skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You'd get conquered and your conqueror would have more money to spend on their military? [...] So the fantasy is really one about a science-enthusiast world-dictator securely protected by his secret police.

I think that's a failure of imagination, and that vision isn't one that history necessarily supports. Humans used to exist in small roving bands. Now we are organized into nation-states. I don't see a truly compelling reason why that trend towards greater organization can't continue. I am also certainly capable of imagining a world government that is responsive to the needs of people, maintains global peace and security, and focuses the vast majority of its budget towards constructive, not destructive, ends.

I recognize that this doesn't look likely in the immediate future, but:

- An alternative consisting of warring nations equipped with civilization-ending weapons is surely not the only path forward (it better not be, if we hope to stick around).

- We are increasingly faced with existential problems that require a globally coordinated response.

- Change often happens a lot faster than we think possible. The order of things is set in stone until suddenly it's washed away and everything is different.
I don't buy that Americans on average actually want to live in the "missing middle". They want a small detached house. Lower income folks were able to afford small detached houses for nearly half of the 20th century. The recent push for "missing middle" housing is a coping mechanism for the fact that most of our population just can't live as well as it did only a generation ago.

The solution is to spread out from concentrated megacities. Overcrowding happens in cycles historically, and every time it happens it's bad for human health and the health of human society.

Everyone wants the space of a single family home and the slew of "modern amenities" a city offers, while lamenting they can't afford it. Our parents and their parents lived in far out areas that were cheap / semirural at time of purchase and matured to very nice places to live over decades of hard work put in by the local community. Of course those well-built-up areas are expensive, and of course the people that created those communities don't want to see them completely changed by density. We just need to build more opportunities like these, and people need to be willing to sacrifice on location at the start to see the area build up around them over time.
I often hear this, but that can't possibly be the explanation, as it was true both before and after Japan had a colossal real estate bubble and crash:

https://gestaltu.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/120927-Japan...

Buildings always depreciate, and North America has its fair share of homes not intended to last generations. In Vancouver it's become common for wealthy homebuyers to knock down houses that are less than 20 years old to put up something fresh, but that didn't stop property values from appreciating.

And in China it's perhaps even more the case that homes aren't built to last, and they even have an oversupply issue if anything, as well as a much more advanced population decline than Japan did circa 1990. And yet real estate in China has still attracted so much investment speculation that it's even less affordable, and my guess is it's following the same trajectory that Japan did. Property speculation is a powerful force.

I think a much better explanation is that the Japanese RE bubble taught Japanese speculators a lasting lesson, and the subsequent demographic decline, universal zoning, and widespread availability of mass transit kept it cheap.
Ah, yes, that would likely not fit.
Yes, that's exactly what I said. dict.update is in C, because it's a core feature of the python vm. It's pure CPython. What do you think "pure python" is? There's no python hardware ISA (afaik). All cpython is manipulating data structures in C via Python VM opcodes. It just so happens that whatever opcodes that are dispatched in the course of solving this problem are quite efficient.

If you say "it does not count as Real Python if you dispatch to C", then you literally cannot execute any CPython vm opcodes, because it's all dispatching to C under the hood.
Can state level actors do market manipulation of countries to destabilize them?

I mean, look at all the private equity buying up properties in the US, causing our shortages, who is funding that? Is that an actual threat to security?

It used to be we were paranoid about foreign ownership of production, well we don't make anything anymore, so this is another means.
Server. From an ergonomic standpoint, the development is basically identical to WASM ASFAICT. This is all internal though, so ymmv if you're developing stuff for the open Internet. I guess it depends heavily on how married your org is or isn't to c#, which we very much are. I vastly prefer this to serving up a separate UI for what we do.
You're right. We should make sure everyone lives in a utopia without suffering before we try to make any progress as a race together.
Exponential fees on LLC creation.
This is literally what the TIA standard is. Anything that needs precise time already uses this standard.
They do some organizing of information via their apps, which has a tangible user experience (plus the apps themselves are definitely a thing they built). Building a good marketplace is also no small feat.

In concept, they are all useful abstractions over the worst case scenario: individuals only finding and talking with other individuals to get goods or services. In practice, there are definitely abuses which come down to ineffective regulation.
Druglike: Applications of Proof-of-Optimization in Democratized Drug Discovery [pdf]
Given how some think the lessening of US Navy projection of power and securing shipping lanes around the world is what's leading to global instability, and global stability has been very good for US economics the last 50+ years, a case can probably be made that at least some of that military spending in the past was extremely effective and useful.

The theory is new to me, so I don't know enough about it to know how much I buy into it, but it's an interesting one.
I'd wait for spectroscopic confirmation before declaring this the most distant discovered galaxy.

Last I read about this (6 days ago), this was just a galaxy candidate, based on photometric measurements (not a spectrum).[0] It still could be some different type of object. The spectrum will give much more information.

It's exciting of this discovery pans out, and it's exactly the sort of thing JWST is supposed to find, but it's still too early to say that this object has been definitely determined to be a distant galaxy.

0. https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.09434
God forbid somebody suggest a solution to a problem.
Start a family
That can be a really tricky problem.

This is just my theory, but I'll share it in case it can be helpful.

One of the patterns that starts to emerge in intermediate work, generally speaking, is personalization. The instructor starts paying a bit more attention to you and how you're coming along, and less to teaching everyone the fundamentals, for example.

Accordingly, some of the biggest problems in providing intermediate-level objective instruction come when the instruction is not subjective enough, and tends to seem either too basic or too advanced to the student. I had this problem when I was teaching college classes, and it could be a really frustrating one.

As a personal example of how I work around this: When I study math at an intermediate level, I have to start by sorting by topics and practices that work best for me, topics where I'd probably be a little ahead of the curve in a typical intermediate class.

I also have to sort by methods and practices that work best for me: I have a ranked list of activities that seem to lead me further, faster, as I study math.

I also believe there's an equivalent to the tutorial-search, at this level: Asking a specific question and following up with more questions. Essentially this helps you write your own tutorial, which is also a skill that forms up more tightly in advanced work.

Going into a little more detail, I suck at highly theoretical math and can't read so many general-math Wikipedia formulas even. But I know how to trade and find it interesting. So I study technical indicators and write my own software to apply them. When I run into a problem, I reach out to experts or advanced practitioners and ask specific questions. Then I learn new things as I read answers and follow up with questions.

If I'm writing code to apply the math, I tend to wrap this up by at least writing the new pseudocode that is forming in my head.

To me, this is intermediate in lots of little ways, and I can tell by reflecting on my own teaching experiences.

Eventually I'll start to give back--for example let's say I start to publish my own technical indicators that I find interesting, maybe even with code examples. That's getting into advanced work.

This is just one general model but I hope it can be helpful to you. Good luck.
Ask HN: Open-source SBOM generation tools?
One of the compliance requirements of the recent Cybersecurity EO order is to track software bill of materials (SBOM). Curious to know what open-source tools exist to generate SBOM and how accurate they are.
In the US there are numerous incentives for buying a home. Your interest on your mortgage is tax free, the government offers cash back, etc. Renting gives most of these incentives to the landlord instead and they aren’t necessarily passed onto the renter. Most importantly, this means that if you have cash to invest, real estate has favorable tax treatment compared to other options so you suddenly have turned housing into a market that must rise decade over decade or the economy will collapse.

The way to fix this is painful but it is to revoke all incentives and to make people put down 25-50% as down payments. It will cool the market to near absolute zero short term but it will help long term in keeping housing to actually be housing.
How do you think your trusted colleagues originally found out about the stuff they recommend you? Even if they searched for it, SEO is marketing too (no doubt the search engine listing would be a marketing optimized webpage).

I'm pretty sure I found out about FreeTaxUSA through ads. The HN submissions for Notion seemed promotional to me and it's how I found out about it, I'd also struggle to think of how Notion would have been discovered if a marketing or sales team did not make efforts to spread mentions of it. GitLab markets pretty aggressively on HN (or at least they used to) which is how I found out about it too.
I can't tell if you live in Germany and are visiting India, or if you're in Delaware and visiting Indiana. Or some combination of these...
I think our best reaction to that is ... hmmmm.

But yes I think this is more a "hey there is so much insecure tech out there - here is another example" as opposed to "we are all dead and our bank accounts emptied"
> ADHD makes you incapable of settling into easy

> You have work to do but it's easy. You have a side project but you've figured out the hard parts and so it's just the implementation grind, which is easy.

Oh no. That describes me to a T.

Is there a differential diagnosis for this kind of behavior?
> could lead to disastrous results

You mean some influencer's timeline could get messed up? The horror!
I agree, decentralization of food production is critical to sustainable and reliable food production. Some places even have community compost centers where people bring their scraps and can get compost for their gardens.

A shift in growing crops more adapted to the local climate reality is also an important shift. A lot of places grow staple crops brought by colonizers centuries ago, which are ill suited to the local soil and require additional resources to grow, whereas less known types of grain and fruit/veg could be grown to produce higher yields with less effort and be more hardy in the area's temp/precipitation/soil.

Initial costs of setting up local food growth might seem exorbitant, but would bring a lot of long-term cost reduction for people.

Added bonus to this is reducing pollution caused by worldwide shipments of produce, and improving food taste as things grown nearby don't need to be harvested early and ripened in route, refrigerated, treated for pests.

Another thing that would be beneficial, and this is the idealist in me speaking, is giving people the empowerment to control their own food supply, boosting communities, giving people the means to have more autonomy over their basic needs so they're not reliant on a global market currently dealing with a variety of issues, mitigating the risk that food imported will be scarce or too expensive for families to feed their members.
What a beautifully concise definition.
That seems a big post hoc ergo propter hoc to me. I'm glad that you found something you're happy with. But in a world without advertising, you can still find things you need, even novel ones.

For example, I got a Garmin sports watch recently, and one of the reviews I found was from DC Rainmaker, who is exactly the sort of detail-oriented obsessive I love reading reviews from. That got me to read some of his other reviews and I discovered that there's now a whole category of bike radar units that let you know when somebody is overtaking you. That's amazing! When I return to cycling, I will absolutely buy one.

Does that mean I have to be in favor of all blogs? Or that my life will be worse if that blogger stops reviewing? Definitely not. I could have learned about this product in many other ways. Bike stores! Bike forums! The manufacturer's website! Other cyclists! Review sites! Bike magazines! Etc, etc.
>"for most people most places."

This is, to say the least, not something you are able to speak to with certainty.

As someone who has been note-taking in a variety of formats, via a variety of mediums for the better part of my 40+ years on this planet, I can assure you, the system that works best is the one that works best for the individual. Universalizing something as intimate and personal as idea capture is, again, silly. I have been a writer my whole life, friends with writers most of that time, a graduate of two writing degrees at two different schools, and a teacher of writing. If you think you've somehow unlocked "best practices" when it comes to note-taking, you're way out of the convo. There ain't one.
There are so many claims on land (and water) that it would be quite difficult and expensive to pull off.
What's the privacy story like. Does running this expose the IP addresses I use it from to the entire network, and does it associate my username with it? How is multi device support? How does P2P work on systems like iOS and GPlay where notifications need to go through a central communications hub? How does the P2P system respond to slow networks?

On the business side: Why did they try to trademark a common networking term ("holepunch")? Why did they add a whole section labeled "Rules about linking to our Site" to the terms of service, are they in the business of shutting down customers who leave bad reviews or write bad negative posts?

As for competition, how is this better than slapping a blockchain onto any other messenger?
In my neck of the woods in New Delhi, the vast majority of new developments are scooped up by investors as well. Anecdotally, a lot of this is “black money” from government corruption. Since the cost basis of this investors is actually zero, they have infinite staying power.

Drive through New Delhi’s suburbs and the towns nearby and you’ll see vast empty towers. Many have been on the block for years without any price cuts.

Property prices have been largely stagnant and have underperformed inflation for a decade. Even now, the prices are beyond the reach of the vast majority of working Indians.
Been there...

> I'm ostensibly working on a game on the side, but I haven't touched it in months. I'm not even sure I want to continue it, as I've been working on it for years without being able to fulfill my goals for it.

Having to go through something like this in my life many times, I can give you this advice:
Just try to do something with your game, even the smallest tiniest thing will get you closer to the goal than not doing anything at all.
I'll give you an example what I mean when I had to iterate a protype of my project. I had a feeling it is not going to work and I was afraid the disappointent I am going to feel when I power it up and it won't work.

day one PCBs arrived, got myself to look at them and then put them away

day two looked at my desk it was a mess, so I decided to clean it and take anything that was not needed for assembly

day three I put the PCB on the desk, not doing anything else

day four I looked at the PCB, powered up soldering station, turned it off

day five I gathered all the needed components and put them in an accessible way next to my desk

day six sat at the desk, turned on radio, soldering station and soldered like half of the components, then anxiety got better of me, so I stopped

day seven feeling guilty I can't do anything, I have only wasted money on the project and I am a failure

day eight I assembled the remaining components. I had a timer on and it took me 15 minutes, but I was feeling it was taking me whole day

day nine I set up the power supply and took out the oscilloscope and meters

day ten I connected the device to power, turned it on. Didn't blow up. Turned it off.

day eleven. Turned the device on again, started probing. Not working correctly. Started looking at schematic and Googling what I could do. Found a post on a forum, someone suggested to someone with similar problem to change this and that component. Done that. It works. I can't believe it. I turned everything off.

day twelve. Turned the project on to check again. It works.

day thirteen. Applying changes to the PCB, placing new order.

day fourteen. Can't get myself to do anything, but cleaned the desk.

day fifteen. Overwhelming fear. What if it won't work this time or is that it? I can actually make a product out of it?
and so on...

I mean if you think about it, I have done like one day of work in those two weeks, but I could as well just worry those two weeks and do nothing.

I didn't feel excited, happy or "into it". I just believe that this feeling will eventually pass (it did many times) and I'll get excited again.
> * In I am Cuba (1964): a martyred revolutionary, a student, is carried through Havana as the whole city stops what they're doing to honor him, solemnly, cigar-factory workers and all.

One of the best takes ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjuLkJ4m-mc
It's specific to the most important subtype, which single handedly rescued the entire beta-amyloid theory from the waste bin it was headed to in the early 2000s.

Even 5-10 years ago I heard stories of researchers criticizing the "beta-amyloid cabal" for blocking every other avenue for research, as they were the ones in control of the journals (the referees, editors) and grants.
It's very simple, not sure why we need so many complex discussions on it.
That should be pretty easy to block with signing they should already be doing.
Every time this issue comes up, people seem to think there is a single silver bullet that will resolve it. This is a perfect storm problem and will take a solution from multiple angles:

- Restrict and tax short-term rentals.

- Introduce a scaling speculation tax on three or more properties to remove the incentive for small-medium size investors to hoard. It will return supply back to the market.

- Limit residential real-estate purchases to citizens and permanent residents (i.e. taxpayers).

- Remove barriers to development to increase supply. Ignore the NIMBYs.

- Cap rental increases.

- Introduce a vacancy tax.

- Limit immigration until the housing issue is resolved.

- Eliminate "blind bidding" from real estate sales.

I doubt any government has the political will to truly tackle this though, especially when most politicians are landlords and speculators themselves.
That's not even true in principle. A monopoly's interest is in moatbuilding and maintaining their monopoly. If service and research achieve that, then fine, but if they don't that's also fine.
That's the inversion of your prescription, not what anyone else is proposing. Nobody is telling anyone they will not regret an elective medical procedure. That's something you need to figure out. Stop being disingenuous.
Road Guy Rob - Covers transportation topics, mainly the engineering behind roads.

Mentour Pilot - Aviation related but I think lessons that can be applied to any field

Peter Dibble - Covers a wide range of historical engineering projects

Bobby Broccoli - A Jon Bois expect instead of sports for academia (this guy makes really high quality videos)
I used to agree. The store in which I use it the most, HEB in Texas, doesn't have issues often. The only design decision that is frustrating is that for certain items, it tries to insist I "bag" the item by putting it on the small bagging area, even if it's a 2.5 gallon jug of water. I have to wait 5 seconds for the prompt to time out and then I can say "skip bagging".

For a few small items, CVS and HEB do well.
It could be caused by genetics https://med.stanford.edu/depressiongenetics/mddandgenes.html
The next thing then becomes, "Why can't we use GP computers for consuming all this content?"

And the tongue-in-cheek answer is, "Because Linux." Optimizing a device for makers often makes it sub-optimal for consumers.

I am a bassist. But I listen to music far more than I play music, and I have no interest in constructing a player-bass like a player-piano. For when I listen to music, closed-source "information appliance" ecosystems beat open-source general-purpose ecosystems.

I maintain quite a bit of general-purpose computing ways to manage music, but honestly, it's more because I have an aversion to corporate control than any thought that it's easier to be in complete control.

Joel Spolsky wrote that the key feature of Napster wasn't that music was free, it was that you could type the name of a song and listen to it right away. The challenge for us as technologists pursuing a free future is that information appliances do this better than general-purpose ecosystems.
Imagining a world government as anything but dystopian is a failure of imagination
> To be explicit, if you count conflicts from Napoleon on up to WWII, from Russia’s perspective they have fought defense wars on the north european plains once every ~33 years.

Between Napoleon and the present day Russia has only been invaded twice. By countries trying to liberate themselves in WW1 from the Russian Empire, and by Germany and others in WW2 (also partially a liberation, e.g. Romania tried to liberate the territories which Russia annexed at the start of the war).

> Their greatest existential threat is a united europe, who frequently meddle in its affairs.

Russia has constantly tried to annex everybody (even Putin jokes about this) and you cry about "meddling". Nobody would be meddling in Russian affairs if Russia was broken up like Austria (the previous Jail of Nations).
Unless those units are explicitly build for renting and zoned as such. Why should they be used by tourists and not locals?
I believe it is because their app was not updated in 2 years, and was auto delisted from Google Play.
https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic/issues/1464

It is still up on F-Droid:
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.github.hidroh.materialist...