skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OT, but has anyone ever studied what motivates graffiti producers? I assume it is a mix of teenage boredom / rebelliousness and gang territory signifiers, but I would be interested in reading more about it. I'm more interested learning about the motivation for the "scribbles" form, rather than the more artist versions.
I thought about it the other way: build an accelerator to get paid by nation states to pull young, productive workers to your declining population country (both remote workers and skilled on site workers, think healthcare). Want to start something together (I’m a highly skilled worker familiar with and working on expatriating to Western Europe)? Lots of value to generate in nation states competing for future productivity, and therefore power.
But it does have to do with our inability to wipe out polio forever.
I am enamored by data structures in the sketch/summary/probabilistic family: t-digest[1], q-digest[2], count-min sketch[3], matrix-sketch[4], graph-sketch[5][6], Misra-Gries sketch[7], top-k/spacesaving sketch[8], &c.

What I like about them is that they give me a set of engineering tradeoffs that I typically don't have access to: accuracy-speed[9] or accuracy-space. There have been too many times that I've had to say, "I wish I could do this, but it would take too much time/space to compute." Most of these problems still work even if the accuracy is not 100%. And furthermore, many (if not all of these) can tune accuracy to by parameter adjustment anyways. They tend to have favorable combinatorial properties ie: they form monoids or semigroups under merge operations. In short, a property of data structures that gave me the ability to solve problems I couldn't before.

I hope they are as useful or intriguing to you as they are to me.

1. https://github.com/tdunning/t-digest

2. https://pdsa.readthedocs.io/en/latest/rank/qdigest.html

3. https://florian.github.io/count-min-sketch/

4. https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/el327/papers/simpleMatrixSketc...

5. https://www.juanlopes.net/poly18/poly18-juan-lopes.pdf

6. https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/cs498abd/fa2020/slides/20-...

7. https://people.csail.mit.edu/rrw/6.045-2017/encalgs-mg.pdf

8. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00200...

9. It may better be described as error-speed and error-space, but I've avoided the term error because the term for programming audiences typically evokes the idea of logic errors and what I mean is statistical error.
https://archive.ph/dgYph
Not really, you just have a smaller consumer group. Not that great for business.
In almost all cases educated people are leaving those places for economic reasons.
They probably didn't want the aluminium case to get too hot.
Mainly it was only panicking newbies who paid the ransom. Losing stuff in Eve hurts more than most games, so people react in true panic style fashion.

There were a few roleplay corps that built in-game reputations on taking ransoms etc seriously. I'm sure they had better results
HN is generally okay with dissenting viewpoints.

I didn't know scurvy was considered contagious; that's pretty cool. I did know people used to cure it by drinking tea made from Arborvitae trees - or at least its European counterpart (I think they have the same common name).

I find the stance a little baffling though; if Measles isn't a virus, why can it's spread by halted by vaccination? Aside from the general usage and success thereof, sometimes it's easy to wonder just because the major outbreaks in the US happened a fairly long time ago. But a couple years back I had a coworker from Nigeria - I guess they still have outbreaks there?... anyway he scrambled to help get them money for MMR vaccines (I don't know if they're usually free via the WHO but supply wasn't abundant so - I guess bribes are a thing there moreso than here). And lo-and-behold none of his family got sick at all, but most of their smaller town did -- including their neighbors; a few had persistent physical problems (I don't recall what now) and a few people died. That's anecdotal, but goes very well with existing evidence and provides a nice microcosm for observation.

The MMR vaccine isn't a nutrient cocktail and I find it quite hard to conjure a Occam's razor explanation that doesn't involve a known virus (or maybe I severely lack imagination or am too tainted by existing knowledge). To make the vaccines (at least ones like the MMR vaccine) they culture viruses - letting them replicate in cells - and then weakening or killing them. Do the vaccines just happen to have a weakened form of a virus that doesn't cause Measles and it's protective quality merely a startling coincidence?

I mean, the virus can be viewed under a microscope https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC375751/ - if that isn't responsible for the preventative effects of the vaccine, then what actually is?

Sometimes science gets used badly and misconceptions abound or bad routes are taken for a while until they prove untenable; sometimes prevailing wisdom lasts a thousand years and then a Copernican revolution happens. They tend to be most useful to question though when there is a better alternative explanation that better fits the observations than the current prevailing wisdom.

Anyone can "question" anything - but what is the better fitting explanation exists for observations about Measles than the prevalent wisdom and evidence that it is a virus?
I agree with you. CIA is much worse. Sinaloa's evil is regional, CIA's evil is global.
Isn't the slow storage issue only on the base (256GB) model? I don't know which model these benchmarks use, but it would be surprising — and very dishonest — if he was using an MBP with slower storage and then chose an MBA with fast storage (the base model MBA has the same issue as the MBP).
It seems like the complaints on this are mostly around the US. I’ve used Airbnb over and over again in Europe and I’ve never ever had any last minute cancellations. I always look for reviews, and preferentially superhosts tho. In a big city like London, something like 30-40% of listings are clearly scams as well.
I worked on a DARPA project a few years before this - where we were using CBE as the core for a polymorphic processor (one with an FPGA attached to every IO). We were also gutting PS3s to make mission computers for early unmanned systems - running Ubuntu on top. USAF wasn't the only one - not only were there commercial supply challenges with the PS3, various components were being horded by various nation states. We were pretty sure they didn't even no what to do with the parts, but was a basic attempt to prevent projects like this from getting off the ground.
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Both are interesting business models.
Not sure why this is downvoted.

It's 100% true that the child and working-age population shrinks long before the absolute population starts to dip, and in many ways that's more meaningful.
Vercel never stops impressing me. They're shipping huge new features consistently every 3-6 months. The quality of their product (we're a user) is generally very high. Seemingly every startup I know (other than those creating core web tech) are using Vercel. Definitely a company to admire imo.

I wouldn't be surprised if Cloudflare or someone wanted to acquire them soon if they successfully pull off cross-language support. Heroku really fumbled the ball here, despite having a multi-year headstart.
>For some reason Airbnb is very protective of their hosts

The host is Airbnb's customer, listings are non-exclusive (e.g. VRBO), and switching costs for hosts are low. The hosts bring an extraordinarily valuable asset (real estate) and without the hosts, Airbnb has no business.

You are the hosts' customer. You might argue that without the renter, there is no business, but that's true irrespective of the platform. Those hosts will list somewhere and get renters, as long as there's a market.

Presumably, bad hosts (not Airbnb) would take the hit of offering a poor experience over time, and better hosts would prevail. So, Airbnb's goal is to stay out of that fray and keep as many hosts as possible on their platform in order to capture as much revenue as possible from the good hosts, as well as any revenue available from hosts on the descent.
The red pill, of course, being estradiol and the blue pill being an antidepressant. The Matrix was a film about discovering you are not who the world told you to be by two trans women.
Ah - I thought I was being clever and avoiding feedback by turning my speaker down while I was recording, but that apparently made me miss the show. Too used to start/stop for recording, apparently.

Very cool!
Just interested, what kind of a place is 3k/week? In Europe with somewhat good planning that gives you a two-week vacation in Southern Europe for two including flights, hotel stays, all food and drinks, public transport tickets, and entrance tickets to museums etc.
> It's the "love your job and you'll never work a day in your life" theory of exercise

Nicely put.

I guess it's a trade off, you end up with an activity which is intrinsically fun to do, rather than a gruelling workout you have to motivate yourself for; On the other hand there can be added friction to getting into these activities, sometimes that's equipment (especially if you are unsure you like it yet), or being used to travelling further to get your fix (but the more you do it the easier it becomes).
Assuming you use Google Chrome, you can start it with a few flags that make it ignore all SSL errors, this will be the "easier" solution than setting up a reverse proxy.

chrome-wrapper --ignore-certificate-errors --test-type

Otherwise a reverse proxy like Apache, HAProxy, or nginx would work.

Now, instead of doing any of that, you should maybe try and figure out why you're having so many TLS issues where other people do not.
> P.S. Now that I think of it, ssh implementations have to "sync" local and remote tty parameters or at least make it look sane for the user

Hadn’t thought about this before, but I think only window size needs to be synced (maybe baud rate and parity? I really have no idea how those would work)

> if you resize your local xterm, arguably the remote e.g. vi should get notified, but what if it's the remote process that changes the terminal dimensions, should your local xterm get resized as a result?

Huh, TIL processes other than the pty master (the terminal emulator usually) can change window size. Glad I checked my sources before writing off a comment …
I could be misunderstanding but it may also produce a series that converges, but poorly. When using Taylor series to solve differential equations, there's a final step of "try and recognize the function," so that you can have sin(x) instead of a power series that will take a billion terms to reasonably compute sin(100).
You can already do that in the US too, some rural parts of the country have a significant lack of skilled tradespeople.
Huh? Halitosis can also be caused by gastric issues? Thanks for the info! I thought it was purely a dental / oral issue and have been trying to tackle it like that. Perhaps I should pay a visit to a general physician.
It indicates a change of culture that Goonswarm would care about that sort of thing enough to encourage Mittani to exit instead of (at best) just taking it as part of the old "dogs will be dogs" internet culture.

(Not a bad change; just observing the turning of the wheel).
"Less evil", maybe, but there is no form of advertising which is "good"!
I just realized that if you have js disabled Medium does the worst thing - it loads about a tweet worth of the article and all the side advertising but gives no indication that there is more article.

Text takes nearly no bandwidth - why would you ever do this.
In the original spec, the S stands for Satan. They changed it up later as they realized this would make adoption more difficult.
And the undeniable fact is that nearly everyone is doing something wrong (with highly varying degrees of wrongness, of course) every single day.
I appreciate the reply, but after thinking about it I think it's more akin to someone having been sold a house only to be told eight years later that the seller of the house knew that if someone tied a shoelace to the front door and pulled on it, then the entire house would explode.

Could we consider it a broken doorknob Pierce?
Timing! (To my credit, I had checked the upgrade kits page and they were still on "notify me" status when I posted)

Obviously I'm being a bit greedy here, but much of Framework's value proposition is built around upgradability. Servicing the crowd that actually buys into that proposition first seems like it would be more valuable from a customer loyalty standpoint, even relative to new customer acquisition. These are repeat customers clearly committed to your company's product.
Re: Symlink analysis: Well said.

> (As an aside, I've been really trying to stop using the word "just" lately as I've learned that things are rarely so simple to justify the word.)

Me too! I realized how it immediately frustrated me to hear it used about my domains. I’m constantly having to work to not seem as short/blunt/know-it-all as I feel. I think this word is a connotation trap, because when I use it feels inoffensive, but when I hear it seems blunt and dismissive and I’m quick to assume the person doesn’t understand or empathize with the complexities of the situation. That’s a long way of saying I really enjoyed your aside.
> While it's archaic now, I actually can't think of a better icon that fits all modern meanings.

I think the modern approach is to hide the entire concept altogether. At least in most SaaS services. Just save continuously.
The 13" is substantially different from the 14"/16" though. It's a carryover of the previous design (bigger bezels, no notch) and has the lower tier processor with 4+4 performance and efficiency CPU core split. The 14" and 16" have a 8+2 CPU cores instead.

EDIT: other differences include mini-LED backlight, 120 hz refresh rate, 2x the base RAM, 4x the maximum RAM, function keys (instead of touch bar), support for 3 external displays (instead of 1), HDMI, SD card slot, magsafe, and faster charging

Much more of a choice to make than "do I want a fan or not" if you include the 14" and 16". That's pretty accurate between the Air and 13" Pro though.
> Ok, but I do not see how this is relevant to this whole discussion

groups tend to gravitate towards each other or coalesce around material indicators of similar interests. for example, people who enjoy the same music from the same artist see the artists t-shirt and form a relationship with each other.

similarly, some with a penchant for speaking or writing in a particular way, maybe a way that others would describe as "haughty", "cultured" - or as some might argue, "correct" - tend to gravitate towards each other as well.

the point is sometimes shitty communication is fine because you can just keep engaging as long as you are friends - or at least respectful. trying harder is simply way too tedious for the medium of the internet.

edit: i meant << guillemets >>. mb
Maybe it's just because I bought a couple of computers back in 2020, but everything I'm seeing from Apple makes me want to wait.

Whenever they release a sub 1k laptop with 512 GB we can talk.

I've had phenomenal fun on an laptop running Fedora and Deepin.
What hotel? Whenever I've stayed in Seattle $300 a night will get you room service.
I'm looking for a place to stay for the 2024 total solar eclipse and I'm considering some places on Airbnb (a lot of hotels don't book more than 1 year out). I'm definitely worried that booking now will result in the reservation ultimately being canceled though, either because the host eventually realizes the enormity of the event and wants to jack up the price or because the host just changes their mind about owning/running a rental property sometime in the next 30+ months.

Maybe a larger cancellation fee would make it more likely for such a reservation to be honored, but this article seems to only be referring to last-minute cancellations.
> I've read so many accounts of people with Ring footage of a theft who tried to give it to the police and they refused to even look at it.

It’s even worse than that. I showed them two sets of camera footage of staff in my retail shop stealing from the cash register, and tallied it up my accounts to prove the amount…and CPS said “not enough evidence”. The camera footage was so clear you could see the 20 on the notes.
It's in the last sentence of the GP
Say we have some equipment condition estimated by time variant non-linear function like the Weibull reliability function. [1]

Say the cost of repair is based on a nonlinear relationship between between the equipment replacement cost and current condition. Something like

cost = replace_cost * [(100-current_condition)/(100 - failing_condition)]^2

After repair, the condition increases to some assumed value (say, 95). The overall facility condition is the cost-weighted average of the constituent equipment conditions at any point in time.

facility_cond = sum(equip_cond * equip_cost)/sum(equip_cost)

I want to plan repairs over some time period (say, 10 years) to optimize facility condition within some budget. Can I do this with linear programming?

I can set it up as a linear problem for a single snapshot in time, but haven't thought of a way to efficiently do it as a linear program concurrently across multiple time steps.

[1] https://weibull.com/hotwire/issue7/relbasics7.htm
>Unless you actually have a cost issue (do the math on that)

well, I'm in Denmark, we share the water costs of the house with our downstairs neighbor and it's paid once per year. This year it went up by 15000 DKK (approx. $2,000) more than other years, which I think is probably my son's fault and this past month his usage has gotten significantly worse.
Another interesting aspect of the PS3 is it was one of the first OTS device platforms that integrated hardware DRM.
> The reason AirBNB will always have garbage service is because the hosts are their moneymakers, not you.

I don't share the same opinion.

This is the fault of Airbnb, they chose to operate that way, it's not a market force.

Take Uber (not a marvellous company or service, but certainly better for consumers): drivers own cars, they choose when and how long to drive, they're the money makers.

Yet, I've never experienced bullshit service from Uber as I have with Airbnb. The same for everyone I've talked about this around me.
I look forward to $1000 cleaning fees.
Not a neurology researcher, but always seems to be people with really good pattern recognition intell. They connect dots well, blessing and curse etc.
I think this is a really interesting topic because there's a surprising amount of consideration that needs to go into something like this. Most people think "oh, a trashcan, how hard can it be to design one?".

Here's a list of the requirements of these trashcans, mostly taken from here (https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/san-francisco-trash-c...):

- Durable: they can't be easily damaged due to physical force, rain, UV exposure, or even fire (if someone throws out a lit cigarette). These cans are expected to last 15-20 years

- They also shouldn't be easy to tip over

- They must be difficult for people and animals to get into

- They must be easy for public works to empty. The inner can can't be too heavy or not robust enough to contain the trash (32 gallons)

- The opening can't be too big to prevent people dumping large items into it

- These cans will also indicate when they're full via optical sensor (https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/02/27/san-franciscos-trash-...)

- They should look somewhat appealing (they're designed in Oakland).

- They must meet certain size restrictions due to the various widths of sidewalks in SF

- It must also have a recycling container on top that meets most of the above requirements of "people can't reach inside here"

In terms of "why are they so expensive": these cans are one-off prototypes. When they're mass produced, they will only be a bit more than the existing green cans ($1,218 vs $2,000) but with the goal of being much more durable and robust. Additionally, they're much less expensive than the "Bigbelly" cans that the city supervisors wanted to use. Fun fact: the city doesn't actually own those cans and they cost $3,000 per year to lease (!!!).
That wouldn't capture the main driver of population decline for most these countries.

Seems like the primary cause in most cases is /not/ the fact that deaths are outpacing births but, instead, that emigration is outpacing immigration.

Most of these countries are low-income nations in the EU whose workforce is now leaving to flock to higher-income countries.

We're basically seeing a brain drain in EU countries that need that workforce most to drive future growth. One of the unintended consequences of EU membership.
Wow, the author really went out of their way to avoid saying why this is happening repeatedly in Rockland County.

> The Orthodox Jewish community, the largest in the country, have some of the lowest vaccination rates in the state; Monsey's is the lowest in the state, at 17.8%, as of June 15, 2021

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockland_County,_New_York#Heal...
I use at least 30 different browsers, Chrome being one of the least frequent.

This helps, however. Thank you.
> more deadly than any other gun.

Any other gun is still plenty deadly that my point stands.

But a lot of headlines talk about banning assault rifles so I used that term.

There’s a somewhat valid claim that pistols are good for self defense because they’re easy to carry. Will anyone use it for self defense? Statistically no. But the perception is there. Rifles, cosmetically altered or not do not have such a feature.
I guess the missing piece from this would be trends in immigration rates.

Otherwise countries like Canada would appear to be shrinking, when in fact they're growing overall.
I'd be curious as to whether my comment here hypothesizing an AI wizard stikes you as "just nuts", or not.
I mean you can fault them for "Max < Ultra" but once you get over that the naming is about 100000x easier than anything out of Intel/AMD/Qualcomm.

M1: (base), Pro, Max, Ultra, <maybe Mac Pro chip?>

M2: (base), Pro, <one would assume we will ge Max/Ultra as well>

Compared to the competition (or rather, other chip makers since Apple doesn't sell it's chips) this seems way easier.
The original game like this was/is the diplomacy board game. Definitely great fun if you play with people who don't take things too personal, but at the same time serious enough to really play. Also being a board game and personal interactions excludes much of the online virol.
Reaching out into the void: Startups and content creators face similar problems
Responding to your edit comment:
I've found hotels and apartment-hotels with kitchen or kitchenettes through Expedia and their subsidiaries in Germany, Poland, Mexico, and Brazil. Agoda offers similar features, but I've not tried it out yet.

They're usually well stocked with most of the things needed for a basic meal.

I use them versus AirBnB because they seem to look out for me very well. I've had minor hassle getting a refund only once in last twelve years, but they did come through for me. I also like the simple reward program. They've added some fees in the last few years, but it's still good.
Probably, what Netflix needs is to build an Electronic-sell-through/Download-to-own service. Same tech. Different licensing and win over the indie/small&medium budget filmmakers.
Almost there:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/china-population