a raw per-operation speed metric it doesn't quite stack up to other non-compiled languages like PHP or maybe even Ruby (which would shock me but let's just poke that bear anyway, see what kinda growl we get...).

So if indeed my understanding is right, my next question is: "how much of a performance reduction would we realistically see with an Elixir app that's otherwise well built and doing the same thing?" Issues of misconfiguration, bad deployment architecture, etc. withstanding.

And if that question is indeed valid/not-batshit-crazy, my next would be: "does that degredation matter or scale in a multi-node/clustered deployment context?" In other words, if you have a say 50-node (be they VMs or containers) Elixir app, built well, properly configured and deployed, load balanced etc., is it going to have significantly/noticeably slower throughput than an equivalent PHP/Java/Ruby/$OTHERLANG app when compared as close to apples-to-apples as you can get that sort of thing?

(Maybe take Ruby out of the equation here with issues of GIL/threading being what they are over there. Haven't had the chance to work with recent Ruby though so if threading is a valid comparison nowadays, by all means keep it in mind!)

I'm just trying to get a sense for whether or not I'm barkin' up the wrong tree with my recent interest in Elixir. Am I wasting my time right now and maybe should wait a few years before really tearing into it, or is it effectively in a real-world, non-academic scenario, going to perform "close enough" in the real world in a multi-core, multi-node load balanced context?
These prizes would have been for works published in 2021.
It is not a matter of subsidized water, It is a challenge around private water ownership and public demand.

Most western states have some form of private water ownership, where land owners own the water under it, like gold, oil, ect.

Most of the population is urban, and don't have sufficient water ownership to meet their demands, particularly in times of drought.

This creates a natural conflict between owners who want to use it for one thing, and thirsty cities who don't own the water.

The the extent it is a the fault of suburban households, it is their fault for not buying the water or lands to meet their needs.

https://mywaterearth.com/who-are-the-global-water-grabbers/
If only we can get the other 48 states to have a single payer health plan initiative or adopt a nationalized single payer health care system.

Health care should not be limited to just living in CA or NY or the rich.

side note: this site for tracking bills at the state level is kind of nice. Wish other states had this. This is what I have to deal with in TX

https://capitol.texas.gov/MnuLegislation.aspx
>You drive to your sons house and ask him to help you with your health bill and he helps you because...why wouldn't he?

Asking is fine. Telling them they must is not. If the mechanism for payment from the youth to the elderly is voluntary I have no problem with it.
Yeah, PDFs on Windows are a pain. I've set Firefox as my default PDF reader on my Windows box.
The US pays vastly more to administer it's health care than any other OECD country. Your assertion that the cost of government bureaucracy should exceed the cost of private markets at this task is emphatically not backed by data.

A good place to check your assumptions on these kind of basic things is the OECD data. Healthcare is here:

USA 1.4% of GDP on governance of healthcare
Germany 0.5% (competing public insurance schemes)
UK 0.2% (single payer)

US style healthcare is an ideologically driven luxury.
My problem with all these recommendations is literally all of the ones mentioned in this thread as I post this are discontinued or out of production.

Chinese branded and produced ones like Tuya and MoesHouse are really the only option.

Even Honeywell aren’t producing them.
Different Under the Quill
https://litestream.io/getting-started/#continuous-replicatio...
Why do the dollar amounts always go

Inappropriate QE >> PPP Grants >> Stimulus Check for undeserving person

but the reporting happens in proportion / order

Stimulus Check for undeserving person >> PPP Grants >> Inappropriate QE

? It's a rhetorical question, we all know why, but we don't have to repeat these choices in this thread.
Check out energy YTD.
- A substantial part of your rent is property taxes.

Without detailed analysis there's no way to know if this is true, or how true it is. It is entirely possible for an increase in taxes to lead to no increase in end prices or even a drop in rent prices. It's a complex system.
Thanks for the interesting details!

> None of the current infrastructure is built to deal with these train lengths, either, so everything moves slower.

Is it due to extra freight demand caused by the recent surge in consumer demand?

Or this was long way in the making, but the system's capacity seems to have basically topped out? (And any effort to move even more freight on this network will cost a lot more and cause a lot more pain and very likely fatalities for the humans involved?)

What's the "solution"? Building more tracks? Running more but smaller trains? (But I guess the trains are already long to keep fuel costs down?)
The bond market no?
The original link works (for me), it just directs me through a captcha first. That's not a broken link by the usual meaning of the phrase, it doesn't mean people weren't reading the post...
I bought my wife a handgun and myself an AK-47 with the last one. I certainly needed the weapons but not the check.
Great redistribution from the common people to the hedge funds, thanks to the recent policies. First asset prices get massively driven up, now they hiked the rates and everyone shorting makes a killing on the way down as well.
> Are you making that decision because the quality of care you've received is better in the Canadian system than the American system

That would depend completely on their job in the US. If they're a line cook, care was better in Canada. If they're a software engineer, it's better in the US.
I’d make it an inline function and call it multiple times per loop iteration. You should be able to pull some of the initializations out of the loop and fetch multiple at once, pipelining using different registers. Optimizing compilers have gotten good enough to do the right things much of the time with intrinsics but it still may benefit from hand writing.

Sometimes you can even eek a touch more speed with prefetch, but it can be tricky to get that right.

Another thing that matters a ton is whether you’re microbenchmarking it accurately. It isn’t trivial to do so, as you should mimic real memory / cache behavior as opposed to repeatedly having it fetch memory which is already cached and give you misleading results.
While you stick to ideals and advocate for how things should work, the reality of how things actually work is that many states as well as the federal government, independently but concerted, are setting back society for women in the US by several decades. So perhaps thicker skin can also include "not minding when someone or some company does something like this, because they understand that sometimes, words matter".
And what do you think rent price includes?
That's not how things work. When you file your taxes, your rental properties will be treated as a business and the taxes paid there are a business expense. They are deducted from any rental income before the income is counted for the landlord. It is essentially as if the renter is paying the government directly.
Can't speak for OP, but it was interesting for me in that it points to either:

a) speculative reporting that turned out to have less basis in reality than was initially thought (to the point that top-tier award-winning journalism wasn't actually true), or

b) a disconnect between facts on the ground as reported by journalists, and our individual, societal, or governmental inability to effect change based on those facts

My personal take is that it's probably a combination of the two. A bunch of anonymous sources cited by the press throughout Trump's presidency were either never corroborated by public sources, or were flatly proven to be incorrect as more facts came out. But there was also a TON of totally credible, well-sourced journalism in that era that the US federal and state governments have completely ignored, often with the support of their constituents who dismiss even the absolute best reporting as "fake news."

Looking at the 2022 winners, it's personally disheartening for me to think how much of what's listed there will just continue on as the status quo. Though as a counterpoint, it also looks like there's some wins that were already corrected, like the Florida battery plant exposé that (if I take the Pulitzer description here at face value) resulted in new safety measures to protect workers.
Amendment: Stu (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OJ7aW3Df5U) is okay because it's how I learned that Eminem stopped dying his hair and looks like a dad now.
So Manhatten, designed for walking, driving and tubing, should also be considered suburban?
There are other things it's been used for like optimising roughening/regularisation parameters for light transport in order to provide better caustics with forwards path tracing:

https://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.1111/cgf14347
Most of the pretrained models I see for the stuff I'm working on (Coqui, ESRGAN, etc.) are really tiny in size. I'm sure the much better models are bigger but still fit under 8gb vram. It seems like there could be a market for models that fit into 8gb vram, but I'm not familiar enough with users of ML to say for sure.
Why do Americans always have to play a zero sum game with human lives.

If a quarter of our country has the worst healthcare in the developed world that is unacceptable.

Answers like this are just begging us to give up our humanity.
I'm entirely sure that landlord is not taking a loss on those property taxes. It is passed onto the renter.
No because it is a public option. Thus not everyone uses it.
Maybe if people didn't buy property they don't live in as an investment then things like the stupid housing bubble might not happen in the first place.

Personally I think owning a residence you don't actually live in should just straight up be illegal, but I'm admittedly pretty radical about parts of the system that seem to exist solely to make the rich richer.
> Amid a sustained drought exacerbated by climate change

This is a religious statement, same as writing "god is great" after a statement. Climate change, sure I'm on board and I think we need to act to address it. News articles just throwing in these random "praise the lord"s in their writing serve nobody, make any case for action weaker, and undermine the credibility of the reporter and news service.

If you're reporting on a study about that fine, if you're just writing about how the reservoir is low, no need to add some hallelujahs to your article.
I would have actually pass that test, I can name Colonel Quaritch, Jake Sully, Ripley and Eiwa (I think it counts as a character).
Raising rates has two points.

1) Raise the price of residential water until the cities can buy the water from farmers.

2) Raise the price to curtail use until cities can operate within their existing supply
Please do write this, and let me know when it's available to read!!
That reminds of me of when my state made a big show of banning restaurants from automatically bringing water to your table, when 80% of our water use goes to agriculture.
Why is there meme only in the title?
GME is in a league of its own, now having a cult-like following around the prospect of a "Mother of all short squeezes" (MOASS) at some indeterminate point in the future.

(I'm avoiding using excessively loaded terminology like "QAnon of finance" but I really can't think of a fairer way to describe it than a cult at this point.)
Like Amex Centurion cards? They're definitely exclusive (or fake-exclusive) but I haven't seen them actually advertise rejection rates like colleges sometimes do.
Since only something like 0.03% of that water actually ends up in the almonds, you need to track what happens to that other 99.97% to determine the actual impact of almonds.
I once wrote a game-like sim about "how to get rich" (which I named American Barons.) Java, desktop game, just to scratch an itch. and yes the player/PC does start out dirt poor.

closest thing I've seen to what you're asking about. I never released it to the public but I might have its code sitting on some backup disk somewhere.
Current population trends (declining), along with remote works, says perhaps.

But that's not relevant, because most cities I know in Canada, have lots with space for chickens.

Neighborhoods may also have communal chicken coops, just like the garden plots they have currently.
WHAT??? Okay I am going to bite, state is managed by the browser and then SPAs came along and tried to hack the state management ever since. I remember creating SPAs in 2004 when it was called AJAX and there was the debate of HTML or JSON over the wire. The biggest issue was back and forward buttons, even today that issue is not solved very well by SPAs.

The issue I have is we had a great idea to refresh parts of a page with AJAX and then we went overboard and tried to move the entire application to complex frameworks which add more problems then they solve. We became so scared of screen rendering we avoided at all costs. This is bad UX as users actually get good confirmation that something has happened when there is a screen refresh.
All the digital bathroom scales that I've encountered refuse to display negative measurements.
Also one sold by the Pi-hut: https://thepihut.com/products/lithium-ion-coin-cell-charger

After someone nicked my electronic calipers, I also got mechanical ones - they are perfectly adequate for all home use so far.

I used to use electric ones for 3D prints and designs, and haven't tries that since - might not be able to get the same perfect results with mechanical ones.
> College students who weren't planning to have any income anyway before Covid hit. And that's at least still a relatively "legitimate" payout compared to the screw-ups like sending money to prisoners [0].

Where exactly do you see a problem with that? To put it differently, do you feel it's better to arbitrarily discriminate against elements of your society with a program intended to actually help everyone everywhere?

More importantly, what leads you to believe that the goal of the COVID stimulus was to help individuals instead of society as a whole? Think about it for a second. In a moment in time where circumstances were leading to an unprecedented economic crunch, wouldn't a bottom-up consumer side stimulus help economy stay afloat?
What if there are too many bust seasons in a given period and you and all your neighbors’ stocks are depleted? These are the real problems with subsistence farming and they’re the primary reason nobody wants to do it given a choice. There’s ultimately very little freedom in the sort of precarity that subsistence farming entails: all aspects of your life are dominated by the success of your harvest, which requires constant attention.
How the James Webb Space Telescope beat all expectations
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If the question was "how much would it cost to buy 1 PB worth of consumer grade SSDs" $150k sounds like a great answer. Going on the 1 PB/day Number that's ~$55M/year for some raw disk. Add another order of magnitude for needing more than just a raw disk to store 1 PB/day, as already explained, and that's ~500M/year on storage related costs. If you're hellbent on saying this half billion/year doesn't matter because the bandwidth cost (which is not paid per connection btw) would be much larger then sure but it's still unrelated to the cost of a standalone consumer SSD.
AV1.
In terms of indexes, I find this chart quite comforting myself: https://www.ftportfolios.com/Common/ContentFileLoader.aspx?C...
It was a fad! And it wasn't the first time either. 3D films were all the rage in the 1950s in movies like "The Creature From the Black Lagoon", although they used the older "red & blue" filter technology. In the 1980s it was back briefly for films like "Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn" using polarized glasses, and finally in the new millennium, movies like "Avatar".
I recommend trying SumatraPDF - it also supports epub.
Actually no. Monsanto pays for studies to be done on just one of the active ingredients of RoundUp, not on RoundUp itself.

RoundUp has chemicals in it that exist solely to help the active ingredients permeate tissues. Test with only active ingredients and it can appear relatively safe. Test actual RoundUp and it is invariably toxic.

That is why there are countless studies showing RoundUp to be toxic and populations who have been negatively affected all while Monsanto publishes an avalanche of paid studies purposefully conducted on a select active ingredient instead of the product itself.
Most cities already have progressive water costs. Enough to drink and bathe is cheapest, and overage to water huge lawns and fill pools costs more per gallon.
I feel it’s worth pointing out that saving people from financial ruin was only part of the intent of the PPP legislation. The main point of a “stimulus” is to stimulate the economy. If your friend received money and then spent it on something, the legislation essentially worked as intended.
I usually end up printing out the dead-tree version with the black rectangles, and scanning it back in, just to be sure the data under the black rectangles can't be retrieved.
> the patent examiners for whatever reason (law, lack of expertise, lack of staffing) keep approving patents

Relative works for over 10 years as patent examiner, now a team manager, for EU: they are ordered to approve as many patents as possible. Having more patents is considered progress and innovation, more patents approved is a KPI. Unless they are ridiculous or illegal, they have to approve it and it is the job of people that are affected to fight to cancel the patents.
I hope it’s finally over. For a while the market was driven by factors that I can’t analyze or understand using my traditional financial frameworks. It’s now back to a point where my tools work again. It’s like all my instruments just read “Tilt” for the last three years. Now I get readings!
"The Washington Post: For its compellingly told and vividly presented account of the assault on Washington on January 6, 2021, providing the public with a thorough and unflinching understanding of one of the nation's darkest days."

Indeed. Zero questions remaining. I understand unflinchingly, whatever that is.