skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel your pain my brother(?) [0] in suffering. That's why I started simple in the notebook. Even trying to go a little more complex just leads to exponential rabbit holes and footguns.

[0] based on typical HN demographics, no assumptions here
Agreed! I wanted to come across in a "yes, and" spirit. I just think "what would I have to ignore?" is interesting, too. Such as a distance that'd take weeks of travel at the speed of a jet plane -- much faster than a hurricane -- nonstop. Some such celestial current is also quite a thing to imagine.
Canberra.
No...

Its the opposite.
You’re falling victim to the so-called ‘broken windows fallacy’ here. https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/broken-window-fa...
Didn’t Vancouver do this to good effect recently? 20% tax on foreign buyers caused a 15% dip in home prices?
> central banks will have to raise interest rates
Looks like central banks are not going to raise interest rates to even match inflation.
One possible approach would be to mandate that any LLC owning property must have completely transparent financials and ownership records. Any LLC that doesn’t comply has its residential property seized and is banned from purchasing residential property. From this you could then create another rule which stated that any shareholder/owner with a stake greater than 1% of the company (or a smaller percentage for billion dollar companies) is classified as an owner of the property. The exponential land value tax is applied at the rate of the owner/shareholder with the most properties.

In addition, the exponential tax could start much higher e.g the first residency held by an LLC is charged at 8% the second at 16% etc.

Or we could just blanket ban LLCs from holding residential property. As far as I can tell, the arguments for allowing it to do so are pretty weak. If a company wants shelter for workers it can:
A) partner with a construction company to build and sell them to workers
B) put money into the local economies in which it operates by paying for hotel rooms

The crux of the matter is that until landlord is relegated to small scale side gig rather than ‘most lucrative profession’ as it currently is, this problem will continue to get more and more out of hand.

Personally, I think the way out of this is for affected countries to form single issue political parties. Agree or disagree with Brexit, no one can argue that ultimately UKIP was successful in changing the face of British politics. I think it’s about time for a United Kingdom Housing Party to do the same on the real issue underlying much of the discontent of the last few decades.
At that point, how much of the internet is that?
Because UTC already has no other purpose than to be what everybody is already using. The leap seconds in UTC benefit literally nobody. But being a standard is a purpose.

Changing to TAI means you are different from everybody else, and still have to fool with leap seconds to know what everybody else is using. Worst of all worlds.

(Except Google smearing, which is even worse than that.)
"Stainless steel is not 'rust proof' it is mostly rust retardant, it has a chromium coating that reduces oxidization but does not stop it completely."

Just to be clear ... you can indeed coat things with stainless steel.

However, most stainless steel objects (like screws or bolts or tools, etc.) are stainless throughout - you cannot abrade or scratch into a non-stainless inner core.

This is unlike, for instance, galvanized hardware which is merely steel with a coating over the top. Galvanized items can, indeed, be mechanically altered to reveal non-galvanized material underneath.

As for my grandparents question:

You can, indeed, buy stainless steel beams, rebar[1], etc. They have all the fantastic properties you imagine and are, again, not merely coated like (for instance) galvanized rebar. They are also extremely expensive.

[1] https://www.stainlesssteelrebar.org/
Personally, I don't think housing prices will collapse unless there are mass bankruptcies (like 2008/9 in the US). Inflation is going to eat some of the housing prices gains, but people will just not put their house on the market for lower prices unless they have to.

I don't think many people will sell when their real estate agent tells them that they're house is now worth 200k less than last year (or the neighbor's house that just sold), they'll just keep paying the mortgage and wait for the market to improve.
Important note: whole genome does not mean whole DNA.

Their claim to sequence 100% of the genome could not be true if it was 100% DNA, as some locations like near the centromere or the telomeres are notoriousy difficult to sequence (and just impossible with the technique of alignment that they use).

It's not that bad, you can already know a lot of interesting things with a whole genome, but it won't be enough information to e.g. synthesize a copy of your DNA or be able to repair all of your adult cell's genetic damages (supposing this kind of tech exists in some future).

There are also more and more research on how the introns (DNA not in some gene) participate in the regulation of genes and are involved in many diseases.

I'd like to see some real (and affordable) 100% DNA sequencing in a near future!

Edited: s/exon/intron/
They estimate that there is around 80,000 tons (8e7 kg) of plastic in the patch, so they will have to scale up quite a lot to make any dent in it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch#Si...
Software Visualization – Challenge, Accepted – Spotify Engineering
Nice to meet another person in the super-obvious-username club
Some say they are still stuck in VIM after dad wouldn't tell them how to exit it.
When I was in high school, I hand-assembled my 6502 code. I’d write it longhand out on graph paper, then write down addresses in the leftmost column, opcodes in the middle & finally I’d type in all the hex from the Apple Monitor. It was slow, painstaking and error-prone, but it made for clear thinking about how the program worked before I sat at the computer.
The real problem with your analogy is that the command line is more advanced than the GUI. That's why advanced users use it and beginners do not.

To borrow an expression: reading and writing is more advanced than pointing and grunting.
Of these other scandals, which other companies have their, "executives blamed the engineers"

That is what I was highlighting. Not, "mistakes were made" but, "And they were, points fingers at scapegoat"
Sorry if I was unclear. My point was that personal injury can become a burden to others too: friends, family, or community may have to support someone injured badly enough. (Which is generally fine, but if folks are knowingly undertaking activities very likely to be debilitating then others may weigh in via insurance, taxes, or even laws.)
EVs are unquestionably heavier than comparable gasoline cars. Even the Leaf is 3500-4000 lbs. Nissan sells three SUVs in the US lighter than the Leaf with the smallest battery.
Ya, the edge is key. So are hexes that have minimal possible positions.

I did my second 5 in 3:08 too. Which is weird.
What a marvelous analysis of such a classic and important film. I've seen Casablanca 10 or 12 times but I don't think I've ever paid that much attention to the background characters. Obviously, they've affected me as the scene brings tears to my eyes every time but never really stopped to wonder why. I guess it isn't too surprising since the focus is always on its main characters. I mean, who can really look into the background when you've got Bogie, Rains, Henried, and Bergman to pay attention to. This just makes me love this movie even more.
You could do them (and yourself) a favour by telling them how good the Mediterranean diet is for their health. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/04/health/mediterranean-diet...
> This forces a ton of young people to buy property who may otherwise rent.

It's not clear that tilting the rent/own preference toward ownership results in a net increase of housing prices, because for every unit of homeowner demand it adds to the market, it also removes one unit of landlord demand.
I'm waiting eagerly for the day when people in the west can grow up enough to learn from Soviet city and housing policies. Too many people just turn their minds off when they hear that godless commies did it.
Target and Walmart have lots of control over sellers (technically as a Monopsony), if the don't carry your product, it doesn't get to consumers.

Also you may be lucky to have a choice, there are plenty of places where it's just a Walmart or target.
What did they think of migratory birds which would “disappear” one season to “reappear” another season. What was the explanation, if any?
When OS/2 bundled a C/C++ compiler and a visual interface builder, I was sure there had to be a catch.
What if the people you trust heard about the book through some form of marketing themselves, found that the book was a good one, and recommended it to you?

To me that says you're still influenced by the marketing - just by second remove (or more).
Seeding the Cloud
I liked it when they took me to Nashville every year. I went exclusive.

I could have flown myself to Nashville every weekend. But they made me feel special with a plane ticket and a few bar bills.

I guess it's the difference between 'marketing' and 'sales'.
While overwhelming numbers of people want a detached house, revealed preferences in the housing market show that people are more than willing to live in a townhouse or condo at the right price. Most people are choosing between a more affordable attached unit closer to where they want to live, or a detached unit farther away.

Today's Slow Boring newsletter (https://www.slowboring.com/p/a-bold-agenda-for-dc-housing) explained the numbers pretty well:

But the factual situation is pretty clear:
(1) Dense, walkable neighborhoods feature very high home prices, indicating a large amount of unmet demand for high-density living.
(2) Surveys show clearly that a majority of Americans prefer to live in auto-oriented suburbs and do not want to live in dense, walkable neighborhoods.

The way to resolve this apparent paradox is to note:
(3) Currently only a tiny minority of Americans live in dense, walkable neighborhoods.
I adapted the line when my twins were born.
Just had to get rid of a 2011 Toyota SUV because corrosion on a hydraulic line cascaded to other problems. (Was overall in good shape but some sort of chip or other problem on the line caused issues.)
Are you trying to bolstering the parent commenter's claim or trying to refute it? Iran does produce over 90% of the world's supply of saffron and we have sanctions against them, which obviously makes it hard for them to compete on the export front.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1135621/leading-saffron-...
These are nice but:

- Templates are no substitute for intuitive and minimal code for a number of reasons. (e.g. how to extend, how to customize, confidence that it isn't brittle if I change one thing, etc etc). If a template doesn't have the exact variation you want (e.g. a faster logging library) the learning curve is very high for a newcomer .NET dev. NOTE: I think this applies to some other OO languages too.

- Suggesting popular packages and namespaces is a great tooling improvement. But it could also imply a closed wall garden. The fact that other non C#/Java like languages don't have this problem even with something as minimal as VS Code as your IDE shows that the tooling is trying to cover over a language and/or library problem. With the Java/C#/other old OO lang workflow you need the knowledge you need to use the library itself (convention based, which class, which extension method, which namespace for that object to configure this feature, startup class conventions, etc). It isn't discoverable even with the packages imported. Remember just getting Serilog working in new ASP.Core and it taking a day or so with all the packages, config, etc etc if you don't already know what you are doing.

I like the improved docs. But fundamentally simplification/minimization is better. I think the dev workflow that means I don't need these tooling improvements is still a better experience. I like .NET, but I do understand when using other languages they seem to not have these issues despite not having the uber tooling that C# has. They don't have package suggestions, they barely even have auto complete yet the library design feels a lot more intuitive.

I can look up say a Fastify, Golang, even some F# examples with something like Giraffe and get a web app quickly with little code and no convention magic with everything being explicit yet concise. No fancy attributes I need to remember, no conventions in my startup classes I need to understand if any customisation, even dep injection is something to learn from people coming from some other platforms rather than just standard library calls composed together.

I actually like the .NET platform, don't get me wrong, I do think it is one of the best web platforms right now. Its more intuitive than Spring/Java as a comparison but that isn't saying much IMO. For newcomers I think the user experience to newcomers who are used to a lot less ceremony could be improved further. My first suggestion would be less "developer headspace required" to get started. On a personal note I think natural F# code tends to favor this from the teams I've been in but can't put my exact finger on a reason as to why - it feels more like coding Go/JS to me at least than C#.
Keep in mind that ADHD is most likely a combination of a number of different factors that'll lead to a diagnosis. Many people exhibit one to even a couple of the factors, but that doesn't necessarily mean they have ADHD.

But if you look up some of the checklists or videos for "do I have ADHD" and seem to fit the bill of quite a few of the factors, it's worth talking to a therapist or psychiatrist who specializes in diagnosing it. There are many people who slip through the cracks in childhood, a lot of times because schools and docs are looking for the Hyperactive side, but many times the Inattentive side gets dismissed by a number of different excuses.

And as others mentioned, if you are diagnosed with it, that doesn't necessarily mean drugs or even therapy, but it can mean a better understanding of things you might struggle with and the reasons for that, which can better prepare you for coming up with healthy strategies rather than negative/unhealthy ones.
In UK, can you please tell me how at 200K pounds, the taxes can come down only to 35-40% especially at 125K or above, the 60% tax trap kicks in. [1] If you can specify any tax saving tips or refer to some consultant, I will be grateful.

Really the only way in UK is to put in a large part of your earnings into pension contributions which effectively makes it out of bounds till 55 or 57 from 2028 onwards, which means even if you have FU money you can't use it. Again if you have large RSU payouts due to working at a FAANG, it can be difficult as you start hitting lifetime allowance of your pension contributions.

[1] https://www.nutmeg.com/nuggets/escape-the-60-tax-trap

edit: specifying that the above comment is for UK
Imagine the increase in existential crises the past 2 weeks.
People do wonder whether low-density, un-walkable, cites are _bad_ for human health, and studies show that they typically are bad health. I recall some studies on urban form and it's relationship to life expectancy, crime, happiness at certain socioeconomic statuses. Poor people in much of Montreal are able to live in walkable cities with low housing cost and decent transit, and it turns out they live longer, are more economically mobile, and are happier than equivalent SES populations in large cities with car-centric design.
Do you think China and Russia will go along with that?
I may have misworded it (if I wrote those words - PDF rots the brain and my memory likewise).

Agreed on the rest. PDFs don't store machine-readable data. Often just pixelated scanned hot garbage dumpster fire text.

I hate PDFs but have to work with the satanforesaken things. Hence the notebook. It's my little way of trying to give my little PDF-bespoked-hellscape a tiny little glow-up.
That's only true if you don't count skilled labor as a "resource". Repairing badly corroded vehicles isn't economically viable because it takes so much work to cut and weld the corroded body and frame parts. So that kind of repair is only done for collector items. Regular cars just get junked and replaced.
> we turned housing into a retirement scheme

It wasn't turned into a scheme by anyone, it's the nature of land. See Ricardo's Law of Rent; owners of land are able to extract rent from the tenants, and in desirable locations they can extract larger amounts of rent. If you want to make money without doing any work, buy land in desirable, growing locations and rent it out.

The solution is a land value tax, accompanied with a citizen's dividend or a reduction in other taxes such as income taxes.
Data Stories. & Health Data Portal
None of those interest me, and so I don't subscribe. None of the things I subscribe to I consider terrible. I can't imagine why you'd choose to subscribe to something that is objectively terrible for you, or, even worse, renew such a subscription.
Telling people to define clear goals doesn't help them define clear goals, unfortunately. It usually requires a lot of coaching before developers are self-aware enough to even understand what a clear goal looks like.
Two reasons why this hypothesis may not be true:

1) Universal failure of plaque-reduction drug trials.

2) Numerous post-mortem counter-examples: dementia w/o plaques and plaques without dementia.
I had an officemate who had a trivia question that no one could answer:

Q: What country has the highest lowest point?

Naturally, you'd think Nepal or Tibet, but it's Lesotho.
Totally get the bigger point, but I have to say the latest VS Mac is actually shaping up quite well and I like it.

Though of course in retrospect it does depend upon which workloads you're working on - and I mostly do command line tooling, web apps, and APIs, none of which require a design surface so maybe that's why my opinion differs as I've no informed idea how good/bad the layout aspect is.
Transit in modern cities like Paris, Tokyo, or Moscow is very rapid and frequent. Don’t be deceived by old fashioned places like SF.

A lot of people can’t bike (I am forbidden from biking for another six months, for instance, due to an injury). Plus biking in SF isn’t the same as biking in Manhattan.
Honestly, I think $7,000 delivered for this is a pretty good price. It would make a nice farm vehicle, especially with that dump bed. It's in the same price range as a lower end UTV and looks like it would be far more comfortable doing, e.g., snow clearing duty. Swap in a set of BFG Mud Terrain tires and you're all set.

Some feedback on reliability, the rust issues, etc. would be nice but I'd seriously think about getting one. As for it not being street legal, well I live out in the country. Golf carts, UTV's, ATV's, minibikes, on the roads around here are not at all unusual. Not legal, but I only know of one case of someone getting ticketed.
You'd have to ask Broadsign for an official answer.

Educated guess: WPE WebKit only supports Linux [1] and Broadsign supports more than Linux [2].

[1] https://wpewebkit.org/about/faq.html#is-wpe-ported-to-non-li...

[2] https://docs.broadsign.com/broadsign-control/latest/broadsig...
Gajim 1.4.7 has been released – Jabber/XMPP client
Islamic time is, technically, but does not distinguish seconds. So, the only place where it could matter, it doesn't.
I assume this is yet another sequencing company outsourcing the actual sequencing?

>> Do you sell or share my data with anyone?

> No, we do not sell or share your data, including your DNA data, with anyone.

However, in their privacy policy:

> Your Personal Information may be shared in the following ways:

> With our service providers, allowing them to provide their services to us.

edit:

More clearly stated here:

https://sequencing.com/ordering-dna-test-kit-and-genome-sequ...

> When you purchase the Ultimate DNA Test or Ultimate Genome Sequencing test, your test will be processed by our Laboratory Partners. We will provide our Laboratory Partner with only your basic contact information so that it can send you a DNA collection kit; we will not share your billing information with our Laboratory Partner but will pass on your payments to them.
They also don't like longer commutes or more expensive housing either. My end goal is a private island and helicopter that take me to and from, but I'm using living on the mainland as a stopgap. But I'm also realistic about what I'm likely to achieve and I make tradeoffs, just as many people do when they buy condos.
I'd probably argue that the word disorder applies regardless of whether it causes problems, because ADHD is (as far as we know with current knowledge) pointing toward an actual issue in brain chemistry (compared to non-ADHD), and it's ok to acknowledge that.

That isn't to say people have to use meds/etc. to cope though, I totally agree with the rest of your statement. I just don't think we should imply that the word disorder must be a negative thing. I look at it as purely descriptive.
The median of a list of averages is not the median of the population.
Heh, I'd be fine with that. Usually it's "XY plummets because of ... (XY: -1%)". From my non-statistically informed observations, 1% is basically the noise floor, so saying "because" is misleading at best. At least 5% is pretty rare.
Psi+ 1.5.1634 has been released – XMPP Client – OMEMO E2EE – Windows builds link
Kind of an aside, but any one have a clue why those Haskell benchmarks are so slow? In my experience Haskell is relatively fast, so there must be some caveat that these test cases are hitting.
We can split hairs about what is true communism, but between the cult of personality, the economic system, its art and media, and the more ephemeral peculiarities of its public culture, it looks an awful lot like stepping into a time machine that takes you back to Stalinist-era USSR. There's really no place on Earth quite like it.
In reasonably governed world this seems sensible. As it stands we have handfuls of congress in the US regularly beating all the hedge fund managers with their investments. Not exactly a governing body that's overly concerned with creating trust and protecting it's people. This doesn't even touch on the countries that produce the vast majority of CO2 and don't seem to share as much popular sentiment as the west for reducing their emissions.
Solved my first 5x5 in 1:54. At first I thought it would be really difficult but then I found a hex which could only go one way (a corner hex with V shape) and then from there the adjacent pipes could only orient one way. There were a few times where I had to think down a tree of possibilities (if this hex goes like this, then this hex can't possibly fit here because of a previously solved hex, therefore it must go like this instead), but never more than one or two steps. All in all it's a very satisfying puzzle format.
Button debouncing is useful for all sorts of stuff like this, but it requires much trickier code to get right, including tracking some form of history.
I don't have any insight into how effective Unlicense is, but to give an idea of how complicated this is: just as many jurisdictions don't let you place things into a Public Domain, or even have the legal concept of one, some (I think France?) also don't let you just waive your authorial rights. I think a full copyright license is okay, though.