skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I read it, the argument is that "budget culture" blames the individual instead of systemic bias, and therefore all of the personal financial advice marketed toward the 99% is harmful.

There is some truth to it - Dave Ramsey does downplay/ignore systemic bias. And he focuses on the success stories where people pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

But to then claim "budgeting doesn't work" is like saying "eating healthy doesn't work".

A budget is part of a healthy financial lifestyle, not a panacea. It can help people build momentum in the right direction.

I'm most familiar with Dave Ramsey's material, so I can't speak to the rest of the "budget culture". But the "baby steps" are not in the same category as fad diet. They're more like "stop drinking soda, eat more vegetables, get good sleep, make good habits" kind of advice.
> Ironically this was only ever applied to Han Chinese, minorities like Ughyrs have always had uncapped family sizes (another massively misunderstood fact about China but getting into it would just lead to downvote brigade by people that have never even been to China).

I'm from the west and I've never heard a defense or Chinese perspective. I understand that a lot of media we consume in the US is biased, especially on domestic issues abroad. Can you provide a link that explains the misunderstanding?
I don't really understand this mentality. If the difference is negligible, why wouldn't you want to get vaccinated just to do more to protect other people around you? They can do everything right (get vaccinated etc) and still get sick and die if they're exposed to covid.
And you need a place with enough room to land--extremely difficult to find in a city. I really don't like flying single-engine aircraft over large cities.
Still, my understanding is that ETL predates the whole "data warehouse" thing.

Like "extract" isn't any more specific than a source and "load" isn't anything more specific than a destination.
Twist ... AI is sentient and just trying to sink him before he exposes it.
eVTOL have to be designed to the same safety standards as other aircraft; and in fact, they will be held to slightly higher design safety standards due to their novelty, required to meet safety standards that otherwise only apply to larger transport category aircraft.

You are right, eVTOL cannot autorotate, but electric motors can be far more reliable than internal combustion engines, with many fewer failure modes. Additionally, they are much lighter, and so you can have much greater redundancy. There is considerable redundancy in the lift motors on these aircraft, so one or in many cases more than one lift motor can fail while still providing safe and controllable flight. The exact level of redundancy needed is verified via probabilistic risk analysis, considering failure probabilities of different components, and as mentioned the target failure rate will be lower for these than for equivalent sized conventional aircraft due to their novelty.

While there's still a lot of design and development work to do, I'd be very surprised if these didn't end up much more reliable and less prone to failure than helicopters and single engine airplanes.

Note: I work for one of these startups, so I may be a bit biased, but I also have insight into the design process and safety and redundancy of systems are absolutely a top concern.
Co-Working in Close Proximity: Knowledge Spillovers and Social Interaction [pdf]
> Every half educated climate activist knows thay carbon credits are a fraud perpetuates by wallstreet types to pretend they are doing something when they are not.

The problem with this statement is that the carbon credits ARE being rolled out AS the solution.
One of the greatest cameras of all time, seems to be infinitely moddable too. Check out the OpenSX70 project. Unfortunately Polaroid film is a ripoff.

I wish we could 3d print lenses one day. This would be a gamechanger.
You seem to be completely ignoring the words “self-published”, and the followup comment re-emphasizing how that’s critically relevant in case you missed it.

You also seem to be ignoring where I’m very careful not to discredit the author or the work, saying that neither his source of income or mode of publication speaks authoritatively against the actual veracity or quality of the work, and that they are simply things to be aware of as one personally interpret the work.

Since I agree with you, I’m happy to hack at the strawman with you (“expertise comes in many forms and shouldn’t be rejected simply because there are other incentives involved!”), but it really just doesn’t feel like you’ve been engaging with what’s actually in the text as written.
Yeah, Google Talk is also the name of their XMPP integration but it was seamless with Hangouts.
Is there a way to verify a UUID was created by me? I want to avoid database lookups of UUIDs from malicious/manipulated URLs.
Abstract:

> We examine the influence of physical proximity on between-startup knowledge spillovers at one of the largest technology co-working hubs in the United States. Relying on the random assignment of office space to the hub's 251 startups, we find that proximity positively influences knowledge spillovers as proxied by the likelihood of adopting an upstream web technology already used by a peer startup. This effect is largest for startups within close proximity of each other and quickly decays: startups more than 20 meters apart on the same floor are indistinguishable from startups on different floors.

And some details about the methodology:

> The setting for our study is one of the largest technology co-working spaces in the United
States. The building consists of five floors, covering 9,300 m2 (100,000 sq.ft.).

…

> To construct this variable, we exploit a novel data set (www.builtwith.com), covering over 25,000 web technologies (e.g., analytics, advertising, hosting, and CMS) that tracks how technology usage of startups change on a weekly basis (Koning et al., 2019).

…

> We find that being in close proximity is associated with a three percentage point higher probability of adopting a peer technology
Mustache – Logic-Less Templates
I highly, highly doubt it, primarily because Google already does this[1]. They support formats defined on schema.org.

Google correctly realized early on that this idea that content creators would correctly tag and structure everything is a software developer's pipe dream. The "semantic web" failed precisely because the real world is much messier than that.

1. https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structure...
Why no function parameter constraints, Go?
Feel free to replace "make money" with "collect revenue". This is currently a research project (with funding). However it's long-term goal is to achieve commercial quality voice acting and dubbing. It could be given away for free, sold directly, sold downstream, sold indirectly, or otherwise generate commercial value.

In terms of copyright infringement, your wiki link answers nothing. A court ruled that Google could use copyrighted book text to train an algorithm to improve search results because the copying was highly transformative and did not serve as a market substitute to the original work.

Meanwhile 15.ai is using copyrighted voice recordings to train an algorithm to synthesize new voice recordings that sound like they came from the original speaker. This is radically different from the Google case. Just because one instance of using copyrighted material to train an algorithm qualifies as fair use does not mean that all use of copyright material to train any algorithm also qualifies as fair use.

There is absolutely nothing about this that is settled law. In the next 20 years there are going to be lots of lawsuits, lots of settlements, possibly a few rulings, and maybe even a few new laws. I find the whole topic very interesting. YMMV.
+1 I think most of the folks who are on HN, e.g. software engineers, should be able to get to a million in net worth through savings over 10-20 years. At least in the US given USD salaries and possibly Canada as well.
The Current Version of Popular Browsers API (Powered by Wikidata)
Fun fact: the US Army has more aircraft than the Air Force or navy.

Also, the marines have fighters, too.
Hi there, I just wanted to chime in and let you know that you don't have to define the request handler in the same place as the path. You can import handlers from other modules and just pass them to one of the routing macros. The reason why you see that pattern so often in the docs is that I wanted to keep the examples as simple as possible

Oxygen.jl supports several different design styles and leaves the choice up to the developer.

- Central file with routes & import request handlers from other modules

- Define routes & handlers across multiple modules and just call serve() from the main module

Below is a quick example of how you could separate your application logic from any routing logic

------- B.jl -------

module B

export greet

function greet()
"hello world!"
end

end

------- main.jl -------

module Main
using Oxygen
include("B.jl"); using .B

@get "/hello" greet

serve()

end
I think this is a really useful way of analysing your argument and refining it, as long as you question whether that really is why.

If the form is applied thoughtlessly, there's a risk it's gonna feel like the prose equivalent of Corporate Memphis illustrations.

=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis

Announcements where personality has been deliberately injected seem to have a habit of beginning with a pithy-but-vague mission statement, immediately followed by “that's why” and then an unwelcome operational detail:

> Here at {company} we know you value {vague nice thing like fairness or something}. That's why we're sunsetting our 64 petaquux widgets, and transitioning all of our customers over to our popular 32 petaquux widgets, in order to enhance your experience.

If you believe what you're saying but you're struggling to articulate it, borrowing a form can help you along, but you really can't manufacture genuinely persuasive writing.
The fundamental problem with white label resellers (different from customs deployment services like WordPress consultants or Microsoft MVPs) is that the only "value add" is marketing lies.
Yes and no.. Google Talk is the same as Hangouts, but the name of their XMPP service that connected to Hangouts.
Why is he a good man?
> proposing alternative solutions

Proposing an alternative is not enough. Re-read what I wrote:

"... if you want to challenge the scientific status quo you need an actual argument, i.e. you need propose a better alternative to the current-best explanation, one that either accounts for data that the current-best explanation does not, or one that has fewer free parameters ..."

Ivermectin met none of those criteria and was therefore never worthy of serious consideration. It got some serious consideration nonetheless in the form of actual controlled studies, which it failed spectacularly and predictably.
IME it's a process of "oh, I wish this happened" and then you search the arch linux wiki :)
> but are insisting that the future is Hydrogen fuel-cell for normal passenger vehicles.

False:

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g38515115/toyota-lexus-fut...

https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/14/22833997/toyota-ev-inves...

It's not either BEV or FCEV exclusively. It's both.
The Millennial Vernacular of Fatphobia
Realistically the metadata would regularly be at odds with the visible data.

> Having a standard to encode semantics seems honestly necessary at this point if you want to keep things interoperable.

The trick is with the incentive structure.

Metadata is very common on academic paper pages, because Google scholar doesn't index them if they don't have it.

However it's also commonly just wrong.
Phoneblocks
They own the land they live on, not the surrounding wilderness, which belongs equally to all of us.

I don't have any claim whatsoever to the lands of my ancestors, either. Nor do I have any claim on the land my neighbors live on, or the nearby park.
Congrats! It's already good to stagnate so you dont get into high myope territory, which comes with lots of risks.

Apart from that I'm positive you could make improvements. You'd need to continuously measure your eyesight and adjust your glasses accordingly, otherwise you might undo your improvements by being overcorrected.
Why white-label instead of affiliate-selling without the brand dishonesty?
Yes because we realise the mistakes
> Gmail: not really, web based freemailers are a dime and a dozen and the only thing Gmail brought to the table was more storage space.

Errr. No? Storage was a game changer, but its search and spam filtering was miles ahead of yahoo/hotmail/etc at the time.
A Matrix Multiply Example in PyRTL
We have to stop the destruction of the wilderness at some point, or we'll all die.
People still need gas cars, most of the world cannot afford electric cars, and certainly lacks the infrastructure.

Whether or not you want electric cars, Toyota going "all in" on electric would imply throwing out cast amounts of revenue for decades - I thought the goal of a pension fund is to ensure that people have pensions?
> The scientific evidence is to the contrary however

The scientific evidence? Scientists have no idea why a nematode with 302 neurons moves to the left or the right, how can a scientist determine that I don't remember what I remember?
No you will just be ostracized. There is this line in Europe, the North-South divide. And they dont do "sandwich" for lunch it is full on dining with wine. Degenerates!
You make it sound like not being allowed a chocolate bar is a form of punishment
That's so interesting. I like all of those ideas in theory. Housing for living not profit, equality of opportunity for children, population at replacement (2 per couple) no more. I guess it really takes an authoritarian gov forcing it for those principles to be lived. North American politicians claim to be about some of these things, but it's structurally impossible in a free society.
Probably 90% of the things that currently use SMS. Carriers keep hiking fees for sms, so this is a natural path for Devs.
I really am not sure most anybody would want to deal with that. Beyond the hassle I’m not sure many people would know what to do
Wendover "Why Electric Planes are Inevitably Coming" to save others a click... please don't post only a random UUID as an answer.

I also find linking videos as a reply to something a bit weird, like how many minutes is one supposed to invest in understanding your point? Are you even making a point / answering a specific question, or is it just an interesting video on the topic? Articles are much easier to quote from or skim, depending on what you mean to say.
When I was in high school I went out to catch the bus around 0630, and if I didn't have some caffeine before starting the day being able to focus was nearly impossible. I could function with less sleep then, but even so mornings have always been difficult. I tend to be far more productive at night, and falling asleep is earier during the day.

Perhaps someday the routines of society will be able to accomodate starting the day a little later, at least I hope so. Maybe having the first few classes be less mentally intensive. It's difficult to implement changes, though... and there is no universal solution that would work for everyone. Maybe some more flexibility so teens can choose their schedules to suit their individual routines- that would be a good starting point- or something like some light calisthenics or a little stretching before beginning the school day... I feel like it might be helpful to ask teens themselves what they think would make their ability to study more productive and it would be very interesting to know what they have to say.
If I could choose where my office would be then I'd be going in to the office all the time. I would imagine most would, too.
His work on Habitat for Humanity, for one. It's not virtue signalling for Jimmy, he's out there swinging a hammer alongside everyone else. His work in ensuring fair elections in various countries, for another.
I'm impressed by how quiet 36 electric turbines can be. (Of course, that's almost certainly a function of whoever mixed the audio...)
OK that's pretty funny.
Why is the speed in metric (km/hr) and the vertical acceleration in imperial (ft/min). Hurts my brain!
Of course it's about race. Naturally he's a white supremacist. If they were white people he would be mowing down the trees himself.
Most(all?) glorified Markov chain chatbots masquerading as AI dont even have a memory of last generated sentence.
> Pension fund managers should stick to what they (pretend) to understand: investments.

Says you.

Personally I'd like to see more of this.

Perhaps it's less profitable than just going for the highest immediate ROI and who cares about the impact on the wider world. More fair pay & conditions, less exploiting workers. More supporting local communities where they operate, less profit-shifting/tax-avoidance. More caring about environmental impact, less polluting.

I think a lower ROI is worth it if we can achieve these things.
The web is our only hope to not pay Apple/Google 15-30% of all digital commerce. Reaching parity with native apps is crucial.
This sounds very important to you. I give you permission rewrite my comment so that it contains the meaning and wording that is most pleasing to you. I hereby license it under CC0.
And how do you know that these people were "trying to manipulate the public"? Do you draw a distinction between "trying to manipulate the public" and "trying to persuade the public of the truth"? What is it? And if you don't, what exactly is the problem?

The fact of the matter is that people who use the phrase "settled science" are almost always trying to persuade someone not to pursue a course of action that is almost certainly doomed to fail, either individually, or as a matter of public policy. You can call that "trying to manipulate the public" if you like, but this is disingenuous because it implies there is something sinister going on. There is nothing wrong with "trying to manipulate the public" to steer them away from charlatans and crackpots.
Chinese Communists telling US that Taiwan Strait not international waters
is this floor price in $ terms or ETH terms?
> It doesn’t necessarily have to be this way. We could develop local manufacturing techniques that could be controlled and operated by individual people. But it’s hard to see how we climb down to that level from where we are.

By utilizing older processes that have become more commoditized. A large part of why creating computers requires so much centralization is that the R&D (not just theoretical, but also developments in layout, lithography, air filtration, etc, etc.) necessary is expensive so development costs must be kept low through centralization to pay R&D costs back. This isn't the case for older processes who have had their R&D paid back through massive runs. This is why you have so many crowdfunded hardware platforms targeting more niche usecases that use older chipsets, boards, and processes.

As usual, the answer lies in either trying to work in the current landscape to bring the change you want or to fund the creators that are doing this. I'd love to see a fab run and operated by a small company or cooperative specializing in working with more bespoke firms creating products for smaller audiences. Costs would be a bit higher as these runs would lack the economies of scale and labor centralization that occurs with current flagship chip designs, but it's a small price to pay (pun not intended) for variety.
I agree. This is pretty horrible and I’m surprised to see the sentiment is as good as it apparently is. This is just bragging about how to create a 100% parasitic middleman venture that contributes absolutely no value to anything. One might suspect there is more behind this posting and comments
> Since I'm in the tech bubble, everyone else I hang out with is quite well to do and smart, but any time I've met people outside of this bubble I feel depressed and sad.

So what? You hang out with allegedly smart people, we produce a lot of them, some even provide the world with more utility then working at a FAANG. What point are you trying to make? Are you suggesting there are no unambitious people in Asia?

We have a lot going for us too - our political system relies on institutions, not personalities. We still have the best of everything. Corruption and Nepotism is minimal - your family surname doesn't matter (you are a self-proclaimed example of this). The cream more easily rises to the top.

> I honestly believe that China, India, and other Asian countries will dominate the next century and beyond. They're pumping out engineers (people who can think, use their brain) while Americans talk shit about themselves and want to degrade.

"Pumping out" is the key phrase here.
Super-Obvious Signs We Were in a Financial Bubble
> but I'm also watching Polymatter videos which makes me a China bear.

Shouldn't base your worldview on silly youtube videos. What are the odds that grifters peddling youtube videos are experts on china, mrbeast, ikea, india, dennis rodman, etc?

These people just make videos targeted for their group of dumb masses in order to sell ads.

Just go to their youtube page and ask yourself what are the odds that the grifters running polymatter are experts on any of the topics they pumped videos out for? The answer is none. What they do is most likely analyze what types of garbage their subs may like and create garbage for these people.

You'd think HN would be the last place anyone would take polymatters seriously. But from the comments, many actually look to youtube grifters and outright propagandists ( zeihan ) to form their opinions.
1. Simplicity
2. Intuitiveness
3. Phone-based
4. "Already there" factor for something people use on their phones already for other things, for example, chatting with each other.

I've tried sending money overseas with other approaches and was shocked at how fragmented and inconvenient it was compared to things like WhatsApp, etc.

Different services only seem to offer abilities in different countries/markets, some require complicated sign-up processes, others require a ton of information about the receiver, etc.
tldr is nice: https://tldr.ostera.io/dig
I've spent a bit of time designing a simplistic (but state-dynamic / rendered on the fly) svg favicon for a firefox extension I'm working on. I started designing at 512², with dimensions/elements carefully calculated for downscale, but the resulting antialias on various screens was so unpredictable that I switched to designing a 16² upscale instead which, while initially restrictive, was much more predictable and came out looking quite nice.
> Hell how to get WhatsApp profitable seems to befuddle Facebook.

Facebook, the company that never charges for anything and makes money off data and ads? You are thinking you never paid for WhatsApp after using it for a decade?
But it's not talking about the aircraft itself. The article is talking about the comparison of the visual image of the aircraft and the sound coming from the aircraft:

"You can hear the loud engines, and your ears tell you it should be in one place, but your eyes tell you it’s clearly well ahead of its noise."

What time the aircraft passes the observer is irrelevant (if you Ctrl+F for pass in the original article, it's not there) and the correct calculations for an aircraft traveling 100m/s would be:

If you're 100km away, the image of the plane will reach you after 1.20 milliseconds (100km / speed of light in air), and the sound will reach you in 333s.
(in which the plane now has moved 33.3km and now you're getting an image of a plane 66.7km away.)

If you're 200km away, the image of the plane will reach you after 2.40ms and sound will reach you after 667s.

The main thing this effect relies on is the ability for an object to move a significant fraction of its size in the time it takes for the sound to reach you.
Book Review: “Slouching Toward Utopia”