skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a big fan of marketing as a consumer. Yes, it's mostly terrible and abusive, but also one of my all time favorite tech purchases came out of seeing an ad for it (my comma.ai running openpilot). That device has changed my life so drastically that any car purchase I make in the future (new or used) will begin by looking for cars that support openpilot.

And it all started with an instagram ad.
From what I hear from family in Germany it's got pretty bad lately. Young people don't even dream of owning a home anymore or even moving out from parents' home.
The Stages of Whale Decomposition [video]
Build a lot. And I mean a lot. We should go back to post war levels in Europe. Also make a system that forces replacement of low density housing near cities where there is suitable public transit available.
Maybe tax investment properties at an elevated rate? I'm all for home ownership, but the proposed policy doesn't seem compatible with owner-occupied home ownership.
My understanding is ground based telescopes imaging in the same wavelengths also have to deal with distortion in the atmosphere, star link interference would be easier to filter out compared to the other stuff (which is why locations for these mega ground based telescopes are chosen with utmost care )

Disclaimer. Not a physicals or astronomer, just a enthusiastic backyard amateur astronomer who reads a lot about telescopes .
> Germany is by far the biggest success

It helps if you compare against a point in time, where you have just absorbed an impoverished communist economy that has to start from 0.
> The US could spend 2 times less on military and still be the biggest one in the world. And it as allies everywhere.

I don't think it's that simple: stuff costs more in the US vs other big military spenders, large != effective, etc. If the US cut its military budget, it would have to give up capabilities, and that will have bitter consequences (e.g. the liberal order will shrink even further (e.g. goodbye Ukraine, Taiwan, Baltics), China owns the seas, etc.).
I try to spend my time after work socializing with people - when I'm not motivated enough to spend time on my projects.

People give us meaning and good social feelings.
Because their population is shrinking rather than growing, and they effectively disallow immigration?

Japan is a deflationary case study.
Musk dropped to knee and begged forgiveness for affair with Sergey Brin's wife
Last president pushed hard for NATO counties to up their military spending to agreed levels. Everyone laughed.

Russia has been an excellent motivator for our allies to get serious on defense spending.

Our absurdly oversized military has prevented a lot of serious wars.
Yeah, pretty much only RISC V or ARM64 would get my attention when Apple Silicon exists.

I also say this owning a Threadripper and two Ryzen systems, so I mean for mobile, not HEDT.
- The slow motion pass of the Mustang in Empire Of The Sun, that is for planes nuts like me ...

and

- the ending scene of Le Train (1973) with Romy Schneider.

But so many movies scenes I like... That's just the ones that come to mind at the moment.

As for Casablanca, shame on me, I've never seen it. Just some small parts, and each times it looked so cliché that I had always delayed when I would watch it.
Only in Hollywood could one have the idea of a French Prefet de Police (Louis Renault character, well named) always wearing a uniform, wearing a ridiculous kepi (Prefets have caps, not kepis) tilted on the side, with a small moustache and a eyebrow higher than the other. I mean, the scene mentioned may be beautiful (again I've never seen it) but that character is sooo much the anglo-saxon cliché of the "untrusthy Frenchman" ... almost a cartoon character.

Anyways, have to take time to watch Casablanca, and die less dumb.
>Income tax + business tax pile up to 50% already

Is that for all your income or "just" over a certain threshold?

>Even if you make some good money, that does not leave you with a lot to live.

You said you travelled to different countries in Europe, Africa and Asia.
Do you consider that not leaving you with a lot to live?

>with virtually no deductible costs you pay taxes first, and then have to take care about health care, insurances and pension afterwards

Those are all, up to a certain degree, deductible from your taxes, right?
One aspect I must mention is Bitcoin miners flock to where energy is cheapest for them, not taking into account negative externalities. This is why you see miners attacking CI services to try to use them for mining crypto: free energy is the best deal, even if it is costly to someone else: https://drewdevault.com/2021/04/26/Cryptocurrency-is-a-disas...

Of course, the climate crisis is caused in large part by capitalism failing to deal with negative externalities, so one could argue that Bitcoin is just another facet of our corrupt system privatizing benefits and making the public bear the costs. But nevertheless this is a fundamental flaw in arguments that Bitcoin miners only farm where energy is "cheapest".

As for why it's a scam, it's hard to summarize, but I'll try: cryptocurrency is not currency, not decentralized, and not private. https://jacobin.com/2022/01/cryptocurrency-scam-blockchain-b...
Since your premise is impossible (the doctor does not know this for a fact and cannot), the question isn't relevant. In any case, adoption is an option.
Sundials are already ‘wrong’ according to solar time by 30 minutes or more, as an artifact of dividing the world into hour-wide time zones.

Astronomy already ignores leap seconds in the same way that modern finance ignores half-crowns and shillings.
What happened is the financialization of houses. They didnt use to be thought of as securities. But an investor can go borrow a billion dollars at a 3% interest rate, buy a ton of homes, and become rich. All he needs is the credentials to do that. As long as interest rates stay below inflation rates, there is profit to be made for investors. We cant see them, but they are on yachts, essentially enslaving americans via an abstract financial interface. This is not capitalism, its money being too cheap from central bankers.
Startup Founders Are at a Disadvantage When Applying for Jobs
No. Proposal is to add a cost to owning multiple properties.
> What is actually possible to get your hands on now?

Nobody's going to tell you that. Closely guarded secrets. Sorry.
One thing I wish was brought up more is the missing middle [1]. Having denser neighbourhoods is good for a ton of reasons, and having more available housing units would be super helpful for this. Of course, zoning laws restrict this heavily, and car dependent infrastructure also encourages single-family homes with space for multiple vehicles easily accessible in a driveway/garage.

Obviously this wouldn't be a silver bullet, but I really wish North American urban planning would allow for more freedom in housing structures, and put more emphasis on public transportation. Hard to have faith though.

[1] https://missingmiddlehousing.com/
My Dyson vacuum cleaner has a mechanism that can steer in pretty much every angle that isn't gimbal locked. If we're still talking about things you could do without regard to practicality, it could steer in 360 degrees in a RWD.
To humans, the exhaust of an internal combustion engine is a much bigger concern, car tire particles are comparatively heavy, so they stay lower and settle out quicker.

Of course then they get washed away and end up in rivers and oceans, and we should do something about that. Probably there are a lot of low hanging fruit for that left, simply because historically nobody cared about it, apart from the inconvenience of needing to buy new tires.
Anyone here drink kefir yogurt? I have kefir grains which I ferment in milk and get a weekly yield of yogurt that I drink out of a bowl after straining the yogurt. It’s packed with probiotics, and helps with my mood. It’s an all round useful elixir to make.
This is a dangerous meme that should die.

They're about 50% likely to be reversible after 5 years. That's not what we generally mean when we say something is "reversible". It's a permanent procedure that can sometimes be reversed.
Then why are all the refusal statements we're hearing about "regret" instead of risk?
Absolutely, but on the same token: bearing a child isn't the only path to being a parent.
That's pretty hostile against conservationists that own property to save habitats rather than churn a profit. This will inevitably lead to this land winding up in the hands of a capitalist that will destroy it in order to make money on it.
Cloudflare also outlines the following reason in the linked blog post:

> "The reason this matters so much is that the maximum size of an unsigned UDP packet is typically 512 octets. DNSSEC requires support for at least 1220 octets long messages over UDP, but above that limit, the client may need to upgrade to DNS over TCP. A good practice is to keep enough headroom in order to keep response sizes below fragmentation threshold during zone signing key rollover periods."
One neglected issue here is the role of government funding agencies and universities in controlling who gets funded. It's common practice for universities to encourage their own researchers to get government positions at funding agencies, where they can help shepherd grants back to their parent institutions, for example. Something like this seems to have gone on with Alzheimer's funding - some people involved with the source lab ended up directing funding at the federal level.

So, if you're a researcher who decides to publish refutation of a fundamental claim by the leading stars in the field, you risk getting on a funding blacklist, and your grant review doesn't get approved. Hence, the safer thing to do is simply ignore the research you suspect to be fraudulent and take your own research in a different direction. There's also the concept that they don't want to discredit the entire field by exposing fraud and thereby risk Congress spiking the funding entirely or something like that.

Incidentally, a lot of the silence on the very plausible notion that Sars-CoV2 escaped from a lab, and that its transmissibiliy and virulence likely were increased in the lab as a consequence of various gain-of-function (well-meaning I suppose) research techniques (serial passage, CRISPR engineering, etc.), appears to be due to similar concerns (i.e. researcher who even discuss the possiblity might run afoul of people like Fauci and cohort who still control virology research funding).
Interesting. Something similar to this was my diploma thesis, although I wasn't able to find this as prior art. My intentions were mostly to have text adjust itself beforehand to the reader's preferences and pre-existing knowledge. Then certain parts would either be abridged, or fleshed out in more detail; explanations added for concepts not yet known, or further sections pertaining to additional interests.

I thought this to be perhaps a good way of writing things to teach with, in that the result would be applicable to a wider variety of readers. However, writing would likely be a problem, since (a) much more content has to be written, and (b) everything should make sense in all possible combinations of snippets, which can be hard to guarantee.
I’ve become convinced there’s no solution. It takes a lot of money and time to build. If you make it easy to build then there’s less money to be made and therefore less will be built.

Make it hard to be build and there will be immense pressure to build but it won’t happen.

The two ends are constantly trying to find an equilibrium. The only way to make housing affordable is to overbuild, but private money won’t do it for obvious reasons.

The government could subsidize building but in essence that’s just making rich people richer. Perhaps that’s the only way short of forcing people to build (like prison labor or something horrible like that).

—-

I used to believe that eliminating zoning and increasing density is the solution (still think so), but induced demand is a thing. When I studied this I found no evidence denser areas are cheaper. In fact the denser areas tend to be more expensive from my own research.
Agree.

I don't think we want /r/science moderators determining what is accepted research. But there must be some way to democratize the process short of waiting for the perfect AGI to moderate publications.
There's also the matter that ENS "solves" the problem by reintroducing a central point of failure: the smart contract itself. Anything blockchain-adjacent really can't conceivably be called "decentralized".
Reducing immigration would help. You're never going to lower prices whilst increasing demand.
Yes, there is a jury.
Are you talking about male circumcision? It's hardly a blip on the radar of invasive procedures with no lasting side effects except some minor benefits.
Great idea! US DOD budget: 700B. We only really need nukes to keep the peace and maintain our interests. Nukes cost 20B/yr to maintain (both stockpile and delivery methods). The rest of the military budget is a bunch of garbage whose availability and global deployment makes it more likely USA engages in needless conflicts. A nukes only military is so cheap and effective. USA could do a yearly nuclear readiness demo on July 4th, like detonating a ICBM on the moon or in space for the whole world to see.
Because nothing in life is allowed to be simple, "vacant" in this context can actually mean a lot of things. Here's a break down of the 2020 figure of 34k +/- 1.6k:

> - 6,694 of those vacancies were units currently listed for rent that hadn’t yet found tenants. Another 1,031 were homes for sale that didn’t yet have buyers.

> - 6,294 were homes with either current owners or renters that were just not living there. This can happen for any number of reasons: hospital stays, long trips out of town, delayed move-ins, even cases of homeowners who have died but are still technically counted as the resident.

> - 8,523 were “occasional use” homes—i.e., these were second homes, vacation homes, some types of short-term rentals, or just any unit that was accounted for but not lived in most of the year. (The Mercury-News references these but classifies them separately from vacant homes, whereas the census considers these vacancies in themselves.)

> - Finally, the census designated 11,760 homes in the catch-all category of “other vacant.”

"Other vacant." Is a hodge-podge of condemned units, units in foreclosure, units in renovation or seismic retrofitting, a plethora of other corner cases and odds and ends, and homes actually just sitting empty doing not much.

(source: https://sf.curbed.com/2020/2/24/21149381/san-francisco-vacan...)
Here's a curated collection of youtube channels that try sciency things, where I'm reasonably certain they aren't faking results.

NileRed

Sample video: making a superconductor from scratch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS7gyZJg5nc&t=93s

ExplosionsAndFire:

Sample video: concentrating hydrogen peroxide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhEYaovWxl4

Primitive Technology:

Sample video: making cast iron using nothing but gathered natural materials (seriously)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhW4XFGQB4o&t=606s

Игорь Негода

Sample video: making and flying an extremely elegant turbine engine in the garage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYFYZ-g7fzA

Bobby McBoost

Sample video: making and exploding an extremely half-assed turbine engine in a field.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2jHC_91ge8&t=52s

Brick experiment channel

Sample video: measuring the thrust to weight ratio of a bunch of combinations of lego motors, gearings, and propellors. In the next video he is able to achieve flight by overvolting lego motors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTui3shLRPk

Styropyro

Sample video: huge homemade ruby laser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwYuHqCwXFI

Robert Cowan

Sample video: improving the drive system of his 250 lb battlebot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcl7WYLccIs

How Not to Highline

Sample video: Testing if climbing equipment that has been left in a cave for years is still safe by breaking it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE69L7wwm64
> In a nutshell, I'm dissatisfied with how my life is going.

> Things that used to bring me joy...don't, any more.

Some people will say "it's depression", but I think we change, and some old things no longer bring joy, while some new things do.

Hae you tried adding randomization? As in, try some weird stuff (say kayak or whatever) to see what brings you unexpected joy?

It may not work for you, but it often works for me so you may want to give it a try? Serendipity, chance and a free spirit mix well.
Of course. They couldn't call him a loonie, for legal reasons, but they could show it just by presenting the facts, and anyone can draw the conclusion.

But something else they show is that you don't need biochemical anomalies to be insane. Those just make it quicker, and more forgiveable. Descent into madness for no reason, as if by choice, seems worse.
I think the Baby Boomers slowly downsizing and dying is going to be an earthquake on house prices. I know lots of young families in apartments and small houses while their baby boomer parents have big suburban houses. Why not hang on to your big house if you're healthy enough and it keeps going up in value every year. Once people start selling it'll become a tidal wave of selling - once house prices go down every year for 5-10 years in a row no one will want to own.
Trade magazines were essentially opt-in advertising that I think solve most of the problems that marketing ostensibly tries to solve.

The problem is that when your competitor is everywhere, you need to be everywhere too. It’s an arms race.

Maybe there’s a way to cap the arms race without overly favoring incumbents?
> All I really look forward to these days is getting high and playing video games or watching Seinfeld reruns each weekend

Not saying it's the only cause of your problems, but you shouldn't underestimate the affect that getting high can have on how you feel when you're not high (especially if it's an every day or most days thing). Consider a (say 3-6 month) detox.
> I said IF the alternative is nothing. IF. Read that again. Read the whole context.

Re-read it. It still is unclear.
An app made in Electron could have been written in something else. What use case do you have where the alternative is nothing. The IF is almost never valid. Even if it doesn't exist yet, you can make it.

> Most game teams don't have the budget, so they won't have a custom editor and will have to use something like Unity/Unreal/Godot.

Sounds like excuses. Get a bigger team, smaller scope, or more money.

I've used Unity vs custom-made engines and ease, and just fun of the use of well-made customized engine beats Unity/Godot (I haven't used Unreal lately) in almost every way. Like time for Unity to start alone is 5min, plus Unity makes a certain style of games nigh-impossible to develop.

E.g. two similarily complex projects
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT1B4HkEhfQ

First is UnityStation in Unity, second is SS14 in C#.
And Unity is a lot of pain to work with.

> Claiming it won't be helpful to people and a community that wouldn't otherwise be able to build an alternative is asinine.

I said it would be more helpful to focus on building a specific viewer for a particular type of game. Sure, you can make a viewer that is meh at being a top-down, isometric, 3D, hyperbolic, pixel art, vector, etc.

Or an editor that's great at just pixel art - Like Aseprite.
Or a 2D Level editor - like LDtk.

Do one thing correct vs. do many things tolerable.

>"Rendering JS"?

Lapsus linguae. I meant to write debugging. So read it as, debugging JS in JS VM, isn't as good as debugging JS in JVM and vice versa (JVM in JS).

> The cherry-picked CLion example doesn't negate the fact that there are counterexamples.

Implying your example isn't cherry-picked? Really? How much have you used VSCode for languages with other VMs?

> Why can't we have the alternative?

I'm not saying you can't have the alternative; I think most of the time, it's a wrong trade-off.

I found myself preferring "the right tool for the job" over "everything and the kitchen sink" approach. And yeah, there are benefits to merging stuff and keeping it all in one place. See the link to Ralph Levinen's blog.

But, I tolerate IDEs because the integration of debugger and code help + highlight is obligatory, but I would lie if I didn't use a simpler tool if I need to quickly and speedily edit something.

Now compare Rider C# Ide to Unity IDE, that integrates even more into the mix. So it's C#, 3D Editor/Viewer, engine, etc.
The issue is that there is a lot of other things that you have to consider when designing linkages. You have to make sure the system is directionally stable, and works with suspension. On forklifts, you don't really need to design for that.
And you really think it'd be much different if we put programmers in charge of everything?
The idea is that we need to shift to a model where you lose money on the house. Where everyone loses money on their houses. After mortgage payments, insurance, property taxes, and repairs. This would make houses like every other good, like clothes and furniture, which are consumed for their inherent utility rather than to earn a financial return on investment.
"For when they need it"

I agree in general but there is also a lot of value in reaching out to someone and helping them decide if/when they need it. THe point of marketing is to make people aware of you who are and if they could possibly be helped by you now or in the future.

Sometimes, people are lazy and unless they have hair on fire problem, they don't actively look to solve their problem. However, if you reach out to them (considering you did your homework on them), there is plenty of value in that. We have won customers for our company doing that and there is no need for coercion of any sort. You just need to start a conversation and truly go with a consultative approach.
You should invest in yourself and talk to a therapist. A therapist is like having an expert on your side. You probably hire a mechanic to work on your car so why not hire a therapist to work (with you) on your mind?

Good luck!
My breakdown would be ~50% marketing, 49% first mover advantage, 1% actual tech. Many coins are far superior to BTC and Ether, on basically every front.* BTC and Ether are whale oil and crude, next to green energy.*

The vast majority don't have the patience to listen to what's going on under the hood. They don't have the background in math, in coding, in economics to make sound decisions amid the oceans of bullshit. And it's not reasonable to expect them to be competent in all required fields before dipping their toe in.

The tech is what interests me* - I have no significant stake in any of them.* When I try to tell people [very rarely] about block lattice such as Nano, people don't believe me.*

They say I sound like a marketer when I claim that it processes transactions in under a second with no fees.*

If I try to talk about how important decentralization is, people claim that BTC is the most decentralized (!!). Bag holders will bullshit til the day things break completely.

... I'd love to fix all this, but when I talk about it - *.

* - I sound like a marketer.
Feudalism is coming. Then slavery. Then savagery.

Somehow Russia is ahead of time and went strait to the wild stance.
Similarly:

https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/electric-vehicl...
> flooded with irrelevant products

Or your top results are a bevy of "Best threaded bolts of 2022" articles that, suspiciously, list the same handful of products maybe in differing order and all through affiliate links.
I had success programming Chinese clones of the STM32F103C8T6 aka Blue Pill by just changing the device signature the programmer looks for via a flag in openocd. Fortunately these blue pill clones behave identically (so far, in my experience) to the real thing and are abundant and cheap on eBay so might be a good option for those who still want to work with a STM32 chip.