skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doubling someone’s commute diverts more of their money into commuting expenses, which removes that exact amount of money from some other category of spending.

If diverted from savings, this grows current GDP. If diverted from some other category of spending, it’s likely neutral. (If diverted from higher velocity domestic spending into the importation of energy [and exporting of cash], it could even shrink GDP.)

Breaking windows doesn’t generally grow GDP.
If a company is really following scrum, then the developers are creating and managing their own tickets
Liberty Lifter Aims to Revolutionize Heavy Air Lift
https://github.com/greensoftwarelab/Energy-Languages/blob/ma...

https://github.com/greensoftwarelab/Energy-Languages/blob/ma...

It feels like you are arguing in bad faith.
> I feel like many people completely forgot about how simple and fast apps can be if there aren't tons of layers put on top of one another.

There is a trend in OSS SW development to "continously improve " programs. This means that the program stays mostly the same but it gets over time a "gui improvement" which brings almost nothing new but a lot of libraries and bloat. Two programs that stroke me were Xaos ( which got a QT dependency) and Xsnow. Maybe jwz was right that every program evolves until it can send email.
The problem with this argument is that for the public health system of a random country X that happens to be not located in Africa, the spread patterns in Africa matter very little. If you're trying to prevent the spread of a certain disease in country X, you're looking at the known spread pattern in X. And the same goes for HIV.
... and Python. ;)
Recent Israeli Ministry of Health presentation claims that many infections are asymptomatic as demonstrated by serological studies.

https://youtu.be/U7LgEHujoTU?t=710 (sorry for the Hebrew link)

If this is true, the 3% of 10% mortality rates are massively inflated.
The saga of Apple’s troubled mixed reality headset
It’s also often more flexible. I’m right now sitting in a major European city Centre eating lunch because I was running a bit late to take my train and it was less stressful to just take the next one 90 minutes later. To some extent you can do that with flights in major cities, but you’d have to have the correct (not cheapest) ticket and make the decision a few hours in advance. In Japan it’s even nicer, as the next train is probably in 15 minutes.
Ohioan by birth. I'll give it to them.
AV and PR are different things. People may have different opinions, even if your particular circle wouldn’t.
Since you posted this comment, we've seen a very interesting article
on formal languages and 'program proving compilers based on separation
logic'. The basis for truly correct, reusable, "eternal code" is in
fact to regress to something not unlike ASM but combined with a
Rust-like higher level.

Always good to remain mindful that what we assume is 'progress' in one
direction may not be progress overall, and that allowing backtracking
to older interpretations is actually a more mature scientific stance.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31543953
It's not insane at all. Every additional stop takes about 20 minutes - but there are a lot of people who actually use the stations between, say, Berlin and Cologne.

Germany is much less centralised than France. 20% of the population is in Paris. Only 2% of Germans live in Berlin. It would be insanity to mindlessly copy the French model when the circumstances are so different.
> * Due to this, and the RCMP going bananas in other ways (eg, burning down barns on private property because bikers were legally meeting there....), parliament disbanded the RCMP's domestic and international "spy" departments.

So one of the five eyes activities I found which involved the RCMP (I'm based in the UK), was putting a tiny picture of a full stop (period/dot/whatever you want to call it), at the end of sentences in various web forums. If your broadband was slow, like in the dialup days, before the image had downloaded, web browsers would put a placeholder square or rectangle where the image would eventually appear. I saw this on some forums, so naturally I traced the image back to Canadian webservers. It was their way of tracking who was reading what threads on a forum, but not the only way!

You will find the security services sacrifice many innocent members of the public even kids, in the 5eyes countries, its how the security services effect change when they cant manipulate or blackmail the politicians. There is also a lot of collusion between the Police and the security services, its totally criminal!
That page didn't really explain MGLRU, at least to me. These pages however helped a lot:

https://lwn.net/Articles/856931/

https://lwn.net/Articles/894859/

An aspect I found interesting was that, in addition to the LRU aspect, it includes a PID controller to try to learn or compensate for its mistakes.
Put a security camera in the lab. Catch a student doing something like that and you have grounds for expulsion.
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The irony.
You’re not alone but most of the advice in this thread is very overwhelming and wholly unnecessary.

Start with ISLR

It’s a very well done book to quickly get anyone up to speed.

https://www.statlearning.com/

I then recommend this linear algebra book.

https://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/vmls/

The beauty and effectiveness of these two books is that they are applied. Applied learning is the most motivating way to learn IMO.

After you go through these two books You will have a very strong background!
> to meet practically all conceivable usecases

...and that is exactly the fallacy with the C++ stdlib design philosophy, one-size-fits-all classes like std::vector should either be split into several much more specialized classes, or its runtime behaviour should be much more configurable (but ideally both) - in any case there's no justification for pulling in such an enormous amount of code into each compilation unit.
Apart from applying in a different range of circumstances and being capped, yes it's linked to income.

(Does raise the question of whether student loan repayments, which are also linked to income unlike other loans, and have been called a "graduate tax" by some of their advocates, are also an income tax that applies only to people born after a particular date ...)
I have experimented with several lisp-like environments. Parsing s-exprs is simple. The choice of primitives, i.e. built-in functions which differ from those in Common Lisp or Scheme, can lead to interesting behavioral dynamics.

I have tended to implement more complex core data structures than cons-cells. E.g native strings, maps and arrays.

Suggest looking at newLisp and picoLisp for ideas on how non-traditional Lisps have been implemented.
This is a fun concept to play with. I created a similar implementation but for any small arbitrary file: https://podje.li/

Works best for text files, my links end up looking like this:
https://podje.li/?m=data%3Atext%2Fplain%3Bbase64&n=macbeth.t...
> since we all know the answer already, or assume we do

Heh.

Have you ever decided to (co?)found any startups, dang?
Another: https://jeffreycarter.substack.com/p/no-one-is-talking-about...

Few seem to want to talk about this, they want to talk about how coming shortages will best be solved by giving them power or at the least listening to their advice.

For all the "Baby formula shortage" media coverage, how many stories have included a recipe for alternatives to commercial formula? Mostly I've seen admonitions to not try making baby food at home, which is incredibly useless for people trying to feed kids.

I'm seeing fields choked with weeds, because the Crop Production company that leases the land decided they're doing half a "no till" planting this year without herbicide; because that'll get them their crop failure insurance payment. I suspect they will bail on some of next year's leases or at least lower rates because of reduced fertility, too.

"Fertilizer export restrictions" started happening last fall; this was all visible writing on the wall well before Ukraine got invaded. It sounds "conspiracy theorist" to say there's a plan in operation; but it's hard to say that there is not.
Yes I legitimately think that you don't need that at the top of a huge company and I talk from my first hand experience I got from an international F500 company with hundreds of thousand paper pushers and now working in the health sector. The CEO of the former company was a senile wreck. He "managed" the company for quite a few years when I was there. His replacement does almost no work at all. Still on it. I would love to get into detail there but I might doxx myself.

As I wrote above: some mid-management person would probably be much better suited for the position. They are theoretically still in the pool but not realistically so the "scarcity" theory is faked since it's a fake group of people who are being considered. They're most of the times not even considered for their skill set. They've been just sucking up to their predecessor while stabbing everybody else in their way in the back. How this is considered a valuable skill for managing any company (besides in the mafia probably) is beyond me. Maybe you could explain it to me.

On the other hand, you can't replace a brain surgeon with a night nurse. You can't even take a random doctor to do the job and the brain surgeons reputation is directly connected to the actual work he/she does with their own hands. When he gets older, his eyes weaker, his hands shaky, he won't be able to do the job anymore.
As far as I'm concerned, curve grading single
courses is just as bad as stack ranking at work.

In my years of schooling, I never saw curve grading resemble "stack ranking" whatsoever.

In stack ranking you have to designate some team members as superior and some as bad. You could have a team of ineffective idiots and be forced to label some of them as high achievers, or a team of superstars and be forced to label some of them as bad. I agree that this is manifestly ridiculous.

I've never seen curve grading like that.
I would say that "ever increasing power and cooling requirements somehow equate" to bad hardware development. Why optimise when you can cool it and the client pays the electricity bill.
Poland is quite influenced by US, down to using american accent in spoken English. Neighbours are more influenced by UK.
> However, I think many employers want the crème of such devs who are also good at algos.

Which is not going to work for the vast majority of devs and jobs.

Most devs either don’t care or need to care about algorithms, and the few devs who do, spend most days not using them.

This would be akin to asking a civil engineer to build a wooden road bridge. Having the skills is great, but how often is the company going to need them?
Sleeper trains in Europe are having a renaissance at the moment, many services that were killed off are coming back

https://www.cntraveler.com/story/europe-is-undergoing-a-slee...

Japan's night trains are, sadly, almost gone, but that's because the bullet train network now covers all the major islands. There are quite a few luxury tourist sleepers though if you're willing to fork out $1000/night or so.
Tons of, if not most, "move fast and break things" software is written in safe languages, not C or C++.
Don’t cache GraphQL at request level. Cache it at schema object level, like most (all?) off-the-shelf servers do.
Just put getFoo inside doSomethingWithFoo.
I remember that cheating was considered very serious and anyone caught would be expelled.

Surely the reputation and integrity of the institution comes before the rights of a dishonest person.

Perhaps more effort should be in catching the cheats and removing them?
Two words for you: BER and Dieselgate.

Corruption and abuse of power is not just a Greek thing.
Austin is a highly productive dense city, not a low density suburb.
Making a major resurgence in the last few years though. We took a direct Amsterdam-to-Innsbruck sleeper train earlier this year and there are several companies operating sleeper trains to other parts as well. Somewhere next month the Brussels-Amsterdam-Prague line will start and several more are in planning.

The biggest downside of sleeper trains IMO is that they are only really suitable for certain distances. It's not very nice to arrive somewhere at 02:00, so you really need a destination that is at least 8-10 hours away from your origin.
From the linked facebook page [0], translated with deepl:

> Larp 4 th of July is a morality drama about the lost American dream.
It is a story about hope, about a small homeland, about searching for one's place in the community.

> On July 4, 1776, the United States of America declared independence.
Newcomers from the Old Continent wanted to create a new state in America, built on democracy, freedom and equality. For decades, millions of people driven by the American dream were drawn to this beautiful country to finally become somebody, regardless of their birth or social class.

> More than two hundred years later, many Americans are living under different conditions than the nation's founding fathers imagined. Barely making ends meet, they strive to be family members and worthy Americans, despite poverty and exclusion. Though they live on the margins of society, their home - a small town cluttered with caravans and cottages wobbling in the wind - is for them the essence of 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'.
This is a story about them.

[0]: https://www.facebook.com/4thofJulyLarp
Other big amount of resources wasted to speed up concentration... I suggest a classic comparison: http://carfree.fr/img/2015/06/sncf.jpg between the past where rails was about connecting peoples vs the current present where rails are about connecting hubs.

Oh, yep, hubs used just to push people in modern open-sky prisons totally dependent on available services since in such hubs all eat, as normal, all have normal humans needs but nearly anything to satisfy them have to come from outside.

Try really to imaging such concentrated world in a projected future and imaging how obscene and vulnerable it is.
Mine charges my laptop OK. Pretty sure they just do pass through, so the device negotiates the PD as usual.

I think it's more likely that it wouldn't work for a USB 3/TB dock thing as I imagine the high-frequency signal integrity is trashed by such a thing.
A valid debating technique is to introduce doubt. Cognitive Dissonance is a powerful psychological tool.

Read this and learn!
The Gentleperson's Guide To Forum Spies (spooks, feds, etc.)
https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm
This is why I'm generally against grades with more than three levels.

I would like to see a system where almost all (something like 99 %?) of students just plain "pass". Then we have the lower statistical anomalies (lowest 0.5 %) and upper statistical anomalies (highest 0.5 %) which fail and get an "excellence" type grade.

If the average score is too low or too high, that doesn't mean more students fail or perform excellently, that just means the teacher needs to recalibrate.

(Of course, these percentiles ought to be measured over as inclusive a reference class as practical. Ideally across schools and years simultaneously.)
> there’s no reason to believe it can only spread among gay men, or that it will continue to do so

But epidemiologically, the difference between a disease that only spreads among gay men and a disease that overwhelmingly spreads among gay men is way smaller than the difference between a disease that overwhelmingly spreads among gay men and a disease that spreads with no discernible pattern at all.

Just because it can do something else as well doesn't mean that if you want to stop the spread of this as quickly as possible, you shouldn't inform your actions with all the information you know. From the public health perspective, considering the possible consequences, ignoring the information you have would be nearly criminal.
Ask HN: How do big tech companies manage their DNS?
What procedure, tech, people, department, etc.. will be used or involved?
You’ve built quite an edifice on top of your assumption, but you haven’t actually tested that assumption yet. I think you need to be a lot less certain about your conclusions, since you have no experimental evidence. In fact, you are ignoring quite a lot of experimental evidence as well, which suggests that you like your new idea so much that you are willing to assume that everyone else is blind.
From my own experience as a TA

Prestigious University A: More classes pr. semester, quizzes/homework every weekend. Cheating was rampant - and well known. It was aptly called "cooking", as in "cooking the books".

The classes usually had established lecturers, who'd done the same classes for YEARS, and often re-using the problem sets over and over again. Students would compile a compendium of these problem sets + answers, and hand them down to the next class.

I think the cheating was simply a result of the heavy workload. Students would have 4 problem sets to solve every weekend, and then lab work, project work, and what not. These were smart kids to begin with, as getting admitted to the Uni. was a feat in itself - but there's just so much time.

Regular University B: This Uni. followed a much more "traditional" sciences program. You'd get the syllabus on first or second lecture, the due dates to 1-3 assignments, and date for final exam. Sometimes it was only a home-exam + final exam. Also fewer, but more in-depth classes.

The assignments were much more involved, and each would probably take 2-4 weeks to finish. But cheating was much less common.
> each time a grain of dust bumps into the moon, this very slightly changes some part of the moon’s wave-function, and afterwards they are both correlated

Help me out here, though. If this is the explanation, then wouldn’t every moon, planet, etc be chaotic, since presumably they all interact with dust and light?
The Rise of the Stupid Terrorist
My feelings are mixed. The licensing processing is pretty lenient, and NCEES testing just weeds out the bottom 1/3 of applicants. Keeping a license is basically a matter of paying your dues. Sure, people get disciplined by the board, but it’s almost always for forgetting their PDH credits, which are “listen to this vendor-sponsored webinar during lunch and you’ll get an hour”. Practicing outside one’s competence is very common, and almost nobody gets in trouble for that, unless there is legal trouble.

That said, licensing does create an artificial scarcity and a completely superfluous cottage industry of land-development hacks, typically one-man-show practices, that specialize in being a land owner or speculator’s pseudo-attorney for a permit application process. The construction plans for permit are basically conceptual, rife with flagrant errors, and may have little relevance to actual construction, since a contractor probably won’t use the plans anyway. In my region, maybe 30-60% of the market is like this, with the exceptions being larger commercial projects, like apartments or medical offices. A parking-lot extension for a quadplex, though? That’s going to be a PE who will perjure himself all day to a Planning Commission for $500. They’re just a licensed as the engineer scrutinizing seismic forces on bridge piles.

So is the free market the answer? I don’t know. The land owners are the ones choosing the hucksters. They’re also usually fast-dealers that aren’t concerned with product quality once it’s sold. I don’t think “develop as thou wilt” is a good policy because that used to be how it was done, and it killed enough people to create a demand for government intervention.

The problem is, like software, nobody has any idea how to measure “goodness” of civil engineering, and laymen have no idea of the quality of product they’re getting unless it fails catastrophically.

I just accept that it’s not perfect, the hacks aren’t going anywhere, and I try not to do shitty work.
…

Op was obviously talking about x86 there, trying to run x86 on arm would fail long before reaching the avx instruction unless it was emulated.

Incidentally Apple’s rosetta (the x86_64-on-arm64 emulator) does not support AVX, if I remember correctly.
Rollercoaster Tycoon: The Most Impressive Game Ever Developed
My local MP is championing this garbage. It’s really nice to know I don’t need to keep abreast of his opinions on anything because I’m already guaranteed whatever it is I’ll whole heartedly disagree with it.

He was huge fan of the whole Rwanda idea too. Pure trash.
Plus you can take a reasonably sized luggage without paying extra.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31531298
Werner Herzog is the only sane person on the planet. He should build an asylum overlooking the Pacific Ocean to put the rest of us in.
Well it is carrying the core and the nacelle. The nacelle is the bulkiest part.
If that’s your threshold, I suspect you find a lot of real-life trolls in everyday small talk.

“anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity” applies strongly to leeoniya’s comment IMO.
SARS-CoV-2 and Mitochondrial Proteins in Neural-Derived Exosomes of Covid-19
I always thought the accents in English were driven less by country and more by specific teachers. In France I taught a lot of college students in English and their accents varied a lot depending on who had taught them English. Some had perfect British accents, others clearly American.
In Poland, companies can apply for state research grants just as universities. AFAIK there are some small companies which live off those. Of course, as is always the case, client shapes the company, and in this case the client is government and their byzantine grant selection process - so, that's what these companies have to optimise for.
This really reminds me of Marshall McLuhan's "the medium is the message" quote. Basically, any technology will influence culture, beyond the content provided by the medium. Think of the nature of television's impact of simultaneous global broadcasting is greater the content of any particular program
Define "in your control". Research finds over and over again that genetics plays a major role in BMI and that upbringing plays little or no role.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fendo.2012.0002...

One way to think about it is that certain behaviors are more controllable in the short term than in the long term. An extreme example would be breathing, which, like eating behavior, the brain subconsciously regulates by default. You can override the default and intake substantially more or less oxygen for a while. In the end, though, you will revert to to subconscious regulation and your blood oxygen level will revert to the level where your brain wants it to be.

Eating behavior seems to work in a similar way, although the timeline is much longer and the cues are more subtle.
Massachusetts formally clears a woman accused of being a witch in 1693
Right. I was replying to a comment that asks if there was anything that improves upon pip, which both Pipenv and Poetry do
On-Chain Forensics: Demystifying TerraUSD De-Peg