skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now every city has an arrangement of public outhouses, with maintenance staff that cycles between the locations cleaning things?

Yes because the alternative is human shit on the streets. I'd rather my tax dollars pay for public toilets because at least I can use those toilets too when I need them.

More generally, I often see this imagination that unemployed, unhoused, unfed people will just go crawl in a culvert and quietly die. They won't. They will find resources one way or another. A living human requires "x" amount of resources to live and them being alive is evidence they're getting it from somewhere. If they're not getting those resources from gainful employment or public/private charity, they're getting them from crime. It doesn't matter if you lock them up in prison, kick them out of the cities, tear down their shanty towns. They will continue taking a certain amount of resources from our overall economy (one way or another) in order to stay alive.

Our economy is paying for all these unemployed people anyways -- we don't need to force them to get really good at various types of "crime", we can just accept the cost and use taxes to allocate the necessary resources.

Or you know, we could just murder them all. But again -- people don't just quietly stand in line to be killed. The harder you make their life, the harder they fight to live, and you really won't like the reactions to ("natural consequences of") a policy to "fuck the indigents as hard as possible".

FFS I'm in the top 10% of monthly income in the USA and even I was homeless for 2 weeks just last month after a sudden divorce and often had to find a restroom or piss on the street. I also had COVID while living in my car which made me have a very sudden urge to piss every 2 hours.
You are right there are ways to disable it easiest being a seatbelt delete that clips into the buckle and disabled the annoying beep and you can clip into that should you choose. Who would choose to not wear a seatbelt is strange to me but I also rode a motorcycle so we are dead meat anyways if something goes wrong.
I fail to see why buying Netflix would help Microsoft? Microsoft is currently in the process of spending billions to acquire Activision. Unless there is a streaming patent MS wants for game pass cloud, it doesn’t seem like it fits into what MS is doing right now.

Sure it would get them a spot in the streaming platforms, but I’m sure MS is already making money with azure hosting those platforms.
0.07% of reported COVID-19 fatalities. There are a lot of incentives to keep the numbers down going up the chain in the Chinese bureaucracy. This is the opposite of most western countries, where the incentives are to over-report.
> I think you're attributing malice to what was more than likely routine mismanagement.

I wouldn't call it mismanagement. Many agencies thrive despite regularly delivering these types of experiences. It's a conscious choice they can easily rationalize because of the money.

This agency turned a one off $7k job into $46k by smooth talking and scope creeping an actual developer. I'm sure they're absolutely killing it doing the same to non-technical folks.
I love the airplane/shell prompt thing in the new logo, though. Having never seen TinyPilot before this, I had no attachment to the chipmunk, and I agree that the change moved from hobbyist to business vibes.
My Instagram ad conversations say otherwise.
Haha, I put this on my profile, too!
good thing no one makes minimum wage anymore. McDonalds around here is starting at $17/hr in my $7.25 minimum state. Not even a hcol area.
Refusal to drink and drive is not an illusion. I've been refusing to do that successfully my entire life.
Doesn't look like Reed Hastings is still on the Microsoft board but he probably has the connections to make this happen.

I'm surprised the article didn't bring this up.
> 1. "Wow, have you read all these books?" means "I never read books."

How did you come to this generalisation?

I read a lot and have asked that exact question to friends who have a very large library

I also have several books in my library that I haven't gotten to reading or only briefly skimmed through parts of, so if someone asked me that question about library (which is only a few shelves, as the bulk of my books are on my kindle), my answer would be no
Wow Maitham, this looks amazing!
We're building a similar product but it's specific to CPAP and sleep apena over at https://sleephq.com
We're currently integrating with a few different CPAP manufacturers but we want to add other devices and wearables in the future and this looks like a great solution.
And this is why I'm increasingly suspicious of "consensus" in the scientific establishment. With careers, egos, reputations, and grant money at stake, it's tempting to use one's power to entrench this consensus.

Scientific consensus has value, but science also requires that people be open to having their pet theories be validated through replication.
You don’t mention where you want to immigrate to, or where you might immigrate from. Immigration rules vary a lot depending on those things. Also on how much money you have. The “as a founder” part makes little difference. Countries generally put their immigration rules, visas available, and the requirements for obtaining those visas online, so you should start there.
“Left-leaning” and “right-leaning” are somewhat objective. Add the word very to either, and suddenly we are much more in subjective eye-of-the-beholder territory. What’s “centrism” or “moderation” or “milquetoast” to one person will be seen as “radicalism”, even “extremism”, by another.
Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
I'm very interested in what types of interesting data structures are out there HN. Totally your preference.

I'll start: bloom filters. Lets you test if a value is definitely NOT in a list of pre-stored values (or POSSIBLY in a list - with adjustable probability that influences storage of the values.)

Good use-case: routing. Say you have a list of 1 million IPs that are black listed. A trivial algorithm would be to compare every element of the set with a given IP. The time complexity grows with the number of elements. Not so with a bloom filter! A bloom filter is one of the few data structures whose time complexity does not grow with the number of elements due to the 'keys' not needing to be stored ('search' and 'insert' is based on the number of hash functions.)

Bonus section: Golomb Coded Sets are similar to bloom filters but the storage space is much smaller. Worse performance though.
I think it’s both.

Honestly it’s like a lot of problems where it’s easier to solve when it’s one big thing as opposed to 1000 little things. Imagine cutting one big expense out of your budget versus having to cut 1% out of 500 things. One of those is vastly easier.
I think so - Breaking bad becomes a Jack Ryan type thriller - "this semi-ordinary dude can do crazy things almost like a semi-superhero". Better Call Saul is a character study, Breaking Bad is an anti-hero action show.
No you don’t. Over 50% of crashes are single car accidents. I suspect, but don’t have proof for, that that percentage is even higher in alcohol-related crashes (eg driver nods off and drives into a ditch/telephone pole
Wrong. Most of the non-pharmaceutical interventions were pointless pandemic theater. You can find examples of other countries that took less extreme measures and still had lower death rates.
You're not an idiot, you're just comparing rates in two completely different industries for some reason.
Or everyone’s overconfidence and underestimation means there’s no appetite for people to accept regulation and change. because I’m not the problem and I’m in control, I shouldn’t expect change. Meanwhile when you fly, you know you’re at the hands of someone else, and you want to control them as much as possible.
I'm curious on people's thoughts on the demand for them as well.

From my perspective in doing infra / devops stuff, they exist to make developers lives easier and faster (CI testing and continuous deployment), or in the case of monitoring / platform engineering, looking to "enhance" their capabilities. Meanwhile the people who do both feature development and the bugfixes are product developers ... So in my eyes it seems like the "auxiliary pieces" like devops people wouldn't be seen as core or necessary to the business in the eyes of managers looking to lay people off

Older companies with poor engineering practices don't have devops people at all, often times they don't even unit test actually, maybe it would be a riskier position to be in charge of those pipelines

Perhaps the data point of Meta still hiring SREs is just one data point as well (they could just be in more need of SRE people), although it is so hard to find more market wide data
Baumol's cost disease

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease

TV and automobile manufacturing are a lot more productive than they were 50 years ago. A teacher can still only teach one classroom at a time.

Therefore, service industries like healthcare, education, and even construction get less and less efficient relative to manufacturing and production industries, which enjoy massive increase in efficiency year after year. This is partly why an 80 inch 4K TV is eventually going to cost $500 and a 4 year college education is going to cost $500,000.
We need a glassdoor-ish site for these kind of underhand dealings and fraud.

Also, make a paper/proof trail and get it to court/media/government.
Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor:

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/why-taxpayers-pay-mckinse...
Well, yes - most people buy products based on price, and from the thread it's obvious that additional display controllers would could far more would be reasonable given the overwhelming majority of laptop users don't connect 1 external display to their laptop, let alone two.

What you're saying is not dissimilar to saying the reason that some machines have a single small budget low speed intel cpu & iGPU yet others have 4 Xeons and dual full-size discrete GPUs is market segmentation. It's technically accurate, but implies a malevolent removal of features to create a product.
To "counteract a true force of destruction"

You mean the other group of freeloaders on some other part of the marble flying through the black night?
I 100% agree that academia is flawed. But I think the reason we're not making grand fundamental discoveries is that the "low-hanging fruit" was already done.

We definitely haven't discovered everything, and we're actually making way more discoveries much faster than people back then. But the things which are easy or even "not super hard" to discover have already been discovered. Most of the discoveries require background knowledge or are more "niche" things, because discoveries which are really big and affect everyone are easy to find and going to have everyone searching for them.

In fact we could maybe discover a new continent. But it would have to be tiny or underwater or camouflaged or otherwise have some reason that despite having a map of the whole Earth and satellites everywhere, we haven't discovered it yet. When Columbus "discovered" America there weren't nearly as many ships floating around as there are boats/planes/satellites today.
Which bulk of the aggregate number? The number 1 cause of gun deaths in the US is suicides.
Yeah, what if everyone did this? What if everyone had a private jet?
Can you elaborate a bit more what you can do with shapes that's not easily replicated in other languages?
The nice thing is that it is open source, I could just disable radios all together and save batt: https://gitlab.com/_Pegor/kepler_fw/-/blob/master/Firmware/f...
Yeah, the entire travel story of the summer is that every airport is kind of screwed, it's not remotely limited to Heathrow. According to this source, Heathrow actually outperformed every other London airport except Stansted in terms of percentage of flights successfully departing in June.

https://thepointsguy.co.uk/news/worse-uk-airports-cancellati...

And of course Manchester had some well publicized issues, and outside of the UK AMS and CDG had massive problems as well. I mean, KLM flat out stopped flying ticketed passengers into AMS for a day to try to recover.

"At the end of Saturday afternoon, 4 June, KLM was regrettably compelled to decide that passengers at European destinations would no longer be allowed to board flights to Amsterdam."

https://simpleflying.com/klm-suspends-all-flights-from-europ...
Depression is ‘not caused by chemical imbalance’
I am tired of all these conglomerates with overlapping platforms. Seems like every big tech company offers most of {cloud storage, cloud computing, video streaming, music, payments, office software, blah blah}.

IN the old days each mega country had {car mfg, oil refining, shipbuilding, blah blah}. Now the countries totter and the megacorps compete on multiple fronts.
Is there no mandatory insurance to cover damages to others in the US?

In my country if I want to drive a car it has to have this insurance so if I crash into someone all of the damage I do to them is covered.
This is "bounded rationality" [1], where people make the best decisions possible given computational constraints on how they make decisions. A lot of interesting work tries to derive human cognitive biases from this idea.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounded_rationality
Thank you for making a stand on this. My doctor has a "No Free Lunch" sign in his office saying he won't talk to pharmaceutical reps. Maybe the research side needs a similar pledge to avoid being corrupted by funding. I don't know what it would be though.
A problem with your insurance incentive is that it only works for people who have insurance. It does nothing to deter uninsured drivers.

The risk of dying in a car accident isn’t enough to stop some people from driving recklessly. Why would a penalty that only applies to the rare occasion when someone causes harm be any better of an incentive for people who seem to already assume they’re not going to cause harm by their behavior?
Compare who has it, to who doesn't have it.

My un-scientific version of this is that if you have a large bowl of ice cream for desert every night for 55 years, you may develop Alzheimer's Disease.
Actually, “dx” is rigorously defined in the standard calculus, too, and yes, you can multiply (and divide) by it.
When I search for “sqlite sucks at” it gives some claims opposite to what commenters here say, mostly from 2000-2010. For which use cases is it not strong enough? In practice, not in theory or based on initial fopen() purpose.
Most of the other car manufacturers make a majority of their money on financing services rather than making and selling cars. How is Tesla parking money in Bitcoin much different when most of them are essentially atttempting to make money outside their specialty?
Similarly, probably the most dangerous thing most people do in their lives is eat (or overeat). It is far more dangerous than smoking or driving or flying.

However, overeating (and the consequences) are extremely common and utterly unshocking.

People engage in the risky behavior 3 or more times a day, and have normalized the deaths they see resulting from it.
Maybe, but it should be disclosed, at least, and students reminded to only use these accounts for school-related stuff, then. And even then, I'm not sure that there should be no privacy in school accounts - what if you want to complain about a teacher? What if that teacher happens to be an admin and retaliates? Sure, there may be cases where having some oversight is good, but it's not necessarily clear-cut.
I passed a Nearform interview years back when they didn't have employees, just contractors.

They said "Good, you passed the assignment, we'll call you when we have clients for your range". I kept my old job and I'm still waiting for a client from them.
> It makes sense because, for most of America, we have designed our environment to be heavily dependent on the possibilities cars open up for us.

I disagree on "possibilities cars open up".

If it is optional to use a car basically everywhere, then sure, those are freedom. In the majority of the US you are locked to HAVING to have a car.
W-202 here. Can’t live without the countdown timer :)
>Of course when an AI does that, we then say its just doing statistics, not reasoning.

no, AI simply doesn't do that. Even Demis Hassabis of Deepmind fame in a recent interview pointed this out. Machine learning is great on averaging out a large amount of data, which is often useful, but it doesn't generate true novelty in any human sense. AI can play Go, it can't invent Go.

In the same way today's recommender systems are great at averaging out my last 50 shopping items or spotify playlist but they can't take a real guess at what truly new thing I'd like based on a genuine understanding of say, my personality. Which is reflected in the quality of recommendations which is mostly "the thing you just bought/watched", which is ironically often incredibly uninteresting.
Cashflow is king.
Ask HN: What's your climate change survival strategy?
Are you moving away from the equator? Or to a higher altitude? Maybe closer to water. Are you building a house a certain way, perhaps underground? Moving into a big city? Are you selling property in a certain region?
There is no value in the Chinese approach. Protecting people from infectious disease can't possibly justify violating fundamental human rights, such as the right to free assembly?
> GP mentioned C++ being replaced by Rust

Then your beef is with the GP?

I'm also pretty certain we shouldn't be that pedantic about the word "replacement". Perhaps it's fine for a thing to be a "replacement for the GP" (which I think he/she is pretty clear about) or a "replacement for many uses" or for "all new uses", without being a "complete replacement"?

What's getting so weird about about the tenor of the current anti-Rust backlash is that 1) when the discussion turns to safety, it's "Hey, dude, don't harsh my buzz", but 2) when the discussion turns on the what the person meant, the Rust community's well-founded enthusiasm is interpreted in the harshest, most uncharitable, light.
Hey, I gotta idea. The ocean covers up stuff we want to see. So, let's just boil off the ocean.

Why, oh why, doesn't high-end project management training include case studies of mission-critical systems in large long-lived organizations? Large === hundreds of thousands of people affected. Long-lived === centuries. I'm thinking of, for example, the signaling systems in the New York City subways. You get the idea.

You can't just delete and replace a big system like that like you can a malfunctioning virtual machine at a cloud provider. You have to work with what you have. And, a decade out, you'll still have to work with what you had back then, just less of it.

Any gang of $200/hr fresh-out-of-school devs can do a greenfield system. But maintenance is hard. Upgrading existing business processes without disrupting the business is hard.

In health care, EPIC seems be able (mostly) to do that. Peoplesoft. We don't hear from the govt much, but Social Security seems to be doing it.

What track record of successful business process upgrades do the big-four contractors have? That would be the question to ask.
Sometimes, I've worked at consulting shops that actually delivered quality though they were large-ish but not Accenture/IBM sized
Biological systems being complicated and unintuitive is an excellent explanation for slow or no progress. It's entirely orthogonal to the question of why published results are not reproducible, misleading, or wrong. If some problem is super hard that explains why I can't answer it, it doesn't explain why I continually publish fake answers.

My understanding of the situation is that academics and scientists work in a weird bureaucracy, there is an incentive to publish, academics are very bad at detecting fraud and worse at punishing it and statistical manipulation is easy and endemic. These things explain why there's so much academic research that can't be reproduced and why some academic fields are basically the modern equivalent of astrology.
I wonder what kind of insurance one needs to have in order to cover for that kind of event: 5 towns evacuated, 35000 acres burned.

Considering that the company forested 20000 acres within a year, their carbon footprint appears to be negative.
> I mean basically that is what ML is, trying to predict the future

If being so reductive, that's also the scientific method. Form a model on some existing data, with the goal of it being predictive on new unseen data. Key is in favoring the more predictive models.

> they called it magic, we call it math, but both seem to have about the same outcome

Find me some sheep entrails that can do this: https://imagen.research.google/
Unicamp official note rejects Brazilian President’s statements – Unicamp
If you deliver shit then they keep coming back to you to fix it. Pretty sure there are major consulting firms playing that game.
How? The 26.8% is just drivers with alcohol in their system. If I never drink and drive, I will never be part of that group. That means the raw rate of traffic fatality or severe injury is 26.8% lower for people like me (non drunk drivers.)
I was so hyped up to buy this as my next laptop, but then I saw the HP Dev one and it's a really tough choice. The HP wins basically every metric except for repairability (and display aspect ratio, but the trackpoint makes up for it)...although the HP does have upgradeable RAM and SSD, so it's not as bad as a Macbook. Also, apparently, Linux support is way better on the HP then the framework.

There are also some other interesting laptops, like the Slimbook Executive (amazing screen), Starlabs Starbook, the System 76 lineup, and probably more I'm missing.

I could also wait a (long?) while and Asahi Linux might reach a point where I would actually consider buying a M1/M2 macbook.

...not sure what I'm buying next, but I do know that this is a really good time to be in the market for a Linux laptop :D
there's billion dollar telephone scam industry. How many of these criminals were ever prosecuted or get extradited to US?
If big servers were the only ones paying for bandwidth this argument would make sense, but the way the internet works right now is everyone is paying for all the bandwidth they use so there's not a priori a reason to assume the bandwidth is entirely unpaid for.

As torrents demonstrate it's not necessarily bandwidth that's a problem, it's mostly durability and discoverability.
We just need to cement the notion that no theory is truly proven or beyond attempts to disprove it through replication. Attempts to discourage replication should be a red flag.
S3 itself allows for client-side encryption. Get a bucket with no public access and use your favorite encrypted messenger service or email to send a pre-signed url and decryption key to 2-10 of your friends.
It's just as hard to undo something as it is to do something. A proclamation by a president is a very low bar.

A better method would be by law. That would require a future president, house, and Senate to agree.
I've never really seen muting these to have an effect, personally
The title reminded me at once of the Popular Mechanics column 'Things Come Apart'. This is in fact the same photographer! Something about how my mind made the connection gives a strong feeling of synchronicity.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/things-come-apart/