skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in a small college town in the midst of farmland and forest. Very poor. Some of the lowest income in the country.

But taxes are crazy high. Property, sales. Higher than some big cities.

It's stupid expensive, unless you are on the dole. About half the population is on the dole here.

(We do have a very nice state-of-the-art triple-sized police station tho. And two marijuana dispensaries)

That really is the only solution to this mess. Put everybody on the dole. Like medieval serfs except with cellphones. Abandon freedom and property. Let daddy government take care of you.
No, thanks. I don't want my internet provider close my connection without any notice or shut down their whole service.
Climate Change Around the World
>A) multiple types of intelligence exist and can be measured that aren't already measured by a mainstream intelligence test

G factor is well understood and is mainstream across Psychology/Neuroscience. Intelligence tests are highly correlated to G factor.
Anyone who works w both Android and iOS development knows that Android has nowhere near the polish of iOS. Especially in their tool sets.
You mentioned in a sibling comment that this was using LuaJIT, do you know if it was before the allocation sinking optimization was added?

At some point (2.1?) LuaJIT added a peephole interpreter optimization which can follow a simple constructed table for awhile, and if it's never stored, the values it's conveying are just put on the stack.

I'm pretty fearless with creating transient tables, and run enough profiling to be moderately confident that the allocation sink is keeping that from providing memory pressure.

There's a larger thing here about the JIT being temperamental and having to kind of learn its moods, but: it's faster as an interpreter than other choices by a matter of multiples, and when the JIT works, it positively screams.
And for those of us in apartments / condos? My HOA were all born in the 40s and think EVs are simply a fad that doesn't need supporting.
Have you examined the Wirth family of languages used to implement, with just a few programmer-years, the Lilith and Ceres OS's for workstations?
Every day the UK gets worse and worse.
Lol, over here in Europe natgas/electricity has went completely bananas.

In the UK the average home will be paying over $400/month for natgas and electricity as of October.

Looking at prices to fix for 12 months right now, I saw Octopus energy offering:

Electricity: 74p/kWh (~91c/kWh)

Gas: 18p/kWh (22c/kWh, or i think 6.5c/ccf?)

For context I was on a 24 month fixed rate last year for 11p/kWh for electricity - so a 600%+ increase in the space of a year.
The EU does exactly that with the counsel and the commission.

It doesn't make sense to compare the USA as a whole to other, much smaller countries. Federalism doesn't make sense on a small scale.
(I've been to South Africa once, for two weeks this summer)

The author notes that it's "obviously bad" that inequality is so high in South Africa.

I may be inadvertently challenging some orthodoxy here but why is that?

The author also notes that around 1/4 of working age people contribute tax revenue. Would the rest really be better off without the top X% of taxpayers, other things being equal?

I think implicit in this critique is that the reader should think anything less than maintaining a western European standard of living is a failure on the government's part.

But South Africa's GDP PPP per capita is around that of Mongolia or Egypt, while one might think from reading this article that South Africa is a "temporary embarrassed" western European country.

The country has a lot of problems, but if you frame it like that one could view the status quo as a resounding success. While traveling there I ran into a lot of immigrants from countries to the north that migrated there for a better life.

I've read a few articles about South Africa with a similar tone, but they never really seem to get to the point.

Yes the ANC is corrupt, but even if you suppose the country were run with Swiss efficacy you're begging the question about what a $15,000 GDP PPP per capita version of Switzerland would look like.

The answer is likely to me much closer to Mongolia than Switzerland in terms of basic services, infrastructure etc
> I consider climate change a negligible issue, it's just the hype of the day, something you're "supposed" to virtue signal about. Even a 10C temperature change won't change much in the grand scheme of things.

Well, I think the majority of the people who study these exact kinds of problems would probably disagree with you, no? AFAIK, the human contribution to climate change is actually very drastic and will probably show huge effects.
I reach for selectolax first if I'm doing relatively tame stuff. Also css selectors are nice.
You can shoot light over SM at distances up to 200km (several important caveats at this distance) and it’s very usual to see spans of between 50-80km.
This is what statistical process control charts were invented to tell us: https://static.loop54.com/XmR.html?baseline=7.5,7.9,8.5,8.3,...

Nope, last number is well within the limits set by the variation of the previous numbers. Depending on how sensitive you feel like being to false alarms, I wouldn't even say there's been a clear trend this year.

If you detrend it by successive differences we see that the slope is very close to zero compared to variation: https://static.loop54.com/XmR.html?baseline=0.4,0.6,-0.2,0.3...

However, the last number is close to a control limit, so if this continues next month we may have a signal!
Wood gets consumed in most parts of the ocean, but in at least the Baltic and Black Sea, it gets preserved for thousands of years, without any treatment.

Aside from weighing it down enough to stop floating, of course.
> meaningful self-reflection

Perhaps your bar for "meaningful" is calibrated too high. Perhaps a dog-level of self-reflection is still quite a big deal, when compared to say a fish or whatnot.

Anyway, can you elaborate on why you think dogs ar "clearly" conscious?
...And they say 10x engineers are a myth.
I love it, solid work there :)

And pretty nicely shows how insecure post 70's computers are :> Don't blame Congress alone !

Edit: btw. that lady on the photo have bad chair or too high desk - monitor top should be a bit below head top :)
Is it the same quality?
Indeed! Nice thing is that two Symfonisk's give you great stereo sound on external speakers. And no soldering inside the Symfonisk, just some connectors to unplug and run the cable out of the bass reflex port, so easy to restore in original condition if you'd want to. So thanks to the magic of these tiny transistor digital amplifiers, in total you'll spend ± 500 euros and have better — and super convenient — sound than quite expensively priced systems.
I have found (academic) analytic philosophy to be a great way to slow down and think clearly. So I propose exposing yourself to well-thought-out arguments to see the kinds of "moves" people make.

A good place to start may be with the book by Daniel Dennett: Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking https://www.amazon.com/Intuition-Pumps-Other-Tools-Thinking-...

Similarly, it's great to read good science books with careful arguments. One of the best I think is Culture of Honor: The Psychology of Violence in the South https://www.amazon.com/Culture-Honor-Psychology-Violence-Dir... -- the authors use a variety of independent experiments to make their conclusions.

In general, it's probably worth learning a bunch of psychology too - to understand others better (along with the variety of cognitive biases people have). A classic book in this direction is Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational https://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Revised-Expand...
Careful with that last line. Toward the end Trump was making some serious moves towards not accepting the outcome of the election, and the idea that the election was "stolen" is still the going line in Trump circles.

Say what you will about the Biden administration, at least it's not threatening to burn the house down out of spite.
It is amazing how rapidly the quality of the discussion on HN goes down the more political the topic is.
That's what Reddit is for.
That's an 18% increase year over year, not a 100% increase.

I've yet to find anyone with bills doubled, despite so many people claiming it true. But I keep asking....

More data: https://www.gulfshorebusiness.com/expect-electricity-bills-i...
The issue has to do with the harvest coming up. The next harvest will come from fields with less fertilizer and higher fuel prices. We can expect corn prices in the fall jumping significantly.

Next year will even be worse, we are using a fuel reserves now and fertilizer will still be an issue (unless peace is made with Russia). I’m expecting a significant increase in the next 2-3 months then again in 15-16 months.
Given all of the COVID money, trillion dollar spending bills, supply chain issues, etc have been building up over the last few years, why does inflation ramp up suddenly all at once? Shouldn't it be more gradual?

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/08/09/business/inflatio...

It this just purely gas prices? Or does the market just play along as if everything is good then freak out all at once?
It's way easier to push fiber through the ground in rural areas where there's basically nothing than it is in major cities where there are tons of things and already some form of wired internet.

And if you're within a mile of the destination, that last mile isn't actually that terribly expensive, especially if it's literally rural and that mile is on the property owner's land. They can figure out how to get to the box at the road.
Fun! My best score is 13. Do you plan on randomizing the start?
I see this as more or less a ruse to justify ridding the companies of all the now remote people who moved away to live in Cheap Town during the pandemic. This is a pretext for the typical Corporate House Cleaning/Reduction In Force scenario. Some people do well working remote (Im one of them in fact) but I suspect and from what I've seen the majority of people simply cant handle the responsibility/self management of working remote.

Alternatively, the economic forecasters at these companies see trouble on the horizon economically and know that layoffs to boost stock price will be necessary. In such case, best develop a pretext for these layoffs thats not "We're having financial trouble so we're laying people off". Instead it's "Nope, nothing to see here, THIS IS FINE - we're just cutting dead weight!".

I don't work for either of these companies nor do I know anyone personally who does, but I have to wonder if a sort of entitled, country club culture developed there and this an effort to reign in that behavior. Maybe someone with some inside insight can comment here?
US Treasury rates
Yes, it can be pretty simple.
Back in the day when DSL and comcast were the options and all of the connections were things like UP TO 5 or even 20 Mbps, but speeds were rarely that - I paid for a dedicated 2Mbs up and down ($180/month) with no restrictions on use and started sharing/reselling it to others in my apartment building, not with wireless, but with cat5 out the window, up the gutter, back inside, etc.
Across the parking lot another guy was sharing his comcast with another building - but comcast was starting to be so slow they couldn't use it. We merged our empires by stringing some cat 5 across the parking lot, around a pole and to his place. Later we added more nearby buildings, all wired until we had 5 buildings and about 20 "subscribers".
Even with 2Mbps, everyone on the network was happier with a guaranteed speed than their flaky "up to" speeds they used to have.
Did I run an ISP? I had subscribers, had to maintain a network, had a proxy server to reduce requests out of the network, had to deal with abuse and collect money - so I'd say yes, a small one, but yes.
A friend of mine highly recommends toastmasters for this exact type of practice. I’ve never done but i can absolutely see the value.
You're talking about essence, the parent is talking about function.

A horse is not a car, it does not even bear a passing resemblance, and yet both can be used as a mean of transportation.
Both solar and wind are popular and growing.

Texas generates more wind energy than any other state (in gigawatthours). I'm unsure if any other state has a higher percentage of their total production in wind. Texas is around 20% of total in wind on ongoing basis (and another few percent in solar).

During recent heatwave solar and wind provided nearly 40%, "
Several experts told CNN that it's owed in large part to strong performances from wind and solar, which generated 27 gigawatts of electricity during Sunday's peak demand -- close to 40% of the total needed."

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/14/us/texas-energy-record-solar-...
Meta is a company that's trying to land grab a new continent (metaphorically). Their motivation to push the Metaverse is their control over it. I don't see why any of us should want to help them do that.
And all algorithms are O(f(n)), where f is someone else's responsibility.
Are taxes not higher in Detroit for things like fast food? I'm asking since I think Detroit does have the highest property taxes in the state and one of the highest in the country.
Folding knives that lock are also banned; I don't know why. I own a Buck Hunter knife, and I'm not allowed to step out of my home with that thing in my pocket.

It would be really awkward to pull that thing out and extend the blade in the middle of an altercation. Perhaps the ban on lock-knives is that it's easier to stab someone with a lock-knife without cutting off your own fingers?

As far as I'm aware, it's legal in the UK to carry a folding knife with a blade shorter than 3", as long as it doesn't lock.

Fixed blades (e.g. a chef's knife) are prohibited for carry, unless you have a reason for carrying it (e.g. you just bought it).
They say they are correcting the record but their statement matches with what I've read in the news and saw on Reddit. Nothing new.
You can create IP based exceptions, or you can point those machines at another dns resolver. Either works.
No end?

Spider Robinson, Melancholy Elephants:

http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200011/0671319744___1.htm

I'd agree that at some point being "creative" feels like just another kind of killing time with minesweeper or crossword puzzles or whatever.
> What precicely is weaker about it?

Here's a thought experiment for you; why don't you just get rid of all the "archive" nodes?

> Full nodes have 100% of the current state

Only if you redefine "current state" to be "not actually the entire state of the blockchain".
I think you should try broadening your media bubble. There's many, many scenarios.
Slides are at http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/munich2.pdf. Marginal Revolution blogged this "One reason why a global carbon tax is impossible" https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/08/on.... "Again, the costs of climate change are a few years of global economic growth. That is a big deal, and worth attending to, but far from an existential risk."
There's a command-line parameter "--use_language_model=0" to disable the spellchecker.
The initial investment is paid by subscribers or financed by the government grant, both mentioned in the linked article.

The monthly income of $55 or $79 times 70 people is $3850-5530/month gross right now, which is likely not a full-time income, but with potentially 600 more customers soon, it's possible he could achieve a full-time income for himself, which many people would consider a worthy goal.

In 1994 or 1995, I used an ISP in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, that was just one guy providing decent service. If there were issues, I'd call David and he'd fix them. His goal was to have good internet service--which was difficult to come by then and there--and to underwrite it by sharing it with others. I know he made a go of it for a number of years, although I'm not sure how it ended.
I actually tried to build a CSP interface on top of AsyncIO, It's still experimental an I haven't developed it for sometime but you know, It works.

https://github.com/Yaser-Amiri/one-ring/blob/main/docs/sampl...

As long as GIL exists with current conditions, we will not have a Go-like CSP, but that's about scheduling, not the CSP itself.
Sounds more like how crony politics for personal gain works. Alternatively, you could finance the hospital, fire depart, or whatever without an middle man siphoning off "their fair share"
The corn has to be grown somewhere.
Smart enough to see the bad, but not smart enough to look away.

The world is in roughly the same spot as it was when I was 20, and my body is certainly worse off, but I'm much happier now simply because I don't steep myself in the shittier parts of the universe.
Stop charging your phone overnigh
A significant amount of wrong and misleading things in this article
Except that they are constantly changing the basket to be a basket of cheaper goods. It's pretty bold to be so open about it, but that's what they do - it's manipulated.
> The thing is, this convoluted logic and raw access to pointers translate directly to CPU instructions very well.

The OP isn't talking about this. The OP is saying at a basic level python/typescript is simply C++ with no pointers.

So the OP is asking can't we design a python-like language with pointers?

>For some personal opinion, I don't consider C & C++ complex languages. They're easy.

This is not an opinion shared by many. It's like someone saying they enjoy licking the ground. C++ is known for it's over complexity. It is complex mostly not because it's low level but because it's carrying around decades of design baggage and poor design decisions while being modern and backwards compatible.

>Otherwise it just goes bang, and it's a good thing in most cases.

Hard disagree. Low level programs can go bang at locations far away from the error and become incredibly hard to find. Additionally memory leaks are really challenging to find sometimes. These errors happen despite programmers knowing what they are doing as they are "mistakes" or bugs. These problems happen much less in higher level languages. C++ and C go bang at all the wrong times, while something like unsafe python goes bang at all the right times.
Do you also think the [16th amendment][1] should be repealed? Because what you are arguing is basically the same as the opponents of that amendment.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteenth_Amendment_to_the_Uni...
How about this: "I hate evil people. You are evil unless you pay me reparations."

Should the state jail someone for saying that?
lmaooooooooo
It’s also telling how they punted on the things people want like support for all of their devices or need, like E2E for all chats rather than just one on one.

Imagine an alternate universe where they backed a dump truck full of cash over to the Signal Foundation and said “hire all of the developers you need to make first-class desktop clients and add federation for people willing to meet CA-level requirements. We’ll ship integration in Messenger and Gmail this year.” Apple would have a lot more pressure from something which is open and better rather than a marketing play for a Google subsidiary.
As far as I remember, Steve Jobs used to quote this particular Alan Kay quote often and was guided by it.

> People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

If you think that Apple is still guided by this mentality, then their purpose is still focused on making the best software they can.
I haven't found many resources to impart this particular skill. However, two activites come to mind:
1. Read. Extensively.
2. Write. Learn to put thoughts into words as frequently as possible.
This type of setup is semi-common and I've seen it called "polymorphic relationships". The PHP framework Laravel has first-party support for them if you want a real example, although those are generally only polymorphic for one side of the relationship (i.e. building a CRM and having a single "comments" table with the ability to relate Customers, Opportunity, Leads, etc. to each comment without having a unique column for each type).

Generally, the relationship table will look like this:

- relation1_id
- relation1_type
- relation2_id
- relation2_type

Where *_id is the database ID and *_type is some kind of string constant representing another table. Generally you put an index on "relation#_id, relation#_type", but that's obviously use case dependent
It's seems that there are some companies sneaking price increases now that the public is used to price increases!
It seems like things have picked up recently in Austin, but yeah it's taking forever. Maybe Google remembered this still exists?
Nah, the IRS is in complete shambles, as anyone who’s had to deal with them over the last couple years can confirm. It seems pretty likely that they’re just trying to unshamble it.
Thank you for reading. Of course, this is a highly edited hypothetical situation, and not what happened. I try very hard to understand how I can phrase differently so that we can answer these questions and work together. I think in other comments it became clear that the intent of the questions are not the problem. In fact, I am asking them because I trust the manager to have good answers.

Now, if I come across as patronizing and this leads to a negative outcome (as in, no progress is made in advancing the company’s goals), two things can happen:

- I can work at getting better at communication. The last 2 years, better writing has been my main focus, and this article is part of that. Writing good documents has been tremendously effective. It also only goes so far if someone doesn’t want to engage. In this particular situation, I spent the next week studying React (it wasn’t React in the actual situation) reading 3 books on the chapter and building a toy React prototype, and then wrote up what I thought was a concise report on what was good about it, and what was not so good. I don’t think this document was read.

- The manager can actually put some effort into hearing me out, and understand that I am trying my best here. Maybe I don’t know intuitively what words they want me to use for the questions, but it is also not rocket science to take words literally and not look for subtext.

If anything, it is easy because I really don’t care about subtext, or patronizing people. Where is the fun in that, compared to the fun of solving problems.
Why are you using 4 calendars? I think the thing is that most people use a single calendar, and they are already synced for the user. There's not really a market for such a tool, which would also cost a lot of money to get approved, now that GSuite approval requires a 3rd party audit. $X0,000+
Irukandji Jellyfish
>gaz consumption for the average household has gone up, not down.

Historical data shows that overall gas consumption is more strongly linked to the frequency of highway travel than to recent changes in car purchases. See:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/188448/total-us-domestic...

There's a drop during the Great Recession, a rapid rise during the recovery, and a roughly flat line during the Trump administration until another crater during the COVID pandemic.
I've actually found some of Ken Rockwell's info on analog cameras (especially Leica & lenses) to be super helpful, but I can't speak to his digital knowledge. Also, his photography itself isn't great.
Because, when you like it or not, religion is a protected category just like sexual orientation is. Members of protected categories are allowed freedoms which are not allowed outside those categories, one of these being the citation of scripture. Rest assured that there are plenty of people who think the same about the displays of obscenity which pride parades have turned into but since these are also part of a protected category they can't do anything about it either.

The solution to these problems is to do away with protected categories altogether and just apply the law to all in an equal fashion - I'm all for it.