skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 9 billion people is just too many.

I used to think so too, but I changed my mind. Two main reasons:

1. Our current systems are incredibly wasteful. If we just used our resources and technology efficiently we could reduce our environmental footprint drastically.

2. We can reconfigure our systems so that they work in harmony with Nature rather than against it. Ecology is a science, it's applications are technology, but it's very young and still not very influential. If we can reconfigure our systems in time we can easily support 9-12B people while improving the environment. (E.g. Gabe Brown in N. Dakota.)
>Individual exceptionalism helped get us here (labor union declines leading to a decline in wages, benefits, and job security)

Rather than individual exceptionalism, the combination of billions of people around the world willing to work for less, technological advances in transportation and automation, and foreign governments being more open to look the other way on environmental concerns led to the decline in the power of unions in the US.

There was a labor and environmental price arbitrage opportunity, and it was going to equalize sooner or later.
Supposedly this is not the case: https://www.hellgatenyc.com/the-death-of-nyc-payphones-lies/

If you live in the NYC area, I guess you could hop on down and verify this yourself.

Via 2600 (which if you ever read you'd know would be on the case) https://twitter.com/2600/status/1529174328054620162
> Node modules not working in the browser without translation was the original sin that kicked the whole nightmare off.

Node modules are just a reaction to the actual original sin, which is building a popular language that essentially had no standard library. I suppose that's the kind of thing that will happen when you have to build one in a matter of weeks, but everything from webpack to left_pad is essentially the fault of the language not having a standard library.
I am fully aware of what Monero sets out to do, but that's the important piece - they set out to do it, but that doesn't mean they will always succeed. It's perfectly possible to trace Monero using publicly available information[1] (I realize this is an older story, but you can still employ similar methods using public data), and the success of using Monero also depends on the competency of the individual[2] (in a similar sense to how successfully obscuring your browsing via Tor is dependent upon you making sure you've dotted your i's and crossed your t's and not just simply relying on Tor alone). There are also companies out there who claim to be able to track these transactions[3].

Monero may be stronger than others, but it's not foolproof and nobody should assume that it is.

[1]https://medium.com/@nbax/tracing-the-wannacry-2-0-monero-tra...

[2]https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoin-seizure-record-doj-crypt...

[3]https://ciphertrace.com/enhanced-monero-tracing/

Edit: I mean, hell, even just obtaining access to a key essentially eliminates anonymity. You may go above and beyond in your efforts to obscure your activities, but if someone else involved gets busted and officials get access to their account, well...
Unfortunately I think Dynamicland is dead. The physical space in Oakland doesn’t exist anymore. It sounds like only Bret Victor and maybe one other person are left and Victor is relocating to a university Biology lab to try to implement his ideas there.

Source: Andy Matuschak mentions it in
https://www.notion.so/blog/andy-matuschak

One thing which comes to mind is that Dynamicland is a strange laboratory. It was a space in Oakland that is no more, but it's a physical environment where the primary activity being undertaken was creating this very unusual computing system.

…

And in fact, that's exactly what the principal investigator is doing right now. He's picking up and relocating the work to very interesting synthetic biology lab, where maybe now that the further development of the system will happen in a way that's meant to support this professor's research.
Normalizing the budget that way would seem to be incredibly difficult at a personal level.

If I started buying a better cut of steak or more hamburger and less ramen than last year, would I really be able to tease out that difference without an insane amount of record keeping/data entry?
You could always stick it to them by using your land to engage in an economically useful activity.... like parting out cars.

They'll stop hating your house real quick.
Would love to have a barebones, no frills EV. Just give me a dumb "thin-client" LCD screen that I can project CarPlay into, otherwise no fancy technology gizmos and doodats.

Current dream car would be something like an Elise or S2000, just electric. Ok, so it wouldn't be as light, and it wouldn't have a manual transmission.
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I’m no expert here and hopefully a doctor or public health student can chime in with the most accurate data here.

However a quick google search suggests that nicotine is categorically more addictive than alcohol. It’s hard to measure exactly what proportion of people who consume alcohol are alcoholics, but it seems like 10% is a reasonable estimate.

For cigarettes it seems like smoking even only once per month puts you at a much greater than 10% risk of nicotine addiction.
> towns can't find employees all because housing is out of reach for the working and lower-middle class.

Why not simply increase the supply?
I mention it elsewhere, but unfortunately I don’t believe Dynamicland exists anymore as a physical space.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31531398
Musca Depicta
I mean there was a "lisp machine" in the distant past that actually ran lisp on metal. Does that count?
What job prospects would your kids have, and would it even have been possible for you to start your career if you lived in the area you are planning to move to for the critical years (high school, university, first few years entering your field, etc.)?

If the answer to any of these questions is no, then you have your answer to why property prices near the cities aren't ever going to match the level of rural properties.
You would be fine, Microsoft allows and supports fully air gapped deployments and no internet connectivity deployments.

Yank your internet cord out and start windows.
You’re right, edge is supported again (during the migration from old edge to new edge it was unsupported for a while). I totally missed that, although it doesn’t change anything regarding linux support.
How is that true with inflation? Under the exact same scenario but with an inflationary monetary policy, any money you sock under your mattress dwindles down to a fraction of its purchasing power over the course of many decades if it is not invested into a vehicle that generates returns. That could be equities, bonds, housing, or even an interest-bearing savings account. The point is that an inflationary regime incentivizes investments as a means of wealth preservation.
A rule of thumb is: if the key is pushed into a git remote you should consider it compromised and roll a new key.
We have a node client if that would be helpful!
https://duckdb.org/docs/api/nodejs
Arguably the value in potential change of the rich interacting with the poor is immeasurably higher than the meal itself's monetary value.

I think if I needed to do this in a UK community where I wasn't already known then I'd speak to a MP/councillor and say I wanted to fund them having a meal with X poor families so they could hear about their struggles and such.

It's actually an interesting challenge.

You could probably donate '5 family pizza dinners' to a school in a poorer area, eg for a school fair.
Take a look at the diffraction formula and plug in realistic radio frequencies. Even tens of GHz get all over the place very quickly, not to mention the more common place single digit GHz frequencies.
And the non-smokers perspective of watching smokers outside (especially in wet or cold weather) just looks like an addict getting their fix.
I'm not sure about that. I have a pretty good phone, but I still can't take a decent picture of the moon, so I'd have no hope with a suspicious airplane-sized light in the night sky. The cameras are optimized for selfies and meals.
I always figured it was due to the heavy regulations on US car design that cover every aspect of it. The same kind of regulations that eliminated SRO housing.

For example, it would be much harder to make a small car as able to protect its occupants in a crash as a larger one.
If you are open to medical tourism, from experience would recommend Mexico private healthcare.

I have been very impressed with private facilities and doctors. Out of pocket costs are very affordable including lab and imaging (ultrasound, CT, and MRI). No insurance needed as long as you have proof of payment. They may request this for intensive surgical operations etc.

Another benefit is results are immediately given to you, for example say you got a CT as hospital/provider A and want to see a specialist in B, no problem just bring the findings/imaging with you. No filing petitions to get your own medical records which you may or may not get in 2-3 weeks....if they honor it, then have to file HIPPA requests etc. All this wastes time, normally in weeks in the US.

A thing that completely surprises me is the doctors provide their cell phone number, so if you have issues after hours or weekends, or they receive lab results and want to provide a recommendation, after hours, just a message away. I wish we did this in the US.

One of the better things since you are self pay is to not deal with insurance. Want to try a different medicine, don't need approval for that. Want a second opinion, don't need to run it by insurance.Is this facility/doc in my network?, no worry there. You control the entire experience.

My recommendation is to look for cities that are expat hot spots as they have medical tourism facilities, normally all speak English including the local people to cater to expats. Yucatan, Quintana Roo (cancun) and I think Jalisco.

If you are interested in more info please email me, email in my profile. My SO has problem and we have played the bounce around game along with a few ER visits mixed in. Few things are more frustrating then experiencing the US medical system first hand with no results and being helpless. Best of luck!
Fun fact, about a hundred years ago, some pseudo-mediums would use a similar kind of math trick to "guess" the number of deceased brother and sisters of someone coming to see them in order to do a Seance.

Morality aside, discovering that highly surprised me because I always thought that those techniques were transparent to all people. But I guess math literacy in the US wasn't always great...
In the Netherlands it's a kind of strange situation. All the infrastructure is owned by KPN. They are also one of the biggest internet providers but they must allow others on their network.
After having finished my master's degree I realized something important that must be understood about corporate security.

Corporate/Enterprise security has nothing to do with securing things it has to do with offloading risk and liability. It isn't about making things secure it's about making sure you don't get blamed when things do happen. Because when security things do happen it's the customers who take the shafting not the organization itself, who cares if you get slapped with a fine or lawsuit it doesn't have much to do with the stock price and is likely going to be less expensive then actually implementing real security controls.

This also explains why there are so many people selling security "solutions" out there, because the C suite doesn't really care about security, in fact they may not even want it, after all with real security comes real monitoring and logging and non-repudiation which can get important people in trouble if it's found out, they want to check the box that says the paid for super secure stuff and now if it doesn't work they just turn around and blame the vendor and bicker with them. All this happening while their customers identities are being stolen and their data sold.

Remember CSO stands for Chief Sacrificial Officer.

Ultimately if we really want to be secure we must realize that at the end of the day security isn't some glamorous special super world of spies and hackers. Security is 90% just a QA problem, once security gets reframed as a quality problem it allows to start addressing it like the problem it is and not the security theater that is constantly going on.
When I went to school in France, I started smoking for the social aspects. When I came back to the states, I just chucked the cigarettes in the bin when I got home and never bought another one.
How big was the house your grandmother lived in with 5 siblings?
Less than 1500sqft

Houses are something like more than double the size they were just 40 years ago, and families are smaller.
Well the big electrolytic caps you need for the passive filters are infamously unreliable which is why you see everyone trumpeting their "Japanese" brand capacitors which are supposed to be better.

The caps you need for the active filter are the tiny solid ceramic ones that are basically bulletproof except in high vibration environments. The ICs needed are similar.
I am not someone who knows arcane system programming, but I use Linux since 20 years on commercial laptops, from Asus, DELL and Lenovo, etc. IMO the Linux of the 2000' where much better than today's Linux. The Linux I use are always Debian based, like Ubuntu.

For example Linux used to have a sleep mode which worked perfectly. Now it does not sleep reliably. For example if I move the mouse while it sleeps, it wakes up, even with the screen closed and uses the battery until there is no more energy in them. So the computer is unusable when I need it.

Another example is copy/paste. Today it works sometimes, some other times it paste another previous content. I use now Ubuntu 20.0.4 LTS. I just copied/pasted the version number from the system monitor panel to write this post, it pasted a previous content I copied in my browser!

A third example when I use a right click on Ubuntu's Chromium (a snap browser) then I have garbage on the screen. This browser can't display correctly non western characters.

So I do not know if its because systemd but a few years ago I used Trisquel Linux which did not used systemd at the time, and everything worked perfectly as I remember in the 2000'.
this happens with the Firefox installed as DEB package (from another repo) that isn't a snap ?
Not the OP but most private healthcare in the UK is delivered by doctors, nurses and other healthcare practitioners who have either been trained by or are still working for the NHS. If you need anything more serious than minor surgery you are likely to be treated in an NHS facility by NHS staff, and many of your tests will be done in NHS labs, so even as a private patient you are still relying on the NHS being functional. Chunks of the NHS have already been privatised and compared to the systems in most other European countries it is chronically underfunded and has poor outcomes. Will it break down? Arguably it already is, but this is mostly due to a decade of ideologically driven cuts, two decades of part privatisation and three decades of continuous reorganisations that waste vast amounts of money and benefit no one.
How much white collar work could be automated using existing ML models?
I tried the same thing, also failed… I am also not an expert however. But I am very interested in this. Anyone reading this that could point me to some resources that might help?
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Because in the USA everything is bigger
I tried Vivaldi a few times over the years, and the UI is always really slow; there's a noticeable lag with everything.

But yeah, I really miss Opera; still the best browser to date. I also really liked the Opera Dragonfly devtools.
You can get more if you are willing to deal with the points. For example, Chase will give you 3 points per dollar on some cards on some categories, and Amex will give you 4. Those points can be >$0.01 each transferring to airline miles (or in the case of Chase $0.015 "paying yourself back" for restaurants). No card will give you 4.5% cash back on restaurants.
I don't have the source code in a good state to publish yet but here's where I'm at. At some point before this CGO_LDFLAGS does work and the header is found (omit the -ldflags args). But when it goes to statically link it can no longer find the header.

CGO_LDFLAGS="-L$(pwd)/duckdb/src/include" CGO_CFLAGS="-I$(pwd)/duckdb/src/include" go build -ldflags '-extldflags " -lstdc++ -lm -lduckdb -static"'
# github.com/marcboeker/go-duckdb
../../go/pkg/mod/github.com/marcboeker/go-duckdb@v0.0.0-20220427142532-cd9f33e64d9a/connection.go:4:10: fatal error: duckdb.h: No such file or directory
4 | #include <duckdb.h>
| ^~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.

Edit, nevermind about not being in a good state! Here's my code: https://github.com/multiprocessio/duckdb-tests.
Professional hunters can cull over populated animals, and for deer that meat can be sold or donated to shelters. Still not a compelling reason to keep saturating the country with guns, IMO.
Aren't the >1k watt ATX power supplies usually the "gamer edition" ones with huge markups? They cost a lot because they are a small niche--very few PCs need power supplies that big, and the ones that do are running multiple wildly expensive GPUs so budget is clearly not a concern.

There's probably more legitimate demand on the commercial side for >1kw PSUs so they can enjoy larger economies of scale.
Not much meat here. The "reason" stated in the article is: "The automakers will argue that small cars are not profitable in the US".
The monthly/annual use of a space to shelter is the service that is being consumed. The perpetual right of ownership of that space to shelter is not being consumed.

I don't think the CPI is meant to capture people's perception of how expensive things are. If their perception differs from the reality of what they're consuming, it's more important for CPI to track the consumption than the perception.

"The CPI is wrong because it doesn't match people's perception" doesn't make much sense to me.
Because the distances people travel via car within Europe and Japan are an order of magnitude shorter than the US?

Because European and Japanese towns/cities are much closer together whereas in the US they're much further apart with much more rural/wilderness land?

Long drives in cramped cars _suck_.
I was a (hand-rolled) cigarette and pipe tobacco smoker during my university days, and there was definitely a feeling of romanticism that's quite hard to explain.

Sitting outside alone, late at night, watching your cigarette smoke drift up to the stars, listening to Bob Dylan with a glass of whiskey in hand: it feels like you're the star of your own indie film.

How much of that feeling was a byproduct of marketing? It's hard to say. Smoking tobacco (1) gives you a rush of dopamine, and (2) was viewed as edgy/counterculture by my 20-year-old-self, and I think those two alone are enough to explain the 'romanticism' I felt back then.

However, in hindsight, that 'counterculture' vibe I got was from two aspects:

1. I was big into 1960s counterculture & beatnik culture in my early 20s, and all of my 'heroes' smoked cigarettes or pipes: Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Alan Watts, etc. That's definitely marketing, or at least marketing-adjacent.

2. Smoking is a nasty habit that people (including myself, now) rightfully are grossed-out by. My younger self interpreted "people find smoking gross" as "smoking is counterculture".
I agree with you in principle but having worked a lot with cheaper contractors overseas, in practice you are often wasting time and money.
I think a static borrow checker tool is very likely going to be in the future of zig ecosystem (unlikely to be in the mainline, but that's okay), especially after the intermediate representations stabilize.
Well I feel silly, based on a slight mis-reading of the title, I totally thought that Range was some company that was acquired by DuckDB.
I spent perhaps too long figuring out how the thrift stores launched a ransomware attack.
Erm, I beg to differ. Europe does have some small, cheap EV's but there's hardly a huge choice yet.
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LOL, literally entire products designed to prevent and report on these issues. Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it isn't happening daily unfortunately.
Ceci n'est pas une non fungible token
the 30 year mortgage was one of the greatest financial innovations of our time. Allowing anyone to pay off 2022 costs in 2052 dollars. I understanding hating credit card debt, buy now pay later, and other horrible "financial engineering" but the 30 year mortgage is overall a great thing for everyday people.
Be that as it may, acting like a yo-yo is certainly the wrong direction on a "desired behavior" scale. Especially when the headset itself is announcing the up and down events in synthesized speech interrupting what else is going on.
Statistics and probabilities are incredibly unintuitive to people. That’s why it’s called The Birthday Paradox and not the birthday obvious result

> The birthday paradox is that, counterintuitively, the probability of a shared birthday exceeds 50% in a group of only 23 people.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
By seeing so many drawbacks on ProtonMail, is there any other good alternatives? Gmail definitely is not one.
I "solved" this issue by connecting a macbook to my TV so that I can use all streaming platforms without any problem, and I use a separate machine for work. And I prefer to keep it this way.
The supply was fine before multi-home owners and property management companies took up most of it and jacked up the prices. Increasing the supply would only increase the wealth of the homeowners, it won't lower prices.

Increasing the supply means building new buildings, and that often means building huge lots of five-over-ones, priced as luxury apartments in a growing market. The people building the new supply expect to make a profit, and in a market with growing prices, they aren't selling for less than what they think they can get out of it.

We see this in big cities where vacancies are at an all-time high (aka a lot more supply), but prices aren't going down.
Very interesting point about that higher standard deduction expiring in 3 years, conveniently after the next election. It'll be interesting to see how that pans out on a federal level -- lowering the standard deduction is equivalent to doubling the effective tax rate for many lower-income Americans, after all.
So I had to write a few functions in both. With Guile, very straight forward using Lisp's powerful "data-as-code, code-as-data" paradigms (the ` operator). A joy really, and writing code just felt like writing Lisp, where one gets to reason about small scope within simple functions.

With Nix, I had to learn how the whole thing works before I could even get started. Nix is not a "normal" language, you're essentially just writing chunks of configuration, organized across different files, building up to one big derivation (as Nix calls it) that gets interpreted.

Nix has syntax on how it expects the configuration to look and what configuration it expects to be defined. You can learn the syntax but it's still confusing (to me) as to what configuration is always expected. And errors can still be cryptic.