skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great article. I like that it gets to the real meat-and-potatoes of what determines, "tech policy" in the United States. Moving forward it doesn't seem like a movement back to a, "science and research-first" communication architecture is really feasible but I think, considering that the real, "Internet" is just, "computers talking to each other" that there are going to be parallelized cultures existing on-top of the extent TCP/IP infrastructure that might be worthwhile.
Sure, maybe, but the better automated tools get, the higher standards will be before submissions are considered. I bet slush-pile readers were a lot more tolerant of the occasional tranpsosed letter before spell check existed, for instance. Now if there's even one misspelling in a piece it looks like you're not trying at all, since you should have seen the red-squiggle, and into the rejections you go. So it will become (already is becoming) for brevity, clear wording, avoiding repetition, et c.

If tools save time or reduce the technical skill required, that seems great to me. Art's about the finished product, not how it gets there, though popular understanding of how artists work and how they actually work may differ substantially. Almost no authors can always recall the exact word they want, the precise wording of that phrase they want to quote, the rule for some particular piece of grammar, and so on—they may have a whole shelf of Brewer's and Roget's and Webster's and Garner's and Strunk & White for that, plus computerized tools, these days. Why not have tools for the other aspects of editing? Why not have a computer find a suggestion for you, before you even think to consult a source or scrutinize a passage more closely?

Plus, I guess I don't care much about any sort of purity in the writing process since practically the only accepted style, these days, in English writing at any rate, is fairly rote and prescribed and very simple. Did that sentence seem too complex? Did it have too many clauses? Does your inner editor's voice pipe up while reading it? Yep, exactly—it violates that very-modern style, even if only a bit. May as well take the next step and let a machine enforce those rules.

More generally, as a lover of books and reading and writing, I'm pessimistic about the future of the whole enterprise. I think making a living as a writer, outside the usual handful of trust fund minor-celebrity lit-fic authors, is going to involve a lot of machine assistance, to the point that "writing" will mostly be massaging and curating the output of machines. Ghostwriters beware—and/or get ready to quintuple your output, using new tools, just to keep your head above water. In the meantime, a little help from tools like this might get the last generation of small-time authors, with actual ideas of their own but without an eye for editing, to print, before that becomes all but impossible even for the very-talented.

It's a good thing there's already enough excellent fully-human-produced writing to last even fairly-avid readers several lifetimes. At least until and unless life extension really gets going.

[EDIT] I'm aware, incidentally, that some of these paragraphs disagree with one another. I stand by my contradictions. :-)
Replace ‘time crystals’ with MS Windows
The Romans had already tried this.. not a great idea.
The Potential of NFTs
Sociopathy isn't a recognized diagnosis among psychiatrists. It's narcissism these days.
> I think it's a better strategy

It's completely ineffective! Better than what? What has it achieved?

> today's Democrats are drafting up bills that have broad public support (even among Republican voters), and forcing the Republican congresspeople to put their names down voting against it.

This is a performance by insiders, for insiders. Few other people have any idea those bills exist, that the votes take place, or who voted what.

And because the Democrats barely try to contest the public narrative - the foundation of the reactionary movement and GOP power - it's all spun to make the Dems look bad regardless.

It is a strategy of people who only can think of legislation - like a ship captain who only will use the rudder, not the engine, the anchor, etc. It's so bizarrely focused on legislation, it's like the rest of the world doesn't exist. Really, the Dems are cowards and legislation is their safe space. They will not acknowledge the rest of the world. Did you read that they are 'tired' of dealing with voting rights?
I assume they’re just taking free money from a third party to subsidize their main development. If the fuel cell partnership works then great otherwise no big deal.
Thank you - I could not find your details in your profile - my email is in my profile so please feel free to ping me :-)
This is a retrospective. Priorities have changed, according to TFA

> But now, as the internal report Recode reviewed shows, some inside Amazon are realizing that strategy won’t work much longer, especially if leaders truly want to transform it into “Earth’s best employer,” as Bezos proclaimed in 2021.
It’s a lisp, so it’s eminently hackable - you can do everything with it, and simultaneously nothing ;p

I love lisps. Why choose slope over something like racket or maybe clojure(script)?
What does "pthalates in food packaging" have to do with medicine or technology? For food it is a solved problem.

Also, #1 contribution to life expectancy has been public hygiene. Aside from antibiotics, all of the other medical interventions have been noise.

https://sjbpublichealth.org/200-years-public-health-doubled-...

> the largest gain in life expectancy occurred between 1880 and 1920 due to public health improvements such as control of infectious diseases, more abundant and safer foods, cleaner water, and other nonmedical social improvements
I’d argue that in the ironic case they’re no longer tangential.
I wonder if it would be worth finding out about the donor's diet, and trying to replicate it after the transplant in an effort to maintain the gut flora.
Man, I worked at Amazon in the early 2010s, and I remember I was an L something and proud of it, but thought I'd never make it to L whatever. It was such a huge deal and a huge part of my life, and now I can't even remember which number it was.. I wish I'd spent less time working and more time doing stuff I cared about
Agreed, and that's kinda what I was saying. Theoretically it could work, in practice, not so much.
How low level API calls stabilize your E2E tests
I was actually surprised when I looked how many places carry e0. There were several near me in Seattle. https://www.pure-gas.org/
> Perhaps the future of democracy is made of voters who subscribe to institutions of intellectual or moral credibility that tell people directly how to vote

It already is this way, and has been this way for centuries. Be it religion, ethnic identity, economic class, geographic loyalty, or political ideologies. The average voter is not an independent minded participant.

Political parties. Community Organizations. The Political Machines of the Gilded Age and the Unions of the late industrial.

Human nature never changes. Democracy just gives us a chance to have a say in how society harnesses that nature, rather than a small group of people born into power because their ancestors were part of the inner circle of victors in the war that established their nation.

Edit: I’m big believer in democracy and republics, but a really cynical take on the whole system is “the peasants get a chance to choose who which aristocrat rules them…and occasional elevate one of their own.”
I quit after orientation, spent the whole time arguing that their ten principles were contradictory, whilst the broken remnants of Microsoft's silicon valley campus sat there, happy to have whatever crumbs Amazon were throwing them. When I told my manager I wouldn't be staying, he congratulated me!! Your can see it in their products, mediocrity by design.
Basketball is hard to simulate on a classical computer, but easy to simulate by playing a game of basketball.
There is benefit to firms that hire prison labor, it isn't clear that it results in any benefit to consumers. Well connected firms able to hire prison labor may just keep all the surplus.
I'm pretty sure I've worked on this codebase...
It's an interesting discussion. I've chosen to exist within the confines of societies laws. Prison is itself a different world, and I don't claim to know very much about it or the mindset behind the different types of criminals that exist inside the prison system. In layman's terms, I hear about violent offenders, and non-violent.

The US system also offers capital punishment which is another extreme and final judgement. Possibly, more 'natural' than the bureaucratic system. The country I live in does not use such a punishment system.

Has anyone conducted studies to see if these prison incentives are at work? I would suspect comparing national systems is a pretty common practice in public policy academia. I've definitely seen fairly sensational articles on privatization of US prisons leading to corruption in the justice system.

I'm not sure if hackernews can have these types of discussions without massive downvoting from one side or the other.
It is hard to trust any expert/gonverment if main motivation is profit. Look what is happening right now. Poor are more poor and rich are getting rich even more. So, naturally, trust in expertise is relative if it cannot bring you food for survive.
If being the richest man on the planet proves anything, it’s probably not honesty and integrity.

If anything, being ruthless and deceptive are better traits to achieve this. Of course there are some exceptions. But I don’t think Musk is one.
I had a similar experience with one of my friends, except instead of buying physical carts we just downloaded the rom and used a gameboy emulator. This was just a little while before gold/silver came out in the US and we brute forced our way through as much as we could, ultimately getting stuck on the Sudowoodo blocking a path. We tried everything we could think of but without knowing japanese we just couldn't figure out that we needed that squirt bottle or whatever it was.
I'm from Australia and I agree! give me pie!
Consider the possibility that harsher conditions/sentences do not deter crime.

https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/business-law/do-harsher-pu...
You've presented an extremely great rationale for why we should eliminate additional incentives to incarcerate people.

you know, incentives like allowing the prison to profit off of slave labor.
It’s counterintuitive because most people are more familiar with the mathematical concept of symmetry whereby a lattice has more symmetry than a random set of points (which almost certainly has no symmetry at all). However from the physics point of view, the random set of points is more symmetrical than the lattice because there’s no way of telling which way a random set of points is oriented.
This thread offers us an opportunity to understand why it does. Look at how many comments ordain the practice out of a callous disregard for those who incur the unfortunate label of "criminal." A criminal can be anything from a man who kills a child to a homeless man who was caught sleeping in the wrong place too many times, but this nuance doesn't seem to factor into the thinking of supporters of modern day slavery.

I've also noticed that people carry with them a suppressed anger that comes from being forced to follow the law and perform all the duties of a functional citizen. Anyone who breaks the law is not enduring the burdens of citizenship as they are, and so the "criminal" becomes a virtuous outlet for their suppressed rage. The criminal thus becomes a kind of scapegoat.
Don't give Bezos any ideas. I'm sure he'd welcome the idea. Musk might even suggest sending prisoners to Mars to build the first colonies.
Ah, thanks. I got it backwards.
> Even paying prosecutors money is an incentive to prosecute people.

Unless you are paying per prosecution, it's not.

(I suppose the theoretical risk of laying off prosecutors if there is insufficient prosecutorial workload is a weak incentive of this type, though the fact that chief prosecutors are politicians and the political rewards for prosecuting in general, and for prosecuting those society dislikes in particular, are orders of magnitude stronger.)
Do you know a lot of doctors, or have you worked in companies connected directly with academia? It's a thing.
CERN to terminate cooperation with Russia and Belarus in 2024
How do you know any of that worked?

You can't do all that stuff to yourself - and - go through COVID (and other things) which has caused widespread depression, and assume any of that had an affect one wary or another without a fairly big randomized trial isolating all of those elements.

Even just the notion of 'regime' will change people's psyches via placebo.

I mean, I would certainly 'feel' healthy if I did such a list of 'ostensibly healthy things'.

That said, I wouldn't doubt some of it did, and that we are just barely beginning to understand gut health.
I'd probably avoid using NULL in DB to convey a borderline-value for the simple reason that NULL has weird semantics in SQL and it can be pretty confusing.

If you're not using NULLs in DB, it's weird to translate an enum into a nullable Boolean.

In the end, there is very little downside to using enums in this case. It's by far the least confusing option.
My country doesn't have quite the level of wealth disparity as the united states.
“Boomerang” most likely
I had to edit the title because it is very long and exceed maximum allowed letters.
I don't know the answer to your question, but lets assume 20%.

If PVs are 20% less efficient in the desert, you'll need 25% more PVs. (Ex: Instead of buying 1MW worth of panels, you need 1.25MW of panels to generate only 1MW of power)

If PVs are lol 90% less efficient in the desert, you'll need 900% more PVs (instead of buying 1MW worth of panels, you need 10MW worth of panels to make 1MW)

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Because PVs are the "expensive part" of solar power (and land is really, really cheap, even German Farmland), we're more interested in reducing the number of PV-panels to buy, rather than reducing the cost of land acquisition.
The US military is the same way. Officers get promoted, or they retire. I.e. "up or out".

In the AF, your performance reviews need to be "firewalled" or it's time to leave.
The original LowCode demo.
I don't really understand the premise. So presumably you can't "reverse" A = B because you lost the old value of A, right? OK, but why did you lose that? If you took the time to pause before that instruction and write down B, why didn't you just save the value of A as part of that step too? Is it a speed or space issue?
This question gets asked a ton, so be sure to hit HN search for past threads and advice.

The most common advice is:

- Plenty of exercise. Specifically, when you feel like taking a nap after a long day, try a short run or another short, brisk workout instead. If you're like me, it'll invigorate you.

- Plenty of sleep

- Eat healthy

- Minimize distractions and useless consumption.
Learjet was a brand name (used to be an independent company founded by Bill Lear), which is no longer active (after having been acquired and subsequently discontinued). The more generic terms are 'general aviation' and 'business aviation'; most small jets are 'business jets'.
Verifying programs, for one thing--CreuSAT actually calls out to no less than three different SAT solvers in the course of automatically discharging its proof obligations :)

More generally, SAT solving is useful whenever you have something that can be represented as a circuit, which is an extremely large class of problems. Indeed, SAT can be proven to be polynomial-time equivalent to any problem in NP (which you can read as "any decision problem whose yes solution is efficiently verifiable"), which includes many useful problems: common examples include the traveling salesman problem, detecting hamiltonian cycles, subgraph isomorphism (interestingly, graph isomorphism is no longer believed to be NP-complete), graph coloring, and many others (which in turn often have easy reductions from other extremely useful problems). Since SAT solvers have received so much optimization work, in practical cases these problems are very often solved by reducing them to some variant of a satisfiability problem, rather than trying to solve them directly.

It is even more useful when combined with theories that can compute special cases (like arithmetic on natural numbers) much more efficiently, which is known as an SMT solver (satisfiability modulo theory). Sometimes, the theories are undecidable, which means the SMT solver is allowed to report "don't know" or run forever in some cases (in practice, people then massage the inputs to try to get them within the solvable cases). This is the form in which SAT solvers are used most often. There are a ton of applications, but an immediate one is determining whether version constraints in a package manager (which may include equalities, inequalities, etc.) can all be simultaneously satisfied (and producing a satisfying assignment). There are a lot of good examples, though, which is why SMT solvers are so ubiquitous in the literature when it comes to "how do we do this really hard thing?" (e.g. they are often critical components of program synthesis).

Sorry if this wasn't that helpful--it's a very broad topic and I'm sure many people here can give you a much better answer!
Not sure if I see the problem here. Prison time generally means you’ve been a net negative to society. This reverses some of that karma
Actually, you can manufacture ammonia from just water, air, and electricity. And ammonia not only has great uses (right now we burn a huge ammount of NatGas to make it) in agriculture, but it's quite energy/space efficient for shipping. We already ship quite a bit of liquified ammonia (<200 psi at >100F). If you have a lot of "free" energy in the ocean it makes sense to make/store/ship ammonia on the spot.
Bingo. It's not that software engineers are stupid, it's that they don't 'see' when they do something stupid and don't have a good mental model because of that lack of sight. Everyone figures out quickly to efficiently clean out their garage or other repetitive chores because it's personally painful to do it poorly and it's right in front of your nose. If only computers were more transparent and/or people learned and used profilers daily...
I like this app, but just tried it on some code and it looks like it's not capturing lines correctly as it's overlapping/cutting when scrolling:

Ex: https://i.ibb.co/GCkYV0X/Screen-Shot-2022-06-17-at-2-13-35-P...
You prefer a notification to steal your focus instead? :)
Just start by making profiting off of prisons illegal. Solutions don't need to be flawless, just better than what we have, which is an embarrassingly low bar to clear.
With some 4.2 billion integers to choose from, you can pretty much put everything in one enum. Genius!
But Elon in particular should not be firing anyone if HE believes in free-speech. It is hypocritical.
How'd the combination to my safe get on the internet? Drat, now I have to change it.
This stock, among a few others, is in a tug of war between hedge funds who decided to short it, and the retail investors who bought in hopes of a short squeeze. The hedge funds appear to be doing everything to avoid closing their positions (buying shares), allegedly trying to scare off or tire out the retail investors with odd price fluctuations. Retail appears to be 'hodling,' meaning that the stocks are subject to more than usual market forces. Some hedge funds have recently closed their doors however, possibly signalling an end to the struggle in the near future, as costs of borrowing and limitations on sources of collateral bear down on the hedge funds.
How is it not broadly held? What business is saying “we really wish we could spend more on labor, that would be great!” Politicians on the right have been playing lip service to “illegal immigration” for years. But they all knew just what would happen if they actually did it. Business interest and farmers would crucify them.

Even Trump supporting farmers were complaining about not being able to find anyone.

Just like they were all for the wall until the government started using eminent domain to take their land to build it.
>If you can physically set up those boundary conditions, the atmosphere will in fact perform the computation.

The invalidity of the equivalence principle becomes much more ambiguous for me in that case.

>The atmosphere is not solving the Navier-Stokes equation; the atmosphere is doing what the Navier-Stokes equation models

It can sometimes be hard to distinguish the two. Analogously, you can compute a Fourier transform optically—as a simple example, the diffraction pattern of an aperture is the Fourier transform of the aperture shape (as if it were a 2D step function) [*]. Is the aperture performing the Fourier transform, or merely doing what the Fourier transform models? In the days before fast DSPs, this is exactly how Fourier transforms were computed.

[*] As a more complex example, by passing collimated light through a transparency and then a lens, the image formed is the Fourier transform of the signal encoded by the transparency.
$150k is the average and relatively few people in prison are mentally ill murderers. So something doesn’t seem to add up.
> What I am saying is neither partisan

Your comment is partisan. The implication you are making is the right does not participate in the activities you are pointing out. Regardless of how correct you are, you are making a political comment against the left on a site that tries to avoid political arguments. You are also using partisan trigger words.
The 11B of goods are subject to taxes.

I agree that reducing recidivism is important, likely the product of a broken US juvenile system and weakened education system.
Which is all nice in theory except you have to meet people where they are and that’s using pip and publishing on Pypi. Unless you can auto-nixify an arbitrary Python package, and in this case an arbitrary binary package, you’re gonna end up doing a lot of work to get that reproducibility.

I don’t use pip because I like pip, I use it because that’s where the software I want is.
In a similar vein, prisoners on death row wronged society and owe it a debt. If their death sentence includes postmortem organ extraction for transplantation, which would save quite a few lives, that should be fair, right? ~
I take it this is your first market cycle?
Hoboken Hasn’t Had a Traffic Death in 4 Years. What’s Right?
Looking at oneself is a good place to start. Does this incentivize you from avoiding prison?
I was thinking more about how HN cheered when Google did this to one of their employees

https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/8/8/16106728/google-fire...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23121522
Yes, I agree, your straw-man is plainly false. Amazon does need executives, software developers, and warehouses.

Amazon is a functioning + profitable business. If it can't continue to be a functioning + profitable business if it pays every employee a good wage, it doesn't deserve to exist anymore - it needs to die to make room for a business that CAN do that. But I don't actually think that amazon has to exploit its workers in order to stay profitable, and I think the numbers (at very least the 33B in net profits) back me up.
Homeowner seems optimistic - how or when are they saving for the downpayment?

30K per year is about poverty level in most of the United States for a family of four.
https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-27...

But if both parents work at 15/hour, they could rent, though childcare would take a big bite out of their budget even at 60K per year.

Most places with lower cost of living in the USA have jobs closer to federal minimum wage work rather than 15/hour as well.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/16/how-much-money-a-family-of-4...
The way the button text moves on hover is also distracting and annoying.